Introduction: Abdominal obesity and inflammation are two independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease. However, the inter-relationship between these two factors among Malay population is fragmented. The purpose of this study is to determine the association between waist circumference as a measure of abdominal obesity and high-sensitivity C-r

The findings of this paper are focused on the dynamics and control of a quadcopter using a modified version of a Linear Quadratic Regu-lator (LQR) control approach. The classical LQR control approach is extended to include an integral term to improve the quad copter tracking performance. The mathematical model is derived using the Newton-Euler meth

Stability derivatives in Newtonian limit for an oscillating cone are obtained. Stiffness derivative decreases with pivot position for the entire range of cone angles. For cone angles in the range 20 to 30 degrees there is substantial increase in the stiffness derivative. Damping derivative decreases with pivot position for various cone angles and a

Background: Lifestyle modification intervention (LMI) is effective in promoting cardiometabolic risk (CMR) reduction. However, the current standard LMI for obese adults in Malaysia has only a periodic review. Hence, this study aims to determine the effect of LMI with a motivational approach on CMR profiles among obese adults. Methods: This is a ran

Poverty is considered as a multifaceted concept that can be in several forms which typically symbolize lack of the necessary means to meet human personal needs such as food, shelter and clothing. People witness poverty in various ways as part of the nations’ population is living in an average poverty status while others are in an extremely povert

The rural landscape is a significant attraction in cultural and regional tourism. The ‘authentic’ imagery of the rural landscape has lured people to travel through long-distance routes across states. Numerous tourism literature found that tourism routes have a positive impact on the rural economy. The landscape and attractions along the routes

The nuclear modification factors of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons are measured in PbPb collisions at a centre-ofmass energy per nucleon pair of √sNN = 5.02 TeV. The analysis is based on PbPb and pp data samples collected by CMS at the LHC in 2015, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 464μb−1 and 28 pb−1, respectively. The measurements are pe

Data from heavy ion collisions suggest that the evolution of a parton shower is modified by interactions with the color charges in the dense partonic medium created in these collisions, but it is not known where in the shower evolution the modifications occur. The momentum ratio of the two leading partons, resolved as subjets, provides information

A measurement of the groomed jet mass in PbPb and pp collisions at a nucleonnucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC is presented. Jet grooming is a recursive procedure which sequentially removes soft constituents of a jet until a pair of hard subjets is found. The resulting groomed jets can be used to study modifi

This paper presents a measurement of the underlying event activity in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, performed using inclusive Z boson production events collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb−1. The underlying event activity is quantified in