Introduction: Loneliness, anxiety and depression may reduce quality of life and increase the risk of mortality for older adults living in residential aged care facilities. As pharmacological interventions can have adverse effects on older adults, non-pharmacological interventions such as spiritual reminiscence therapy may be a better option for the

Introduction: Ineffective communication, errant traffic and crowd control are the challenges faced by the emergency response and rescue service in assisting victims of Genting Highlands Bus Crash occurred on 21st August 2013 to provide pre-hospital stabilization before transferring to the nearest hospital for further medical treatment. This study a

Introduction: Reminiscence therapy (RT) provides various benefits to older people but numerous studies on the effectiveness of RT have yielded inconclusive results. The integration of a spiritual element in RT which is known as spiritual reminiscence therapy (SRT) may increase the effectiveness of RT. Spirituality is essential in later life as it b

Growth charts are internationally used as a tool for assessment of physical growth which reflects the nutritional status of children. It is used in public health for screening for malnutrition, and for monitoring children’s growth patterns. Poor physical growth is closely related to poor health status. Currently most countries are using WHO Child

Recently, much attention is given to financial-growth nexus, but largely via the physical capital accumulation channel. This study differed by examining this nexus, via the human capital accumulation channel in the ECOWAS region. It employed panel cointegration approaches as well as the FMOLS, DOLS. The results revealed that bank private credit and

The paper examines the impact of exchange rate volatility, real GDP of China, and real exchange rates on the bilateral exports of ASEAN member countries to China using the generalized method of moments. The results show that all the coefficients of these variables have the expected signs and are statistically significant. Specifically, if exchange

Over-exploitation on natural live rock promotes the degradation of ocean ecosystem. This concern has been raised since harvesting may reduce the density of marine ornamentals and degrade marine habitat quality. This study aims to develop artificial live rocks (ALR) that potentially to be used as one of the alternatives to reduce the overharvesting

Exploring a new environment is a huge challenge for the visually impaired. Hence there is a need for a system that is able to assist them safely during their journey. Here, in this paper, we propose a path planning with predetermined waypoints method using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. This method computes shortest possible path give

The sutchi catfish, Pangasianodon hypophthalmus is a popular fish species in aquaculture industry. However, sutchi catfish shows high mortality during larval and juvenile stages. Thus, present study investigated the effect of different light wavelengths and light intensities on the growth and survival rates of sutchi catfish juveniles. 69 days old

With the advancement of technology, learning becomes easy but the explanation becomes complex. More complicated problems and real world scenarios have emerged that requires attention from the curriculum developers and educators. The curriculum be it Islamic Education or empirical knowledge such as science subjects cannot stay stagnant and need to b