INTRODUCTION: Most smokers become dependent both physically and psychologically within a few years of daily smoking because of its major chemical component of nicotine in tobacco. Nicotine dependence is occurred at any time which affects on successful smoking cessation. The aim of the study was to measure the prevalence of nicotine dependence (ND)

The nature of doctor-patient relationship has significantly changed in Indonesia since the increase of medical malpractice cases. Massive publicity on alleged medical malpractice cases by the media has triggered public awareness towards patient safety issues and created hostile environment within the healthcare setting. Although medical malpractice

Most of the smokers remain as active smokers and unrecognized their nicotine dependence (ND) level. ND was an important reason to addict smoking. The study determined the prevalence of smoking and ND among adult males and their difficulties to quit smoking. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 296 males aged 18 years and above from Felda Buk

The introduction of Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) to five companies under the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) project has shown that these companies have indeed achieved simultaneous benefits of economic gains and environmental sustainability. This paper highlights the experience of one of the companies, emphasising how one can lever

We present a preliminary study on the use of a Brain Computer Interface(BCI) device to investigate the feasibility of recognizing patterns of natural language morphemes from EEG signals. This study aims at analyzing EEG signals for the purpose of clustering natural language morphemes using the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm. Using as input t

M-government (Mobile Government) has become popular among many developing countries including Bangladesh. Since m-government is still in early stage of implementation, few studies have identified the acceptance factors of using services among citizen. However, most of the studies identified the adoption factors based on Technology Acceptance Model

Studies on the liveability of Nations/Cities or neighbourhoods have been on the increase due to their perceived aftermath significant contributions to the quality of life. In this study, the liveability dimensions and attributes were developed based on the previous studies and experts opinions to assess the level of living conditions in the public

The effects of dietary protein level on the growth performance and ammonia excretion of the leopard coral grouper, Plectropomus leopardus were investigated for eight weeks. Fish were fed diets with 40, 45, 50, 55 and 60% crude protein levels in separate recirculating systems. Fish fed with the 50% crude protein containing diet showed the best inges

Pembangunan harta wakaf merupakan agenda yang semakin diberikan perhatian yang signifikan oleh komuniti Islam seantero dunia sebagai institusi yang menjadi nadi penggerak terhadap kemajuan sosioekonomi ummah. Kajian ini dilaksanakan dengan objektif untuk menganalisis prospek mekanisme dana amanah hartanah Islam bagi membiayai pembangunan harta waka

Alecture pertaining to the concepts of fracture fixation following the world renown AO trauma management concept