2014 Volume 9 Supplement 1 PP2089/12/2012 (031677)ISSN : 1985-207X (Print)1985-2274 (Electronic)Official Journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia and Family Medicine Specialist Association WONCA Asia Paci/f_i c Regional Conference 2014 21-24 May • Borneo Convention Centre Kuching, Sarawak, MalaysiaAbout MFP The Malaysian Family Phy

Introduction: Modern stressors such as financial worries, deadline pressures at work or school, as well as unnecessary physical stressors such as excessive caloric intake, obesity, and inactivity chronically activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, leading to adverse health consequences such as increased rates of cardiovascular diseases, d

Introduction : Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in Malaysia. it occurs at any age and disease. it also has an increasing trend among patients with chronic illness including diabetes mellitus. the objectives of the study were to determines the prevalence of depression and its associated risk factors among patients with ty

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is not a common approach in teaching Arabic for non-native speakers in Malaysia. Prior to 2012, teachers of Arabic language courses in CELPAD mostly used the traditional method in their teaching. Students relied totally on their teachers: from explaining the subject, translating the text, preparing the exercises

The use of learning management system (LMS) in IIUM was dated back in 2003 through the introduction of LearingCare XT produced by Mitechsoft. Since then the platform had undergone several minor updates to cope with the current needs of the end users. As the time expanded, it faced performance problems and considered outdated. In the IIUM context, t

A combination of face-to-face (f2f) instruction with Web-based delivery helps to meet the needs of diverse learners. Various terms have been used to refer to this combination of approaches. These include Blended Learning, hybrid learning, mixed mode learning, mediated learning, hybrid instruction, web-assisted instruction and web-enhanced instructi

أصبح مفهوم إتباع السنة مظهراً من مظاهر جماعة من المسلمين وسمة من سيماتهم، مما يؤدي إلى تضييق دائرة السنة في الإسلام في صورةٍ خارجيةٍ معينةٍ. وهذا مبنيٌ على سوء الفهم لمفهوم إتباع السنة بعد أن أ

الحالات التي يعيشها الإنسان تقع على أشكال وصور، فهناك حالات غير عادية مخالفة لفطرة الإنسان، والشارع عند تشريع الأحكام يراعي هذه الحالات بوصفها خلاف الأصل المستثنى من الأصل، وشرع من أحكام في إ

ASEAN-5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand) exports have grown rapidly over the last few decades. This speedy growth of exports may adversely affect economic welfare if it is followed by deterioration in the terms of trade. However, increases in the variety of products traded and improvements in technology will move a countr

The rapid increase in using non-standard words (NSWs) in communication through the social media is causing difficulties in understanding contents of the text messages. In addition, it affects the performance of several natural language processing (NLP) task such as machine translation, information retrievals, summarization and etc. In this study, w