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Prevalence of Depression and its Associated Factors Among Malay Male Methadone Maintenance Therapy Patients
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Depression is one of the most common psychiatric conditions among men with methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) in Malaysia. Poor psycho-social functioning and risk of relapse to heroin use among MMT patients could be predicted based on their depression level. The doctors should know depression status of MMT patients to reduce the impact of depressi

Assessment Practices in the Developing World: Predictors of Assessment Practices in Ugandan Institutions of Higher Learning
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This study analysed the predictors of assessment practices employed by faculty at selected institutions in Uganda. An Assessment Practices Inventory Modified (APIM) scale was distributed to a sample of 350 academic staff selected from both private and public universities in Uganda. Random sampling was used to select the participants for this study.

Plasma Neutrophil gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin Best Diagnosed Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome and Sepsis
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Introduction: Sepsis is the leading cause of ICU admission. About 60% of patients with severe sepsis had acute kidney injury (AKI). To date, plasma Neutrophil-Gelatinase Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) is the most promising biomarker for AKI, however it is also increased with inflammation and infection. Objectives: We aim to evaluate the utility of NGA

Statistical Parametric Evaluation on New Corpus Design for Malay Speech Articulation Disorder Early Diagnosis
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Speech-to-Text or always been known as speech recognition plays an important role nowadays especially in medical area specifically in speech impairment. In this study, a Malay language speech-to-Text system was been designed by using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) as a statistical engine with emphasizing the way of Malay speech corpus design specificall

The Application of Landscape Elements for an Interior Landscape
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Interior landscape is the art and science of organizing landscape elements within enclosed spaces. In order to improve and enhance the appearance of the indoor environment which is similar to outdoor landscape, a combination of landscape elements in interior landscape is applied. The paper disscuss on the application of landscape elements for an in

Iium2world: Reaching Out to the Illiterates in Rural Community
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This paper intends to propose a conceptual solution that provides an e-program for the community in the rural areas, which basically face illiteracy problems. With a proposed conceptual system of Quadruple Helix Model (QHM) which leverage four main actors namely: academia, industry, government, and citizen; also with the collaborative Network-of-Mo

Acute Kidney Injury in a Malaysian Intensive Care Unit: Incidence, Risk Factors and Outcome
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Objectives: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is common and carries a high mortality rate. Most epidemiological studies were retrospective and were done in Western populations. To the best of our knowledge, there is no data on the AKI epidemiology based on consensus guideline in our local ICU setting. A prospective study in our population utilising the rec

Spawning Induction and Larval Rearing of the Sea Cucumber Holothuria Scabra in Malaysia
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

The sea cucumber Holothuria scabra was induced to spawn by the methods of thermal and algal stimulation. Thermal stimulation proved to be the better method. The larvae were given a mix of microalgal diet, the concentration of which was based on the larval growth. Doliolaria larvae appeared 11 days after fertilisation, and then became pentactula 18

Assessment of Documentation of Dsm - Iv - Tr Criteria a for Diagnosis of Schizophrenia in Psychiatric Unit, Tertiary Hospital, Malaysia
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Objective. The purposes of this study were to investigate the documentation of the DSM - IV - TR - Criteria A in diagnoses of schizo - phrenia and to identify the symptoms associated with over diagnosis of schizophrenia Method. This study involved a retrospective review and analysis of data from case notes. Results. Data of 107 newly diagnosed pati

Halal Brand Awareness Influence on Consumers’ Loyalty Towards Islamic Banking System
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Majority of consumers are still unable to distinguish between Islamic and conventional banks despite their awareness of the Islamic banking existence. In a competitive market structure, brand awareness helps to create a basis of trust and acceptance. Brand awareness is the first step to create brand equity, an asset that provides companies with sus

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