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Association between stress, physical activity and body composition among adults in Terengganu
No full textPsychological stress and obesity are emerging public health issues in adults globally.
This study was conducted to determine the association between stress, physical
activity and body composition among adults in Terengganu. Subjects comprised 259
adults aged 20 – 59 years from Kuala Nerus and Kuala Terengganu. Anthropometric
measurement comprised weight, height and waist circumference; percentage of body
fat by bioelectrical impedance analysis. . Asian BMI cut-off was used to categorize
subjects into overweight/obese and non-overweight/obese groups. Asian waist
circumference cut-off was used to categorize subjects into central obesity and noncentral obesity groups. Questionnaires were used to obtain data on socio-demographic
characteristics. Malay version of DASS-21 and IPAQ were used to assess stress and
physical activity level (PAL).Subjects were 86.9% Malays (n=225), 5.0% Chinese
(n=13) and 8.1% Indians (n=21). Prevalence of stress was 16.6%. There was no
significant association between stress and PAL with socio-demographic factors. There
was also no significant association between PAL and BMI, waist circumference and
percentage of body fat. Besides, no significant association was also found between
stress and BMI, waist circumference and percentage of body fat. Nevertheless, BMI
was significantly associated with gender (p<0.05), age (p<0.001) and ethnicity
(p<0.05). Waist circumference was significantly associated with age (p<0.05) while
percentage of body fat was significantly associated with gender (p<0.05). There was
no significant association between stress and PAL. The finding of the study suggested
there was no significant association between stress and physical activity with body
composition. Assessment of stress, PAL and body composition are the initial health
screenings to identify factors contributing to stress, physical inactivity and obesity. It
should be conducted and maintained in long term to improve public health awareness
among community
Assessing security of cloud services in Malaysian universities a review
No full textCurrently, The cloud computing emerged due to developing rapidly of technology, an Internet-based development in
which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet, universities are
reviewing IT services and considering common service options. Studies suggest that a wide range of IT services can be
shared in higher education that offer several potential features .Nowadays, the security of information becomes more
substantial. The aim of this paper analyzes the security issue in cloud computing and review the effect of cloud data
privacy on the transition to the cloud computing system in the Malaysian Universities
The right to oral hearing in disciplinary proceedings against public servants: position in Malaysia and the United Kingdom
No full textThe decision of disciplinary authorities in disciplinary proceedings continues to be judicially reviewed on the ground of its failure to grant oral hearing to the affected public servant albeit the well-established principle by the Privy Council in a Malaysian appeal of a Najar Singh 's case in 1976. Such failure will implicate the deliverance of justice and might affect the reputation and goodwill of Malaysian government as the major employer in the nation. Constitutional protection of reasonable opportunity of being heard to public servants under Article 135(2) in case of dismissal and reduction on rank should be interpreted in the light of fundamental right to life as enshrined in the Federal Constitution. Meanwhile, the application of the rule of natural justice on the right to be heard in an administrative action in the UK has embarked progressively with the decision of the House of Lords in a landmark case, Ridge v. Baldwin in 1964. The purpose of this article is to examine the regulation and policy in both countries on the application of right to oral hearing in disciplinary proceedings against their public servants. This paper forwarded a submission that on the ground of procedural fairness, oral hearing should be applied in disciplinary proceedings against public servants
Topic: MyDGB_- Malaysian dairy goat breed
No full textMyDGB is a smartphone application which contains the basic information of the breeds on dairy
goat commonly farmed in Malaysia. The app was developed to facilitate and enhances the user
experience of interaction to identify the goat breed, and learn about the diseases, treatment and others.
The idea presented in this paper is to show how MyDGB can be used to enhance the learning experience
of students in a ruminant production especially the goat. The MyDGB is a teaching aid supplementing the
work of the teacher and students in learning about dairy goat breeds in Malaysia. It purposes is to make
the learning process easier, interactive, and fun to experience
Validation study of modified and translated questionnaire on health belief model of breast cancer preventive activities
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An introduction to Z-numbers with interval type-2 fuzzy TOPSIS
No full textDecisions are based on ability to decide several possibilities. Decisions are uncertain, imprecise,
incomplete and a challenge that is hard to meet. Z-numbers involve more uncertainties than fuzzy
sets. They provide us with additional degree of freedom to represent the uncertainty and fuzziness of
the real situations. In this paper, we introduce a Z-numbers with Interval Type-2 Fuzzy TOPSIS
(IT2FTOPSIS) to handle uncertainty in decision problems. We provide an example to illustrate the idea
of one-by-one steps Z-numbers with IT2FTOPSIS based Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making
(FMCDM). The proposed method provides us with an another useful way to handle FMCDM problems
in a more intelligent and flexible manner due to the fact that it uses Z-numbers and interval type-2
fuzzy sets (IT2FSs)
Cognitive effects of thinking hats and taxonomy bloom on indigenous pupils in Malaysia
No full textThe role of metacognitive skills becomes crucial in current learning process, particularly independent
of intelligence. Pupil understands own thinking in the metacognitive process, they aware how their
brain process information. The awareness helps them to develop an effective strategy in learning.
According to Gardner's multiple intelligence theory, implementation of metacognitive skills enable
student to discover their own intelligence and select the most effective learning method to maximize
the learning outcomes. This is a quantitative research to evaluate the effectiveness of using different
thinking tools to enhance pupil's cognitive level. There are 3 thinking tools in this research, Thinking
Maps, Six Thinking Hats and Taxonomy Bloom. This research will focus on the indigenous pupils
because they are the at-ris
Classification of importance data for congestion control in remote health monitoring system
No full textCardiac disorder normally leads to significant numbers of sudden deaths. This critical phenomenon
could be reduced with the development of Remote Health Monitoring System (RHMS) through the
integration of intelligent biosensors and Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) technology which
evolves as a part of Internet-of-Things (loT) applications. The RHMS consists of several body sensors
such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) which are either wearable or implanted in the human bodies to
continuously capture various bio-signals. With this regards, bulk of collected medical data are sent to
the health centres (via Internet connection) for diagnosis. However, sending and receiving these huge
medical data simultaneously could lead to network congestion which could cause tremendous loss of
packets and extra energy consumption. Congestion is caused by the transmission of unclassified data
(e.g., corrupt, redundant) which increase the delay and thus waste the limited network resources
such as bandwidth and processing power. These phenomena could deteriorate the performance of
RHMS especially in transmitting critical data. On the other hand, successful transmission of critical
data (without any loss and delay) would help in getting immediate response from doctors, thus save a
patient's life. Therefore, an effective mechanism of data classification for congestion control purposes
is proposed in this paper which solely intended for heart rate data. The proposed technique utilizes
duration of time between two successful consecutive QRS complexes or terms as RR interval of ECG
signals to cater the aforementioned limitations and improve the overall network's performances of
the system. This method is tested and simulated in Network Simulator (NS-2) tool which transmit
medical data according to their classification based on level of importance