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Legal justifications for abortion: United nations standard and under the Malaysian penal code
No full textSudden Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss Secondary to Cerebral Venous Thrombosis with a Complete Recovery
No full textIntroduction: Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is an important otological emergency. Up to 90% of the cases are idiopathic. Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is an extremely rare identifiable cause as it only represents 0.5% of all strokes. Case Report: In this paper, an unusual case of bilateral SSNHL secondary to bilateral CVT with rapid and complete recovery is reported. The patient presented with sudden bilateral hearing loss associated with some neurological symptoms. Initial computed tomography (CT) venography revealed a CVT of bilateral transverse sinuses. The patient was started on an anticoagulant and imaging was repeated after five days, revealing the absence of the thrombosis. Serial pure tone audiometry (PTA) showed complete recovery of bilateral hearing within 10 days. Conclusion: Early detection and intervention may fasten hearing recovery and improve the quality of life. The immediate restoration of venous blood flow and intracranial pressure may lead to the complete recovery of bilateral hearing loss
City Brand Personality of Kuala Terengganu for Image and Reputation Enhancement
No full textThe purpose of the study is to develop a measure on the city branding of Kuala Terengganu as Coastal Heritage City using an Aaker’s brand personality scale. Specifically, the study proposes the antecedents of a city brand personality in promoting Kuala Terengganu City through it’s a strategic communication campaign. In order to administer this study, the qualitative and quantitative research methods were employed. In the first phase, semi-structured interviews and pre-test study were conducted to identify and verify the antecedents of city branding. In the second phase, survey questionnaires were applied using the Aaker’s brand personality scale. Finally, in the third phase, structured interviews were conducted to complement the results of the main studies. Five dimensions proposes with a total of nineteen (19) items from the City Personality Scale (CPS) that can be applied to the communication perspective in Malaysia. The five dimensions were refined using a confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model. The factors were named as factor 1 (Peacefulness), factor 2 (Competence), factor 3 (Sophistication), factor 4 (Uniqueness) and factor 5 (Traditionalism). It seems the scale of 24 items brand personality to work better in the city branding among internal stakeholders (opinion leaders, communication managers, executives and non-executive officers). The results show that the revised brand personality is dire needed tailoring with Asian values. In fact, we found a cultural component is a strong predictor of City Brand Personality. The substantial contribution of this study is the City Brand Personality has successfully been developed in a Malaysian east coast context. Thus, this study may enrich current literatures on branding generally and city branding specifically in an Asian context
Effect of corn grain in a wet soya waste based total mixed ration silage on goat performance
No full textThe utilisation of wet soya waste as feed is low due to difficulties of storage and transportation, which needs to reach normal technical standard and comprehensive utilisation. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of cracked corn grain as a source of moisture absorbent and energy in a wet soya waste based total mixed ration silage on goat performance. Ten growing goats were assigned to two feeding treatment groups for 84 days. Goats in Group 1 received Napier grass (Pennisetum purpuerum) ensiled with 30% soya waste (w/w) and 8% molasses (w/w) (T1) as control, and Group 2 received same grass ensiled with 30% soya waste (w/w) and 15% cracked corn grain (w/w) (T2). All goats received their respective silage ad libitum after 2 months of fermentation. The pH in T1 silage was 4.1, while pH in T2 silage was 4.0. Goats fed T2 diet showed higher intakes of dry matter, organic matter and metabolisable energy than those of goats fed T1 diet, while it was observed vice versa for neutral detergent fibre intake. However, there was no difference in average daily gain and feed conversion ratio between two treatment diets. Results of this study indicate that cracked corn grain, as a source of moisture absorbent and energy, can be used successfully in wet soya waste based total mixed ration silage for growing goats
The Importance of Breast Milk From The Science Aspect: Analysis According To The Islamic Perspectives (Keistimewaan Penyusuan Susu Ibu Menurut Sains:Analisis menurut perspektif Islam)
No full textLack of research that analyzes the importance of breastfeeding from science perspective while simultaneously analyzing its importance from the Islamic perspectives is the main issue that drives this research. Based on this matter, the main objective of this research is to study the importance of breastfeeding for both child and mother and analyze it according to the perspectives of Islam. This research is based on literature review method. Data was collected through documents analysis which consists of turath (traditional) and modern books as well as articles related to breastfeeding. It is anticipated that the outcome of this research will be able to explain that the encouragement for breastfeeding is not only due to its significance according to science but also because it fulfils the syarak requirements
The Perception of University Students on Mental Illness Patients
No full textLack of understanding about mental disorder among
society has caused the mentally ill patients to suffer from social
exclusion. Mental illness patient is often misunderstood as having
a severe disease however society failed to understand that it is
also associated with many other common mental illnesses such as
dementia, anxiety disorder and depression.This study was
conducted to determine the perception of society towards mental
disorder patients. A total of 353 respondents which consisted of
Sultan Zainal Abidin University (UniSZA) students were
involved in this research. This study adopted a descriptive
analysis approach by reporting the results of the study in terms
of frequency and percentage. The instrument used for this study
is a questionnaire. The researcher examines the students'
perceptions towards mental disorder patients through two
aspects 1) students’ perceptions towards the behavior of the
mentally ill patient and 2) students’ perceptions towards the life
of mentally ill patients. Thus, the results of the study on
behavioral aspects showed that the majority of students agreed
that mental patients behaved unknowingly (90.1%), while some
students disagreed with the notion that mental illness patients
have lower IQ (62.0%). In terms of perception towards the life of
mental patients, the majority of 97.2% students agreed that
mental patients need immaculate and thorough care, while
84.7% students disagreed with the outlook that patients do not
have a good future. The results showed that UniSZA students
have a negative perception of the behavior of mental disorder
patients, however, reacting positively towards the perception of
mental patients’ life
The Factors that Influence the Readiness of Final Year Social Work Students for Industrial Training
No full textIndustrial Training is one of the compulsory course
taken by final year social work students. This course is aimed for
social work students to make thorough preparations before
joining the real work environment. Using data obtained from
online surveys, this study focused on factors influencing their
readiness to undergo industrial training as well as the knowledge
and skills needed. Data were obtained from 152 final year social
work students subdivided into groups of 129 females and 23
males and the data was analyzed using descriptive data. The
descriptive data were reported as frequency and percentage to
show the student readiness. The results show that final year
social work student is ready to undergo industrial training due to
the most influential factors which is students received a great
support from the lecturers. Therefore, it was recommended in
this study that industrial training is necessary and compulsory as
a requirement to fulfill the university’s curriculum
Strategies to improve nurses job performance in Jordan
No full textIn Jordon, the healthcare part is facing tough competition because of the
increased expectations from the patients. The role of nurses is important in patients’
evaluation of their experience in thehospital; the purpose of this article is twofold: (1)
to analyze the forces behind the nursing job performance in Jordan and (2) to propose
strategy and policy directions to improve nurses job performance in Jordan. Jordan is
considered the fifth largest country in the word in the field of health tourist. Nurses
can perform and play an important role in putting the country in a competitive position
and creating a mark in the healthcare sector. Nurse researchers have to conduct studies
and disseminate the results concerning work factors that will enhance nurse’s
performance. Focus on transformational leadership at all levels of nursing; develop the
mandatory free program for continuing education in hospitals and expend funds for
nursing educational scholarships
Role of Employee Engagement on Compensation System and Employee Performance Relationship among Telecommunication Service Providers in Bangladesh
No full textPast studies endorsed that there is a quite number of factors have been considered as the influencing factors of employee performance in an organization. Some of these are selection, training and development, performance appraisal, promotion, job design, security, and satisfaction, compensation system, employee commitment, personality, emotional intelligence, organizational citizenship behavior among others. While several studies considered investigating the influence of human resource management practices on employee performance in different context such as America, Africa and Europe, but very little attention have given in South-Asian countries like Bangladesh. Hence, this manuscript attempted to investigate the impact of compensation system on employee performance using quantitative analysis To do so, survey was conducted as well as perceptions of 200 employees working in telecommunication service providers in Bangladesh were obtained to analyze the relationships. The data is analyzed and hypotheses were tested by using IBM-SPSS-AMOS package 25.0. The study found that employee engagement partially mediates the relationship between compensation system and employee performance by the data of this study. This research indorsed that there is a candid need to implement better compensation system by the entrepreneurs which will ensure better employee performance in line with consistent growth of firms as well as Bangladeshi GDP
Obesity Leads to Elevated Level of Circulating Cell-Free DNA
No full textWith the steadily growing number of studies in the issues related to obesity research, it is proven, that obesity might be related to wide number of body disorders, some of these disorders have been already studied and investigated, and some still needed more investigations, which has opened new horizons to unlimite hypotheses about involvement of obesity in many physiological disorders. In the current opinion, we hypothesized to the conclusion that there is a correlation between obesity severity and elevated cfDNA levels in the circulation. This correlation is based on free radicals and oxidative stress hypothesis of cellular and molecular damage in cell injury, which in turn leads to a disorder in the whole body and enhances the inflammatory status