40 research outputs found
Does coping strategies have asignificant relationship with quality of life among caregivers of chronic illness patients?
No full textThe present study aimed to investigate the coping strategies and quality of life among caregivers of chronic illness patients. The study was conducted among the caregivers from five (5) villages in Sibu District of Sarawak by using a survey research design. A total of sixty seven (67) participants were participated in this study. Two different instruments were used to measure different types of variables. Research data collected was tested and analyzed by using a descriptive statistic and Pearson Correlation. The result revealed that there was a significant relationship between the coping strategies and the quality of life among caregivers of chronic illness patients. The relationship between both coping strategies and domains of quality of life was in a moderate level. As an implication, counselors should be more aware about the types of coping strategies used by the caregivers because it can affect the individual’s quality of life indirectly
A Conversation with Frank Deford: Writing, Sports, and Frolics (audio)
No full textSportswriter, broadcaster and author Senior writer for Sports Illustrated Author of fourteen books including, An American Summer, Everybody\u27s All-A merican, and Alex: The Life of a Child Commentator on ESPN, NPR\u27s Morning Edition, & HBO\u27s RealSports with Bryant Gumbel Elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriter
Latin, Englis, Merican; Latin, English, American,
No full textText printed in the phonetic alphabet established by the author.Mode of access: Internet
Interleukin-28 Polymorphism: Ethnic variations and the response to chronic hepatitis C treatment in Malaysia
No full textWe refer to the article by Merican, which provides a
comprehensive overview of chronic hepatitis C (CHC)
management. The author highlighted the concern over the
exorbitant cost of direct-acting antivirals, which is the reason for their limited use in Malaysia currently. Based on the findings of the previous studies, the author also underlined that Asians receiving the conventional, interferon-based treatment generally have a higher sustained virological response (SVR) rate as compared with Caucasians and African Americans, mainly due to the interleukin-28B (IL28) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) across different ethnic populations. Nonetheless, to date, information on the variations in IL-28 genotypes among different ethnic groups in Malaysia is still limited
Early cultural invasion in the Malay Archipelago
No full textLeiden University scholar S. Suryadi begins his book by introducing the recording industry in Indonesia.
His work is also about the history of technology in the Malay Archipelago. The author recalls the initial encounter by the peoples in the then Dutch East Indies to the phonograph and the replicated sound produced.
Early representation of local cultures using media technology first began in Java, after which such repertoires spread to ethnicities on the outer islands, including the Minangkabau in West Sumatra
Khairudin Aljunied, Islam in Malaysia: an entwined history. Oxford University Press. 2019. 326 pp. ISBN 9780190925208
No full textKhairuddin Aljunied makes an unusual venture in retelling the story of Islam in Malaysia. The cosmopolitanism of Islam in Malaysia in its interactions with the world spells the leitmotif of his work. In so doing, Islam in Malaysia: An Entwined History reconsiders the problem and the accuracy of periodization in studying the history of the Islamic world. I am reminded of Marshall Hodgson’s Islamic history as world history. Hodgson’s spirit in the Venture of Islam is rich and complex. It is equally so in Aljunied’s rich tapestry of discourse. The author is consciously critical of his moral purpose. His erudite scholarship maps Islam in Malaysia. The book stretches Islam in the nation and the region back from the eleventh century – a Braudelian trajectory to the past and bringing lessons from the longue durée – to the evolution of the embeddedness of Islam in Malaysia to the present
Unveiling Tempo: a cultural history
No full textIndonesia's Tempo magazine provided a window to the nation’s New Order. The weekly was popular among some of us in Malaysia journalism schoosl back in the late 1970s. In June of 1994, Tempo was banned together with several other Jakarta-based periodicals
Editor Goenawan Mohamad’s words “Why should the army fear us when they are the ones with the guns,” scribbled in the paper napkin was kept for a long time by the author of Wars Within: The Story of Tempo, an Independent Magazine in Soeharto’s Indonesia (2005). Janet Steele, journalism academic from George Washington University, and a frequent visitor to Indonesia, was intrigued with the media in Indonesia. In Jakarta, she was connected to the many informal networks of ex-tempo employees
Observation of noise correlated by the Hawking effect in a water tank
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.We measured the power spectrum and two-point correlation function for the randomly fluctuating free surface on the downstream side of a stationary flow with a maximum Froude number reached above a localised obstacle. On such a flow the scattering of incident long wavelength modes is analogous to that responsible for black hole radiation (the Hawking effect). Our measurements of the noise show a clear correlation between pairs of modes of opposite energies. We also measure the scattering coefficients by applying the same analysis of correlations to waves produced by a wave maker.We acknowledge support from the University of
Poitiers (ACI UP on Wave-Current Interactions 2013-2014),
the Interdisciplinary Mission of CNRS (PEPS PTI 2014
DEMRATNOS), the University of Tours (ARC PoitiersTours
2014-2015), the French national research agency
(ANR) HARALAB (N◦ANR-15-CE30-0017-04), the FEDER
35790-2012, and a FQXi grant of the Silicon Valley Community
Foundation
Beginnings of modern history studies in Malaysia: a bibliometric study of the journal of the historical society, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (1960-1969/1970)
No full textThe Journal of the Historical Society, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, is the first example of academic and university-based historical journals that appeared after Malaya attained independence from the British Empire in 1957. It was annually published between 1960 and 1969/1970. The main objective of the journal was to disseminate and encourage historical studies on Southeast Asia in general and Malaysia in particular. This study bibliometrically examines the Journal of the Historical Society in terms of the number of articles, the types of articles, their subject areas, author productivity, and authorship patterns. The study has found that 100 articles, 10 book reviews and 1 poem were published in a total of 10 issues of the journal between 1960 and 1969/70. A large number of articles are closely related to history; the rest are to international relations (IR), politics and archaeology. The journal gave priority to historical studies on Malaysia. Political history and historiography are predominant research areas among historians and history students in the 1960s. The number of English articles in the journal outnumbers that of Malay articles. All articles were written by a single author. The pattern of co-authorship did not exist in the journal
The Problems of Socio-Cultural Community in Patani and Penang: A Comparative Study
No full textThere are different socio-cultural in a society. Socio-cultural is a lifestyle and civilization for some society, born from the grip and tendency of community member in various fields of life, to give satisfaction and stimulate the development of community life. Diversity of perception and socio-cultural is one of the stem that led to the conflict. This is one convention that is already known to the public equally there is a conflict with humans or nature. Everything is becoming common place of human life. But what is true in a society has received attention by the authors in exposing matters of human problems or crisis faced by the community. In this paper we will discuss the problem of socio-cultural force in Patani and Penang society in Montri Sriyong’s novel and Azmi Iskandar Merican’s novel. To discuss this problem, two novels from Thailand and Malaysia was chosen as the corpus of analysis, namely Rusni (2012) and Aci Patmabi (2012) by Azmi Iskandar Merican. Montri Sriyong is the winner of SEA WRITE AWARD in 2007 and Azmi Iskandar Merican is a new comer writer who has colored the world of creative writing in Malaysia. Both novels express Malay socio- cultural community. Various problems and chaos that has prevailed in the society so as to bring the various conflicts faced by people who are forced together in Patani and Penang. Scope of this paper will examine whether the causes that give rise to stem the outbreak of Malay socio-cultural communities in Patani and Penang. Cultural studies theory used as a platform to study these novels. The theory of cultural studies that serve as the foundation lead to cultural element in the form of literary works, as there are cultural objects, ways of life and beliefs. Acquired discussion will serve as a reference to show the reality of life truth Patani and Penang society as proposed by both the author
