157 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440231204682 – Supplemental material for The Athletic Religious Faith Scale: Part II—Development and Initial Validation
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440231204682 for The Athletic Religious Faith Scale: Part II—Development and Initial Validation by Young-Eun Noh, Fariz Zaki, Eng Wah Teo and Mahmoud Danaee in SAGE Open</p
Supplemental Material - The prevalence of depression, anxiety and associated factors among adults with living human immunodeficiency virus in University Malaya Medical Centre
No full textSupplemental Material for The prevalence of depression, anxiety and associated factors among adults with living human immunodeficiency virus in University Malaya Medical Centre by Jen Yeung Ong, Anne Hway Ann Yee, Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin, Mahmoud Danaee and Raja Iskandar Azwa in International Journal of STD & AIDS</p
sj-docx-1-aph-10.1177_10105395231220465 – Supplemental material for Intentions to Quit, Quit Attempts, and the Use of Cessation Aids Among Malaysian Adult Smokers: Findings From the 2020 ITC Malaysia Survey
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aph-10.1177_10105395231220465 for Intentions to Quit, Quit Attempts, and the Use of Cessation Aids Among Malaysian Adult Smokers: Findings From the 2020 ITC Malaysia Survey by Ina Sharyn Kamaludin, Lim Sin How, Anne Yee, Susan C. Kaai, Mi Yan, Mahmoud Danaee, Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin, Farizah Mohd Hairi, Nur Amani Ahmad Tajuddin, Siti Idayu Hasan, Anne C. K. Quah and Geoffrey T. Fong in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health</p
Correction: Mat Rifin, M.; Danaee, M. Association between Burnout, Job Dissatisfaction and Intention to Leave among Medical Researchers in a Research Organisation in Malaysia during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 10017
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Stastical approaches to optimize tissue culture conditions for secondry metabolite production of Phyllanthus pulcher wall. ex mull. arg.
No full textMedicinal plants are rich sources of bioactive compounds, which are being used in pharmaceutical industries. To date, due to commercial exploitation there is an acute shortage of population in their natural habitats. Domestication and cultivation is often difficult due to agro-climatic constraints. Hence, the production of secondary metabolites via the cultivation of plants through new technologies such as tissue culture, including through advanced bioreactor is the way forward. In this study,Phyllanthus pulcher an important medicinal plant was used to establish tissue culture system through the use of statistical models for estimation of secondary metabolites via manipulation of media, elicitors and plant growth regulators. Three selected accessions out of 35 accessions maintained in the field AGRO-GENE BANK Department of Crop Science (UPM) were screened for secondary metabolites following which accession 11383 was selected and used for tissue culture experiments which consisted of establishment of sterilization protocol, callus induction, media optimization, elicitors and PGRs effects. Sterilization protocol was established using Clorox and Ethanol. The results revealed that the best method for leaf explants was the application of 15% Clorox for 15 minutes followed by
immersion in 70% Ethanol for 1 min. To induce callus, the best result was observed on the leaf explant at 30 mgL-1 of 2, 4-D. After inducing the callus, effects of four
types of media (Murashinge-Skoog, B5, DKW and WPM) at three different strengths (half , full and 1.5 strength) and 3 harvesting times (15, 30 and 45 days) on callus growth and secondary metabolites production were studied under both solid and liquid cultures. The results of this study showed that for both solid and liquid cultures, the highest secondary metabolites were produced in full strength WPM and 1.5 strength WPM respectively. The effects of carbon were investigated using three different sources of carbon (fructose, glucose and sucrose) at three concentrations (1,
2, and 3 %). Results showed that sucrose at 3% had significantly higher secondary metabolites content. To determine the effects of PGRs, different concentrations of
BAP was applied with two kinds of auxin (NAA and 2, 4-D). Secondary metabolites content as well as callus growth were improved when 2 mgL-1 BAP and 2 mgL-1 NAA were applied on the callus for 30 days. The effects of Methyl jasmonate
(MeJA) and Salicylic acid (SA) as two abiotic elicitors were evaluated for growth and secondary metabolite production of callus culture in P. pulcher. The results
revealed that high concentration of MeJA (> 10 mM) inhibits the callus growth. The results further revealed that 1 mM of MeJA resulted in the highest yield for total flavonoid and phenolic contents. Applying SA also improved the secondary metabolite content while in higher concentrations (> 50 mgL-1) all samples died. In the final section of this research based on findings of previous experiments and understanding of effective nutritional factors, PGRs and elicitors a Central Composite Design (CCD) was conducted. The experiment included 54 runs with different combinations of N, Ca, K, P, sucrose and SA. The data of this experiment
were analyzed using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) the result showed that ANN models are more flexible and adaptable for prediction of secondary metabolite production in plant cell culture. Results indicated that flavonoid and phenolic production in ANN model prediction were higher than RSM prediction 4% and 19.6% respectively, while factors such as N, Ca,K and SA had a lower concentration in ANN than RSM estimation
Survey of the Key Methods of Improving Public Trust to Government
No full textSurveyoftheKeyMethodsofImprovingPublicTrusttoGovernment Hasan Danaee Fard* - Ali Reza Hasanzadeh** - Somayeh Nasroallahi*** (Received: 2014/April/17 – Accept: 2014/Octobr/27) Abstract Public Trust is considered as a strategic capital of any political system. Accordingly, one of the main challenges facing governments is “public Trust management”. The governments should use mechanisms to achieve this objective. The final goal of this research is to suggest mechanisms for public Trust promoting to the Iranian government. It is provided in mix method. In the first stage, the mechanisms are provided through reviewing and a scale is developed along taken mechanisms and in the second stage, such scale is justified by public. Finally, 38 determined mechanisms are classified in 5 categories. The main ones are: social equity in using public service, making political and economic peace, and existence of efficient judicial institution. It is also analyzed the gap between the current and desired situation using the mechanisms in which there is significant difference between them in all identified mechanisms. *Associate Professor of Public Administration, Tarbiat Modarres University [email protected] **Associate Professor of Information Technology Management, Tarbiat Modarres University [email protected] ***Master of Public Administration, Tarbiat Modarres University [email protected] (corresponding author
Association between Burnout, Job Dissatisfaction and Intention to Leave among Medical Researchers in a Research Organisation in Malaysia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textEmployee turnover could affect the organisation’s performance. Job dissatisfaction and burnout have been identified as factors influencing the intention to leave. Thus, this study aimed to determine the level of intent to leave, and predictors associated with intention to leave among medical researchers in Malaysia. A cross-sectional, stratified random sampling study was conducted among researchers in a research organisation under the Ministry of Health. Respondents answered an online questionnaire that included sociodemographic information, job dissatisfaction, burnout, and intention to leave. A total of 133 researchers participated. More than one-third (41.4%) of the researchers had a moderate and high level of intention to leave. Burnout and job dissatisfaction were identified as significant predictors. Burnout was noted to have a positive relationship with the intent to leave (β = 0.289, 95% CI (B): 0.287, 1.096). Meanwhile, job satisfaction was found to have a negative relationship with the intention to leave (β = −0.348, 95% CI (B): −0.768, −0.273). Burnout among researchers is quite worrisome as more than two-thirds of the researchers experienced moderate to high burnout. Reducing burnout and job dissatisfaction would increase work performance and produce high-quality research output, hence decreasing the turnover rate
Relationship among Economic Growth, Internet Usage and Publication Productivity: Comparison among ASEAN and World’s Best Countries
No full textPublication productivity, as measured by the number of papers, has been regarded as one of the main indicators of reputation of countries and institutions. Nevertheless, the relationship among research publications, economic growth and World Wide Web in ASEAN countries is still unclear. The main intention of this study was to identify publication productivity among ASEAN and the world’s top ten countries in the last 16 years (1996-2011). This study also aimed at finding the relationship among publication, gross domestic product (GDP) and internet usage. Furthermore, the publication trend in the 10 first Malaysian universities was evaluated for the same periods. Scopus database was used to find the overall documents, overall citations, citations per document and international collaboration from 1996 to 2011 for each country. The World Bank database (World Data Bank) was used to collect the data for GDP and the number of internet users. Moreover, to evaluate 10 top Malaysian universities, the number of published articles, conferences, reviews, and letters for the same periods was collected. The results of this study showed significant differences among ASEAN and top 10 countries regarding publication productivity. Moreover, a positive and significant relationship was observed between indices, GDP and internet usage for these countries. Surprisingly, international collaboration had a significant and negative relationship with economic growth. Malaysia had fewer citations per document (7.64) and international collaboration (36.9%) among ASEAN countries. In conclusion, international collaboration between academic institutes and researchers is influenced by economic growth and access to internet in the countries. Furthermore, publication trends in ASEAN countries are promising. However, policy makers and science managers should try to find different ways to increase the quality of the research publication and to raise citation per document.Gholizadeh, H., H. Salehi, M. A. Embi, M. Danaee, S. M. Motahar, N. Ale Ebrahim, F. H. Tanha and N. A. A. Osman (2014). "Relationship among Economic Growth, Internet Usage and Publication Productivity: Comparison among ASEAN and World’s Best Countries." Modern Applied Science 8(2): 160-170
Economic Growth and Internet Usage Impact on Publication Productivity among ASEAN’s and World’s Best Universities
No full textMeasuring the number of papers which are published each year, publication productivity is the factor which shows the reputation of universities and countries. However, the effect of growing economy and using internet on the publication productivity in Asian countries has not been discovered yet. The present research is going to figure out the publication productivity among the elite universities in Asian countries and also ten top universities around the world in the last twenty years (from 1993 to 2012). Furthermore, the current research is aimed to study the relationship among publication, gross domestic product (GDP) and internet usage. It is worth to mention that the publication of the top Ten Malaysian Universities was regarded for the similar period of time. To get the exact numbers of documents like papers, conference articles, review papers and letters which are published by the universities in the last twenty years, the writer of the same paper used the Science Direct database. Moreover, the data for GDP and the number of internet usage was collected through the World Bank database (World Data Bank).To compare all kinds of publications,one-way ANOVA was used and to investigate the impact of economic growth and internet usage on publication productivity, multiple regression analysis was applied.The results showed that the rate of publication growth was 1.9, 20.9, and 65.5 % in top universities in the world, ASEAN countries and Malaysia, respectively.The results also showed that there was a positive and significant correlation between GDP and the number of internet users with the number of publications in ASEAN and Malaysian universities. Internet usage had much more influence in comparison with the GDP in predicting the number of publications among these groups except for top ten Malaysian universities from 2003 to 2012. In summary, publication trends in top ten Malaysian and ASEAN universities are promising. However, policy makers and science managers should spend much more percentage of their GDP on Internet facilities and research studies that their outputs lead to more rapid economic growth and internet usage.H. Gholizadeh, H. Salehi, M. A. Embi, M. Danaee, A. Ordi, F. H. Tanha, N. Ale Ebrahim, and N. A. A. Osman, “Economic Growth and Internet Usage Impact on Publication Productivity among ASEAN’s and World’s Best Universities,” Modern Applied Science, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 169-178, September 1, 2014
The association between physical activity and work schedule among Hospital nurses: a cross-Sectional Study
No full textLink to publisher's homepage at http://www.mohejournal.com/index.php/mohePhysically sedentary and overweight nurses appear to be less credible in inculcating healthy behaviour among patients. Shift-work has been shown to promote physical inactivity, whilst sedentarism strongly correlates with a high body mass index (BMI). We aim to determine the level of physical activity among hospital nurses of different work schedules, i.e. shift-work and day-work; and explore any associations between nurses’ demographic backgrounds, BMI, and work schedules with their physical activity level. This cross-sectional study design was employed. The self-administered Malaysian International Physical Activity Questionnaire – Long form (IPAQ-L) and a demographic survey sheet were provided to the eligible nurses. Bivariate and subsequent regression analyses were performed to determine their associations. A total of 1988 nurses from the University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur were invited to participate in this study. There were 1504 (76%) returned responses, with 77% of responding nurses working shift. Based on the IPAQ-L, 87% of the nurses were deemed highly active, while another 11% were moderately active. Upon stratifying into shift-work and day-work, statistically significant differences were observed between the groups in the domains of ‘work’ (p = 0.016), ‘domestic chores’ (p = 0.038), and in intensity-specific ‘walking’ (p = 0.046) and ‘vigorous’ activities (p = 0.034). There were no differences among groups within categories of physical activities (p = 0.355). Regression analysis showed significant difference for ‘duration of daily vehicle travel’, with the day-workers reporting a longer adjusted travel time (76.50 minutes/day, p < 0.001). Working shift does not seem to harm an individual nurse’s overall measured physical activity, as evidenced by equivalent high values of physical activity engagement between both work schedules. Any differences within domains and intensities of physical activities may be attributed to the respective cohort characteristic
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