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Prevalence of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Among the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT) Undergraduate Students in UNIMAS and Its Association with Computer Usage
Get PDFCarpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is the most common type of nerve entrapment and it is due to the compression of
the median nerve which passes through the carpal tunnel in the wrist. Previous research had found that the
development of CTS is related to the prolonged use and repetitive movement of the wrist such as typing. Thus,
this research is conducted to determine the prevalence of CTS among the Faculty of Computer Science and
Information Technology (FCSIT) undergraduate students in UNIMAS and its association with computer usage.
To achieve the study’s objective, a quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the prevalence of
CTS and its association with computer use among UNIMAS FCSIT undergraduate students. The data was
collected by distributing a self-administrated questionnaire through online platforms. The questionnaire contained
4 main sections, which consisted of the respondent demographic information, respondent’s computer usage and
knowledge on computer ergonomics, Patient Rated Wrist Evaluation (PRWE) and Boston Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome questionnaire (BCTQ). The collected data were analysed by using SPSS statistical software version 21.
A total of 338 responses from UNIMAS FCSIT students with a mean age of 22.04 were collected; 59.5% of the
respondents were females and 40.5% were males. Among the 338 respondents, about 90.8% were healthy with
no pre-existing medical condition while only 3.8% of them were diagnosed with CTS prior to this study. Next,
most of the respondents had average knowledge on computer ergonomics. (28.4%). According to the PRWE result,
most of the respondents had minimal pain (44.1%). For the BCTQ severity score result, most of the respondents
showed minimal CTS symptoms (42%) while for the BCTQ function score, up to 60.7% of the respondents did
not show CTS symptoms. Other findings of our study showed that there was no relationship between CTS and
computer usage either in terms of daily duration on computer use, years on computer use or knowledge on
computer ergonomics. In conclusion, there is minimal correlation between computer usage and the risk of
developing CTS
Educational theories perspectives on multimodal systematic teaching approach: A narrative review
Get PDFThe Knowledge, Perception and Attitude of Year 1 Undergraduate Students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) on Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
No full textCoronary Artery Disease (CAD) is a cardiovascular disease where there is plaque buildup in the wall of the
coronary artery, an artery that supplies blood to the heart. This disease is also often referred to as coronary
heart disease or ischemic heart disease. Globally and in Malaysia, CAD has been known as the most common
type of heart disease and the leading cause of death. Hence, this study aims to determine the knowledge, attitude
and perception of CAD among the students of the University of Malaysia, Sarawak (UNIMAS). The
minimum number of Year 1 FMHS students involved in this study was calculated by using Raosoft
Sample Size Calculator software. A Google online form (self- administered questionnaire) that consisted of
respondent’s characteristics, perception of CAD, knowledge on risk factors and clinical presentation of CAD,
and attitude towards the preventive measure of CAD was used to collect the data. The data collected was
analyzed by using IBM SPSS Statistics software version 27 while the frequencies, means, standard
deviation, and p-value were calculated to achieve the specific objectives of this study. According to the results,
out of 200 respondents, most of the respondents were female (76.5%) and participation from medical students
(66.5%) was more than the nursing students (33.5%). Overall, females have a better level of knowledge on
CAD compared to males. Nursing students have a better level of attitude towards the preventive measure of
CAD than medical students while medical students have a higher level of knowledge on other parts
of the questionnaire compared to nursing students. There is a significant correlation between the
perception of CAD, its risk factors, clinical presentation, and the attitude towards the preventive measure
of CAD. Knowledge of CAD clinical presentation and preventive measures has a significant correlation with the
gender of the respondents. Meanwhile, the knowledge of risk factors of CAD has a significant correlation with
the courses of the students. However, the perception of CAD does not have a significant correlation with both
gender and the courses of the students. Furthermore, the results obtained from the study may not represent
the level of knowledge regarding CAD on a large scale. Therefore, more research regarding this issue
should be conducted more often as it will help to give an even better overview of the level of knowledge
about CAD and its association with the attitude on CAD preventive measures among the community
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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