Ethical Considerations for Compulsory Childhood Vaccination in Malaysia by Asari, Khairun Nisaa, Yusof, Yuhanif, Halim, Rohizan

“…Childhood vaccination is an important tool for controlling and eliminating life-threatening infectious diseases among infants, as they are most vulnerable due to their weaker immune system. …”
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Relevance of national breastfeeding policy (NBP) in Malaysian society by Subramanian, Vasumathi

“…Whereas, BFHI promotes breastfeeding by creating a conducive condition in hospitals which will empower women to make the right choice on infant feeding.Despite having all these efforts, the Third National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS III) 2006 marks only 14.5% of mothers are exclusively breastfeeding in Malaysia which warrants us to analyze the contributing factors to relatively low rate.In contrary, the usage and promotion of formula milk have taken a drastic expansion covering not only infants but mothers to be and toddlers. …”
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Wanita dan amalan penyusuan bayi di Perupok, Bachok, Kelantan by Mohamed, Aishah@Eshah

“…The best infant food is derived from the mother. By giving the infant colostrums and breast milk is a good beginning for the health of an infant. …”
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Multilayer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network Model on assessing early mathematical knowledge behaviours and Todd-Acts mobile application development by Mustafa, Zaida, Ahmad Kamaruddin, Saadi, Md Ghani, Nor Azura, Mohamad, Hamidah, Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Noor

“…According to science, a person’s capacity to acquire math abilities allows them to develop many other talents faster, and infants are no exception. In this study, we looked at the behaviours or modules that contribute to the development of arithmetic skills or capacities in newborns from birth (0 months) to 4 years old (48 months). …”
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Accounting for the contribution of foreign direct investment in population health: A case study of Pakistan by Idrees, Sadia, Abu Bakar, Nor'Aznin

“…This paper examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on life expectancy and infant mortality rate under-5 using time series data over the period of 1980–2017. …”
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The impact of environmental quality on public health expenditure in Malaysia by Abdullah, Hussin, Azam, Muhammad, Zakariya, Siti Khalijah

“…SO2, fertility and infant mortality rate showed a significant factor in the country's health expenditures affect substantially.The new generation is an important element in ensuring the continuance and sustainability of national development in the future.…”
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KM Practices in academic libraries of Malaysia: A conceptual framework by Zakaria, Khasiah

“…Knowledge Management (KM)has been used by many other profits driven organizations.But, it is still in an infant concept applied in the non-profit organizations especially academic libraries (AL).The article proposed Binney’s KM Spectrum to map the KM Practices in the AL.The librarian’s roles and skills are influential to the success of KM applications, when used with KM Spectrum will constitute a suitable model to map KM Practices in today's university libraries.…”
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Service supply chain management in Malaysia: Feasibility towards sustainable system by Choong, Kei Shing, Nadarajah, Gunalan, Nadarajan, Santhirasegaran

“…Service industry posts many improvement opportunities in supply chain system, adopting from the experiences in manufacturing industry.Though some global and local giant corporation has begun implementing a more systematic and complex supply chain system in the firm, the sustainability of the implementation is still in a challenging stage.This is highly due to the infant characteristic that the system bears in the new industries.Cost and quality constraints demands for service supply chain management in Malaysia's service firms to mature quickly in today's highly paced technological world.This includes on time delivery, raw material inventory control, planning, and quality control in service.The market focus migrates to post-industrialization leading a positive surge in service sector's growth.…”
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Measuring the relationship of healthcare expenditure and aging population: Empirical analysis using auto regressive distributed lag approach, ardl by Baharin, Roziana, Saad, Suhaila

“…In addition to the aging population, several other control variables are also used, namely per capita income, infant mortality rate and urban population. According to Department of Statistics (DOS), Malaysia is expected to become old countries in 2035. …”
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Preminilary study on electronic number mapping in Malaysia by Yahya, Saadiah, Abu Samah, Syarul Emy

“…Currently ENUM technology is still at its infant stage and not fully explored. This paper discusses the pos sible Malaysian implementation of ENUM, its challlenges and issues.…”
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Asymmetric tariff reduction within the SADC protocol on trade its implications for industrial development within member states: A theoretical perspective by Tsitsi Effie, Mutambara

“…Theoretical debates upon which these Articles could be used to facilitate industrial development rest on the infant industry argument, the static and dynamic effects of economic integration. …”
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Developing the scholarship of teaching and learning community of practice by Mohd Yusoff, Nurahimah

“…The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, also known as SoTL, is currently at an infant stage in Malaysia.In other parts of the world, several studies (Livshin, 2011; Li, 2011; Sams and Sams, 2011) pointed out that the promotion of SoTL efforts and other scholarly activities in this area often is liaised via the centre for the advancement of teaching, academic development centre, centre for teaching and learning of the respective universities.The study by Raja Maznah et al. (2012) for example, revealed that the participants in general perceived the importance of and need for SoTL training.The majority of the participants indicated a need to develop a comprehensive SoTL training framework and overall, there was a general consensus on the need to enhance teaching practices through SoTL. …”
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Significance of Murabahah Finance towards the Improvement of Agricultural Productivity in Kano State, Nigeria by Aziz, Ahmad Bashir, Mohammed, Ahmed Ibrahim

“…This paper aims to put into the development of the 44 Kano state micro finance banks, which are the infant financial institution owned by the state government.It is hoped that the outcome of this research will improve the socioeconomic standard of rural farmers, enhance food supply, agribusiness, and agro allied industries of the state. …”
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Awareness, trust, and adoption of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency among blockchain communities in Malaysia by Ku-Mahamud, Ku Ruhana, Omar, Mazni, Abu Bakar, Nur Azzah, Muraina, Ishola Dada

“…However, level of awareness of the blockchain technology and cryptocurrency is still at infant stage, specifically in developing countries. …”
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Gender-specific stochastic frontier health efficiency model in Malaysia by Baten, Md Azizul, Jamil, Jastini, Zainal Abidin, Norhaslinda, Mohd Shaharanee, Izwan Nizal

“…The number of government hospitals, number of beds, and demographic rates like crude birth rate, crude death rate, infant mortality rate, and maternal mortality rate are found to reduce the inefficiency on life expectancy in good health in Malaysia.The average health efficiency for both male and female was 0.9321 and 0.9946, indicating that on an average, 93.2 percent for male and 99.4 percent for female of the health outcome potentials are realized by country Malaysia.Year-wise gender-specific health efficiency periodically fluctuates during the period of investigation.The study recommends that governments improve not only health care expenditure but also factors affecting health other than health care to reduce the burden on health-care facilities and reduce the burden of disease in Malaysia.…”
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Technical, Pure Technical and Scale Efficiency: A Non-Parametric Approach of Pakistans Insurance and Takaful Industry by Taib, Che Azlan, Ashraf, Muhammad Saleem, Ahmad Razimi, Mohd Shahril

“…Although like other parts of the world efficiency analysis have been conducted in Pakistan accounting for Insurance sectors as Takaful sector has started in Pakistan in 2005 and it is an infant industry and the studies of the efficiencies including Technical, Pure Technical and Scale efficiencies are lacking for a responsible period of time for Pakistan. …”