Practice follows structure: QM in Malaysian public hospitals by Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah

“…Among the factors of quality management, teamwork was found to be significantly higher in district hospitals than in state hospitals and the national referral centre. …”
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Accumulation and distribution of lead and copper in Avicennia marina and Rhizophora apiculata from Balok mangrove forest, Pahang, Malaysia by Yunus, Kamaruzzaman, Zabri, Rina Sharlinda, John, Akbar, Abdurahman, Siti Waznah

“…Results of concentration factors (CF) showed that the accumulation of Pb and Cu was higher in A. marina than in R. apiculata.…”
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Remarkably high survival rates under dim light conditions in sutchi catfish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus larvae by Mukai, Yukinori

“…Therefore, the feeding behavior of sutchi catfish larvae most likely depends on chemosensing rather than visual sensing. In the later experiments, larval rearing at 0.1 l× yielded significantly higher survival rates than other lighting conditions (0.00, 1, 10, 100 l×). …”
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Women participation on the boards of Malaysian companies and firm performance by Ku Ismail, Ku Nor Izah, Abdullah, Shamsul Nahar

“…On the other hand, when the ROA is employed, firms with women on boards perform better than those without women, at a 10 percent significant level. …”
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Synthesis-condition dependence of carbon nanotube growth by alcohol catalytic chemical vapor deposition method by Inami, Nobuhito, Mohamed, Mohd Ambri, Shikoh, Eiji, Fujiwara, Akihiko

“…In the case of thicker Co film more than 3 nm, an amount of grown SWNTs by 30 min synthesis after 30 min annealing and by 60 min synthesis was much higher than that by 30 min synthesis without annealing, showing that total heat-treatment time of 60 min is important for the SWNT growth. …”
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Optimization of low normal force contact spring by Bhuiyan, Moinul

“…For a reliable contact spring, NiCo material is selected because its material characteristics are better than commercial contact spring material. By the experiment, it is proved that a low normal force spring with higher hertz stresses which is 5μm radius can provide a stable reliable contact resistance from the first contact than 200μm radius. …”
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Unintentional information security behavior from the Qur’an and hadith’s perspective by Barzak, Omar Mokhles, Abdul Molok , Nurul Nuha, Talib, Shuhaili, Mahmud, Murni

“…As the world becomes more interconnected now than decades ago, information security incidents are more prevalent in organizations. …”
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New approach to suppress mutual coupling between longitudinal-slotted arrays based on SIW antenna loaded with metal-fences working on VHF/UHF frequency-bands: study, investigation,... by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The resulting isolation is shown to be is better than -83 dB across 200 MHz to 1.0 GHz with gain greater than 1.5 dBi, and side-lobe level less than 40 dB. …”
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Exploring spatial memory in children with autism and ADHD by Kochhar, Ridhi

“…Technical objects were better remembered by the mainly male sample than roleplay and neutral objects, but this particular category of objects had the slowest reaction times. …”
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“Everything, it was everything”: victim blame, victimism, and responsibilisation by Beddows, Amy

“…Analysis showed that women felt devalued and responsibilised by professionals more than blamed and were blamed for things other than their abuse. …”
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Low SAR PIFA Antenna for Wideband Applications by Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Mansouri, Zahra, Sharma, Sachin, Zarrabi, Ferdows, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…Its radiation pattern is approximately omnidirectional, VSWR < 2, gain in the range 2–4.6 dBi, and efficiency greater than 78%. The prototype antenna exhibits a low SAR of around 1.04 for 1 g at 1800 MHz, which is less than 51% than a conventional PIFA antenna. …”
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A comparison of discrete cosine transform and discrete wavelet transform algorithm in watermarking against common attacks by Said, Mohamed Abdisalan

“…Thus, the results had indicated that the DWT gives better image quality than DCT.…”
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Debating their beliefs to victory by Abdul Latiff, Muhamad Farid

“…Debating is more often than not viewed as an aggressive and intimidating contest of argumentation between two teams or individuals. …”
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University lecturers’ constructions of undergraduate writing : a gender analysis by Read, Barbara, Francis, Becky, Robson, Jocelyn

“…Women are now obtaining more first degrees overall than men and (if first and upper second results are added together) more ‘good’ degrees than men, with all subjects being taken together.…”
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Perception and attitude of general practitioners regarding generic medicines in Karachi, Pakistan: A questionnaire based study by Jamshed, Shazia Qasim, Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohamed Izham, Ahmad Hassali, Mohamed Azmi, Masood, Imran, Low, Bee Yean, Shafie, Asrul Akmal, Babar, Zaheer-ud-din

“…More than one third of the respondents expressed their uneasiness to prescribe products from all local manufacturers (n=72; 35%). …”
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Histomorphometric analysis of the endothelial cell in skin microvasculature among diabetic foot ulcer patients by Mohd Radzuan, Hazulin, Myint, Yi Yi, Tun, Ye, Zulkifly, Ahmad Hafiz

“…Furthermore, the mean ranks for ECC among control subjects was significantly two times higher than the other groups and the mean ranks for ECT for the diseased groups were more than two times higher than the control. …”
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A comparative study on the inter-session and inter-examiner reliability of corneal power measurement using various keratometry instruments by Md Mustafa, Md Muziman Syah, Abdul Mutalib, Haliza, Malkeet Singh, Sharanjeet Kaur, Mohd. Kamal, Khairidzan

“…The Sw and COV values between 2 visits were lower than 0.09 D and 0.20 % respectively. The ICCs were stronger than 0.99 in all instruments. …”
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Words and facts: children's fast mapping, retention and extension by Holland, Amanda

“…In contrast, retention of colour labels, shape labels, texture labels and linguistic facts was no better than chance, despite good short-term performance. …”
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Gender based variation in employing suggestion strategies by Iraqi EFL learners by Sharqawi, Mushtaq Abdulrazzaq

“…As the speech act of suggestion pragmatically conveys the intention behind its utterance rather than its mere structure, suggestions are crucial to EFL learners to master to communicate their ideas. …”
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Development of plasmonic sensor using gold nanobipyramids for detection of glyphosate based pesticide by Nafisah, Suratun

“…For t-SPR band, the GNBPs provided sensitivity factor as high as 4.76 and 5.17 times larger than the sensitivity factor of GBNRs and GNRs, while for l-SPR band, the sensitivity factor of GNBPs are 2.87 times larger than GBNRs and 1.57 times larger than GNRs. …”
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