Disaster management: identifying knowledge of emergency nurses and community health nurses and its predictors in Malaysia by Ismail, Aniza, Faisal Ghazi, Hasanain, Ismail, Mohd Saibon, Ahayalimudin, Nurul'Ain

“…Attending disaster-related education/training was identified as a predictor factor for adequacy of knowledge among EN with significant value of p < 0.01, (AOR) of 3.807, 95% (CI) of 1.584-9.153) and CHN (p < 0.001, AOR = 3.511, 95% CI = 2.097-5.881). As conclusion, emergency and community health nurses have inadequate knowledge with regard to disaster management, and it has been demonstrated statistically that adequacy of knowledge is driven by attending disaster-related education/training, which predicts knowledge level. …”
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Peer influences and intention to smoke e-cigarette: A cross-sectionaL study among form 4 students of a secondary school in Kuantan,Pahang by Latt, Swe Swe, Pasi, Hafizah, Nasreen, Hashima E, Mohd Rus, Razman, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim

“…The prevalence of intention to smoke e-cigarette in the next 12 months was 8.2% (n=8). Among them, 87.5% were ever user and 75% male students. Ever user was significantly (p=0.003) indented to use e-cigarette. …”
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Knowledge of pelvic floor muscle exercise (Kegel Exercise) among women at Beserah Polyclinic and Jaya Gading Community Health Clinic by Al-Araji, Laith Issa Yassin, Wan Su, Kamaruzaman

“…Patient ages ranged from 17 to 67 years, and parity ranged from 0 to ≥5. One hundred and twenty six of the 200 women (63%) had heard of Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise. …”
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Factors associated with HbA1c levels in poorly controlled type 2 diabetic patients in North-East Malaysia by A. Rahman, Nor Azlina, Ismail, Aziz al-Safi, Yaacob, Nor Azwany, Lin, Naing

“…Design: A cross-sectional study Materials and Methods: A total of 208 patients with poor diabetic control (HbA1c levels of more than 6.5%) were selected by stratified random sampling from all health centres in Kelantan. …”
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Inhibitory activity of crude bacteriocin produced by lactic acid bacteria isolated from dadih against listeria monocytogenes by Pato, Usman, Yusuf, Yusmarini, Fitriani, Shanti, Jonnadi, Nia Naidya, ., Mimi Sri Wahyuni, Feruni, Jeska Aryaningsih, Jaswir, Irwandi

“…However, out of the 12 LABs, only 9 strains were found to have an inhibition zone of more than 3.5 mm. The antimicrobial compounds of 9 strains were tested and it was found that the antimicrobial compounds of strains R-8, R-14 and R-49 were derived from lactic acid. …”
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Knowledge and perception regarding surgical antibiotic prophylaxis among physicians in the department of obstetrics and gynecology by Abubakar, Usman, Syed Sulaiman, Syed Azhar, Adesiyun, Adebiyi G.

“…Respondents with 6–10 years working experience had significantly higher knowledge score than those with 1 –5 years experience. Respondents who had not attended any workshop or course pertaining to SAP had more positive perception. …”
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Perceptions of the 7p marketing mix of Islamic banks in Indonesia: what do twitter users say about it? by Cahyono, Eko Fajar, Rani, Lina Nugraha, Kassim, Salina

“…The perceptions of social media users are assessed based on the 7P marketing mix, namely: (i) product, (ii) promotion and education, (iii) price and other user outlays, (iv) process, (v) people, (vi) physical environment, and (vii) time. …”
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NN approach and its comparison with NN-SVM to beta-barrel prediction by Kazemian, Hassan, Yusuf, Syed A., White, Kenneth, Grimaldi, Cédric Maxime

“…The computer simulation results demonstrate a significant impact and a superior performance of NN-SVM tests with a 5 residue overlap for signal protein over NN with and without redundant proteins for pre- diction of trans membrane beta barrel spanning regions.…”
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A study of the effects of changing raw material prices and varying interest rates on the stockholding decisions of a small manufacturing company by Fraser, Colin Stuart

“…A study is made of the inventory control procedures in a manufacturing company with an annual turnover of around £5M. The study is made at a time of fluctuating prices and varying interest rates in order to determine both their effect on, and ways of improving, the control procedures. …”
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Effect of manganese and nickel on the cleavage fracture strength of ferritic weld metal by Sandford, Andrew Robert Brian.

“…In combination the best cleavage properties were given by alloying contents of 1.0% manganese and 1.5% nickel increasing alloying beyond this level had a detrimental effect. …”
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An investigation into the polyethylene extrudates produced by simultaneous orientation and high temperature quenching by Berry, Colin

“…The temperature of the medium could be controlled to an accuracy of +/- 0.5°C and the molten extrudates could be subjected to a wide range of draw-downs whilst maintaining a continuous production of extrudate. …”
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Interaction between closely packed array antenna elements using metasurface for applications such as MIMO systems and synthetic aperture radars by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Shukla, Pancham, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…At frequencies of high impedance match of 9.95 GHz and 10.63 GHz the gain is 4.52 dBi and 5.40 dBi, respectively. Furthermore, the technique eliminates poor front-to-back ratio encountered in other decoupling methods. …”
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The effect of food preparation on the bioavailability of carotenoids from carrots using intrinsic labelling by Ghavami, Abdollah, Coward, W. Andy, Bluck, Les J. C.

“…When these two factors are combined, the yield of retinol from the carotene in carrots was found to be enhanced by a factor of 6·5 by stir-frying.…”
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Topical delivery of 3-O-ethyl l-ascorbic acid from complex solvent systems by Iliopoulos, Fotis, Hossain, Monjur, Sil dos Santos, Bruno, Moore, David J., Lucas, Robert A., Lane, Majella E.

“…Previously, we reported the effects of neat solvents on EA percutaneous absorption and observed that 0.6–7.5% of the applied EA was delivered through the skin over 24 h. …”
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Fabricating a novel HLC-hBMP2 fusion protein for the treatment of bone defects by Chen, Zhuoyue, Zhang, Zhen, Wang, Zhaoyue, Wu, Jiawei, Wang, Yihang, Si, He, Xie, Xin, Shang, Lijun, Fan, Daidi, Chen, Fulin

“…This fusion protein when applied to cranial defects in rats was osteoinductively active and improved bone repairing enhancing the repairing rate 3.5- fold and 4.2- fold when compared to the HLC alone and the control, respectively. …”
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Children's constructions of work by Hutchings, Merryn

“…Children interviewed were in Reception Class (4-5 years old), Year Three (7-8 years old) and Year Six (10-11 years old); numbers of boys and girls were almost equal. …”
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Probiotic characterization of Bifidobacterium spp. isolated from commercial fermented milk in the UK by Raeisi, Shahram Naghizadeh

“…Further use of rep-PCR for differentiation of all isolates using two different primers (GTG-5 and BOXA 1 R) did not show any difference among tested isolates as all isolates presented the same band profile. …”
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Signal peptide discrimination and cleavage site identification using SVM and NN by Kazemian, Hassan, Yusuf, Syed A., White, Kenneth

“…For SP cleavage site prediction, the overall accuracy is 91.5% based on cross-validation tests using the novel SVM-NN model.…”
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Metamaterial-based antennas for integration in UWB transceivers and portable microwave handsets by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Ali Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…Both antennas employ two unit-cells, which are constructed on the Rogers RO4003 substrate with thickness of 0.8 mm and er 5 3.38. The size of H-shaped and T-shaped unit cell antennas are 0.06k0 3 0.02k0 3 0.003k0 and 0.05k0 3 0.02k0 3 0.002k0, respectively, where k0 is the free–space wavelength. …”
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Microfabrication of conical microfunnels for drug delivery applications by Liu, L. W. Y., Inal, Jameel, Steer, M. B., Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The process comprises six stages: in stage 1, a UV-opaque resin substrate is formed by mixing photocurable SU-8 with a UV-opaque impurity; in stage 2, an embossing stamp with an array of microrods is fabricated; in stage 3, the upper surface of the UV-opaque resin substrate (from the first stage) is mechanically deformed by stamping with the embossing stamp from stage 2; in stage 4, the regions in which microfunnels are photolithographically defined are selectively exposed to UV light; in stage 5, the wafer from stage 4 is subjected to heat and then developed in 1-methoxy-2-propanol acetate; finally, a hole on the tip of each microfunnel is formed by dry etching with oxygen plasma. …”
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