The quality and determinants of voluntary disclosures in annual reports of Shari'ah compliant companies in Malaysia by Mohd Ghazali, Nazli Anum

“…The multivariate regression analyses reveal that board size is significant in explaining the quality of CVDs at the 5% significance levels. Company size and leverage as control variables are also significant at the 1% and 10% significance levels in determining the quality of CVDs by ShCCs. …”
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Learning aid for inguinal canal anatomy by Ye, Tun, Myint, Yi Yi

“…The efficacy of the model construction is evaluated by testing 10 questions regarding the anatomy of inguinal canal before (pre-test) and after (post-test) doing the construction. A 5-point scale questionnaire was used to elicit the students’ views on different teaching methods in our university. …”
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Bladder scan vs urethral cathetarization for measurement of immediate post partum bladder volume by Ibrahim, Norliza, Nusee, Zalina, Mohd Rus, Razman, Ismail, Hamizah, Ismail, Suhaiza, Abdulwahab, Dalia F

“…Resul : There were a total of 193 women recruited with the mean age of 28.84 years (SD 5.516) with mean BMI of 29.69( SD 5.69) kg/m2 and fundal height of 16cm (SD 2.382 ). …”
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Role of health hazardous ethephone in nutritive values of selected pineapple, banana and tomato by Hakim, Md. Abdul, Obidul Huq, A. K., Alam, M. A., Khatib, Alfi, Saha, B. K., Formuzul Haque, K. M., Sarker, Md. Zaidul Islam

“…The highest vitamin C content of the selected non-treated fruits (17.5 mg/100 g in pineapple, 13 mg/100 g in banana and 20.2 mg/100 g tomato) and the lowest contentwas found in the market samples (10 mg/100 g in pineapple, 7 mg/100 g in banana and 12.3 mg/100 g tomato), whereas ethephone-treated groups contained the ascorbic acid 14.5 mg/100 g in pineapple, 9 mg/100 g in banana and 19.4 mg/100 g in tomato). …”
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Analysis of chief complaint, toothbrushing, plaque score, dental care program and decay in children by Supaat, Salwana, Witjaksono, Widowati, Sukmasari, Susi

“…Subjects had high plaque score, moderate and low were 91.2%, 3.5% 5.3% respectively. Mean of tooth decayed were 4.778 (sd. 3.379). …”
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Comparison between adrenalectomy and medical therapy in the management of primary aldosteronism by Loh, Huai Heng, S, Norlela, AW, Norasyikin, M, Norlaila, Zainuddin, Suehazlyn, R, Subashini, O, Mohd Rahman, Shahar, Mohammad Arif, Omar, Ahmad Marzuki, WS, Wan Juani, D, Azura, OOI, CP, Kamaruddin, Nor Azmi

“…Median duration of hypertension prior to diagnosis of PA was 7.5 ± 8.3 years. Median aldosterone renin ratio was 53.2 (aldosterone in ng/ dL, renin in ng/ml/h). 82% had fludrocortisone suppression as confirmatory test. 45.5% underwent adrenalectomy, 36.4% received MRA, with mean dose of 75mg/day. …”
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Effect of cut-off frequency of butterworth filter on detectability and contrast of hot and cold regions in Tc-99m SPECT by Sayed, Inayatullah Shah, Mohamed Nasrudin, Nor Syahirah

“…A But-terworth filter of order 5 with cut-off frequencies 0.35 and 0.45 cycles.cm-1 was applied. …”
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PAX9 mutation of non-syndromic hypodontia in three Malaysian families by Lestari, Widya

“…Direct sequencing was performed by using exon 2, 3 and 4 of PAX9. RESULTS: 5 out of 6 family members in family 1 have missing premolars and molars. …”
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Nursing characteristics and patients’ outcomes: a retrospective study by Aung, Khin Thandar, Ghazali, Aini fatimah, Tin, Myo Han

“…The results obtained showed that majority of nurses in medical and surgical wards was having diploma (79.2%) and having working experience less than 5 years (62.5%). Meanwhile the total prevalence of Hospitalacquired Pressure Ulcer (HAPU) among non-ambulatory patients in medical and surgical wards was 19.93% and the total prevalence of medication errors in medical and surgical wards was 25.69%. …”
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Molecular study of hepatitis C viral RNA extracted from local isolates in Pahang, Malaysia: genotyping, subtyping and base sequencing by Hamzah, Hairul Aini, Mustafa Mahmoud, Mohammed Imad Al-Deen, Abdul Majid, Mohammed Saad, Hasmoni, Mohamed Hadzri, Abdullah, Nasuruddin

“…Phylogenetic analysis of the NS5B region showed a predominance of HCV genotype 3a. …”
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Language and cross-cultural influences in the psychometric evaluation of the Malaysian FertiQoL by Ariffin, Farnaza, Daud, Suzanna, Ismail, Zaliha, Zainuddin, Ani Amelia, Ramli, Roszaman

“…Factor analysis and internal consistency were analysed using SPSS v24. Results: Data from 175 respondents were analysed. …”
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The effects of palm tocotrienol rich fraction (TRF) on proatherosclerotic changes in aorta of rats fed high methionine diet by Ku Zaifah, Norsidah, Yusuf, Kamisah, Yusuf, Ahmad Asmadi, Ayob, Azizi

“…Statistical analysis:Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 11.5 was used. Data is presented as Mean ± SEM. P < 0.05 is considered significant. …”
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Assessment of household use of iodized salt and adequacy of salt iodization: a cross-sectional National Study in Saudi Arabia by Al-Dakheel, Mushary H., Haridi, Hassan K., Al-Bashir, Bushra M., Al-Shangiti, Ali M., Al-Shehri, Sulaiman N., Hussein, Izzeldin

“…For validation, a quantitative iodometric titration method was used to analyze 775 representative salt samples screened iodized by RTK; iodine content of ≥15 ppm was found in 95.2% (95% CI 93.9-96.5) of samples with median iodine content 51 ppm (mean 50.4 ± 21.8). …”
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Evidence for the formation of supplementary corpora lutea in the pregnant and pseudopregnant rat by Garside, Deborah A.

“…Histological studies of ovarian tissue confirmed the presence of newly formed CL on day 5 and 6 post-coitum and an absence of entrapped ova; follicular development was also present in early pregnancy with Graafian follicles evident on day 4 post-coitum. …”
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Prediabetes conversion to Normoglycemia is superior adding a low-carbohydrate and energy deficit formula diet to lifestyle intervention - a 12-month subanalysis of the ACOORH trial by Röhling, Martin, Kempf, Kerstin, Banzer, Winfried, Berg, Aloys, Braumann, Klaus-Michael, Tan, Susanne, Halle, Martin, McCarthy, H. David, Pinget, Michel, Predel, Hans-Georg, Scholze, Jürgen, Toplak, Hermann, Martin, Stephan

“…The risk reduction led to a number-needed-to-treat of 5.3 for INT. Lifestyle intervention with a low-carbohydrate formula diet reduces prediabetes prevalence stronger than lifestyle intervention alone and is effective for type 2 diabetes prevention.…”
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Genetic and functional investigation of sequence variation associated with the related phenotypes: birth weight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes (T2D) by Towns, Laura Katherine

“…Methods: Two commercially-available methods (Sequenom iPLEX and Life Technologies TaqMan) were used to genotype specific polymorphisms in the genes HHEX-IDE, ADCY5 and FTO, while molecular cloning and computer modelling techniques were used to investigate the variants in LEPR. …”
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Mechanical properties of calcium phosphate reinforced polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biocomposite by MI Najah, MI Najah, R Aisyah, R Aisyah, S Adzila, S Adzila, RHA Haq, RHA Haq

“…CaP was reinforced in PHA in the range from 5 wt% to 30 wt% and the tensile and impact properties of the composite were investigated. …”
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Mechanical properties of calcium phosphate reinforced polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biocomposite by MI Najah, MI Najah, R Aisyah, R Aisyah, S Adzila, S Adzila, RHA Haq, RHA Haq

“…CaP was reinforced in PHA in the range from 5 wt% to 30 wt% and the tensile and impact properties of the composite were investigated. …”
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Mechanical properties of calcium phosphate reinforced polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biocomposite by MI Najah, MI Najah, R Aisyah, R Aisyah, S Adzila, S Adzila, RHA Haq, RHA Haq

“…CaP was reinforced in PHA in the range from 5 wt% to 30 wt% and the tensile and impact properties of the composite were investigated. …”
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Anxiety in oral presentation among engineering and non-engineering students in english language classrooms by Ibrahim, Hairunnisa

“…The interviews were conducted between 5 students and 5 teachers to get clear evidence of anxiety occurrences during an oral presentation in the ESL classrooms. …”
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