Clozapine re-challenge with lithium supplementation following clozapine-induced neutropenia by Md Rosli, Ahmad Nabil, Subbiah, Rakesh, Maniam, T

“…Methods: The patient was treated with clozapine for treatmentresistant schizophrenia. After five weeks he showed much improvement but developed neutropenia. …”
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Twenty-two new Asian short stories

“…An excerpt from the introduction ... twenty-two stories in the volume, and this is how the tally stands country-wise: one each from Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal and Pakistan; four from the Philippines, five from Singapore and eight from India. In this count, I have considered only the country of origin of the authors, because some of them have moved either to another country within Asia or to the West ... if we leave out the internal migrations within the continent, there are only three writers in this volume, who are based in the West, compared to ten in the previous volume which prompted one reviewer, renowned Bangladeshi poet Kaiser Haq, to ask half-humorously if the whole of Asia was in exile. …”
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Swelling index, gel fraction, thermal and rheological properties of Centella asiatica hydrogel by Ahmed, Afnan Sh., Bakhtiar, M. Taher, Mandal, Uttam Kumar, Md. Jaffri, Juliana

“…Gel fraction, swelling behavior, thermal and rheological properties were investigated. Five consecutive cycles of freezing and thawing formed an insoluble and entangled hydrogel. …”
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BBQE: multi-language string search approach for blackberry environment by Mantoro, Teddy, Ayu, Media Anugerah, Mercic, Merdin

“…This paper discussed on how wireless networks affect the performance of a multi-language string search client-server based application for a Blackberry device in comparison to a standalone application. As a case study, five Al-Quran translations are used as proof of concept that string-search can be implemented in an efficient and fast search manner in several databases. …”
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Designing a rubric to assess student engineering projects by Shafie, Amir Akramin

“…The rubric assesses student five general areas, Fundamental (F), Analysis (A), Design (D), Ethics, Safety, Society and Environment (ESSE) and Work skill (WS). …”
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Compact Quad-Band Bandpass Filter Based on Stub-Loaded Resonators by Virdee, Bal Singh, Farhat, Mohamad, Riaz, Muhammad

“…The proposed technique provides sufficient degree of freedom to control the center frequency and bandwidth of the four passbands. In addition, the five transmission zeros created around the passbands results in a quad-band filter with high selectivity, sharp 3 dB cut-off frequency, high isolation, and low passband insertion-loss. …”
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Introducing computer-assisted assessment : considerations for the new practitioner by Lingard, Matt

“…These issues have been explored under five main headings: assessment purpose, time, pedagogic, operational and technological and students. …”
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The immigrants by Kollectiv, Galia, Kollectiv, Pil

“…The Immigrants is a solo exhibition by Pil and Galia Kollectiv (07.12.17 – 04.02.18) at the Naughton Gallery, Queen's University, Belfast. It features five films and a sculptural installation. In the first four films, through a series of small actions undertaken by costumed performers in different locations across the UK, an installation of filmed vignettes posits the futility of the border as a means of demarcating boundaries of identity, power and resources in an age of global capital flows, migrant labour forces, and environmental destruction that does not stop at abstract lines on a map. …”
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The neoliberal convergence of European industrial relations: economic inevitability or result of European political choices? by Jefferys, Steve

“…The central argument of Lucio Baccaro and Chris Howell’s analysis of European industrial relations over the past four decades (with a statistical analysis of fifteen countries and detailed chapters on five) is that ‘employer discretion’ has increased everywhere, although this is evidenced more in some countries than in others. …”

How do counselling psychologists talk about doing therapy with working class clients in an IAPT setting?: a Foucauldian discourse analysis by Gallo, Delia

“…Method: Semi structured interviews were conducted with five counselling psychologists with experience in, or currently working in, IAPT settings. …”
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Impact of national culture on performance measurement systems in manufacturing firms by Jwijati, Ihssan, Bititci, Umit S., Caldwell, Nigel, Garengo, Patrizia, Dan, Wang

“…This study adopts an analytical framework based on social and technical controls, PMS lifecycle and Hofstede’s six dimensions of national culture to explore the complex impact of national culture on PMS using 10 case studies from five culturally diverse regions. Findings clarify previously inconclusive research results by explaining how various dimensions of national culture influence the technical and social dimensions of PMS. …”

The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) by Wheeler, Mark

“…Within this rust-belt drama, two of the men are black --- the thirty year-old Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Brown (Richard Pryor) and the two-time ‘loser’ ex-convict thirty-five-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). …”
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The effect of fabric constructions on elastic behaviour and tension decay of compression garment by Idris, M. K. M., Nasir, S. H., Roslan, M. N.

“…The strain of fabrics was measured using a tensile testing machine, and each sample was cycled five times between zero and the specified strain to simulate the repeated use of compression garments. …”
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Empirical bayesian binary classification forests using bootstrap prior by Olaniran, Oyebayo Ridwan, Abdullah, Mohd Asrul Affendi, Gopal Pillay, Khuneswari A/P, Olaniran, Saidat Fehintola

“…An illustration of the proposed, and existing methods was performed using five high-dimensional microarray datasets that emanated from colon, breast, lymphoma and Central Nervous System (CNS) cancer tumours. …”

A carnivorous plant algorithm for solving global optimization problems by Ong, Kok Meng, Ong, Pauline, Sia, Chee Kiong

“…The applicability of the CPA was further examined on mechanical engineering design problems and a real-world challenging application of controlling the orientation of a five degree-of-freedom robotic arm. Experimental simulations demonstrated the supremacy of the CPA in solving global optimization problems.…”
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Information from pharmaceutical companies and the quality, quantity, and cost of physicians' prescribing: a systematic review by Spurling, Geoffrey K., Mansfield, Peter R., Montgomery, Brett D., Lexchin, Joel, Doust, Jenny, Othman, Noordin, Vitry, Agnes I.

“…Background Pharmaceutical companies spent $57.5 billion on pharmaceutical promotion in the United States in 2004. …”
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Methane emission inventory and forecasting in Malaysia by Yusuf, Rafiu Olasunkanmi

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Mathematical model for the prediction of chip serration frequency in end milling of steel AISI1020 by Patwari, Muhammed Anayet Ullah, Amin, A. K. M. Nurul, Faris, Waleed Fekry

“…A small CCD with 2 blocks and 5 replication of centre point in each factorial block was selected to design the experiments and each of the independent variables is considered up-to 5(five) levels in developing the chip serration models in terms of primary cutting parameters (Cutting Speed, Feed, Axial Depth of Cut). …”
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Export-Led Growth Hypothesis: Further Econometric Evidence From South Asia (2005) by Shirazi, Nasim Shah, Turkhan Ali , Abdul Manap

“…This paper examines the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis for five South Asian countries through cointegration and multivariate Granger causality tests. …”
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National pride in news media among youth by Tamam, Ezhar, Wok, Saodah, Bolong, Jusang

“…This chapter describes the theoretical rational and reports the research design and findings of a national survey designed to examine the relationships of exposure and attention to national and public affairs news in television and newspaper among fifteen to twenty five years old Malay, Chinese and Indian youths in Malaysia.…”
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