Ampullary carcinoma: effect of preoperative biliary drainage on surgical outcome by Abdullah, Sheikh Anwar, Gupta, Tarun, Jaafar, Khairul Azhar, Chung, Yaw Fui Alexander, Mesenas, Steven Joseph, London, Lucien Peng Jin Ooi

“…Of the parameters assessing postoperative morbidity, incidence of wound infection was significantly less in the PBD than the non-PBD group [1 (2.9%) vs 12 (25.5%)]. However, the rest of the parameters did not differ significantly between the groups, i.e. sepsis [10 (28.6%) vs 14 (29.8%)], intra-abdominal bleeding [1 (2.9%) vs 5 (10.6%)], intra-abdominal abscess [1 (2.9%) vs 8 (17%)], gastrointestinal bleeding [3 (8.6%) vs 5 (10.6%)], pancreatic leakage [2 (5.7%) vs 3 (6.4%)], biliary leakage [2 (5.7%) vs 3 (6.4%)], pancreatitis [2 (5.7%) vs 2 (4.3%)], gastroparesis [6 (17.1%) vs 10 (21.3%)], need for blood transfusion [10 (28.6%) vs 17 (36.2%)] and re-operation rate [1 (2.9%) vs 5 (10.6%)]. …”
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Correlations between subdural empyema and paraclinical as well as clinical parameters amongst urban Malay paediatric patients by Mat Nayan, Saiful Azli, Abdullah, Mohd Shafie, Naing, Nyi Nyi, Mohd Haspani, Mohd Saffari, Md. Ralib@Md. Raghib, Ahmad Razali

“…Chi-square test was performed to determine the association between surgical methods and the survival of the patients, neurological improvement, clearance of empyema on CT brain, re-surgery and long morbidity among the survivors. If the 20% or more of the cells were having expected frequency less than five, then Fisher’s Exact test was applied. …”
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The fate and transport of nutrients using deterministic model in tropical watershed by Mohamed, Khairul Anuar

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Effect of transverse shear in reinforced concrete slab on wide flange t-beam by Abubakar, Najiyu

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The role of translation in shaping media and political discourses in times of conflict : the Syrian "Spring" in context by Ayasrah, Bilal Mohammad Farhan

“…Analyses are carried out in five main steps: external (context); internal (content); shifts observation (identification); comparison (the what?) …”
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Intergating multiple metrics to improve the performance of a routing protocol over wireless mesh networks by Rahman, Md. Arafatur, Azad, Md. Saiful, Anwar, Farhat

“…This approach implicitly assumes that links either work well or don't work at all. While often true in wired networks, this is not a reasonable approximation in the wireless case; since many wireless links have intermediate loss ratios, interference problem, low throughput etc. …”
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Building maintenance policy issues in high rise commercial buildings by Yahya, Mohamad Ridzuan, Ibrahim, Md. Najib

“…The weaknesses in the current procedures are the primary problems because they do not explicitly link maintenance needs with performance management, strategic management and facilities management. …”
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Virtual reality in heritage studies and historical reconstruction through animation – A case study of a 16th century university complex in the Ottoman world by Ibrahim, Mansor, Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen, Ali, Maisarah, Abdul Latip, Nurul Syala, Zainal Abidin, Norzalifa

“…Virtual reality was further used to enhance the story board based on the study on the link between the ‘waqf’ or pious foundations, and development of Ottoman urban life with the ultimate aim of linking these complexes to the social system and structure of urban society.…”
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Motivation to learn ICT among senior public service officials in Malaysia : a conceptual framework by Hussein, Ramlah, Hashim, Junaidah, Abdul rahman , Rozailin

“…One factor, resistance to change, was believed to moderate the relationship between the five factors and the motivation to learn ICT. Proposed research methodology in conducting the study was also discussed.…”
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Recurrent Bell's palsy in a young woman by Ngow, Harris Abdullah, Wan Mohd Nowalid, Wan Khairina, BB, Hamidon

“…We report a 20-year-old nulliparous woman with five episodes of recurrent Bell's palsy. A review of recent medical literature revealed a paucity of case reports involving an individual with five episodes of recurrent Bell's palsy, with none found in Asian neurology medical literature. …”
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Does Islamic banking matter for economic growth in Bangladesh? by Abduh, Muhamad, Chowdhury, Nazreen T.

“…This study aims to investigate the long run and dynamic relationship between Islamic banking development and economic growth in the case of Bangladesh. …”
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Sensitivity of the Islamic and conventional banks to monetary policy changes: the case of Malaysia by Kassim, Salina, Abdul Majid, M. Shabri

“…First, the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model is used to examine the long-run relationship among the variables. Second, the Vector Error-Correction Model (VECM) is adopted to explore the short- and long-run dynamics between the variables. …”
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Transcriptional regulation of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A1 gene by alternative spliced forms of nuclear factor Y in tumorigenic population of endometrial adenocarcinoma by Mamat, Suhana, Ikeda, Jun-Ichiro, Tian, Tian, Wang, Yi, Luo, Wenjuan, Aozasa, Katsuyuki, Morii, Eiichi

“…Two alternatively spliced isoforms of NFYA (NFYA-long and NFYA-short) have been reported. The sorted ALDH-hi population of endometrial adenocarcinoma preferentially expressed NFYA-short, whereas ALDH-lo dominantly expressed NFYA-long. …”
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Allergenic pollen concentrations in the United Kingdom by Jones, Sandra

“…This research has relevance within many subject areas. The long term data sets on which a large part of the thesis is based are of great interest to Aerobiologists in the identification of long term trends in pollen data. …”
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Psychology from the Islamic perspective. By Aisha Utz. Riyadh: International Islamic Publishing House, 2011, pp. 351. ISBN: 978-603-501-108-2 (Paperback) by Abdul Razak, Abdul Latif

“…Psychology from the Islamic Perspective is a long awaited book that helps in satisfying the long quest endured by Muslim psychologists. …”
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Zakat distribution and growth in the federal territory of Malaysia by Yusoff, Mohammed, Densumite, Sorfina

“…In other words, zakat expenditure could boost GDP in the Federal Territory Malaysia both in the short-run and long-run. …”
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Establishment of the London indoor air quality network by Mohd. Aris, Mohd Shukri, Anne Noris, Elizabeth

“…In response to increasing concerns over indoor air quality and health a long term monitoring project was set up at two campaign buildings with existing ambient monitoring stations (see Table 1). …”
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Evaluation of the prescribing of proton pump inhibitors as stress ulcer prophylaxis for non-ICU patients in a Malaysian tertiary hospital by Akkawi, Muhammad Eid, Elnaem, Mohamed Hassan Abdelaziz

“…Oral pantoprazole was the most frequently prescribed PPI (51.5%). Only 61 (30.5%) PPIs were prescribed according to current recommendations for the use of PPI for SUP. …”
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Temperature and sleep by Nicol, Fergus

“…This short paper looks at the temperatures in bedrooms and uses data from comfort surveys combined with models which link comfort to the thermal environment. Evidence is given that people sleep comfortably where temperatures are 29 - 31oC in their personal space within the bed and they use bedclothes to allow them to attain these temperatures. …”
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Oscillation criteria for a class of higher odd order neutral difference equations with continuous variable by Wu, Shuhui, Calay, Pargat Singh, Hou, Zhanyuan

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