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  1. Fulltext Intelligent advisory speed limit dedication in highway using VANET
    Jalooli A, Shaghaghi E, Jabbarpour MR, Noor RM, Yeo H, Jung JJ
    ScientificWorldJournal, 2014;2014:629412.
    PMID: 24999493 DOI: 10.1155/2014/629412
    Variable speed limits (VSLs) as a mean for enhancing road traffic safety are studied for decades to modify the speed limit based on the prevailing road circumstances. In this study the pros and cons of VSL systems and their effects on traffic controlling efficiency are summarized. Despite the potential effectiveness of utilizing VSLs, we have witnessed that the effectiveness of this system is impacted by factors such as VSL control strategy used and the level of driver compliance. Hence, the proposed approach called Intelligent Advisory Speed Limit Dedication (IASLD) as the novel VSL control strategy which considers the driver compliance aims to improve the traffic flow and occupancy of vehicles in addition to amelioration of vehicle's travel times. The IASLD provides the advisory speed limit for each vehicle exclusively based on the vehicle's characteristics including the vehicle type, size, and safety capabilities as well as traffic and weather conditions. The proposed approach takes advantage of vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) to accelerate its performance, in the way that simulation results demonstrate the reduction of incident detection time up to 31.2% in comparison with traditional VSL strategy. The simulation results similarly indicate the improvement of traffic flow efficiency, occupancy, and travel time in different conditions.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  2. Fulltext The WHO's 75th anniversary: WHO at a pivotal moment in history
    Gostin LO, Chirwa DM, Clark H, Habibi R, Kümmel B, Mahmood J, et al.
    BMJ Glob Health, 2023 Apr;8(4).
    PMID: 37085271 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012344
    The World Health Organisation (WHO) was inaugurated in 1948 to bring the world together to ensure the highest attainable standard of health for all. Establishing health governance under the United Nations (UN), WHO was seen as the preeminent leader in public health, promoting a healthier world following the destruction of World War II and ensuring global solidarity to prevent disease and promote health. Its constitutional function would be 'to act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work'. Yet today, as the world commemorates WHO's 75th anniversary, it faces a historic global health crisis, with governments presenting challenges to its institutional legitimacy and authority amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. WHO governance in the coming years will define the future of the Organisation and, crucially, the health and well-being of billions of people across the globe. At this pivotal moment, WHO must learn critical lessons from its past and make fundamental reforms to become the Organisation it was meant to be. We propose reforms in WHO financing, governance, norms, human rights and equity that will lay a foundation for the next generation of global governance for health.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events*
  3. Dragons, Condoms, and World Health Organization Anniversaries
    Binns C, Low WY, Shunnmugam B
    Asia Pac J Public Health, 2024 Mar;36(2-3):169-171.
    PMID: 38476015 DOI: 10.1177/10105395241238062
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events*
  4. The Bard's birthday, immunization, and public health
    Binns C, Low WY
    Asia Pac J Public Health, 2014 Jul;26(4):336-8.
    PMID: 24947830 DOI: 10.1177/1010539514539795
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events*
  5. 21st anniversary of job embeddedness: A retrospection and future research agenda
    Xue X, Rafiq M, Meng F, Peerzadah SA
    Work, 2023;76(3):991-1005.
    PMID: 37355920 DOI: 10.3233/WOR-220240
    BACKGROUND: Since the previous decade, researchers and academics have paid close attention to studying job embeddedness (JE), but the bibliometric examination of JE has not yet been explored.

    OBJECTIVE: This study aims to provide general information on the trends of the studies on JE as well as an overall perspective on the development of this topic by utilising a bibliometric analytic approach.

    METHOD: A bibliometric evaluation was conducted in the JE field since the first publication was documented in the Scopus database. The information retrieved examines 1572 JE papers from a variety of perspectives, including citation and publishing metrics.

    RESULTS: The research results pinpoint the most productive countries, universities, journals, authors, and JE articles. The study also classified the most important themes and offered some recommendations for further research.

    CONCLUSION: The study provided a snapshot of JE patterns and trajectories from 1993 to 2020, which can help academics and practitioners figure out the pattern and direction of future research. To the best of our knowledge, no other study examines the bibliographic data on JE and thus this work is one of the first contributions to the literature.

    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events*
  6. Fulltext Characteristics Regarding Lift-Off Intersection of Pulse-Modulation Eddy Current Signals for Evaluation of Hidden Thickness Loss in Cladded Conductors
    Li Y, Wang Y, Liu Z, Zainal Abidin IM, Chen Z
    Sensors (Basel), 2019 Sep 23;19(19).
    PMID: 31547499 DOI: 10.3390/s19194102
    The cladded conductor is broadly utilized in engineering fields, such as aerospace, energy, and petrochemical; however, it is vulnerable to thickness loss occurring in the clad layer and nonconductive protection coating due to abrasive and corrosive environments. Such a flaw severely undermines the integrity and safety of the mechanical structures. Therefore, evaluating the thickness loss hidden inside cladded conductors via reliable nondestructive evaluation techniques is imperative. This paper intensively investigates the pulse-modulation eddy current technique (PMEC) for the assessment of thickness loss in a cladded conductor. An analytical model of the ferrite-cored probe is established for analyzing PMEC signals and characteristics of lift-off intersection (LOI) in testing signals. Experiments are conducted for evaluation of the thickness loss in cladded conductors. An inverse scheme based on LOI for estimation of the thickness-loss depth is proposed and further verified. Through simulations and experiments, it is found that the influences of the thickness loss in the clad layer and protective coating on the PMEC signals can be decoupled in virtue of the LOI characteristics. Based on LOI, the hidden thickness loss can be efficiently evaluated without much of a reduction in accuracy by using the PMEC probe for dedicated inspection of the cladded conductor.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  7. Zootaxa 20th Anniversary Celebration: Insect Order Thysanoptera
    Mound LA, Cavalleri A
    Zootaxa, 2021 May 28;4979(1):224225.
    PMID: 34187000 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4979.1.23
    Although the first issue of Zootaxa appeared in 2001 it was not until two years later, in August 2003, that this aspiring and inspiring new journal issued the first paper on the insect Order Thysanoptera, in Volume 268. Moreover, it was not until February 2005 that the second paper concerning this group appeared in Zootaxa. The subsequent expansion is summarized most succinctly by the number of Thysanoptera papers that appeared in Zootaxa in each of the four five-year periods of these two decades: 5; 40; 92; 134 (see Table 1). The 270 papers concerning this group of insects that appeared in Zootaxa over the 20-year period involved more than 120 authors. These papers were submitted by workers from about 30 different countries, but most of them were from areas of high but previously unexplored species diversity, particularly Australia, Brazil, China, India, Iran, Japan and Malaysia. However, significant contributions were submitted from the far north, including Poland and Russia, as well as the far south, such as Argentina and New Zealand. One reason for the popularity of Zootaxa amongst workers on thrips is presumably the knowledge that this section is edited by two active students of these insects. The editors are pleased to have rejected no more than five papers over these two decades, but they provide much help to authors in shaping manuscripts to ensure that the submitted information is both appropriate, scientifically correct, novel and clearly expressed. Moreover, the journal ensures that manuscripts are published very quickly, usually within four weeks of acceptance by the editors. For the readers a further advantage of Zootaxa is that just over 50% of the published articles on Thysanoptera are freely available on the web, as authors have arranged for Open Access. The thrips publications issued in Zootaxa have included descriptions of 563 new species and 41 new genera of Thysanoptera. These new species represent 9% of the 6300 valid extant species currently listed in this Order, and the new genera represent 5% of the 780 currently recognized genera (ThripsWiki 2021). Many of the publications are only of one or two pages and are issued as Correspondence. Each of these deals with a single new species, or a previously unknown male of a species, or some new and particularly unusual record for a country or host plant. At the opposite extreme are the Monographs that involve revisions of all of the species in a genus, such as the 60 species recognised in the South American genus Holopothrips, or the 30 species known in the worldwide genus Mycterothrips. Others provide illustrated keys to large numbers of genera, such as the 100 genera of Phlaeothripinae that have been recorded from South East Asia. Such extensive studies provide the factual resource on which many of the Articles published in Zootaxa are based. These Articles range from taxonomic revisions of small genera, or of the species found in particular geographic areas, through studies on character state variation and homologies, to historical accounts and catalogues. The very considerable increase in information in recent years about the taxonomic and biological diversity of this group of insects (Mound Hastenpflug-Vesmanis2021) owes much to the existence of the journal Zootaxa.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  8. Fulltext ASEAN Psychiatry: past, present, and future
    Udomratn, Pichet, Deva, M. Parameshvara
    ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, 2007;8(1):35-39.
    MyJurnal
    The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed in 1971, and 10 years
    later the ASEAN Federation for Psychiatry and Mental Health (AFPMH) was formally
    launched. This article reviews the objectives, structure, membership, and the principles of
    rotational participation and responsibility of the AFPMH, which has just celebrated its jubilee anniversary last year. Twenty-six years have passed, and the AFPMH has achieved many successes, including the congress, which is currently held every two years, and the ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, which may be the oldest regional journal in the Asian continent. The bright future of ASEAN psychiatry is expected but relies heavily on the unity and commitment of all individual psychiatric associations within the ASEAN.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  9. Fulltext Reflections on IMU’s success in the last two decades and the way forward into the third decade
    Suleiman AB
    International e-Journal of Science, Medicine & Education, 2013;7(1):21-23.
    MyJurnal
    The International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur (IMU) has just completed 20 years of success and had a series of events to celebrate its 20th anniversary as well as its achievements in 2012. As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations, IMU successfully co-hosted the Ottawa conference with the European Medical Education Association in Kuala Lumpur. This was the first time this conference was hosted in Asia and it was one of the biggest and most successful of the Ottawa Conference series ever held. This conference focuses on medical education with the major emphasis on assessment.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  10. 10th Anniversary of the Young IFSO (International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders): Current Status and Future Perspectives
    Yang W, Felsenreich DM, Taskin HE, Rajan R, Shahabi S, Zakeri R, et al.
    Obes Surg, 2024 Jan;34(1):274-277.
    PMID: 37971574 DOI: 10.1007/s11695-023-06947-y
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  11. Commemorating the 40-Year Journey of the School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    Ismail SB, Hassan R, Baharuddin KA, Sulaiman AR, Jaalam K, Wan Hitam WH, et al.
    Malays J Med Sci, 2019 Mar;26(2):1-7.
    PMID: 31447603 DOI: 10.21315/mjms2019.26.2.1
    The School of Medical Sciences of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is the launching pad for this journal. From the school's humble beginning at the USM Main Campus in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, it has grown in stature at its current location in the USM Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia. Commemorating its 40th anniversary, this editorial aims to recollect, although not exhaustively, the wealth of returns for the USM, as well as for the nation, which the school has managed to deliver in that period. Resolute to its vision and mission, this article highlights the outstanding accomplishments in various core aspects of the school's academic, research and professional growth as we continually strive to train globally competitive and compassionate medical graduates, medical specialists and scientists, skilled to serve nation's needs and broader markets worldwide. Currently guided by the Malaysian Higher Education Blueprint (2015-2025), the school shall remain ingenious in its duties in the many more years to come, as we head for a world-class trajectory.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  12. Another Important News from the Neuronman: Malaysia's Neuroscience Group Moves upwards in Terms of Research, Creativity, and Innovation
    Abdullah JM
    Malays J Med Sci, 2015 Dec;22(Spec Issue):1-4.
    PMID: 27006631
    12 months ago the first Neuroscience special issue of the Malaysia Journal of Medical Sciences was born with the intention to increase the number of local publication dedicated to neurosciences. Since then many events happened in the neuroscience world of Malaysia, those considered major were the establishment of a Neurotechnology Foresight 2050 task force by the Academy of Medicine Malaysia as well as the launching of Malaysia as the 18th member to join the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility on the 9th October 2015 which was officiated by the Deputy Ministers of Higher Education, Datuk Mary Yap.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  13. Fulltext Educating future medical professionals with the fundamentals of law and ethics
    Puteri Nemie, J.K., Ariff Osman, H.O., Ramizah, W.M.
    International Medical Journal Malaysia, 2017;16(2):101-105.
    MyJurnal
    The increasing awareness amongst the society on medico-legal issues as well as the growth of consumerist
    attitude towards the provision of medical services has caused the medical profession to be subjected to
    vociferous criticism if they do not meet rising expectations of the society. Substandard services have not
    been well tolerated and paternalistic approaches in medical treatment are considered to be outmoded and
    inappropriate. Any dissatisfaction on the part of the patient towards medical services provided nowadays
    may easily trigger claims in the court of law. This changing trend has also fundamentally changed the
    behaviour of the courts towards the medical profession. Judicial and legislative interventions in medical
    practice have created more and more rights for the patients and consequently, corresponding legal duties
    for the medical profession to uphold. In the present healthcare setting, the medical profession will not be
    able to provide infallible services without knowledge of the legal standards which they have to adhere.
    Thus, educating future medical professionals with the fundamentals of law and ethics would ensure greater
    accountability, knowledge and personal commitment in providing medical services to the society as the
    ideals of professionalism not only require them to have the necessary expertise, dedication, respect,
    compassion, empathy, honesty, altruism, responsibility, integrity, self-improvement and accountability but
    also adherence to the demands of law and highest ethical standards.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  14. Job characteristics and staying engaged in work of nurses: Empirical evidence from Malaysia
    Othman N, Nasurdin AM
    Int J Nurs Sci, 2019 Oct 10;6(4):432-438.
    PMID: 31728397 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnss.2019.09.010
    Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between job characteristics (job autonomy, job feedback, skill variety, task identity, task significance) and work engagement of nurses in Malaysia.

    Methods: A survey using self-administered questionnaires was used to collect data from a sample of 856 staff nurses working in eight public hospitals in Malaysia. A shortened nine-item version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale(UWES-9) was used to measure work engagement. The UWES-9 comprises three dimensions, which was measured with three items each: vigor, dedication, and absorption. Job characteristics (job autonomy, job feedback, skill variety, task identity, task significance) were measured with the corresponding subscales of the Job Diagnostic Survey. Each subscale consisted of three items. Hypotheses were tested using hierarchical regression analysis.

    Results: Findings indicated that all the five demographic variables (age, marital status, education, organizational tenure, job tenure) were unrelated to work engagement. The results further revealed that job autonomy (β = 0.19, P  0.05), however, did not affect work engagement.

    Conclusion: Job autonomy, job feedback, task identity, and task significance are important factors in predicting work engagement. The findings of this study highlighted the need to incorporate these core dimensions in nursing management to foster work engagement.

    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  15. Fulltext Five pillars of Islam in relation to physical health, spiritual health and nursing implications
    Cho, Cho Zaw @ Raheema, Myat Min @ Mohd Omar
    International Medical Journal Malaysia, 2018;17(101):105-108.
    MyJurnal
    This study aimed to examine five pillars of Islam and their relationship with physical and spiritual health. The five pillars of Islam are the foundation of Muslim life, considered mandatory by believers, and Muslims are required to observe them with utmost dedication. They are summarized as Shahadah, Salah, Zakat Saum, and Hajj. he first pillar of Islam, declaration of faith (Shahadah) includes the most important concept, which is the complete submission to the will of Allah (SWT) by obeying and believing in Him. Spirituality in general is defined as “religious belief or the spiritual quality of something”, “a search for the sacred”, “personal growth, or an encounter with one's own inner dimension”. The World Health Organization (WHO) mentions spiritual health as one of four dimensions to well-being; physical, mental, social, and spiritual”. Moreover, holistic nursing practice includes treating people as a whole and attending to a client’s physiological, psychological, and spiritual needs. Thus, this study intends to further explore the unitary aspect of Islam that infuse each of the pillars, and their effects on physical, spiritual well-being and nursing implications associated with it. Five pillars of Islam are discussed from the Quran, Alhadith, and Sunnah (the sayings and traditions of the Prophet) as baselines, and further additions from the knowledge of the Islamic scholars. And it is noted that our practices based on the five pillars of Islam have not only positive effects on physical but also spiritual health. This paper pointed out that while performing obligatory duties as stipulated by Islam, one could achieve spiritual enhancement as well as physical strength and well being.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  16. Fulltext Understanding the reminiscence bump: A systematic review
    Munawar K, Kuhn SK, Haque S
    PLoS One, 2018;13(12):e0208595.
    PMID: 30533033 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208595
    One of the most consistently observed phenomena in autobiographical memory research is the reminiscence bump: a tendency for middle-aged and elderly people to access more personal memories from approximately 10-30 years of age. This systematic review (PROSPERO 2017:CRD42017076695) aimed to synthesize peer-reviewed literature pertaining to the reminiscence bump. The researchers conducted searches in nine databases for studies published between the date of inception of each database and the year 2017. Keywords used included: reminiscence, bump, peak, surge, blip, reminiscence effect, and reminiscence component. Sixty-eight quantitative studies, out of 523, met the inclusion criteria. The researchers implemented a thematic analytic technique for data extraction. Four main themes were generated: methods of memory activation/instruction for life scripts, types of memory/life scripts recalled, location of the reminiscence bump, and theoretical accounts for the bump. The two prevailing methods of memory activation implemented were the cuing method and important memories method. Three types of memories/life scripts were recalled: personal/autobiographical memory, memories for public events, and life script events. The findings illustrate differing temporal periods for the bump: approximately 10-30 years for memories for important events, approximately 5-30 years for memories that were induced by word cues, and 6-39 years for studies using life scripts. In explaining the bump, the narrative/identity account and cultural life script account received the most support.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  17. Fulltext Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM): 25 Years Of Excellent Service
    Kamari Z
    Malays J Med Sci, 2009 Jan;16(1):16-24.
    PMID: 22589644 MyJurnal
    Our Hospital University Sains Malaysia (HUSM) was given the Cabinet approval to exist under the Ministry of Education on 23 November 1982. The Deputy Prime Minister during that period, Yang Berhormat Tun Musa Hitam announced this after the cabinet meeting was held together with the presence of the Yang Berhormat Ministers of Health; and Education, Director of the Public Works Department and the Implementation and Coordinating Unit, Prime Minister's Department. The first patients moved in on 14 March 1983 and the inauguration of HUSM was done on 26 August 1984 by the Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku Ismail Petra Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Yahya Petra, the Sultan of Kelantan Darul Naim. HUSM celebrated it's 25th anniversary at the Dewan Utama, USM Health Campus on the 15th December 2008 which was inaugurated by Yang Berhormat, Minister of Higher Education Dato' Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin. USM's Vice Chancellor Professor Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Chairman of the USM Board of Directors Tan Sri Dato' Haji Dr. Ani bin Arope, Health Campus Director Professor Dato' Dr. Mafauzy Mohamed, former Campus Director, Dato' Prof Mohd Roslani Abdul Majid, the current and previous Hospital Directors and Deputy Directors since 1983 were present. The achievements of HUSM since its establishment and its vision to fulfil the University's Accelerated Programme for Excellence (APEX) are elaborated.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  18. Fulltext USM Apex University Status: Transforming Higher Education For A Sustainable Tomorrow
    Abd Razak D
    Malays J Med Sci, 2009 Jan;16(1):1-6.
    PMID: 22589642
    This special editorial for the month of January 2009 is "THE" interview with Professor Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Vice Chancellor of the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He talked to us about the Apex University status that was conferred on 3rd September 2008. While most newspapers and the rest of the media were in frenzy interviewing him that month, MJMS decided to catch up with him on Monday 15th December 2008 just before the celebration at the Dewan Utama, Universiti Sains Malaysia Health Sciences Campus to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hospital University Sains Malaysia by Yang Berhormat, Minister of Higher Education Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin. References to USM as an APEX University are included at the end of this editorial especially for non-USM readers.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  19. Fulltext Key informant interview on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in some countries in the Western Pacific region
    Lee Y, Wakabayashi M
    Global Health, 2013;9:34.
    PMID: 23889997 DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-34
    The World Health Organization (WHO) selected antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as the theme for World Health Day 2011. The slogan was "Combat Drug Resistance - No action today, no cure tomorrow" A six-point policy package was launched as a core product for World Health Day. It aimed to stimulate extensive and coherent action to overcome the many challenges presented by antimicrobial resistance.
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
  20. The APJPH Supports "World No Tobacco Day"
    Binns C, Low WY
    Asia Pac J Public Health, 2015 May;27(4):372-4.
    PMID: 25972457 DOI: 10.1177/1010539515586940
    Matched MeSH terms: Anniversaries and Special Events
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