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Saw SH

Demography, 1967 Jun;4(2):859-75.

PMID: 21318696 DOI: 10.2307/2060325

The first section of this paper is devoted to an analysis of some theoretical aspects of the Chinese system of reckoning ages, and the second section offers a method of collecting the age statistics of a Chinese population: A discussion of the errors found in the age returns and the unsuccessful measures taken to eradicate these errors in the Malayan censuses conducted prior to1957 leads to an appraisal of the method of collecting Chinese age data in the 1957 census.

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

The distribution of common Anopheles mosquitoes in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia

Abu Hassan A, Rahman WA, Salmah MR, Rashid MZ, Jaal Z, Adanan CR, et al.

J Vector Ecol, 1997 Dec;22(2):109-14.

PMID: 9491360

Using cow-baited net traps in the coastal and hilly areas of northern peninsular Malaysia, 21 species of Anopheles mosquitoes were found. The distribution of common Anopheles is presented. The composition of the anopheline mosquito fauna was more diversified in the coastal areas than in the hilly areas. The displacement of Anopheles sundaicus by Anopheles subpictus and the disappearance of Anopheles hackeri in the coastal area were noted.

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

Fulltext Malaysia's ageing population: challenges in the new millennium

Arokiasamy JT

Med J Malaysia, 1999 Dec;54(4):429-32.

PMID: 11072458

Matched MeSH terms: Demography*

Demographic changes in East Malaysia and their relationship with those in the Peninsula 1960-80

Leete R, Kwok KK

Popul Stud (Camb), 1986 Mar;40(1):83-100.

PMID: 11611924

Matched MeSH terms: Demography*

Anatomy of a fertility decline: Peninsular Malaysia, 1950-1976

Davanzo J, Haaga J

Popul Stud (Camb), 1982 Nov;36(3):373-93.

PMID: 11630825

Matched MeSH terms: Demography*

Population estimates for the Malay Peninsula in the nineteenth century, with special reference to the East Coast States

Dodge NN

Popul Stud (Camb), 1980;34(3):437-75.

PMID: 11630727

Matched MeSH terms: Demography*

Murut depopulation and the Sipitang Lun Dayeh

Crain JB

J Malays Branch R Asiat Soc, 1972;45(2):110-21.

PMID: 11632306

Matched MeSH terms: Demography*

Fulltext Insights into the demographic history of Asia from common ancestry and admixture in the genomic landscape of present-day Austroasiatic speakers

Tagore D, Aghakhanian F, Naidu R, Phipps ME, Basu A

BMC Biol, 2021 03 29;19(1):61.

PMID: 33781248 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-00981-x

BACKGROUND: The demographic history of South and Southeast Asia (S&SEA) is complex and contentious, with multiple waves of human migration. Some of the earliest footfalls were of the ancestors of modern Austroasiatic (AA) language speakers. Understanding the history of the AA language family, comprising of over 150 languages and their speakers distributed across broad geographical region in isolated small populations of various sizes, can help shed light on the peopling of S&SEA. Here we investigated the genetic relatedness of two AA groups, their relationship with other ethno-linguistically distinct populations, and the relationship of these groups with ancient genomes of individuals living in S&SEA at different time periods, to infer about the demographic history of this region.

RESULTS: We analyzed 1451 extant genomes, 189 AAs from India and Malaysia, and 43 ancient genomes from S&SEA. Population structure analysis reveals neither language nor geography appropriately correlates with genetic diversity. The inconsistency between "language and genetics" or "geography and genetics" can largely be attributed to ancient admixture with East Asian populations. We estimated a pre-Neolithic origin of AA language speakers, with shared ancestry between Indian and Malaysian populations until about 470 generations ago, contesting the existing model of Neolithic expansion of the AA culture. We observed a spatio-temporal transition in the genetic ancestry of SEA with genetic contribution from East Asia significantly increasing in the post-Neolithic period.

CONCLUSION: Our study shows that contrary to assumptions in many previous studies and despite having linguistic commonality, Indian AAs have a distinct genomic structure compared to Malaysian AAs. This linguistic-genetic discordance is reflective of the complex history of population migration and admixture shaping the genomic landscape of S&SEA. We postulate that pre-Neolithic ancestors of today's AAs were widespread in S&SEA, and the fragmentation and dissipation of the population have largely been a resultant of multiple migrations of East Asian farmers during the Neolithic period. It also highlights the resilience of AAs in continuing to speak their language in spite of checkered population distribution and possible dominance from other linguistic groups.

Matched MeSH terms: Demography*

Trends in Moslem fertility and the application of the demographic transition model

Nagi MH

Soc Biol, 1983;30(3):245-62.

PMID: 6680800

Matched MeSH terms: Demography*

A method of illustrating health statistics in peninsular Malaysia

Lau L

Med J Malaysia, 1974 Jun;28(4):234-8.

PMID: 4279021

Matched MeSH terms: Demography/methods*

Differing concepts of settlement patterns: the Malay and Chinese in Malaysia

Evers HD

Ekistics, 1977;44(263):220-5.

PMID: 12262669

Matched MeSH terms: Demography*

A comparison of urban migration in Sarawak and the Philippines

Sutlive V

Urban anthropol, 1977;6(4):355-69.

PMID: 12310786

Matched MeSH terms: Demography*

Fulltext Paediatric ocular trauma in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Tan AK, Mallika PS, Asokumaran T, Mohamad Aziz S, Intan G

Malays Fam Physician, 2011;6(2-3):68-71.

PMID: 25606227 MyJurnal

To evaluate the demography, aetiology, type and outcome of paediatric ocular trauma in tertiary centre in Malaysia.

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

Fulltext Multi-audience tracking with RGB-D camera on digital signage

Low CC, Ong LY, Koo VC, Leow MC

Heliyon, 2020 Sep;6(9):e05107.

PMID: 33024875 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05107

Digital signage is widely utilized in digital-out-of-home (DOOH) advertising for marketing and business. Recently, the combination of the digital camera and digital signage enables the advertiser to gather the audience demographic for audience measurement. Audience measurement is useful for the advertiser to understand the audience's behavior and improve their business strategies. When an audience is facing the digital display, the vision-based DOOH system will process the audience's face and broadcast a personalized advertisement. Most of the digital signage is available in an uncontrolled environment of public areas. Thus, it poses two main challenges for the vision-based DOOH system to track the audience's movement, which are multiple adjacent faces and occlusion by passer-by. In this paper, a new framework is proposed to combine the digital signage with a depth camera for tracking multi-face in the three-dimensional (3D) environment. The proposed framework extracts the audience's face centroid position (x, y) and depth information (z) and plots into the aerial map to simulate the audience's movement that is corresponding to the real-world environment. The advertiser can further measure the advertising effectiveness through the audience's behavior.

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

Fulltext Consumption pattern and consumers’ opinion toward street food in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand

Khongtong, J., Ab Karim, S., Othman, M., Bolong, J.

International Food Research Journal, 2014;21(1):125-130.

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Street food in NST province is crucial for the people due to the changing of lifestyles. The
consumers demand enhances the number of street vendors in the province. Nevertheless, there
are vendors that are not practicing good hygienic compared to other province. The objectives
of this study are to identify the pattern of street food consumption, and consumers’ opinion
towards the street food. Observation and in-depth interview were used to collect data. Ten
respondents with various demographic backgrounds were interviewed on their experiences,
and opinions toward street food. The data found that the street food consuming pattern was
formed in six major themes: consumer characteristic, type of food, location, time of consuming,
ways to consume and reasons of consuming. Additionally, the study also declared consumer’s
opinion on the problems related to street food. The finding aims local authority to have more
understanding on the culture of street food consumption, and the problems that have been
existed to find the appropriate improvement, and do not induce any conflict between local
authority with street vendors and authority with consumers.

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

Fulltext Collaboration at the Departmental, School, National and International Levels at the International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur

Michael John Rathbone

International e-Journal of Science, Medicine & Education, 2013;7(11):57-64.

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The nature, extent and definition of a collaboration varies between individuals, disciplines, departments and institutions. It depends upon such factors as the people involved, the nature of the research problem, the research environment, the institutional culture and demographic factors. This paper will examine the concept of collaborative research and discuss its place and position in an evolving university.

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

Fulltext Some explicit conditions for a stationary representation of the unilateral second-order spatial ARMA model

Saidatulnisa Abdullah, Shitan, Mahendran

Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, 2009;17(1):-.

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The analysis of the spatial data has been carried out in many disciplines such as demography, meteorology, geology and remote sensing. The spatial data modelling is important because it recognizes the phenomenon of spatial correlation in field experiments. Three main categories of the spatial models, namely, the simultaneous autoregressive (SAR) models (Whittle, 1954), the conditional autoregressive (CAR) models (Bartlett, 1971), and the moving average (MA) models (Haining, 1978) have been studied. Whittle (1954) presented a form of bilateral autoregressive (AR) models, whereas Basu and Reinsel (1993) considered the first-order autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model of the quadrant type. Awang, N. and Mahendran Shitan (2003) presented the second-order ARMA model, and established some explicit stationary conditions for the model. When fitting the spatial models and making prediction, it is assumed that, the properties of the process would not change with sites. Properties like stationarities have to be assumed, and for this reason, it was therefore imperative that the researchers had made certain that the process was stationary. This could be achieved by providing the explicit stationarity conditions for the model. The explicit conditions, for a stationary representation of the second-order spatial unilateral ARMA model denoted as ARMA(2,1;2,1), have been established (Awang, N. and Mahendran Shitan, 2003) and in this paper, some explicit conditions are established for a stationary representation of the second-order spatial unilateral ARMA model, denoted as ARMA(2,2;2,2).

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

Fulltext A prospective study on response to treatment of patients with Temporomandibular disorder: a clinical study

Kashmoola, Muhannad Ali, Nazih Shaaban Mustafa, Robiah Mohamed, Siti Nabilah Mohamed Talmizi

International Medical Journal Malaysia, 2017;16(21):20-20.

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Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD) is regarded as multifactorial in origin
and this may influence the diagnosis and treatment plan. Early detection of TMD with suitable
management may provide good response. This study was to relate demographic factors, signs and
symptoms, diagnosis, stage of detection and treatment modalities on review outcome. (Copied from article).

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

Temporal variation in diversity and community structure of preimaginal blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in a tropical forest reserve in Malaysia

Pavitra SP, Low VL, Tan TK, Lim YAL, Ya'cob Z

Acta Trop, 2020 Feb;202:105275.

PMID: 31747545 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.105275

Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) are ecologically and medically important insects but they have been understudied in Malaysia. Accordingly, a study on the temporal variation in diversity and community structure of preimaginal blackflies was conducted for the first time in Malaysia. A total of 865 preimaginal blackflies were collected in 120 samplings from five streams across three monsoon seasons from February 2018 until January 2019. Ten species were recorded and most frequently collected species were Simulium cheongi, Simulium vanluni and Simulium jeffreyi. Relatively common species were Simulium roslihashimi, Simulium tani complex and Simulium trangense. No significant changes of rainfall was observed between three monsoon seasons as well as the seasons with species and physiochemical parameters except acidity (pH) (P 20%) indicated that S. vanluni and S. jeffreyi were commonly associated with wider, deeper and fast-flowing streams with low conductivity and larger streambed particle. In contrast, S. cheongi was associated with smaller, slower and small streambed particle. This first extensive bimonthly study has uncovered the species community structure as well as the changes of stream physicochemical parameters over time although they were not greatly and significantly influenced by the monsoon seasons. Species distribution, richness and abundance, however, were highly determined by the stream width, depth and velocity, therefore, were vital in shaping diversity and community structure of preimaginal blackflies.

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

Fulltext Performance of transbronchial cryobiopsy in eccentrically and adjacently orientated radial endobronchial ultrasound lesions

Kho SS, Chan SK, Yong MC, Tie ST

ERJ Open Res, 2019 Oct;5(4).

PMID: 31649952 DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00135-2019

Background: Radial endobronchial ultrasound (R-EBUS) is an effective technique in the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPL). However, lesion orientation with regards to the radial probe remains an important factor for effective biopsy. "Within" orientation was associated with significantly higher diagnostic yield. Cryobiopsy is a novel technique in obtaining larger tissue samples with the frozen tip allowing biopsy in a 360° direction, thus potentially achieving more effective biopsy in eccentrically and adjacently orientated lesions. We aimed to evaluate the performance and safety of transbronchial cryobiopsy versus forceps biopsy in eccentrically and adjacently orientated R-EBUS lesions.

Methods: Retrospective review of R-EBUS transbronchial biopsy for PPL over 17 months.

Results: 114 R-EBUS scans were included for analysis during the study period. Forceps biopsy was performed in 76 (66.7%) cases and cryobiopsy in 38 (33.3%) cases. Baseline demographics and lesion characteristics did not differ between the two groups. Median (interquartile range) lesion size was 3.48 (2.63-4.51) cm. Overall, 41.2% of lesions were of eccentric orientation and 15.8% adjacent orientation; only 43% were concentric in orientation. Overall diagnostic yield was 67.5% (77 out of 114). Orientation remained an important factor affecting diagnostic yield. Transbronchial cryobiopsy significantly increased the diagnostic yield in eccentrically and adjacently orientated lesions to 75.0% (18 out of 24), compared to 48.8% (20 out of 41) obtained via forceps biopsy (p<0.05); but not in concentric lesions. Cryobiopsy was associated with more mild and moderate bleeding complications compared to the forceps biopsy group.

Conclusions: Transbronchial cryobiopsy under R-EBUS guidance is a safe procedure which potentially increases diagnostic yield in eccentrically and adjacently orientated PPLs.

Matched MeSH terms: Demography

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