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Effectiveness of the movement control measures during the third wave of COVID-19 in Malaysia
Md Zamri Ahmed Syahmi Syafiq,Singh Sarbhan,Ghazali Sumarni Mohd,Herng Lai Chee,Dass Sarat Chandra,Aris Tahir,Ibrahim Hishamshah Mohd,Gill Balvinder Singh 한국역학회 2021 Epidemiology and Health Vol.43 No.-
OBJECTIVES: Starting in March 2020, movement control measures were instituted across several phases in Malaysia to break the chain of transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this study, we developed a susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered (SEIR) model to examine the effects of the various phases of movement control measures on disease transmissibility and the trend of cases during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. METHODS: Three SEIR models were developed using the R programming software ODIN interface based on COVID-19 case data from September 1, 2020, to March 29, 2021. The models were validated and subsequently used to provide forecasts of daily cases from October 14, 2020, to March 29, 2021, based on 3 phases of movement control measures. RESULTS: We found that the reproduction rate (R value) of COVID-19 decreased by 59.1% from an initial high of 2.2 during the nationwide Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) to 0.9 during the Movement Control Order (MCO) and Conditional MCO (CMCO) phases. In addition, the observed cumulative and daily highest numbers of cases were much lower than the forecasted cumulative and daily highest numbers of cases (by 64.4-98.9% and 68.8-99.8%, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: The movement control measures progressively reduced the R value during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, more stringent movement control measures such as the MCO and CMCO were effective for further lowering the R value and case numbers during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia due to their higher stringency than the nationwide RMCO.
BAKAR, Mohd Zamri Abu,BAKAR, Saridan Abu Korea Distribution Science Association 2020 The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Busine Vol.7 No.6
The study aims to investigate the roles of financial education (FE) as a moderator to financial attitude (FA), parental financial socialisation (PFS), and financial literacy (FL) to ensure the success of prudent financial management practices (PFMP) among Malaysian youth. The study was designed quantitatively and employed self-administered questionnaires, which were adopted from previous studies and distributed to 480 youths in Malaysia. The data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to test hypotheses of the study. The results showed FA, PFS and FL have significant and positive relationship with PFMP. However, as regards moderating interaction of FE, results showed that FE does not significantly moderate the relationship between FA, PFS and FL with PFMP. The results further highlighted serious concerns on the effectiveness of FE towards improving youth capability in managing their financial affairs prudently. This proved that mandated FE prior to graduation has less effect and does not lead to behavior changes among Malaysian youth. It shows the challenges faced by the country stakeholders to strengthen FE, enhance the effectiveness and encompass the right FE elements to ensure today's young Malaysians are able to apply what they learned in the classroom to their real life.
Factor Related to Operational of Marina in West Coast Peninsular Malaysia
Syahmi Firdaus ZAMRI,Ahmad Faizal AHMAD FUAD,Mohd Hafizi SAID 국제이네비해양경제학회 2020 International Journal of e-Navigation and Maritime Vol.15 No.1
Marina is a small port located along a coastline that provides facilities and services for small boats and yachts. The main facilities of marina are pontoon, freshwater, and power supplies. Marina also provides service for boat maintenance and service, and security. In Malaysia, the marina is operated by private companies and Marine Department Malaysia. All the marinas in Malaysia provide the same facilities and services, however they are not operating at the same level. Few marinas had closed their operation due to insufficient number of boats arrived to their marina. The reason of this issue is lack of study about marina operation and management in Malaysia. Further study should be done in this field to overcome this issue and increased the growth of economy for marina. Therefore, the objective of this study to determine the factors to establish a marina in Malaysia and to identify the reason certain marina less performed. This research focused on the marina operators on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The literature review was used to identify the factors to establish a marina. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach was used to analyse the data. This method had ranked the crucial factors from the highest to the lowest percentage. Four main criteria to establish a marina had been identified, namely locations, facilities, services, and promotion. Besides that, there also the sub-criteria for all the main factor to describe it. All the identified factors had been analysed to find the most important factor. The consolidate result showed that geography, security, berthing, purpose, boat chandlery and boat service are the highest percentage among other factors. It concludes that it is the most important factor to establish a marina. These results can be used to improve the operation of marina in Malaysia by focusing on these aforementioned factors.
( Hairol Othman ),( Zamri Zuhdi ),( Azlanudin Azman ),( Chik Ian ),( Razman Jarmin ) 대한간학회 2018 춘·추계 학술대회 (KASL) Vol.2018 No.1
Aims: Significant experience with biodegradable biliary stenting has been reported in the literature. The biodegradable stents are typically made from polymeric materials including Polylactide (PLA) or Polyglycolide, which have been approved by the FDA and CE as drug carriers, sutures, and bone fixtures. We have embarked on a pilot study to assess the safety and feasibility of a novel balloon expandable bioresorbable biliary stent. Methods: This is a prospective, pilot, open-label descriptive safety and feasibility study, conducted at UKM Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur. Patients with benign biliary strictures were recruited. Patients will be follow-up at interval period of weeks 1 and 2, months 1,3,6,9 and 12. The primary objective was to assess safety of the UNITY stent. The secondary objectives were clinical, technical and procedural success. The novel UNITY-B stent comprised of biodegradable magnesium alloy core with biodegradable polymer coating. It degrades through hydrolysis. Results: 6 patients has been recruited from 1 October 2017 until 30 April 2018. Among the indications include; 4 patients with type-2 benign distal common bile duct (CBD) stricture, 1 patient with post-cholecystectomy (Strasberg type E5) stricture, 1 patient with post-operative end-to-end common bile duct anastomotic stricture. At the primary safety endpoint within 30 days of the index procedure, all patients has remained symptom free. Only one patient has reached 6 months follow-up. The secondary objectives were achieved in all 6 patients. Serum bilirubin dropped more than 20% at one week and remained low at 1 month in 5 patients. 1 patient did not show reduction in serum bilirubin but reported improvement in symptoms. 1 patient who has reached 6 month follow-up reported pruritus but has normal serum bilirubin. Conclusions: The UNITY stent has fulfil the safety criteria and has demonstrated good radial force to maintain patency of the stricturoplasty at 1 month. It is easy to be deployed and has the potential to replace the role of covered metal stents. Nonetheless, this is an interim result of a small cohort of patients. A long term data on safety and efficacy of a larger number of patients is anticipated.
Loang, Ooi Kok,Ahmad, Zamri World Association for Triple Helix and Future Stra 2020 Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia Vol.19 No.1
This paper examines the existence of herd behaviour in fifteen (15) global stock markets, which consist of Developed Markets (Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the United Kingdom), Advanced Emerging Markets (Brazil, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland and South Africa) and Secondary Emerging Markets (Chile, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Russia) by using Cross Sectional Absolute Deviation (CSAD) method of Chiang and Zheng (2010). It also seeks to explore the impact of social factors such as prosperity, education, ageing society, industry orientation and gender on the existence of market-wide herding. The findings of this paper indicate that herd behaviour exists in Singapore (Developed Market), Mexico, Poland and South Africa (Advanced Emerging Markets) and China and the Philippines (Secondary Emerging Markets). No evidence of herding is observed for Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, United Kingdom, Brazil, Malaysia, Chile, Indonesia and Russia. Ageing society is also found to have significant impact on the existence of herd behaviour. Nonetheless, prosperity, education, industry orientation and gender are found to be insignificant to herding. This study sheds some light on whether social factors determine herding behaviour in the 15 selected stock markets.