Hazzira Ameera Hashim

University of Malaya | UM · Department of Biomedical Engineering

Background Women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) experience urine leakage with physical activity. Currently, the interventional treatments for SUI are surgical, or endoscopic bulking injection(s). However, these procedures are not always successful, and symptoms can persist or come back after treatment, categorised as recurrent SUI. There ar...

Background Overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome is a symptom complex affecting 12–14% of the UK adult female population. Symptoms include urinary urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, increased daytime urinary frequency and nocturia. OAB has a negative impact on women’s social, physical, and psychological wellbeing. Initial treatment includes...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the relationship between market orientation and innovative marketing strategies and the effect of innovative marketing strategies on the performance of agro-food manufacturers. Design/methodology/approach Systematic random sampling was used, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 380 agro-food man...

The most recent report on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has indicated the increase in the performance, there are still 40% of the companies remain stagnant in their growth without showing any improvement. SMEs are unable to compete and sustain long enough in the marketplace. Management skills are often ignored by the SMEs as they depend solel...

Changes in Malaysian’s lifestyle have resulted in an increased demand for trusted agrofood products. Therefore, it is becoming a challenge for halal-certified agro-food SMEs in Malaysia to fulfil the demand by implementing marketing strategies and innovative market orientation. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between marketing stra...

In this study, a composite plasticized polymer electrolytes (CPEs) compassed of 30% methyl grafted natural rubber (MG30) doped with lithium triflate (LiTf) and silicon dioxide (SiO2) was prepared by solution cast technique. The polymer-salt complexation has been confirmed by ATR-FTIR spectral studies. The CPEs were then investigated as an ionic con...

We present a case of severe intractable epistaxis after midfacial trauma in which the bleeding was identified as coming from the descending palatine artery, a branch of the maxillary artery. It could not be controlled by simple packing, and was stopped by inserting a balloon into the maxillary sinus, tamponading the injured vessel in the sphenopala...

Vascular thrombosis remains a dreaded complication of any microvascular procedure, be it composite tissue transfer or replantation of amputated limbs or parts. Despite the tremendous advances in microvascular-related technologies and the accumulated surgical skills, failures caused by occlusion of anastomosed vessels remain a continuous source of f...

Microvascular anastomoses are at risk of thrombosis, especially when repairing avulsed or crushed tissues, or when ischemia time is prolonged. When all surgical techniques to avoid thrombosis of the microanastomoses fail, thrombolytic agents may play a role in dissolving the thrombus and preventing rethrombosis. The authors present a case in which...

Advanced knowledge about cutaneous vascularity has enabled the development of axial flaps such as fasciocutaneous, septocutaneous, and musculocutaneous flaps. It has also laid the foundation for microsurgical free flaps. The newly emerging concept of angiosomes sheds yet more light on the complexity and multiplicity of peripheral blood supply. We d...

In our attempts to salvage massive lower-extremity injuries, even in the presence of severe peripheral vascular pathology, adequate soft-tissue coverage is no longer a limiting factor due to recent advances in microvascular composite tissue transfer. Restoration of tibial continuity without shortening has emerged as the last obstacle in the formida...

For the system acetone + methyl acetate measurements are reported of excess second virial coefficients (at 75 and 100°C) and critical temperatures for nine different compositions. The efficacy of the correlations due to Tsonopoulos and to Hayden and O'Connell are discussed and the former correlation (with one modification) is shown to give a better...