Search Results - When Smoke Rises
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Smoking behavior among adolescents in rural schools in Malacca, Malaysia - a case-control study
Published 2015“…Smoking among rural adolescents in Malaysia is on the rise with a significant difference seen between urban and rural youths. …”
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Price-minimizing behaviors in response to increasing tobacco price: a cross-sectional study of students
Published 2017“…Background: The public health benefits of tobacco taxation are undermined when smokers engage in price-minimising behaviours other than quitting in response to rising prices. …”
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The relation between cigarette price and hand-rolling tobacco consumption in the UK: an ecological study
Published 2015“…CONCLUSIONS: Although the ecological study design precludes conclusions on causality, the association between increases in manufactured cigarette price and the number of people smoking hand-rolling tobacco suggests that the lower cost of smoking hand-rolling tobacco encourages downtrading when cigarette prices rise. …”
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Performance and exhaust emissions of a compression ignition engine operating on ester fuels at increased injection pressure and advanced timing
Published 1994“…Results indicated that the engine operating on ester fuels at the manufacturer's injection pressure-timing setting (18.6 MPa and 14° BTDC) had lower carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbon carbon emissions and smoke levels, despite a slight increase in brake specific fuel consumption, as compared with when it was operating on No. 2 diesel fuel (control fuel). …”
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Fuel injection parameters study for low exhaust emissions of a common-rail diesel engine fueled with different biodisesels' blend / How Heoy Geok
Published 2018“…Multiple split injections is a practical strategies to simultaneously decrease NOx and smoke emissions when the SOI timing is fine-tuned and is an ideal alternative to operate with biodiesel fuel. …”
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Impact of wood fuel consumption on forest degradation, health outcomes and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Published 2017“…This finding confirms the assertion that the rising deaths recorded in the region from indoor air pollution related illnesses can be linked to wood fuel smoke. …”
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An investigation on the performance of a single cylinder diesel engine using biodiesel
Published 2016“…Along with emission constituents, the smoke intensity is also measured in terms of Hartridge Smoke Units (HSU). …”
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Gene expression profiling of selected genes (TLR4, PPARy2, TCF7L2 and IRS1) in type 2 diabetes mellitus malay subjects and their first degree relatives
Published 2016“…The risk in offspring rises by two to four-fold with having a parent with T2DM and up to six-fold when both parents are affected. …”
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Factors affecting participation decision and amount of physical activity among urban dwellers in Malaysia
Published 2017“…Objectives: The rapid rise in the prevalence of physical inactivity-related diseases has become a serious public health issue worldwide. …”
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Spectrum of autoantibody response to tumour associated antigens in normal population
Published 2013“…Autoantibody response to all 6 cancer related antigens were consistently low in smokers. The rise in autoantibody response was more in the ex-smoker group compared to the other two groups suggesting the possibility of rebound effect when smoking is stopped. …”
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Safety aspect of β2-agonists in chronic obstructive pulmonary diesease
Published 2009“…The study was designed to determine whether high dose salbutamol causes a rise in PaCO2 when inhaled by subjects with severe COPD and a history of alveolar hypoventilation. …”
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Relationship between stressful life events and parental verbal aggression, and depressive symptoms in Malaysian adolescents, with sex and parental warmth as moderators
Published 2017“…On the other hand, high levels of paternal warmth elicited decreasing probability of depression even when paternal verbal aggression increased. Furthermore, even at high levels of paternal warmth, the probability of depression continued to rise as maternal verbal aggression increased. …”
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Entries and exits from homelessness: A dynamic analysis of the relationship between structural conditions and individual characteristics
Published 2015“…As expected, risky behaviour (drinking, smoking, and drug use) raises the chances of entering homelessness. …”
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