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APPENDIX A: KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION
A) Conference
(1) Aznida Che Awang & Nor Azah Samat (2017), Standardized morbidity ratio
for leptospirosis mapping in Malaysia. 4?? International Postgraduate Conference on
Science and Mathematics 2016, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Oral Presentation Session.
(2) Aznida Che Awang & Nor Azah Samat (2017), Leptospirosis Disease Mapping with
Standardized Morbidity Ratio and Poisson-Gamma Model: An Analysis of Leptospirosis Disease in
Kelantan, Malaysia. 1?? International Conference on Applied & Industrial Mathematics 2017,
Vistana Kuantan City Centre, Oral Presentation Session.
B) Publication
(1) Aznida Che Awang & Nor Azah Samat (2017). Standardized morbidity ratio
for leptospirosis mapping in Malaysia. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 2006, p. 20006).
http://doi.org/10.1063/1.4983861
(2) Aznida Che Awang & Nor Azah Samat (2017), Leptospirosis Disease Mapping with
Standardized Morbidity Ratio and Poisson-Gamma Model: An Analysis of Leptospirosis Disease in
Kelantan, Malaysia. Journal if Physics:
Conference Series, 2017
(3) Nor Azah Samat & Aznida Che Awang (2018), The Discrete Time-Space
SIR-SI Age-Structured Model for Leptospirosis. SCIEMATIC2018