Motivations for outdoor recreation in tropical urban parks by Mohamad Muslim, Huda Farhana, Abdul Kadir, Nik Azyyati, Yahya, Noor Azlin, Mamat, Mohd Parid

“…The modern urban environments generally limit people’s access to nature has resulting in reduced human–nature interaction.Thus, establishment of urban parks are potential resource for a diversity of urban people to interact with nature including in urban tropical cities. This article will determine individual or the park characteristics has influenced the park users’ level of satisfaction in selected five public parks including Penang Municipal Park and Taiping Lake Garden, Perak. …”
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Tropical forest resources in the development of Malay culture by Din, Abdul Kadir, Awang, Kamis

“…This contribution succeeds in emphasing the linkages between Malay culture and technology with the tropical forest. This connection is both material and spiritual because traditional Malay society made use of the forest as a source of building and handicraft materials as well as a source of inspiration, for its art and literature. …”
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Performance analysis of FSO with haze attenuation consequence acclimatize in tropical rainforest environment by Mohammad, Zuliyana, Anuar, M. S., Aljunid, S. A., Rahman, A. K., Rashidi, C. B. M., A Bakar, M.S.

“…The bandwidth and speed FSO possess is similar to fiber optics.However, FSO is highly preferred than fiber optics.This can be seen in comparing the point of the deployment time frame and cost effectiveness.However, since the atmosphere is the transmission medium for FSO, the connection may be attenuated as atmosphere condition varies.The attenuation is due to climate vulnerability and it will distort the FSO link performance especially rains and haze since this type of weather occurring throughout the year in tropical temperate region.This paper is focused on the analysis of haze attenuation with real visibility data from meteorological departments for the mid-year 2012 until mid-year of 2013 and constructs the tropical haze attenuation model especially the maximum range of FSO system deployment.Here, low and moderate visibility was concentrated more in this research due to worst condition for FSO link. …”
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Personal and Environment Factors Associated with Attraction to Tropical Urban Parks in Peninsular Malaysia by Mohamad Muslim, Huda Farhana, Yahya, Noor Azlin, Mamat, Mohd Parid

“…Urban parks are the most readily accessible resource for interactions with nature across multi groups in many urban cities, including tropical cities. This paper reports a research conducted in 2013/2014 to determine the overall quality of visits and park users level of motivations in selected six public parks in Peninsular Malaysia. …”
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Analysis of atmospheric parameters variation on effeciency of polycrystalline PV system in a tropical station by Sanusi, Yekinni K., Ojeniyi, Adegoke, Nordin, Norani

“…The photovoltaic (PV) system output performance is not independent as it varies over extended periods as well as it depends on the varying atmospheric conditions.In this work, the effect of ambient temperature and relative humidity on the efficiency performance of the polycrystalline PV system was investigated and analyzed in a tropical region.This was done by using a measurement system consists of sensors for measuring both electrical of the system and the atmospheric parameters concurrently at interval of time for a period of a year at the back of Pure and Applied Physics Department, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso, Nigeria.From the measurements obtained, it was deduced that the performance efficiency of the system varied with the variation in the magnitude of the atmospheric parameters. …”

Modelling of global solar radiation using a simple atmospheric parameters for a tropical area by Sanusi, Yekinni K., Ojeniyi, Adegoke, Adedokun, O.

“…The knowledge and estimation of solar radiation are very important in utilization of solar energy at any particular location especially when there is lack of measuring.In this study, meteorological parameters were used to model global solar radiation for solar energy applications.This was done by developing a number of regression equations for predicting daily/monthly solar radiation in Ogbomoso.Ogbomoso is a tropical area in the western part of Nigeria with Latitude 8.3" and logitude 4.2'E.The regression equations were obtained by modifying an existing Angstron equation as the base.The performance of these correlated models as global solar radiation estimators were evaluated by comparing the predicted values with the measured ones.Different statistical analyses were employed to examine the mathematical models.From the results, it is deduced that all the fits were consistent with the measurement but the quadratic model appeared to be the best of all the models which produced R2 of 95.3% the power model had the least R2 of 83.7%.The quadratic model proposed was compared with some existing quadratic models for some tropical stations and it was observed that the proposed quadratic models for some tropical stations and it was observed that the proposed quadratic equation KTP = 0.461+0.039T-0.001T2 is well correlated for the study area.Hence, the proposed model can be employed in designing of any solar energy applications in the study area and recommend for any other areas having similar characteristics with the area of study.…”
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Batavia facing tropical sedimentation: The water management of the Dutch colonial city in the Asian monsoon tectonic zone by Hiroko, Matsuda

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3D visualization of GIS data in coconut plantation management: challenges and opportunities by Saha, Gonesh Chandra, Che Mat, Ruzinoor

“…The coconut grows all over the tropics but is fronting major challenges to its survival. …”
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Nigerian partial response on the global economy of palm oil by Shehu, Sani, Salleh, Mohd Afandi

“…The origin of oil palm tree came from the tropical forest of West African, it has been transferred to tropical area of Southeast Asia, and it has been developed into an agricultural yield. …”
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Estimating the cost of CO2 mitigation by feed in tariff approach in the Philippines by Bakhtyar, Bardia, Lim, C.H., Aziz, N., Azam, Muhammad, Prabhakar, Akhilesh Chandra

“…The Philippines is located in Southeast Asia characterized by a tropical weather and high level of rain which makes this country as a high potential in generating electricity by hydro-power and wind.Solar potential at this country is one of the highest in the world.All these opportunities help the country to replace clean and green renewable energies instead of fossil sources which will reduce the amount of produced carbon dioxide significantly.This study illustrates the Philippines attempts for encouraging investors for investing in renewable energies.Meanwhile the cost of avoiding carbon by generating electricity by solar panels estimated and compared with the other parts of the world.The conclusion shows despite of all opportunities in the country still cost of avoiding CO2 by using solar panels in the Philippines is higher than average world price.…”
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Malaysian medicinal plant leaf shape identification and classification by Sainin, Mohd Shamrie, Ghazali, Taqiyah Khadijah, Alfred, Rayner

“…Malaysian medicinal plants may be abundant natural resources but there has not been much research done on preserving the knowledge of these medicinal plants which enables general public to know the leaf using computing capability.This study proposes a framework to identify and classify tropical medicinal plants in Malaysia based the extracted patterns from the leaf.The extracted patterns from medicinal plant leaf are obtained based on several angle features.Five classifiers, obtained from WEKA and an ensemble classifier, called Direct Ensemble Classifier for Imbalanced Multiclass Learning (DECIML), are used to compare their performance accuracies over this data.In this experiment, five species of Malaysian medicinal plants are identified and classified in which each species will be represented by using 65 images.This study is important in order to assist local community to utilize the knowledge discovery and application of Malaysian medicinal plants for future generation.…”
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Aedes larval population dynamics and risk for dengue epidemics in Malaysia by A., Rohani, Ismail, Suzilah, M., Malinda, I., Anuar, I., Mohd Mazlan, M., Salmah Maszaitun, O., Topek, ,Y, Tanrang, Ooi, S.C., H., Rozilawati, Lee, H.L.

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Renewable energy in five South East Asian countries: Review on electricity consumption and economic growth by Bakhtyar, Bardia, Sopian, K., Sulaiman, M.Y., Ahmad, Siti Aznor

“…This number is a little less than the population of 25 European countries.These five countries have created a large market in the world and have enjoyed significant economic growth in recent years.Tropical climate in the region facilitates the potential for using clean and green energies.This article clarifies the effective relation between energy capacities and economic indices in these countries and analyzes the results.Using a survey, the paper shows that despite the shortage of energy in these countries brought by their fast economic growth, the share of renewable energy in energy production is constantly declining and more reliance is still placed on fossil fuels for energy production.…”

The dynamism of Malaysian furniture industry by Kamarudin, Ahmad Farid, Mohd Kassim, Abdul Wahid, Hassan, Mohamad Ghozali

“…Malaysia is the home to the world's third largest tropical rain forest behind Amazon and African wild jungle. …”
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Implementation of energy management in designing stage of building construction by Tahir, Mohamad Zamhari, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Baharum, Faizal

“…The design stage in construction project, in fact, is one of the significant stages in a project life cycle.This research aims to emphasize the needs of energy saving element in the design stage of building to face the future changes of building’s energy consumption.This research still in its initial phase, therefore the findings and discussion is based on previous studies and looks into the key issues while exploring the potential for further research This research has been carried out to discover the importance of considering the energy management elements during the design stage of commercial building construction for the conventional building in Malaysia.The main reason is that in tropical climate, commercial buildings have very high energy needs usually during the peak periods of business hour.Hence, the research objective is to minimize the total energy consumption during the building occupancy besides various energy saving strategies that is usually implemented later in operation and maintenance stage.Overall this paper reviews the previous works and potential implementation to the industry in order to enhance this research for further investigation.…”
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Feature selection for Malaysian medicinal plant leaf shape identification and classification by Sainin, Mohd Shamrie, Alfred, Rayner

“…Malaysian medicinal plants may be abundant natural resources but there has not been much research done on preserving the knowledge of these medicinal plants which enables general public to know the leaf using computing capability.Therefore, in this preliminary study, a novel framework in order to identify and classify tropical medicinal plants in Malaysia based on the extracted patterns from the leaf is presented.The extracted patterns from medicinal plant leaf are obtained based on several angle features.However, the extracted features create quite large number of attributes (features), thus degrade the performance most of the classifiers.Thus, a feature selection is applied to leaf data and to investigate whether the performance of a classifier can be improved.Wrapper based genetic algorithm (GA) feature selection is used to select the features and the ensemble classifier called Direct Ensemble Classifier for Imbalanced Multiclass Learning (DECIML) is used as a classifier.The performance of the feature selection is compared with two feature selections from Weka.In the experiment, five species of Malaysian medicinal plants are identified and classified in which will be represented by using 65 images.This study is important in order to assist local community to utilize the knowledge and application of Malaysian medicinal plants for future generation.…”
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An Improved Pheromone-Based Kohonen Self- Organising Map in Clustering and Visualising Balanced and Imbalanced Datasets by Ahmad, Azlin, Yusof, Rubiyah, Zulkifli, Nor Saradatul Akma, Ismail, Mohd Najib

“…Iris, Seed, Glass, Titanic, WDBC, and Tropical Wood datasets were chosen to investigate the effectiveness of the iPKSOM algorithm. …”
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The motivation factors in the provision of green criteria in green building development by Khalid, Mohamad Sukeri, Zakaria, Rozana, Abas, Darul Nafis

“…Recently, green building has become globally vital especially in developed country such as United State, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Singapore.The Malaysian construction industry identified the necessity of green rating tool to improve building development in tropical climate. The Green Building Index (GBI) is Malaysia’s industry recognised green rating tool for buildings to promote sustainability in the built environment and raise awareness of these issues among relevant stakeholders such as developers, architects, and contractors.This paper highlights motivation factors versus common criteria of green building in the provision of green building development.The assessment of commercial and residential properties under the GBI rating tool is based on six main criteria: energy efficiency, indoor environment quality, sustainable site planning and management, materials and resources, water efficiency and innovation.The data presented in this paper are mainly derived responses to a questionnaire that were completed by architects, engineers, urban planner, contractors and builders, developers and other consultants who is involved in green building development. …”
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The Conference of Parties - 27 (COP-27) Agreement as an Instrument of State Policy in Handling Deforestation: A Comparative Study of Sweden and Indonesian Governments by Mutawalli, Muhammad, Ayub, Zainal Amin, Maskun, M., Napang, Marthen

“…Indonesia as the third largest tropical forest country in the world certainly has an impact on the world's climate. …”
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Flood Disasters at Housing Areas in Malaysia: A Planning Law Perspective by Md Dahlan, Nuarrual Hilal

“…Floods in housing areas are typical in Malaysia, particularly during monsoon and tropical wet seasons. There are various causes for it. …”
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