‘Can someone get me outta this middle class zone?!’ Pressures on middle class Kikuyu in Kenya's 2013 election by Burbidge, D

“…The diary writers describe the key moments at which they felt the need to switch from supporting third-placed presidential hopefuls to supporting one of the two favourites. Topics felt to pressure voters most keenly were ethnicity, social media, debate surrounding the International Criminal Court and the lack of confidence in others of the middle class. …”

The Malay Standard Framework (KSBM) as a measure of Malay writing mastery in third form activity books by Abd. Nasir, Siti Noridayu, Abdul Halim, Hazlina

“…This I because, the measurement of marks shows the ability of students who are excellent or still weak in writing reviews. It is hoped that this study can helps an improve the level of students skill in the future get good marks and grades in final exams at school.…”
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Review of audience gratification with Chinese online film festivals by Yang, Yening, Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati, Shari, Sharil Nizam

“…This study focuses on the audience, aiming to explore their gratification with Chinese online film festivals through a literature review, with the hope of providing insights for future prospects in the planning of online film festivals. …”
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Phenotyping the Halal Entrepreneur Exploring the Malaise Involvement of Bumiputera Entrepreneurs in Halal Business (S/O 13812 by Ismail, Noor Azizi, Mohamed Ismail, Risyawati, Mustafar, Mastora, Othman, Siti Norezam

“…The newly improved model is hoped to serve stakeholders in the halal business ecosystem especially the policymakers in focusing on making better initiative and development programs for entrepreneurs keen in joining the niche area…”
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Formulation of A New Product Development Process Innovation Framework for Malaysian SMEs by Abu, Noor Hidayah, Mansor, Mohd Fitri

“…This study will investigate the characteristics of the process innovation frameworks proposed by past studies to provide an understanding on the similarities and differences between all the frameworks. It is author hoped the result of the investigations can guide the author towards further development of a new framework for process innovation implemenation, which is well adapted to the needs and fulfill the requirement of SMEs…”
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A longitudinal study of the tax capacity and tax effort of the Malaysian state government by Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah, Harun, Mukaramah, Che Mat, Siti Hadijah

“…In Malaysia, the recently launched New Economic Model (NEM) has emphasized the need to review the state-federal fiscal arrangement.It is hoped that through this review, the state government will have a more efficient expenditure programme.However, the model failed to recognize the importance of enhancing the revenue collection system of the state government.Studies have shown that state governments face great difficulties in financing their expenditure needs.And this can be due to the differences in term of their fiscal capacity and fiscal effort.To what extent are the state governments differ in term of these two measures? …”
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A Mixed-Methods Research Design to Advance Inclusive and Equitable Teaching by Soicher, Raechel N., Baker, Amanda R., Thomas, Ruthann C.

“…We discuss lessons learned and future directions with the hope that the framework and/or the research methodology can be a template for other researchers or educational developers to support implementation and sustainability of inclusive and equitable teaching practices.…”
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Industrial smart product-service systems solution design via hybrid concerns by Zheng, Pai, Wang, Zuoxu, Chen, Chun-Hsien

“…To make our visions concrete, two prospective application scenarios leveraging abovementioned hybrid concerns are given at last. It is hoped this work can contribute to the future directions of this interdisciplinary research area, and offer insightful guidance to industrial companies in their solution design process with profitable outcomes.…”
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Practical and theoretical considerations as a researcher-teacher: reflections on a bidialectal programme involving Singlish in a secondary school by Lu, Luke

“…I discuss my dual position as researcher-teacher in the data collection process, before addressing the importance of and how I shifted between analytic familiarity and distance from the data. It is hoped that being transparent about the research process in this fashion will strengthen the field and be useful to fellow researchers embarking on similar studies.…”
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Polarization of tumor-associated macrophages promoted by vitamin C-loaded liposomes for cancer immunotherapy by Ma, Zhaoyu, Yang, Mingkun, Foda, Mohamed Frahat, Zhang, Kai, Li, Shuting, Liang, Huageng, Zhao, Yanli, Han, Heyou

“…This work provides a powerful therapeutic application of vitamin C to amplify Anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy in cancer treatment, which brings hope to patients with clinically insensitive immunity.…”
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Workload, awareness and automation in multiple-robot supervision by Wong, Choon Yue, Seet, Gerald

“…It additionally encourages the appreciation for recognized methods of applying and triggering automation. The hope is for robots to be equipped with adjustable autonomy across multiple aspects of task performance to create robotic systems with highly flexible autonomy configurations. …”
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Metal-organic frameworks and their derived materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion: promises and challenges by Wu, Hao Bin, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…By highlighting the advantages and challenges of each class of materials for different applications, we hope to shed some light on the future development of this highly exciting area.…”
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A Model of Life Cycle on Biogas Feed to Solid Oxide Fuel Cell in Malaysia:Economic and Environmental Perspective by Mohd Shafie, Shafini, Othman, Zakirah, Nu'man, A Harits, Nik Yusuf, Nik Nurul Anis

“…Then the carbon dioxide emissions are 0.2034 CO2-EQ / kWh and 0.61 CO2- EQ / kWh. Hopefully, the outcome from this paper will be able to assist the decisionmaker in planning to model the fuel cell combining with biogas system in the future. …”
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Preserved functional organization of auditory cortex in two individuals missing one temporal lobe from infancy by Regev, Tamar I, Lipkin, Benjamin, Boebinger, Dana, Paunov, Alexander, Kean, Hope, Norman-Haignere, Sam V, Fedorenko, Evelina

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MobiTest : an evaluation infrastructure for mobile distributed applications by Sivaraman Kaushalram, Anirudh

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Quantitative economics of corporate crime, punishment and solution - regbonds by Goh, Jing Rong

“…In the micro-setting, Regbonds are able to mitigate agency problems which helps to align the interests between shareholders and managers. Finally, I do hope that the thesis can help us better understand the underlying nature of gray project investments and the Regbonds can help to mitigate the real-world problems associated with these investments. …”
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The city you'll never meet by Lim, Ying Quan

“…Through a mock media website, illustrative infographic video and other complementary design mediums, the deliverables offer viewers a glimpse into this fictional scenario in hope that it will trigger empathy, encourage second opinions and emphasis considerations on the accelerated use of technology and the importance of physical touch & social interaction. …”
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Exploring sequential VAE to handle time-series data by Tan, Colin G-Hao

“…Ultimately, the results of this project hope to be able to improve the task of OOD detection, by proposing architectures that are able to perform well at the task.…”
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Bridging the digital divide: promoting equal access to online learning for health professions in an unequal world by Han, Siew Ping, Kumwenda, Ben

“…Further, we discuss the need to maintain local relevance while setting global standards. Overall, we hope to inform and guide the development of more equitable and accessible online education training for a diverse global population.…”
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Financial assistance schemes for small & medium enterprises : an end-user perspective by Yeong, Kong, Ng, Tee Huat, Koh, Cheng Kiat

“…Despite these findings, the report also attempts to provide recommendations to further improve the awareness and the effectiveness of the schemes. Hopefully, by improving them, more SMEs will take up the schemes offered by the government to upgrade themselves so as to face the challenges ahead.…”
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