Unity and harmony in Malaysia: problems and challenges by Abdullah @ Chuah Hock Leng, Osman

“…Despite having no significant nor violent racial and religious conflict since 1969, there have been signs of emerging ethnic tension and sensitive issues every now and then in the nation. …”
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Bank lending, macroeconomic conditions and financial uncertainty: Evidence from Malaysia by Ibrahim, Mansor H., Shah Haneef, Sayed Sikandar

“…Adopting time series techniques of cointegration, causality and vector autoregressions (VARs), we arrive at the following main results. We note long run positive relations between real output and both real bank credits and real stock prices. …”
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Digital implementation of space vector pulse width modulation technique using 8-bit microcontroller by Faris, Waleed Fekry, Tahir, Ahmad M., Badran, Marwan A A

“…The new generations of electric drives are based on high speed power transistors, like IGBT and MOSFET. The main part of electric drive is the inverter which works as DC to AC converter using a power transistor bridge. …”
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An integrated model on online tax adoption in Malaysia by Hussein, Ramlah, Mohamed, Norshidah, Ahlan, Abdul Rahman, Mahmud, Murni, Aditiawarman, Umar

“…As one of the MSC Malaysia Flagship Applications, Online Tax System or e-Filing has gained its popularity since it was launched in 2006. But the obstacles remain concern taxpayers who are really anxious about the technology, lacking of technical skills, or do not trust of any online transaction. …”
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Surah al-Hujurat: a charter of ideal social life by Shahed, Abul Kalam Muhammad, Osmani, Noor Mohammad, Siddique, Muhammad Abu Bakr

“…The main purpose of the research is to study Surah al-Hujurat of the Qur’an, which includes some fundamental principles and important rules and regulations for laying the foundations of an ideal society, which if followed properly, the society could live in peaceful harmony and mutual respect and love towards each other. …”
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Setup latency analysis of CAPWAP Centralized WLAN Network by Balfaqih, Mohammed, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha, Mahmoud, Omer, Mazlan, M. Hasbullah, Haseeb, Shariq, Hasnan, S. N

“…The results showed that the main latencycontributor is the Discovery phase, while the error during DTLS Establishment phase cost more time than other phases…”
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Gender issues in Muslim countries by Akhmetova, Elmira

“…Islam empowered women for the first time in human history with the most progressive social, legal, economic and political rights since the seventh century. The Noble Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW indicate equity and parity between men and women although their functions in marriage, family and society are not identical. …”
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Unique aspects of Islamic microfinance financing process: experience of Baitul Maal Wa Tamwil in Indonesia by Wulandari, Permata, Kassim, Salina, Sulung, Liyu Adikasari, , Niken Iwani Surya Putri

“…The main challenge to the Islamic microfinance institutions such as BMT is to create a microfinance which is engaging the poor people’s characteristics since the people at the bottom of pyramid have unique socio-economic characteristics to be considered. …”
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Natural logarithm sliding mode control (ln-SMC) using EMRAN for active engine mounting system by Wijaya, Andika Aji, Wahyudi, Martono, Akmeliawati, Rini, Ridhuan Siradj , Fadly Jashi Darsivan

“…Robustness of the controller becomes major important factor in active engine mounting system to ensure the vibration of the engine can be attenuated in entire range of operating speed. As robustness is the main advantage of sliding mode control, it has been proposed for vibration control applications. …”
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Preliminary analysis on the effect of rain attenuation on Free Space Optics (FSO) propagation measured in tropical weather condition by Ahmad Zabidi, Suriza, Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Naji, Ahmed Wathik

“…In temperate region, fog is the main factor that affects the availability of the link. …”
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On the conceptualization and measurement of flow by Moneta, Giovanni B.

“…This chapter introduces in chronological order the three main measurement methods – the Flow Questionnaire, the Experience Sampling Method, and the standardized scales of the componential approach – that researchers developed and used in conducting research on the flow state. …”
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The economic determinants of corporate hedging: an empirical analysis of UK non-financial firms by Judge, Amrit

“…The UK provides a particularly valuable focus for empirical investigation since it has a large and sophisticated corporate sector. …”
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A Review on Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer as Wrapping Structures For Pipeline by S.M. Letchumanan, S.M. Letchumanan, A.M.T. Arifin, A.M.T. Arifin, A. E Ismail, A. E Ismail, I. Taib, I. Taib

“…The composite material will be used as the main material, since it may have the combined characteristics of the constituents or have substantially different properties than the individual constituents. …”
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General Fuzzy Switchboard Transformation Semigroup by Ebas, Nur Ain, Jacob, Kavikumar, Rusiman, Mohd Saifullah, Shaf, Muhammad Ammar, Deivanayagampilla, Nagarajan

“…The Switchboard State Machine is a controller that controls the direct flow of information from one state to another and also plays the main part in communication between the subsystems. …”
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Phone virtual environment for RC assistive robot by Zargoun, Ahmed Muftah Ali

“…An assistive robot with an Android phone controller needed since smart phones nowadays are used almost by everyone. …”
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Design and simulation of hydraulic shaking table by Ngadimon, Khairulnizam

“…Due to this problem, a study on the development of shaking table is proposed. The main purpose of this study is to obtain the design specifications for a 1-axis (horizontal) hydraulic shaking table with medium loading, which can function primarily as an earthquake simulator and a dynamic structural testing apparatus. …”
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Breakdown characteristic of LLDPE-NR nanocomposite using high voltage direct current (HVDC) test by Mohd Jamail, Nor Akmal, Zarujhan, N.A.A.N., Muhamad, N.A.

“…SiO2 and TiO2 these filler are listed as the main nanofiller commonly used in electrical engineering due to the increase of effective activation energy. …”
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Strength, durability and microstructural analysis of concrete incorporating waste carpet fibre and palm oil fuel ash by Mohammadhosseini, Hossein

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Feasibility study of applications of micro-bubbles for aquaculture by Kozima, Hiroyuki, Mukai, Yukinori, Ransangan, J., Senoo, Shigeharu

“…Micro-bubbles are ultra-fine gas bubbles in water, of which size is less than 50μm. …”
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Video streaming over wireless LAN using scalable extension of H.264/AVC by Maarif, Haris Al Qodri, Gunawan, Teddy Surya

“…This paper deals with encoding process of the Fine-Grain SNR Scalability (FGS) scheme with two enhancement layers for enhancing the streaming video quality over wireless LAN. …”
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