Methodological implications of participant and researcher multilingualism: making language dynamics visible by Rolland, Louise, King, Hannah M., Lorette, Pernelle

“…This special issue (SI) brings together seven contributions which discuss the methodological implications of researching in a multilingual world, where researchers and/or research participants are likely to know more than one language. The papers examine the relationship between researchers’ language ideologies and actual practices with multilingual participants, teams or projects, from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. …”
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UK Vietnamese Businesses: Cultural Influences and Intra-cultural Differences by Bagwell, Sue

“…In particular 2nd generation and recent immigrants were less likely to adopt traditional collectivist approaches to the running of their business compared with the first generation, but their business practice was still often influenced by strong family loyalties. …”
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A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development by Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Yaseen, Mustapha, Aida, Shah, Muhammad Arif, Ibrahim, Noraini

“…Software for large enterprises such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) is more likely to be developed by a team of software developers where the functional requirements (FRs) are distributed in parallel developers. …”
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The Efficacy of Students‟ Knowledge Construction Process in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Environment: A Malaysian View by Hashim, Suhaizal, Masek, Alias, Mohamed Zahir, Nur Zahira, Khamis, Nurhani

“…However, efforts to digitise education usually encounter two major issues: first, the applications developed are more likely to emphasise the qualities of graphics and animations; second, the multimedia presentation highlighted in the application is a stereotype that causes users to become bored. …”
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A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development by Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Yaseen, Mustapha, Aida, Muhammad Arif Shah, Muhammad Arif Shah, Ibrahim, Noraini

“…Software for large enterprises such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) is more likely to be developed by a team of software developers where the functional requirements (FRs) are distributed in parallel developers. …”
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Antioxidant and antiproliferative activities of Malaysian sea cucumber, (Holothuria edulis Lesson), extracts by Althunibat, Osama Yousef, Hashim, Ridzwan, Bakhtiar, M. Taher, Mohd. Daud, Jamaludin, Ikeda, Masa-Aki

“…The inhibitory effect of the exfacts on proliferation of MCF-7 (human breast adenocarcinoma) and TEI (Human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma) human cancer cell lines were demonstrated by 3-(4,5- dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. …”
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Signatures of rapid change in PRDM9 binding targets are evident in archaic humans by Tumian, Afidalina, Davies, Robert W., Myers, Simon

“…Objectives: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that the rapidly evolving zinc-finger (ZF) protein, PRDM9, is responsible for initiating much or all of recombination in human. …”
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An assessment of oxidative potential of indoor/outdoor airborne particulate matter at roadside and urban background sites in London by Mohd Aris, Mohd Shukri, Kelly, Frank, Barratt, Benjamin

“…PM oxidative activity was examined by quantifying its capacity to deplete antioxidants from the synthetic respiratory tract lining fluid (RTLF) model. RESULTS: The novel time series of PM OP dataset established in this study highlighted a clear difference between the two sites. …”
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Single layer map viewer approach for multi-scale data extraction by Wan Ab. Karim, Wan Muhd. Hairi

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Phosphorylation of protein kinase B, the key enzyme in insulin signalling cascade, is enhanced in linoleic and arachidonic acid treated HT29 and HepG2 cells by Mariniello, Katia, Min, Yoeju, Ghebremeskel, Kebreab

“…Results: The fatty acids were incorporated in PtdCho and PtdEtn of both cell lines; but, the level of incorporation was higher in HT29. …”
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From 'nobody to somebody' : challenges and opportunities for Gujarati women learning English in London by Ray, Smita

“…While the women interviewed in this research experience ‘race’ and patriarchy along class lines, they also face a dilemma of balancing their personal lives and protecting themselves from the ‘corrupting Western’ culture through imposed cultural definitions which might result in them taking up an ‘oppressed’ South Asian femininity. …”
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Modelling and analysis of complex electromagnetic problems using FDTD subgridding in hybrid computational methods by Ramli, Khairun Nidzam

“…The work also investigated the interaction between overhead high voltage transmission lines and underground utility pipelines using the FDTD technique for the whole structure, combined with a subgridding method at points of interest, particularly the pipeline. …”
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Pigment production by New Zealand microbes: screening and industrial application by Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim, Roberts, Kelly, Lewis, Gillian, Greenwood, Dave, Villas-Bôas, Silas

“…Development of microbial food grade pigments are likely to cut down the high production cost of natural pigments, thus leading to a cheaper source of natural food colorants among the modern consumers. …”
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Pigment stability studies in selected pigment-producing microbes from New Zealand environment by Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim, Lewis, Gillian, Greenwood, David R., Villas-Bôas, Silas

“…Development of microbial food grade pigments are likely to cut down the high production cost of natural colours, thus leading to a cheaper source of natural food colourants among the modern consumers. …”
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Factors influencing smoking behaviours among male adolescents in Kuantan district by Mohd Yassin, Rapeah, Yaacob, Munirah, Othman, Latifah, K, Faizah, S, Norsimah, M, Maryana, Saub, Roslan

“…Students whose parents had lower level of occupation were more likely to smoke (58.8%). Among smokers, 34.5% of them smoked since primary school and a majority (91.7%) smoked 10 or less cigarettes per day. …”
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Ramsar convention and convention on biological diversity as mechanism for promoting biodiversity conservation of Malaysia wetlands by Ansari, Abdul Haseeb, Jariah, I, Ibrahim, Irini, Ismail, I

“…Parties must also identify the important components of biodiversity for its conservation, and sustainable use, monitor such components, and categorize activities that are likely to have significant adverse impacts on biodiversity. …”
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Bioprospecting and economical source of chitin and chitosan: the sword shrimp udang minyak (Parapenaeopsis hardwickii) Malaysia by Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal, Darnis, Deny Susanti, Husna, Suffi Nurul

“…These samples were chosen as they were most abundant and well-liked shell fishes among the sea foods and locally available in the coastal areas of Malaysia. …”
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Will graduating year accountancy students cheat in examination? a Malaysian case by Abu Bakar, Nur Barizah, Ismail, Suhaiza, Mamat, Suaniza

“…Results also reveal that students with good academic achievement were less likely to cheat in exam. Furthermore, a larger proportion of male students as compared to female tend to behave unethically. …”
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Logical-linguistic semantic in search engine by Tengku Sembok, Tengku Mohd, Noordin, Mohamad Fauzan, Othman, Roslina, Abdul Kadir, Rabiah

“…Most of the search engines, with Google on the top, able to retrieve most likely relevant information based on a query. But not capable of providing answer to a question due to lack of deduction capability. …”
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Kinetics of cadmium adsorption by CNTs grown on PACs by Al-Mamun, Abdullah, Al-Saadi, Mohammed A., Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Sopyan, Iis

“…The adsorption process was found more likely to follow Freundlich model with R2 value of 0.961, Kf of 9.215 and n of 3.015. …”
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