Perceiving the Demographic Profile and the Perception of the Chinese and Malays Visitors to Pulau Kukup National Park by Mohd. Yaman, Maheran, Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Ismail Azlan

“…The wetland also supports such species as the Flying Fox Pteropus vampyrus, Smooth Otter Lutra perspicillata, Bearded Pig Sus barbatus, Long-tailed Macaque Macaca fascicularis, Pulau Kukup plays a vital role as one of the world’s most important wetland habitats; it is home to many rare and endangered species. …”
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The paradox struggle between the Islamic and conventional banking systems by Muneeza, Aishath, Wisham, Ismail, Hassan, Rusni

“…Today, the Islamic Banking system which emerged in 1983 has levelled up to the conventional banking system which had rooted itself in the society a long time ago. Whether we believe it or not there are challenges and clashes at hand due to the existence of the dual system in the society and they need to be addressed properly, so that the clashes between these two types of banking system can be minimized. …”
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Enzymatic hydrolysis of oil palm empty fruit bunch using immobilized cellulase enzyme by Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid, Mohammed Abd, Rasha, Alam, Md Zahangir, Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah

“…Using the immobilized form of the enzyme, it was found that the reducing sugar concentration was increased and the enzymatic hydrolysis of oil palm empty fruit bunch was enhanced greatly over long time of hydrolysis.…”
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Enzymatic hydrolysis of oil palm empty fruit bunch using immobilized cellulase enzyme by Mohammed Abd., Rasha, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah

“…Using the immobilized form of the enzyme, it was found that the reducing sugar concentration was increased and the enzymatic hydrolysis of Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch was enhanced greatly over long time of hydrolysis.…”
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Effective hospital management practice for meeting customers' needs and expectations by Wan Su, Kamaruzaman

“…Will he be safe and not lost in the compound of the hospital? How long he will wait to see the doctor and to take medications? …”
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Cross-layer design and performance analysis of TDMA-based backhaul network by Saeed, Rashid Abdelhaleem, Mohd Yusof, Zulkarnain, Musa, Anuar

“…These amendments were important due to the shortcomings of WiFi over long distances under the power constraints. This paper proposes a new 802.11 point-to-multipoint (PMP) technique based on TDD/TDMA technique, this by using one of the access points in the system as centralized/gateway point to the others APs. …”
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Balance of payments constrained growth model: an examination of Thirlwall's Hypothesis using McCombie's Individual Country Method by Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi

“…The balance of payments constrained growth (BOP) model is tested using the McCombie's cross-country and individual country test for 90 developed and developing countries for the period 1980 to 2000, and the McCombie's test is extended using export elasticity. If in the long run, the growth of exports is equal to the growth of imports and the affect of prices are not statistically significant, the estimated import elasticity from time series regression should not be statistically different from the BOP implied import elasticity, this also implied that the estimated export elasticity, also should not be statistically different from the BOP implied export elasticity. …”
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G2C acceptance in Malaysia: trust, perceived risk and political efficacy by Hussein, Ramlah, Mohamed, Norshidah, Ahlan, Abdul Rahman, Mahmud, Murni, Aditiarawan, Umar

“…Electronic government or e-government has long been known as a breakthrough of a new form of communication and transaction between the government and citizens, the government and industries, and among the government agencies. …”
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Experimental and numerical study on the orthogonal and oblique impact on water filled pipes by Hussain Shah, Qasim

“…A 300 mm long piece of copper (ASTM B280) pipe with an outer diameter of 35 mm and 0.7 mm wall thickness was subjected to a rigid steel pipe impact under a drop weight loading configuration where the pipe was simply supported at its ends. …”
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HARQ aware scheduling algorithm for the downlink LTE system by Mohd. Ramli, Huda Adibah, Sandrasegaran, Kumbesan, Basukala, Riyaj, Afrin, Toyoba Sohana

“…To ensure an efficient and reliable data transmission over the error-prone downlink long term evolution (LTE) system, packet scheduling is tightly-coupled with adaptive modulation and coding (AMC)scheme and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)process. …”
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Rights of a wife in the case of conversion to Islam under the family law in Malaysia by Abdul Hak, Nora

“…Among the issues that have been raised is whether a non-Muslim wife is entitled to maintenance when her husband converted to Islam and if she is still entitled the next question is for how long. Other problem is which party that shall be entitled to the custody of the child and also issue concerning the legal status of the marriage. …”
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Optimized performance evaluation of LTE hard handover algorithm with average RSRP constraint by Lin, Cheng-Chung, Sandrasegaran, Kumbesan, Mohd. Ramli, Huda Adibah, Basukala, Riyaj

“…Hard handover mechanism is adopted to be used in 3GPP Long Term Evolution (3GPP LTE) in order to reduce the complexity of the LTE network architecture. …”
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Security of tenure in employment: an employees precious 'property' by Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali

“…'The amendment is deliberately designed to empower employers to employ workers on fixed term contract for as long as they please'. The above proposal, if passed, would remove security of tenure in employment to workers in the private sectors. …”
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Biophilia: residents’ connection with green infrastructure in a town by Mansor, Mazlina

“…Human’s inherent affiliation with the natural environment or Biophilia has been long hypotesised. The paper draws the findings of a case study exploration on the connection between residents with green infrastructure in Taiping, a small colonial town in Peninsular Malaysia. …”
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CSR and marketing : two sides of the same coin by Mohd. Israil, Khaliq Ahmad, Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah, Tahir, Suziwana

“…CSR can link the enterprise and brand; therefore in the long run this relationship contributes to the society. …”
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Recent developments in Qucs-S equation-defined modelling of semiconductor devices and IC’s by Brinson, Mike, Kuznetsov, Vadim

“…To illustrate the new Qucs-S modelling techniques an XSPICE version of the EPFL EKV v2.6 long channel transistor model together with other illustrative examples are described and their performance simulated with Qucs-S and Ngspice.…”
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Beyond ‘The War on Terror’: Prospects for the Middle East and North Africa by Joffé, George

“…Indeed, I even wonder if such a dispensation is possible or conceivable in the intellectual and policy planning environment that has been created since September 11, 2001, if not long before. And, even if it were possible, I wonder how the West – Europe and the United States – could meaningfully engage with the Arab World, Iran and Afghanistan in ways that would counter the negative and damaging initiatives undertaken as part of the ‘War on Terror’ over the last eight years. …”
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US Disposable Personal Income and Housing Price Index: a Fractional Integration Analysis by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…This paper examines the relationship between US disposable personal income (DPI) and house price index (HPI) during the last twenty years applying fractional integration and long-range dependence techniques to monthly data from January 1991 to July 2010. …”
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Sub-workflow parallel implementation of aerosol optical depth retrieval from MODIS data case on a Grid platform by Liu, Jia, Xue, Yong, Vassilev, Vassil, He, Xingwei

“…Operational production of AOD datasets over long time series, large-scale coverage puts on a severe challenge to computing technologies due to both the complexity of retrieval algorithm and the huge data amounts. …”
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Sport and social development: evaluating a professional sport league’s domestic violence and sexual abuse camp by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew

“…However, a broader and more long-term focus on developmental outcomes should be sought.…”
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