The Potential of Tasik Gubir as a Popular Agro Tourism Destination in Kedah by Omar, Salmah, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Ismail, Nor Hanani, Paidi, Zulhilmi, Hj. Rofie, Mohamad Khadafi

“…Although there are many beautiful and fascinating areas, such as Tasik Gubir (Lake Gubir) in Sik, not much research has been done to make the area a popular tourist attraction. …”
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Strengthening District Administration in Plural Communal Context: An Analysis on the Potential Impact of Establishing a Kalmunai Administrative District in Sri Lanka by Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus, Sarjoon, Athambawa, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah

“…However, decentralized district administration in postindependence Sri Lanka has been challenging, primarily due to a number of issues related to the accommodation of rights and interests of minorities. …”
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A Strategy Towards Team Integration Practice for Improving the Design and Construction Process in the Malaysian Industrialized Building System Projects by Othman, Mohd Zainudin, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Abdul Nifa, Faizatul Akmar, Yaakob, Mazri, Rofie, Mohamad Khadafi, Md Zan, Zainal, Ahmad Pozin, Mohd Affendi

“…The Malaysian construction industry has been urged to change from using a conventional method to industrialized building system (IBS) to attain, (1) better build quality and productivity, (2) reduce risks related to occupational safety and health, (3) alleviate issues for skilled workers and dependency on manual foreign labor, and (4) achieve the ultimate goal of reducing the overall cost of construction. …”
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Disaster Risk Management Strategies Among SMEs in Malaysia (S/O 14702) by Auzzir, Zairol Azhar, Abu Bakar, Arpah, Suhadah, Mohd Taipor

“…Based on the survey, several current coping strategies used by the respondents have been identified and documented. Among the measures to mitigate disaster risks are compliance with standard operating procedures (SOP), plan their supply chains and purchase insurance schemes. …”
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Incremental or Radical Product Innovation: Overview of Food and Beverage Sector SMEs in Malaysia by Abu, Noor Hidayah, Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Ibrahim, Amlus

“…Most of the respondents that active in product innovation activities is medium size organization and the organization has been established more than ten years. Although they realized the importance of producing new product continually, but they still show a slightly lower level investment in R&D. …”
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A Strategy towards Team Integration Practice for Improving the Design and Construction Process in the Malaysian Industrialized Building System Projects by Othman, Mohd Zainudin, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Abdul Nifa, Faizatul Akmar, Yaakob, Mazri, Rofie, Mohamad Khadafi, Md Zan, Zainal, Ahmad Pozin, Mohd Affendi

“…The Malaysian construction industry has been urged to change from using a conventional method to industrialized building system (IBS) to attain, (1) better build quality and productivity, (2) reduce risks related to occupational safety and health, (3) alleviate issues for skilled workers and dependency on manual foreign labor, and (4) achieve the ultimate goal of reducing the overall cost of construction. …”
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Exploring c Environment (S/O: 12826) by Abdul Rahman, Syariza, Ku Mahamud, Ku Ruhana, Ramli, Razamin, Benjamin, Aida Mauziah, Omar, Mohd Faizal

“…The problem has constraints which have not been modelled before; the timeslots and days assignment and splitting exams across several rooms. …”
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Fish Motion Trajectories Detection Algorithm Based on Spiking Neural Network (S/O: 12893) by Yusoff, Nooraini, Yusof, Yuhanis, Siraj, Fadzilah, Ahmad, Farzana Kabir

“…In the most predictive application, Backpropagation (BP) has been used to learn the behavioural motion pattern. …”
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Government Transformation Programme (GTP): Effects of 4S Approach in Malaysian Government Departments by Anuar, Herman Shah, Radzuan, Kamaruddin, Hassan, Mohamad Ghozali

“…Implementing McKinsey approach has long been practised by various organisations in adding value to delivery and improving performance. …”
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Novel Approach of Quantifying Energy Security in terms of Economic, Environmental and Supply Risk Factors by Tufail, Muhamad Mutasim Billah, Ibrahim, Jafni Azhan, Melan, Mustakim, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun

“…High level of security incurred extra cost; however, opportunity loss due to energy supply disruption has never been evaluated in terms of monitory unit. This study will focus on the evaluation of potential loss due to unavailability of supplies for power generation system. …”
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Maslahah and its Application in Islamic Finance by Mohd Zameri, Sarah Nursaadah, Syed Alwi, Sharifah Faigah, Mohammad Hatta, Mohammad Firdaus, Saiful Fikri, Aula Ahmad Hafidh

“…Maslahah which embodies the notion of achieving the public interest and preventing harm, has been crucial to the development and evolution of products and services in Islamic finance. …”
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Biogeochemical cycling and environmental footprints of peatland-derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean in Southeast Asia by Zhou, Yongli

“…However, data on the chemical composition of DOC in the ocean have generally been interpreted as showing that only a small fraction (<25%) of the oceanic DOC pool is of terrestrial origin. …”
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Advanced data analytics for future smart grid stability assessment by Ren, Chao

“…In recent years, with the development of advanced real-time system monitoring and communication techniques, the data-driven methods have been identified as powerful tools to help power systems counteract large disturbance and avoid instability. …”
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Study of planning and operational aspects of tidal in-stream power generation by Mahda J. Jahromi

“…Consequently my objective in this study has been to look into the electrical challenges of extracting and transferring of tidal stream power to conventional power networks. …”
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Genetic and molecular characterisation of non-tissue culture adapted influenza B viruses detected in Singapore between 2004-2009 by Muhammad Raihan Jumat

“…This may also reflect the lack of understanding of influenza biology, which has been focused primarily on lab-adapted strains instead of naturally circulating strains. …”
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Optimization of cognitive radio systems with energy harvesting by Pratibha

“…Recently, a lot of work has been focused on utilizing energy-harvesting techniques to achieve self-sustaining wireless networks. …”
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Study on muscle remodeling using in vivo microscopy of drosophila metamorphosis and quantitative image analysis by Kuleesha

“…In conclusion, the work in this thesis has been able to justify Drosophila melanogaster as a good model to study metamorphosis and to find new insights into the genes associated with muscle mass change. …”
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Efficient circuit-designs using spintronic devices by Deb, Suman

“…Whereas domain wall motion-based threshold activation unit has previously been demonstrated for neuromorphic circuits, it remains well-known that neurons with threshold activation cannot completely learn non-linearly separable functions. …”
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Structural and functional characterisation of the collagen binding domain of fibronectin by Millard, CJ

“…This domain has been reported to bind to both collagen and denatured collagen (gelatin), but with 10-100 times higher affinity to the latter; it can be purified to homogeneity on a gelatin affinity column. …”

Molecular and immunological profiling of Bartonella spp. in shelter cat population in Peninsular Malaysia by Alias, Nurul Najwa Ainaa

“…Severe human infections such as cat scratch disease (CSD), endocarditis, and ocular bartonellosis have been associated with infections due to Bartonella spp. including Bartonella henselae. …”
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