A commentary on the HC division’s ruling to demolish BGMEA building by Jalil, Md. Abdul

“…Under these Acts BGMEA authority has committed fraud to get the land and to erect the building on it for which section 6(3) of the Wetlands Protection Act 2000 provides 5 (five) years imprisonment or fine or both against the BGMEA authority and other people involved in the process.…”
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Synthesis of copper nanoparticles by electroreduction process by Mohan, Raja, J, Subha, Ali, Fathilah, Ryu, Sung Hun

“…The spongy layers of copper can be easily separated to give fine particles. Structural characterizations are done by using X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy. …”
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Running in circles - defamation recriminalised in Russia by Arapova, Galina

“…No journalist, regional publication, blogger or civic activist is likely to be able to afford a fine of 5,000,000 roubles. This article discusses these changes in the law.…”
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Common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) alters its feeding niche in response to changing food resources: direct observations in simulated ponds by Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur, Kadowaki, Shusaku, Balcombe, Stephen Richard, Wahab, Md. Abdul

“…In the absence of benthic macroinvertebrates, their feeding niche shifted from near the bottom of the tanks to the water column where they spent 85% of the total time and fed principally on zooplankton. …”
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Influence of enzymatic devulcanization process conditions on the tensile strength of revulcanized rubber by Othman, Emeliana, Yusof, Faridah, Azmi , Azlin Suhaida

“…It makes an economic sense to recycle spent rubber products. Prior to recycling, surface devulcanization of rubber is vital to produce the acceptable reprocessed product. …”
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Cost breakdown structure for life cycle cost of water pump by Rosli, Nurul Wahida

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Altered brain functional networks in Internet gaming disorder: independent component and graph theoretical analysis under a probability-discounting task by Wang, Ziliang, Liu, Xiaoyue, Hu, Yanbo, Zheng, Hui, Du, Xiaoxia, Dong, Guangheng

“…Behavioral results showed the IGD subjects, comparing to RGU, prefer risky options to the fixed ones and spent less time in making risky decisions. In imaging results, the ICA analysis revealed that the IGD showed stronger functional connectivity (FC) in reward circuits and executive control network, as well as lower FC in anterior salience network (ASN) than RGU; for the GTA results, the IGD showed impaired FC in reward circuits and ASN compared to RGU. …”
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An exploration of adult third culture kids’ experience of transitioning to the UK between the ages of 10 and 17: an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Montazer, Alla

“…Background: Third Culture Kids (TCKs) are individuals who spent a significant part of their developmental years outside of their country of origin. …”
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Comparative study on correctness and time taken of test case generation using EFG and BXT techniques for GUI application by Nser Brka, Mostafa

“…In term of elapsed time, EFG and BXT spent 0.16 millisecond (ms) and 0.18 ms in the paint application respectively and 0.14 millisecond (ms) and 0.17 millisecond (ms) in the Present application respectively. …”
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Assessing knowledge transfer for facility management to the development of new students' residential colleges in UTHM, Malaysia by Adeyemi, Ifeoluwa Adedoyin

“…Existing literature has revealed that ninety percent (90%) of the total funds allocated to universities by the government is spent on maintenance. Studies have revealed that the main reason for the high maintenance cost is due to building design decisions by architects with unrealistic expectation on how the buildings should operate. …”
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The performance on concrete brick containing Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA) as replacing cement by Mohd Zailani, Tarmidzi, Adnan, Suraya Hani, Abdullah, Mohd Sufyan

“…Production of concrete leads to a reduction in natural resources as materials used in producing a concrete brick example of fine aggregate and cement. Furthermore, this problem gets attention from some parties in finding an alternative to reduce waste and maintained the natural resources to produce concrete using waste materials. …”
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Flood and riverbank erosion displaces of two different flood areas of Bangladesh: a situational study on their indigenous survival strategies by Karim, A.H.M Zehadul

“…Being a full-time faculty member of International Islamic University Malaysia, I spent my time in coordinating the research while I went to Bangladesh on my periodical annual leave. …”
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Effects of food type on diel behaviours of common carp Cyprinus carpio in simulated aquaculture pond conditions by Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur, Meyer, Carl G

“…In tanks containing plankton only, fish grazed in the water column, whereas when benthic macroinvertebrates were present, they spent more time near the tank bottom. Resting behaviour was only seen in tanks with artificial feed and even then was rare (2–5% of total time). …”
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Life cycle cost and performance assessment: comparison between reconstruction and cold-in-place recycling (CIPR) methods by Ayob, Mohd Fairullazi, Bidi, Nor Khalisah, Ahmad Jasmi, Siti Zulaiha, Wan Omar, Wan Imran, Ali, Maisarah

“…The Malaysian government has spent a large amount of money to keep maintaining the quality of Federal roads in Malaysia. …”
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Conceptual framework of Muhamad Rashid Rida's political thought by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…Living in an eon where cultural-cerebral supremacy of the west became prevalent over the socio-political and economic domains of the Muslim (Jmmah, Rida forcefully opposed the material rnenaoe of the West and conjured up alternatives based upon overriding reality o{' that point irr tirne. Rida primarily spent his life as a political jor-rrnalist in an outlook of reform by introducing social and political restructure within the Muslirn political paradignr, in an attempt to bringing about transforrnatioll tl-lat would end the imbue of the Musim Ummah…”
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The determination of the crystal structure of four compounds of industrial importance by Banerjee, Anuradha

“…Originally the research programme had envisaged working on substances which were obtained by the corrosive action of hydrocarbon oils on metallic lead, but after some considerable time had been spent on attempting to crystallise these rather intractable materials, the research was switched to deal with other compounds of industrial importance which were more readily available in the Polytechnic. …”
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Vulnerability to substance dependence by Lusher, Joanne

“…Individuals with the long variant at the DRD4 gene spent longer responding to words related to heroin and cigarettes. …”
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Classification of satellite fused data for land use mapping in development plan by Hj. Mohd. Noor, Norzailawati, Abdullah, Alias, Hashim, Mazlan

“…Land use mapping in development plan basically provides resources of information and important tool in decision making. In relation to this, fine resolution of recent satellite remotely sensed data have found wide applications in land use/land cover mapping. …”
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Cooling tower: an energy conservation resource by Mohiuddin, A. K. M., Kant, Keshav

“…In order ot achieve a higher level of performance of a cooling tower, various sub-systems of the tower should be refined and fine tuned to work together as a coherent system. …”
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Disputes and issues arising from unlawful occupation of state land in Malaysia by Syed Abdul Kader, Sharifah Zubaidah

“…The National Land Code 1965 declares in section 48 that there shall be no adverse possession in respect of state land and under section 425, those who are in unlawful possession of state land commit a statutory offence liable to a fine not exceeding RM10,000 and/or imprisonment for one year or both. …”
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