Design procedure of robust QFT-based controller for continuous-flow grain dryer plant by Mansor, Hasmah, Mohd Noor, Samsul Bahari, Raja Ahmad, Raja Kamil, Taip, Farah Saleena

“…Grain drying process is complex due to long time delay, presence of disturbances and plant uncertainty. …”
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Small and medium enterprises and their financing patterns: evidence from Malaysia by Abdullah, Moha Asri, Ab. Manan, Siti Khadijah

“…The contributions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to socio-economic developments have been long recognized, in developed and developing countries alike. …”
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Protecting consumers against unfair contract terms in Malaysia: The Consumer Protection (Amendment) Act 2010 by Amin, Naemah

“…Malaysian consumers have been haunted with this issue for a long time even after the introduction of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) in 1999 since the issue has not been properly tackled by the Act. …”
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Yam contributes to improvement of glucose metabolism in rats by Hashimoto, Naoto, Noda, Takahiro, Kim, Sun-Ju, Sarker, Md. Zaidul Islam, Yamauchi, Hiroaki, Takigawa, Shigenobu, Matsuura-Endo, Chie, Suzuki, Tatsuro, Han, Kyu-Ho, Fukushima, Michihiro

“…Insulin levels at 30 min and 60 min were significantly lower than those in the control group. In a long-term experiment, a normal diet (N) or 25% high fat diets with (Y) or without 15% yam powder (HF) were given to rats for 4 weeks. …”
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Santal religiosity and the impact of conversion : a staggering situation in socio-cultural development by Karim, A.H.M Zehadul

“…Traditionally speaking, the Santals had long been following their own religion which is certainly dissimilar from the Hindus or any other religious groups of South Asian communities. …”
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Fast handover algorithm for hierarchical mobile IPv6 macro-mobility management by Vivaldi, Indra, Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi, Mohd Ali, Borhanuddin, V., Prakash

“…Mobile lh.6 (MIPv6) has some limitations due to long delays and signaling load during handover operation. …”
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Measuring students’ perception towards university selection: an empirical investigation on Malaysian postgraduate students by Sarwar, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Ismail, Ahmad Zaki

“…To end with, this study has suggested that, on perception, a proper policy may go a long way to increase the quality of teaching with the improvement of other related facilities that will help the university in attracting new students in the future.…”
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Voluntary sustainability disclosure, revenue, and shareholders wealth- a perspective from Singaporean companies by Khaveh, Amir, Nikhashemi, Seyed Rajab, Yousefi, Abdolaziz, Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul

“…Companies started to perform in a way to minimize their negative and adverse impact on natural scarce resources, and practice some social-friendly activities in order to either build a shared value for long term purpose, and to gain customers and shareholders attention for short term purposes. …”
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Islamization of the Southeast Asia : the role of Turks by Kayadibi, Saim

“…Islamization of the region has to be taken into consideration for long term success. The past experience that Malaysia had, must be used. …”
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Environmental effects on free space earth-to-satellite optical link based on measurement data in Malaysia by Nor, Norhanis Aida M., Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed, Zabidi, Suriza Ahmad

“…The analysis will determine the operability of FSO for long distance and as a benchmark for future design.…”
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Empirical Investigation of Customers’ Perception and Adoption Towards Islamic Banking Services in Morocco by Echchabi, Abdelghani, Abd. Aziz, Hassanuddeen

“…On the other hand, the results have also shown that the Moroccan customers are willing to shift to Islamic banking services, with a slight preference of long run adoption i.e. three years and above. This study is one of the earliest to be conducted on customers’ perception and willingness to adopt Islamic banking services in Morocco. …”
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The international community’s intervention on Ethiopia and Eretria’s conflict by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…In the case of Ethiopia and Eritrea the military move by the international community had significantly ended a long held conflict and struggle through peaceful engagement and drafted binding arbitration.…”
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Sustaining creative technology entrepreneurship: the role of entrepreneurship development services at public universities in Malaysia by Mhd. Sarif, Suhaimi, Ismail, Yusof

“…In any economy, policies on social, political, technology and economics should encourage long term economic growth. As for dynamic economic situation, creative technology entrepreneurship becomes a feasible alternative. …”
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Students’ perceptions on teaching And learning of Arabic language for non-native speakers: A case study of Lagos State University, Nigeria by Ajape, Kazeem Oluwatoyin, Mamat, Arifin, Sheikh Ahmad, Ismail, Ahmed Mohamed, Ismaiel Hassanein

“…It is hoped that this recommendation will go a long way in helping the curriculum designers of Arabic language in non-Arabic countries including South-East Asia to design an effective curriculum for the teaching of Arabic language for non-native speakers.…”
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Teachers’ perception towards total quality management practices in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions by Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Sarwar, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Yasmin, Farzana

“…Though, adoption of TQM in the higher educational institu-tions is of common practice in the Western world, however, the history of TQM adoption in the Malay-sian higher educational institutions is not very long. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing the level of TQM practices in the Malaysian higher learning institutions based on the teacher’s perceptions. …”
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Flocculation behaviour of colloidal suspension by use of inorganic and polymer flocculants in powder form by Kadooka, Hiroto, Kiso, Yukari, Tanaka, Takanori, Jami, Mohammed Saedi, Iwata, Masashi

“…It has been found that a dry powder flocculant mixture composed of inorganic flocculant, polymer flocculant and flocculation aid shows high reproducibility of turbidity removal as long as it contains an adequate amount of flocculation aid. …”
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Adopting a no-fault compensation scheme for motor vehicle accidents in Malaysia: a myth or reality by Amin, Naemah, Nicholson, Charles

“…In focusing on negligence and causation as the foundation of liability, the adversarial system of the law has been strongly criticized as, failing to provide fitting and timely compensation, requiring injured claimants to go through difficult, stressful and long, drawn out litigation procedures coupled with significant legal fees and administrative costs. …”
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Predictors to employees with disabilities’ organisational behaviour and involvement in employment by Wok, Saodah, Hashim, Junaidah

“…Practical implications – Job design, organisational climate and comfortable work environment have long been recognised for motivating employees’ performance (Hackman et al., 1975; Garg and Rastogi, 2006). …”
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Promoting Islam through research and publication: theses and journals by El-Mesawi, Mohamed El-Tahir

“…Therefore, concerning the first component, the chapter will cover a long time span since the first postgraduate programme was launched. …”
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Lightweight inter-cluster synchronization scheme for femtocell network by Hasb Alla, Omnya Abdel Rahman, A. Saeed, Rashid, Hassan, Kamarul, Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha, Abdullah, Khaizuran

“…But this strategy is not fully covered in all situations if there has no Mobile Station for a long time in any of fBS network and make network overhead by generating the message flooding for a big adjacent network. …”
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