Enhancing construction site performance through technology and management practices as material waste mitigation in the Malaysian construction industry by Mohammed Abdullah Abkar, Mahdi, Yunus, Riduan, Gamil, Yaser, Albaom, Mohammed Abdo

“…Furthermore, the qualitative aspect of the study, conducted among 6 solid waste organizations in Malaysia, enriches the findings by providing nuanced insights into local practices and challenges. …”
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Benefits and challenges of implementing green building development in Nigeria by Abdulsalam, Rufai Salihu, Chan, Melissa, Masrom, Md. Asrul Nasid, Nawawi, Abdul Hadi

“…Findings – Results show that “conservation of natural resources”, “reducing maintenance” and “heightened aesthetic” were rated higher as environmental, economic and social benefits, and thus were significant to green building development. …”
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Solar water heating system in libyan buildings by Ali Almukhtar, Isa

“…However, the factors that hinder of solar water heating system in Libya were lack of consultant's initiatives, lack of financial commitment, and lack of commitment design team, lack of government interest to promote solar water heating system and high tax on solar energy by government. The result of this finding implicate that the construction industry in Libya need to improve its approach in using solar water heating system by understanding its current practices and finding ways to solve of the factors that hinder.…”
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The role of problem-based learning in developing communication conflict resolving skills among selected non-government organisations in Pakistan by Deep, Sadia

“…The result shows the substantial role of PBL in developing conflict resolving skills and other essential soft skills among employees as a whole. The finding concludes that PBL plays an instrumental and effective role towards improving the various soft skills and traits including among employees of an NGO sector.…”
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Development of basic quantity surveying learning module through 21st century learning activity by Abd Hafidz, Annis Surraiyya, Mohamad, Mimi Mohaffyza

“…Through the analysis of the findings, the Basic Quantity Surveying Module Through The 21st Century Learning Activities has high content validity.…”
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A survey on the educational tour planning among the studentsof diploma in tourism management in the polytechnic by Jaafar, Norasmah

“…The findings also shows a slight different between the respondents who are using the ETP Guidebook and those who are not in the basis of their ETP results. …”
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Sustainability-oriented application of value stream mapping: a review and classification by Yin Lee, Jocelyn Ke, Gholami, Hamed, Mat Saman, Muhamad Zameri, Ngadiman, Nor Hasrul Akhmal, Zakuan, Norhayati, Mahmood, Salwa, Omain, Siti Zaleha

“…Hence, this paper has been aimed at presenting the findings of a systematic literature review on value stream mapping from the triple bottom line point of view. …”
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Blue ocean strategy on service quality in Islamic Banking Sector in Johor by Ja'afar, Ishaq

“…The data collected were analyzed with the help of statistical package for social science (SPSS). The findings show a high level of service delivery among Islamic banks, with the CARTER model seen as an important dimension by their respective customers in Malaysian Islamic banks. …”
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Integration of building information modelling (BIM) with materials management in construction project by Fayed Mogalli, Ali Hussein

“…The data were collected and analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21.0. The findings showed that, most of respondents agreed that lack of awareness, unavailability of data formats, lack of introducing and lack of understanding of BIM as challenges of BIM integration with materials management in construction project. …”
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Tagging web images for blind users. by Misman, Ahmad Fatzilah, Blanchfield, Peter

“…An effective and appropriate auto image tagger may consider this v…”
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Design of a high gain & ultra wideband microstrip array antenna for avalanche radar by Mohd. Isa, Farah Nadia, Paul V., Brennan

“…This paper presents the design and construction of a microstrip array antenna operating at 5.3 GHz, to be used as an avalanche sensor in avalanche measurement. …”
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The development of a forward masking model using neural networks and its application to speech enhancement by Gunawan, Teddy Surya, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Ambikairajah, Eliathamby

“…Objective measures using PESQ demonstrates that our proposed forward masking model, provides significant improvements (5-15 %) over four existing models, when tested with speech signals corrupted by various noises at very low signal to noise ratios. …”
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Histological evaluation of the early bone response to hydroxyapatite (HA) implanted in rabbit tibia by Khalid, Khadijah, Masri, Mashita, Saidu, Mohd Fharid, Fazan, Fazilah, Khalid, Kamarul Ariffin

“…HA cylindrical blocks measuring 2.5 mm (D) x 1.0 mm (H) were implanted in the rabbits' left tibia. …”
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Macrobenthic community at nesting grounds of horseshoe crabs (Tachypleus gigas and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) at Pahang Coast, Malaysia by John, Akbar, Seth, Sihin, Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal, Yunus, Kamaruzzaman

“…Macrobenthos consists of the organisms that live at the bottom of the water column and are visible to the naked eye (usually >0.5mm in size) 2.About 80% of the benthic organisms are Epifauna that are living on or are attached to the surface of rocky areas or firm sediments play an important role in ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling, pollutant metabolism, dispersion and burial, and in secondary production 3.Macro invertebrate species offers a spectrum of responses to environmental stresses and a broad range of responses to different pollutants 4.The food preferences of horseshoe crabs are well studied from the wild environment while the similar studies are still scanty along their nesting ground…”
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Effects of supercritical carbon dioxide extraction parameters on virgin coconut oil yield and medium-chain triglyceride content by Nik Ab Rahman, Nik Norulaini, Setianto, Wahyu, Sarker, Md. Zaidul Islam, A. H., Nawi, C. Y. M., Azizi, Abd Kadir, Mohd Omar

“…The extractions were performed at pressure and temperature ranges of 20.7–34.5 MPa and 40–80 �C, respectively. It was observed that almost all (more than 99%) of the total oil could be extracted. …”
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K-Means approach to facial expressions recognition by Zeki, Ahmed M., Serda Ali, Ruzanna, Appalasamy, Patma

“…The method was applied and tested on a dataset of 200 images of faces and the success rate obtained was 76.5%.…”
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Coconut waste biodiesel: Comparison of acid and alkaline catalyst by Sulaiman, Sarina, Abdul Raman , Abdul Aziz, Aroua, Mohammed Kheireddin

“…The highest yield, 90% is achieved with 5 wt% of KOH within 3 hr by mixing raw material and methanol. …”
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Development of new media formulation for the improvement of recombinant protein expression in E.Coli by Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah, Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun, Nuge, Tamrin

“…In this study a series of statistical optimization involves screening, classical optimization (OFAT) and response surface methodology (RSM) is employed to develop an optimum media for bacteria growth. E. coli DH5 harboring phytase gene from Mycobacterium smegmatis is used as a model to develop the modified growth media. …”
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2-[1-(2-Hydroxy-3-methoxybenzyl)-1H-benzimidazol-2-yl]-6-methoxyphenol methanol 1.13-solvate by Al-Douh, Mohammed H., Osman, Hasnah, Abd Hamid, Shafida, Kia, Reza, Fun, Hoong-Kun

“…The solvent molecules are disordered between three positions, with refined occupancies of 0.506 (13), 0.373 (13) and 0.249 (5). The crystal structure is stabilized by intermolecular O-HO, O-HN and C-HO hydrogen bonds. …”
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Tunable spacing of O-band Multiwavelength Brillouin fiber laser by Norizan, Siti Fatimah, Zulkifli, Mohd Zamani

“…A full closed linear cavity produce multiwavelength Brillouin fiber laser with 12.5GHz meanwhile a ring cavity provide channel spacing of 25.0 GHz. …”
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