A reflection of integrated multi-disciplinary course in built environment by Abdullah, Fadzidah, Azmin, Aida Kesuma

“…Architectural education has been accused to focus too much on aesthetic values that only prepares graduates to be designers, rather than proficient architects. To be proficient architects, graduates are also required to gain the skill of monitoring and working collaboratively with many parties; such as quantity surveyors, landscape architects, planners, and engineers. …”
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Rain fade estimations for the X-Band satellite communication link in the tropics by Nuroddin, Amirah, Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil, Abdullah, Khaizuran, Badron, Khairayu, Ismail , Maszlan, Hashim, Wahidah

“…However, there are many aspects of X-band that are harder to realize than of those of at lower frequencies. X-band frequencies certainly have higher atmospheric propagation losses, higher RF losses, and certainly much severe signal degradation due to rain. …”
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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

“…The analytical results show that synchronization accuracy can be achieved up to 60% higher than MS-Assisted Receiver-Receiver time synchronization strategy for femtocells.…”
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Stress, anxiety and depressive levels among Mothers of ADHD children and their relationships with ADHD symptoms by Musa, Ramli, Shafiee, Zasmani

“…ADHD children displayed difficult behaviors in almost all CBCL subscales than asthmatic children. Externalizing behavior caused significant anxiety, depressive and stress levels (p<0.05), whereas internalizing behaviors caused significant in stress level but not to anxiety and depressive levels. …”
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Assessing the quality of green open spaces: a review by Abdul Malek, Nurhayati, Mariapan, Manohar, Mohd Shariff, Mustafa Kamal, Aziz, Azlizam

“…The fundamentals of urban open space management suggest that a thoughtfully implemented urban development should include more than just great buildings. It should include parks and open spaces because both buildings and open spaces benefit from each other through the quality of each space. …”
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Speciation of mercury in environmental water samples with seasonal change. by Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Mohd Yusof, Alias

“…The absolute detection limits were found to be 0.204 μg L-1 and 0.273 μg L-1 for total mercury and methyl mercury respectively, with thevariability being lower than 5% relative standard deviation (RSD) at the 5 μg L-1 level. …”
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Adsorption of some toxic elements from water samples on modified activated carbon, activated carbon and red soil using neutron activation analysis by Mohd Yusof, Alias, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Wood, Abdul Khalid

“…The results obtained showed good agreement with certified values giving relative errors of less than 10%.…”
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The objective of islamic economic and islamic banking in light of maqasid al-shari’ah by Mustafa Omar, Mohammed, Syahidawati , Shahwan

“…However, it is also found that the objectives of Islamic banks mostly aimed towards profit-oriented entity rather than social-based entity. Thus, it is suggested that Islamic banks’ objectives should promote the objectives of Islamic economics thus inculcating as well Maqasid al-Shari’ah in its holistic direction.…”
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Developing Islamic banking performance measures based on Maqasid al-shari’ah framework: cases of 24 selected banks' by Mustafa Omar, Mohammed, Md. Taib, Fauziah

“…Mann-Whitney U-Test results show IBs faring well in their performances when measured using the PMMS model than when they are measured using the conventional banking performance yardstick. …”
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EMG based classification for continuous thumb angle and force prediction by Siddiqi, Abdul Rahman, Sidek, Shahrul Na'im, Roslan, Muhammad Rozaidi

“…Breaking away from previous researches, the frequency-domain features performed better than the timedomain features, with the best feature combination turning out to be MDF-MNF-MNP. …”
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GAMMA shaped monopole patch antenna for tablet PC by Islam, Md Rafiqul, Mohammad Shawkat, Habib, Abdullah, Khaizuran

“…The Gamma shape monopole is derived by modification from the original T shaped monopole and the first three resonant frequencies are found to be well improved than the T shaped one. The typical frequencies at 789.5 MHz, 988.1 MHz, 2.088 GHz and 2.376 GHz are having peak gain of 2.94 dBi, 2.11 dBi, 5.81 dBi, 4.84 dBi and radiation efficiencies of 95.57 %, 87.32 %, 96.67 % and 95.36 %, respectively. …”
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Development of an immobilized biocatalyst with lipase and protease activities as a multipurpose cross-linked enzyme aggregate (multi-CLEA) by Mahmod, Safa Senan, Yusof, Faridah, Jami, Mohammed Saedi, Khanahmadi, Soofia

“…Multi-CLEAs were found to retain an average of more than 34% of the initial activity after five consecutive batches for both enzymes. …”
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Selection of potentially optimized trypsin variant with a more hydrophobic cluster active site via a phage display approach by Abdul Kudos, Muhammad Badri, Gissel, Sabrina, Bordusa, Frank

“…The objective of this study is to identify trypsin variants with a more hydrophobic cluster around its active site, potentially yielding higher peptide synthesis products rather than its hydrolysis competitive counterpart. A trypsin variant library displayed by phages with randomization in 5 amino acids located around the active site of the trypsin variant K60E/N143H/E151H/D189K is selected based on a designed immobilization-elution-assay in regard the transamidation reaction model. …”
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Internal mammary perforators as recipient vessels for deep inferior epigastric perforator and muscle-sparing free transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flap breast reconstru... by Halim, Ahmad Sukari, Ahmad Alwi, Akmal Azim

“…There were significantly more usable IMP vessels in the immediate than in the delayed reconstructions (p=0.049). All the flaps in the study were successful despite one requiring emergency reexploration due to venous congestion. …”
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Core/clad phosphate glass fibres containing iron and/or titanium by Ahmed, Ifty, Shaharuddin, Sharifah Imihezri, Sharmin, N., Furniss, D., Rudd, C.

“…The average cladding annular thickness was estimated to be less than 2 µm. Annealed core/clad fibres were degraded in PBS for a period of 27 days. …”
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The presumption of death: a comparative appraisal from the perspective of the common law, Malaysian law and shariah by Shair Mohamad, Mohd Akram, Ramlee Saad, Zulfakar

“…Shariah law too recognises the concept of presumption of death but wisely it is not stuck with the common law and Evidence Act notion of not less than seven years. Interestingly, it has followed the earlier view of four years period. …”
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A survey on vocabulary learning strategies employed by ESL learners by Esa, Zaleha, Zakaria, Zarina Ashikin

“…Many languages teachersthink that vocabulary cab be left on its own and does not need to be taught perhaps due to several reasons such as grammar should be emphasized more than vocabulary students would make mistakes in sentence construction if too many words were learned before basic grammar has been mastered, and word meanings can be learned through experience and cannot be taught in the class room. …”
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Training Malaysian pharmacy undergraduates with knowledge and skills on smoking cessation by Simansalam , Saraswathi, Brewster, Joan M., Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki

“…All third-year students completed the intervention, and 66.7% were able to counsel excel- lently for smoking cessation, scoring more than 80%. The CSCSP online module developed for practicing professionals was found suitable for equipping pharmacy undergraduates with knowledge on smoking cessation topics. …”
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Enhanced settleability and dewaterability of fungal treated domestic wastewater sludge by liquid state bioconversion process by Alam, Md. Zahangir, Fakhru’l-Razi, Ahmadun

“…The settling rate (measured as total suspended solids (TSS) concentration, 130 mg/l) was faster in treated sludge than untreated sludge (TSS concentration, 440 mg/l) after 1 min of settling time. …”
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Use of fungi to improve bioconversion of activated sludge by Mannan, Sarkar, Fakhru’l-Razi, A., Alam, Md. Zahangir

“…In particular, the strain Penicillium had a more significant capability (than A. niger) of reducing 93.20% of SRF compared to the uninoculated sample. …”
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