Anti-social behaviour: local perception and reporting behaviour in a small urban location by Venables, Lucie Mary

“…Those with a disability or long term illness were significantly more likely to report anti-social behaviour. …”
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Dose and duration of opioid use in patients with cancer andn non-cancer pain at an outpatient hospital setting in Malaysia: A retrospective cross sectional study by Zin, Che Suraya, Abdul Rahman, Norny Syafinaz, Ismail, Che Rokiah, Leong, Weng Choy

“…Conclusions: The finding from this study showed that 42% of opioid users at an outpatient hospital setting in Malaysia received opioids for non-cancer pain and 21.8% of these users were prescribed opioid for long term. Oxycodone was the highest prescribed and the majority was for non-cancer pain followed by morphine which was used more frequently for cancer pain. …”
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Effect of tapered angle of a conical nose indenter on the energy absorbing variation of a copper pipe subjected to axial crushing by Shah, Qasim Hussain, ., Hanis Naily, ., Nur Syuhada

“…In the present research work a 100 mm long copper pipe segment with a 1 mm wall thickness is subjected to a drop weight impact by a conical shaped steel indenter with varying nose angles but constant mass. …”
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Enhanced four-wave mixing efficiency of BI-EDF in a new ring configuration for determination of nonlinear parameters by Shahi, S., Harun, S. W., Lim, K. S., Naji, Ahmed Wathik, Ahmad, H.

“…By employing this method, the nonlinear parameter of γ and nonlinear index coefficient of n2 for the 215 cm long Bi-EDF are estimated to be 59.16 (W-1 km-1) and 4.40 × 10-19 (m2/W) respectively at 1612 nm. n2 value per effective area Aeff is estimated to be 1.51 × 10-8 (W-1). …”
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The role of bank loans and deposits in the monetary transmission mechanism in Malaysia by Kassim, Salina, Abdul Majid, M. Shabri

“…To achieve this objective, the study relies on two tests: fi rst, the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) model for the long-run relationship among the variables and second, the impulse response functions and variance decomposition analysis for the short-run relationship among the variables. …”
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Perceiving the Demographic Profile and the Perception of the Chinese and Malays Visitors to Pulau Kukup National Park by Mohd. Yaman, Maheran, Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Ismail Azlan

“…The wetland also supports such species as the Flying Fox Pteropus vampyrus, Smooth Otter Lutra perspicillata, Bearded Pig Sus barbatus, Long-tailed Macaque Macaca fascicularis, Pulau Kukup plays a vital role as one of the world’s most important wetland habitats; it is home to many rare and endangered species. …”
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The paradox struggle between the Islamic and conventional banking systems by Muneeza, Aishath, Wisham, Ismail, Hassan, Rusni

“…Today, the Islamic Banking system which emerged in 1983 has levelled up to the conventional banking system which had rooted itself in the society a long time ago. Whether we believe it or not there are challenges and clashes at hand due to the existence of the dual system in the society and they need to be addressed properly, so that the clashes between these two types of banking system can be minimized. …”
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Enzymatic hydrolysis of oil palm empty fruit bunch using immobilized cellulase enzyme by Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid, Mohammed Abd, Rasha, Alam, Md Zahangir, Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah

“…Using the immobilized form of the enzyme, it was found that the reducing sugar concentration was increased and the enzymatic hydrolysis of oil palm empty fruit bunch was enhanced greatly over long time of hydrolysis.…”
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Enzymatic hydrolysis of oil palm empty fruit bunch using immobilized cellulase enzyme by Mohammed Abd., Rasha, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah

“…Using the immobilized form of the enzyme, it was found that the reducing sugar concentration was increased and the enzymatic hydrolysis of Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch was enhanced greatly over long time of hydrolysis.…”
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Effective hospital management practice for meeting customers' needs and expectations by Wan Su, Kamaruzaman

“…Will he be safe and not lost in the compound of the hospital? How long he will wait to see the doctor and to take medications? …”
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Cross-layer design and performance analysis of TDMA-based backhaul network by Saeed, Rashid Abdelhaleem, Mohd Yusof, Zulkarnain, Musa, Anuar

“…These amendments were important due to the shortcomings of WiFi over long distances under the power constraints. This paper proposes a new 802.11 point-to-multipoint (PMP) technique based on TDD/TDMA technique, this by using one of the access points in the system as centralized/gateway point to the others APs. …”
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Potential diversification benefits across global Islamic equity markets by Abd. Majid, M. Shabri, Kassim, Salina

“…It also attempts to empirically explore the nature of the long-run equilibrium relationship among the major Islamic stock indexes and to examine the dynamic causal linkages among them. …”
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Intelligent public transport guide system for Kuala Lumpur by Ayu, Media Anugerah, Jamil, Mohd Faisal

“…The Journey Planner system is a web based system which allow any user to access it anywhere as long as internet connection is there. This will be convenient to the user and they are able to plan their journey before they actually arrive at public transport station. …”
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European crises and Islamic solutions by Alqawasmeh, Feras, Abdiaided, Fuad, Fatah, Abubaker, Kayadibi, Saim

“…It is a reality that European countries have been experiencing a very difficult financial clises that make their economy collapsible . After spending long time of analyzing, the Europe countries economy , scholars have found that one of most challengeable factors that led to have such CI1ses is applying the capitalism economy system which they finally realized that it is unjust system .After testing the Islamic economy and Islamic banking system , European scholars declared that it is the most fair and suitable system for all people . …”
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An overview of scalable video streaming by Abumuala, Mohammed, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha

“…However, full file transfer in the download mode usually suffers long and perhaps unacceptable transfer time. Internet's transmission resources exhibit variability at multiple time-scales, and the available bandwidth fluctuates over a broad range because of the wide distribution of packet loss burst duration, changes in bottleneck capacity, and multiple time-scale queuingtime variation. …”
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Prospects and problems of cognitive radio network architectures in wireless sensor networks by Salami, Abdulazeez F., Hussaini, Mukhtar, Anwar, Farhat, Bello-Salau, Habeeb

“…An alternative cognitive radio scheme is to transmit signals on top of existing transmissions as long as the interference temperature measure is lower than threshold. …”
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A secure key distribution protocol based on hash functions and a quantum-authenticated channel using 6DP (KDP-6DP) by Al-Khateeb, Khalid A. Saeed, Abdul Majeed, Mohammed Munther, Ridza, Mohamed, Saeb, Magdy M.

“…Then, a selected hash or a cascade of two hash functions and a long-term shared secret are used to construct the key. …”
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The study of school-in-hospital for children with medical needs in Malaysia by Mat So’od , Noor Fatehah, Abdullah, Fadzidah

“…This study aims to investigate measure of preventing hospitalized children from lagging behind in their studies while undergoing long treatment in hospitals. This issue must be addressed while the children are under treatments, as it influences the children’s academic future. …”
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Biophilia: residents' connection with green infrustructure in a town by Mansor, Mazlina

“…Human's inherent affiliation with the natural environment or Biophilia has been long hypotesised. The paper draws the findings of a case study exploration on the connection between residents with green infrastructure in Taiping, a small colonial town in Peninsular Malaysia. …”
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The teaching of ethics at KOE, IIUM by Kabbashi, Nassereldeen Ahmed, Shuriye, Abdi Omar, Faris, Waleed Fekry

“…It begins by stressing that ethics cannot be separated from morality and Islamic attitudes and that the training of an ethical engineer is a long integrated involved and continuous process throughout the engineering course and not just teaching of ethical guidelines and rules. …”
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