After COVID-19: time to agree a biosecurity code of conduct under the biological and toxin weapons convention (book chapter) by Whitby, Simon, Tang, Cheng, Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

“…The devastating COVID-19 disease outbreak in early 2020 is likely to cause a major rethink about the dangers of natural, accidental and deliberate disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants when the outbreak is eventually brought under control. …”

Get your facts right: preschoolers systematically extend both object names and category-relevant facts by Holland, Amanda, Mather, Emily, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…At test, children provided with the object name or category-relevant fact were significantly more likely to display systematic category extension than children who learnt the category-irrelevant fact. …”
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The Radio Garden: private pleasures and public benefits by Lewis, Peter M., Mitchell, Caroliine

“…With a touch of the screen Radio Garden offers an escape from the bubble of ‘likes’ to new musical and linguistic encounters, geographical difference and distance, perhaps even an escape from the bubble of nationality. …”
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The impact of Covid-19 on struggling ethnic minority entrepreneurs’ business strategy: the case of Bangladeshi curry houses in the United Kingdom by Razzak, B. M., Idris, Bochra, Hasan, Rahaman, Saridakis, George, Hansen, Jared M.

“…Originality/value: The results indicates that the ethnic minority owned SMEs are less likely to plan for the future operations; furthermore, they tend not to have formulated a strategy for dealing with an external shock hence affecting and threatening their performance and competitiveness in the marketplace.…”

Methodological implications of participant and researcher multilingualism: making language dynamics visible by Rolland, Louise, King, Hannah M., Lorette, Pernelle

“…This special issue (SI) brings together seven contributions which discuss the methodological implications of researching in a multilingual world, where researchers and/or research participants are likely to know more than one language. The papers examine the relationship between researchers’ language ideologies and actual practices with multilingual participants, teams or projects, from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. …”
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UK Vietnamese Businesses: Cultural Influences and Intra-cultural Differences by Bagwell, Sue

“…In particular 2nd generation and recent immigrants were less likely to adopt traditional collectivist approaches to the running of their business compared with the first generation, but their business practice was still often influenced by strong family loyalties. …”
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A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development by Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Yaseen, Mustapha, Aida, Shah, Muhammad Arif, Ibrahim, Noraini

“…Software for large enterprises such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) is more likely to be developed by a team of software developers where the functional requirements (FRs) are distributed in parallel developers. …”
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The Efficacy of Students‟ Knowledge Construction Process in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Environment: A Malaysian View by Hashim, Suhaizal, Masek, Alias, Mohamed Zahir, Nur Zahira, Khamis, Nurhani

“…However, efforts to digitise education usually encounter two major issues: first, the applications developed are more likely to emphasise the qualities of graphics and animations; second, the multimedia presentation highlighted in the application is a stereotype that causes users to become bored. …”
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A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development by Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Yaseen, Mustapha, Aida, Muhammad Arif Shah, Muhammad Arif Shah, Ibrahim, Noraini

“…Software for large enterprises such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) is more likely to be developed by a team of software developers where the functional requirements (FRs) are distributed in parallel developers. …”
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Pigment production by New Zealand microbes: screening and industrial application by Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim, Roberts, Kelly, Lewis, Gillian, Greenwood, Dave, Villas-Bôas, Silas

“…Development of microbial food grade pigments are likely to cut down the high production cost of natural pigments, thus leading to a cheaper source of natural food colorants among the modern consumers. …”
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Pigment stability studies in selected pigment-producing microbes from New Zealand environment by Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim, Lewis, Gillian, Greenwood, David R., Villas-Bôas, Silas

“…Development of microbial food grade pigments are likely to cut down the high production cost of natural colours, thus leading to a cheaper source of natural food colourants among the modern consumers. …”
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Factors influencing smoking behaviours among male adolescents in Kuantan district by Mohd Yassin, Rapeah, Yaacob, Munirah, Othman, Latifah, K, Faizah, S, Norsimah, M, Maryana, Saub, Roslan

“…Students whose parents had lower level of occupation were more likely to smoke (58.8%). Among smokers, 34.5% of them smoked since primary school and a majority (91.7%) smoked 10 or less cigarettes per day. …”
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Ramsar convention and convention on biological diversity as mechanism for promoting biodiversity conservation of Malaysia wetlands by Ansari, Abdul Haseeb, Jariah, I, Ibrahim, Irini, Ismail, I

“…Parties must also identify the important components of biodiversity for its conservation, and sustainable use, monitor such components, and categorize activities that are likely to have significant adverse impacts on biodiversity. …”
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Bioprospecting and economical source of chitin and chitosan: the sword shrimp udang minyak (Parapenaeopsis hardwickii) Malaysia by Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal, Darnis, Deny Susanti, Husna, Suffi Nurul

“…These samples were chosen as they were most abundant and well-liked shell fishes among the sea foods and locally available in the coastal areas of Malaysia. …”
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Will graduating year accountancy students cheat in examination? a Malaysian case by Abu Bakar, Nur Barizah, Ismail, Suhaiza, Mamat, Suaniza

“…Results also reveal that students with good academic achievement were less likely to cheat in exam. Furthermore, a larger proportion of male students as compared to female tend to behave unethically. …”
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Logical-linguistic semantic in search engine by Tengku Sembok, Tengku Mohd, Noordin, Mohamad Fauzan, Othman, Roslina, Abdul Kadir, Rabiah

“…Most of the search engines, with Google on the top, able to retrieve most likely relevant information based on a query. But not capable of providing answer to a question due to lack of deduction capability. …”
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Kinetics of cadmium adsorption by CNTs grown on PACs by Al-Mamun, Abdullah, Al-Saadi, Mohammed A., Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Sopyan, Iis

“…The adsorption process was found more likely to follow Freundlich model with R2 value of 0.961, Kf of 9.215 and n of 3.015. …”
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The association between sleep apnea and young adult with hypertension: a case-control study in Malaysia by Asha'ari, Zamzil Amin, Hasmoni, Mohamed Hadzri, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Yusof, Rosnida Azura, Raja Lope Ahmad, Raja Ahmad Al'konee

“…Although adjustments for the compounding factors, particularly BMI, decreased the OR to a large degree, subjects with severe sleep apnea were still 72% more likely to have hypertension than subjects without sleep apnea (Table 1). …”
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Logical-linguistic semantic in search engine by Tengku Sembok, Tengku Mohd, Noordin, Mohamad Fauzan, Othman, Roslina, Abdul Kadir, Rabiah

“…Most of the search engines, with Google on the top, able to retrieve most likely relevant information based on a query. But not capable of providing answer to a question due to lack of deduction capability. …”
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The challenges of energy efficiency practice in the Nigerian households by Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita, Hussaini, Ibrahim Udale

“…Thus, the emergence of the ‘behavioral approach’ is likely to complete the links towards the desired energy efficiency. …”
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