The misuse of drugs in Malaysia: past and present by Kamarudin, Abdul Rani

“…It also explains the origin of their usage in Malaysia up to a stage when it became cancerous to the country, requiring the government to take drastic measures to combat them. …”
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Misteri jed rahsia by Nazir, Faridah

“…The defense was found accidentally in the forest when Busu cut down the logs. Busu accepted the defense in the hope that he could protect himself and his children. …”
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Essay on sejahtera: concept, principle and practice by Abdul Razak, Dzulkifli

“…For example, in the 2019 Budget, sejahtera was used to convey an aspect of socio-economic wellbeing of Malaysians, which in Malay reads as memastikan kesejahteraan rakyat. but fall short when confined only to "socio-economic" aspect. Sejahtera is a rather multilayered concept that conveys a deeper meaning than any single word can convey. …”
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Drawing as a Way of Knowing: Visual Practices as the Route to Becoming Academic by Abegglen, Sandra, Burns, Tom, Sinfield, Sandra

“…This case study illustrates what happened when we took a playful approach in a first year undergraduate academic skills module and a graduate Facilitating Student Learning module asking our students to “draw to learn.” …”
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Unlocking potential : harnessing the pedagogical benefits of e-learning by Cook, John

“…This paper outlines the emerging literature that appears to confirm that when e-learning in used in a pedagogically effective way it can have a positive impact across a range of indicators like retention and attainment, and explores the history of innovation in learning and teaching at London Metropolitan University, and the current opportunities offered by e-learning.…”
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Book review : Everyday Law in Russia by Kathryn Hendley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. 285 pp. ISBN: 9781501705243 by Stephenson, Svetlana

“…She is interested in how Russians engage with the legal system and whether the disdain, so often expressed for the courts, is matched by the reality of the people's behaviour when defending their legal rights.…”

Student performance and the electronic portfolio in WEBLEARN : an analysis of students use of online reflective diaries by Lunt, Tom

“…In particular, it aims to analyse the quality of student reflective entries in those online diaries when compared with the quality of reflective entries made by students using other ('offline') diary forms. …”
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The “T” Process: triangulating personal learning by Griffiths, Dave

“…The specific technique, it is suggested, may be usefully employed in a wide variety of contexts where individuals are required – formally or informally – to articulate experiential learning in oral or written form and when employed in an assessment context, for example as a precursor to RPL (“Recognition of Prior Learning) applications, the technique becomes assessment ‘as learning’ (Earl, 2003)…”
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Geometric method for global stability and repulsion in Kolmogorov systems by Hou, Zhanyuan

“…A class of autonomous Kolmogorov systems that are dissipative and competitive with the origin as a repellor are considered when each nullcline surface is either concave or convex. …”
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Remedies for human rights violations in Chechnya : the approach of the European Court in context by Koroteev, Kirill

“…This article discusses human rights violations in Chechnya. When the armed conflict in Chechnya - officially called a 'counter-terrorist operation' - commenced in 1999, extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate bombardment, torture and disappearances were committed by Russian forces on a large scale. …”
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Wind-up radio, 1992, UK/South Africa by Oropallo, Gabriele

“…The inventor Trevor Baylis, who conceived it in 1991, had already developed a series of products for disabled people called Orange Aids (1985) when he began work on a human-powered radio. The story of the development of the device is one of fruitful interplay between seemingly antithetical categories such as low-tech and high-tech, developed and developing world, and philanthropy and venture capitalism.…”
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The writing social: identifying with academic writing practices amongst undergraduate students by Davenport, Emma

“…Students are perceived as having a learning deficit when it comes to academic writing. It is assumed that they cannot write, rather than understanding that it is because they are struggling to learn how to write (Murray, 2015; Mitchell and Evison, 2006) within multiple learning contexts: module assessment, course discipline, level of study, academic success. …”
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On cohomologies and representations of groups with normal Engel subgroups by Kissin, Edward, Shulman, Victor

“…The paper studies triviality conditions for the cohomology group H1(G; lambda;U) when lambda and U are sectionally spectrally disjoint and examines some decompositions of the extension e(lambda; U; ksi) of lambda by U associated with non-trivial (lambda; U)-cocycles ksi.…”
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European sovereignty between autonomy and dependence: a guide for EU policy by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…This brief argues that European sovereignty (and related concepts such as strategic autonomy) is still an important and necessary guide for EU policy, but only if it is dissociated from some of the excessive and overambitious definitions given to the concept when it was first developed.…”
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Field Notes - Make good: rethinking material futures by Fereday, George

“…Field Notes considered the importance of diverse thinking when envisioning sustainable futures, it also discussed issues of land use and ownership; and questions of access and inclusion. …”

Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality by Alexander, James

“…The study considers the emergence of drill music, county lines and the lowering of the threshold of when weapons are used to explore the isolated social environments so many young people find themselves in. …”
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A review of impact climate change on food security by Abdullah, Nor Maizzaty, Mohd Arish, Nur Aini, Hamidon, Nuramidah, Hashim, Nor Haslina, Ali, Roslinda, ., Ain Nadhirah, ., Nafratiti Najiha

“…Climate change is long-term alteration of temperature that cause the patterns of weather is less predictable. When the weather cannot be unexpected, it is difficult to maintain the crops. …”
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Characterisation of pectins extracted from different parts of Malaysian durian rinds by Jong, Sze Hui, Abdullah, Norazlin, Muhammad, Norhayati

“…Particularly, this information can be useful when preparing durian rinds for pectin extraction.…”
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Parameter optimization of metal injection moulding: a review by Prathabrao, M, Ibrahim, M H I, M Amin, Sri Yulis, Othman, M H

“…Taguchi method can also be applied for optimal design configurations when significant interactions exist between and among the controlled variables. …”
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Robust data assimilation in river flow and stage estimation based on multiple imputation particle filter by Ismail, Zool Hilmi, Jalaludin, Nor Anija

“…The simulation results of the MIPF demonstrated the superiority of the proposed approach when being compared to the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Particle Filter (PF).…”
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