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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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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Molecular genetic analysis of phosphatase and tensin homolog and p16 tumor suppressor genes in patients with malignant glioma by Abdullah, Jafri Malin, Zainuddin, Norafiza, Sulong, Sarina, Isa, Mohd. Nizam, Jaafar, Hasnan

“…These findings indicate that mutations of the PTEN genes were likely to contribute to the tumorigenesis and morphological transformations of gliomas. …”
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Identifying emergency nurses' knowledge on disaster management and its predictor factor by Ahayalimudin, Nurul'ain

“…Instead, EN who have attended disaster training showed it became a predictor factor (p< 0.01, AOR=3.807, 95% CI=1.584-9.153) where those who attended the disaster training is four times more likely to have ad equate knowledge in disaster management. …”
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Modeling petroleum future volatility: Analyzing asymmetry and persistency of shocks by Alom, Fardous, Bert, Ward, Baiding, Hu

“…Understanding the nature of volatility in commodity prices warrants adequate attention because such volatility is likely to lead to increased production, search and opportunity costs, as well as accelerate uncertainty and risk, contributing to a slowdown of economic activities. …”
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Comparing BRIN-BD11 culture producing insulin using different type of microcarriers by Mel, Maizirwan, Abdul Karim, Mohamed Ismail, Mohd Yusof, Siti Aishah, Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun, Ahmad Nor, Yusilawati

“…Therefore overall observation suggested that PPMCs was likely preferred to be used for BRIN-BD11 cell culture as compared with Hillex� II MCs.…”
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Scenic beauty preferences of Cameron Highlands Malaysia: local versus foreign tourists by Othman, Jamilah

“…The hypotheses stated that foreign tourists were more likely to agree on the effects of management practices on the scenic beauty preferences than were the local tourists. …”
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Intertrochanteric fracture fixation with dynamic hip screw: is tip-apex distance measurement useful for predicting fixation failure? by Goh, Kian Liang, Zakaria@Mohamad, Zamzuri, Sharifudin, Mohd Ariff, Mohamed Amin, Mohamed Azril

“…The mean post-operative TAD was 25.9mm and elderly patients were likely to achieve TAD of ≤ 25mm. The overall complication rate of 6% was attributed to screw cut-out in two cases. …”
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Attitude towards information privacy issues among students of IIUM by Mohamud, Ibrahim Kalif, Zeki, Akram M., Saidin, Aznan Zuhid

“…The continuous rapid development of ICT will continue to raise new ethical issues and students are likely to have little understanding of the ethical issues associated with using ICT. …”
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Drying of fruits and vegetables: The impact of different drying methods on product quality by Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam, Baradey, Y., Ismail, Ahmad Faris, Hrairi, Meftah

“…Preservation of fruits and vegetables is considered to be a very important step to match availability in agriculture sector and consumers’ utilization to keep it fresh and nutritional as long as possible, and to meet the demand for fast and instant products with high quality. Drying methods are likely to affect the physical, chemical, nutritional, and biological properties of fruits and vegetables. …”
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