Regeneration of the historic waterfront of world heritage sites in Malaysia – the case of Penang and Melaka by Shamsuddin, Shuhana, Sulaiman, Ahmad Bashri, Alias, Nor Syahida Alfath, Abdul Latip, Nurul Syala, Ujang, Norsidah, Chelliapan, Shreesivadan, Azlan, Nurul Azreen

“…Waterfront regeneration is gaining momentum in urban regeneration that many cities around the world needed to bring back the abandoned or underutilised inner city harbours as a place to work, live and play. …”
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The role of Irfan 'Abd al-Hamid Fattah in presenting a balanced picture of 'Ilm al-Kalam for the 21st century audience by Awang Abd. Rahman @ Jusoh, Amilah

“…An observation of available literatures will easily bring to the conclusion that kalam is about irreconcilable conflicts among its schools on fundamental problems. …”
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Educational excellence in the Islamic world : enhancing global quality and strategy planning by Berghout, Abdul Aziz

“…Hence, what is required at this stage of development of our institutions of higher education is clear and integrated framework that outlines the various aspects of global quality as an activity and process which aspires towards transforming institutions so as to attain the capabilities and strengths needed to bring home global quality as reality, culture, system and practices. …”
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Preliminary study on the agrotourism approach to sustain the local cultural landscape. A case study at Taman Warisan Pertanian Putrajaya by Mat Som, Mohd Shafiq, Mohd. Yaman, Maheran

“…This creates a new tourism activity called agrotourism in which the cultural landscape attracts people with agricultural-based operation or activities, i.e: that bring visitors to the farm and experience buying products from the farm stand, navigating a corn maze, picking fruits, feeding animals, or staying at a barn.…”
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Adsorption of lead from aqueous solution by a novel carbon based adsorbent by Al-Mamun, Abdullah, Onundi, Yusuf Bamidele, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid

“…The novel composite material has the potential to remove toxic materials from water and bring benefit to the society.…”
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Cognitive selection mechanism performance in IEEE 802.11 WLAN by Hashim, Wahidah, Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil, Ghafar, Nadratul, Dzulkifly, Sumayyah

“…The enhancement reaped from the developed selection algorithm is expected to bring benefit to different user at various places…”
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Classical forms of investment of awqaf: a juristic analysis by Osmani, Noor Mohammad, Rahman, Md. Habibur

“…Thus, taking an attempt to revitalize the role of awqaf is actually trying to bring back a gigantic voluntary institutional role to serve for the advancement of society and civilization. …”
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Contemporary trends in mediation & arbitration in Asia Pacific by Rashid, Syed Khalid

“…Conferences and seminars are organized to bring together scholars and professionals who have the ability to perceive problems in a given field with the aim of searching possible solutions. …”
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Harmonisation of Shari'ah and Civil Law: a special reference to the concept of punishment by Awang, Abd. Rahman, Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail

“…It is hoped that this paper will bring a new legal dimension towards eliminating the differences between CCL and ICL so that it can be implemented, in some areas, throughout the Muslim countries as a pilot study for the application of ICL as required by Islamic teachings. …”
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LMOs/GMOs, the environment and the people: a critical exposition by Ansari, Abdul Haseeb, Jamal, Parveen

“…On the contrary, they will become counterproductive, i.e. instead of saving lives and enriching the biodiversity of the environment they might bring miseries to the people and erode the biodiversity. …”
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Debating Africa : BBC's documentary "Heart & soul - return to Zanzibar" by Hickman, Katy, Sheriff, Abdul, Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin

“…All these provide a look behind the scene on debates that take place before programmes are made and bring out the key role that historians, researchers and academicians can, and need to play, in social communications. …”
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Migration aspirations and experiences of female Polish migrant workers in the UK by Aziz, Karima

“…Constructions of return decisions or the lack of return motivations, as well as experiences after return, bring forth the relevance of expectations resulting in the question: ‘return to what?’ …”
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The shipwrecked shore and other metaphors : what we can learn from occupation of, and representations in, virtual worlds by Burns, Tom, Sinfield, Sandra, Holley, Debbie

“…With educational paradigms shifting to include 'online learning, hybrid learning and collaborative learning' (NMC2012:5); the NMC report points out that institutions that support their learners by offering affordances other than physical campuses leverage the online skills that learners bring with them to academia. Second Life is a 'virtual world', an electronic environment that visually mimics complex physical spaces, where people can interact with each other and with virtual objects, and where people are represented by animated characters called avatars (Bainbridge, 2007). …”
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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

“…As part of that rethink, it should be possible now, 45 years after the Convention entered into force, to bring the protracted discussions on a Code of Conduct under the Convention to a successful conclusion at the 2021 9th Five-Year Review Conference of the BTWC. …”

Complement-mediated extracellular vesicle release as a measure of endothelial dysfunction and prognostic marker for COVID-19 in peripheral blood - letter to the Editor by Inal, Jameel

“…Microcirc. by Jung et al. [1–3], elegantly highlighted the thrombotic complications that arise in severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and discussed the role vascular injury and associated hyper inflammation play in bringing about multi-organ failure in severe disease. …”
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Cultural tourism development in Ngada, Flores, Indonesia by Cole, Stroma

“…While cultural tourism is developed to bring economic benefits, authenticity is associated with poverty and based on markers relating to the past. …”
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Water level monitoring and controlling of water treatment plants using wireless sensors in LabVIEW by Obeed, Kamal Mushina

“…There can be many factors which can bring variations in those systems. This may cease the efficiency of the industry and destruction of industrial equipment. …”
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Stable multiwavelength erbium-doped random fiber laser by Saleh, Suhairie

“…Aspired to solve the problems and bring random multiwavelength to new heights, performances of multiwavelength random fiber lasers are improved in this thesis work. …”
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A functional link neural network with modified cuckoo search for prediction tasks by Abu Bakar, Siti Zulaikha

“…The impact of temperature, relative humidity and ozone changes bring a sharp warming climate. These changes can cause extreme consequences such as floods, hurricanes, heat waves and droughts. …”
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Understanding Arabic-speaking skill learning strategies among selected Malay learners: a case-study at the International Islamic University Malaysia by Che Haron, Sueraya, Sheikh Ahmad, Ismail, Mamat, Arifin, Ahmed Mohamed, Ismaiel Hassanein

“…This assumption is based on several theories in language learning strategies which postulate that learners’ success in language learning or lack of it is attributable to the various strategies which different learners bring to tasks and not solely relying on environment per say. …”
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