The Social Justice Ramifications Of Narrowing The Legal Definition Of “Wife’ In Malaysian Civil Law by Siva Subramaniam, Mageswary, Mohd Yusof, Yusnita, Johari, Darina

“…Conclusion: The narrow interpretation is contrary to legislative intent and will result is social injustice of its preamble and thereby judicially transforming the definition of the term “wife” in Malaysia.…”
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Density, design and their impact on urban fabric by Sivam, Alpana, Karuppannan, Sadasivam

“…The economy in the planning of housing development considerably depends on judicious choices of these variables. High densities bring down total cost as well as cost of land per unit. …”
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The Effects Of Segmenting And Computational Thinking In Digital Video Courseware On Knowledge Achievement, Self-Efficacy And Motivation Among Students With Different Thinking Style... by Ali, Wan Nor Ashiqin Wan

“…This study's variables include (i) two treatment modes, "DVC: Learner-paced predefined segment (DVC-LS)" and "DVC: System predefined segment (DVC-SS)"; (ii) knowledge achievement, self-efficacy, and motivation; and (iii) thinking style, which includes legislative, executive, and judicial. The undergraduate students from "Malaysian Technical University Network (MTUN)" university are categorised into two groups which are mode 1: DVC-LS and mode 2: DVC-SS. …”
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The realization of the right to food in Nigeria: Good governance as the missing element by Badamasiuy, Juwayriya, Bello, Muhammad

“…In this regard, it identifies the legal hurdles to its realization and argues that given the importance of food to human survival, the right to food should be placed on an equal pedestal with all recognized legal rights in Nigeria.The paper recommends a constitutional amendment, judicial activism and adherence to the ideals of the rule of law, good governance and constitutionalism for effective realization of the right to food in Nigeria.The paper also recommends the enactment of a legislation on food security in the country.…”
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Good governance and crime rates in Malaysia by Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Din, Badariah, Abdul Hamid, Baharom

“…In this study the authors employed the popular auto regressive distributed lagged modeling approach to estimate the long-run model of crime and governance.Findings – The authors test the hypothesis that good governance lowers crime rates (total crime,violent and property crimes).The results suggest a negative relationship between crime rates and good governance in Malaysia.This suggests that good governance reduces crime rates in Malaysia.Research limitations/implications – The limitations of this study is the short time-series used in the analysis which is from 1996 to 2009.Practical implications – This study provides evidence that the practice of good governance, for example, lower corruption, good policing and judicial system can mitigate crime in Malaysia.Social implications – The implementation of good governance will protect property right of individuals, business sector and the society as a whole, and this will enhance prosperity of a nation.Originality/value – This study provide the first empirical evidence that linking between crime and good governance in Malaysia.…”
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The challenges of the criminal responsibility of the offenders of crimes of air pollution in Iraq after 2003 by Ashour, Ameel Jabbar, Abdul Wahab, Harlida

“…In this way, where there has also been conducted personal interviews of people involved in the judicial and academic career criminal, ultimately, the study found that there are many legal issues and constraints, such as the weakness of Iraqi laws and legislation in the field of environmental protection and multiple sources of pollution of the air in Iraq, has caused a slowdown in addressing these constraints which significantly affect in determining the responsibility of the offenders of the crimes of air pollution.…”
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Institutional weakness and conflict management in Nigeria: the need for collaborative governance approach by Usman, Abbo, Romle, Abd Rahim, Bashir, Adamu

“…In a culturally plural and religiously balkanized society like Nigeria the basic yardstick for measuring the effectiveness of the Government lies in its capability to develop an institutional frame-work which can facilitate the harmonious existence of the citizens through the integrative process of representative governance, sound judicial system and effective law enforcement agency.However, the Nigerian Government was established on a fragile legitimacy, by the diarchic British colonial administrative system under which existed a relatively weak central authority with more autonomous regions in terms of administration which invariably confer on the independent Nigerian state the colonial legacy of relatively strong regional and local ethnic authorities and weak central institutions in which the institutional mechanism for central coordination are either not fully internalized or weakly internalized hence the Nigerian central authority appear grossly infective to exercise substantial control over the entire geographical enclaves which therefore paved the way for the perpetuation of violence and conflicts.This paper therefore argues that a collaborative approach to governance both at the state and local government becomes an important yardstick for crisis management in Nigeria through the creation and internalization of new values.This is because the primary way of value creation involves focusing on the underlying interests of the diverse parties, public information sharing and constant communicating with one another, which can facilitate the formation of shared interests and the evolution of common value.…”
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The legal context of employment discrimination in Malaysia by Abdul Wahab, Harlida

“…The author found out that even though Malaysia does not explicitly outlaw employment discrimination, the related case-laws and judicial decisions signified that the courts are prepared to hear the claims on the subject matter yet within a limited grounds. …”
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Legal Issues in the Laws Governing the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards in Petroleum Disputes in Iraq by Mohammed, Haitham Abdulwahhab, Md Dahlan, Nuarrual Hilal, Md Isa@Yusuff, Yusramizza

“…The second is through judicial enforcement when the losing party refuses to respect the award. …”
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Reason for non compliance of license holders towards disclosure-based regulation in Malaysian securities by Yeon, Asmah Laili, Mohd Shamsudin, Faridahwati

“…Other reasons include greed (wanting to be rich quickly), selective application of the law, complicity between offenders and regulators, slow judicial process, and high legal cost for victims to pursue compensation.As the enforcement agency, Securities Commission should further enhance efforts to monitor and enforce the law of capital markets. …”
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Jammed architectural structures: towards large-scale reversible construction by Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Petrus, Willmann, Jan, Tibbits, Skylar, Gramazio, Fabio, Kohler, Matthias

“…Initiated by the group of Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zürich and the Self-Assembly Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this digital fabrication approach fosters a combination of cutting-edge robotic fabrication technology and low-grade building material, shifting the focus from precise assembly of known parts towards controlled aggregation of granular material such as gravel or rocks. …”
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Jammed architectural structures: towards large-scale reversible construction by Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Petrus, Willmann, Jan, Tibbits, Skylar, Gramazio, Fabio, Kohler, Matthias

“…Initiated by the group of Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zürich and the Self-Assembly Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this digital fabrication approach fosters a combination of cutting-edge robotic fabrication technology and low-grade building material, shifting the focus from precise assembly of known parts towards controlled aggregation of granular material such as gravel or rocks. …”
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On-chip infrared sensors: redefining the benefits of scaling by Agarwal, Anu, Yadav, Anupama, Richardson, Kathleen, Luzinov, Igor, Kita, Derek M., Lin, Hongtao, Gu, Tian, Hu, Juejun

“…We leverage strong optical and thermal confinement in judiciously designed micro-cavities to circumvent the thermal diffusion and optical diffraction limits in conventional photothermal sensors and achieve a record 104 photothermal sensitivity enhancement. …”
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Communication: Recovering the flat-plane condition in electronic structure theory at semi-local DFT cost by Bajaj, Akash, Janet, Jon Paul, Kulik, Heather Janine

“…To find an alternative strategy, we examine the shape of semi-local DFT deviations from the exact flat plane and we find this shape to be remarkably consistent across ions and molecules. We introduce the judiciously modified DFT (jmDFT) approach, wherein corrections are constructed from few-parameter, low-order functional forms that fit the shape of semi-local DFT errors. …”
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Collaborative duty cycling strategies in energy harvesting sensor networks by Long, James, Buyukozturk, Oral

“…To conserve energy in these situations, a subset of nodes in the network can assume active duty, listening for events of interest, while the remaining nodes enter low power sleep mode to conserve battery. However, judicious planning of the sequence of active node assignments is needed to ensure that as many nodes as possible can be reached upon the detection of an event, and that the system maintains capability in times of low energy harvesting capabilities. …”
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A witness account of solar microscope projections: collective acts integrating across personal and historical memory by Cavicchi, Elizabeth

“…The paper describes the author's witnessing of images projected from an eighteenth-century solar microscope made by John Dollond, now at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Peter Heering facilitated this session as part of his research on the solar microscope. …”
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Non-invasive estimation of the powder size distribution from a single speckle image by Zhang, Qihang, Pandit, Ajinkya, Liu, Zhiguang, Guo, Zhen, Muddu, Shashank, Wei, Yi, Pereg, Deborah, Nazemifard, Neda, Papageorgiou, Charles, Yang, Yihui, Tang, Wenlong, Braatz, Richard D, Myerson, Allan S, Barbastathis, George

“…In this work, we eliminate one of the most time-consuming steps of our previous method by engineering the pupil function. By judiciously blocking portions of the pupil, we sacrifice some photons but in return we achieve much enhanced sidelobes and, hence, higher sensitivity to the change of the size distribution. …”
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Minimizing actuator-induced errors in active space telescope mirrors by Smith, Matthew William, Miller, David W.

“…A parameterized finite element model is used to simulate actuator-induced residual error and investigate design solutions that mitigate this error source. Judicious specification of mirror substrate geometry and actuator length is shown to reduce actuator-induced residual while keeping areal density constant. …”
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Scattering from extended targets in range-dependent fluctuating ocean-waveguides with clutter from theory and experiments by Jagannathan, Srinivasan, Küsel, Elizabeth T., Ratilal, Purnima, Makris, Nicholas

“…Returns from the man-made targets are also shown to have a very different spectral dependence from the natural target-like clutter of the dominant fish schools observed, suggesting that judicious multi-frequency sensing may often provide a useful means of distinguishing fish from man-made targets.…”
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Rational design of amphiphilic peptides and its effect on antifouling performance by Gaw, Sheng Long, Sakala, Gowripriya, Nir, Sivan, Saha, Abhijit, Xu, Zhichuan J., Lee, Pooi See, Reches, Meital

“…By just manipulating the position of the amino acids within the peptide chain having the same chemical composition, we improved the antifouling performance of an amphiphilic peptide-based coating, Phe(4-F)-Lys-DOPA, by 30%. We have judiciously tailored the peptide configurations to achieve the best antifouling performance by (i) positioning the amino acid lysine adjacent to the DOPA moiety in the linear peptide chain for better adhesion, (ii) having a linear fluorinated N-terminal to improve the packing density of the film by straightening the peptide chain, and (iii) placing DOPA at the C-terminal. …”
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