Construction professional services (CPS) rely heavily on the capabilities of their professional employees as their main resources in delivering their services. One of the main concerns in managing these workers is the development and maintenance of employee commitment towards achieving the organisational objectives. In achieving the desired commitm

This paper seeks to clarify the legal status of the states in Malaysia before the Independence in 1957 as well as the status of Sabah and Sarawak before they joined Malaysia in 1963. There has been a controversy quite recently regarding the status of the states before 31st of August 1957. This issue relates to the question whether the states in Mal

Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh, with a population of 12 million, receives 300,000 to 400,000 rural migrants annually. During the last three decades, while city population has grown over 7%, annually, bastee (slum and squatter) population of the city has grown from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 million in 2005. Several policy approaches such as evic

Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh and it has a population of 12 million. During the last three decades, while the city population grew over 7%, bastee (slum and squatter) population of the city grew from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 million in 2005. Several policy approaches were adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka since 1975. Thes

Recently, Malaysia has adopted “Safe city programme”, which is focused towards creating violence and crime free cities. To achieve this, it is important to address crimes and disorder in residential areas. So far studies identified thatchanges in built environment and modifications in space design can impact residents and offenders perceptions

This paper assesses the residential satisfaction with public housing in Hulhumale’, Maldives, on physical features and service provision within the housing unit, public facilities and the social environment within the housing area and their contributions to residents’ overall housing satisfaction. The findings show that a majority of the reside

Flow characteristics of a single mixed flow impeller in baffled and unbaffled vessel have been experimentally and numerically investigated at 600 rpm. The mean, radial and axial velocity components obtained using particle image velocimetry (PIV) were compared with three turbulence models (shear stress transport (sst) and Reynold's stress model

The Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001 (AMLATFA) is the sole legislation dealing with this matter in Malaysia. Part 4 of this Act is the basic regulation for ‘reporting institutions’, including all types of bank. As Part 4 is only general, the Malaysian Central Bank as the ‘Competent Authority’ has issued detailed G

This report provides the detailed information involved in the design and fabrication of the Second generation IIUM buggy car. Included are all details regarding the method of design, design’s philosophy, concept and model construction, result evaluation, and fabrication process. Background research and literature review have been done in order to

Powder-mixed dielectric fluid is one of the innovations of electro-discharge machining (EDM) which seeks to improve the process outputs by addition of powders to the dielectric during machining. In the present study, the influence of TaC powder in kerosene dielectric fluid on EDM process outputs was investigated. Experiments were conducted with the