Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore measures taken by local authorities in curbing poor compliance among renovated terrace houses in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative methodology was selected in the data collection and analysis of the study. Seven local authority officers from seven selected lo

The main aim of this study is to examine the role of specific organizational climate and individual acceptance factors on knowledge management behavior within an organizational context. A hypothetical conceptual research framework was developed based on knowledge creation theory and previous studies. Data were collected from 74 corporate practition

Scarcity of petroleum and constant concern over environmental problems caused by diesel fuels has promoted production of biodiesel from renewable sources. Biodiesel synthesized from transesterification methods in the presence of acid or base catalyst or enzyme requires huge amount of solvent, particularly from alcohol to affirm high production yiel

The aim of this study is to investigate the consumer behavior of current Malaysian university students in the social commerce environment. A hypothetical conceptual framework was formulated based on proven theories and previous works. Data were collected from 209 students from a Malaysian public university using self-administered online questionnai

The influence of ply orientation on the resistance to mode I delamination of multidirectional composite laminates can be assessed by Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) tests. However, one difficulty is to uncouple the global and local effects due to the stacking sequence, which is necessary for a conclusive analysis. In the present work six multidirectio

Scarcity in fuel from fossil fuel has led to exploration of potential substitutes from renewable sources. Identified as clear renewable energy to replace current fuel, biodiesel has been acknowledged to be more environmentally friendly in comparison to diesel from petroleum. This paper reports on the study of potassium carbonate, K2CO3 sourced from

Introduction: Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, an infectious disease endemic in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. Cases have been reported in Pahang, Johor Bahru and Kedah. The disease is difficult to combat as B. pseudomallei has shown resistance to various antibiotics and much is still not understood about its

Introduction: Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) is a gram-positive diplococci belonging to the genus Streptococcus and it is a well-studied pathogenic bacterium. Pneumococcal diseases such as otitis media, pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis caused by pathogenic strains of S. pneumoniae still brought significant mortality and morbidity worldwid

Cognitive Radio (CR) is an intelligent system for opportunistically accessing the idle resources and a solution for spectrum resources scarcity. The main purpose of this article is to analyze the performance of Energy Detection under Nakagami and Rayleigh fading channels and compare it with the case of when there is only AWGN. Probability of detect

Internet applications such as web based monitoring; live internet video, online video, video conference, webcam viewing and internet video to TV are highly used in today’s IP communication. The trends of these applications are, that they are played on mobile devices and distributed to many end users. Multicast communication over IP contributes to