Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the establishment of a GIS-based technology as a reliable delivery system in predicting the development impact assessment (DIA) due to proposed development. The paper highlights about the ability of the system that could anticipate the environmental quality due to any development within certain ge

Recent movement in GIS technology advancement has great influence to the environmental and urban planning around the globe. This papers aims to discuss the establishment of a GIS-based technology as a planning tool in assisting local planning authority. The approach applied was extensively relied on baseline data, models, spatial and statistical an

Seismic electric signal (SES) is one of features for predicting earthquakes (EQs) because of its significant changes in the amplitude of the signal prior to the earthquake. This paper presents detailed analysis of SES recorded prior to earthquake that occurred in Greece in the period from January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2008. During this period of time

Managing natural resources sustainably is essential in this contemporary era of town planning system. This includes managing and planning the invaluable of coastal areas. In this regards, coastal management programmes have been acknowledged as a primary approach in delivering the coastal strategies and objectives towards achieving a sustainable coa

Introduction: The information and incidence of arterial variations have been implicated in different clinical situations. In Malaysia no study on the variants has been done in vivo. Methodology: 400 subjects (staff and students of IIUM) were examined with Logiq P5 General Electric Ultrasound machine using 12L- RS linear probe. Data analysis was car

Nowadays and in this twenty first century, Inter-religious dialogue is gaining momentum and importance at both national and international levels. Perhaps, that is due to its role and goal in building bridges among different religious groups to promote respect, tolerance and peaceful living. Based on above fact, inter-religious dialogue is perhaps;

من المعلوم أن المجتمع الماليزي يتبنى تطبيق نوعين من القوانين الإحوال الشخصية؛ أولهما (Islamic Family Law Act) ويعرف بقانون الأسرة الإسلامية، أما الثاني فهو (Law Reform Marriage and Divorce Act 1976) ويعرف بقانون الإصلاح (

Abstract Those who develop genetically modified organisms want to market it in the country invention, where it is developed, and export them for monetary gain. The ethical aspect of such inventions and innovations strives for not venturing into them if their introduction may impair human, animal and plant life and health or adversely affect the env

The Cartagena Protocol, made under the Convention on Biological Diversity, aims at protecting the ‘human, animal and plant life and health’ by prescribing a high standard of precautionary principle. This has to be based on risk assessment. Thus, the importing countries of GMOs/LMOs have the right to invoke the precautionary principle provisions

ABSTRACT The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement of 1992, which is a part of the WTO legal regime, in order to ensure augment international trade in GMOs, provides for ensuring their safety so that they could be acceptable in international market, i.e. it prescribes for a kind of precautionary principle, which is supposed to be adhered to by the W