Land use planning in Malaysia as regulated by the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (“Act 172”) vests in the local authorities’ wide powers and responsibility for managing and carrying on the daily administration of land use planning decision making and development control regime. This article examines the powers of the local authority in re

Wi-Fi’s signals strength (SS), and signal quality (SQ) are found to greatly fluctuate in determination of symbolic user location in an indoor environment. This paper explores the influence of several different training data-sets in determining user’s symbolic location. The implementation and experimentation were done using offline instance-base

This paper proposed a software product quality metrics for Context-aware Computing, based on Boehm Model, McCall Model and ISO/IEC 9126. This new evaluation metrics are based on the combinations of two aspects of the evaluation process, which are the technological and the social aspects and two dimensions of the core content, which are the user and

The demand of the global market has resulted into the development of many internationalization initiatives in the educational sector, including the library and information science field (LIS). The Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) is committed towards achieving the mission of the

This paper presents a preliminary study on the roles of green infrastructure network as social spaces for well-being of urban residents.1 Diversity of Green Infrastructure Network and Cognitive Well -being of Urban Residents Mazlina Mansor1 and Ismail Said² 1PhD Candidate, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2Associate Prof

Congenital coronary artery anomalies are rare, with an incidence of about 0.06–1.3 percent of all patients undergoing cardiac catheterisation. They are commonly asymptomatic, but potentially serious lesions may lead to myocardial ischaemia, infarction and/or sudden cardiac death. The occurrence of a concomitant stenotic lesion is exceedingly rare

Background The prevalence of hypertension in Malaysia is alarmingly high. The National Survey in 2006 showed 43% of people above 30 years old have hypertension and only 8% reached target blood pressure (BP) of <140/90 mmHg. Among treated patients, only 26% reached target BP. We aimed to evaluate BP control among hypertensives attending Speciali

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى اكتشاف مدى اكتساب اللغة العربية لدى الأطفال الماليزيين في المدرسة العربية الحديثة العالمية( IMAS ). كما لوحظ أنّ اكتساب اللغة يكون عن طريق استيعاب اللغة من الصغر؛ حيث قال الح

Introduction: In the Malaysian National Higher Education Strategic Plan and National Higher Education Action Plan 2007-2010, seven thrusts are identified and these include: widening access and enhancing quality; improving the quality of teaching and learning; enhancing research and innovation; strengthening higher learning institutions; intensifyin

In the present study, ultrasound-assisted extraction of crude oil from winter melon seeds was investigated through response surface methodology (RSM). Process variables were power level (25–75%), temperature (45–55 °C) and sonication time (20–40 min). It was found that all process variables have significant (p < 0.05) effects on the resp