Child abuse has been a long-standing social problem in Malaysia. The increase in child abuse cases has become worrisome and causes undesirable cost and social burden. Social awareness, educated society towards child abuse, legislative and policy remedies, and financial help are the measures that should be considered to prevent child abuse. Evidence

The Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul (1932 –) has made extensive comments on Islam and its adherents in his two widely circulated travel writings, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981) and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998). These two works have triggered debates about his representation of Muslims, as it is

This paper is critique of the Malaysian definition and punishment of statutory rape law in the Penal code from the Shariah sand point. It argues that the present statutory law is not only in line with the legal definition of adulthood from Shariah point but runs counter to its notion of criminal justice and philosophy of preventing sexual promiscui

This qualitative research studies postmodernism, postmodern culture and the postmodern mind in two novels written by diasporic Muslim writers: Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2009) and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). By focusing on postmodern elements, this book investigates the lives of immigrants who came fro

This paper offers a new insight into the computational modelling of crack and delamination of carbon fiber composite. Both transversal cracks (intralaminar) and delamination (interlaminar) are modelled with Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM). Constitutive and fracture laws are integrated to model the initiation of crack or delamination, and thei

Studies on face-to-face interactions have demonstrated how spoken language involves not only verbal but also a mutual collaboration with nonverbal resources. Nonverbal such as gaze, gestures, body posture and physical movement are part and parcel of the details of ordered social interaction, and they can be significant resources in interaction (Haz

Studies on face-to-face interactions have demonstrated how spoken language involves not only verbal but also mutual collaboration with the embodiment. The embodiment, such as gestures, can convey semantic content and can be a crucial point in a conversation (Hazel et al., 2014). In this study, I will investigate the embodiment that includes gaze, h

This paper presents a new investigation on the computational modelling of crack and delamination on laminates composite. Extended Finite Element Model (XFEM) is used to model the transversal cracks (intralaminar) and delamination (interlaminar). The integration of fracture laws and constitutive equations are applied to assist the initiation of crac

This paper presents an investigation on flutter behaviour of composite plate with crack. This work is divided into two sections; (a) variation of crack length at a fix location on the plate, (b) variation of crack location on the plate with a fix crack length. The composite plate is modelled as unidirectional composite for 0°, 45° and 90° orient

Highly cited papers serve as a proxy for excellence. In this paper, we identify Malaysia's highly-cited papers and explore the characteristics of these papers. The research question posed is "What characterizes Malaysian highly cited papers?" This study adopts the definition by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicator, i.e. the highl