In today’s teaching environment, the professional lecturer faces many new challenges – from teaching, facilitating, doing administrative work to researching and serving in community services. They need to keep abreast of new changes in education technology and social needs to compete for students. Often lack of subject expertise means a higher

Loneliness and cognitive impairment are common among older people. However, the study on the association between cognitive impairment and loneliness among older people in longterm care in Malaysia is limited. This study aimed to explore the association between sociodemographic, cognitive impairment and loneliness among older people in long-term car

Since the emergence of the “halal” industry, it has influenced the pre-existing industrial structure by inducing global corporations and foreign governments to chase the regulation of “halal” certificate. In accordance with the fundamental notion of the “halal” industry, Majority of works related to “halal” industry must retain “h

Over the years, Malaysia has played a significant role in promoting the discourse on environmental sustainability both at the local and international forums. Towards realizing the principles and values that governed the vision for attaining the goals for a sustainable development, various policies were formulated by Malaysian government to redress

At the moment, most of the studies on classification of affective states for children focus on visual observations and physiological cues, where all data collection for measuring physiological signals are contact-based and invasive. With the requirement of having the measuring device attached to the body approach, distraction of the subject normall

Ibn Khaldun lived and experienced the decline of Muslims dominance in the early 13th and 14th centuries. He wrote on the history of the world in his “Kitab al Ibar” with an introduction chapter, the Muqaddimah based on his personal involvement in the various episodes, intrigues, observations and experience. He developed the theory of ‘umran a

Background: There are currently various methods of delivery that can improve adherence on under-five childhood immunization schedule. The methods differ significantly and there is the conventional method of providing a health education module, reminders and recalls to improve adherence and some other non-conventional methods to improve adherence. A

Malaysia is popular among gastronomy tourists where many of international travellers visit the country—besides other reasons—to try a diverse range of food offered by the multi-ethnic food vendors. About 17% of 26.76 million tourist arrivals in 2016 spent on food. The focus of this study is to get an insight into the tourists’ experience and

Objective: To explore how older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression experience a spiritual reminiscence therapy (SRT) program and to explore its acceptability within the Malaysian population. Methods: Unstructured observations and a focus-group discussion were carried out with 18 participants involved in a six-week SRT program in a resid

Garlic or Allium sativum is widely applied as alternative medicine and in ethnopharmacological studies. This study was done to evaluate the antimalarial properties of aqueous extract of garlic against Plasmodium berghei NK65. The groups of male ICR mice were intraperitoneally (i.p) infected with 0.1 mL of 1 × 107 parasitised red blood cells (RBC)