Tourism is an exclusive economic opportunity that leads to lifestyle changes. It potentially brings vitality and economic as well as cultural dynamism to a place. Hence, in order to attract domestic and international tourists, many countries embark on intensive efforts by providing and developing travel sites as well as facilities to facilitate the

A new concept of a multistage evacuated solar still was developed; a full size prototype was constructed and tested. The amounts or condensate produced generated from each stage was collected separately and measured frequently. The overall results showed that the productivity of the new concept is highly better under the cloudy low solar radiation

This article outlines a study of the dynamics of group communication between ethnically diverse members in an academic setting. The study provides an understanding of how ethnic diversity influences communication in small groups of academics. Drawing on in-depth interviews with forty academic researchers from five universities in Malaysia, it is sh

The finance-growth relationship has been extensively researched in recent decades.To date, however, there is no consensus among researchers on this issue. The current paper aims at shedding some lights on the relationship between financial development and economic growth focusing on data gathered from the Middle East and North Africa(MENA) region.

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is one of the most widely used non conventional machining processes for removing material from workpiece by means of a series of repeated electric discharges. This process is now one of the main techniques used in die production and has good accuracy and precision with no direct physical contact between the elec

Normally spray operation has been carried out in various processes such as air spray, High volume low pressure spray, air less spray, air assisted air less spray, electrostatic spray, ultrasonic spray etc. To carry out the spray operation in different processes different types of spray guns are used. Sometimes different types of spray operations ar

Since the construction activities involve the process and products, the definition of quality standard in construction might not be much different to definition on quality standard for other processes and products. Therefore, the quality standard in landscape construction is a continuous process of fulfilling the specific requirement that is adequa

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease affecting about 0.5–1.0% of the world population. Protein arginine deiminase type 4 (PAD4) is believed to be responsible for the occurrence of RA by catalyzing citrullination of proteins. The citrullinated proteins act as autoantigens by stimulating an immune response. Citrullinated

Malay medical manuscripts (MMM) are ancient writings from the Malay civilisation depicting traditional remedies to treat various diseases. Unfortunately, the manuscripts are not well studied by scientists, perhaps because of scepticism with traditional medicine. To date, only 12 MMM have been transliterated and published despite the initial work th

The physicochemical properties of Jatropha seed oil from 9 geographical origins and 24 candidate plus plants (CPPs) were evaluated. The yield of seed oil obtained by Soxhlet extraction using n-hexane as solvent varied from 40.0% (Malaysia) to 48.4% (Vietnam) among seeds from different origins and 32.1% (CPP-17) to 48.8% (CPP-01) (w/w) among CPPs. D