The court in the UK in 1802 applied the legal maxim ignorantia juris non excusat (which means ‘ignorance of law is no excuse’) in Bilbie v Lumley case which was involved in recovery of indemnity mistakenly paid by an insurance company to the insured. In this case the court held that insurance indemnity paid to the insured under mistake of law i

Senior management plays a very significant role to enhance the profitability of cooperatives. Unlike traditional companies, which are regulated by the Commission of Companies Malaysia, cooperatives are regulated by the Cooperative Commission of Malaysia. Malaysian cooperative managers may need to adjust to changing global business environment to re

This study was conducted to examine the link between career self-efficacy and career selections of university students. The study was also aimed to find out the differences of career self-efficacy in terms of gender and socio-economic status. The study was restricted to Malay students, and Malay is one of the main races in Malaysia. Participants se

Titanium alloys are commonly used in biomedical application in hard tissues replacement especially for knee and hip implants but facing huge wear debris due to continuous cyclic contact within the joints of the implants. Diamond coating is a potential solution for improving the tribological and wear properties of the implants made from this alloy.

This article empirically investigates the presence of financial constraints in the Malaysian capital market. The existence of financial constraints gives firm less access to external funds to finance their investment activities. Therefore, the constrained firm has to rely on internal sources of financing. The severity of financial constraints is re

Previous studies show that the implementation of Industrialized Building System (IBS) in Malaysia gives significant benefits the construction industry by reducing the site labour, clean site and fast construction. However, the qualities of the local IBS products are still being argued. Manufactured home constructed in developed countries appears to

The development of multimedia propagations and applications has led to a greater expansion in the field of video transmission over a heterogeneous media as well as iterative delivery platforms with dedicated content requirements. It is known that conventional video coding systems encode video content with given bitrates adapted to a specific functi

In this era of digital communications, video compression has become a necessity and plays an integral role that aids the widespread use of multimedia over the Internet. In the digital world, with the rapid growth of the Internet and the introduction of high-definition media, compression is used to exploit limited storage and transmission capacity a

Introduction: Dengue is one of the commonest infections in Malaysia and it is a notifiable disease. Even though the diagnosis of classical dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever can be recognized clinically, the diagnosis remains a challenge in areas where it could not be differentiated with other febrile illnesses. The aim of this study was to

Abstract CYP3A5 is one of the important drug metabolising enzyme and its polymorphism shows marked differences in protein expression and catalytic activities between different geographical ethnic groups. Both tamoxifen and tacrolimus are substrates of CYP3A5 and thus the polymorphism may cause pharmacokinetics variation which explains the wide vari