The contributions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to socio-economic developments have been long recognized, in developed and developing countries alike. In this relation, a wide range of support programmes have been introduced and implemented in many countries. Malaysia is not exceptional to this as various SMEs-oriented policies and SME sup

Succession planning for businesses is highly essential. The essence of succession planning is crucial especially among small and medium businesses as they cannot afford to withstand various major setbacks for continuity and sustainability in developing and developed countries alike. Malaysia is not exceptional to this. This present paper focuses on

This study aims to investigate the audience’s perception towards the use of performing arts as a platform in enhancing English conversational skills. There are many research done by past scholars that investigated the use of either theatre, drama or short films in students’ English language learning, but there is little to no research done that

Estimation of transaction costs in stock market is an important issue for stock trading, asset pricing, andstock market regulation etc. and it is often done by combining the bid-ask spread estimate with commissions and other fees provided by market participants which can be subjective. This study aims to offer an innovative way as an alternative to

Power supply is a key issue for decision-makers. The reservoir operation of multi-reservoir systems is an important aspect to consider in efforts to increase power generation. This research studies a multi-reservoir system comprising of the Khersan-I (KHI), Karoon-III (KAIII) and Karoon-IV (KAIV) with the intent being to increase power generation.

This paper aims to address teenage pregnancy out of wedlock in the Muslim Malay community in Malaysia. Since its independence in 1957, Malaysia has been experiencing dramatic economic and social transformations. Consequently, the living conditions of the Malays have greatly improved, and modernity has made them fully engaged in materialistic lifest

Early physical therapy intervention has a significant impact on improving the impairments and disabilities of Erb’s Palsy patients. Proper early assessments and management by physical therapists can reduce physical complications and mental health problems, thus enhancing the child’s opportunities to return to their maximal activity daily living

This paper describes the ARABTALK® Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system, developed at RDI , for Arabic language. ARABTALK® is a state-of-the-art corpus based concatenative TTS system. The system employs Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) statistical prosody based models for duration, energy, and global pitch contour prediction. In addition, it has

This research attempts to study the major project management issues in the oil and gas industry. The data for the study was drawn from the intensive interviews of ten respondents from oil and gas companies in Malaysia. The study contributes to the body of knowledge in three main ways. The first finding of this study indicates that by allocating suf

The screening practices for phytochemical compound from plants is essential to explore more natural sources to replace synthetic antibiotics which generally associated with multi-drug resistance as well as having side effects such as hypersensitivity, immune-suppression and allergic reactions. In this study, screening of antibacterial property from