This paper develops a hedonic model of agricultural land prices to investigate the efficacy of planning controls, whose raison d’être is to regulate the conversion of farmland. While development (commercial, industrial and residential) potential of farmland affects agricultural land values in all countries, its impact is potentially more acute i

Peer feedback is one of the many elements that contribute to the mastery of the English language writing skills. However, ESL/EFL learners often faced difficulties in giving and receiving peer feedback as they often are not able to give or understand feedback from their peers. In uncovering the potentials and problems with peer feedback amongst ESL

Objective To determine the optimal cut-offs of BMI for Malaysian adults. Design Population-based, cross-sectional study. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to determine the cut-off values of BMI with optimum sensitivity and specificity for the detection of three cardiovascular risk factors: diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperc

This case discusses the issues that arose during the change process in a Kuala Lumpur based Retakaful company, ACR Retakaful Berhad. The chain of catastrophic events in Asia during the years 2010 and 2011 had raised a huge number of claims against the company which went into financial difficulties. The company had no option but to change. A new CEO

One possible explanation for land idling in a rapidly transforming economy can be found by looking at the value of the option to wait and hysteresis behaviour in the land market. If investors assume that the drop is temporary and that its long term prospects outweigh current holding losses, the market will observe some form of a zone of inactivity

Tropical Montane Cloud Forest (TMCF) is one of Earth’s most neglected ecosystems around the globe. More than half of these forests are situated within Southeast Asia. Malaysia is known for its numerous mountains that are exceptionally rich in biodiversity and locally endemic species, but they are also threatened by human expanding activity such a

Radio waves propagate through the earth's atmosphere will be attenuated due to presence of the atmosphere particles such as water vapor, water drops and the ice particles. Meantime the atmospheric gases and rain will absorb the scatter the radio path. Consequently, degrades the performance of the link. This paper presents studies on rain attenu

The book is the fruit of the effort of three authors from the International Islamic University Malaysia. It contains a literary subject for students specializing in the Department of Arabic Language, Faculty of Education. It also considers the selection of vocabularies and analysis of prose and poetry texts, to fall under the four cultural content

Subject(s): American literature -- Dictionaries -- Bio-bibliography -- 20th century | English literature -- Dictionaries. -- Bio-bibliography -- 20th century | Authors, American -- Biography -- 20th century | Authors, English -- Biography Juvenile literature -- 20th century | American literature -- History and criticism Dictionaries -- 20th century

Subject(s): Jami'at al-Kuwayt.Maktabat al-Makhtutat -- Catalogs | Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs | Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs -- Kuwait Contents:Juz' 1. 'A-Th. -- juz' 2. J-S. --juz' 3. Sh-Gh. -- juz' 4. F-L. Holdings: ,Book - Reference,Gombak Campus Library,Reference Collection,,r Z6621K88K45F 1983v2,