Current growth in aquaculture production is parallel with the increasing number of disease outbreaks, which nega-tively affect the production, profitability, and sustainability of the global aquaculture industry. Vibriosis is among themost common diseases leading to massive mortality of cultured shrimp,fish, and shellfish in Asia. High incidence of

This chapter attempts to determine the factors that affect trade by investigating the international trade structure of Oman with her five major trading partners namely China, USA, Singapore, Japan and Korea. It employs scaled and unscaled gravity model on a series of bilateral trade flows using time series and panel estimations during the period of

Urbanization has been a key driver of Malaysia’s success in economic growth. Yet growing challenges in urban mobility dampen the benefits of urbanization and threaten Malaysia’s ambitions of becoming a sustainable and inclusive high-income nation. Over the years, in big cities and towns, the mobility of people has been greatly affected because

Despite being the largest arm of the Malaysian Islamic financial sector, the Malaysian Islamic banking system has always been an active target of critics for the lack of structural reforms to fortify core Islamic values, such as, risk-sharing and real sector growth. Often, the blame is thickly laid on strategic management entities, such as the exec

Gelatine as the product of collagen extraction from animals is widely used in the food industry. In a glance, the physical properties of gelatine from several sources such as fish, bovine and porcine are similar. Therefore, distinguishing between the sources of gelatine is a tedious task. The differentiation of the gelatine from its sources require

The Bees Algorithm is a population-based optimisation algorithm inspired by the food foraging behaviour of honey bees. Over the years, this algorithm has been successfully applied to many optimisation problems. In order to enhance its accuracy and convergence rate, it is proposed to employ the Nelder and Mead (NM) method to implement the local sear

Ficus (Moraceae) is a tree or shrub natively originated from East Asia countries such as Middle East and Turkey. However, determination of the most suitable cultivation method in Malaysia has becoming one of the major concerns in figs industry. This is because figs can be easily found in cold and temperate regions compared to the equator regions. T

This paper reported the effect of different coupling ratio in continuous wave fiber laser in a ring cavity configuration. Different coupling ratios of 10/90 and 50/50 were tested. Where the output power may vary depending on the ratio and it can be applied to specific area that requires either high or low output power. In addition, generation of pa

This paper addresses the treatment of waste engine oils(WEO)by acid/clay refining method using glacial acetic acid. An optimization of the process parameters in terms of settling time, stirring speed and mixing temperature for treating the WEO was performed using Response Surface Methodologyto improve the quality of treated lubricating oil.The qual

IN the early 1970s, Professor Syed Hussein Alatas spoke on the captive mind on several occasions ― one in Kuala Lumpur, the other in Zurich and on two occasions in Australia. These were preceded by the paper titled The Captive Mind in Development and Planning in 1969.