Coastal reclamation is becoming a popular mode of expanding the landmass for economic activity in Southeast Asian cities. However, this activity comes at a price in terms of its adverse impact to the environment which mainly arises from landfill, sand quarrying and construction process. Current land development scenario has shown that there is no s

Metal matrix composites (MMC) falls under the category of potential engineering materials applicable to the automotive and aerospace industries. This is become their excellent properties, such as the capability to resist elevated temperature, improved strength, higher stiffness, low density, improved wears and creep resistance and higher elastic mo

إنَّ معرفة الفقه الإسلامي وأحكامه المتعلقة بجوانب العبادات، هي من الأُمور المهمَّة التي ينبغي لكل مسلمٍ العناية بها؛ لأنَّه لا يمكن أنْ يتعرَّف المسلم على العبادات التي كُلّف بها إلا بمعرفة �

Purpose – This study investigates the Malaysian retail investors and fund managers’ investment decision behaviours. The study has offered important opportunity for understanding the investors’ experiences, how they understand the Malaysian economy, and their priorities for company selection. Other main aspects of this study are how investors

Internet is the enabling infrastructure of today’s digital society, which sees blurring borders between countries, thus creates an ever dynamic and diverse global community. Just as we start to enjoy this innovative realm called cyberspace, we are confronted by a myriad of questions that challenge the more established values that we have had adop

Recent studies suggested cemetery to be a dual function to accommodate the needs of open spaces that are gradually diminishing. In Malaysia, the Planning Guidelines for Muslim and Non-Muslim Cemetery need to be referred in developing a burial site because a cemetery is an important social infrastructure in the same way to a recreational park. The f

Malaysia is expected to witness a greater demand for halal products due to increasing awareness of Islamic practices among the citizen. Malaysian Muslim women consumers spend more on cosmetics especially on those makeup products by international brands. For a Muslim, it is an obligatory to practice using only halal cosmetics for makeup products. Un

Green spaces are much needed in the urban environment for a multitude of reasons. One of them is to curb environmental problems such as flash flood, urban heat island and to increase the quality of life of the users. However, sometimes the parks that are supposed to help in improving the environment may have no significant effects or they might eve

This study aimed to examine the in-vitro anti-cancer potential of ethyl-p-methoxycinnamate (EPMC), the major constituent of Kaempferia galanga (K. galanga) in selected human lung adenocarcinoma cells line A549 (p53 wild-type) and H1299 (p53 null). The involvement of p53 pathway in the anti-cancer effect of EPMC on selected cells was determined usin

Introduction: Unequal retinal image size (RIS) or aniseikonia is usually related with anisometropia. Higher differences of RIS may manifest symptoms such as dizziness, headache or disorientation. In worst case might cause suppression that leads to amblyopia. Current study aims to evaluate the consistency of aniseikonia measurement in Smart Optometr