This study describes and examines the acoustic properties of the central vowels [ɨ] and [ ] in Malaysian Hokkien (MH). The two central vowels are typologically special in that both of them are “full-fledged”, phonemic vowels in an inventory. Therefore our main research question is to see if the two central vowels are subject to contextual influences, just like their counterparts in other langua...

Effective monitoring is necessary to conserve mangroves from further loss in Malaysia. In this context, remote sensing is capable of providing information on mangrove status and changes over a large spatial extent and in a continuous manner. In this study we used Landsat satellite images to analyze the changes over a period of 25 years of mangrove areas in Iskandar Malaysia (IM), the fastest gr...

The migration from paper-based services to electronic version has developed the potential of e-government applications enormously. However, designing a credible government web site is not a simple task. This paper discusses the importance of credibility for the Malaysian states government web sites. Top web credibility factors are listed. Reviews on five state government websites are also prese...

Introduction: Preparedness for the prevention of travel-related infectious diseases among Malaysian international travelers has yet to be explored. With no such data, health programs to empower travelers on behavioral responses towards travel-related illnesses will be ineffective. The current study aimed to develop and validate a new scoring-based instrument measuring Malaysian...

Purpose – This study attempts to examine the relationship between service quality perception and customers’ satisfaction in Malaysian Islamic banking using the SEM approach. Design/methodology/approach – This model starts with SERVQUAL measurement scales consisting of six dimensional structures: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy, and plus the compliance dimensions t...

the acehnese mahseer, locally known as keureling, tor tambra is one of the highest economically valued freshwater fishes found in aceh waters. the culture of t. tambra was initiated in aceh province, indonesia more than five years ago. however, the growth rate in captivity has been low, probably due to feeding problems. hence, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the optimum level...

In Malaysia, there is no research done on the tensile strength of structural size timber. The tension stress found in the Malaysian code of practice, MS 544: Part 2: 2001, was not determined directly and it was taken as 60% of the bending strength values of small clear specimens. This paper presents the results of the tensile test on structural size timber specimens from selected Malaysian Trop...

Purpose To analyse the publications of, and the citations to, the current staff of 19 departments of computer science in Malaysian universities, and to compare this bibliometric data with expert peer reviews of Malaysian research performance. Method Author and citation searches of the Scopus and Web of Science databases. Findings – Both publication and citation rates are low, although this is a...

This paper reports on an investigation of the critical success factors (CSFs) of knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) among Malaysian undergraduate students (MUS). The research question considered the question regarding “what makes knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) successful among two Malaysian undergraduate communities in Manchester, United Kingdom and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?”The overall aim of ...

This study investigates the relationship between self-confidence and achievement among Malaysian students using multinomial logistic regression and the data are from TIMSS 2007. Although, in general, Malaysian students had low self-confidence in learning mathematics, their performance in mathematics at the international level is higher as compared to some countries with high level of self-confi...