Self-Management Intervention for Malaysian Women with Breast Cancer: Enabling Quality of Life and Participation
Patient self management is an essential part of medical care for chronic diseases, its application with oncology conditions is relatively new. Cancer, particularly breast cancer, has become a form of chronic illness which requires a new model of care.

Green Innovation of Cement for Masonry Building
Promoting sustainable construction and environmentally friendly mortar and plaster. Introducing zero defect masonry structures and finishes. Minimizing waste in construction. Conserving and preserving heritage masonry building and creating alternative way in recycling glass bottle waste

Research on Oral Health of Orang Asli in Malaysia
Oral Health of the Pribumi Research Group is one of the research clusters at the Faculty of Dentistry. The objectives are to identify the prevalence of oral diseases and practices; their impact on oral health related quality of life, the occlusal trait patterns, their genomic profile in relationship to diseases particularly oral diseases and the specific prevention and promotive approaches appropriate for the target community.

Toward Innovation of Cementitious Material From Waste Material
Hydraulic lime was not uncommon binder for mortar, plaster and concrete prior to the widespread used of Portland cement in the mid 19th century. The evidence of it use can be found in many prominent historic masonry buildings, old construction specifications and treatises. The survival of the Roman¿s Pantheon (constructed 19 hundreds years ago) in it original form shows that the hydraulic lime mortar is exceptionally a durable material (Blezard, 1998).

Classification of Purpose Built Office Buildings in Malaysia
A commonly acceptable classification system is non-existent in this country. This NAPREC funded project represents a local initiative to develop a framework for the classification of office buildings in Malaysia.

Malaysian Oral Cancer Database and Tissue Bank (MOCDTB) system
A Malaysian Oral Cancer Database and Tissue Bank (MOCDTB) system was set up to facilitate research in all aspects of oral cancer and precancer including aetiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis, quality of life and basis of genetics to ensure sharing of available resources. This study aims to identify the risk factors, prognostic markers and gene expression of oral cancer and precancer and its impact on patient¿s quality of life.

The Industrial Training Experience: The Perceptions of Industry Towards UM Students
This study was aimed at gauging industrys perception of industrial trainees from UM in relation to their overall performance and on the quality of their soft-skills and attributes. The data were collected through questionnaires where industry evaluators were asked to rate the quality of students on a five-point Likert scale measuring four areas of the trainees skills. The results indicate that the majority of UM students were perceived by industry as having good language and people skills. Nevertheless it is a worrying trend that between 20-28% of the students were only rated as fair for presentation and communication skills in English. Further, a sizeable number of students were perceived as lacking in sufficient expertise in technical skills, problem-solving and analytical skills.

A Marriage of Convenience: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis in Real Estate Negotiation
The study investigates the negotiation process of second-hand property and highlights the importance of triangulating approaches as a means of complementing the drawbacks of one method, thus a marriage of convenience. The need for this marriage between Conversation Analysis (CA) with Ethnography is essential. CA basically prescribes to the notion of analysing data exclusively on what the participants see and hear (Sacks et al. 1974) but the meaning intended and interpreted by the recipient differs from the obvious linguistic meaning. In view of this need to explicate speaker meaning, ethnographic information is a necessary partner. This study looks at negotiation cases which were audio recorded and data was later transcribed based on Jefferson s (1986) transcript convention. Findings reveal that this marriage of convenience provides significant results that help establish understanding of the negotiation exchange.

Sewang : An aboriginal Temuan performance
The Temuan community realizes of the need to continue doing the Sewang in the face of modernity and progress. At the same time a new entertainment form, the ronggeng is becoming increasingly popular. There seems to be a clash of traditional cultural practise as exemplified by the Sewang and the new "hi-tech" entertainment of the ronggeng.

Design and development of an inverter-drive system for IPM-motor-driven air-conditioners
Interior permanent-magnet (IPM) motor's increasing popular use in air-conditioners is owed to its high efficiency highest among ac and dc motors, and 30%-50% more efficient than common induction motors are. Air-conditioners guzzle power so the consequently reduced power consumption and running costs are welcome