Exciting news! Today, I had the privilege of being the chairman for the MPhil viva session for Ungku Khalsom Sofia binti Ungku Yusoff. The session was a huge success and I am thrilled to announce that the student has passed with flying colors! We had the pleasure of having Dr. Zurinah from UKM as the external examiner and Dr. Tan Liat Choon from UTM as the internal examiner. Congratulations YM Ungku on this remarkable achievement! #MPhilViva #SuccessStory #Chairman #highereducation #Education #AchievementUnlocked
Exciting news! Our latest journal paper titled “Late Strata Titles Delivery: Insights and Impact To High Rise Housing Development” has just been published in the Planning Malaysia Journal (Volume 21, Issue 1, 2023). This paper delves into the implications of delayed strata title delivery on high-rise housing development, providing valuable insights for the field. If you’re interested in reading more, check out the link below to access the full paper. Thank you for your support!
Link to the paper: https://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/1246/928
Successfully published our research paper in volume 41 for the third edition this year (2023). The interesting part of our study this time is we observe the habits of litter in the community. Quite surprised with the amount of litter we collected within our research area. With the help of geospatial analysis techniques, we can see trends.
However, research is only an instrument for studying the effects of this waste. But the most important thing is the attitude to keep our place clean. Please don’t litter everywhere, guys. We talk about the SDGs, the Sustainable City, the Green Life, etc., but it is useless if there is no right “litter” attitude. It all starts with you (and me).
Title: Within cluster pattern identification: A new approach for optimizing recycle point distribution to support policy implementation on waste management in Malaysia.
Congratulations to Nor Safizah Ponachi on your MPhil proposal defense. Your determination signifies in the output you produced in the findings. Keep it up!
This is our first journal publication of this year. The concept of the city with an infrastructure of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) embraces several definitions depending on the meanings of the word “smart” which include: intelligent city, smart city, knowledge city, ubiquitous city, sustainable city, and digital city. Many definitions of the city exist, but this study explores which one has been universally acknowledged. From the literature analysis, it emerges that the term smart city is the most used in the articles to show the smartness of a city. This paper shares exploration of the research from the seven main website digital databases and journals focusing on the smart city from January 2015 to February 2020 to: (a) Time research, to examine the causes of the smart city phenomenon and other concept literature in the last five years; (b) Review of words, to see how and where the smart city specification and relation of different definitions are implemented; (c) Geographical research to consider where smart cities’ greatest concentrations are in the world and determine if Malaysians are interacting with the smart city; and (d) How many papers are published in all of Malaysia from 2015 to 2020 about smart cities. Three steps are followed to accomplish the aim of this study: (1) The analysis which covered a systematic literature review search strategy to gather a representative sub-set of papers on the smart city and other definitions utilizing GoogleScholar, Elsevier, Scopus, ScienceDirect, IEEEXplore, WebofScience, and Springer between January 2015- February 2020; (2) The formation of a bibliometric map based on the bibliometric evaluation using the mapping technique VOSviewer to visualize differences; (3) VOSviewer application program to build initial clusters. The bibliometric analytical findings targeted the word harmony.
Journal name: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Spending my 3 hours time with final-year BSc Geoinformatics students under my supervision. This mock proposal is not obligated; rather, it is intended to teach students the fundamentals of delivering a proposal defence presentation as well as future presentations (after graduation). This is not a lecturer’s KPI; people say it only adds work. But, regardless of what others say, the important thing is that my students gain new knowledge for future use. And we had “makan-makan” at the end of the session.
This year in 2022, I manage to get 8 blended learning awards from UTM. I would like to say a thousand thanks to UTM for giving me this recognition.
This directly give enthusiasm to the staff at the university to provide the best for lectures, labs and knowledge delivery to all students studying at UTM. Many thanks UTM!
This is the 11th journal publication in 2022. Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2), a Malaysia Smart Cities Stakeholders Adoption Model (MSCSA) was employed as a case study in this research. In-depth interviews with specialists from smart city development agencies were conducted using a mixed-methods research approach. These assessments provide city officials with a mechanism for measuring citizen interest in smart city services and a road map for establishing an efficient smart city plan.
Article: Factors Affecting Stakeholder Acceptance of a Malaysian Smart City. Journal: Smart Cities Quartile: Q1 Indexing: Web of Science, Scopus
Cite: Hamamurad, Q. H., Jusoh, N. M., & Ujang, U. (2022). Factors Affecting Stakeholder Acceptance of a Malaysian Smart City. Smart Cities, 5(4), 1508-1535.
Links: 1. Abstract: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/5/4/77 2. HTML Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/5/4/77/htm 3. PDF Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/5/4/77/pdf
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