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  1. Azam M, Khan AQ
    Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 2017 Jul;24(19):16407-16417.
    PMID: 28550635 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-9299-4
    This study examines the impact of economic growth, corruption, health, and poverty on environmental degradation for three countries from ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand using annual data over the period of 1994-2014. The relationship between environmental degradation (pollution) by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and economic growth is examined along with some other variables, namely health expenditure, poverty, agriculture value added growth, industrial value added growth, and corruption. The ordinary least squares (OLS) method is applied as an analytical technique for parameter estimation. The empirical results reveal that almost all variables are statistically significant at the 5% level of significance, whereby test rejects the null hypotheses of non-cointegration, indicating that all variables play an important role in affecting the environment across countries. Empirical results also indicate that economic growth has significant positive impact, while health expenditures show significantly negative impact on the environment. Corruption has significant positive effect on environment in the case of Malaysia; while in the case of Indonesia and Thailand, it has insignificant results. However, for the individual analysis across countries, the regression estimate suggests that economic growth has a significant positive relationship with environment for Indonesia, while it is found insignificantly negative and positive in the case of Malaysia and Thailand, respectively, during the period under the study. Empirical findings of the study suggest that policy-makers require to make technological-friendly environment sequentially to surmount unregulated pollution, steady population transfers from rural areas to urban areas are also important, and poverty alleviation and better health provision can also help to improve the environment.
  2. Kashif Sarfraz Abbasi, Tariq Masud, Abdul Qayyum, Sami Ullah Khan, Shabbar Abbas, Jenks M
    Sains Malaysiana, 2016;45:677-688.
    Potatoes are usually stored under low temperatures for sprout prevention and to ensure their continuous supply. Low
    temperature sweetening in potato is the major temperature related disorder being faced by the growers and is also
    known to be associated with variety specific storage temperature. The present study aimed at identifying the appropriate
    storage temperature for the premium potato variety Lady Rosetta with special reference to the changes in its quality
    attributes, that is weight loss, total sugars, starch, ascorbic acids, total phenolic contents, radical scavenging activity,
    enzymatic activities and potato chip color. The selected potato variety was stored under different temperature (5, 15 and
    25o
    C) regimes to identify appropriate storage temperature. Our results showed significant variations in the tested quality
    attributes in response to different storage temperatures. Storage at 5o
    C maintained tuber dormancy up to 126 days,
    however, found associated with increased sugar accumulation (2.32 g/100 g), rapid starch depletion (13.25 g/100 g) and
    poor post processing performance (L-value, 52.00). In contrast, potato storage at 15o
    C retained lower sugar contents
    (1.33 g/100g) and superior chip color (L-value, 59.33) till the end of storage. However, they were found associated with
    the increased polyphenol oxidase (38.47 U/g f.w) and peroxidase (15.25 U/100 g f.w) activities as compare to those
    potatoes stored at 5o
    C during the same storage period. Storage life of potato tubers at 25o
    C was significantly reduced
    due to dormancy break on 84th day and subsequent starch degradation (15.29 g/100 g) increased sugar accumulation
    (1.32 g/100 g) and increased polyphenol oxidase (79.89 U/g f.w) and peroxidase activities (40.69 U/100 g f.w). Our
    results showed that potato variety Lady
  3. Azam M, Khan AQ, Bin Abdullah H, Qureshi ME
    Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 2016 Apr;23(7):6376-89.
    PMID: 26620862 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5817-4
    The main purpose of this work is to analyze the impact of environmental degradation proxied by CO2 emissions per capita along with some other explanatory variables namely energy use, trade, and human capital on economic growth in selected higher CO2 emissions economies namely China, the USA, India, and Japan. For empirical analysis, annual data over the period spanning between 1971 and 2013 are used. After using relevant and suitable tests for checking data properties, the panel fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) method is employed as an analytical technique for parameter estimation. The panel group FMOLS results reveal that almost all variables are statistically significant, whereby test rejects the null hypotheses of non cointegration, demonstrating that all variables play an important role in affecting the economic growth role across countries. Where two regressors namely CO2 emissions and energy use show significantly negative impacts on economic growth, for trade and human capital, they tend to show the significantly positive impact on economic growth. However, for the individual analysis across countries, the panel estimate suggests that CO2 emissions have a significant positive relationship with economic growth for China, Japan, and the USA, while it is found significantly negative in case of India. The empirical findings of the study suggest that appropriate and prudent policies are required in order to control pollution emerging from areas other than liquefied fuel consumption. The ultimate impact of shrinking pollution will help in supporting sustainable economic growth and maturation as well as largely improve society welfare.
  4. Yusmady Md Junus, Abdul Qayyum Nazri, Nabilah Hanim Mohd Anuar, Noralvina Nazri, Rafiza Mohamed, Rosmiza Awang Noh
    MyJurnal
    Tujuan kajian ini dijalankan adalah untuk mengenalpasti secara terperinci tentang kursus kokurikulum
    berteraskan pembelajaran servis (CSL) dan kecenderungan pemilihan kursus mengikut persepktif
    pelajar diploma di Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (UTMKL). Kepentingan dalam
    berkokurikulum sangat penting dalam mengukuhkan sifat insaniah dalam diri seorang pelajar yang
    cemerlang. Kajian ini melibatkan 406 responden daripada 1,904 jumlah populasi pelajar diploma
    UTMKL. Data dikumpul melalui instrumen borang soal selidik yang diedarkan kepada pelajar diploma
    UTMKL. Analisis kajian mendapati terdapat pelbagai jenis kokurikulum dibahagikan mengikut empat
    (4) kluster masing-masing yang dikenal pasti bagi objektif pertama. Objektif kedua pula adalah
    mengenal pasti kecenderungan pelajar terhadap pilihan kursus CSL ini. Didapati bahawa kursus yang
    berteraskan kesukarelawan mencatatkan kecenderungan yang paling tinggi. Manakala skor kursus
    Memanah dari kluster sukan, rekreasi dan kebudayaan pula mencatatkan skor pelajar yang paling tinggi
    kecerungan pelajarnya. Kesimpulannya, walaupun jumlah respondan hanya 21.32% dari bilangan
    populasi yang memberikan maklumbalas kepada kajian ini, namun ia dapat memberikan indikator
    kepada kecenderungan pemilihan kursus CSL mengikut persektif pelajar diploma UTMKL. Hasil
    daripada kajian ini boleh digunapakai dalam membuat perancangan penawaran kursus CSL mengikut
    pilihan dan kehendak pelajar.
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