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Publications in year 2003

I. Publications in journals

• Eow, J.S., Sharif, A.O., and Ghadiri M., 2003, "Drop-drop coalescence in an electric field: the effects of applied electric field and electrode geometry", Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 219, no.1-3, pp. 253-279.

• Eow, J.S., Zhang, B., and Ghadiri, M., "Flow misdistribution and corner fluidization in non-uniform packed bed: pressure and velocity profiles", accepted for publication in Powder Technology.

• Golkar, M.A., 2003, "A new probabilistic load-flow method for radial distribution networks", European Transactions on Electrical Power, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 167-172.

• Junaid, M.S. and Khadaroo, I, 2003, "Toward research and development costs harmonization", CPA, Journal Certified Public Accountant, vol. LXXIII, no. 9, pp. 50-55.

• Junaid, M.S. and Talha, M., 2003, "Credibility and expectation GAP in reporting on uncertainties", Managerial Auditing Journal, vol. 18, no. 6/7, pp. 517-529.

• Lau, H.H., Godley, M.H.R. and Beale, R.G., 2003, "The influence of column base connectivity on the ultimate load of columns", Computers & Structures, vol. 81, no. 18-19, pp. 1827-1849.

• Low, I.M. and Oo, Z., 2002, "Diffraction Studies of a Novel Ti3SiC2-TiC System with Graded Interfaces", Journal of the Australasian Ceramics Society, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 112-117.

• Sarker, P.K. and Rangan, B.V., 2003, "Reinforced concrete columns under unequal load eccentricities", ACI Structural Journal, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 519-528.

• Twaiq, F.A., Mohamed A.R. and Bhatia, S. 2003, "Liquid hydrocarbon fuels from palm oil by catalytic cracking over aluminosilicate mesoporous catalysts with various Si/Al ratios", Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, vol. 64, pp. 95-107.

• Yan, H. M. 2003, "An non-isothermal model for Bubbling Fluidized-Bed Gasifiers", accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering and Processing.

II. Publications in Conferences Proceedings

Aljada, M., "Synchronous Traffic in FDDI/WDM Networks", accepted for presentation at 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics and Information Technology, Jecheon, Korea, 2-7 December 2003.

Al-Zubaidy, S., and Vakhguelt, A., "Interphase heat transfer during finite amplitude wave interaction in the gas suspension", International Conference on Chemical Engineering and Bioprocess Engineering, Sabah, Malaysia, 2003.

Al-Zubaidy, S., and Vakhguelt, A., "Evolution of finite amplitude waves in heaped granular material", Engineering and Technology Conference, 30 July - 1 August 2003, Kuching, Malaysia.

Al-Zubaidy, Abdullah and Bhinder, "Meteorological Study and Air Conditioning Requirements for Kuching and Amman", Engineering and Technology Conference, 30 July - 1 August 2003, Kuching, Malaysia.

Bhatia, S., Ooi, Y.S., Twaiq, F.A., and Mohamed A.R., "Production of biofuel from palm oil", Proceedings of PETROTECH, New Delhi, India, January 2003, pp. 9-12.

Bhatia, S., Mohamed A.R. and Twaiq, F.A., "Catalytic Cracking of palm oil over metal loaded HZSM-5 catalysts", Proceeding of CHEMECA, 29 September - 1 October 2003, Adelaide, Australia.

Cook, S., Al-Zubaidy, S., and Harris, D., "A system approach to modeling the piloting system in multi-crew aircraft", 10th Australian International Aerospace Congress and 14th National Space Engineering Symposium, 29 July - 1 August 2003, Brisbane, Australia.

Dubdub, I., 2003, "Prediction of vapor liquid equilibrium of ammonia-water system using neural network", 31st Annual Australian Chemical Engineering Conference, 29 September - 1 October 2003, Adelaide, Australia.

Dubdub, I., 2003, "The effect of the liquid-phase activity model on the simulation of MTBE production by reactive distillation using ASPEN PLUS", accepted for presentation at Regional Symposium on Chemical Engineering, 1-3 December 2003, Makati, Philippines.

Giridharan, B. and Conlan, C., "L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: Investigating the Key to Lexical Comprehension", HERDSA 2003 conference proceedings at website http://surveys.canterbury.ac.nz/herds03/pdfsnon/N1068.pdf

Giridharan, B., "Legends, Myths and Folklores of Bario", Paper presented at the The Inaugural Curtin Miri/ Curtin Bentley Research Collaboration Workshop, organized by the Research Unit for the the Study of Societies in Change( RUSSIC), Curtin University of Technology, 28th-29th November 2003.

Golkar, M.A., "Power quality consideration of distributed generation", 2nd Regional Conference on Energy Technology towards a Clean Environment, pp. 518-524, 12-14 February 2003, Phuket, Thailand.

Gorin, A.V., Vakhguelt, A. and Al-Zubaidy, S., "Transient two-phase flows: governing equations and one-dimensional models for pipeline simulation", 8th International Workshop Transport phenomena in two-phase flow, Burgas, Bulgaria, 2003

Gorin A.V., Vakhguelt, A., Al-Zubaidy, S., "Wave propagation in semi-infinite porous media", 25th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop 2003, Auckland, New Zealand.

Herrmann, J.U., 2003, "The use of artificial intelligence in massively multiple online games", Artificial Intelligence Applications in Industry, 24-25 June 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Lee, D.S.K., "The added values of MBA studies in Malaysia", accepted for the 17th ANZAM Conference, 2-5 December 2003, Fremantle, Australia.

Ng, A.K.H., "Digital technology in higher education: on-line learning - from virtuality to reality: a case of Sarawak, Malaysia", 3rd International Convention of Asia Scholars, National University of Singapore, 19-22 August 2003, Singapore.

Ng, A.K.H., "Virtual technology in higher education: challenges & collaboration", The 26th Association of Southeast Asian Institute of Higher Learning, University Malaysia Sabah, 29 September - 1 October 2003, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

Ng, A.K.H., "E-commerce security to counter cyber terrorism attack", The 1st International Conference of the Asian Academy of Applied Business, Narrowing the Competitive gap of Emerging Markets in the Global Economy, School of Business and Economics, 10-12 July 2003, University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

Reddy, Y.S., "Dividend and signaling: study of extreme and non-extreme dividend behaviour of Indian firms", accepted for 16th Annual Australasian Banking and Finance Conference, 17-19 December 2003, Sydney, Australia.

Rohani, B. and, Zepernick, H.J., "Frame Erasure Pattern Feedback for Real-Time Perceptual Quality Estimation", accepted for presentation at 4th International Conference on Information Communications & Signal Processing and 4th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, 15-18 December, 2003, Singapore.

Rohani, B., Abaii, M., "QoS Augmentation in GPRS via Adaptive Half-Rate Speech Coding", 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Communications, 21-24 September 2003, Penang, Malaysia.

Zepernick, H.J., Nordholm, S., Rohani B., "Link Adaptation Using Perceptual Quality Measures Speech Communication in Wireless Systems", Erd ATcrc Telecommunications & Networking Conference and Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003.

Sarker, P.K. and Rangan, B.V., "Reinforced concrete columns using high strength steel", The 21st Biennial Conference of the Concrete Institute of Australia: "Concrete in the Third Millennium, 17-19 July 2003, Australia, vol. 2, pp. 715-726.

Sivathasan, S., "A dynamic allocation scheme for the dual priority CDMA Aloha", accepted for presentation at the 7th International Symposium on Digital Signal Processing and Communications Systems and publication in conference proceedings, 7-12 December 2003, Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Australia.

Sivathasan, S., "Stability of the dual group priority-based CDMA aloha system: the selection of control parameters", Proceeding of the 4th National Conference on Telecommunication Technology, pp. 132-135, 14-15 January 2003, Shah Alam, Malaysia.

Tiong, K.M., Yong, S.T. and Lau, S.T., "The challenges of mathematics curriculum development at an offshore campus: a case of Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak Campus", International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education: Which Way Now?, 14-16 October 2003, University of Malaya City Campus, Kuala Lumpur.

Tiong, K. M. and Zainal A. A., "On the Splitting of a Solitary Wave Propagating Over a Slowly Varying Topography", XI National Symposium on Mathematical Sciences, 22-24 December 2003, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

Yang, L.L., Yan, H.M. and Zhang, D.K., "Aspen modeling of catalytic partial oxidation of propylene", Australian Symposium on Combustion & The 8th Australian Flames Days, Monash University, Australia, 2003.

Yesudhasan, T.J., "Youth, Radio and Social Transformation", International Conference on Designing Communication for Diversity organized by the Australian New Zealand Communication Association, 9-11 July 2003, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.