10th Institutional Research Colloquium (10th ICR 2009)

Instruction to Authors

PAPER FORMAT : INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS

10th Institutional Research Colloquium (10th IRC 2009)
Each oral and poster presenter is required to submit a full paper (research article) for publication
in the research colloquium proceeding. The research colloquium proceeding will be made
available at the time of the colloquium. In order to ensure that the proceeding can be published in
a rapid and timely manner, authors are required to adhere strictly to the following guidelines for
the preparation of the full paper. The full paper can be submitted to the Secretariat online
(mapuacolloquium@yahoo.com) on or before September 11, 2009. If you have any queries on
this matter, please feel free to contact the secretariat. Thank you for your cooperation and
contribution. We are looking forward to seeing you at the 10th Institutional Research
Colloquium..
Page Layout and Print Quality. Papers are to be prepared using standard PC-based MS Word
software. Papers must be in English, prepared on a single side, single space and single column of
a standard A4 size and cannot exceed eight pages. The margins should be set to 2.5 cm (1 inch)
for left, right, top and bottom. Use 12-point Times New Roman font throughout the paper unless
specified otherwise. Another exception is within tables and graphs where the text may need to be
reduced in size to fit the page. Blank lines are to be set at 12-point. The total number of pages
should not exceed 8.
Title and Authors. The title should be centered, using 16-point, IN BOLD CAPS, on the first
line of the front page. The next line should be blank, and followed by the list of author(s),
centered, and affiliation(s), centered. Use 12-point, all capitalized, for list of author(s) and 10point for affiliations. The affiliations should include department, university, address, country and
email address. Author(s) from multiple institutions can be indicated using superscript.
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(centered, 12-point, bold). Leave another blank line and followed by the text of the abstract (12point, justified). Leave one blank line after the text of the abstract and type Keywords: (align
left, 12-point, bold). A maximum of five keywords, separated by semicolon, should immediately
follow the colon.
Section and Subsection Headings. Common section headings include INTRODUCTION,
MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION,
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full name or expression with the acronym in parentheses the first time it is used.
Tables. Put one blank line above and below each table. Number tables with Arabic numerals (1,
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and centered with the word TABLE followed by the number and the text of the caption using
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then add metric conversions in parentheses.
References. List the references at the end of the text with Arabic numerals (1, 2, etc.) with the
order they appear in the text. Cite references in the text using [1], [2] and so on. The format for
journals and books is shown below.
[1] Speit, R.J., C.D. Cornell and U.T. Kaplan, Title of the paper, International Journal of Science
and Technology, Vol. X, No. X, 2000, pp. 125-134.
[2] Cornell, C.D. and U.T. Kaplan, Title of the book, Publishing House, 2003, pp. 125-134.

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A NEW REFUTATION OF THE CLASSICAL CONCEPT OF

TIME IN QUANTUM RELATIVITY (Capital, bold,16-pt)
AUTHORS' NAMES (Capital, 12-pt)
Department, University (10-pt)
Address (10-pt)
Country (10-pt)
youremailaccount@xxx.xxx.xx (10-pt)

ABSTRACT (Capital, bold, 12-pt)

Each oral and poster presenter is required to submit a full paper (research article) for publication
in the conference proceeding. The conference proceeding will be made available at the time of
the conference. In order to ensure that the proceeding can be published in a rapid and timely
manner, authors are required to adhere strictly to the following guidelines for the preparation of
the full paper. The full paper can be submitted to the Conference Secretariat online through the
conference website. If you have any queries on this matter, please feel free to email the
secretariat. Thank you for your cooperation and contribution. We are looking forward to seeing
you at the conference.
Keywords: Table; Figure; Title; Abstract; Section
INTRODUCTION
Life is a continuous process of energy conversion and transformation. The
accomplishment of civilization has largely been accomplished due to the increasing efficient and
extensive harnessing of various forms of energy to extend human capabilities and ingenuity.
Energy is thus one of the indispensable factors for continuous development and economic
growth [1]. However, at the same time, energy production can contribute to local environment
degradation, such as air pollution and global environmental problems, principally climate
change. Fig. 1 shows the energy demand for Malaysia in the year 1999, 2002 and estimated
values for 2005, 2010 [2].
Faced with the possibility of prolonged energy crisis, the government called for the
diversification of energy resources away from oil. As a direct consequences of this strategy, the
contribution of oil to the energy mix has dropped drastically from a high 90% dependence in
1980 to less than 10% in 2003 as shown in Table 1. On the other hand, natural gas, coal, hydro
and biomass contributed 71.0%, 11.9%, 10.0% and 1.1% respectively to the energy mix.
Table 1: Energy Mix in Malaysia
Source of Energy
Coal
Hydro
Oil
Gas

Percentage (%)
21.0
55.0
10.2
3.0

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MATERIALS AND METHODS

Yield of methyl esters (%)

Initial Sampling and Enrichment. Fig. 1 shows the effect of reaction time on the yield of
methyl esters when Na3PO4 is used as the solid catalyst. The yield of methyl esters was found to
increase when the reaction time was increased from 1 h to 2 h. However, beyond 2 h, no further
increase in the yield of methyl esters was observed. This result indicated that the
transesterification reaction was completed after 2 h of reaction period.
institutions can be indicated using superscript.
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
0

Reaction time (h)

Figure 1: Effect of Reaction Time on the Yield of Methyl Esters. Oil:methanol:catalyst

molar ratio of 1:6:0.04
Batch Reactors. A 4.5 liter fermentation unit was
Metal Analysis. Chromate was
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Isolation and Characterization of the Mixed Culture. All the isolated
Mixed Culture Growth and Transformer Oil Degradation Tests. The kinetics of biomass
production is shown in Eq. (1).
Rate = k1RT

(1)

Eq. (1) shows that the rate of the reaction.

CONCLUSIONS
This study demonstrates that
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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This research was supported by

REFERENCES
[1] Speit, R.J., C.D. Cornell and U.T. Kaplan, Renewable Energy Conversion and Utilization in
ASEAN Countries, International Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2000,
pp. 125-134.
[2] Cornell, C.D. and U.T. Kaplan, Sources of Energy, Elsevier, 2003, pp 125-134.