This paper deals with cases of any sudden death or unnatural death or death by violence or of any person being found dead without its being known how that person died. It discusses among others, on the requirement to inform the relevant authorities especially the police, the manner of investigation to be conducted and whether a post mortem of the d

Purpose – Since the mid-1990s, there has been a rapid expansion of large-scale foreign retailers in many countries across Southeast Asia, Central Europe and Latin America. This emerging trend has triggered a number of research interests on the issue of retail globalization. The research aims to consider the entry of foreign hypermarkets in Malays

A study on the genetic variation of Barbonymus schwanenfeldii (Bleeker) populations from Malaysia was done using partial sequencing of cytochrome b mtDNA gene. Samples were collected from various localities in Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah, including the Indonesian (Kalimantan) type of B. schwanenfeldii from Kapit, Sarawak. Phylogenetic re

Despite the fact that the aim of the Shari'ah is to establish a healthy family unit through marriage, Islam does recognise divorce. Divorce is, however, couched in the context of important moral and human principles. Islam commands husbands and wives to consort with each other with kindness or to part from each other with kindness. Divorce shou

Cultural differences have been one of the many factors that can cause failures in speech emotion analysis. If this cultural parameter could be regarded as noise artifacts in detecting emotion in speech, we could then extract pure emotion speech signal from the raw emotional speech. In this paper we use the amplitude spectral subtraction (ASS) metho

We have established that tricolourability would be a way of distinguishing some of knots(links) by showing that tricolorability is an ambient isotopy invariant. We have extended the notion of tricolorability to colorability of knot(link) and have shown that colorability of knot (link) is also an ambient isotopy invariant. We have shown that no knot

This paper presents a review of various multi-criteria decision analysis techniques. The focus of this research is to identify suitable techniques to be used to assign weights between different factors that influence user acceptance of software technology in the healthcare industry. Three widely known methodologies used for identifying, classifying

Unitl recently, the use of plant pigments as natural food colourantis expensive and uncompetitive to synthetic dyes due to their high production costs. Such disadvantages could be overcome with the development of microbial food grade pigments which are likely to cut down the high production cost, thus leading to a cheaper source of natural food col

In this paper the speech emotion verification using two most popular methods in speech processing and analysis based on the Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) and the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) were proposed and analyzed. In both cases, features for the speech emotion were extracted using the Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) and Short T

This paper discusses the importance and the instrumental role of witnesses in the States' of Malaysia Islamic administration of justice, particularly the Syariah Courts in Malaysia. Can a witness who refuses to attend a court hearing to give evidence after being duly summon may be compelled by a warrant of arrest to do so? Accordingly, this pap