With a mandate to general demand on quality education globally, educational administrators have increasingly embraced quality management as an important process through Deming theory of quality assurance for creating global staffs’ mind-sets on quality and to enhancing a profound quality achievement in Higher Education Institution (HEI). Meanwhil

Empirical analysis is an important area in software engineering. One of the ways to ensure the quality of any software is to measure the software using statistical analysis of various metrics from empirical data. The emergence of various open source software repositories has contributed tremendously to the advancement in the empirical software engi

Android applications or apps are taking the smart phones industry to a new level. Smart phone users can do most of their everyday tasks using the various types of applications offered in the Android Play Store. Generally, prior to installation of the apps, users need to agree on the permissions requested by the apps, they are not given any other op

One of the main challenges for empirical researchers is to collect software data. However, with the emergence of the open source repositories, they have a large amount of software to choose from for mostly any types of research. Moreover, the mining software repositories research area can be further extended to the mobile apps mining. Generally, se

The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) had emphasized all Muslims to search knowledge event it is distance far away and to be found in a place as distant as in China. Due to the current globalisation, many Muslim students inspired and desired to study abroad, out of their home country to learn and acquire knowledge for success to ensure they can help to improv

Recent juristic debate rages around the possibility of using zakah revenue in Islamic law of public finance to better realize its intended poverty eradication goal. At the theoretical level, both the proponents and opponents employ extensive juristic argumentations to support their points of contention. The thrust of the proponents argument is that

Electronic government or e-government has long been known as a breakthrough of a new form of communication and transaction between the government and citizens, the government and industries, and among the government agencies. Simply, e-government is meant not only to help the government to accomplish its daily administrative activities but also to

Piezoelectric tube actuators are widely used in atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) for nanoscale positioning. There has been a consistent effort to increase the scan speed of these actuators using feedback control techniques. A feedback controller requires a measurement of the scanner's deflection, which is often provided by a

This paper presents experimental implementation of a positive position feedback (PPF) control scheme for vibration and cross-coupling compensation of a piezoelectric tube scanner in a commercial atomic force microscope (AFM). The AFM is a device capable of generating images with extremely high resolutions down to the atomic level. It is also being

The atomic force microscope (AFM) is a device capable of generating topographic images of sample surfaces with extremely high resolutions down to the atomic level. It is also being used in applications that involve manipulation of matter at a nanoscale. Early AFMs were operated in open loop. As a result, they were susceptible to piezoelectric creep