Titanium alloys are commonly used in biomedical application in hard tissues replacement especially for knee and hip implants but facing huge wear debris due to continuous cyclic contact within the joints of the implants. Diamond coating is a potential solution for improving the tribological and wear properties of the implants made from this alloy.

This article empirically investigates the presence of financial constraints in the Malaysian capital market. The existence of financial constraints gives firm less access to external funds to finance their investment activities. Therefore, the constrained firm has to rely on internal sources of financing. The severity of financial constraints is re

Previous studies show that the implementation of Industrialized Building System (IBS) in Malaysia gives significant benefits the construction industry by reducing the site labour, clean site and fast construction. However, the qualities of the local IBS products are still being argued. Manufactured home constructed in developed countries appears to

The development of multimedia propagations and applications has led to a greater expansion in the field of video transmission over a heterogeneous media as well as iterative delivery platforms with dedicated content requirements. It is known that conventional video coding systems encode video content with given bitrates adapted to a specific functi

In this era of digital communications, video compression has become a necessity and plays an integral role that aids the widespread use of multimedia over the Internet. In the digital world, with the rapid growth of the Internet and the introduction of high-definition media, compression is used to exploit limited storage and transmission capacity a

Introduction: Dengue is one of the commonest infections in Malaysia and it is a notifiable disease. Even though the diagnosis of classical dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever can be recognized clinically, the diagnosis remains a challenge in areas where it could not be differentiated with other febrile illnesses. The aim of this study was to

Abstract CYP3A5 is one of the important drug metabolising enzyme and its polymorphism shows marked differences in protein expression and catalytic activities between different geographical ethnic groups. Both tamoxifen and tacrolimus are substrates of CYP3A5 and thus the polymorphism may cause pharmacokinetics variation which explains the wide vari

Dunia pendidikan sentiasa mengalami perubahan selari dengan peredaran zaman dan tuntutan keperluan negara. Dengan itu, sistem pendidikan memerlukan seseorang pemimpin yang berkaliber dalam mencapai impian dan wawasan negara. Di institusi pendidikan, peranan pengetua adalah sangat penting di mana gaya kepimpinannya dapat mempengaruhi dan memajukan t

A cheat-proof protocol for real-time gaming is proposed under the assumption that time-stamp servers issue serially numbered time stamps honestly and are available near every player, i.e., they exist everywhere in the Internet. With this protocol, each player sends its action to the other player and also sends its hash to the nearest time-stamp ser

This paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm with dynamic spread factor inertia weight and its application to dynamic modeling of a flexible beam structure. In this study, system identification scheme based on PSO is formulated to obtain a dynamic model of the beam in parametric form. A PSO algorithm with dynamic spread factor