Keruntuhan akhlak dan perpecahan rumah tangga dalam masyarakat Islam kini berada pada tahap yang kritikal. Dalam suasana begini sikap menuding jari antara ulama dan cendekiawan Islam yang dianggap liberal perlu dihentikan. Sikap mencabar dan merendahkan peribadi antara satu sama lain bukan sahaja boleh menyebabkan tugas mereka sebagai pendakwah gag

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Internationalization and integration mark as one of the important visions of IIUM. In view of this, the university has established a Rectory (office of the Seputy Rector Internationalization and Innovation) as well as an International Students Office. Other than these two agencies, the Students Affairs Division, in particular, the residential accom

The effect of enzymatic pretreatment on the degree of corn and mung bean starch derivatization by propylene oxide was investigated. The starch was enzymatically treated in the granular state with a mixture of fungal R-amylase and glucoamylase at 35 °C for 16 h and then chemically modified to produce enzyme-hydrolyzed-hydroxypropyl (HP) starch. Par

A two-level fractional factorial design (FFD) was used to determine the effects of six factors, i.e. substrate (domestic wastewater sludge – DWS) and co-substrate concentration (wheat flour – WF), temperature, initial pH, inoculum size and agitation rate on the production of cellulase enzyme by Trichoderma harzianum in liquid state bioconversio

The hybridization of thermoplastic natural rubber based on carbon fiber (CF) and kenaf fiber (KF) was investigated for its mechanical and thermal properties. Hybrid composites were fabricated with a melt-blending method in an internal mixer. Samples with overall fiber contents of 5, 10, 15, and 20 vol % were subjected to flexural testing, and sampl

A laboratory-scale study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of using palm oil mill effluent (POME) as a major substrate and other nutrients for maximum production of citric acid using the potential fungal strain Aspergillus niger (A103). Statistical optimization of medium composition (substrate–POME,co-substrates–wheat flour and glucose,

In this paper, novel techniques in increasing the accuracy and speed of convergence of a Feed forward Back propagation Artificial Neural Network (FFBPNN) with polynomial activation function reported in literature is presented. These technique was subsequently used to determine the coefficients of Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) and Autoregress

Voice identification is a task of identifying a person based on the content of information in one’s voice signal which distinguishes his/hers from voices of other people. This paper presents an educational project on a simple voice identification system, which uses two parameters of voice features: the fundamental frequency or pitch and the vocal