15th November 2009 marked the tenth anniversary of the Consumer Protection Act 1999 (the CPA), which was introduced with the noble idea of providing better protection to consumers in Malaysia. The CPA covers all the main areas of consumer protection such as supply of goods, supply of services, product safety and liability and redress mechanism. The

School-to-work transition is indeed a confusing and difficult period for young people. Youth employability is often hindered by the fact that young people lack the right work attitude required by the employment market. In Malaysia, the age youth is defined as those between 15 and 40 years old (Lee, 2006). However, the particular concern of this res

Chatter is a vibration that occurs during machining operations resulting from instability of the cutting process with system responses of the spindle tool chuck system. One of the most challenging issues in machining process is to know the chatter characteristics. The main problem with chatter is that its mechanics is still not yet fully understood

From decomposed snail in the bottle of ginger bear (Donoghue v Stevenson) to a recent melamine crisis, the problem of defective goods continues to haunt consumers despite the existence of law dealing with liability for products. In fact product liability or liability for defective products which concerns with civil liability of those involved in th

In this paper, an advanced control technique for substrate feed rate regulation of fed batch fermentation is developed. It is reliable in dealing with possible variations in the process condition. In this study, neural network and fuzzy logic methods are used in the design. As a case study, the baker’s yeast production process is chosen to test t

A present a modular navigation technique in relation with the signal from RFID tags, and RFID reader. We will come out with the simplest circuit and micro-controller to navigate the identification number on RFID tags. The main idea is to test the ability of mobile robot to navigate the location in indoor environments. The RFID reader is mounted on

Bottom sediment samples from 30 stations of Pahang River estuary collected in April 2008 were analyzed for the concentration of Pb and Cu using the Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). The average concentrations of Pb and Cu were 74.31 ± 22.97 μg/g dry weights and 18.65 ± 7.65 μg/g dry weights, respectively. In this study, the

The percentage of organic carbon contents of 62 bottom sediments in Pahang river- estuary were analyzed using the wet dichromate oxidation method. The sediments particle sizes at the same stations were also measured using the dry sieving and laser diffraction methods. In this study, the concentrations of organic carbon are relatively higher during

Ocean sediments give information on the paleoclimatic evolution in the geological past which gives detailed information on both the age of the sediments and both paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic conditions during sedimentation. One possible way to date sediments is with 210Pb method which can be used to date sediments up to 100 years. In this st

The information technology (IT) revolution has taken the world by storm. Despite it’s many champions and advocates, IT has left many people feeling confused about its proper place and use. In the Muslim world, attitudes towards IT are quite diverse. On one hand, there are some scholars, particularly those with scientific backgrounds, who eagerly