The classification of environmental sounds is important for emerging applications such as automatic audio surveillance, audio forensics, and robot navigation. Existing techniques combined multiple features and stacked many CNN layers (very deep learning) to reach the desired accuracy. Instead of using many features and going deeper by stacking laye

In recent years, growing attention has been paid to the conversion of biomass into bioethanol which is considered the cleanest liquid fuel alternative to fossil fuels. One of the major applications of cellulase lies in the process of hydrolysis of cellulosic or lignocellulosic material to produce sugar which can be further fermented to produce etha

The issues of corporate governance became very popular in the corporate world in UK, USA and Europe during the last two decades. With the opening up of economies and liberalization, the concern for corporate governance also spread to the developing world. Therefore, most of the developed and developing countries, including Malaysia have laid down c

Takaful (Islamic insurance) has been widely accepted as an alternative to conventional insurance and offered in many Muslim and non-Muslim countries. The unique feature of Takaful is that is suitable and acceptable for anyone regardless of the religion to our surprise, Takaful has not been introduced in India. India has the third largest Muslim pop

Islamic banks cannot promise to pay fixed rate of return to the depositors although they are trying to pay at least the same rate of return provided by the conventional banks. Changes in interest rate put additional pressure on the Islamic banks to compete with the conventional banks. One way to compete the rate provided by the conventional banks i

Corporate governance theories, namely the agency theory, stewardship theory and stakeholder theory, have been used in developing the best practices of corporate governance. However, corporate scandals leading to the downfall of financial giants such as Enron and WorldCom in 2003 and the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 have revealed serious ina

Corporate governance theories, namely the agency theory, stewardship theory and stakeholder theory, have been used in developing the best practices of corporate governance. However, corporate scandals leading to the downfall of financial giants such as Enron and WorldCom in 2003 and the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 have revealed serious ina

Insurance has been widely used as a risk mitigation tool in our personal lives as well as in business world. It is not deniable that insurance has become part of parcel of our daily lives and it provides the benefits and protection to us when we are unfortunate. However, the concepts of riba (interest), gharar (uncertainty) and mysir (gambling) inh

Corporate governance issues become getting attention from the regulators, industrial players and investors due to the financial crises and recent corporate failures. Australia is ranked in the fourth position in terms of having good corporate governance practices after United Kingdom, United States of America and Canada. In Asia, Australia is one o

Takaful has been known as Shari’ah compliant insurance and it is penetrating not only into the Muslim countries but also into the non-Muslim countries. Among the countries which offer Islamic finance products, Malaysia is well known as one of the leading countries encouraging this industry. Due to the rapid growth of the takaful industry, the pre