This paper explores diversity of open space as one of the salient parameters for good public place making in the built environment. Two open spaces in colonial towns of Taiping and Georgetown were selected as study sites. This paper is exploratory in nature, which applied descriptive and affective analysis on the users' experiences of the two o

This research studies diversity as a parameter in the built environment in two types of open spaces in colonial towns of Taiping and Georgetown. The richness of natural landscape elements, scales of spaces, distribution of activity patterns, and variety of visual stimulants in the open spaces were among the dimensions of diversity explored in this

The brain is the greatest gift from God. It has marveled thousands of brain experts worldwide but it has to be noted that the brain needs proper stimulation in order for it to perform to its maximum capacity. IQMA Training Sdn Bhd was established with this aim in mind, that is, to enhance human development through training to give the brain maximum

Data compression is very necessary in business data processing, because of the cost savings that it offers and the large volume of data manipulated in many business applications. It is a method or system for transmitting a digital image (i.e., an array of pixels) from a digital data source to a digital data receiver. More the size of the data be sm

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the exchange rate misalignments for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand before the currency crisis. By employing the sticky-price monetary exchange rate model in the environment of vector error-correction, the results indicate that the Indonesia rupiah, Malaysian ringgit, Philippines pes

Hepatitis C is a viral disease caused by hepatitis C virus. Patients infected with the virus may develop chronic hepatitis, who were remain asymptomatic. Our objective is to established a sensitive and reliable assay for the detection of HCV-RNA in serum. Sera were collected from 39 chronic HCV patients and 53 from patients with negative anti-HCV.

Privatization of higher education is a global trend. There is an increasing demand for higher education due to the nature of work and economy today and public universities and colleges could not meet the demand with its limited financial resources from the government. Private higher education institutions (PHEI) seem to be the most attractive alter

Waste management issues are encountered in almost every nation. Reports and discussion papers retrieved in developed and developing countries alike show that wastes and their management solutions are a common concern and challenge. One of the solutions is implementing the Waste Management Hierarchy. The aim of a Waste Management Hierarchy is to min

Islam made its presence in the Malay-Riau archipelago, which comprised the bulk of Southeast Asia today, very early in its history. The Islam that was embraced blended quite well and peacefully with the local cultures and traditions. Historically, the success of its women was evident from the fact that Acheh had queens ruling the Muslim kingdom for

Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is a well-known concept for discovering available spectrum in cognitive radio system (CRS). This paper addresses the impact of synchronal sensing technique in DSA to multimedia data such as audio signal since random switching from one channel to another channel may impact the signal quality. Data degradation such as di