The teaching and learning of languages need not necessarily be focused entirely on the acquisition of language skills. While the primary aim of language instruction is enhanced proficiency in a language, we need to inculcate values-moral, spiritual, human, ethical, etc. in our teaching and learning activities. The paper demonstrates how this may be

A community is a particular group of people that are bound by a similar cultural practice and activities. The continuation in the practicing the local culture developed an identity for the community. Through time, the identity is strengthened by the level of community involvement in response to their participation in preserving the culture. For tha

The last two decades have seen prolific company law reform and corporate governance transformation internationally. The changes have been attributed to various factors ranging from changes to shareholding demographics, the growth and impact of technology on corporate law and practice to new business and investment models. An added dimension to corp

First-person videos have unique characteristics such as heavy egocentric motion, strong preceding events, salient transitional activities and post-event impacts. Action recognition methods designed for third person videos may not optimally represent actions captured by first-person videos. We propose a method to represent the high level dynamics of

Recognizing semantic category of objects and scenes captured using vision-based sensors is a challenging yet essential capability for mobile robots and UAVs to perform high-level tasks such as long-term autonomous navigation. However, extracting discriminative features from multi-modal inputs, such as RGB-D images, in a unified manner is non-trivia

Although possessing the basic skills of practicing medicine, the post of ‘medical trainees’ are considered to be transitory until they metamorphose into fully qualified medical doctors. Thus, the medical training period tends to be crucial as it serves as a platform for the trainees to gain all the required practical knowledge and skills in tre

A child’s academic success is often dependent on his or her ability to attend to tasks and teacher and classroom expectations with minimal distraction. For children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), one of the biggest issues faced by them is their inability to sit still and pay attention in the classroom. Without the treatment

One of the functions of law is for the settlement of dispute which led to the development of mediation and sulh in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process. Mediation is a process whereby both parties intend to reach consensus in resolving a dispute through an agreement between the parties whereby mediator become an assistance in terms of commu

Plants are the most common host for fungal communities. However, vegetables and herbs traditionally consumed by the Malay community have not been thoroughly investigated for their association with fungi. The main objective of the present study is to identify the Ascomycetes fungi associated with Eurycoma longifolia Jack and vegetables traditionally

Image matching technique requires a robust and fast technique to be applicable in various application. This paper investigates which recognition technique suits better in matching an image of printed Arabic text. The recognition algorithm involves the conventional Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) and Orien