Perhaps the most sensitive issue relating to the Islamic penal system as it bears upon non-Muslims is the issue of whether or not a Muslim who kills a non-Muslim is liable to qisas, or just retribution, which in this case takes the form of the death penalty. Hanafi jurists maintain that a Muslim who intentionally kills a dhimmi (a non-Muslim who, f

The enormous amount of data has been boundlessly growing over the last few decades and expected to exponentially do so in the future. However, a substantial size of this accumulated amount is discarded anyhow. The processing capabilities have been considered as one of the major barriers in the way of exploiting this priceless mine. Therefore, the i

The takeovers and mergers of companies is a common activity in an active and dynamic equities market. As takeovers and mergers often involve large sums of money and affect many parties, effective regulation of this activity is essential for the healthy operation and confidence of the market. In this regard, regulations and requirements are set out

Finite element simulation of the rigid die compaction of metal powders can significantly help designers avoid some of the typical problems they face such as the high density gradients within compacted parts and related cracking. In this paper, the modeling of an axisymmetric flanged part using finite element packages ABAQUS and LS-DYNA has been inv

Although Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has been practiced by Western countries over the last 40 years, very little is known about how HCI is being incorporated in Malaysian practices. We undertook a 12-week ethnographical study aimed at revealing HCI perceptions at different managerial levels in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)depa

Human activity recognition has become very popular in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we present a simple, robust and computationally efficient algorithm, architecture and implementation to recognise and classify human activities in real-time using very few training data. We employ a spatio-temporal representation of human activities b

In the trend toward improvement of quality assurance, billions of parts per year are nondestructively tested for surface cracks in the automotive industry. This puts a lot of stress on both the automotive components manufacturing process and the human inspectors. In order to streamline the entire automotive components production system and to relie

There is growing interest in the problem of human activity recognition, motivated by its countless promising applications in many domains. Despite much progress, most researchers have narrowed the problem towards fixed camera viewpoint owing to inherent difficulty to train their systems across all possible viewpoints. Fixed viewpoint systems are im

This paper describes the use of ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation in corrosion detection of aircrafts structures. Initiating on the inside or in the interface of an aircraft’s skin, the corrosion must be tested from the outside surface. Corroded aluminum as well as corrosion simulation samples were inspected using pulse-echo technique of ultra

condition but continues to be a frequent management problem among doctors. Despite the availability of guidelines on management of SP, studies have shown that the compliance with the guidelines is low. The various treatment options available in treating this condition further confuse doctors on the right approach in managing SP. The objective of th