The coastal area is often promoted in tourism for its natural scenery of the sand, sea and the sun. In Malaysia, most coastal tourism attractions are located near the rural areas and are accessible via the roadways. Through a rural route, tourists have theopportunity to experience the rural landscapes and natural attractions, traditional villages,

In recent years, the institution of the museum has changed its dominance to become increasingly focused on visitor attractions. The equivalent of 4.0 revolution museum institutions worldwide implemented a paradigm shift in demonstrated that it remains relevant for the eyes of the public (visitors). The displacement of the museum is strengthened as

It is undeniable that people life patterns and technological developments are interrelated within a supply and demand cycle. In the education world, the emergence of the internet and mobile technologies has opened the learning boundaries through the use of mobile learning (m-learning). In Indonesia, the learning service industry has been begun to e

The proliferation of information and communications technology, merged with the increasing amount of big data and interconnectivity, turns out to be a deadly combination when it comes to the threat of terrorism. Just like any industry that grows up with the new technologies, criminals and terrorists would certainly make use of the sophistication of

Biometrics-based personal authentication systems that use physiological (e.g., fingerprint, face) or behavioral (e.g., speech, handwriting) traits are becoming increasingly popular, compared to traditional systems that are based on tokens (e.g., key) or knowledge (e.g., password). On the other hand, biometric systems are vulnerable to attacks, whic

Characterization of anisotropic materials and particularly composite materials requires great number of experiments for a complete characterization and identification of all the directional constitutive properties. Lately due to the technological advancements in optical measurements and computational resources, new methods have been proposed based

This chapter discusses virtual fields method which is used for characterization of composite or anisotropic material with the use of full field heterogeneous deformation data. The method has shown very promising results when used for identification of materials constitutive properties and a set of full field data. This chapter discusses the basic w

Lateral crushing experiment on a model of a composite based-fuselage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been carried out. The middle cylindrical part of the fueslage was selected as the area of interest. The model was fabricated using Carbon fiber/epoxy by means of hand lay-up method and was put under quasi-static compression loading in order to

This chapter discusses the numerical issues in construction of piecewise virtual fields over a specimen. The improvement and advantages over the use of single virtual element has been examined. Such a piecewise construction has been successfully used to characterize a thin composite plate in bending. Moreover, the use of piecewise elements has show

This chapter discusses numerical issues in noise minimization and a representative cost function to be minimized. Such a minimization helps in finding a unique and optimized set of unknown bending rigidity that is least sensitive to noise. This chapter presents an optimized identification procedure with minimum noise sensitivity and its adaption fo