At this time of writing, the number of confirmed cases worldwide was 22.4 million, and the United States topped the list with over five million cases. For a country that’s envied throughout the world, especially developing nations, for its world-class performance in healthcare expertise and services, the US has fared quite badly in terms of its i

Active noise control (ANC) is the most popular method for attenuating acoustic primary noise or disturbances by generating controllable secondary sources by which the output noise can be cancelled with the same amplitude but with opposite sign/sense. Most available ANC uses the secondary path modelling including filtered x least mean square (FxLMS)

After more than one month of Movement Control Order (MCO), Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced a partial lifting to Conditional MCO (CMCO) to allow some economic sectors to operate. Companies, however, must adhere to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) outlined by the Ministry of Health, leading to mixed reactions. On one hand, b

History A26 -year-old woman presents with fever, headache and painful rash on her nose for four days. The rash was burning in nature.She did not have any blurring of vision. She has no other medical illness. On examination, her temperature is 37.50C. Her vital signs are normal.There are multiple vesicular rash with erythematous base over the tip of

The research assesses media freedom or media sustainability and politics in 37 Muslim majority countries. Media sustainability is measured using the International Researches and Exchange Board (IREX) score whereas political regime is measured using the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Index of Democracy. The analysis indicates that three countries f

Purpose This study aims to document the influence of information content and the informativeness of analyst reports towards cumulative abnormal return (CAR) in the Malaysian market. Design/methodology/approach Samples of analyst reports for the period 2010, January 4th until 2015, December 24th were collected from the Bursa Malaysia’s repository

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the pillars of the Malaysian economy. They contribute to the economy in many ways such as creating job opportunities, alleviating poverty, providing decent goods and services, serving complimentary inputs to large firms, diversifying products/inputs, training entrepreneurs and workers, and helping a supply ch

Machine learning has opened up the opportunity for understanding how the brain works. In this paper, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data are analyzed with reduced dimension.We have carried out a performance comparison of random projection (RP) and principal component analysis (PCA) with different number of components of fMRI data. In

The present study aims to examine the reliability, validity, and factor structure of the Malay version of Eating Disorder ExaminationQuestionnaire 6.0 (EDE-Q 6.0). It is essential to have a locally developed instrument that can screen eating disorders for early detection. With proper screening, the individual with eating disorders will be able to r

Muslims are concerned with the Halal status of food products sold in the supermarkets. Many products that are imported from overseas are not certified by JAKIM. In this paper, we proposed a conceptual model for benchmarking food products against certified Halal products. Our motivation is to provide similarity measurement between certified and non-