This chapter discusses the use of unattended sensors and its use in marine environment. The authors present challenges of designing a marine sensor in harsh environments and a case study in implementing a marine sensor to study hypoxia. Hypoxia is a world-wide anthropogenic phenomenon related to pollution. The authors describe the construction of a

The last few decades have witnessed the widespread adoption of the communicative approach to teaching English to students of other languages with a view of helping them achieve communicative competence. However, in terms of implementation, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has encountered various problems in the EFL and ESL contexts. Drawing on

The focus of this paper is to examine the importance of cultural landscape reclamation, as well as historical values with which historical occurrences and incidences are associated. The study strives to gain insights from traditional cultural values and the importance of their reclamation in society. Indeed, most of the historical occurrences emerg

This study aims to identify factors affecting willingness in using Islamic microfinance products in Mauritania. Based on the experience of the Islamic microfinance institution PROCAPEC-Nouakchott, the study tests the effect of social barriers, religiosity, debt-phobia in affecting usage among the respondents. As well as testing the moderator effect

Dynamic of urban farming brings a significance which contributed by the fast growth of urban population. In some developed countries like Japan and Singapore, the approaches of urban farming inside of the buildings of residential, offices or workplaces, commercial and industrial lots at the city center were already begin to pop-up and embedded. Far

This study attempts to examine the impact of using Islamic microfinance products on the Mauritanian microentrepreneurs’ income level. The study is purely quantitative, and it uses cross-sectional design data which was gathered through a questionnaire from a sample of 381 beneficiaries of an Islamic microfinance institution (PROCAPEC). It uses Str

Particulate matter (PM) plays a crucial role in altering the air quality, human health and materials. PM does not only affect human health but damages the museum's artefacts in many ways such as paint and materials deterioration, metal corrosion, fading of dyes and soiling of stone rubber, and textile. The main aim of this research is to quanti

Introduction: Since the clinical studies have shown that people suffering from tinnitus are at a high risk of developing serious psychological disturbances or serious psychological distress (Hiller and Goebel, 1998), the purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between lifetime noise exposure and tinnitus experience among young adults

Understanding the semantics of objects and scenes using multi-modal RGB-D sensors serves many robotics applications. Key challenges for accurate RGB-D image recognition are the scarcity of training data, variations due to viewpoint changes and the heterogeneous nature of the data. We address these problems and propose a generic deep learning framew

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an analytical literature survey of selective studies on legal documentation in Islamic home financing with particular reference to Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – This study adopts the legal positivist methodology, with particular reference to inclusive legal positivism which takes into consideration