The modern scientific and technological culture has made man to realize the importance of ecological equilibrium and environmental health to his life. Sustainable built environment is the idea which allows maintaining and extending quality of life through the various generations. In fact, the dawn of environmental and ecological consciousness is ar

The artificial neural network (ANN) is an information processing model which is developed from the inspiration of practical biological nervous system. ANNs are analogous to the human brain, which can perform a variety of complex tasks if configured properly through a learning process. The research work involves with the utilization of ANN as a clas

This study touches on the contextual effects in approximating the time range of a phoneme. This is done by tracking the time of long vowels in the samples of the study. The effects in approximating the time of the phoneme will be concluded through the analysis of the Quranic recitations by the samples which consist of reliable recitors such as Syai

This paper presents the design, optimization and performance evaluation of artificial neural network for the efficient classification of Electromyography (EMG) signals. The EMG signals are collected for different types of volunteer hand motion which are processed to extract some predefined features as inputs to the neural network. The time and time

The twenty-first century witnessed tremendous progress in the field of information and communication technologies, education technologies, globalization, and modernization, in which the rich countries equip schools, colleges, institutes and universities with educational technologies which include computer labs, intranet (LAN &WAN), internet (th

Electromyography (EMG) signal based research is ongoing for the development of simple, robust, user friendly, efficient interfacing devices/systems. An EMG signal based reliable and efficient hand gesture identification system has been developed for human computer interaction which in turn will increase the quality of life of the disabled or aged p

This article examines voluntary disclosure in the annual reports of 85 Malaysian companies listed on Bursa Malaysia. In departure from prior studies, which mainly examined the impact of social or environmental accidents on corporate disclosure, we examined voluntary disclosures for two years, 2006 and 2009, in an attempt to determine whether the 20

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the trend of intellectual capital disclosures (ICD) over a three-year period (2008-2010), when the Malaysian business environment was characterized by a number of major events such as the recent 2008/2009 global financial crisis and corporate governance restructuring. Design/methodology/approach �

The wavelet transform is an efficient technique for multi-resolution analysis of non-stationary and fast transient signals. For this reason, wavelet transform has been widely applied in signal analysis through processing, encoding, denoising and encrypting. The objective of this paper is to represent the development process of VHSIC (Very High Spee

Polymorphisms within the beta2-adrenergic receptor (ADRB2) gene have been repeatedly linked to hypertension. Among the ADRB2 polymorphisms detected, Arg16Gly and Gln27Glu codons are considered the two most important variations. The amino acid substitution at these codons may lead to abnormal regulation of ADRB2 activity. The aim of the present stud