As new technologies evolve, new demands are created for protective coatings which are required to have stability over a range of quite aggressive service conditions. For instance, the surfaces of shafts, bearings and steam turbine blades for use in turbine engines are to be protected against daunting effect of high-temperature dry sliding wear. Und

Hardsurface layer was developed by tungsten inert gas (TIG) surface melting on AISI 4340 alloy steel with pre-placed TiC powder and energy input of 1344 J/mm in an argon gas environment. The composite coating layer was produced using an 80 A current, 35 volts potential difference and with a traversing speed reaching 1 mm /sec. The developed hardsur

Dual and multi-band rectangular microstrip antennas can be realized by cutting U slots inside the patch. In this paper, the length and width of U-slots are optimized in order to achieve dual-band and multi-band. Computer Simulation Technology (CST) software was used to design, simulate and optimization of antenna. Two resonant frequencies at 1.8 GH

After half a century of development, Islamic finance has grown into an industry that is very different from the ideals envisioned by its pioneers. There have been widespread calls for reform, but the direction of this reform has been a subject of great debate. This paper looks at the current state of the Islamic finance, defining where the main iss

One of the determining factors for a successful research output is the design of the research itself. Thus, a researcher, a methodologist or an epidemiologist and a biostatistician may each have his/her own perspective of how to optimize the design of research, by playing an active role in both planning and conducting the research. Therefore, this

High-resolution is generally required and preferred for producing more detailed information inside the digital images; therefore, this leads to improve the pictorial information for human analysis and interpretation and to enhance the automatic machine perception. However, the real imaging systems may introduce some degradation or artifacts in the

The 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing technique is a key aspect of studies of microbial communities but does not provide direct evidence of a community’s functional capabilities. This work aimed to assess the structure of the uncultured bacterial communities from two locations in Lake Tuz in Turkey to provide information on their roles in the lake eco

Increasing traffic requires durable and low-noise road surfaces. Urban residents complain about excessive traffic noise that leads to an unhealthy environment. Understanding techniques to produce durable, low-noise pavement has led to the development of rubberized concrete block pavement (RCBP) and rubberized asphalt concrete pavement (RACP). The c

Payments for women who breastfeed a child has been widely discussed in the literature. Questions whether they should be paid with some amount of money arises in the community for such women who are in marital relationship or have been divorced. Nevertheless, wages for a woman who breastfeed a non-biological child and the consequence of such practic

This study aimed to evaluate attitudes and barriers towards scientific research among undergraduate pharmacy students. This preliminary descriptive study took place between August and December 2018 and included 200 students of year 3 and year 4 from Kuliyyah of Pharmacy in IIUM, Kuantan. A validated questionnaire survey with 15 close-ended question