This study explores the efforts, Malaysia, is putting in place, using the pervasiveness of ICT in managing disasters; both naturally and man-made. These efforts had given birth to various agencies and initiatives from prediction/mitigation to control and management but yet the loss of lives and properties during such incidents, which are bound to h

Beside the humanoid platform both in the male and female form, a huge numbers of researches are advancing to design and develop the humanoid robot kits ensuring the educational, research and business value. Because of the smart design with few numbers of actuators, smaller in size and weight, lower power having simplified controller and modest pric

Human like sovereign system that is capable to adapt itself with the changes of its environment and continue to reach its goal is considered as Humanoid Robot. In recent years much progress has been done in the design and development of humanoid and still there have a lot of opportunities in this field. Strategies of lower torso are concern for man

In near future humanoid robots will not only be able to socialize with the human being but will also be able to replace him even in the irksome and dangerous tasks, ranging from rescuing situations to interplanetary exploration. Nowadays many researchers are engaged on this field to make the humanoid more adaptable, intelligent and representable to

In this work, a combination of artificial neural network (ANN), Fourier descriptors (FD) and spatial domain analysis (SDA) has been proposed for the development of an automatic fruits identification and sorting system. Fruits images are captured using digital camera inclined at different angles to the horizontal. Segmentation is used for the classi

Void formation in oxide scale during high temperature oxidation is a common phenomenon.Over a long period of time voids will affect the mechanical property of scales by influencing the cracking and spalling. Voids formed in dry environment are different than that of formed in humid environment. With the presence of water vapor in humid environment

December 2004 recorded a tragic scene of human suffering caused by Asian Tsunami disaster. Due to fault displacement within the convergent boundary zone between the Indian oceanic plate and the Eurasia continental plate, an earthquake results large tsunamis disaster which killed over 165,000 people in early January 2005. Relatively, only few animal

Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, has been experiencing a rapid rate of urbanization over the last four decades. This has created the need for housing which initially started in a low density fashion in the city, but it gradually turn into high density because of increasing land price and shortage of land in the core urban areas. The grow

Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh and it has a population of 12 million. During the last three decades, while the city population grew over 7%, bastee (slum and squatter) population of the city grew from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 million in 2005. Several policy approaches were adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka since 1975. Thes

Problem Statement: Property crimes in residential areas has become a concerning issue in Malaysia. Environmental design based crime prevention theories such as defensible space, Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) and 2nd generation CPTED have recommended to construct gates and fences as target hardening techniques in the resident