Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) has several advantages compared to conventional systems such as higher machine utilization, higher efficiency, less inventory, and less production time. On the other hand, FMS is expensive and complicated. One of the main problems that may happen is the deadlock. Deadlock is a case that happens when one operation

Canting or ‘tjanting’ is a traditional hand tool that is used to apply wax in lines and fine dots on a cloth to create beautiful batik designs. In this study, the thermal and structural characteristics of the wax determined via differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy respectively. The actual te

Decriminalization of illegal drugs have been proposed in different forums as the easy way out or the possible approach in preventing drug abuse. It was proposed and strongly supported by some groups of intellectuals after drug policy failed to alleviate this devastating problem in their own respective state. The advocates emphasized that legalizing

From the early days of Islam, dynamics of Islamic education in the entire Muslim world have always been associated with the teaching of the holy Qur’an. At the basic elementary level, institutions which provided Qur’an education were often supervised by the ruling authorities, private charitable philanthropists, or pious and people. This educat

One distinct character of education in medieval Islam is the fact that teaching and learning activities were not regarded by both the shuyūkh (master scholars) and talaba or tullāb (students) as a waẓīfah (job) for the former and potential source of income after graduation for the latter. On the contrary, both segments took teaching and learni

The mangrove at Cherating river estuary are diverse in species diversity and well distributed along the seven kilometer of the riverine swamp. The study on the mangroves cover are needed for coastal development planning and monitoring. Methodology: Combination of unsupervised and supervised classification of Landsat Satellite imageries were used fo

The existence and stability of bright odd strongly localized modes in discrete binary media with cubic and quintic nonlinearities are investigated mainly by applying anti-continuum method. There are three different types of bright localized modes being studied; symmetric, antisymmetric and shifted odd modes. However, certain analytical analysis is

The aim of the study was to isolate digestive enzymes inhibitors from Mimosa pudica through a bioassay-guided fractionation approach. Repeated silica gel and sephadex LH 20 column chromatographies of bioactive fractions afforded stigmasterol, quercetin and avicularin as digestive enzymes inhibitors whose IC50 values as compared to acarbose (351.02

This study investigates the relationship between Principal Change Leadership Competencies, Teacher Change Beliefs and Teacher Attitudes toward Change. A total of 936 teachers from 47 High Performing Secondary Schools in Malaysia completed the survey. Structural equation modelling was applied to test the models. Firstly, the results showed that Prin

This paper presents an experimental investigation of the behavior of a biomass test material, wheat. Ground wheat grain is replicated as fine biomass base. The experiment is based on voltage application inside a capacitive sensor. This sensor allows the sensing of very small capacitive variation. The sensor is incorporated with an interface sensing