IT is possible that some of the writers who were born in the Malayan territory that now constitutes Malaysia chose to stay back in Singapore after the political separation between the two countries, or later moved to Singapore and other countries, because of the stiff policies on language and literature. Would Catherine Lim or Suchen Christine Lim

Singapore's pragmatic approach towards English has been best summed up by its current Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, in the following statement: “Our mother tongues carry with them values, ancient cultural heritages and a sense of identity. To lose some of this, because we need to speak English, an international language of business and sci

A collection of critical essays on Malaysian literature in English generally as well as some of the major writers in the tradition. Examines the challenges, prospects and achievements of the tradition in the last seventy years. The book has three sections. The first section has several chapters on the tradition of Malaysian writing in English. The

Electrolytic In-Process Dressing (ELID) grinding using a super-abrasive wheel has opened up the gateway for ductile machining of hard and brittle materials to achieve nanometric surface finish. ELID grinding uses anodic dissolution of a metal-bonded grinding wheel to ensure constant protrusion of the sharp grits to realize smooth and stable grindin

A major issue in both Islamic finance and conventional finance is whether the shocks to the volatilities in the asset returns are substitutes or complements in terms of taking risk. An understanding of how volatilities of and correlations between asset returns change over time including their directions (positive or negative) and size (stronger or

Early diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) has been suggested as a good measure of preventing blindness associated with Diabetes. Some of the reported methodologies of Retinal Images (RI) classification for early diagnosis of DR have been shown to involve several steps and approaches for effective and accurate diagnosis. Thus, this paper investig

Background:A low correlation between returns of cross-border stock market indices allows investors to minimize portfolio risk through international diversification. Due to high comovement among conventional stock indices, international investors are looking for different cross-border or asset classes such as ethical and Shari‟ah-compliant investm

The study investigates causality between palm oil price, exchange rate and the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) based on the theory of wavelets on the basis of monthly data from the period January 1990 - December 2012. This methodology enables us to identify that the causality between these economic variables at different time intervals. This wa

During the last years, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and its applications have obtained considerable momentum. However, security and power limits of WSNs are still important matters. Many existing approaches at most concentrate on cryptography to improve data authentication and integrity but this addresses only a part of the security problem with

Simple, low-cost and stable passive Q-switched thulium-doped fibre lasers (TDFLs) operating at 1892.4 and 1910.8 nm are demonstrated using 802 and 1552 nm pumping schemes, respectively, in conjunction with a multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) saturable absorber (SA). The MWCNTs composite is prepared by mixing the MWCNTs homogeneous solution int