This essay focuses on how members of the Malay community are characterised in Lloyd Fernando‟s Green is the Colour (1993) by highlighting the complexities and nuances surrounding Malay identity. Fernando‟s characterisation of Malays puts focus on discourses of identity and belonging that continue to dominate imaginaries on personal and national

In the last decades, there have been an increasing interest among the researchers to develop robots or robot parts that have close functionally and appearance as human. This paper presents the development of a pair of anthropomorphic robotic hand to perform shoe-tying task to assist the elderly and handicapped, and also for prosthetics and humanoid

The effects of overcrowding have become a major concern for event organizers. One aspect of this concern has been the idea that overcrowding can enhance the occurrence of serious incidents during events. As one of the largest Muslim religious gathering attended by pilgrims from all over the world, Hajj has become extremely overcrowded with many inc

Path planning is very important for autonomous mobile robots to navigate from the beginning to the ending position. Vision aided path planning for mobile robot system is discussed in this paper. The paper reveals the accounts from a historical overview and provides a study on how to develop a single vision system for a mobile robot, which implement

eakeeping analysis involving violent flows is still quite challenging because the conventional Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approaches for complex numerical methods are not effective in such flow simulations. This research aims to apply smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), a fully Langrangian meshless method to investigate the behavio

Due to the increasing roles of bank governance after the Global Financial Crisis, Basel III gives great emphasis on the role of the board of directors in ensuring a long‐term survivability of the banking industry. This study aims to examine the relationship between board structures, board monitoring and board diversity towards the efficiency of s

Phytase, also known as phytate-degrading enzyme, catalyzes the hydrolysis of phytate (inositol hexakisphosphate) with sequential release of phosphate and lower inositol phosphate. We report here a new plasmid construct designated as pMSuia from pBAD-TOPO that harbors a 1.1 kb phytase gene (phyMS) from Mycobacterium smegmatis, and expression as well

The distinctive fragrance and pleasing odor of the agarwood came from the resinous materials impregnated in the phloem of the tree as a response to infection. Artificial inoculants have been developed by ?trial and error? methods to boost the resin formation. These artificial inoculants have been used widely in this region despite no strong scienti

Risk management (RM) has always been the focus of software project management studies. The abilities to monitor and control the software project risks are among the critical issues examined by various researchers. This paper discusses steps in the RM process based on Boehm model. A survey was conducted to know the perceptions of respondents on thei

Software development process in general starts with Requirements Engineering (RE) process. During the RE process, requirements are identified, analyzed and relevant information is modelled into representation that could be further used by the development team. These processes involve abstraction processes at various levels of details according to t