The recent years have seen significant progress in the takaful industry with a strong double-digit growth of 16% amounting to US$11 billion global gross takaful contributions in 2012. In order to sustain this growth and enrich its legal landscape, there is a need to examine the feasibility of effective dispute resolution mechanism for the takaful i

A real valued neural network (RVNN) based energy detector (ED) is proposed and analyzed for cognitive radio (CR) application. This was developed using a known two-layered RVNN model to estimate the model coefficients of an autoregressive (AR) system. By using appropriate modules and a well-designed detector, the power spectral density (PSD) of the

With sensitivity being an important factor in spectrum sensing based Cognitive Radio (CR) application; it remains unclear which out of the many existing Energy Detector (ED) techniques provides the best sensitivity performance for CR application. Consequently, this paper reports a study of some known parametric and non-parametric Energy Detector (E

The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of the coping strategy and level of representations of student-athletes at university level. More specifically, it also investigates the relationship of high school level of sport representations and university level of sport representation. A sample of 307 (female-213; male-94) univers

The objectives of the study are to identify and rank the factors that influence students’ voting behavior, to determine the type of political culture among students and to discover the relationship between demographic variables with factors that influencing students’ voting behavior. The data are collected using survey questionnaires. This stud

Electronics components such as bipolar junction transistors, diodes, etc. which are used in deep space mission are required to be tolerant to extensive exposure to energetic neutrons and ionizing radiation. This paper examines neutron radia tion with pneumatic transfer system of TRIGA Mark-II reactor at the Malaysian Nuclear Agency. The effects of

Moebius syndrome is a rare congenital condition typically characterised by congenital facial and abducens nerve palsies. Dysfunction of other cranial nerves, malformations of orofacial structures, and limb anomalies may also be present. The aetiology is not well understood, but may relate to chromosomal abnormalities and exposure to teratogens and

In this paper, a newly proposed Real Valued Neural Network (RVNN) based Energy Detector (ED) is presented for Cognitive Radio (CR) application. With little available on the performance of EDs in varying spectrum occupancy conditions, we provide a study to understand how occupancy variation affects the performance of a newly proposed RVNN based ED a

Study on bioconversion of ω-fatty acids extracted from giant snakehead (Channa micropeltes) fish oil was carried out using guinea pig lung homogenate. The fish oil, after hydrolysis to their fatty acids, was incubated aerobically at 37oC in phosphate buffer solution with the addition of guinea pig lung homogenate. After incubation and chemoreducti

Due to the importance, the natural polyphenol studies are being carried out around the world. This study also aimed to determine the total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid contetnt (TFC) and antioxidant capacity (DPPH) of three organic and conventional fruits pairs (red apple (Malus domestica), lady finger banana (Musa acuminata) and papaya