This study focuses on the efficiency of the life insurance industry in Brunei and Malaysia. Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) is used to explore the contributions of technical and efficiency change to the growth of productivity in the Malaysian and Brunei life insurance industries by applying the generalized output-oriented Malmquist index for the yea

Abstract: This paper attempts to find out the extent to which traditional values are taking into consideration in developing Kampung Baru. Kampung Baru was established as a Malay community by the British government since 1899. In order to administer the affairs and to look after the needs of Kampung Baru residents, the Administration Board of Malay

Poverty eradication has been one of the most important concerns in developing countries. Many of the governments of these countries have initiated some forms of poverty alleviation programs to reduce poverty level in their respective countries. Studies have shown that microfinance is proven to be an effective tool to fight poverty in many developin

Energy harvesters based on acoustic vibration sources can generate electrical power through piezoelectric transduction. Significant miniaturization of electro mechanical devices using MEMS fabrication technology has encouraged the creation of portable, miniature energy harvesters. A niche application is aero acoustics, where wasted, high dB and hig

Vibration based inertial energy generators have become significantly popular due to the growing demand of wireless sensor networks which need miniature, portable, long lasting and easily recharged sources of power. Usage of hazardous batteries is an unacceptable solution to power up the densely populated nodes due to their bulky sizes and high batt

Objective: This paper aims to discuss the issue related to the application of temporary insanity plea through a case report of a man who was earlier certified as mentally sound following a murder and suicide attempt. Methods: We report a man who committed murder and attempted suicide 7 years ago, had a psychiatric certification of not having mental

Objective: To study the demographic data of patients and the pattern of crime in the study group, to look at the outcome of assessment by psychiatrist on fitness to plea and insanity at time of offense and to assess association between the nature of crime with presence of psychopathology during the crime. Methods: This is a retrospective study. All

Cocoa pod husk (CPH) is a by-product of cocoa production obtained after removing the beans from the fruit. The analysis of CPH has shown that it contains high amounts of protein. This study is aimed to utilize this protein source in hydrolase enzyme production. In this study, seven hydrolase enzymes (amylase, fructosyltransferase, mannanase,glucosi

Static random access memory cells (SRAM) are high-speed semiconductor memory that uses flip-flop to store each bit. Over the years, technology scaling of complementary metaloxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices has also resulted in the scaling of SRAM using minimum-size transistors. As transistor sizes scale down towards lower two-digit nanometer dime

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of monetary policy on the Islamic financial service industry by studying the findings of the existed literature. Design/methodology/approach – Because of the unavailability of the empirical models in the existing study, the authors used past studies review and proposed a new theo