This paper presents the empirical findings of a study that investigated the effects of expatriates' social network characteristics on their perfonnance on overseas assignments. We have used the predictions from social learning theory in explaining the consequences of expatriates' social networks by analyzing relevant field data collected in

Construction industry is an important aspect of any countries economic development of as it is essential for creating industrial and social infrastructure. There are various methods deployed in construction industry in order to carry our construction projects successfully. Joint ventures are common phenomenon as it enable partnership or conglomerat

It has been constantly asserted that the intellectual property (IP) system is an effective way to enhance creativity, technological innovations, trade and competitiveness. Others, however, maintain that the IP system may not necessarily be the most effective and appropriate way to fuel the economy. This article investigates the role that IP plays i

Objectives: This study was focused on the finite element techniques to investigate the effect of surface treatment on the fatigue life of the vibrating cylinder block for new two-stroke free piston engine using random loading conditions. Motivation: An understanding of the effects related to the random loading is necessary to improve the ability of

A neural networks (NN) model has been trained to predict the performance characteristics of a dual fuel internal combustion engine (ICE). In the network, back propagation (BP) neural network with Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) and scaled conjugate gradient (SCG) algorithms, single hidden-layer and logistic sigmoid transfer function has been used to optim

This chapter proposes an emotion recognition system based on time domain analysis of the bio-signals for emotion features extraction. Three different types of emotions (happy, relax and sad) are classified and results are compared using five different algorithms based on RVM, MLP, DT, SVM and Bayesian techniques. Experimental results show the poten

Surface roughness (Ra) and kerf taper ratio (TR) characteristics of an abrasive water jet machined surfaces of glass/epoxy composite laminate were studied. Taguchi’s design of experiments and analysis of variance were used to determine the effect of machining parameters on Ra and TR. Hydraulic pressure and type of abrasive materials were consider

This paper describes the design, analysis and comparison of two ∞ H controllers that use two different uncertainty model representations; unstructured and structured (parametric) uncertainties. The later is usually considered as less conservative. However, the application of intelligent techniques like Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System (ANFI

This research seeks to identify the ways in which land use planning system can be used to improve public health in Malaysia. the present state of Malaysian environment has been deteriorating owing to the priority accorded to economic development is rather worrying. This study seeks to examine the role assumed by the land planning and development pr

IFSB’s Guiding Principles on Shari'ah Governance Systems for Institutions Offering Islamic Financial Services defines “Shari'ah governance system” as the set of institutional and organisational arrangements through which an institution offering Islamic financial services oversees Shari'ah compliance, i.e., that Islamic banking pro