Abdominal obesity (AO) is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, hypertension and diabetes mellitus in adults. There is a lack of data on the magnitude and socio-demographic profile of AO among Malaysian adults at the national level. In the Third National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS III) conducted in 2006, AO of adults aged 18

This In this paper, Convolutional coder software implementation using Viterbi decoding algorithm for bitstream that has been encoded using Forward error correction is presented. It will discuss the detailed description and the steps involved in simulating a communication channel using convolutional encoding with Viterbi decoding. The steps will inv

This paper attempts to integrate RF technology into smoke detector circuitry.In the proposed system, a smoke detector upon senses smoke activates its alarm, sends a low voltage signal to all other smoke detectors in the vicinity. This low voltage signal activates the individual relays in the other smoke detectors causing them to emit a tone that al

Audio compression has become one of the basic technologies of the multimedia age. The change in the telecommunication infrastructure, in recent years, from circuit switched to packet switched systems has also reflected on the way that speech and audio signals are carried in present systems. In many applications, such as the design of multimedia wor

The approach to error correction coding taken by modern digital communication systems started in the late 1940’s with the ground breaking work of Shannon, Hamming and Golay. Reed- Muller (RM) codes were an important step beyond the Hamming and Golay codes because they allowed more flexibility in the size of the code word and the number of correct

This paper reports on a preliminary study to assess the condition of written English among construction undergraduates. The study, using the content analysis method, examined written works belonging to first year construction undergraduates (cohort 2006107) in identifying and analysing errors in spelling, grammar and syntax. The key findings of the

In the present study the effect of size and different shapes of electrodes on material removal rate (MRR), job surface finish and wear ratio (WR) during EDM has been investigated. The work material taken was mild steel and the electrode material taken was copper. The size of the electrodes was 9mm, 15 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm in diameter. The shapes of

The emphasis on communication is more apparent in mathematics classrooms of recent years as open-ended teaching and teaching via problem solving become more popular. Communication is considered as one of the mathematical processes that need to be inculcated through the teaching of mathematical content in the Bruneian curriculum. The emphasis is sta

This paper discusses the current state of the art of research and future trend of research activity towards achieving mechanisms and technology for useful implementation of efficient snake robots. Snake robot is meant to mimic motion of a natural snake, which does not possess any limb. Natural snakes can undergo wide range of motion and are able to

Bayramı, Ramazan, Terengganu’da geçirmeyi düşünmek, fakülteden bir arkdaşın beni memleketine davet etmesiyle birlikte gündeme geldi. Oldukça ilginç bir keşif olacağını baştan biliyordum. Farklı bir kültürü yakinen yanıyacak olacağımdan dolayı da çok heyecanlıydım. Bir ara arkadaşa, ramazan bayramını memleketi olan Te