An observation and modelling study of thermal behaviour of porous pavement of an urban area, as related to the physical nature of the site, is presented. The measurement and calculations are made in comparison with a natural surface grass. The measurement program was conducted during the month of February 2008 at IIUM Gombak Campus. Results indicat

Forward masking models have been used successfully in speech enhancement and audio coding. Currently, simple forward masking models have been employed to predict the forward masking threshold. In this paper, an accurate approximation of forward masking threshold using neural networks is proposed. A performance comparison to the other existing maski

Several control policies of half-car 4-DOF semiactive system, namely skyhook, groundhook and hybrid controls are presented, as a continuation of the previous work on quarter-car 2-DOF model. Their ride comfort, suspension displacement and road-holding performances are analyzed and compared with passive system. The analysis covers both transient and

Introduction: Serological verification among haemodialysis patients in Kuantan, Pahang, an East Coast town in Peninsular Malaysia is routinely updated for every 3 months by Ministry of Health. However, the determination of the HCV genotypes for each infected patient has not yet been attempted. This study aims at the determination of HCV genotypes a

This paper presents some preliminary thoughts on funding research primarily in Islamic economics. It bases its proposals on the fact that despite more than 30 years of research and publications in the area of Islamic economics and finance, the overwhelming proportion of attention has been given to the latter, with research in Islamic economics not

It is an essential requirement for a marriage to be registered according to the procedures as provided by the law. Non-registration of a marriage leads to the non-availability of a marriage certificate, being the main proof of the existence of the marital relationship. This situation results in various legal complications in claiming the rights, in

This article revisits the origins of the Islamic reformist movement that arose in the nieneteenth century. Tunisia was chosen because the spirit of reform manifested itself in the form of intellectual activity and socio-political action. The article highlights the features of the Tunisian experience before the French occupation in 1881, reveals the

Providing space diversity at mobile devices such as handsets, personal digital assistants (PDA), etc is costly and problematic, due to their strict space limitation. Recent studies, however, have revealed that extraordinary diversity gain, which results in the remarkable benefits of an increased achievable transmission code-rate and a reduced infor

In this paper we consider a system of two two-level atoms interacting with a single-mode quantized electromagnetic field in a lossless resonant cavity via l-photon-transition mechanism. The field and the atoms are initially prepared in the coherent state and the excited atomic states, respectively. For this system we investigate the entropy squeezi

Based on disaggregated data, this study empirically examines the importance of foreign portfolio investment (FPI) on the Malaysian economic performance. The study adopts the vector error correction model to analyze the relationships between FPI inflows from major investing countries, namely the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong