Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify ‘‘qualitative’’ factors influencing voluntary information disclosure in annual reports. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews were held with twenty-seven market participants in Malaysia to elicit opinions on issues related to voluntary information disclosure. Finding

There are numbers of issues regarding lack of facilities in providing the user-friendly environment for the people with disabilities (PWDs). These issues were raised by various societies of the disabled person including the deaf, physically disabled such as wheelchair users as they need to access to these public spaces such as recreational areas. O

Objectives: Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Malaysia. Population-based hypertension control is extremely poor at only 6% based on the 1996 National Health and Morbidity Survey. It is important to gauge the level of hypertension control in institutional follow-up as it has important ramifications

A write up on the planning layout of the proposed Ambulatory Care Centre and Haemodialysis Unit of RPZII Hospitalin Kota Bharu, Kelantan for clarity of planning rationale through circulation pattern of staff, patient, services and supplies; its adjoining department, unit and spaces relationship; its inter-connectivity with adjacent existing main ho

A compact printed ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with band-notched characteristic is presented. The antenna is designed to cover the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) bandwidth for UWB applications (3.1--10.6 GHz) with band-notched at frequency band (5.15--5.825 GHz). The proposed antenna is fed by microstrip line, and it consists of square rad

A study to determine factors that influence the knowledge and sensitivity level to community noise pollution and its impacts to physiological and psychological health of community in Kuala Lumpur was carried out in December, 2005. Two communities were involved, 102 respondents from Community A (Flat Pekeliling, Jalan Tun Razak) and 87 respondents f

One possible way for a Muslim social scientist to respond and contextualize Islamic discourse is to mediate and cultivate a common perception and understanding between Muslim and non-Muslim readership through an understanding of Islam as a socio-political construct. In this paper, the discussion of Islam as socio-political fact is used to illustrat

The performance of a feedback-controlled piezoelectric tube scanner is limited by its inherent nonlinear properties such as hysteresis and creep, its mechanical resonance modes and its displacement sensor bandwidth and associated noise properties. Capacitive sensors have emerged as the displacement sensor of choice in piezoelectric tube scanners. R

A single-link flexible manipulator is fabricated to represent a typical flexible robotic arm. This flexible manipulator is modeled as an SIMO system with the motor torque as the input and the hub angle and the tip position as the outputs. The two transfer functions are identified using a frequency-domain system identification method, and the resona

Providing quality of service (QoS) is one of the main challenges in the internet that has recently gained the interest of many researchers. The internet architecture was originally designed to provide IP based “best effort” services to all its applications. The best effort service could be acceptable for traditional applications such as email a