A pilot scale anaerobic fluidised bed reactor (AnFBR) of 2000 L capacity was studied to determine its ability to treat palm oil mill effluent (POME). The pilot plant was operated at ambient temperature with diluted POME as substrate. It took 17 days for the start-up of the reactor with pre-seeded sand media. The mean influent concentration of BOD,

Water is an important input for the production of agricultural products. Hence, following the Heckscher-Ohlin model and the virtual water hypothesis, relatively water abundant countries will have comparative advantage in agricultural products. We show that water endowment does play a role in determining agricultural products’ comparative advantag

The scalable video coding extension of H.264/AVC is a current standardization project. This paper deals with encoding process of the Fine-Grain SNR Scalability (FGS) scheme with two enhancement layers for enhancing the streaming video quality over wireless LAN. The scalable video coding algorithm has been implemented and simulated with various para

Abstract: A Text to Speech (TTS) system with the ability to express emotions is an interesting technology that is still under development. There have been multiple proposals to simulate emotion so far, and there are multiple dimensions for assessment. No system guarantees high score in all of these dimensions, this means that no system works in a d

Fiqh al-mu'amalat subjects have become core subjects in the Kulliyyah of Economics and Managements Sciences (KENMS), International Islamic University Malaysia (HUM) as an institution of higher learning since its establishment in 1983. The same discipline of fiqh was also introduced in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Policy Studies, Unive

Section 6 of the Civil Law Act 1956 provides for the prohibition of the importation of any part of the British land tenure system into Malaysian land law. The equitableprinciples - originally British - promote justice and fairness with all parties involved in a legal dispute and have been adopted with mixed feelings. The silence of the NLC on the i

The aim of this study was to optimize the main media components that affect the production of lactic acid by Lactobacillus rhamnosus fermentation. In the experiment,the two variables (glucose and peptone) were optimized using tbe Central Composite Design (CCD) metbod by STATISTICA Software.The optimization studies were successfully carried out in s

As anextensionofthetraditional normalized radialbasis function (NRBF)model,the extended normalizedRBF (ENRBF) modelwas proposed by Xu [RBF nets, mixture experts, and Bayesian Ying-Yang learning, Neurocomputing 19 (1998) 223–257].Inthispaper,we perform a supplementary study on ENRBF with several properly designed experiments and some further theor

Human Activity is not a well defined concept in Ubiquitous Computing discipline because human activity is very complex and the computer environment is very limited in capturing user activity. However, user activity is an essential ingredient for the determination of appropriate response from Intelligent Environment in order to provide appropriate s

Objective: This study presents the results of two-period, two-treatment crossover investigations on 24 healthy Indian male subjects to assess the bioequivalence of two oral formulations containing 400 mg of dexibuprofen (CAS 51146-56-6). An attempt was also made to study the pharmacokinetics of dexibuprofen in the local population of Indian origin.