Spherical rolling mechanisms (SRMs) exhibit a number of advantages with respect to wheeled and legged mechanisms. In fact if the SRM is combined with the power of bouncing mechanism, it will produce an exciting phenomena that can be contributed to applications such as security surveillance, search and rescue. There is not much research done in both

Nowadays, halal products are gaining wider recognition as a new benchmark for safety and quality assurance. As a consequence the commercial development of microalgae are established due to their high value chemicals, for examples, β-carotene, astaxanthin, phycobilin pigments and algal extracts for cosmaceuticals products. Therefore, many researche

Social network analysis has emerged as an important research area in intelligence analysis to facilitate decision maker in more informed decisions. With the passage of time social networks services are increasingly being used in legal and criminal investigations including understanding and tracking of dark networks, i.e. illegal covert networks. Cr

This chapter identifies some concepts, themes and theories in peace psychology based on a selection of relevant articles and books that examine the psychological components of peace, conflict, and violence. To organize the literature, first, we use the 2 x 2 matrix that distinguishes between episodic and structural violence and peace. Then, we iden

Multimedia courseware is a software developed for educational purposes. Nowadays, learning to speak more than two languages gives one a good edge over others. This chapter discusses how to create a courseware that can help user to learn three different languages at one time. The courseware can improve the limitations of existing products. The cours

In an effort to find a reliable method that could assist clinicians in risk assessment, information in the speech signal has been found to contain characteristic changes associated with high risk suicidal states. This paper addresses the questions of (1) Does information contain in the speech timing-based measures able to discriminate between high

International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that there are about 250 million economically active children worldwide. In Malaysia, although the Children and Young Persons Act (Employment) 1966 prohibits the children to be employed, previous studies proved that there are high rate of working children in certain states in Malaysia. It is believe

In this study, we compared the efficacy of the overall meta-analysis estimates that used only the available aggregate data (AD) studies against those that combined the available AD and individual patient data (IPD) studies. We introduced some modifications to the existing two-stage method for combining the AD and IPD studies. We evaluated the effec

This pilot study attempts to address the question of whether there is a statistically significant change in patients’ vocal characteristics as they progress from the initial recording session (labeled as high risk suicidal) to the second and third recording session that was collected a few days after receiving treatments. Interview speech and rea

Meta-analysis that pools two levels of data, namely, aggregate data (AD) and individual patient data (IPD) is increasingly common. The implications of pooling these data on the overall meta-analysis estimates have not been fully explored. We examined some of the statistical properties of overall estimate of the treatment effects from meta-analysis