The practice of underwriting and risk rating for individual participants in family takaful stems from the underwriting practice in life insurance, and thus could contain elements which contravene the essence of the shariah. A review of literature on takaful indicates that there are very few materials which look at the underwriting practice from a s

Human activities recognition is becoming a field of great interest and relevance to a number of areas of research and applications The availability of a system capable of automatIcally classifying the physical activity performed by a human subject is extremely attractive for many applications such as in surveillance and security systems, choreograp

The recognition of human postures is usually the initial step in human behavioral analysis. It is a challenging problem due to the huge quantity of possible cases. The number of postures depends on the degree of freedom of the human body. Moreover, the physical attributes and clothes of a person influence the perception of a particular posture. The

Human Posture Recognition gives machines the ability to detect, track and identify people and their actions from video, has become a central topic in computer vision research. Recognition of human posture is a very challenging problem. The training and evaluation stage, datasets of pre-processed posture images are needed. After the video sequences

For Illlining and evaluatiun stage. damselS of re·processed posture image. are needed. In order to oblain tbem. video &equences ha~e to be recorded and preprocessed. The fonmlof ,'ideo fil•• produced by the video camera is Q",'ckTime. Vid.o File with the extension of ~.MOVM. However. Ihe problem i~ !hat the Quickl'm. Video

Finite element simulation of the rigid die compaction of metal powders can significantly help designers avoid some of the typical problems they face such as the high density gradients within compacted parts and related cracking. In this paper, the modeling of an axisymmetric flanged part using finite element packages ABAQUS and LS-DYNA has been inv

The objectives of this paper were to identify the effectiveness of Cerlis Model in assisting teachers to improve students’ creative writing skills such as descriptive and imaginative essays and to analyze whether the model can improve students’ ways of expressing and organizing ideas in composing essays accurately. Samples consisted of 5 studen

The purpose of this study is to explore potential relationship between Malay teachers’ characteristic factors and their attitudes towards egalitarian education in multiracial society. The ethnic Malay school teachers, teaching in government school in peninsular of Malaysia (N=400) participated in this study by completing a questionnaire, which de

Creativity is the ability of a person that enables him/her to think of, dream up or visualize unusual solution to a problem. It plays an important part in the development of a nation. Generally, a creative process involves five significant steps: first insight, preparation, incubation, illumination and verification. Innovation, on the other hand, i

Chemical kinetics study was carried out for batch esterification process. Reactant concentration (FFA) as function of time was plotted according to first and second order equations in order to study the catalytic activities of both toluene-4-sulfonic monohydrate acid (PTSA) and sulfuric acid. Pretreatment of Sludge Palm Oil (SPO) by esterification