Background: Excessive sugar intake has been identified as one of the contributors to the increased prevalence of metabolic syndromes. Thus, the awareness to control sugar intake must be emphasized. Objectives: This research aimed to measure the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and fat percentage with sweetness perception among adults; and

Akmal Hidayah Halim, the author of the volume under review, has earlier published The Law of Wills and Intestacy in Malaysia (Selangor, Malaysia: International Islamic University Malaysia, 2009). Administration of Estates in Malaysia is based on the author’s Ph.D. thesis. The subject matter of this book is extremely important in the legal fratern

The objective ofthis chapter is to list the contribution of AI-Zahrawi in the surgery of swellings and tumours. This chapter explores AI- Zahrawi as a surgeon in the field of inflammatory swellings and tumours. He was known as the most notable Muslim surgeon during the Islamic civilization. His name is Abu-AI-Qasim Khalaf Ibn'Abbas AI-Zahrawi k

Vision-based hand posture detection and tracking is an important issue for Human to Computer Interaction applications. The performance of recognition system fIrst depends on the process of getting effIcient features to represent pattern characteristics [1]. There is no algorithm which shows how to select the representation or choose the features [2

The aim of this chapter is to present a review on the development of vision systems based on hand gesture. Vision-Based Human to Computer Interaction (HCI) systems has the ability of carrying a wealth of information in a natural way and at a low cost. Therefore hand recognition becomes a widely studied topic with a wide range of applications such a

This interview was held to recollect and capture the historical insights on the establishment and early development of the International Islamic University Malaysia. Oral history provides a fuller, more accurate picture of the IIUM in the past. Eyewitnesses to IIUM events which contribute various viewpoints and perspectives that fill in the gap

An axisymmetric vibration analysis of an isotropic circular plate with a piezoceramic annular plate attached to it is presented. The annular plate is attached at the circular plate edge so that the radius of the circular plate is the inner radius of the annular plate. The piezoceramic annular plate is used as the radial in-plane load source. A free

This paper proposes an equilibrium computation method using linguistic variables based on the conflicting bifuzzy sets. The linguistic terms were defined and associated with the triangular fuzzy number as well as the labeling system in the early stages. Then, the negation operator was introduced and the bifuzzy approaches were employed to derive th

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the quality of Safeer portal. “Safeer” is a portal through which a student can apply for any of the 86 available academic, administrative and financial services. It was launched on Sunday 29th of January 2009; to link the Saudi ministry of higher education to Saudi cultural missions around the world.

The process of retrieving desired images from a large collection is widely used in applications of computer vision. In order to improve the retrieval performance an efficient and accurate system is required. Retrieving images based on the content i.e. color, texture, shape etc is called content based image retrieval (CBIR). The content is actually