This paper aims to model volatility of daily index returns for four Asian markets namely; Kuala Lumpur Composite Index of Malaysia, Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index of Indonesia, Straits Times Index of Singapore and the Stock Index of Korea over the period 03/01/2007 – 31/07/2013 excluding the public holidays. We utilized generalized autore

This study investigates the hedging effectiveness of stock index futures for two Asian markets namely Kuala Lumpur Composite Index futures of Malaysia and Heng Seng stock Index futures of Hong Kong. We employed four different econometric methods such as-conventional ordinary least squares (OLS) model, vector autoregression (VAR) model, error correc

Aside from political leaders' popularity rates and the stock exchange index of business firms, ordinary people are highly interested in aspects of daily life, such as housing, income, health, family, food, human relations and work. Cross-national opinion polls on daily-life satisfaction were carried out in Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kon

The paper recorded the tremendous changes in the academic and media landscape in tracing the development of communication studies since its beginning in 1971. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) was the first to offer the communication programme followed by Universiti Technology MARA (UiTM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and the other public uni

The issue of human rights is a matter of growing concern for Muslims and Non-Muslims. The schemes of human rights sponsored by the United Nations, in the aftermath of the World War II, espouse the idea of rights backed by constitutional laws and international law binding on all nations. Contrary to what might otherwise be thought or perceived human

The realization of the importance of fish as a protein source in human and animal food as well as the rising cost of imported fish feed ingredients have called for an intensive research towards the production of high nutritional fish feed using cheap and natural nutrient sources. In this study, seaweed and palm kernel cake were used as alternative

This paper investigates ECG signal in different physiological conditions to identify different individuals. Data was acquired from 30 subjects, where each subject performed six types of physical activities namely walking, going upstairs, going downstairs, natural gait, lying with position changed and resting while watching TV. Then from the signals

It has been shown that there is an optimum charge carrier mobility that leads to a peak in the efficiency for organic bulk heterojunction solar cells with mobility-dependent recombination rate. Hence, improving the mobility is considered as one of the ways to increase the efficiency. In this study, we investigate the combined influence of charge ca

This paper performs a comparative analysis of QRS and Cardioid Graph Based ECG Biometric Recognition incorporating Physiological variability. Data was acquired from 30 subjects, where each subject performed six types of physical activities namely walking, going upstairs, going downstairs, natural gait, lying with position changed and resting while

The recycling of post-consumer wastes, such as automobiles, computers and household wastes, is becoming increasingly important in today's world. There are various processing methods of solid wastes, such as jigs, spirals, dense medium separation and magnetic/electrical separation. In the jig, the separation of materials of different specific gr