Post-developmentalist discourse suggests, amongst others, the effective role of social capital to development in its own unique way. Additionally, culture, religion, social networks and family institutions as part of the motivations that lead to “social capital” are proposed by some researchers to have their significant role in the re-construct

A sustainable car means an environmentally friendly, lightweight, affordable, car satisfying all current and future legislations on safety, recyclability and emissions. Hence, the best method to satisfy the above purpose objective is to develop an advanced methodology of lightweight design approach. This methodology can be based on optimal material

The intent of this paper is to propose an enhanced certificate revocation scheme for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Our approach is built on mainly two previously proposed mechanisms. A combination of the schemes and optimization of certain steps with intelligent choices of parameters could significantly reduce the overhead associated with such m

The current Post-developmentalist discourse suggests amongst others, the effective role of social capital to development in its own unique way. Additionally, culture, religion, social networks and family institutions as part of the motivations that lead to ‘social capital’ are proposed by some researchers to have their significant role in the r

Patient autonomy has a critical role in making decisions in medical practice and it is accepted by international conventions on health care and various national medical codes. However, pertaining to terminally ill patients, this right becomes very problematic in regards to end of life decisions. Utilitarian ethicists motivated by materialistic worl

The aim of this paper is to improve the tensile strength of Al-Cu-SiCp composite by varying the percentage of Cu in the matrix. The composite materials with 2, 4 and 6 % Cu were developed using a noble stir casting method. Tensile test was conducted using universal tensile test machine according to ASTM-2002 (E8M-01) standard and the fracture surfa

The hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a potential solid lubricating material; however, it has few limitations such as less surface activation, poor wettability, inhomogeneous mixture with substrate materials etc. This can be overcome via co-deposition of highly activated materials. Therefore, the present invention was aimed to co-deposit Ni-P alloy

Protecting women’s rights to property is an important aspect in promoting sustainable development, an agenda being championed by governments both at national and international level including the Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) throughout the world. This chapter seeks to set out the development in Malaysia where the Adat Perpatih practices

The subject of relationship between religion and economy raises many issues. It touches the originality of religion and economy and their nature of relationship including their independence and dependence. Western scholarship on the subject has useful insights for the Muslim policy makers on religion based economy. This research undertakes Marx and

Gait recognition has recently gained interest of researchers as it performs identification of subjects at a distance from the camera. However, due to the changes in the viewing angles, it gets cumbersome for a system to perform recognition based on the walking pattern of an individual. In this work, the aim is to propose a simple baseline method fo