Malaysian Mesdaq Venture Capital Firms - Signaling Variables Of Firm Value

This empirical research investigates eleven factors or variables that provide signaling power of the firm’s performance using data of 37 firms listed on Malaysian MESDAQ market

Speech intelligibility evaluation for mosques

Unlike mosques, few of enclosed room functionality concentrates only on speech. Even though large contemporary mosques are built into rooms such as multipurpose ball, lecture hall, dining hall and library, main prayer areas are still the most vital room in mosques. With least tolerance to appreciable level of background noise, with volume easily exceeded 10,000 cubic-meter, bard and sound reflecting surfaces are everywhere, and with the installation of dome or domes, mosques should be critically design to manifest, besides its aestbetics and thermal comfort values, an excellent acoustics. It is intended for the good of concentration and serenity of worshippers who come into mosques to dwell temporarily for any religious activities. Because of its sole functionality for speech, speech intelligibility evaluation in mosques requires a set of selective approaches compared to that in multi functional enclosed rooms. This paper discusses architectural acoustics of mosques and proposes their speech intelligibility evaluation techniques

Integrated curriculum concepts in Malaysia: knowledge and application differentiation

The research was to survey the level of knowledge and practice in the Malaysian Secondary School Integrated Curriculum (KBSM) concept among the teachers. The instrument was designed to measure the knowledge of the teachers on 54 items concerning National Language in the curriculum, the implementation of moral value in lessons and the usage of teaching methods. The result shows the level of teachers' knowledge was good on National Language, the implementation of moral values, the pedagogy and teaching methods. The level of teachers' practice on Bahasa Malaysia, implementation of moral value, in the lessons and the usage of the KBSM method was at the medium level. The research also shows that the factors on sex, age, the service and position was significantly influential on the knowledge of the teachers on the KBSM. The sex and age were the only factors that showed significant effect on the teachers' practice

Speech intelligibility eveluation by means of objective measures

This chapter investigates via both simulation software and measurements the distribution of SPL, RT60, time and amplitude of Rearly and Rlate in a room with curved surfaces. The curved surface in this research was a dome. Preliminary investigation has shown that the equal distribution of these objective measures is destroyed with the existence of curved surfaces in an enclosed room. This unequal distribution of the selected parameters hints that speech intelligibility index of the room could also be varied and altered. Although goals of speech intelligibility are obvious and the fundamental aim of every sound system is to be intelligible, there are two aspects in the design process of a sound system that has to be taken into account. First, the acoustics environment in which the sound system is to be installed and second is the electronic part of the sound system itself. The former is critical since its form and shape have dominance effects on the performances of natural acoustics of a particular enclosed room

The quantification of speech intelligibility of malay words by means of corner vowels

Speech intelligibility is important for communication and different techniques have been developed to quantify it. This includes the frequency responses of corner vowels. However, such techniques have not been used for Malay language. The purpose of this study is to analyze the frequency response of spoken Malay to quantify speech intelligibility. The study was done by playing 15 recorded Malay words, spoken by two speakers, in anechoic room and reverberant room. From this, the value of first formant frequency (F1) and second formant frequency (F2) were obtained. F1 and F2 were then used to derive the differences of F2 and F1 (F2-F1) and to calculate the vowel working space (VWS) area. This study found that the value of F2-F1of vowel /i/ is affected by speech intelligibility. Also, smaller VWS area was found for room with less speech intelligibility

Comparison of the themes of Malaysian Friday sermons between the year 2010 and 2015

One of the analyses used in the field of corpus linguistics is comparing the word occurrence from different text corpora. This technique can be used to identify how a certain discipline change over ti me through text analysis. In this study, the changes of the context of Malaysian Friday sermons are investigated. The text corpus was developed by taking the Friday sermons spoken in Kuala Lumpur mosques in the year 2015. A total of 52 sermons were used for the text corpus because there are a total of 52 Friday sermons in a year. The Malay text corp us was constructed by using PHP and MySQL, and only the top words spoken were inserted into the text corpus. This text corpus is then compared with a previously developed text corpus from 2010 Friday sermons. The new text corpus has almost the same amount of words compared with the old text corpus. The new text corpus overlapped with the old text co rpus by 82%. Meaning that 82% of the words appear in the old text corpus. This shows that word list obtained from a specific source will most likely contain the same words

Burden and Risk Factors of Melioidosis in Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review

This scoping review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of human melioidosis in Southeast Asia as well as to highlight knowledge gaps in the prevalence and risk factors of this life-threatening disease using available evidence-based data for better diagnosis and treatment. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) was used as the guideline for this review. The literature search was conducted on 23 March 2022 through two electronic databases (PubMed and Scopus) using lists of keywords referring to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus. A total of 38 articles related to human melioidosis were included from 645 screened articles. These studies were carried out between 1986 and 2019 in six Southeast Asian countries: Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Vietnam. Melioidosis has been reported with a high disease prevalence among high-risk populations. Studies in Thailand (48.0%) and Cambodia (74.4%) revealed disease prevalence in patients with septic arthritis and children with suppurative parotitis, respectively. Other studies in Thailand (63.5%) and Malaysia (54.4% and 65.7%) showed a high seroprevalence of melioidosis among Tsunami survivors and military personnel, respectively. Additionally, this review documented soil and water exposure, diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure, thalassemia, and children under the age of 15 as the main risk factors for melioidosis. Human melioidosis is currently under-reported in Southeast Asia and its true prevalence is unknown

The influence of reverberant environment on the first formant frequency of Malay speech

The first formant frequency (F1) is important to make speeches understandable. In reverberant environments the speech may be affected and hence the value of F1 may change. The purpose of this research was to determine the effect on F1 due to reverberant level in six room samples. Three different words uttered by a female speaker had been recorded in an audiometry room. The recorded speech was then played in six room samples with different reverberant levels. These words were played and then recorded for six times for each room. The results show that the changes in the value of F1 depend on the type of word that was spoken and the reverberant level of the room. The word containing the phoneme /a/ was affected the most when subjected to different reverberant level whilst the word containing the phoneme /i/ was the least affected