The Malaysian Fishing Gears and Methods

There are more than 40 types of fishing gears operated in Malaysia. These gears are classified locally into 11 gear groups based on their principles of operation. These gears have never been fully documented. This investigation attempts to document all the commercially important fishing gears in the country, the technical specifications, methods of operation, identify spacial differences in gears, operation and review the share/lay system operated in the industry

AUTOMATED WRAPPER DESIGN FOR ISCAS ’89 BENCHMARK CIRCUITS

System-on-chip (SOC) enables the reuse of existing IP blocks in a system, thereby making it possible to design complex systems within a short period of time. With the complexity of the design comes the problem of testing the SOC. A typical SOC can integrate many modules, therefore making it difficult to test these individual modules by accessing from the primary interfaces of the chip. To aleviate this test access issue for SOC‟s, the IEEE 1500 standard has been introduced. There are commercial tools from main EDA players such as Synopsys that can help with the insertion of the IEEE 1500 wrapper. However, most researchers have no access to the expensive tool. Even if they do, the tools are protected so they do not allow researchers access to the internal features to explore potential enhancements. There is no open source tools that can assist test researchers with the 1500 wrapper insertion. In this thesis, we illustrate our effort at automating the IEEE 1500 wrapper insertion. The design of the IEEE 1500 wrapper is done in Verilog and the automation is done using the Perl scripting language. The inserted wrapper modules are validated and an efficient approach of executing wrapper external tests is also illustrated in this thesis

Are Women Students More Inclined Towards Entrepreneurship? An Entrepreneurial University Experience

Women entrepreneurs are very popular in Malaysia.This study has been conducted in the state of Kelantan, bearingthe reputation of being an entrepreneurial state and harbouringthe highest number of women entrepreneurs too. Recognizing theimportance of the emerging women entrepreneurs in creating avibrant and dynamic economy for the nation, the MalaysianGovernment has been actively promoting womenentrepreneurship towards realising Malaysia’s Vision 2020.However surprisingly, little research has been undertaken todetermine the factors influencing inclination of women studentstowards entrepreneurship, particularly in Malaysia. Theliterature suggests that social psychological and educationalinstitutes approaches are widely used to explore and analyze therelationship between the influence of women’s individualcharacteristics, internal motivation, parental influence, and theirbusiness management acumen, business interest and willingness,goals and motives, networking and entrepreneurial orientationand inclination

Evaluation of academic detailing Programme on childhood Diarrhoea management by primary healthcare providers in Banke District of Nepal

Academic detailing is rarely practised in developing countries. A randomized control trial on healthcare service was conducted to evaluate the impact of academic detailing programme on the adherence of primary healthcare providers in Banke district, Nepal, to childhood diarrhoea treatment guidelines recommended by World Health Organization/United Nations Children's Fund (WHO/UNICEF). The participants (N=209) were systematically divided into control and intervention groups. Four different academic detailing sessions on childhood diarrhoea management were given to participants in the intervention group. At baseline, 6% of the participants in the control and 8.3% in the intervention group were adhering to the treatment guidelines which significantly (p < 0.05) increased among participants in the intervention (65.1%) than in the control group (16.0%) at the first follow-up. At the second follow-up, 69.7% of participants in the intervention group were adhering to the guidelines, which was significantly (p < 0.05) greater than those in the control group (19.0%). Data also showed significant improvement in prescribing pattern of the participants in the intervention group compared to the control group. Therefore, academic detailing can be used for promoting adherence to treatment guidelines in developing countries, like Nepal

AC-Based Differential Evolution Algorithm for Dynamic Transmission Expansion Planning

This work proposes a method based on a mixed integer nonlinear non-convex programming model to solve the multistage transmission expansion planning (TEP). A meta-heuristic algorithm by the means of differential evolution algorithm (DEA) is employed as an optimization tool. An AC load flow model is used in solving the multistage TEP problem, where accurate and realistic results can be obtained. Furthermore, the work considers the constraints checking and system violation such as real and power generation limits, possible number of lines added, thermal limits and bus voltage limits. The proposed technique is tested on well known and realistic test systems such as the IEEE 24 bus-system and the Colombian 93-bus system. The method has shown high capability in considering the active and reactive power in the same manner and solving the TEP problem. The method produced improved good results in a fast convergence time for the test systems

Solving Nonstiff Higher Order Odes Using Variable Order Step Size Backward Difference Directly

The current numerical techniques for solving a system of higher order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) directly calculate the integration coefficients at every step. Here, we propose a method to solve higher order ODEs directly by calculating the integration coefficients only once at the beginning of the integration and if required once more at the end. The formulae will be derived in terms of backward difference in a constant step size formulation. The method developed will be validated by solving some higher order ODEs directly using variable order step size. To simplify the evaluations of the integration coefficients, we find the relationship between various orders. The results presented confirmed our hypothesis

Tris[3,5-bis­(trifluoro­meth­yl)phen­yl]phosphine oxide

In the title compound, C24H9F18OP, an intra­molecular C—H⋯O short contact generates a five-membered ring, producing an S(5) ring motif. The dihedral angles between the benzene rings are 57.68 (10), 77.80 (11) and 79.48 (10)°. Each of the six trifluoro­methyl substituents shows rotational disorder over two positions with refined site-occupany ratios of 0.64 (3)/0.36 (3), 0.649 (14)/0.351 (14), 0.52 (2)/0.48 (2), 0.545 (16)/0.455 (16), 0.774 (9)/0.226 (9) and 0.63 (5)/0.37 (5). The crystal structure is stabilized by inter­molecular C—H⋯O and C—H⋯F inter­actions

Antioxidant and antihyperglycaemic effects of an aqueous extract from Momordica charantia fruit in a type II diabetic rat model

The aim of this study was to determine the antioxidant and antihyperglycaemic activities of an aqueous extract from Momordica charantia (MC) fruit in a type II diabetic rat model. In this study, diabetes mellitus was induced in one-day-old neonatal rats by a single injection of streptozotocin (STZ) (85 mg/kg). The animals were separated into four groups as follows: the normal control group (NC), the diabetic control group (DC), the MC-treated diabetic group (DMO), and the glibenclamide-treated diabetic group (DPG). At the end of four weeks of treatment, the malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration was measured in the serum and pancreas. Ferric thiocyanate (FTC), thiobarbituric acid (TBA) and 1, 1-Diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) levels, and the total phenol and flavonoid content of the MC extracts were evaluated. The results showed a reduction of blood glucose in the DMO and DPG groups as compared to the DC group. Administration of MC reduced the MDA concentration in plasma and in the pancreas of the DMO group. Antioxidant activity in the MC extract was indicated by a high IC 50 value for free radical scavenging. Based on these results, it can be concluded that the MC fruit aqueous extract would alleviate oxidative stress induced by diabetes through antioxidant activity and free radical scavenging