Road Safety Analysis For Ipoh - Lumut Highway Using Geographical Information System

The number of accident in sixteen (16) Perak districts is increasing every year. Looking into the Ipoh - Lumut Highway, there are some places which are prone to accidents. It is important to pin point which places and/or situations are dangerous, and why they are dangerous. The objective of the study is to determine the locations prone to accident, identify the causes of accident and to propose a suitable countermeasure for the problem. Road Safety Audit (RSA) is a relatively new road engineering technique aimed at identifying potential safety problems during planning and design of projects. Applied to existing roads, RSA can identify potential safety hazards before they become accident prone locations. In road safety analysis apart from producing the most accurate prediction from statistical figures, the need to visualize information geographically using GIS is essential. Traffic engineers, planners and decision makers need as much information as possible in diagnosing the cause of traffic accidents before deciding the appropriate countermeasure. The scope of study for this report is specifically highlighting the selection of the location that is prone to accident, the causes that led to the problem and to propose suitable countermeasure. The project covers for Perak Tengah and Manjung District which focuses at six prone locations. The GIS is used for road safety diagnosis involved site characteristics analysis/field observations, accident analysis, accident data statistics, behavioral observations, surveys of road-users characteristics, and identifying and recognizing relevant variable. The project is to analyse the pattern in accident prone location and to prevent more accident to happen

Clinical training for the audiology students of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) during the covid-19 pandemic: the challenges vs. opportunities

Going through this pandemic, the Department of Audiology & Speech Language Pathology (DASLP), IIUM has adapted and devised several methods to help with the students’ clinical training, which includes Tele- Audiology services, virtual external clinical placement, simulated online clinic, online clinical observation and virtual clinical examinatio

Hearing Threshold in Audiometry Testing: Pure Tone Versus Warble Tone.

Background: It has long been debated among audiologists whether pure tone and warble tone can be used interchangeably in clinical settings to quantify the amount of hearing threshold. The disputes on this issue inspired this study to investigate the differences in hearing threshold between pure tone and warble tone in audiometry testing. Materials and Methods: Audiometric test was conducted on 20 normal hearing adults (40 ears) at six frequencies at octave intervals from 250 Hz to 8000 Hz with three different stimuli presentation; (i) pure-tone stimulus (PT); (ii) warble tone stimulus presented for 2-3second (WT3); and. (iii) warble tone stimulus presented for 4 seconds and more (WT4). Result: This study found that WT4 elicited the lowest threshold as compared to the other two stimulus presentation: PT and WT3. No significant differences observed between PT and WT3 thresholds. There were significant differences between PT and WT4 at all frequencies except for 250 Hz and 8000 Hz; as well as between WT3 and WT4 at all frequencies except for 2000 Hz and 8000 Hz. However, all differences were not clinically significant. Conclusion: These findings support the notion that warble tone can be used to measure thresholds since the substitutions did not violate the 5-dB step size in clinical application

Abstracts of the International Halal Science Conference 2023

This book presents the extended abstracts of the selected contributions to the International Halal Science Conference, held on 22-23 August 2023 by the International Institute for Halal Research and Training (INHART), IIUM, Malaysia in collaboration with Halalan Thayyiban Research Centre, University Islam Sultan Sharif (UNISSA), Brunei Darussalam. With the increasing global interest in halal products and services, this conference is timely. Conference Title:  International Halal Science ConferenceConference Acronym: IHASC23Conference Theme: Halal Industry Sustainability Through ScienceConference Date: 22-23 August 2023Conference Venue: International Islamic University (IIUM), MalaysiaConference Organizer: International Institute for Halal Research and Training (INHART), International Islamic University (IIUM), Malaysi