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Malaysia has always been proud of her unique natural environment and cultural heritages, but still is searching for an exclusive identity of its own gardens. There is a great potential for development of a garden identity for the country, based on her rich legacy in traditions, cultures and beliefs, through which she could identify herself. The nation has a complex population composed of Malay, Chinese and Indian races. Hence, the icon, form, quality and appearance that are going to be introduced for Malaysian gardens should be appreciated, valued and respected by the Malaysian publics with diverse culture and preferences. This paper aims to propose a preferred iconography as a basic approach to create and develop a garden identity for Malaysia. Conducting photo surveys and testing public opinion of garden iconographies, including different garden scenes, reveals the preferred qualities for the image of Malaysian gardens. The result is expected to contribute towards the basic knowledge of Malaysian garden iconography as well as essential findings for landscape architects and garden enthusiasts to design and build garden with Malaysia identity acceptable by the Malaysian public. Moreover, this approach can propose a working model to identify preferred garden iconographies for new developing gardens and can be generalized to international scale.

The transesterification reaction is actually replacement of alcohol group from an ester by another alcohol. The reaction was carried out by varying different parameters, like amount of catalyst in reaction, ratio of methyl alcohol to oil, temperature and stirring on the reaction; to find the best conversion of oil to biodiesel. Alkali catalysed transesterification is considered to be the best amongst all methods available for the production of biodiesel from fresh oil. Our aim is to establish the parametric dependency of the reaction from the experiments.

In this study, activated carbon was prepared from moringa seed husk by chemical activation method using of potassium hydroxide (KOH) impregnation. The activated carbon produced was characterized and tested for the removal of two different dyes from wastewater. The Activity tests were carried out for five different masses of activated carbon and three contact times in order to investigate the effect of mass of activated carbon and contact time respectively. The experimental results showed that an increase in the mass of the activated carbon produced leads to a higher percentage removal of dye from wastewater.

The study was carried out to determine the variations in growth hormone secretion in females between morning and evening. Blood samples were collected from 60 females at Elele, both in the morning and evening. The samples were assayed using ELISA-based Growth hormone assay to quantitate the growth hormone concentrations of these females between morning and evening. The result showed a significant increase in growth hormone secretion in the morning (4.70±0.54ng/ml) compared with (2.02±0.23ng/ml) obtained in the evening (P<0.05). Females less than 20 years of age (20 subjects) had the highest secretion in the morning (4.99±0.98) compared with the evening (2.35±0.35) while females within 20-30 years had4.58±1.04 and1.54±0.33 for morning and evening respectively. Females within 30-40 age group had 4.53±0.80 and 2.18±0.50 for morning and evening respectively. The result of this study suggest that Growth hormone pulse amplitude increased significantly in the morning after the onset of a night sleep (4.70±0.54) and was significantly greater than the secretion rate in the evening(2.02±0.23).

Infectious endocarditis with Q fever is a rare and not very specific infection; Its diagnosis is difficult since it is usually a negative blood culture endocarditis. From a patient who was hospitalized in the cardiology department at the Mohamed IV University Hospital Center in Oujda; We describe the clinical and paraclinic presentation of this type of endocarditis while analyzing its lesional features; Therapeutic and evolutionary

Industrial automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to optimize productivity in the production of goods and delivery of services. The correct incentive for applying automation is to increase productivity, and/or quality beyond that possible with current human labor levels so as to realize economies of scale, and/or realize predictable quality levels. In the scope of industrialisation, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provides human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly decreases the need for human sensory and mental requirements while increasing load capacity, speed, and repeatability. Generally PLC Is used for the task of industrial automation, here we introduce new concept in automation is use of “Embedded PLC”for the industrial automation which overcome all the limitation of conventional PLC. For the purpose of automating some task we use neumerous wired or wireless sensors with Embedded PLC. It provide smooth control over the Industrial Systems. After investigated the conception and features of PLC and embedded system, in this paper the development of low-cost embedded PLC for Industrial Controls & Monitoring. This paper describes the real-time industrial automation using Embedded PLC.

This study aims to analyze relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP) using content analysis from 1972 to 2012. In this study, strategy of Margolis and Walsh (2001), Orlitzky et al. (2003), and Dam (2008) is implemented and financial measures such as stock market returns, Tobin’s Q, and accounting profits ratios e.g. return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), and return on sales (ROS) are targeted. Study concludes that strong positive relationship exists between CSR and CFP using Tobin’s Q as financial performance measure, mostly studies found positive relationship between CSR and CFP using ROA, ROE, & ROS as financial performance measure, and mostly studies found negative relationship between CSR and CFP using stock market returns as financial performance measures. This study will provide literature evidences as record about CSR and CFP to empirical as well as theoretical prospective researcher and limitations are discussed also.

Post Enron, WorldCom & Tyco the world woke up to the need of good practices in corporate governance of public companies. Out of many recommendations made by the regulators, the cheapest and most effective is the provision for whistle blowing. This paper brings out the whistleblower policies prevalent in US Companies and Indian Companies and focuses on Indian Companies’ commitment towards the whistleblowers’ policy in their companies, in absence of mandatory regulations. The paper also attempts to bring out the philosophy best suited in designing whistleblower policy.

In this paper we introduce the variant of domination called s- domination for semigraphs. The concept of s- domination is stronger than the concept of domination in semigraphs. We prove that the s- domination number of a semigraphs does not increase when a vertex is removed in a semigraphs. This is unlike in the case of domination. We also consider maximal independent sets in semigraphs and observe that they are exactly independent s- dominating sets in semigraphs. We prove some related results.

In recent years it has been acknowledged that to significantly improve biological system performance and productivity, control, including optimal control, should be implemented online. The dynamics of biological processes are highly non-linear and key variables are difficult to measure. As an aid to contributing solutions to the twin difficulties of complex dynamics and measurement difficulty a relatively simple mathematical model has been developed for the purpose of evaluating optimal controllers. In this paper a simulation of fed-batch fermentation is developed which includes the no-linear dynamics of the process using single-term Haar wavelet series (STHW) method.