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Maggot debridement therapy - a FLY-ing miracle : A single centre experience
No full textAbscess and carbuncle has always been a large part of surgical practice
especially in the Asian continent where Diabetes prevalence is sky rocket high.
Wound debridement and wound dressing has played paramount part in the
management of abscesses and carbuncles over the years. The advancements
in the field of wound care has promoted wound healing by secondary intention
very much. An evolution that is known but rarely used is maggot debridement
therapy (MDT). Observations have indicated that maggots (Lucilia sericata
larvae) have the ability to debride wound beds, provide anti-microbial activity
and also stimulate wound healing in diabetic patients.We present here a case
report of use of MDT in a centre that is unfamiliar with it - Kuala Terengganu
Estimation of aggregate claim risk model on insurance for damage to buildings due to flooding of the citarum river in Bandung Indonesia
No full textClaim risk for flood insurance is a payment made by an insurance company to policyholders. Actuaries in insurance
companies must be able to measure and control the risk of claims, so there will be no loss to insurance companies. In
this paper, an estimation of the risk model of aggregate claim risk on damage loss insurance due to flooding of the
Citarum river in Bandung Indonesia. Estimates are made on the claim frequency model, and the model for the
amount of the claim. Using the claim frequency model estimator, and the claim amount model estimator, then used
to estimate the risk of aggregate claims. The results of the analysis show that the claim frequency follows the Poisson
distribution model, and the amount of the claim follows the normal distribution model. So that, based on the claim
frequency estimator and the claim amount estimator can be used to measure the risk of claims on insurance losses
caused by flooding of the Citarum rive
Web Data Extraction Approach for Deep Web using WEIDJ
No full textData extraction is one of the most prominent areas in data mining analysis that is been extensively studied especially
in the field of data requirements and reservoir. The main aim of data extraction with regards to semi-structured data is
to retrieve beneficial information from the World Wide Web. The data from large web data also known as deep web is
retrievable but it requires request through form submission because it cannot be performed by any search engines.
Data mining applications and automatic data extraction are very cumbersome due to the diverse structure of web
pages. Most of the previous data extraction techniques were dealing with various data types such as text, audio, video
and etc. but research works that are focusing on image as data are still lacking. Document Object Model (DOM) is an
example of the state of the art of data extraction technique that is related to research work in mining image data.
DOM was the method used to solve semi-structured data extraction from web. However, as the HTML documents
start to grow larger, it has been found that the process of data extraction has been plagued with lengthy processing
time and noisy information. In this research work, we propose an improved model namely Wrapper Extraction of
Image using DOM and JSON (WEIDJ) in response to the promising results of mining in a higher volume of web data
from a various types of image format and taking the consideration of web data extraction from deep web. To observe
the efficiency of the proposed model, we compare the performance of data extraction by different level of page
extraction with existing methods such as VIBS, MDR, DEPTA and VIDE. It has yielded the best results in Precision with
100, Recall with 97.93103 and F-measure with 98.9547
Professional Skills Requirement of Mechanical Engineers
No full textProfessional Skills is the basic requirement that all engineers need to master in the current job market. This study was
conducted throughout peninsular Malaysia using the Soft Skills Model introduced by the Ministry of Education (MoE).
Among the objectives of this study is the level of requirement of the Soft Skills (SS) element to produce a competitive
Mechanical Engineer and identify the most dominant Soft Skills needed in the current job market against Mechanical
Engineers. The questionnaire distributed to respondents and data was analysed using XL-STAT 2014 software to
obtain Discriminant Analysis (DA) to achieve the objective of the study. The overall percentage for (SS) elements is 91%
respectively. This study will be a complementary set for the students of Mechanical Engineering in Malaysia.
Mastering the features required by the industry makes it easy for students to put themselves in the real job world
القراءات وأثرها في آيات الطلاق
No full textيتناول هذا البحث البيان عن القراءات القرانية وأثرها يف آايت الطلق, من خلل دراسة مخس مسائل خمتارة من سورة البقرة يف ابب الطلق, وبينت الدراسة
وتناق ٍض، فبتعدد القر
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أن االختلف احلاصل بني القراءات القرآنية هو اختلف تنوٍع وتغاي اءات تتسع املعاين وتتعدد, وخلصت ٍر يف املعىن وليس اختلف تضاد
هلا أث
الدراسة إىل أن أئمة املذاهب اعتمدوا على بعض القراءات يف االستدالل على صحة األحكام الشرعيية, وأكدت على أن ليسكل قراءة يف التفسري ٍ
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واضح
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واألحكام، فإن من القراءات ما كان للتيسري على األمة ورفع للحرج عنها
Derivative Free Conjugate Gradient Method via Broyden's Update for solving symmetric systems of nonlinear equations
No full textThe applications of mathematics in many areas of computing, scientific and engineering research mostly give rise to a
systems of nonlinear equations. Various iterative methods have been developed to solve such equations, this includes
Newton method, Quasi-Newton's etc. Over the years, there has been significant theoretical study on quasi-Newton
methods for solving such systems, but unfortunately the methods suffers setback. To overcome such problems, a
Derivative free Method for Solving Symmetric Systems of Nonlinear Equations Using Broyden's Update is presented.
The modification is achieved by simply approximating the inverse Hessian matrix to with (δ and I represents
acceleration parameter and an identity matrix respectively) without computing any derivative. The method uses the
symmetric structure of the system sufficiently and the generalized classical Broyden's update method for
unconstrained optimization problems. The squared norm merit function is used, both the direction and the line
search technique are derivative-free, this attractive feature of the proposed method makes it to have a very low storage
requirement thereby solving large scale problems successfully. In an effort to solve nonlinear problems of the form F(x)
= 0, 0, x ∈ R different initial starting points were used on a set of benchmark test problems, the output is based on
number of iterations and CPU time. A comparison between the proposed method and the classical methods were
made and found that the proposed method is efficient, robust and outperformed the existing method
Viral on social media: an analysis on customary practice
No full textCustomary practice has been one of the most important sources in almost all jurisprudence in the
world. In Islamic law, ‘urf or ‘adah is classified under secondary sources in determining fiqh rulings or
Shari’ah injunctions. There are many cases that indicate the importance of ‘urf in the formation and
development of Islamic law. This paper highlights the conditions for the validity of a custom to be part
of legal system and whether viral in social media can be recognized as a new custom under Islamic
law. This is a doctrinal research paper
A New 4-D Hyperchaotic System with Four-Scroll Hidden Attractor, Its Properties and Bifurcation Analysis
No full textThis paper announces a new four-dimensional hyperchaotic system with a four-scroll attractor and discusses its
dynamic properties such as Lyapunov exponents, phase portraits, Kaplan-Yorke dimension and equilibrium points.
Our calculations show that the new hyperchaotic system has no equilibrium point and hence it exhibits hidden
attractor. Our new hyperchaotic system has three nonlinearities in total. A detailed bifurcation analysis has been
presented for the new hyperchaotic system with four-scroll hidden attractor. Specifically, we discussed bifurcation
analysis such as route to four-scroll hyperchaos, coexisting bifurcation, multistability, two parameter Lyapunov
exponents and antimonotonicity
A new 3-D chaotic system with four quadratic nonlinear terms, its global chaos control via passive control method and circuit design
No full textThis paper reports the finding of a new three-dimensional chaotic system with four quadratic nonlinear terms. The
paper starts with a detailed dynamic analysis of the properties of the system such as phase plots, Lyapunov exponents,
Kaplan-Yorke dimension and equilibrium points. Our new chaotic system is obtained by modifying the dynamics of
the Zhu chaotic system (2010), and it has complex chaotic properties. As an engineering application, passive control
method is applied for the global chaos control of the new chaotic system. Finally, an electronic circuit implementation
of the new chaotic system is designed and implemented in MultiSIM. A good qualitative agreement has been shown
between the MATLAB simulations of the new chaotic system and the MultiSIM results