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Protein function prediction is an active research area in bioinformatics. Protein functions are highly related to their structures. Therefore, effective structure based protein representations are required. Pires et al. [BMC Genomics, 12, S12 (2011)] proposed a cutoff scanning matrix (CSM) method for protein representation that utilizes distance patterns between protein residues and a maximum cutoff...
Automatic grading of oil palm fresh fruit bunch is desired. In this study, a capacitive sensing system was designed and developed for the purpose of grading oil palm fresh fruit bunch. In this method, oil palm fresh fruit bunch placed between capacitive plates as a dielectric material and then measure the resulting capacitance voltage. Experiments were carried out using oil palm bunches of Tenera...
This paper explores the students' performance on their basic engineering mathematics. It is essential for the students to meet the expectation of the engineering program in ensuring that the students be able to follow thru the whole program smoothly and achieved the expected learning outcome at the end of the program. Meaningful performance measurement is critical in identifying the performance of...
There are many crime cases such as murders or robberies which frequently involve firearms, especially pistols. The centre firing pin impression image on a cartridge case is one of the important clues for firearms identification. In this study, a total of 16 features of geometric moments up to the sixth order were extracted from centre of firing pin impression images. A total of five pistols of the...
The basic idea of the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) algorithm is to systematically explore the neighborhood of current solution using a set of predefined neighborhood structures. Since different problem instances have different landscape and complexity, the choice of which neighborhood structure to be applied is a challenging task. Different neighborhood structures may lead to different solution...
Building a platform for knowledge creation and engagement is a big task for librarians especially when incorporating social or new media. But, with the advent of new tools and open source technology, the librarians at Nanyang Technological University are able to sow the seeds in the library's technology infrastructure. The initiative leads in the construction of a campus wide platform, adopting WordPress...
Yield Prediction is an essential task to be achieved in order to implement effective forward marketing. Forward marketing is a contract that will be signed between supplier and client based on the amount of delivery and the price of delivery in future. To be able to sign such a contract the supplier should be very confident that the yield could be achieved. The yield sustainability is a challenging...
Producing chili is a daunting task as the plant is exposed to the attacks from various micro-organisms and bacterial diseases and pests. The symptoms of the attacks are usually distinguished through the leaves, stems or fruit inspection. This paper discusses the effective way used in performing early detection of chili disease through leaf features inspection. Leaf image is captured and processed...
Increase in demand for microcontroller based system especially in automotive and industrial consumer market creates challenge for universities to produce engineers with practical embedded system development and programming skills. To meet this challenge, Universiti Malaysia Pahang has adopted student center learning (SCL) approach in teaching a course on embedded microcontroller technology. MINI-11...
The awareness of the importance of usability and accessibility in Malaysia is demonstrated with the setting-up of usability laboratories from local universities and agency and studies in different applications. This study share the interest on creating awareness of the importance of accessibility and usability criteria by investigating the accessibility and usability level of Malaysia Higher Education...
Human factors literature has stressed the importance of ergonomically good computer environment and computer usage as to avoid from ergonomic risk and illnesses. This paper aims to investigate the ergonomics awareness among university students. The data collected from the survey includes their prior knowledge about ergonomics, their current practice and their perception regarding ergonomic-related...
The current business and economic scenario demand for accounting expertise to be easily adaptable to evolving issues and be able to address business challenges efficiently. This expertise relates to management accountants who play a significant role in the internal management of the business having to assist in providing information for effective decision-making towards better business performance...
Assessment is an important component of learning and it also noted that many examinations make heavily used of short answers. This assessment can be a tedious task. This research work proposed a technique that models the teacher's and learner's knowledge to evaluate short free text answer. It is based on a hybrid approach that combines natural language processing, a node-link as a representation technique...
Assessment is an important component of learning and it also noted that many academic examination make heavy used of short answers. This assessment can be a tedious task. However, there are not many computer-based assessment tools due to limitations in computerized marking technology. Our research attempts to address this limitation by introducing a technique to evaluate short free text answer. It...
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