Human recreational activities and tourism are concentrated on the islands and in coastal waters, often depending on the maintenance of high water quality. The managing of impacts of urbanization and industrialization on the coastal zone ecology has become a high priority for many nations such as Malaysia and, hence, the need to develop better methods for monitoring and predicting change in isla...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of hepatitis B and C has been reported to be low among respondents in different studies. We conducted a cross-sectional study among international students of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) to ascertain their levels of knowledge, attitude and practices regarding hepatitis B and C and its associated factors. METHODS Six hundred and sixty two (662) international students pa...

Within the EU-funded project HIPERION, significant progress has been made on Insolight solar panel: a high-efficiency rooftop compatible micro-CPV device with integrated planar microtracking and diffuse collection via additional low-cost Si cells. The IES-UPM other R&D centers in consortium have tasked characterizing various generation of this technology. In work we discuss evolution module des...

Abstract This paper addresses the acoustic and aerodynamic characteristics of small rotor configurations, including influence rotor–rotor interactions. For this purpose, a Rotor/Rotor/Pylon configuration is chosen for both test numerical simulations. The wind tunnel experiments on various were performed in DLR’s Acoustic Wind Tunnel Braunschweig (AWB). involve isolated rotors, rotors tandem coa...

In this paper, we describe our system submitted for the semantic textual similarity (STS) task at SemEval 2012. We implemented two approaches to calculate the degree of similarity between two sentences. First approach combines corpus-based semantic relatedness measure over the whole sentence with the knowledge-based semantic similarity scores obtained for the words falling under the same syntac...