Academic literature on the topic 'Malaysia. (2006 July 28)'

This study arises from the rapid global growth of the Shariah-compliant financial services industry and the evident paucity of research on the direct comparison between a conventional portfolio and a Shariah-compliant portfolio. Therefore, this study undertakes to investigate the differences in the performance between a hypothetical conventional portfolio and a hypothetical Shariah-compliant portfolio on Bursa Malaysia over the 1 December 2005-28 February 2018 examination period. The examination period is divided into: (1) the overall period (1 December 2005-28 February 2018); (2) the bullish 1 period (1 December 2005-30 June 2007); (3) the crisis period (1 July 2007-28 February 2009); (4) the bullish 2 period (1 March 2009-30 June 2014); and (5) the consolidation period (1 July 2014-28 February 2018). The risk and return characteristics, the risk-adjusted return measures, the return correlation measure, and the sample paired t-test are the performance evaluations employed in this research. The results revealed that the performance of the conventional and Shariah-compliant portfolios was broadly similar in different economic regimes.

There have been many studies using artificial neural networks (ANNs) in the stock market prediction. A large number of successful applications have shown that ANN can be a very useful tool for time-series modeling and forecasting (Zhang et al., 1998). There has been no specific research for stock market trend direction using the dates transaction attributes as the input variables. The aim of this paper is to use artificial neural networks to predict Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) market index trend direction. Preliminary research performed on Malaysia stock market has suggested that the inputs to the system may be taken as: stock prices; Open, High, Low, Close, and 5 dummy variables each representing the working days of the week, month, day, numerology number representing the transaction, and day sequence of the month. After the inputs have been determined, the data have been gathered for the period of July 1, 2001 through February 28, 2003 downloaded from the Finance. yahoo database. Training set isdetermined to include about 90% of the data set and the rest 10% will be used for testing purposes. Network architecture is determined to be Multi Layer Perceptron and Generalized Feed Forward networks. Training and testing is performed using these two network architectures. However, subsystems are considered, which had different number of hidden layers (1, 2 and 4) for a mean-squared error value of 0.003. The results are thencompared with the results of moving averages for 5 and 10-day periods, which showed that artificial neural networks have better performances than moving averages.

Abstract. On 7 March 2014 (UTC), Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished without a trace. The aircraft is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, but despite extensive search operations the location of the wreckage is still unknown. The first tangible evidence of the accident was discovered almost 17 months after the disappearance. On 29 July 2015, a small piece of the right wing of the aircraft was found washed up on the island of Réunion, approximately 4000 km from the assumed crash site. Since then a number of other parts have been found in Mozambique, South Africa and on Rodrigues Island. This paper presents a numerical simulation using high-resolution oceanographic and meteorological data to predict the movement of floating debris from the accident. Multiple model realisations are used with different starting locations and wind drag parameters. The model realisations are combined into a superensemble, adjusting the model weights to best represent the discovered debris. The superensemble is then used to predict the distribution of marine debris at various moments in time. This approach can be easily generalised to other drift simulations where observations are available to constrain unknown input parameters. The distribution at the time of the accident shows that the discovered debris most likely originated from the wide search area between 28 and 35° S. This partially overlaps with the current underwater search area, but extends further towards the north. Results at later times show that the most probable locations to discover washed-up debris are along the African east coast, especially in the area around Madagascar. The debris remaining at sea in 2016 is spread out over a wide area and its distribution changes only slowly.

Megaselia dilatimana Disney, 2006 and M. falloconsueta Disney, 2006 (Diptera, Phoridae), two species of scuttle flies previously only known from Afrotropical region, are reported for the first time from Peninsular Malaysia. These species were collected from July to September 2020 during surveys of saprophagous scuttle flies at selected locations in the states of Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, and Johor. The geographical distribution of these species is extended to the Oriental region and increases the number of species of Megaselia known from Peninsular Malaysia to 36.

In this paper severe flood during South West monsoon seasons of 2005, 2006 & 2007 have been identified with the related synoptic features. A total of 22 states reeled under severe floods during 2005, 2006 & 2007. In the south peninsula only Karnataka and Kerala were affected by severe floods. During 2006 & 2007 severe floods continued for a longer period and affected many states where as during 2005 severe floods affected most of the states except peninsular India but they continued for short periods comparatively.Formation of excess No’s of low pressure areas and depressions in the Bay of Bengal during July, Aug and Sept 2006, in succession , and their WNW movements upto M.P. and east Rajasthan caused severe floods in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh for a longer period i.e. from 28 July to 12 September 2006. During 2007, Shifting of monsoon trough, presence of secondary monsoon trough and trough in westerly, caused severe floods in most of the North eastern states from 12 July to 10 October 2007.

The high-frequency-peaked BL Lac PKS 2155-304 is one of the brightest and best-studied VHE gamma-ray sources in the southern hemisphere. Since 2002, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has monitored this source and found it to be in an unusually high state in July 2006. On the nights of 28 and 30 July, two major outbursts occurred, with peak fluxes ~ 80 times the usual values and well-resolved structures varying on time scales of ~ 200 s. Here, we report on spectral variability studies of VHE data of the first flare and show first results of the H.E.S.S. observations during the second flare night.

<em>Abstract.</em>—Site fidelity and movements of red snapper <em>Lutjanus campechanus </em>off the coast of Texas were estimated from two tagging programs conducted aboard recreational boats. In one program, we tagged 5,614 red snapper at over 200 fishing sites between July 2002 and August 2005 using hook-and-line gear; fishermen and others reported 130 recaptured fish (a 2.3% return rate), 82 of which included location data. About 54% of the recaptured fish had moved, with an average movement of 20.4 km. In the other program, over 9,000 fish were tagged between 1983 and 2006, but only 68 records of fish tagged between 1986 and 2000 could be analyzed due to computer problems. Of the recaptured fish, 60 could be analyzed for movement, and 17 fish (28%) had moved an average of 19.1 km. Important predictors of movement in at least one program or analysis were depth, habitat type, isolation of the initial capture location, time at liberty, and fish size. Red snapper showed a higher probability of movement from capture sites that were in deep water (>40 m), natural rather than artificial structures, and isolated from other sites rather than clustered. Differences in movement from natural versus artificial sites may have been related to red snapper ‘sub-cohort’ behavior, (the tendency of small groups of red snapper to associate together), as the majority of fish that moved were members of sub-cohorts. Larger fish had a higher probability of movement than smaller fish. In one program, fish movements increased with increasing time at liberty, which is similar to past studies on red snapper site fidelity. In the other program, movements decreased with increasing time at liberty, but this was probably a bias caused by the spatial and temporal scale of the recapture effort. Red snapper that moved showed a higher average daily growth rate between capture and recapture than fish that were stationary, suggesting that movements may be beneficial for red snapper. The spatial scale of fish movements in this study, although larger than in other studies without hurricanes or translocation of fish, was still small enough to support the idea that red snapper populations in the northern Gulf of Mexico are relatively isolated, and that there may be a separate demographic stock off Texas.

Segons la legislació vigent a Catalunya, cal fer un procés d’avaluació ambiental de plans i programes públics, com a eina de prevenció, que permeti integrar els aspectes ambientals en la presa de decisions. Els plans d’ordenació urbanística municipal queden inclosos com a plans públics i han de tenir en compte l’execució d’aquesta avaluació ambiental i, concretament, les actuacions i la documentació que exigeix la normativa vigent (article 7 de la Llei 9/2006, de 28 d’abril, sobre l’avaluació dels efectes de determinats plans i programes sobre el medi ambient). El Pla d’ordenació urbanística municipal (en endavant, POUM) de Besalú, 2007, ha tingut, com a instrument d’avaluació ambiental, l’Informe de sostenibilitat ambiental (en endavant, ISA), el qual té per objectiu oferir un seguit de criteris sostenibles que serveixin de base per al desenvolupament urbanístic del municipi, basant-se en la integració dels principis de sostenibilitat establerts pel Decret 305/2006, la Llei estatal 9/2006, la Directiva 2001/42/CE i la nova Llei d’avaluació ambiental de plans i programes (AAPP) de Catalunya, aprovada pel Parlament de Catalunya el 15 d’abril de 2009. La Llei d’urbanisme i el seu Reglament es pronuncien clarament a favor d’un desenvolupament urbanístic sostenible, sobre la base de la utilització racional del territori, per compatibilitzar el creixement i el dinamisme econòmic necessaris amb la cohesió social, el respecte al medi ambient i la qualitat de vida de les generacions actuals i futures. Segons la Directiva 2001/42/CE, els elements ambientals de sostenibilitat que ha d’incorporar un Pla d’ordenació urbanística municipal s’han d’integrar des del primer moment en la presa de decisions que comporta la formulació del planejament. Per aquest motiu, és necessari fixar uns objectius ambientals, que són els següents: * Diagnòstic ambiental del territori. * Fixació d’objectius ambientals. * Determinació d’indicadors del compliment dels objectius marcats. * Incorporació dels objectius ambientals en les determinacions del planejament: d’ordenació, de normatives, de programació i de finançament. * Validació del compliment dels objectius establerts. * Mesures de desplegament i de seguiment. Segons l’art. 3.1 del Decret legislatiu 1/2005, de 26 de juliol, d’urbanisme, s’entén per principi de sostenibilitat relacionat amb el planejament urbanístic: “El desenvolupament urbanístic sostenible es defineix com la utilització racional del territori i el medi ambient i comporta conjuminar les necessitats de creixement amb la preservació dels recursos naturals i dels valors paisatgístics, arqueològics, històrics i culturals, a fi de garantir la qualitat de vida de les generacions presents i futures”. Aquest estudi de cas vol destacar la importància que va tenir l’anàlisi ambiental i l’avaluació de les característiques socioambientals més significatives dels nous sectors de creixement proposats i de les àrees objecte de modificació i/o transformació, així com les del seu context territorial immediat (mesura requerida al document de referència, emès per l’òrgan ambiental competent: “Oficina territorial d’avaluació ambiental estratègica de Girona”), per tal de justificar l’ordenació urbanística d’acord amb uns criteris urbanístics i socioambientals sostenibles. Strategic environmental evaluation: Case study, Urban Plan, POUM Besalú (Catalonia). According to the existing legislation in Catalonia it is necessary as a preventative method to carry out a process of environmental evaluation for planning and for public programmes which would allow for the integration of environment issues in the decision making processes. The urban town plans are considered to be public plans and therefore they must take into account this environmental evaluation. In particular they must consider the necessary actions as well as the specific documentation which the existing regulation requires (article 7 of the 9/2006 Regulation of 28 April relating to the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment). As an instrument for environmental evaluation, the Urban Town Plan (POUM) Besalú 2007, has done a report on environmental sustainability, (ISA). The objective of this report is to offer a series of sustainable criterion which serve as a basis for the town planning development, basing itself upon the integration of the sustainable principals established in: The 305/2006 Decree, the State Legislation 9/2006, the Directive 2001/42/CE and the blueprint of the Catalan Environmental Evaluation Legislation for Plans and Programmes (AAPP). The urbanistic Legislation and its Regulations indicate to be clearly in favour of a sustainable urban development based upon the rational use of land in order to create compatibility between growth and the necessary economic dynamism together with social cohesion, respect towards the environment and the quality of life of the present and future generations. According to the Directive 2001/42/CE, the sustainable environmental elements which ought to be incorporated into the Urban Town Plan need to be integrated from the beginning of the decision making process which is required in the establishing of the general layout plan. For this reason it is necessary to establish the following environmental objectives: * Environmental diagnosis of the site. * Establishment of environmental objectives. * Setting up of pointers for compliance of the established objectives. * Incorporation of environmental objectives in the setting up of town plans, regulations, programming and financing. * Verification of compliance with established objectives. * Deployment measures and follow up. According to the Town Planning article 3.1 of the Legislative Decree 1/2005 dated 26 July, the concept of sustainability related to urban layout is understood as the following: ”Sustainable urban development is defined as the rational use of land and the environment and it involves the combination of the needs of expansion with the preservation of natural resources while taking into consideration landscape, arqueological, historic and cultural values with the intention of guaranteeing the quality of life of present and future generations.” This case study wishes to highlight the importance of the environmental analysis and the evaluation of the most important social-environmental characteristics in the new sectors of proposed growth and in the areas subject to modification and/or transformation the same as those in the immediate territorial context(this measure is required in the reference Document emited by the appropriate environmental body “Girona Land strategic environmental evaluation Office”) in order to justify the urban plan in accordance with urbanistic and sustainable social-environmental criterion.

Presented by Professor Asha Kanwar, COL President & CEO, at the High Level Roundtable for Vice Chancellors and Heads of ODL Institutions hosted by Asia e University in Penang, Malaysia, on 28 July 2022.