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Blind graduates as call centre agents
Published 2014“…A TOTAL of 31 visually impaired individuals graduated from the Malaysia Association for the Blind's (MAB) call centre training in Rawang, Selangor after under-going a five-month programme.International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) secretary-general Datuk Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria presented the certificates to the graduates.…”
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An investigation into accessible Web navigation for the blind people
Published 2015“…Current screen-reader program used by the blind people to access the Internet inflicts navigation restrictions since the blind users can only perceive the content in serial mode.The serialized access using screen-reader program restricts the blind users from having the multi-dimensional effects required to fully understand the page layout. …”
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University website accessibility for totally blind users
Published 2017“…Researchers have discovered significant faults in the accessibility of university websites, especially for visually-impaired users.To determine the requirements for totally blind users, this study conducted a comprehensive literature review and accessibility evaluation on 15 Palestinian university websites.The determined factors were used in designing an accessible web page prototype.An online questionnaire was constructed to evaluate the accessibility of the prototype from the blind users’ perspective.From the evaluation of 16 blind participants, it was found that the prototype was highly accessible (mean score 4.19).The regression analysis test was utilised to determine the relationship between the items and the main principles of accessibility. …”
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Eliciting mental model of blind people for web page
Published 2011“…This paper highlights the need to investigate whether blind people can get two dimensional perspectives in their mental model using bi-modal interaction.The two dimensional perspectives are very important for effective navigation in the Internet.This paper proposed the novel protocol to elicit mental model from the blind people using diagrammatic representation.…”
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Accessibility factors for totally blind users of Palestinian universities websites
Published 2015“…An online questionnaire was constructed to evaluate the accessibility of the prototype from blind users’ perspective.From the evaluation of 16 visually impaired participants, it was found that the prototype was highly accessible among the totally blind where the mean score was 4.19. …”
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Blind users' mental model of web page using touch screen augmented with audio feedback
Published 2012“…The purpose of this study is to discover in detail the two-dimensional mental model created by the blind people using touch screen with audio feedback.It is hypothesized that by augmenting a touch screen display with audio feedback, blind user would be able to have two-dimensional perspective in their mental model.If their mental model of a web page is two-dimensional, the blind people should be able to gain an overview of the web pages accurately, which is important for navigation of the web page.This paper discusses an on - going study to elicit mental models from the blind users using diagrammatic representation. …”
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Touch screen with audio feedback: Content analysis and the effect of spatial ability on blind people's sense of position of web pages
Published 2013“…In addition, investigation of blind users' spatial ability on users' performance was also conducted. …”
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A hybridization of enhanced artificial bee colony-least squares support vector machines for price forecasting
Published 2012“…Problem statement: As the performance of Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LSSVM) is highly rely on its value of regularization parameter, γ and kernel parameter,σ2 , man-made approach is clearly not an appropriate solution since it may lead to blindness in certain extent.In addition, this technique is time consuming and unsystematic, which consequently affect the generalization performance of LSSVM. …”
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From bias “in the text” to “teacher talk around the text”
Published 2000“…In particular, our data shows cases of the “traditional” focus of texts being endorsed, “progressive” texts being undermined, those parts of texts that can be seen as containing “traditional biases” being passed over, and talk about gender issues within texts being characterized by “gender blindness.” Drawing on these possibilities, we propose a working analytical framework, which can be used in and developed by future studies. …”
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A review of international developments in occupational safety and health auditing practices
Published 2004“…Off-job injuries statistic is in fact far more severe compare to the formal workplace injuries rate. Blindly abide to narrow laws definition or standard will result the bigger losses were fail to identify.…”
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Peer review interactions for Malaysian journals: The revamped open-peer review process
Published 2008“…The result shows that 84.6% of the journal administrators are interested to move from double-blind review to open peer-review process. Although this is the case, no guidelines or models, either conceptually or otherwise, exist to assist the journal administration to migrate. …”
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Signal detection algorithm for cognitive radio using singular value decomposition
Published 2011“…This paper highlights an algorithm for detecting the presence of wireless signal using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) technique.We simulated the algorithm to detect common digital signals in wireless communication to test the performance of the signal detector.The SVD-based signal detector was found to be more efficient in detecting a signal without knowing the properties of the transmitted signal.The performance of the algorithm is better compared to the favorable energy detection.The algorithm is suitable for blind spectrum sensing where the properties of the signal to be detected are unknown.This is also the advantage of the algorithm since any signal would interfere and subsequently affect the quality of service (QoS) of the IEEE 802.22 connection.Furthermore, the algorithm performed better in the low signalto-noise ratio (SNR) environment.…”
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Robust watermarking technique using different wavelet decomposition levels for signature image protection
Published 2017“…This paper proposed a non-blind watermarking technique based on different wavelet decomposition levels for biometric image protection.In this technique, a biometric image is used as a watermark instead of a standard image, logo or random noise pattern type watermark.For watermark embedding, the original host image and the watermark biometric image are transformed into various levels of wavelet coefficients.The watermark biometric image is embedded into the host image by modifying the values of the wavelet coefficients of the host image using the values of wavelet coefficients of the watermark biometric image.Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed technique was able to withstand various watermarking attacks. …”
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Goal programming to model human decision making in ultimatum games
Published 2012“…Computer simulations of the GP models, testing a number of Ultimatum, Dictator and Double-Blind Dictator Games, lead to distributions of proposals made and accepted that correspond reasonably well with experimental findings.…”
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mFakih: Modelling mobile learning game to recite Quran for deaf children
Published 2014“…Quran learning is compulsory for every Muslim because there is a code of ethics in Quran for every field of life.However, the Quran educations among deaf students are far behind compared to blind students.They are unable to hear and difficult for teachers to teach deaf students. …”
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SVD-based signal detector for cognitive radio networks
Published 2011“…This paper examines the implementation of the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method to detect the presence of wireless signal.The method is used to find the maximum and minimum eigenvalues.We simulated the algorithm using common digital signal in wireless communication namely rectangular pulse shape, raised cosine and root-raised cosine to test the performance of the signal detector.The SVD-based signal detector was found to be more efficient in sensing signal without knowing the properties of the transmitted signal.The execution time is acceptable compared to the favorable energy detection.The computational complexity of SVD-based detector is medium compared to the energy detector.The algorithm is suitable for blind spectrum sensing where the properties of the signal to be detected are unknown. …”
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The life story of a resilient underprivileged youth: The motivation to learn soft skills to thrive
Published 2017“…He mentioned that his university degree and his achievements at his job are all because of their prayers for his success.Life Turning Points The turning points in his life which were (1) the extreme adversity of becoming blind when he was a teenager; and (2) when his reserved father had an outburst; may have been the catalysts of his current achievements.…”
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Deriving skyline points over dynamic and incomplete databases
Published 2017“…The rapid growth of data is inevitable, and retrieving the best results that meet the user’s preferences is essential.To achieve this, skylines were introduced in which data items that are not dominated by the other data items in the database are retrieved as results (skylines).In most of the existing skyline approaches, the databases are assumed to be static and complete.However, in real world scenario, databases are not complete especially in multidimensional databases in which some dimensions may have missing values.The databases might also be dynamic in which new data items are inserted while existing data items are deleted or updated.Blindly performing pairwise comparisons on the whole data items after the changes are made is inappropriate as not all data items need to be compared in identifying the skylines. …”
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