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Recent development of Advance Driver Assistance System (ADAS) has seen various advancement in object detection for vehicle vision system, particularly on the detection of other vehicles, pedestrians, road lane and signage. While these detections can provide assistant to avoid road accidents, they still lack to include road condition factors that also contributed to road accidents in Malaysia. This paper proposes a detection of the road peculiarities such as pothole and road bumps to act as additional safety feature in ADAS. With the breakthrough of deep learning in solving image recognition problems, this work takes advantage of Single Shot Detector (SSD)-MobileNetV2 as the detection algorithm, implemented on the real-time. The training images for potholes and road bumps taken from the Malaysia roads are fed into the detection model, and then the pre-trained weights are fine-tuned over the training process. The results show that the detection algorithm can predicts the potholes and road bumps, while exhibit the detection accuracy and confidence limitation due to the variety of shape and pattern of potholes and road bumps. Testing the detection algorithm with NVIDIA Jetson Nano yielded about 20 frames per second (fps), suitable for real-time applications.

Teaching materials that link aspects of science, environment, technology, and society, as well as teaching materials that contain character values, are not yet in school. For this reason, this study is conducted to describe the feasibility of teaching materials developed in terms of the aspects of validity, practicality, effectiveness, and character achievement. This research includes research and development (R&D) that refers to the ADDIE model. The subjects of the trial from this study were 33 VIIIH class students of SMP 1 Banjarmasin. The research instruments used included the validation sheet, lesson plan implementation sheet, learning outcome test, and self-assessment sheet. The results of data analysis show that the natural science teaching material developed has a very good validation category; practical, which can be done very well; effectiveness with effective categories; and the achievement of students’ character is a very good category. It was concluded that natural science teaching materials character-based appropriate were used on the subject matter of vibrations, waves, and sounds for middle school in science technology and society (STS) approach.

This research examines the practice of green property management (GPM) for commercial buildings. Property management is the process of taking care of properties so as to meet the interests of all people having an interest in the property. The extent of damage to the environment from current unsustainable living today has driven building users and operators to adopt a more environmental practice towards property asset management. Nevertheless, practice for GPM experiences different understanding on the concept and hence, there is no standard practice towards it. In this research, the procedures and methods of developing the green property management framework examines some of the property management requirements for the practice of GPM, in particular, for commercial buildings. In particular, it examines the work procedures in current property management practice by property professionals and to integrate performance measurement by the GBI in designing the framework for GPM practice.

A 7-year-old boy, referred with lymphoma, presented with prolonged fever and intra-abdominal lymphadenopathy demonstrated on computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen. Blood culture isolated Penicillium marneffei. The patient was subsequently proven serologically to be positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Treatment with amphotericin B followed by itraconazole was successful. A high level of clinical suspicion and awareness is necessary for early diagnosis of penicilliosis, especially in an era of an increasing prevalence of HIV in this region.

Various types of internal antennas suitable for digital TV receiver have been investigated. These include rectangular plate loop structure, 1/2λ monopole, and L-dipole. Evaluations of the internal antennas were done, numerically and experimentally, to obtain some electrical properties such as S 11 , VSWR, gain and radiation pattern. All the fabricated antennas are incorporated inside the TV receiver body. This allows more flexible, moveable, compact, and inexpensive construction of digital TV in the future.