Hamizah Hassan

Extending cultural model of assistive technology design for autism treatment

This paper depicts the prominence of cultural on the adoption of assistive technology, in terms of design, which are particularly anticipated for autism treatment. The researchers believe that cultural aspect should be considered in designing assistive technology in treating autistic individual. It is necessary to assess cultural differences critically so that assistive technology can be accepted extensively. Occasional review on cultural changes is also needed in countries with cultural diversity to ensure that the technological growth is compatible with the current recognition. This paper reviews on disability treatment using assistive technology and proposes an extension for the existing cultural model for assistive technology design.

Review on training policy for teachers and parents in using humanoid for children with autism

Autism spectrum disorder is a life-long development disorder distinguish by impairment related to central nervous system maturation with features include delay in social life development, problem in language, social skills and repetitive behavior. Autism is a global crisis due to prevalence rates higher in several countries and the need for treatment view to be important. This paper reviews on the training policy for teachers and parents in using humanoid for children with autism. In Malaysia, there is no proper and specific training policy for children with autism through implementation of humanoid.

Autism children: Cost and benefit analysis of using humanoid in Malaysia

Autism is a permanent disorder that cause quality of life disturbance. As matter of research, there are no single interventions that can cure the heterogeneous syndrome. Since there is no cure for autism children, perhaps using humanoid can help the autism children in order to have appropriate therapy and treatment programs especially to the young children inflicted with it. Robots are normally used for industrial work, but hardly for therapy. Robots have been used to substitute human way back in the 19th century. They are beneficial to society regardless of the fields that they are being utilized. The health sector has been identified as one of the fields that benefit most as a result of using robotics. For decades, people fascinated with the technologys fiction of robots that look and act like a human Therefore, humanoid robots give benefits towards autism therapy for early detection. Many studies have been done in order to determine the ways to conduct autism treatment However, there is no study on cost and benefit analysis conducted using humanoid as a treatment for autism children. Therefore, this study will focus on the cost and benefit analysis of using humanoid for Malaysian autism children.

The Impact of Reducing Tick Size on Malaysian’s Stock Market Liquidity

This paper provides a unique opportunity to investigate the impact reduction in tick size towards Malaysian’s stock market liquidity by utilising spread and trading volume as proxies to market liquidity. The main function of tick size it is a tool to improvise the market liquidity, it is a tool to beautify the market liquidity. Using the components of FTSE-BMKLCI and closing daily data compiled starting from the implementation new tick size regime, from 3 August 2009 until the end of trading day 31 December 2014, this study found that, with the reduction in tick size, it reduces the spread significantly and there is a significant impact on trading volume.

Global Digital Divide: Inter-regional Study on the Impact of ICT Diffusion on Economic Growth

This paper investigates the impact of ICT on economic growth as measured by GDP growth, on 149 countries divided into 5 regions—Africa, America, Arab, Asia and Europe, over a 9-year period from 2006 to 2014. Using pooled OLS and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation methods, findings from dynamic panel data models revealed that ICT has significant impact on economic growth particularly in regions such as America, Asia and Europe. It is still unclear whether or not regions such as Africa and Arab would benefit from diffusion of ICT; nevertheless, fixed broadband appears promising for Africa’s future economic progress, whereas significance of fixed telephone reflects the importance of telecommunication networks in the Arab region.

Nonlinear Relationship Between Debt and Firm Value in Malaysian Firms

This paper examines the nonlinear relationship between debt and firm value in Malaysia. The issue of dynamic endogeneity in the determinant of the relationship between debt and firm value is also investigated in this paper. Based on the sample consisting of 367 Malaysian firms listed on Bursa Malaysia for the period of 2007–2012, the study fails to find evidence on the nonlinearity between debt and firm value. It concludes that dynamic endogeneity does not influence the relationship between debt and firm value in the Malaysian firms.

Nonlinearity Between Ownership Concentration and Firm Value

The main objective of this study is to examine the nonlinear relationship between ownership concentration and firm value. The issue of dynamic endogeneity between the two variables is investigated in this study. Empirically, there is no evidence of nonlinearity between ownership concentration and firm value. The result also suggests that dynamic endogeneity is not serious in influencing the relationship between ownership concentration and value of Malaysian firms.