Food with a halal logo should turn out as an advantage to premises that have proactively adapted to halal business ideas. As Islam teaches its followers on what food is good (halal) and bad (haram) for consumption, the attachment of Islamic decency and goodness to foodservice is expected to spur food premise Halal patronage. The objective of this paper was to investigate the role of religiosity as a mediator in the relationship between perceived behavioural control and intention on patronising at food premise with halal logo. Survey data were collected from supermarket shoppers in all four states in Malaysia such as Selangor, Johor, Kelantan and Pulau Pinang and analysed using partial leastsquares structural equations modelling (PLS-SEM) technique. The key findings were religiosity as an important part in an indirect positive relationship between perceived behavioural control and intention on patronising at food premise with halal logo, thus giving support to the mediating effect of religiosity. An explanation for this mediating effect was probably due to the high degree of dependency on religiosity among Muslim consumers.

In a conventional single-energy X-ray imaging technique, the information obtained from the examined object are often not sufficient for precise characterization. Hence, this study was designed to assess whether the dual-energy imaging technique would be a good alternative to the conventional method and can be used to improve the output image. An electronic microcontroller was chosen as the sample due to its complex inner structure. It was scanned using the X-ray micro computed tomography (micro-CT) scanner at two different energy levels: 60kVp and 100kVp. Dual-energy image processing method was applied to the acquired image and the results were compared to the single-energy image in term of contrast and image quality. The combined information from dual-energy scan at 60kVp and 100kVp was able to visualize the sample’s internal structure (raised surface). By comparison, the single-energy imaging technique was only capable at producing shadow image. The resolution of the dual-energy image, however, was much lower due to the loss of data….