Learning is often quoted as a lifelong process. In other words, life is about learning. As prominent institutions, universities are concerned with valued and measurable learning among undergraduate students so that their mastery level of a particular content knowledge can be quantitatively gauged. Of many types of assessments, summative assessment plays a greater role in majority of engineering courses due to nature of the content knowledge. This paper mathematically investigates the fairness issue of equal weightage for all summative assessments i.e., assignments, mid-term test and end-term examination. A multiple objective optimization on the basis of ratio analysis (MOORA) is utilized to assign equal weight for the aforementioned assessments. It was found that the number of students failing the selected engineering course increases by about five times using the MOORA method. The finding clearly reveals the advantages of the former method (unequal weights) as compared to MOORA method in terms of catering students with different learning styles and speed of knowledge acquisition.
Muslim profesional sering dikaitkan dengan komitmen individu dalam penghayatan amalan religiositi. Persoalannya,
adakah profesionalisme dan penghayatan amalan religiositi mempunyai hubungan secara positif? Sekiranya saling
berkaitan, apakah amalan yang dimaksudkan? Justeru, kaedah kualitatif phenomenology digunakan untuk mengenalpasti
amalan-amalan religiositi yang dilaksanakan. Penulisan ini terbentuk hasil daripada beberapa siri temu bual separa
berstruktur, analisis dokumen dan kaedah pemerhatian bukan penyertaan di dalam meneliti amalan religiositi yang
dipraktikkan semasa bekerja, yang mempengaruhi pemantapan profesionalisme belia Muslim. Hasil kajian menunjukkan
bahawa profesionalisme seseorang itu terhasil daripada penghayatan amalan religiositi melalui i) amalan infiradi dan ii)
amalan ijtima’i, yang kemudiannya membentuk pemantapan profesionalisme individu terhadap Allah s.w.t
(habluminallah) dan terhadap masyarakat dan rakan sekerja (habluminannas).
A glucose meter (or glucometer) is a medical device for determining the approximate concentration of glucose in the
blood by pricking a finger to draw blood sample using a sharp needle. However, diabetic patient has quite slow level in
wound healing process which causes their fingers constantly in a state of wounded and exposed to bacteria. More
importantly, two main factors for the weakness of invasive technique is a painful process and cost often because constant
monitoring of glucose level is very expensive. The main objective of this research is to design and develop a non-invasive
optical measuring technique to measure body glucose level automatically and painlessly using a laser pointer and a
smartphone. Images captured by the smartphone is analysed using a Matlab software to determine the refractive index of
the urine sample. Calibration of the system is performed by correlating the results with that of the glucometer. Both
results compare well with R-squared value of 92.9%. The system can be potentially used for remote health and patient
monitoring.
Problem based learning has been adopted worldwide in several disciplines of education particularly in medicine. The
opportunity for implementation of problem based learning component was observed with the implementation of openended
laboratory in engineering education. Achievements of students in two cohorts were compared to assess the
effectiveness of the problem based learning component implementation component in Engineering Laboratory 4. The
results shows promising improvement in students’ achievements.
Genetically Modified Foods (GMFs) has been a matter considerable interest and worldwide public controversy. Due to
the world’s fastest growing recognition that addresses food safety issues and other uncertainties. In order to solve this
problem, conducted research is appropriate to evaluate the consumers’ awareness towards the existing of genetically
modified foods in the urban and rural area in Sarawak. This study conducted to identify the level of awareness towards
consumers because they had little knowledge on genetically modified foods and they also cannot assess genetically
modified foods by themselves. Furthermore, this study will provide the firm’s top management to more concern about
genetically modified and also provides knowledge for the further research. A 46 structured questions consumer survey
has been prepared with a total 351 respondents from urban and 100 respondents from rural had been collected
emphasizing on awareness of the consumers about genetically modified foods, the acceptability of GMFs by consumers
and legislations and information sources were assessed in the questionnaire. The results show that the level of genetically
modified food in both urban and rural area is very low. Consumers failed to indicate or identify its appearance due to
lack of labeling and information in packaging. The study showed that the consumers were not aware which products
contain genetically modified despite living in urban or rural areas. Since GMFs will be merging in the future, there is
need finding out the consumer’s awareness, attitudes, and perceptions toward GMFs. This study will provide a better
understanding of the company, marketer, and consumers on the level of consumers toward GMFs. Moreover, by
identifying awareness, attitudes, and perceptions allow the companies and marketers to fulfill the needs and wants of
consumers of difference segment as well preferences.
Art is a subject area that blends philosophy, aesthetic, cultural, scientific discipline, psychology, propagation,
anthropology, comparative study, and historical art. The multi-racial and multi-cultural elements in Malaysia have
influenced the artist in creating their artworks. Through artistic talents, Muslim artists can use various techniques
and arts as a thorough force to call in and praise the greatness of Allah S.W.T. Thus, it is the duty of the artist to
translate Islamic ideas into artistic language. Agreeing to the Islamic view, artistic creativity is the urge or force
given by Allah S.W.T., which runs up the importance of Allah S.W.T. In addition, art also enhances the union or
unity. Islamic art does not revolve around individual humans, but it applies to social orientation based on the
requirements of fellow human beings. Muslim art could include the contextual conditions, an artist’s intention,
and expressly because not all artworks have the same instruction with the ultimate destination of art actions that is
the Unity of God or Tawhid. So, with local (Muslim / Malay) shifting of identity, demonstrate the changing of the
Malaysian cultural identity. The objectives of this paper are to dignify the Understanding Process in Visual Art
that have similar philosophies, knowledge of Islam and Malay civilization. This model can contribute to the
development of a guideline that has been improved as compared to the existing one. This theoretical framework
has been designed for understanding with the chronicle of contemporary art, which keeps to the aim of the Islamic
art concepts, especially in lifting up the concept of Tawhid is the ultimate expiration of Muslim art.
Malaysia has introduced steps in the control of tobacco use in public placesthrough its smoke-free legislation (SFL).The approach taken by the government should be seen as new way in implementing this policy and enlightening thepeople on the importance of this policy towards the wellbeing of their daily lives at the eating place.SFL implementedin other countries such as the United Kingdom (UK) have shown thecontribution of successful SFL but theimplementation of SFL in Malaysia has yet to show its success as in the UK in terms of reducing exposures anddetrimental health effects.Here we report the decision making for effectiveness the new smoking free policy inMalaysia eateries using Fuzzy Soft Matrices.We show that the prioritization of comparison of four independentvariables which are rules, profit of eateries, knowledgeof policy and cigarette consumption in triangular fuzzy number.The results shows rules variable is the most prioritize that contribute to effectiveness the new smoking free policy inMalaysia eateries
Objective: The purpose of this study is to measure the hearing level among smokers using high frequency sensitive testing which are extended high frequency Pure Tone Audiometry (EHFPTA) and Distortional Product of Otoacoustics Emissions (DPOAE). This study focuses on four specific objectives which determine the hearing level of smokers at high frequencies, identifying amplitude of DPOAE in measuring damage level of hearing cell in cochlea, correlating the smoking duration on hearing and lastly, smoking quantity per day effects on hearing. Methods: 30 subjects participated in this study whereby they were divided into testing groups (smokers) and control groups (non-smokers). Results: The result of this study found that there are elevation of threshold at 16 KHz, 18 KHz and 20 KHz among smokers compared to non-smokers depending on duration (years) and quantity of smoking (per day). The higher the number of cigarettes being smoked per day, and the longer duration of smoking, the higher the potential of getting hearing loss. This study result also found that the longer the duration of smoking (years), it also may increase the chance of hearing elevation especially at high frequency. Mean amplitudes of DPOAE among smokers was significantly low compared to non-smokers except on 1.5 KHz and 8 KHz. Conclusion: This study implies that the damaging effects of smoking tend to reduce the hearing sensitivity at extended high frequency first which later can be progressively affected on other frequency range of hearing
Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan tentang pelaksanaan aktiviti dakwah terhadap pekerja Industri Kecil dan Sederhana (IKS) di sektor pembuatan dan perkhidmatan milik Bumiputra Muslim. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan data kajian dianalisis menggunakan perisian SPSS versi 22.0. Bagi mendapatkan maklumat, borang kaji selidik diedarkan kepada 300 responden. Mereka terdiri daripada pekerja kilang berjawatan semua peringkat. Kajian ini menggunakan pesampelan rawak telah mudah dipilih bagi mendapatkan maklumat responden. Instrumen kajian merangkumi pencapaian aktiviti dakwah di kilang. Seterusnya data yang diperoleh dianalisis menggunakan kaedah deduktif. Maklumat kajian ini diperolehi menerusi kaedah pemerhatian pengkaji terhadap premis kilang dan suasana budaya kerja di premis terbabit. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan aktiviti dakwah telah dilaksanakan dengan kekerapan seminggu sekali. Nilai min bagi pelaksanaan aktiviti dakwah ialah 2.57. Ini merupakan suatu pencapaian yang baik. Program tersebut ialah ceramah, tazkirah, kelas pengajian fardu ‘ain, bacaan al-Qur’an, zikir, solat sunat, nasyid dan program menghafal doa harian. Sebagai kesimpulan, pencapaian aktiviti dakwah yang dilaksanakan di IKS merupakan suatu motivasi kepada pekerja supaya sentiasa mematuhi kehendak agama dalam segenap kehidupan ketika bekerja mahupun di luar waktu bekerja. Kajian ini juga memberi garis panduan dan persefahaman antara majikan dan pekerja ketika pelaksanaan aktiviti dakwah kerana menerusi aktiviti dakwah dapat melahirkan pekerja berkualiti dan meningkatkan produktiviti IKS
Sektor pengeksportanmerupakan pemangkin pertumbuhanekonomiMalaysiadalam tempoh tiga dekad ini. Kemampuanuntuk mengekalkan atau meningkatkan tahap eksport menjadi faktor yang sangat penting dalam mengekalkan danmeningkatkan pertumbuhan ekonomi Malaysia.Mengambilkira pembangunan bidang-bidang berkaitan halal yangmenyeluruh, terutamanya dalam pengeluaran makanan halal di samping permintaan yang semakin meningkat terhadapproduk halal,Malaysia sepatutnya mampu lebih memperhebatkan eksportnya,untuk memenuhi permintaan global.Namun begitu, masih terdapat beberapaisu yang menyebabkan kadar pertumbuhan eksport makanan halal berkembangdengan perlahan daripada permintaan global. Oleh itu, pengkajian secara literatur akan dibuat untuk melihat isu tersebutdi mana hasil dapatan ini boleh digunakan sebagai garis panduan untuk menyusun strategi ke arah penambahbaikanpengeksportan makanan halal Malaysia ke seluruh dunia
There are many factors that lead to the variation of basic salaries among fresh graduate and employees. The need forbasic salary varies according to the responsibility of an employee. The variation of basic salary not influenced by theneed of the employees, it rather depends on the working skills and experiences. This study focuses on the factorstowards the perception of fresh graduate employees on the basic salary based on the factors of cost of living,qualification, responsibility, and scope of work. The data were collected from Maxis employees in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. The findings revealed that all factors were positively correlated to the perception towards basic salariesamong fresh graduates. Somehow, the perceptions on their basic salaries are significantly influenced only by the cost ofliving and scope of work, positively. Employees have a high expectation on basicsalaries if the cost of living is gettinghigher. This may encourage some employees to get a new job with a better offer because they believe that more skillsand experiences will lead towards a better job with a higher salary
Covid-19 or Corona Virus Pandemic have cause world panic in every sector, collapsing the economy to social activitiesamong humanity. Educational sector alsohit by the pandemic causing UiTM to be among the bravest public universityin Malaysia to take a measure to continue business as usual. Imposing an immediate effect on E-learning to all itscourses offer causing a bit turmoil among the university students’motivation during the Movement Control Order(MCO) till Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO). 181 respondents involve in the study to identify themotivation of students’ willingness to use E-learning as a medium to continue their remaining semester forthis year.The finding is very interesting as the respondents show a very miraculous responses unlike usual towards the survey asthe respondents answer every questions carefully and honestly. This study is carried out online due to ensure the newnorm practices which is social distancing.
Degenerative mitral valve prolapse without proper monitoring can cause severe mitral valve failure and occasionally lead to sudden death if the surgical correction is not performed ontime. In most cases, mitral valve prolapse would cause mitral regurgitation which in a severe case would lead to left ventricle failure due to hemodynamic burden. The aim of this study is to develop a model to predict the degeneration behaviour of mitral valve which will aid the medical practitioner to estimate the mitral valve condition based on the available mitral regurgitation data by echocardiogram assessment. Minimal hemodynamic model has been adopted with modification to obtain mitral regurgitation severity information. The stress-strain behaviour of mitral leaflet has also been studied to model the degeneration of the mitral valve leaflet. Both models were validated with the previously published data generated using Windkessel and Burkhoff methods. The coupling of both models gave the degenerative behaviour of mitral valve leaflet in relation with mitral regurgitation severity. The mitral valve degeneration was assessed by mitral valve leaflet elasticity properties while the severity of mitral regurgitation was measured by the volume of mitral regurgitation into the left atrium. It was found that the reduction of mitral valve leaflet elasticity would cause an increase of the mitral regurgitation volume into the left atrium. Mitral regurgitation severity was found to be less than 10% of left ventricle stroke volume when the mitral valve leaflet degenerates more than 90%. At this point, even with a slight increase of less than 10% in the degeneration of mitral valve leaflet, the regurgitation volume might increase suddenly from 5% up to 95% of the left ventricle stroke volume
Kesepaduan sosial adalah indikator penting bagi mencerminkan situasi aman dan harmoni sesebuah komuniti. Ia merupakan prasyarat kepada kestabilan dalam mendepani sebarang isu yang mencetuskan konflik atas sebab agama dan etnik. Kajian lepas menunjukkan hubungan antara agama dan etnik di Malaysia bersifat turun naik yang digambarkan dalam tiga fasa; era konflik, era stabil tetapi tegang dan era kesepaduan sosial. Makalah ini mebincangkan elemen dan indikator kesepaduan sosial yang membentuk hubungan harmonis antara agama dalam kalangan masyarakat pedalaman Sabah. Elemen kesepaduan sosial boleh diperhatikan melalui sikap toleransi dan sikap penerimaan terhadap isu-isu yang melibatkan hubungan antara agama. Pengumpulan data menggunakan metode kuantitatif dan kualitatif melalui soal selidik, pemerhatian dan temubual bersama informan terpilih di daerah Tambunan dan Tenom, Sabah melibatkan komuniti Muslim dan non-Muslim. Dapatan analisis SPSS secara deskriptif menunjukkan beberapa elemen dan indikator kesepaduan sosial dibina melalui interaksi seharian seperti makan bersama, tinggal bersama, sambutan perayaan, menghadiri upacara pengkebumian, penyediaan makanan untuk sahur dan berbuka puasa, perlaksanaan solat di rumah pihak berbeza agama. Hasil kajian menunjukkan sikap penerimaan dan akomodatif mencatatkan respon tertinggi serta kesediaan penganut pelbagai agama menangani perbezaan dan konflik secara harmonis. Sikap dan perlakuan inilah yang memupuk kesepaduan sosial sehingga terbentuk ahli komuniti masyarakat berbeza agama yang mudah berkompromi dan akomodatif di pedalaman Sabah
Sarawak has declared that the country will be shifting to the new digital era following the trend with the rest of the world. In conjunction with the shift, Sarawak will be upgrading its economy from dependence on the physical form with efficiency as well the effectiveness of the support from the Digital era technology. In still the Sarawak Digital Economy Policy 2018 – 2022 was established by the Chief Minister of Sarawak to materialize the agenda. To support the agenda, the authors distributed 312 questionnaires cross the Sarawak 8 District. The findings have shown the level of readiness among individual on Sarawak Digital Economy policy which needs to beaddressed by the local authorities to ensure these agenda become successful
Inventori Kecekapan Emosiatau Emotional Competence Inventory(ECI)digunakan mengukur kecekapan emosiindividu dan organisasi. Instrumen ini telah diterjemahkan kepada Bahasa Melayu melalui teknik terjemahan kembali. Kebolehpercayaan dan kesahan alat kajian ini hanya diuji dalam satu populasi tempatan sahaja dan psikometrik instrumen ini belum dinilai dengan menggunakan pendekatan Permodelan Persamaan Berstruktur Kuasa Dua Terkecil Separa (PLS-SEM). Tambahan pula, penilaian kebolehpercayaan instrumen ini dengan menggunakan kaedah alpha Cronbachselalunya menghasilkan nilai ketekalan dalaman yang rendah manakala kebolehpercayaan komposit (CR-Composite Reliability) sering kali menunjukkan nilai ketekalan dalaman yang tinggi. Nilai sebenar ketekalan dalaman bagi satu-satu petunjuk perlu dikenalpasti dengan mendapatkan nilai pekali Cronbachdan nilai CR. Selain itu,pemuatan luaran bagi kompetensi dan dimensi juga akan ditentukan dalam kajian ini. Kesahan konvergen dan kesahan diskriminan digunakan untuk mengetahui kesahan kompetensi dan dimensi ECI. Kesahan konvergen ditentukan melalui nilai Average Variance Extracted(AVE) dan kesahan diskriminan dikenalpasti melalui analisis Kriteria Fornell-Larckerdan analisis Cross-Loadings. Seramai 130 orang responden yang dipilih secara rawak melalui pensampelan berkelompok terlibat dalam kajian ini. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan perisian SmartPLS versi 3.2.8. Hasil kajian telah berjaya menentukan nilai sebenar ketekalan dalaman setiap kompetensi dan dimensi instrumen ini. Kompetensidan dimensidalam instrumen ECI ini mempunyai kebolehpercayaan yang baik dengan nilai CR dan pemuatan luaran melebihi 0.70. Alat kajian ini juga menunjukkan tahap kesahan konvergen yang baik apabila nilai AVE kompetensi dan dimensi ECI melebihi 0.50. Analisis Kriteria Fornell-Larcker mendapati kuasa dua AVE bagi setiap kompetensi dan dimensi ECI adalah lebih tinggi daripada korelasi kompetensi dan dimensi lain yang dinilai. Setiap kompetensi bermuat baik dalam dimensinya sendiri daripada dimensi yang lain setelah analisis Cross-Loadings dijalankan
Peranan dan kebolehpercayaan halal produk yang berasal dari negara majoriti muslim seperti Arab Saudi,Mesir, Jordan dan UAE bolehdipertikaikan. Kebiasaannya, produk yang dihasilkan oleh negara-negara sepertiini dianggap sebagai“kullu halal”walaupun hakikatnya rantaian pemprosesan produk memerlukan ataumengimport produk dari negara bukan Islam dalam menghasilkan produk akhir. Wujud persoalan yangsignifikan berkenaan pengimportan produk yang terlibat di dalam pemprosesan makanan, namun diragui sifat“toyyib” yang ada pada produk tersebut. Oleh itu, status pensijilan produk import ini merupakan satu langkahkeselamatan bagi masyarakat Islam dan perlu diberi penelitian yang serius kerana didapati status pensijilanhalal di negara Islam Timur Tengah kurang efisien dan tidak mendapat sokongan pihak kerajaan sepertimanaMalaysia. Kajian ini terhad kepada pembelian produk makanan yang diimport dari Negara Timur Tengah yangtiada pensijilan halal. Penyelidikan mengenai tuntutan pensijilan halal di antara negara majoriti Muslim sepertiNegara Timur Tengah dan negara multi-budaya seperti Malaysia perlu dijalankan untuk menguji tahapkesedaran pengguna Muslim itu sendiri. Manakala hasil kajian pula diharap menjadi garis panduan kepadanegara-negara majoriti Muslim dalam penyusunan strategi ke arah pensijilan halal yang dinamik bagimeningkatkan kepercayaan pengguna Muslim, sekaligus meningkatkan jumlah dagangan produk
Unmarried pregnancy causes arange of psychosocial problemsthat lead to difficult and distress situations. Whenconfronted with stressful situations, female adolescents are expected to rise up for a better life with the ability calledresilience. Thispreliminary studyaims to explore the resilience process amongunmarried pregnant female adolescentsand how the environmental context affects them. Therefore, the qualitative method of phenomenology is used tounderstand and explore the meaning of events of the respondent. The study sample consisted of two respondents involvingunmarried pregnant female adolescents (primiparous-pregnant for the first time) between the ages of 15 and 18. Thispaper is based on the results of semi-structured interviews methods. Interviews were recorded and interpretedimmediately afterthe field study. The results show that both respondents showed a negative influence during theresilience process with no support from the community. However, the respondent managed their resilience process withpositive influence thru strong social support from parents and immediate family members such as siblings, aunt andgrandmother. Thus, the burden of their psychosocial problems can be reduced and may improve their resilience