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  1. Izza Shazleen Abdul Aziz, Marek Kozlowski, Mohd Shahwahid Othman
    MyJurnal
    Policymakers and recreation site managers use changes in fee structure, either introducing park entrance fees or increasing existing ones, to generate revenues, improve services, and reduce damages associated with visitor’s overuse. The sudden increase in park usage fee, however, can make the park inaccessible to certain segments of visitors. Understanding park users' response to changes in fees and its implication on park use equity is, thus, important to achieving a park's full potential in a socially and environmentally responsible way. This information is crucial especially for developing countries, where the issue has received relatively less attention and underfunded. This paper contributes to the literature on park access fees by empirically assessing park use equity between and among international and local visitors visiting Putrajaya Botanical Garden, Malaysia and developing an approach for determining predictors and mean willingness to pay values for park entrance. Results of our survey-based approach show a positive willingness to pay values for park entrance and fee increases. Our results also show that it is possible to raise revenue without exacerbating existing park use differences.
  2. Muhammad Arif Bin Harun, Prem A/L Gunnasegaran, Nor Azwadi Che Sidik
    MyJurnal
    Heat pipes are widely used in various industries such as automotive, electronics, and many more. Heat pipes are used as cooling devices for electronic parts in machines that emit a large amount of heat, which can damage the devices. The heat pipes used in this investigation are loop heat pipes. These pipes can transport heat over a long distance and operate against gravity. The working fluid used in this investigation is nanofluid. Nanofluid is one of the types of working fluid that is considered to have better thermal performance than conventional fluids. Nanofluid is made of nanoparticles with base-fluid. This investigation studies the thermal performance of loop heat pipes using different types of nanofluids. Nanofluid fluids used in this study are diamond nanofluid, aluminium oxide nanofluid and silica oxide nanofluid. The effect of mass concentration of nanoparticles in the base-fluid is also studied. The results showed that as the mass concentration of nanofluids increased, the thermal resistance for diamond nanofluid and aluminium oxide nanofluid decreased, but the opposite occurred for silica oxide nanofluid but still better resultsthan pure water. This shows that diamond and aluminium oxide nanofluids shows better thermal conductivity as it has lower total thermal resistance and thermal enhancement rate compared to other nanofluids. Diamond nanofluid also had higher heat capacity than aluminium oxide nanofluid as it had a lower vapour line temperature reading.
  3. Babalola Sunday Oyetayo, Abdul Rahman Alias, Tan, Liat Choon, Abidoye Ayodeji Iyanu, Anthony Olatunbosun
    MyJurnal
    The new innovative of technology by (GIS) Geographic Information System, (LIS) Land
    Information System and (CIS) Cadastral Information System has been playing a leading
    role in the development of cadastral and land administration in this study area. The
    Customary ways and approach to the land titling and registration in the time past has
    resulted in the delay in the processes of obtaining title to the land. Land administration
    system in Nigeria includes the processes of land registration, cadastral mapping, land
    valuation and land inventory. Most of developing nation particularly Nigeria is faced
    with the problem of poor land administration and management. Technology is
    paramount in acquiring a proper technological development in land administration.
    This study tried to encourage land title registration by providing web technologies that
    are faster and suitable with a low rate and minimum delay. The need to develop a
    dynamic web for the processes in the land registration arises from the dynamic
    relationship to the land of the people. The delay in time and process of land registration
    couple with the exploitation in land related activities has called for the urgent
    intervention of all the stakeholders in land administration. PHP programming language
    was used as a server side scripting languages together with MyAdmin SQL, a website
    was developed for the processes involved in the land registration having examined the
    fastest way to solve the problem. A robust dynamic database that is reliable and easy
    to use was also developed which is capable of accommodating several numbers of
    applicants. The applicants, monitoring agency and the government have the advantage
    of checking all the processes on line without any contact with the officers working on
    the certificate.
  4. Kueh, Roland Jui Heng, Osumanu Haruna Ahmed, Sylvester Jemat, Melvin Ku Kin Kin, Teo, Jimmy Chee Kiong, Nik Muhamad Abd. Majid, et al.
    MyJurnal
    Most tropical rainforest tree species depends on forest gaps for their successful
    regeneration. Evaluation on the gap or canopy openness provides an indicator on the
    forest development stages. This paper reported on the canopy openness (CO) of three
    study plots at (1-, 9-, 18-year old) rehabilitated forest sites and one study plot at natural
    regenerating secondary forest (± 22-year old) in UPM-Mitsubishi Corporation Forest
    Rehabilitation Project, Universiti Putra Malaysia Bintulu Sarawak Campus (UPMKB).
    Plot of 20 x 20 m was established where dendrometric parameters were collected
    while Delta-T Device HemiView system was used to take the hemispherical photograph
    and field observation information were used to assess the CO. Qualitative analysis of
    the photographs suggested there were three stages of forest growth namely gap,
    building and mature stand development phases. These also helped the interpretation
    of the quantitative analysis in relation to forest dynamics. Hemispherical photographs
    were used for quantitative analysis of the CO. CO showed statistical significant
    differences among study plots which recorded a range of 3-78%. Rapid analysis of CO
    on the hemispherical photographs with information from the dendrometric
    measurement had assisted in assessing the forest stand development. The canopy
    openness was dependent on the age of the rehabilitated forest. Overall, the study plots
    were in the different stages of stand development.
  5. Abdul Rashid Ismail, Wan Normeza Wan Zakaria
    MyJurnal
    This study aims to examine the influences of the plan to further study, career growth
    and discriminatory treatment on turnover intention among technicians in electronic
    industry in Malaysia. The objectives are: (i) To identify the relationship between the
    plan to further study and turnover intention among factory technicians, (ii) To identify
    the relationship between career growth and turnover intention among factory
    technicians, and (iii)To identify the relationship between discriminatory treatment
    factors and turnover intention among factory technicians. The population involved in
    this study were the manufacturing technicians at an electronic factory. Survey
    questionnaires were used to collect data. A total of 110 questionnaires were analyzed.
    Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to measure the
    degree of relationship between variables. The findings showed that all independent
    variables; plan to further study, career growth and discriminatory treatment, were
    positive moderately correlated with turnover intention.
  6. Babalola Sunday Oyetayo, Abdulrahman Alias, Tan, Choon Liant, Mohammed Jawalludeen Sani, Shuaibu Umar
    MyJurnal
    One of the prime inspirations for this work emerge from the need to deal with our
    common assets (the Land). To build up a formal approach that can be utilized to
    address the issues emerges from a mind boggling circumstance in land
    administration. The capacity to track the progressions as it is connected to land
    everywhere throughout the year. A considerable lot of the land exchanges are as yet
    in light of 2D ideal models that have frustrated fast advancement in thickly urban
    condition. The consideration of 3D enhanced the functionalities of different models.
    Be that as it may, the dynamic idea of the land has an imperative part in the
    advancement of the land administration framework. One of the significant reason the
    expansion in intricacy in land utilize required that Land Administration Domain Model
    (LADM) concept in land administration has an enhanced limit is to deal with the
    current 2D and 3D. The need to talk about time dimension emerges from the way
    that individuals relationship to the land has an exceptionally powerful nature, all the
    LADM packages has time (Temporal) components. LADM completely bolster forming
    (historical information) as all classes inherit from VersionObject, and all LA_RRR
    object have the quality TimeSpace. 2D/3D space and time incorporation is not
    profoundly integrated into a 3D/4D spatiotemporal portrayal. The preparatory test
    case in this study affirmed the conceivable outcomes of having a move or
    development (with time) of characteristic limits from their underlying positions. Thus,
    the dynamic idea of the land in connection to man, the benefits of this model to the
    land proprietors, land merchants, and the administration can't be over stressed. This
    study tries to clarify the current 2D/3D approach and broke down preparatory
    requirements for 4D with a specific end goal to see the estimation of the approach.
    The primary future research exertion focuses on melding on the most proficient
    method to coordinate the model completely into Country profile in the study area.
  7. Edward Hingha Foday Jr, Nurul As'shikin Ramli, Hairu Nabilah Ismail, Nulhazwany Abdul Malik, Hazlami Fikri Basri, Fatihah Syahirah Abdul Aziz, et al.
    MyJurnal
    Malaysia is one of the developing countries that are facing an increase population
    with an increasing and significant generation of waste. Environmental problems may
    arise when the solid waste management is improper. The rate of generation is
    increasing and the composition is also changing as the nation becomes more
    urbanized and industrialized. The objective of this study is to present the data of
    municipal solid waste (MSW) generated in Taman Universiti, Skudai, Johor Bahru,
    Malaysia. The composition of MSW was studied by segregating it into different
    components such as food waste, paper, glass, plastics, metal and tin aluminums. It
    was observed that Taman Universiti area produced around 40% plastics waste which
    was the highest component compared to other waste, followed by food waste and
    papers with 38.2% and 21% respectively. Meanwhile, food waste was recorded the
    highest moisture content with 38.2% while glass had the lowest moisture content
    with 0.4%. The reliable estimate of MSW generated is important for proper waste
    management planning. These data could enhance in implementation of waste
    management system in that area.
  8. Nurly Diana Jalil, Maslin Masrom, Wan Normeza Wan Zakaria
    MyJurnal
    Adolescents need more attention on eating habits as they go through a critical path
    period of physical, physiological and psychological changes from children to adult.
    Therefore, planning a proper healthy diet menu is important to adolescents to have
    the sufficient nutrients for proper growth. However, manually plan healthy diet menu
    is complicated, inefficient and time-consuming. The purpose of this study is to develop
    a mathematical model of healthy diet menu plan that minimizes the daily fat intake
    and meets the necessary nutrient intake for adolescents aged 13 between 17 years old
    within the budget provided by Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) for Malaysia adolescent
    in MARA Junior Science College (MJSC) boarding schools. Optimization approach and
    binary integer programming method were used to address the diet problem in this
    study. The finding of the study indicates that the developed mathematical model of
    healthy diet menu plan for MJSC can generate menu plan that minimizes the total fat
    intake at minimum level of requirement per day. This menu plan can be used as a
    guideline for the management of the boarding schools to provide healthy diet meals
    for their students.
  9. Dell Akbar Kahan Hyder Khan, Sa'ardin Abdul Aziz, Shamsul Sarip
    MyJurnal
    This study is intended to focus on the aspects of police competency in implementing
    Emergency Response Plan in National Stadium Bukit Jalil consequence to the current
    rising trend of spectator’s violence. This new emerging trend has also given birth to
    “Ultras Malaya” which is known for their fanaticism and have often cross the boundary
    of safety and security. The methodology adopted is through the distribution of a set of
    questionnaire to 150 respondents in Cheras Police District. Questionnaire were divided
    into four broad categories. Except for demography, knowledge, skills and attitude were
    measured by using Likert Scale. Knowledge was mainly to gauge the understanding of
    the personnel on emergency, emergency preparedness and emergency response plan.
    Skills was to gauge the proficiency to undertake tasks related to emergency response
    in football stadiums. Attitude was to highlight the perception of the personnel towards
    training and drill needs, the review of the emergency response plan and the capabilities
    and the interoperability amongst authorities. Data was analyzed by the descriptive
    mode such as frequency, mean and percentage. Findings revealed a performance gap
    whereby majority of officers deployed at national Stadium lacked the necessary
    experience and exposure to handle such volatile crowd and in a closed area. Hence the
    understanding that RMP should be the key player in stadium safety should be revisited.
    The study concluded by recommending a changing face in football policing through
    increasing the absence of uniformed police, Stadium Management to be responsible
    for the safety of spectators and appointment of stewards to fill the void created by
    police withdrawal.
  10. Norzaida Abas, Rafidah Mohd Shamsuddin, Noor Shazwani Osman, Syafrina Abd. Halim
    MyJurnal
    Dengue fever is an endemic disease in many tropical and subtropical regions. In
    Malaysia, it is the leading public health challenge despite the extensive intervention
    programs by the related authorities. Distribution of dengue cases in Malaysia varies
    according to states and districts where cases are more distinct in urban and suburban
    areas. Preparedness strategies of dengue cases could be more successful with some
    comprehensive and technical analysis on disease incidences. Hence, the present study
    analyses dengue cases using mathematical modelling in the state of Penang, one of the
    more urbanised state. In particular, two time series models are fitted to the dengue
    data from the region in order to identify the mathematical model that best describe
    the data. Results show that both proposed models are able to represent the cases
    rather well; however numerical inspection revealed that Double Exponential
    Smoothing method is the better choice. Subsequently, the identified model is used to
    make forecasting on the number of expected cases. Results show that dengue cases in
    Penang are expected to increase gradually.
  11. Markus Bulus, Lim, Yaik-Wah, Malsiah Hamid
    MyJurnal
    The Climatic performance of courtyard residential buildings needs to be
    investigated if the assertion that courtyard is a microclimate modifier is to be
    accepted. Therefore, this study seeks to examine the microclimatic performance
    of two existing courtyard residential buildings with similar characteristics in
    Kafanchan-Kaduna Nigeria, -the fully enclosed courtyard residential building and
    the semi-enclosed courtyard residential building. The purpose of this research is
    to investigate their microclimatic performances in other to establish the best
    courtyard house. This study uses measurement to achieve its aim. The tool
    employed for data collection is the Hobo Weather Data Loggers (HWDL). Three
    HWDL were used to collect data in the two case-study, and the third one was
    placed in the outside area as a benchmark. Only air temperature and relative
    humidity were measured. This study revealed a tangible difference in the
    microclimatic performance of the two case-study. The fully enclosed courtyard
    residential building is seen to have air temperature difference of 1 oC to 3 oC, and
    the relative humidity difference of 4 % to 8 %. In conclusion, the fully enclosed
    courtyard house demonstrated a more favorable microclimatic performance than
    the semi-enclosed, and further simulation studies towards its optimization are
    required.
  12. Mohd Nizulfika Kassim, Fazila Mohd Zawawi, Nur Safwati Mohd Nor
    MyJurnal
    Lack of parking space has become major contributing factor to traffic congestion
    which may affect the environmental condition due to incalculable amounts of wasted
    fuel and carbon emission. Congestion and parking are interrelated as looking for
    parking space may create additional delay and impair local circulation. The proposed
    automatic parking system which embedded with radio frequency identification (RFID)
    and internet of things (IoTs) module will introduce a monitoring platform for the
    parking space. This intelligent parking system makes it possible for the drivers to
    obtain information beforehand through their mobile hand phone application or any
    display available. This paper describes the mechanical design of automatic indoor
    parking space with the advancement of sensor networks application known as RFID.
    The design criterias were studied to develop a parking prototype which dealing with
    number of degree of freedom as well as movement mechanism. The result presented
    at the end of this paper was evaluated from the engineering analysis using the
    developed parking prototype to meet system performance as well as design safety
    factor.
  13. Norzaida Abas, Zalina Mohd Daud, Norazizi Mohamed, Syafrina Abdul Halim
    MyJurnal
    Climate change is undeniably the greatest issue facing our society. Around the globe,
    increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and extreme weather events are
    observed, causing considerable risks to human lives, properties and health safety and
    also on the natural ecosystem. The magnitude and impacts of climate change are
    growing, and particularly in Malaysia, studies show increases in temperature and
    changes in rainfall regimes. Such changes have profound implications, especially for
    coastal communities. Since knowledge and perceptions of the public on climate change
    could affect the success of implemented adaptation and mitigation options, it is
    essential to conduct assessments to gather such information. A public awareness and
    perception study was conducted at Sabak and Tanjung Karang, two coastal
    communities which were affected by changes in sea level and flooding incidences. The
    knowledge level and perceptions of climate change among respondents were assessed
    covering areas such as level of awareness of the respondents, their perceptions of
    climate change issues, their sentiments on climate change and adaptation measures,
    their socio-economic activity and the effect on their lives. Results show that majority
    of respondents were aware of climate change issues and challenges. High levels of
    concern about climate change were expressed with the majority were worried and
    uncertain about the climate change impact and hoped for government measures.
    Almost half of respondents cited significant damage to their properties and reduction
    in income generation. Overall, the results of the present study gave insights of the
    affected parties on perceptions and awareness pertaining to climate change, which
    could potentially be used to promote greater awareness of climate change matters and
    to gauge the public response to related policies and strategies.
  14. Wan Ahmad, W.F., A. Sarlan, D. Al-Arabiat
    MyJurnal
    Mobile learning (M-learning) is considered as a development process of Electronic learning
    (E-Learning) that used to meet some of issues in E-learning such as wireless environment and
    accessibility. In spite of having many benefits and advantages for using M-learning, many challenges
    and issues still facing mobile learning technology to become a part of most of the Higher Education
    Institutions (HEIs) strategies. This paper aims to examine the barriers to M-learning adoption by HEIs
    in Malaysia. To do so, a quantitative research methodology was used in data collection. Online
    questionnaire was distributed by e-mail to 150 respondents in three universities. The result analysis
    brought out that mobile storage size, limitation of mobile memory and mobile battery life are the main
    barriers of using mobile in learning process.
  15. S. Qaiyum, Aziz, I.A., N. Haron
    MyJurnal
    With the rapid evolution of smart devices, ease of availability and accessibility of Internet
    application services, the demand of user's level of satisfaction are constantly growing. This creates
    challenges when mobile users in large quantity gather at confine places creating a scenario of highdensity
    wireless network environment (HDWN). Guaranteeing high quality of services (QoS) without
    proper understanding of user’s expectations and their Quality of Experience (QoE) may lead to over
    provisioning of resources. This poses different challenges to network service providers. Moreover,
    limited studies have been found relating to QoE in dense network. The objective of this paper is to
    develop mapping mechanism that maps QoS parameters onto QoE metrics in HDWN. This paper
    proposes fuzzy-genetic algorithm to map QoS-QoE based on the critical comparative analysis of
    different mechanisms. Preliminary analysis had been done based on mathematical model to establish
    the correlation between QoS parameters (delay and jitter) and QoE metrics (satisfaction) to determine
    the maximum and minimum impairment threshold. Further, the correlation between QoS-QoE had been
    evaluated with varying traffic load to determine the traffic load impact on QoE. Also the load threshold
    was found, that would help the network providers to take proper measure to maintain user’s satisfaction
    as the maximum threshold limit is reached.
  16. F. Mohd Fadzilah, Arshad, N.I.
    MyJurnal
    Mobile health (m-health) has become one of most concerned and developing areas in
    healthcare industry. There are large numbers of m-health application available in the market. Yet,
    neither theorist nor practitioners has discover or develop a framework in evaluating the impact of nonclinical
    m-health application. In healthcare industry, it is very important for an m-health application
    to be tested first before release to market, as this could lead to negative impact towards user especially
    patients. Money could be wasted and the m-health apps might not derived correct output. To avoid a
    failure in using non-clinical m-health application, the impact of using it need to be evaluated.
    Nonetheless, to come out with a proposed framework for m-health apps evaluation, the theories and
    results of the existing frameworks should be referred to. Thus, this research aimed to discuss on the
    previous frameworks that are possible to be used as reference in proposing the intended framework.
    The new developed framework is expected to be significant and valuable for all m-health developers
    and doctors in the design and use of non-clinical m-health application.
  17. A. Ahmad, A. Yaakob, Mohd, K.W., Mohd Awal, N.A., Samuri, M.A.A.
    MyJurnal
    The past decade has seen a growing recognition internationally that children have a right
    to participate in matters that affect their lives. In a family legal proceeding, it is in practice left to the
    discretion of a judge to decide whether the child is heard. Interviews have become the most common
    approach by family court judges in Malaysia to resolve problematic custody disputes. However, many
    family law practitioners believe that this can be detrimental to the children as the judges are not experts
    in child psychology and counselling. Hence, this article intends to critique the effectiveness of Sulh
    (mediation) procedure in resolving custody dispute (hadhanah) in the Syariah Court. Despite the
    importance of consulting the affected children, their views are rarely sought nor acknowledged within
    the judicial setting. Legal fraternity and parents play a significant influence on whether children’s are
    heard in court and Sulh chamber. There is a need for further research to explore legal professionals’ and parents’ perspectives on children’s active involvement in decision-making. This information could
    be used to develop guidelines that will assist professionals and parent in facilitating and supporting
    children’s participation.
  18. Ghandvar, H., Idris, M.H., N. Ahmad
    MyJurnal
    Al-20%Mg2Si composite was in situ synthesized and modified by the addition of Ba and Bi;
    the microstructure of the resulting composites will be investigated. It is expected that the comodification
    with Ba and Bi effectively refined the morphology of Mg2Si which is attributed to the
    formation of fine Ba2Bi particles that acted as the heterogeneous nucleation sites for the primary Mg2Si
    particles, resulting in a refined distribution of these precipitates. Therefore, the addition of Ba and Bi
    can provide a better effect than only the addition of Bi or Ba separately.
  19. R. Junin, M. Alizadeh, Z. Movahed, R. Mohsind, M. Alizadeh, M. Alizadeh
    MyJurnal
    This work will explain the processes that follow a reservoir heterogeneity analysis that is
    conducted using image logs. The data for this work comprises of image logs of tree wells, which are
    obtained from Gachsaran field. The main formations under study in this work are the Asmari
    formation, Pabdeh formation and Gurpi formation. This work will explain the process through a
    number of valuable log interpretation examples.
  20. J. Sahari, Shah, M. K. M, Nuratiqah, M.N., Rao, M.M.
    MyJurnal
    Empty fruit bunches and wastepaper together with urea formaldehyde (UF) were
    evaluated to figure out potential applications in engineering field. The purpose of this project is to
    determine the mechanical properties of a new high density board. This composite was manufactured
    by hot-press technique with 3 different ratios i.e. 10:0, 6.67:3.33 and 9.33:0.67. The mechanical
    properties were evaluated using the GOTECH/AI-7000M Electronic Mechanical Testing. Tensile tests
    were carried out according to ASTM D638. The results were analysed to calculate the tensile
    strength. Tensile strength at break ranged from 4.712 N/mm2 to 12.941 N/mm2 while hardness
    number obtained ranged from 6.76 RHN to 75.84 RHN. This fibreboard has better properties when
    reinforced with wastepaper compared to that of 100% empty fruit bunches. It is also found that the
    hardness number is higher, which means that this fibreboard can withstand any load not more than
    75.84 RHN. Finally, through Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), the surface structure of the new
    high density board has been studied in terms of their surface morphology.
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