Factors affecting stock price (KLCI) in Malaysia / Muhammad Rifaei Ibrahim

This chapter provides an overview of this research topic relating to Bursa Malaysia macroeconomic variables and stock prices (KLCI), and addresses research issue statements leading to research goals of the report and ultimately research questions. The objective of this research is to investigate the relation between macroeconomic variables such as inflation, interest rate, exchange rate, and gross domestic product on stock prices in Bursa Malaysia (KLCI). Since 1987 to 2017, data will be collected annually

Determinants of macroeconomic variables on stock market return in Malaysia: FTSE KLCI / Nur Fatin Aqila Alam Shah

The study has been examined the impacts of macroeconomic variables on stock market return in Malaysia: FTSE KLCI using the quarterly data from Q1 2008 to Q4 2018 which contains the total of 41 observations. More specifically, this study aims to investigate the current literature reviews by including the CPI, EXR, INT, COP and MON towards to the stock market return in Malaysia: FTSE KLCI. Furthermore, this study applied several empirical tests such as unit root test, normality test, descriptive statistics, multicollinearity test, autocorrelation test and multiple linear regression models. In conclusion, the result obtained from multiple linear regression shows that EXR, INT, COP and MON have significant and positive relationship while CPI has negative and insignificant relationship with the stock market return in Malaysia: FTSE KLCI

Determinants of household debt in emerging Asean countries / Nurrain Syahirah Ismail

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the household consumption, inflation rate and unemployment rate with the household debt in Asean countries. This study has been adapted from the previous study by Kusairi, Muhamad, Musdholifah, & Chang (2019) and Yahaya & Sarwe (2019). The selected country of four Asean countries are Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. The countries are being selected because the household debt in these countries are increasing every year. Therefore, it is critical to analyse the determinants of household debt in these 4 countries because these countries are having the potential to become an emerging market in Asean region. The data is analysed on yearly basis for 19 years, starting from year 2000 until 2018. Data are collected from World Bank Data, CEIC Data and International Monetary Fund Data. This study used Economic Views (E-views) as a tool to analyse the data by employing Panel Regression Random Effect Model. The result shows that all the variables, household consumption, inflation rate and unemployment rate have negative significant relationship with the household debt. The result of study similar with the past study which is using the same independent variables which are household consumption Kittiphongphat (2018), inflation rate (Kusairi et al., 2019; Mutezo, 2014) and unemployment rate (Meng, Hoang, & Siriwardana, 2013; Yahaya & Sarwe, 2019). Therefore, the policymakers, industry, and the banking sector play an important roles to ensure that household debt does not continue to rise every year for economic stability and long-term debt sustainability

The relationship between supervisory support, learning goal orientation, proactive personality and career adaptability among engineers at Texas Instruments Electronics Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. / Siti Hawa Mazlan

Career adaptability refers to the flexible attribute of individuals toward their career endeavour in the face of volatile circumstances. In striving towards a high-income nation status by 2020, the Malaysia’s manufacturing sector remains a core sector for sustainable growth under the 11th Malaysia Plan. The manufacturing sector has played a vital role in the economic transformation as Malaysia continue to attract huge investments in the manufacturing sector despite a challenging economic environment due to its highly-diversified economy, strong manufacturing foundation, developed infrastructure and connectivity, proactive Government policies and hardworking workforce. As the technology continually improve in Malaysia, every employee needed to be equipped with advance skills and knowledge especially among engineers. The improvement in technology also urges employees to be adaptable in any changes that occur in their career. Hence, this study is to assess the relationship between supervisory supports, learning goal orientation, proactive personality and career adaptability among engineers at Texas Instruments Electronics Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (TIEM). Data was obtained from 118 questionnaires for these researches are from among engineers at TIEM. The result analysed with Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) indicates a positive and significant correlation between supervisory support, learning goal orientation, proactive personality and career adaptability among engineers with supervisory support having the strongest significant relationship with career adaptability. Thus, it is noteworthy to mention that supervisor or employer should have taken proactive action in making sure the subordinates are ready to adapt for any changes in their career

Bijak Peribahasa : An Adventure Game In Learning Malay Proverb

Bahasa Melayu is one of the core subjects that students need to pass in Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR). From the preliminary study, the findings showed that students find it hard to memorize the Malay proverb and its meaning. Moreover, students only learn Malay proverbs during class sessions and only memorize for exams without understanding the meaning. The purpose of this project is to design and develop game-based learning applications for UPSR students in learning Malay Proverb. The project was implemented as a Game-based Learning Model as a guideline to develop the application, which involves nine factors including game goal, game fantasy, challenge, game mechanism, sensation, interaction, freedom, game value and mystery. The Game Development Life Cycle Model (GDLC) was implemented as a methodology in this project. Findings of evaluation shows that the game receives 96% level of agreeability as response by the users of the game. Future work for this game is to develop this game on mobile platform, improve by adding multi-player, provide high score for players and enhance the contents of the game

Phytochemical Screening, Total Phenolic Content and Antioxidant Activity of Leaves Extracts from Mangifera indica L. cv. Apple

Mangifera indica L. cv. Apple (apple mango) is considered one of most important and economic crops of tropical fruits, it belongs to Anacardiaceae family which is cultivated worldwide as edible seeds and fruits, compound in medical, valuable timber and landscape interest. The purpose of this research was carried out to investigate the presence of phytochemical groups and antioxidant activity of the leaves of Mangifera indica L. cv. Apple. The extracts were found using maceration result and the phytochemicals were screened using various of chemicals tests. Total phenolic content (TPC) are important to measure the phenolic compounds in leaves extract as a potential of antioxidant activity. TPC was determined according to the Folin-Ciocalteau colorimetric method. The antioxidant activity was applied the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging capacity (DPPH) assay. Phytochemical screening on leaves of methanol extract revealed the presence of flavonoids, phenols, tannins, terpenoids, alkaloids, steroids, saponins, glycosides, coumarin and quinone. The methanol extracts of M. indica L. cv. Apple for leaves (4.427 mg GAE/g) were showed the highest TPC. The methanol extract of M. indica L. cv. Apple for leaves (64.80 µg/mL) significantly lower of DPPH radical scavenging activity IC 50 . The result showed that M. indica L. cv. Apple for leaves plant is potent antioxidant property so they could be the rich source of natural antioxidants. This leaf of plant could be assigned as natural antioxidant and its be helpful to explore the biochemical profile and active compound identification in the field of pharmaceutical research

Prototype of New Composite Weightage and Offset Thickness Design of Acetabular Cup in THR

Defect bone at hip joint of human body will required surgical operation which commonly known as Total hip replacements (THR). Succession rate of the surgical procedures depending on many factors. Currently the THR operation could not guarantee 100% succession rate which dislocation, fracture, inflammation, edge-loading effect and rejection of new materials are among the concerned issues. The objective of this study particularly to make a prototype of new composite weightage and offsetting thickness of acetabular cup in order to increase the surgical post-operative succession rate. Firstly, a new design was drawn using SolidWorks software which the articulation area was offset by increasing the superior region. Then, the FE analysis conducted via ANSYS WORKBENCH to simulate the effect of offsetting the acetabular cup design. Secondly, a new material composition of Ep-UHMWPE with various weightage and thickness were studied experimentally according to ASTM D638-02A. Simulation and experimental analysis results show good agreement that 5mm thickness improvise mechanical properties up to 66% in term of Von-Mises stress, total deformation and contact pressure. Thus, offsetting superior region thickness could potentially improvise the implant lifespan especially during the normal gait condition. Adding Ep (Epoxy) into existing material (UHMWPE) at ideal weightage also increasing the mechanical properties of the acetabular cup. However, further studies are required to design a second prototype with higher articulation efficiency and material’s biocompatibility

Smart Irrigation System Using Raspberry Pi

Commonly known as IoT, Internet of Things is a demanding area in technology that is growing daily. Millions of devices have been created to make humans life easier. IoT has been largely contribute to home automation where every devices and home appliances can be connected to Internet and interact with each other. Suitable for people who are working but currently leaving plants at home with nobody to take of it. Thus, by applying the IoT concept, this paper provides design and implementation of Smart Irrigation System using Raspberry Pi as their main component. Raspberry Pi, which is a palm-size computer is capable of running a machine learning process within it. The irrigation is automated by using machine learning algorithm that has been implemented on the system. This system uses moisture sensor, humidity and temperature sensor, and ultrasonic sensor. The collected sensors data then is transferred through Firebase database, an online database that used to connect with android application. The sensors data can be viewed by the user through android application in real time. This project can go beyond further from what has been implemented by applying this project into a large scale of crops instead of using it at home only

HAFIS Enterprise / Muhammad Syafiq Suhaimi... [et al.]

HAFIS are packaging metal straws manufactured by our own company. We chose to retail these products because of the increasing demand and in metal straw products in Malaysia. Since Malaysians are becoming more aware of the environmental problems, more of them are looking for metal straws to minimize the usage of plastic straws. Our product does not only the metal straw itself, it also includes the brush and the pouch with a high-quality packaging. The retail price of or products is RM 13 per unit. The price of the item is pretty affordable and pretty much similar to existing metal straw products by other distributor and to be honest even cheaper from all the high-end brands like P .M. Lee Sdn. Bhd. We believe that our product will able to attract customers' attention and will able to compete with the already established brands in the market. This is because our product is affordable and has additional value that interest customers. In the organizational structure of the HAFIS Enterprise, we have executive manager, administrative manager, operation manager, marketing manager, general manager and financial manager. We also will hire sales assistants, operation staffs, marketing personnel, and clerk to ensure the sales of our products will run smoothly and the packaging operation can be conducted efficiently with excellent marketing strategies planned out by the marketing team

Pensonic Holdings Berhad / Nurul Natasya Che Abdul Halim

Pensonic Holdings Berhad is a company that produces variety types of household appliance products. Pensonic Holdings Berhad is a publicly traded company founded by Dato' Sri Chew Weng Khak in 1994. It is located at Penang, Malaysia. One of the products produce by Pensonic company is Pensonic iron. Iron is an electric appliance that help to diminish crease at clothes. There are two types of iron produced by this company that are dry iron and steam iron. The objectives of this study are to analyse the problems that Pensonic Holdings Berhad Company faced and provide better solutions to overcome the problems and to suggest a recommendation to the company in order to improve their company in the future. After doing company analysis, there are several problems founded about the Pensonic Steam Iron. The problems are the iron use the manual technology, the problem of water dripping when using the steam iron and the iron cannot be used to wet clothes and heavy fabrics. Therefore, this study comes out with three alternatives. The first alternative is producing an automatic steam closet. The closet uses the steam system where can help in drying clothes and diminish wrinkle just by hanging clothes in it. The second alternative is changing the current type of soleplate which from Teflon into a stainless-steel type of soleplate. The last alternative is adding an anti-drip measure into the steam iron. The anti-drip measures help the problem of water dripping. Thus, this study come out with a recommendation to choose one of the alternatives. This study suggested to choose producing Automatic Steam Closet. This is because this closet can solve almost all the problems faces by the existing steam iron