The development of ASEAN from historical approach

Since ASEAN was established in 8 August 1967, ASEAN organization was only joined by five countries.Now ASEAN has become a successful regional organization in bringing the attention of the other countries in rest of the world. Generally, ASEAN has successfully nurtures the cooperation in political, economical, social and cultural with establishment in exercise and research facilities for shared interest.Nowadays, ASEAN roles and influence has strong base in Southeast Asia and South Asia regions.ASEAN has taken place as important body in Asia Pacific political stream through Asian Regional Forum (ARF), where it is successful to create attention of various countries not only in Asia region but also United States of America and Europe involvement.Nevertheless, beside the successful story and prosperity achieved by ASEAN at this moment it has uniqueness when it has to face challenges at the early stage of ASEAN establishment. This journal will touch on history and ASEAN life story and explain What and How ASEAN able to strengthen its role and existence at the time Southeast Asia countries need an organization with the ability to unite all the countries in Southeast Asia region

An Evaluation of Assessment Tools in Outcome-based Education: A Way Forward

With the existing manual-based of outcome based education (OBE) systems, data complexity appears as the main problem to be solved. In this paper, a critical discussion of the manual-based system and a way forward with the online version of the OBE systems in the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (FKEE), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) have been discussed. Two assessment tools of programme learning outcomes (PLOs) as well as course learning outcomes (CLOs) have been used to measure and analyse manually both achievements of the PLOs and CLOs. However, results obtained have shown that these processes require a better system, to deal with various parameters such as different cohort of students and various courses. Obviously, the online-based version and further improvement of the manualbased system that have been proposed are expected to resolve these issues, hence it will be fruitful for the FKEEs’ OBE administrator

Problem Solving Skills based on IDEAL Model in Implementing Undergraduate Final Year Project

Problem solving skills is the formal framework for undergraduate program in science and technical knowledge. This work aims to define the problem skills of the final year project (FYP) students. Most educators believe that problem solving is among the most important and practical kinds of learning and thought. One of the approach of problem solving skills introduced by Brandsford in IDEAL Model. This model consists five stages of problem solving; identify problem as opportunities, define the problems, develop and understanding goals, explore possible strategies, anticipate potential effects before apply and look back and learn. This research objectives are to develop research instrument based on IDEAL Model and identifying problem solving skills among students in conducting FYP. There are 324 students involved in this research from eight faculties in Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. The findings indicate that the reliability of the research instrument is sufficient to use and that the mean of identifying problem as opportunities in the IDEAL model showed higher score than other approaches. To sum up, problem-solving receives considerable attention in the undergraduate and helps students to improve their academic and problem-solving skills. Research on the development of problem-solving skills by students, the transfer of problem-solving skills to new contexts, and the effectiveness of particular pedagogical approaches to problem-solving teaching has provided a basis for academically accomplishments by students

Drowsiness detection system using eye aspect ratio technique

Transportation is widely used to allow user travel conveniently from place to place, for a personal of official purpose. Travel during peak hour or holiday, expose the driver to traffic jam for several hour, thus cause the drive to feel drowsy easily due to high concentration and lack of rest. This situation contributes the increasing of the percentage of car incident due to car driver fatigue is the primary origin of the car accident. In this paper, image detection drowsiness system is proposed to detect the state of the car driver using Eye Aspect Ratio (EAR) technique. A developed system that occupied with the Pi camera, Raspberry Pi 4 and GPS module are used to detect and analyse continuously the state of eye closure in real time. This system able to recognize whether the driver is drowsy or not, with the initial, wearing spectacles, dim light and microsleep condition experimental conducted successfully give 90% of accuracy. This situation can increase the vigilant of drivers significantly

The Malaysian government's efforts in managing military and defence development

“A people without walls are a people without choice (Aristotle)” The government’s willingness to put aside a vast amount of money for defense and paying attention to the process of modernizing Malaysia’s armed forces shows just how determined the government is at caring, ensuring and defending the safety and sovereignty of the nation. It is also a testament to the commitment of our leaders in implementing the responsibility in order to fulfill what is required by the people which assurance of security. The peace and stability which have been consistent since 1957 up to now is a prof that the development aspect of the defense and security system of the nation has never been disregardedby the government. Efforts and developments of Malaysia’s military eventhough information regarding data and defense utilities of every nation is available in report published every year in the SIPRI Yearbook and The Military Balace published every year by Oxford University Press as well a report from International institute of Strategic Studies, London, this information has no informal or formal way of getting to the people thus causing the people to question the efforts being taken by the government. There fore the question that is being raised currently is what are the effort which have been taken by the government in the development of military and defense in order to guarantee national safety?The development of Malaysia’s military has also risen some concern over the involvement of the nation with the weapons race. In which case the questions would be is Malaysia involved in the weapons race and if so what is the objective for the government to further develop and modernize its military forces

Achieving Longevity in Wireless Body Area Network by Efficient Transmission Power Control for IoMT Applications

The application of tiny body sensors to collect, process, store, analyze, and retrieve medical information from a human body is a part of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).  IoMT helps to monitor and track human vital health parameters, predict disease, notify the patients and the health care professionals with relevant data for analyzing the problems before they become severe and for earlier invention. By 2022, more than 60 % of IoT applications will be health-related. The convergence of biomedical sensors, wireless body area networks (WBAN), Information technology, and bioinformatics will help improve the efficiency of saving human lives. In a WBAN, network longevity is challenging because of the limited supply of low power battery energy in tiny body sensor nodes. Here, we proposed an energy-efficient transmission power control (TPC) algorithm to extend the network lifetime in IoMT networks for healthcare applications by eliminating the transceiver overhearing problem. In TPC, human tissue resistivity properties are considered to adjust the transmission power, which reduces the communication power and extends the network lifetime. The simulation results show that network power consumption is reduced by 35%

The implementation of learning organization elements and their impact towards organizational performance amongst NPOs in Singapore

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Learning Organization Elements (LOE) was implemented amongst non-profit human social service organizations in Singapore. Through a self-administered survey and in-depth interviews, organizational performances of 60 non-profit organizations NPOs were evaluated, whilst the extent to which the LOE were carried out within these NPOs were also discussed. Specifically, elements such as clarity of mission and vision, experimentation and intrinsic motivation, leadership commitment and empowerment, and organizational learning practices were deemed to be essential for NPOs in Singapore to be transformed into a learning organization. In addition, individual learning and team-problem solving and organizational learning practices were also mentioned by the interviewed respondents as important elements toward NPOs‟ performance.Implications of the study including the applications of those LOE together with a strategic dimension in order for NPOs to become learning organizations, as well as to achieve superior organizational performance were also highlighted

Radiation effects on Marangoni boundary layer flow in Micropolar fluid with suction/injection

The influence of radiation on the Marangoni boundary layer flow in micropolar fluid with suction/injection is studied in this study. It is the extension of the previous study by Saleh et al. where the interface temperature is assumed to be a quadratic function of the distance x along the interface. A set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations are obtained by using the technique of similarity transformations, transformed from the general governing partial differential equations and solved numerically by using the shooting method. The solutions of each profiles is presented in the form of tables and figures along with the results of the velocity, microrotation gradient and heat transfer at the surface. The problem is considered for two different values of n which is n = 0 and n = 0.5 where it is represented the strong and the weak concentration, respectively with different values of radiation parameter along with the suction/injection parameter

Effect of cubic temperature gradient and internal heat generation on the onset of Marangoni electro convection with feedback control in a micropolar fluid

The linear stability analysis is carried out to investigated the influence of non-uniform basic temperature gradients in the presences of internal heat generation, electric field and feedback control on the onset of Marangoni convection in a micropolar fluid. For an upper free adiabatic and lower rigid isothermal boundaries, the eigenvalue are obtained. Then, Galerkin method is applied to solved the eigen value. The effect of internal heat generation, Q, electric number, L and feedback control on the onset of Marangoni convection has been figure out. Three non-uniform basic profiles of the temperature are studied and several general conclusions about their destabilizing effects are revealed. Different value of internal heat generation, Q , electric number and feedback control are add together to investigate their existence either it will delay or enhance the onset of electro convection

Effects of heat generation and thermal radiation on micropolar fluid flow over an exponentially permeable shrinking sheet

In this paper, the problem of twodimensional incompressible flow of boundary layer for micropolar fluid over an exponentially permeable shrinking sheet with heat generation and thermal radiation is considered. The governing equations are first transformed into a system of non-dimensional equations via the nondimensional variables, and then into self-similar ordinary differential equations before they are solved numerically using the shooting method. Numerical results are obtained for the skin friction coefficient, couple stress coefficient and heat transfer coefficient as well as the velocity, micro rotation and temperature profiles are presented for different values of the governing parameters. It is found that the solutions for a shrinking sheet are non-unique. The results indicate that the heat tranfer coeeficient decreases with heat generation parameter