Kecelaruan personaliti antisosial di kalangan pelajar politeknik : satu kajian awal

Kajian ini adalah bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti kecelaruan personalis antisosial (KPA) yang berlaku di kalangan remaja atau muda-mudi terutama di Politeknik Malaysia yang mungkin mengakibatkan berlakunya masalah sosial di kalangan mereka. Kajian ini berbentuk kuantitatif. Sampel kajian telah dipilih di empat buah politeknik. Politeknik yang terlibat adalah politeknik zon selatan. Responden kajian ini terdiri daripada 340 orang pelajar pengambilan bam semester satu yang memasuki institusi berkenaan. Responden juga terdiri daripada pelajar peringkat sijil dan diploma daripada pelbagai pengkhususan. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah borang soal selidik. Data yang telah dikumpulkan dianalisis menggunakan Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Statistik yang digunakan adalah statistik deskriptif. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan di antara 10 jenis kecelaruan, kecelaruan avoidant mencatatkan skor min tertinggi iaitu dengan skor min 3.24 (a = 1.055). Selain itu, pengkaji mendapati personaliti antisosial yang berlaku di kalangan pelajar politeknik adalah pada tahap yang sederhana iaitu skor min 2.35 (a =0.933). Hasil daripada kajian juga mendapati faktor sosial mencatatkan skor min tertinggi iaitu 2.07 (a = 0.851). Faktor keluarga pula hanya mencatatkan skor min 2.03 (g = 0.887). Pengkaji juga mendapati responden lebih gemar kepada konsep keagamaan berbanding konsep-konsep yang lain sekiranya mereka menghadapi masalah. Oleh itu diharapkan kajian ini dapat memberikan penjelasan sedikit sebanyak mengenai kecelaruan personaliti antisosial yang berlaku di kalangan pelajar politeknik di masa kini

Tensile and Fatigue Properties of Bituminuos Mixtures Incorporating Different Bitumen Grades

Fatigue and tensile is a performance indicator for road pavement. A bituminous mixture that good in durability, strength and performance will give a long life span and low cost maintenances of the flexible pavement. For this project, it was deals with two types of bitumen which are 60/70 penetration grade and 80/100 penetration grade. The bituminous mixture design use is Marshall Mix design to perform Asphaltic Concrete and Hot Rolled Asphalt type of mixtures. The test was conducted in order to achieve the objective is Beam Fatigue test and Indirect Tensile Stiffness Modulus. From the result, it is shown that 60/70 pen grade bitumen indicates higher value in initial stiffness, modulus of elasticity and maximum tensile stress compare to 80/100 pen grade bitumen. However, bitumen 80/100 penetration grade demonstrate higher number of cycles compare to 60/70 penetration bitumen. Although the bitumen content for HRA mixture more higher from AC mixture, the stiffness of mortar give more influence in term of performance compare with the interlocking effect of aggregate. In term of construction, the HRA mixture would be more costly due to high bitumen content needed to be use but the maintenance may be lesser compare to AC mixture

Reverse Engineering for Analysis and Design Improvement of Ball Valve Seat

This paper will discuss how to improve seat design for ball valve that is used in oil and gas industry using Reverse Engineering technology. Seat is an important part in the ball valve, since it is utilized to prevent fluid leakage when the valve is fully closed. Today's Reverse Engineering technology are widely used is in diverse applications such as software engineering, manufacturing, aviation industry and consumer products. Th€re are several methods of Reverse Engineering Technology which are Contact metho4 Noncontact nrethod and Direct Measurement in order to acquire the CAD Model This project will employ the Noncontact method of Reverse Engineering by rsrng ViuScan 3D Scanning device and Direct Measurement nrethod as contingencies plan- This project are divided into two stages with are Reverse Engineering stage where the ball valve will be scan prior to get the CAD model of the ball valve. The second stages followed where the analysis and design improvement will take place using AI{SYS Software, which are Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD). As conclusion, Reverse Engineering can shorten the process of analysis of a product in order to enbance or develop a nelv product

Segmentation Of Retinal Vasculature Using Contourlet Enhancement For Early Detection Of Diabetic Retinapthy

In this project we use contourlet transform rather than wavelet transform because the contourlet transform was proven to require less number of coefficient compared to wavelet and contourlet also have the ability to detect directional signal. The enhanced blood vessel will be extract by BottomHat. This transformation works by isolating dark object on light surrounding

India’s nuclear policy and developments

The purpose of the research examines the evolution of India‟s nuclear program as it developed from the 1940s by a small group of influential scientists and the current nuclear capabilities that they now posses. The Indian nuclear program continues to develop improved weapons technologies and economic development with the potential to proliferate nuclear material. India since 1947, in order to develop a comprehensive strategy that utilizes all the instruments of national power that will encourage India to become a responsible stakeholder among the nuclearized countries and demonstrate the responsibility that goes along with nuclear technology. India‟s nuclear policy was also influenced by India‟s international security condition as well as by domestic variables such as the vagaries of political change and the influence of bureaucratic elites. India aspired to be a nuclear state after 1962 conflict with China, particularity after China conducted its first nuclear test in 1964 The role of "the nuclear‟ in global power status however is central to being recognized as a power to be reckoned with. Despite India‟s nuclear tests in 1974 and 1998, such recognition had always eluded India. Since India was not a signatory to the NPT

Condition Based Monitoring For Protection System

The objective of this project is to implement Condition Based Monitoring into Power System Protection. This project is focusing on the distribution level protection system with 11kV voltage rating

Kashmir conflict and India

The origin of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan dates back to the partition of the British colonial empire after World War II. The policies of princely states were affected by the British plan to divide the colonial empire into two independent states: India and Pakistan. Princely states were given the chance to choose which country to join. Kashmir, however, chose not to join either of them. Maharajah Singh, Kashmir’s ruler at the time, sought avenues to independence. Eventually Singh, afraid of a Pakistani intervention, decided to join with India. The immediate solution recommended by the UN was a cease-fire and a plebiscite to determine the future of Kashmir. The following succession of intense conflicts and India’s unwillingness to hold a plebiscite has shaped the status of modern Kashmir. Simultaneously, India also started taking steps to gradually change the status of Jammu and Kashmir. This study is an attempt to analysis and discusses the Indian policy vice versa Kashmir, which has been continuously changed with the route of time and is based on wrong assumption. This study is based on an interpretive approach. The data were collected primarily from secondary sources such as published and unpublished records, books, journals, newspapers, internet articles…etc

a study focusing on violence against sri lankan muslims and buddhist hegemony

Background/ justification Following the end of the thirty years old civil war in Sri Lanka, there were expectations that the post‐war period would usher in peace, development and reconciliation. The last four years have witnessed several positive developments including resettlement of people and rehabilitation of infrastructure. Nonetheless there are range of problems and policy gaps that have hindered the transition from war to sustainable peace. A key post-war challenge is that of violence against religious sites and members of religious communities. The attack on a mosque in Dambulla by a mob led by extremist Buddhist monks has reignited concern about targeted violence against Muslim religious minorities in Sri Lanka. The first serious riots against Muslim by Buddhists took place in 1915. After 1915, an occurrence of a riot of the same nature as that of 1915 was the violence in 1975 when some Muslims were killed in the Puttalam mosque due to a misconception that the Muslims were an economically privileged group and which fact fired the major motivation for anti-Muslim hatred. More recently, from last year, there has been an unprecedented level of violent attacks, demonstrations and hate speech targeting Sri Lanka’s Muslim population. Mainly perpetrated by Buddhist-fascist fundamentalist groups, the events have left the country’s second largest minority community - the Muslims feeling afraid and vulnerable which forcing a concerted campaign against them. In addition to attacks on places of religious worship there are calls to boycott Muslim shops and establishments, all of which is increasing tensions, particularly in areas where Muslims and Sinhalese live close to each other. These were virtually programmed by some prominent and influential personalities in governing circles, besides others who had a vested interest in seeing Sri Lanka imploding amid heightening ‘communal tensions.’ It noted a ‘sharp uptick’ in religiouslymotivated violence and said the authorities are ‘passively and sometimes actively’ condoning extremist Buddhist groups, such as the ‘Bodu Bala Sena’ or ‘Buddhist power force’ and the Hela Urmaya are the main groups behind these targeting of Muslims. Objectives of the research work On this context, this study focuses on the recent incident of violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka. The primary objective of this study is to examine the motive for violence against Muslims as well as impact of the violence. The fundamental questions of this research are the following: why does postwar violence and hate propaganda arise against Muslim in Sri Lanka? In which ways the violence against minorities, particularly Muslims impact on reconciliation process? And why does Buddhist nationalist hegemony arise soon after civil war in Sri Lanka? Materials and methods This study is based on an interpretive approach. The data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. In addition to primary sources, qualitative interviews were conducted with selected specialist on this particular research area. Secondary sources such as published and unpublished records were also consulted. Finally this study provides appropriate recommendations to improve ethnic relations in Sri Lanka

The ‘dying-tale’ as epistemic strategy in Hemans’s Records of Woman

The personal writings of popular nineteenth-century poet Felicia Hemans indicate her desire to alleviate social constraints on women to improve their education, yet her poetry’s female figures often seem overly attached to domesticity or lacking in emotional fortitude. This paper addresses ways in which a study of early modern female writers of history can inform Hemans scholarship, particularly by drawing on Megan Matchinske’s work on the ‘dying-tale’ in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (1613). Similarly, Hemans promotes the necessity of women acting to ensure successful political and personal endurance in ‘The Switzer’s Tale’. Furthermore, in the pedagogy of Records of Woman (1828), Hemans responds to the problem of visual dominance in art by adopting a multi-sensory approach to communication that relies especially on the auditory. This strategy takes part in a broader epistemic approach to history that criticises the reliability of memory and the transience of human bodies. Ultimately, Hemans suggests that transcendence occurs through the exercise of the human will, the ultimate representation of which is martyrdom