Multi-Modality at Tourism Destination: An Overview of the Transportation Network at The UNESCO Heritage Site Melaka, Malaysia

Antecedents of a tourism destination’s sustainability and competitiveness rely on its transportation networks to facilitate the movement of traffic for locals and tourist alike. Multi-modality is vital to support the local economies, which garner its revenue from tourism activities. Modality plays a vital role to facilitate the mobility of tourists, inter destinations and within the destinations and relates to the accessibility aspects at a tourism destination. An observational study, paired with a comprehensive analysis of literature, is conducted to explore the gamut of the transportation networks in Melaka and its relation and contribution to the tourism industry. The investigation shows that the Melaka’s tourism industry is dependent on the transportation networks. Public transportations are found to be inadequate. Issues such as seasonal congestion and public transportation inadequacy need to be addressed immediately to ensure that smooth flow and dispersal of traffic, entering and exiting Melaka

Development Of Zn-Mn02 Battery Using Chitosan-Znci2. Gel Polymer Electrolytes.

This project is divided into two main sections, that is to produce solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) as a proton conductor (H+) and to fabricate polymeric solid-state protonic battery with configuration of zinc (Zn)/SPE/manganese (IV) oxide (Mn02)' 1.0 g of chitosan was dissolved in 100 ml of 1 % acetic acid solution. Projek ini dibahagikan kepada dua bahagian utama iaitu penghasilan elektrolit polimer pepejal (SPE) sebagai konduktor proton (H+) dan fabrikasi bateri proton keadaan pepejalpolimer dengan konfigurasi zink (Zn)/SPE/mangan dioksida (Mn02)' 1.0 g kitosan dilarutkan dalam 100 mllarutan asid asetik 1 %. Garam ammonium nitrat (NH4N03) dan bahan pemplastik etilena karbonat (EC) ditarnbahkan ke dalam larutan kitosan tersebut

Dual-wavelength thulium fluoride fiber laser based on SMF-TMSIF-SMF interferometer as potential source for microwave generationin 100-GHz region

A dual-wavelength thulium-doped fluoride fiber (TDFF) laser is presented. The generation of the TDFF laser is achieved with the incorporation of a single modemultimode- single mode (SMS) interferometer in the laser cavity. The simple SMS interferometer is fabricated using the combination of two-mode step index fiber and single-mode fiber. With this proposed design, as many as eight stable laser lines are experimentally demonstrated. Moreover, when a tunable bandpass filter is inserted in the laser cavity, a dual-wavelength TDFF laser can be achieved in a 1.5-μm region. By heterodyning the dual-wavelength laser, simulation results suggest that the generated microwave signals can be tuned from 105.678 to 106.524 GHz with a constant step of �0.14 GHz. The presented photonics-based microwave generation method could provide alternative solution for 5G signal sources in 100-GHz region

Work stress, pay satisfaction, psychological empowerment and organisational commitment among academic staff

This study investigated the mediating effect of psychological empowerment on the relationship between work stress, pay satisfaction, and organisational commitment among academic staff in public universities.A total number of 297 academics responded to this study and Statistical Package Software for Social Science (SPSS) Version 21.0 was used to analyse the collected data.The results indicated that work stress is associated with organisational commitment, whereas pay satisfaction, psychological empowerment, and organisational commitment have significant relationships with each other.Furthermore, multiple regression analysis revealed that psychological empowerment partially mediated on the relationship between pay satisfaction and organisational commitment.It is recommended that future research could further extend by including non-academic staff as well

Menglobalisasikan Penggunaan Serat Batang Pisang Tempatan Dalam Penghasilan Struktur Sokongan Pembungkusan Produk (ICT)

Tujuan kajian exploratif ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti kesesuaian dan keberkesanan penggunaan serat batang pisang tempatan dalam penghasilan struktur sokongan dalam pembungkusan produk-produk teknologi maklumat dan komunikasi (ICT). Secara dasarnya objektif kajian adalah untuk mengenalpasti kesesuaian penggunaan serat batang pisang tempatan untuk penghasilan struktur sokongan serta mengkaji mengenai keberkesanan dan ketahanan penggunaannya untuk dijadikan struktur sokongan di dalam pembungkusan produk-produk teknologi maklumat dan komunikasi (ICT). Kajian ini dijalankan dengan menggunakan kaedah-kaedah seperti temubual, pemerhatian, soal selidik dan juga menggunapakai elemen praktis dan proses dalam penyediaan sesuatu artifak yang berkaitan dengan pembungkusan

Factors influencing customer Loyalty on Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd (Perodua) products / Ahmad Hafiz Azizan

In recent years, Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd (PERODUA) had achieved great success in the local automobile industry by receiving many awards and acknowledgements in local and international automotive industry. For the first time, monthly sales of Perodua passenger cars overtook sales of Proton cars. Perodua gained the biggest market share with 27.4% followed closely by Proton at 26.6%. Toyota remained the most popular non-national brand, with 17.4% market share. (AmResearch Sdn Bhd; The Star BizWeek, 1st April 2006). By introducing their latest model that was Myvi, Perodua once again booming their sales by becoming the most demanded car of the year. Thus, it is important for the company to consider and give a full attention to maintain the services even though the car had being delivered to the customers. According to both marketing theory and practical experience, firms should improve their performance by satisfying customers, so as to obtain and sustain advantage in the intensely competitive business environment. This is because the main output of customer satisfaction is customer loyalty, and firms with a bigger share of loyal customers profit from increasing repurchase rates, greater cross-buying potential, higher price-willingness, positive recommendation behaviour and lower switching tendenc

Integrated mobile zakat Melaka using rule based / Ahmad Zakwan Azizan

Zakat is the one of the five pillars of Islam, every Muslims must ensure that they will pay the zakat if affordable. Zakat is a mean of fulfilling social responsibility and is an obligation to Muslims for those who have excess wealth of basic needs to give a specific amount of their riches to payees of zakat that meet certain conditions and requirement. Zakat is the pivot approach in Islamic teachings to encounter social problem such as poverty in society by sharing the percentage of wealth to relevant recipients as the obligation to the person who affordable. The traditional system using web-based system. Nowadays, people prefer to use mobile application have become an integral part of daily lives of million people in the world using smartphones or tablets. Therefore, an increasing number of user forcing the developer to develop the mobile application using rule-based technique. One of the mobile application was developed is Integrated mobile zakat Melaka using mobile application that focus in Melaka state. There are seven types of zakat can be calculated through this mobile application. This system will increase the awareness of zakat payment and collection of zakat. Besides that, the value of the zakat nisab already set in the system. The significance of the system easy to used, efficient, usability, fast result and user friendly

A research on the synchronization of two novel chaotic systems based on a nonlinear active control algorithm

The problem of chaos synchronization is to design a coupling between two chaotic systems (master-slave/drive-response systems configuration) such that the chaotic time evaluation becomes ideal and the output of the slave (response) system asymptotically follows the output of the master (drive) system.This paper has addressed the chaos synchronization problem of two chaotic systems using the Nonlinear Control Techniques, based on Lyapunov stability theory.It has been shown that the proposed schemes have outstanding transient performances and that analytically as well as graphically, synchronization is asymptotically globally stable.Suitable feedback controllers are designed to stabilize the closed-loop system at the origin. All simulation results are carried out to corroborate the effectiveness of the proposed methodologies by using Mathematica 9

Challenges of self-directed clinical skill learning: experience among undergraduate nursing students in Malaysia

Purpose: This study aimed to explain the challenges experienced in self-directed clinical skill learning specifically in clinical skill laboratory among undergraduate nursing students in Malaysia. Methodology: A qualitative study using in-depth interview was conducted with 16 students attending Bachelor of Nursing in one of the public universities in Malaysia. The interview was open-ended to explore the overall perspective of the participants concerning their view about the problems and challenges they experienced on the self-directed clinical skill learning. Main Findings: Three major themes have been found on self-directed clinical skill learning which are ‘lack of self-management’, ‘lack of desire for learning’ and ‘lack of self-control of learning’. The subthemes for ‘lack of self-management’ are poor time management, lack of communication with educator and lack of assessment of learning needs. The subthemes for ‘lack of desire for learning’ are not open to new ideas, lack of internal motivation, educator-dependent for seeking new knowledge and low quality of supporting learning materials. Lastly, the subtheme for ‘lack of control of learning’ is not realizing the importance of self-evaluation among undergraduate nursing students. Applications: Our findings informed academicians on various problems and challenges that occur in self-directed learning activities in clinical skill laboratory. These findings would assist them in preparing appropriate learning environment and clinical skill activities, which would improve the efficiency of knowledge and skill transfer and also enhance students’ academic performance. Novelty/Originality: Previous studies have identified many challenging factors affecting clinical skill learning among nursing students such as clinical learning environment (e.g. physical, psychosocial, organizational) and students’ learning process based on broad spectrum of perspective without highlighting student-centred point of view. Thus, in our study, we have attempted to explore how nursing students describe the challenging experience of undertaking the process of learning clinical skills from the perspective of a self-directed learner

From culture to innovate product : batik design in porcelain wares / Nurul ‘Ayn Ahmad Sayuti ... [et al.]

In this paper, the Batik Merbok motifs are proposed to be used in porcelain wares using 3D (CAD) software. The natural motifs developed are seen to have potential to be incorporated in tableware collections or as a daily home-product usage. It is a conceptual paper which explaining the motifs developed by Batik Merbok and discussing the 3D (CAD) design developments. The motifs were developed with a combination of flora, fauna and the humanmade historical artefacts which were inspired from the surrounding areas of Merbok, Kedah. A detail research results are not yet conclusive; therefore, the researchers will continue to develop the porcelain wares further and investigate the consumer perceptions towards the incorporation of the batik motifs. It is one of the sole efforts of bringing Batik Merbok into exploring another genre of designs