Kesan Pakej Pengajaran Biologi Melalui Multimedia Terhadap Pelajar

Dewasa ini, penggunaan multimedia dalam pendidikan berlaku dengan pesat di peringkat sekolah rendah, menengah dan universiti. Satu cabaran menyediakan pakej multimedia bagi mana-mana kumpulan sasaran ialah pakej yang dibentuk semestinya mengandungi unsur-unsur inovatif, kreatif dan interaktif supaya dapat menambahkan minat kumpulan sasaran. Kemahiran yang tinggi diperlukan dalam menyediakan pakej multimedia bagi mengabungkan unsur-unsur multimedia, teknik-teknik pengajaran dan yang penting sekali isi kandungannya. Ini supaya ia boleh menjadi satu alat pengajaran yang berkesan. Penyelidikan ini bertujuan mereka bentuk modul biologi bagi meningkatkan pencapaian pengetahuan apabila pengajaran satu topik biologi dilakukan menerusi Kaedah Pengajaran Melalui Multimedia (KPM). Keberkesanan kaedah KPM ini dibandingkan dengan Kaedah Tradisional (TRAD). Penyelidikan ini dilakukan terhadap pelajar Matrikulasi Semester satu dan dua Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia Sesi 1999/2000 di Kolej Yayasan Pelajaran MARA Bangi, Selangor. Pelajar dibahagikan kepada empat kumpulan berdasarkan kepada ujian sikap pm olahan dan ujian pencapaian pengetahuan pra olahan. Empat kumpulan yang terhasil ialah Kumpulan Tinggi Sikap-Tinggi Pencapaian (IT), Tinggi Sikap-Rendah Pencapaian (TR), Rendah Sikap-Tinggi Pencapaian (RT) dan Rendah Sikap-Rendah Pencapaian (RR). Setiap kumpulan terdiri daTi dua puluh orang pelajar dan dibahagikan dua pula secara rawak. Satu babagian mengikuti olahan kaedah KPM dan satu bahagian lagi mengikuti olahan kaedab TRAD. Ujian lepas olahan diberikan kepada kedua-dua kumpulan tersebut. Ujian ANOVA dan Duncan digunakan untuk manganalisis data pencapaian pengetahuan. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa kaedah KPM tidak memberikan perbezaan yang signifikan dari segi pencapaian pengetahuan berbanding dengan kaedah TRAD, namun demikian apabila dianalisis kumpulan demi kumpulan didapati kumpulan TR menunjukkan perbezaan yang signifikan

Critical Review on Improving the Claim Management Process in Malaysia

Claims for additional costs and time extensions result from a variety of events occurring during the course of construction. To enhance the chances of success, contractors when submitting their claims must closely follow the steps stipulated in the contract conditions, by providing a breakdown of alleged additional costs and time with sufficient documentation. This paper aims to provide a better insight on the process of claims management in the Malaysian construction industry. It is reviewing the early part of the PhD research and hopefully the findings will try to generate means of improving the claims management process. With the proper claim management framework, it is hoped that contractors can utilize it to improve their claim management process in the future

Performance of low and medium-rise concrete frames under various intensities earthquake in Malaysia / Rozaina Ismail, Azlan Adnan and Azmi Ibrahim

This paper presents the vulnerability of public buildings in Malaysia subjected to earthquakes from Sumatra and Philippines. Tremors in Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia due to Sumatra and Philippine earthquakes have been reported several times. Engineers are concerned of the seismic vulnerability of public buildings due to lack of earthquake consideration in Malaysia’s building design procedure. 21 reinforced concrete buildings which are mostly categorized as moment resisting frames has been selected for vulnerability study. A case study has been conducted on low rise with 6 (six) buildings and 15 numbers of medium rise building. The buildings are analyzed using Finite Element Modeling (FEM) under different types of analyses including Free Vibration Analysis (FVA), and Time History Analysis (THA) considering low to medium earthquake intensities. Different intensities of earthquake load, 0.01g up to 0.5g are applied to the structures to know the maximum allowable earthquake load intensities for the buildings. In the non-linear analysis of modal frames, it indicates that most of the buildings were categorised in the moderate damage level where there is no structural damage but some non-structural damage are expected. Most of the buildings were collapse with the intensity of 0.5g. The performances of the structure are shown by the yield point at beam-column connections where the internal forces at beam elements exceed the design capacity of the beams. The study indicates that the plastic hinge initially formed on the beam at the lower storey level for medium-rise of building frame. However for low rise building, it shows that the plastic hinge formed begun at low and higher storey level at beam

Fluorescent light (FL), red LED and blue LED spectrums effects on in vitro shoots multiplication

Tissue culture in ornamental plants is one of the relevant factors that beat production of vegetables and fruit production worldwide. It has been recognized as an effective tool to enhance large scale of plant multiplication. However, the conventional lighting system may contain unnecessary wavelength that are low quality to promote growth. In this study, experiment was conducted by using Light Emitting Diodes (LED) as an alternative source of lighting. Red and blue LEDs along with fluorescent light (FL) were applied to determine the best source of light in multiplication of rose. Under the same media regimes which are MS media basal and BAP shoot hormone, blue LED had shown more shoots and leaves

Night-time movement of fish in coastal waters of Terengganu

The night-time movement pattern of 15 fish species in Terengganu waters was inferred from the driftnet catch obtained from experimental driftnetting in two monsoon seasons. Nets shot perpendicular to the coast drifted northward or southward parallel to the coast at 0.33-1. 78 km/h. Thirteen out of 15 species caught were enmeshed significantly against the current. Observations on gonad development of some migratory pelagic species showed that these species were on spawning migration to nearl7y known spawning areas. Daytime and long-term movement patterns remain unknown

Acyclovir Induced Acute Kidney Injury In Acute Meningitis Patient: A Case Report Highlights the Concurrence Of AKI Risk Factors And The Neutropenic Effect Of Ticlopidine

Nephrotoxicity is one of the challenging side effects of acyclovir use in clinical practice. The Concomitant use of other nephrotoxic antibiotics, in addition to patient's risk factors, can trigger acyclovir induced acute kidney injury (AKI). We described a case of acute meningitis in 68 year old female patient with underlying history of ischemic heart disease managed by ticlopidine. The gram stain, culture and PCR of the CSF did not show any positive growth of bacterial infection or HSV. However, the negative CSF gram stain and culture caused a confusion of the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis with viral meningitis. The patient had AKI induced by the treatment with acyclovir for 16 consecutive days and possibly triggered by other AKI risk factors. Hemodialysis and hydration did not reverse the kidney function to normal. However, it was reversed to its normal status only after the discontinuation of acyclovir. The neutropenic effect of ticlopidine can be a risk to the patient that could lead to fatal infection. In this case report we reviewed the literature on the nephrotoxicity of acyclovir, the neutropenia of ticlopidine and a proposed role of granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF)

Improving named entity recognition accuracy for gene and protein in biomedical text literature

The task of recognising biomedical named entities in natural language documents called biomedical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the focus of many researchers due to complex nature of such texts. This complexity includes the issues of character-level, word-level and word order variations. In this study, an approach for recognising gene and protein names that handles the above issues is proposed. Similar to the previous related works, our approach is based on the assumption that a named entity occurs within a noun group. The strength of our proposed approach lies on a Statistical Character-based Syntax Similarity (SCSS) algorithm which measures similarity between the extracted candidates and the well-known biomedical named entities from the GENIA V3.0 corpus. The proposed approach is evaluated and results are satisfied. For recognitions of both gene and protein names, we achieved 97.2% for precision (P), 95.2% for recall (R), and 96.1 for F-measure. While for protein names recognition we gained 98.1% for P, 97.5% for R and 97.7 for F-measure

Conceptual Metaphor of Eliot’s Waste Land Versus Al-Sayyab’s Rain Song

Of the rhetorical tools, metaphor still has insufficient interest, primarily as a crosscultural phenomenon though it is an attractive and vivid area, so it should be studied and highlighted (Suhadi, 2018) and (Barton, 2017). This comparative study investigated the conceptual metaphor in modern Arabic versus English poetry with reference to Al-Sayyab and T. S. Eliot as two poles of modern poetry in Arabic and English. This study tried to shed light on the frequency of the conceptual metaphors in Al-Sayyab’s The Rain Song versus Eliot’s The Waste Land. Besides, it aimed to explore the similarities and differences between the two poems in using the CMT orientational ’Up’ and ’Down’ strategy. However, to accomplish its aims, this study adopted Lakoff and Jonson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory ’CMT’ (1980); this theory asserted that metaphor is an inborn mental system in which we understand a certain concept in terms of another by drawing a logical mapping between the source domain and the target one. Finally, the study found that modern poetry was wealthy of conceptual metaphors. It also discovered that The Rain Song involved 65.29% conceptual metaphors of its total lines, so it exceeded The Waste Land which comprised only 39.40%. Furthermore, the study revealed that the two poems were generally pessimistic in which the ’Down’ domain exceeded the ’Up’ one in each poem. Also, it detected that Eliot was more pessimistic than Al Sayyab who was more optimistic.     Keywords: conceptual metaphor, orientational metaphor, pessimistic, ’Up and Down’ strateg