An Evaluation Of Soft Skills Development Of A Degree Programme In A Public Higher Education Institution

Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk menilai program ijazah Sarjana Muda (program AB) dari satu fakulti di sebuah universiti awam (Universiti AA) di Malaysia, dalam membangunkan kemahiran insaniah dengan menggunakan model penilaian Tyler. The purpose of this study is to evaluate a Bachelor’s degree (AB programme) from a faculty in AA University, one of the public universities in Malaysia, in developing soft skills utilizing Tyler’s evaluation model

Pengetahuan, sikap dan kesedaran pensyarah dalam pengamalan penyelidikan di politeknik premier

Pelaksanaan penyelidikan dan pembangunan merupakan agenda penting ke arah mengukuhkan institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia. Kelebihan melaksanakan penyelidikan adalah jelas dan nyata, tetapi amalannya di dalam sistem pengajian politeknik masih rendah. Oleh sebab itu, satu kajian telah dilaksanakan untuk mengkaji pengetahuan, sikap dan tahap kesedaran pensyarah dalam pengamalan penyelidikan di politeknik. Rekabentuk kajian yang digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah berbentuk tinjauan deskriptif dengan menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif melalui instrumen soal selidik. Kajian ini melibatkan tiga buah politeknik yang telah dinaik taraf menjadi Politeknik Premier iaitu Politeknik Sultan Ibrahim, Johor; Politeknik Ungku Omar, Perak; dan Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Selangor. Seramai 317 orang pensyarah telah dijadikan sampel kajian yang terdiri daripada pensyarah di jabatan kejuruteraan dan jabatan bukan kejuruteraan. Data dianalisis menggunakan SPSS versi 21.0 bagi menentukan purata skor min dan mencari perbezaan aspek yang dikehendaki. Secara keseluruhannya, hasil analisis data menunjukkan bahawa pengetahuan, sikap dan kesedaran pensyarah dalam pengamalan penyelidikan di Politeknik Premier berada pada tahap yang tinggi dan hasil dapatan daripada ujian inferensi pula mendapati bahawa tiada perbezaan yang signifikan terhadap pengamalan penyelidikan dalam kalangan pensyarah antara jabatan kejuruteraan dengan jabatan bukan kejuruteraan di Politeknik Premier. Pengamalan penyelidikan adalah penting untuk melahirkan jiwa penerokaan di samping dapat mengembangkan kreativiti dan seterusnya menyumbang kepada perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan

Tanggapan Pelawat Terhadap Taman Pertanian Malaysia Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam Sebagai Destinasi Pelancongan Tani

Kajian ini menilai tanggapan pelawat terhadap Taman pertanian Malaysia Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam (TPM) sebagai destinasi pelancongan tani. Data kajian diperolehi melalui survei menggunakan borang soal selidik ke atas pelawat-pelawat di TPM . lndeks tanggapan pelawat dikira bagi setiap aspek meliputi keperluan kemudahan/perkhidmatan, kemudahan/perkhidmatan sedia ada, harga yang dibayar, kesesakan, kepuasan dan perasaan terhadap aktiviti terlibat Manakala angkubah bebas atau faktor tertentu termaksud faktor sosio-demografi, jarak kediaman , kumpulan pelawat dan kategori pelawat. Keputusan kajian menunjukkan tanggapan responden terhadap TPM umumnya sederhana. Namun tanggapan yang negatif diberikan terhadap aspek-aspek kemudahan/perkhidmatan sedia ada, harga yang dibayar dan aktiviti terlibat

SELF-EFFICACY AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES ON EXERCISE ON HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN OF KLANG VALLEY

  Objective: The present study aims to explore the effects of self-efficacy and behavioral changes on exercise that impact on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of middle-aged Malaysian women.Methods: A questionnaire-based data collection was performed from October 2013 to March 2014 in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Analysis of data was performed by SPSS (vs. 21.0) after recording body mass index, general health, physical health status, self-efficacy, and self-awareness associated with HRQoL. Correlation between the parameters was performed using Pearson's correlation coefficients, and the reliability test was conducted using Cronbach's alpha (α). Results are mentioned as significant when p-values are found to be <0.05.Results: Findings of the study indicate though women of Klang Valley suffer from few health problems, they prefer exercise to maintain their HRQoL. It has been observed that self-efficacy and behavioral changes for exercise related QoL are affected by several factors, such as education, monthly income, marital status, and even ethnicity. Among 736 respondents, only 304 made a change in their exercise regime, and the level of change is about 58.4% had made small increase and followed by 41.3%. Women with higher self-efficacy (50.35%) made changes by taking up exercise to have a healthy lifestyle.Conclusions: This study portrays that women of Klang Valley, Malaysia, are inflicted with quite a good self-efficacy to exercise, which impacts their HRQoL

Pemilihan Kerjaya Berorientasikan Keusahawanan Di Kalangan Pelajar Diploma Perakaunan Politeknik Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia : Kajian Empiri

The perception research of the Accounting students towards entrepreneurship is to look at how students perceive entrepreneurship as a career. For the purpose of this research, 5 polytechnics have been selected. They are POLIMAS, POLISAS, PKB, PPD and PUO. About 250 students have been chosen as respondents for this research. The data collected from this questionnaire is analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The findings of this research show that not many respondents are interested to get involved full time in entrepreneurship after completion of their studies. The finding also reveal that the respondents are more interested in choosing the post of accountants as their main choice compared to entrepreneurship. The findings also show that the job that secures better prospects in the future would be the main criteria in choosing any career. This research reveals that the aspects of entrepreneurship are important and should be in a person who wishes to excel in business. These aspects, such as risk taking, creative, hard work, confident and knowledgeable are the core to any success The findings also show that the course quality, the process of learning and even the lecturers are important in helping students to acquire the knowledge. The result of the finding reveals that generally students are satisfied with the courses offered, the level of learning and teaching and the quality of the lecturers

Similarity measure for retrieval of question items with multi-variable data sets

In designing test question items assessment, similarity measures have a great influence in determining whether the test question items generated semantically match to the learning outcomes and the instructional objectives. It has been realized that to carry out an effective case retrieval of question items, there must be selection criteria of questions’ features that considerably meet the specifications and requirements of learning outcomes as well as instructional objectives that are set by academician. In this case, each question item consists of multi-variables data type namely, Bloom level, question type, discrimination index and difficulty index. To retrieve the semantic similar question items, it strongly depends on the correct definition of the case representation as well as similarity measure. In other words, there presentation of data must reflect the characteristic of data type before the appropriate adapted similarity measure approach can be applied to ensure the degree of similarity values. In this case, Bloom was transformed into normalized rank data before Euclidean distance similarity measure was applied. Meanwhile, question type was converted into binary, 0 and 1 before Hamming distance was applied to calculate its similarity value. Both difficulty index and discrimination index used the concept of fuzzy similarity measure, where by their index ranges were adjusted and expressed in trapezoidal fuzzy numbers, respectively. Lastly, these approaches were aggregated together to produce one single similarity value of question item

Isolation and identification of endophytic fungus in controlling sheath blight disease caused by rhizoctonia solani / Muhammad Faizul Che Hassan

In Malaysia, rice had become the third major crop for agricultural diversification. Rice production was decreased by the infection of the fungal diseases and sheath blight disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani identified as one of the major disease problems that giving most economical serious issue among paddy sector in Malaysia. Sheath blight disease of paddy in agriculture was commonly produced from fungus Rhizoctonia solani or Rhizoctonia solani khun. Previously, the management of sheath blight disease was relied on chemical fungicides and became the most common method in controlling the disease among smallholders and local farmers. However, chemical controls by fungicides caused adverse effects on the environment and human health. Therefore, the use of endophytic fungi as biological control against sheath blight disease on paddy was considered as a potential non-chemical means and environmental friendly. The objectives of this study were to isolate the endophytic fungi from healthy rice and to identify the effectiveness of endophytic fungus against sheath blight disease on paddy. Four isolates of endophytic fungi evaluated for their antagonistic activity against Rhizoctonia solani under in-vitro conditions. However, all isolates obtained which identified as Fusarium spp. were generally unsuccessful in controlling sheath blight disease. It showed the negative result which all isolates failed to retard the pathogen’s growth on the PDA medium

Free broadcast DGPS service in marine: how good is it?

Differential GPS (DGPS) has been used widely in many types of application including for marine navigation and hydrographic surveying. Most of the recent DGPS receiver development applies the use of code and carrier phase on single frequency L1 C/A code receiver for submetre horizontal accuracy. Differential Global Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS) radio beacon is a system that uses the concept of DGPS based on pseudorange measurements. This system provides free DGPS corrections using the commercial reference station with proper receivers. The availability of reference station that operates 24 hours a day means that the users are no longer required to set up their own reference station. This study is intended to evaluate the performance of DGNSS radio beacon, not only for horizontal positioning but also for data availability and reliability at the remote receiver. For this purpose, static and dynamic test have been carried out on the DGPS corrections received from DGNSS radio beacon. Both of the tests make use of the National Marine Electronic Associations 0183 (NMEA 0183) data format generate by remote receiver to examine the DGPS broadcast signal. The results show how the distance separation (static test) effects the age of DGPS correction, horizontal dilution of precision (HDOP), numbers of satellite use and also the signal strength recorded at remote receiver. Meanwhile, the tracking method (dynamic test) differentiates the automatic and manual tracking results. This is to estimate the most suitable method to be used for marine navigation and hydrographic surveys

Strategi mengatasi hutang korporat melalui CDRC

Artikel ini membincangkan tentang keberkesanan CDRD, objektif penubuhan CDRC, proses perlaksanaan penyusunan semula hutang dan juga kaedah-kaedah penyelesaian oleh CDRC. Disamping itu juga akan meninjau pencapaian yang telah dihasilkan oleh CDRC dan juga menyenaraikan beberapa kekangan yang dihadapi oleh CDRC dalam menyelesaikan masalah hutang korpora

Effect of Rake Angle on Stress, Strain and Temperature on the Edge of Carbide Cutting Tool in Orthogonal Cutting Using FEM Simulation

Demand for higher productivity and good quality for machining parts has encourage many researchers to study the effects of machining parameters using FEM simulation using either two or three dimensions version. These are due to advantages such as software package and computational times are required. Experimental work is very costly, time consuming and labor intensive. The present work aims to simulate a three-dimensional orthogonal cutting operations using FEM software (deform-3D) to study the effects of rake angle on the cutting force, effective stress, strain and temperature on the edge of carbide cutting tool. There were seven runs of simulations. All simulations were performed for various rake angles of -15 deg, -10 deg, -5 deg, 0 deg, +5 deg, +10 deg, and +15 deg. The cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut (DOC) were kept constant at 100 m/min, 0.35 mm/rev and 0.3 mm respectively. The work piece used was ductile cast iron FCD500 grade and the cutting tool was DNMA432 series (tungsten, uncoated carbide tool, SCEA = 0; and radius angle 55 deg). The analysis of results show that, the increase in the rake angle from negative to positive angle, causing the decrease in cutting force, effective stress and total Von Misses strain. The minimum of the cutting force, effective stress and total Von Misses strain were obtained at rake angle of +15 deg. Increasing the rake caused higher temperature generated on the edge of carbide cutting tool and resulted in bigger contact area between the clearance face and the workpiece, consequently caused more friction and wear. The biggest deformation was occurred in the primary deformation zone, followed by the secondary deformation zone. The highest stress was also occurred in the primary deformation zone. But the highest temperature on the chip usually occurs in secondary deformation zone, especially in the sliding region, because the heat that was generated in the sticking region increased as the workpiece was adhered by the tool and later it was sheared in high frictional force.