9 research outputs found
Framing the diplomatic ties between Kazakhstan and Malaysia
This study aims at investigating the prevalence news frames in the reporting of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s official visit to Malaysia in April 2012. Both quantitative and qualitative content analysis are employed to explore the way Kazakhstani and Malaysian newspapers cover the event. In terms of quantitative analysis, the focus is on the five generic frames, namely, attribution of responsibility, human interest, conflict, morality and economic consequences. While the qualitative analysis is conducted to examine how’s the issue being defined, what are the possible causes of the problem identified, moral judgement made and the supply of remedies to the problem. A total of 134 units of analysis from two major Malaysian English newspapers and two major Kazakhstani newspapers, surrounding the period of the President’s two-day visit, were collected and content analysed. The results reveal that, although the occasion was mainly about boosting economic ties between Kazakhstan and Malaysia, responsibility frame was most highlighted, while economic consequences frame was placed in the last spot. Among the four newspapers, both The Star and New Strait Times were found to be significantly more interested than Sovereign Kazakhstan and Kazakhstani Truth in using the economic consequences frame. However, results of qualitative content analysis indicate that these four newspapers were sharing the same mind to portray their respective government as capable and determined in nation development
Investigating news framing: a comparative study of media coverage on contemporary education issues in Malaysia
This study examines how the Malay and Chinese language
newspapers in Malaysia portray the issue of Teaching and
Learning Science and Mathematics in English. Comparison was
made between the two different language newspapers particularly
in terms of framing by analyzing their coverage on two major
incidents related to the issue – rally against the policy of Teaching
and Learning Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI),
and the announcement of the Upholding the Malay Language,
Strengthening Command of English policy (MBMMBI). This
study uses the five generic frames developed by Semetko &
Valkenburg (2000) as the basis of comparison. The five frames
are responsibility, conflict, moral, economic consequences and
human interest frame. The results suggest a congruency in the two
different language newspapers reporting, which mainly emphasize
the ‘conflict’ nature of the issue. However, a major difference in
frame choice observed between the Malay and Chinese language
newspapers in their reports of MBMMBI. While the prior significantly reduced the intensity of conflict frame in its reports
on MBMMBI as compared to PPSMI, the latter maintain the same
level of intensity for both the events
Application of Deep Neural Network in Estimation of the Weld Bead Parameters
We present a deep learning approach to estimation of the bead parameters in
welding tasks. Our model is based on a four-hidden-layer neural network
architecture. More specifically, the first three hidden layers of this
architecture utilize Sigmoid function to produce their respective intermediate
outputs. On the other hand, the last hidden layer uses a linear transformation
to generate the final output of this architecture. This transforms our deep
network architecture from a classifier to a non-linear regression model. We
compare the performance of our deep network with a selected number of results
in the literature to show a considerable improvement in reducing the errors in
estimation of these values. Furthermore, we show its scalability on estimating
the weld bead parameters with same level of accuracy on combination of datasets
that pertain to different welding techniques. This is a nontrivial result that
is counter-intuitive to the general belief in this field of research.Comment: Disapproval of funding organizatio
Pembingkaian isu pendidikan di Malaysia oleh sumber berita dan akhbar Cina
Perkembangan sistem pendidikan merupakan penanda kepada
pembangunan negara dan pada masa yang sama, ia juga bergerak
seiring dengan isu perpaduan negara ini. Cabaran utama yang
dihadapi oleh Malaysia dalam perjalanannya menjadi sebuah
negara maju, merupakan penentuan bahasa yang wajar digunakan
di dalam sistem pendidikan negara ini. Imbangan di antara
memartabatkan bahasa kebangsaan, kepada pengukuhan bahasa
global dan juga pengekalan bahasa ibunda unik setiap kaum di
negara ini bukanlah mudah. Polisi pendidikan dalam pengajaran
dan pembelajaran subjek sains dan matematik dalam bahasa
Inggeris pada semua peringkat sekolah rendah pada 2003,
mendapat bantahan yang kuat daripada masyarakat Cina. Kerajaan
Malaysia akhirnya menerima cadangan untuk mengajar kedua-dua
subjek ini dalam dua bahasa di sekolah jenis kebangsaan Cina.
Kajian ini melakukan refleksi kepada laporan empat akhbar Cina
pada ketika itu untuk memahami pembingkaian yang digunakan
oleh akhbar-akhbar tersebut dalam melaporkan isu pendidikan
negara. Kedua-dua media dan juga sumber berita juga memainkan
peranan di dalam pembingkaian isu pendidikan. Berpaksikan
lima bingkai generik Semetko & Valkenburg (2000) iaitu bingkai
tanggungjawab, bingkai konflik, bingkai moral, bingkai akibat
ekonomi dan bingkai kemanusiaan, kajian ini melakukan analisis
kandungan kuantiatif terhadap empat akhbar utama tempatan
Cina di Malaysia. Sebanyak 157 berita diperolehi dengan 1,218
unit analisis. Kajian mendapati bahawa parti kerajaan cuba
mempromosikan bingkai tanggungjawab, sementara editorial mementingkan bingkai minat manusia dan pihak pembangkang
melihat bingkai moral