Reka bentuk pembelajaran atas talian bagi program kejuruteraan mekanikal Kolej Vokasional

Reka bentuk pembelajaran atas talian merupakan suatu proses yang menyokong kepada konsep pembelajaran bestari di sekolah. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti reka bentuk pembelajaran atas talian bagi program Kejuruteraan Mekanikal Kolej Vokasional. Terdapat dua aspek yang ditekankan dalam kajian ini iaitu domain pembelajaran yang terdiri daripada kognatif, afektif dan psikomotor dengan elemen reka bentuk seperti teks, video, audio, grafik, animasi, antaramuka dan warna. Reka bentuk kajian yang dijalankan adalah secara tinjauan dengan menggunakan kaedah kuantitatif melalui instrumen soal selidik yang diadaptasi daripada kajian lepas bagi mendapatkan maklumat. Seramai 169 orang pensyarah dari Jabatan Kejuruteraan Mekanikal di Kolej Vokasional Negeri Johor yang terlibat dalam kajian ini. Kajian ini mengandungi dua fasa iaitu fasa pertama merupakan proses pencarian maklumat berkaitan kajian manakala fasa kedua merupakan proses bagi menganalisis dapatan kajian. Hasil dapatan kajian menunjukkan terdapat hubungan positif yang kuat dan signifikan di antara domain pembelajaran dengan elemen reka bentuk. Kesimpulanya, kajian ini diharapkan berguna bagi membantu pensyarah dalam membangunkan platform pengajaran dan pembelajaran atas talian yang interaktif untuk pelajar Kolej Vokasional

Engineering programme structure requirements for Bologna compliance

In 1999 twenty nine European countries have signed the Bologna Declaration to establish a common European higher education system as for the year 2010. Engineering Ireland has decided that the education standard for the title of CEng and MIEI should be raised to Master Degree in engineering accredited by Engineers Ireland with effect from programmes completed in 2013”. This paper focuses on engineering programme structure in our school. Further discussions will be carried out to present the current engineering programmes in our school and the future vision to compliance with Bologna treaty

Levels of Economic Development and Harrod foreign trade

Estimates of export and import demand functions for ninety countries using Stock and Watson (1993) Dynamic OLS are presented. These estimates are then used to examine the relationship between levels of economic development and Harrod foreign trade multiplier. We show that there is an inverted U relations, as predicted by Thirlwall (1997), contrary to Bairam (1997, 1993). Absence of inverse relation between levels of economic development and Harrod foreign trade multiplier imply that Thirlwall's law does not imply convergence.Thirlwall Law, Trade Elasticities, Dynamic Harrod Multiplier

How financial markets affect long run growth : a cross country study

Empirical studies on new growth theory have tended to ignore financial policy's role in development. The author provides evidence that the initial level of financial development is positively associated with a country's later GDP growth rate, after controlling for the effect of the starting value of human capital and the investment rate. A country that starts with a more developed financial system tends to grow faster because it can make more efficient use of resources. It can do so through several channels, including better evaluation and monitoring of firms, lower transaction costs for financial intermediation, and externalities generated from information collected and processed in financial markets. Policy reform that fosters financial development also has a significant positive effect on the growth rate of real GDP. The empirical evidence presented for 50 developing countries tends to reinforce a classical theme of development economics: the importance of human capital and financial markets.Inequality,Economic Theory&Research,Macroeconomic Management,Achieving Shared Growth,Financial Economics

The Montreal Protocol: Developing Countries Import of Halons

Base on the model of legal and illegal trade in CFC from Ivanova (2007), this paper empirically analyzes the affects of the Montreal Protocol on imports of Halons, and hence their consumption, in developing countries. We show that countries with high income level have decreased their import of Halons, but ratifiers of the Protocol import more Halons than non-ratifiers.

Foundations for structured programming with GADTs

GADTs are at the cutting edge of functional programming and become more widely used every day. Nevertheless, the semantic foundations underlying GADTs are not well understood. In this paper we solve this problem by showing that the standard theory of data types as carriers of initial algebras of functors can be extended from algebraic and nested data types to GADTs. We then use this observation to derive an initial algebra semantics for GADTs, thus ensuring that all of the accumulated knowledge about initial algebras can be brought to bear on them. Next, we use our initial algebra semantics for GADTs to derive expressive and principled tools — analogous to the well-known and widely-used ones for algebraic and nested data types — for reasoning about, programming with, and improving the performance of programs involving, GADTs; we christen such a collection of tools for a GADT an initial algebra package. Along the way, we give a constructive demonstration that every GADT can be reduced to one which uses only the equality GADT and existential quantification. Although other such reductions exist in the literature, ours is entirely local, is independent of any particular syntactic presentation of GADTs, and can be implemented in the host language, rather than existing solely as a metatheoretical artifact. The main technical ideas underlying our approach are (i) to modify the notion of a higher-order functor so that GADTs can be seen as carriers of initial algebras of higher-order functors, and (ii) to use left Kan extensions to trade arbitrary GADTs for simpler-but-equivalent ones for which initial algebra semantics can be derive

Design of experiment study of the parameters that affect performance of three flow plate configurations of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell

Low temperature hydrogen fuel cells are electrochemical devices which offer a promising alternative to traditional power sources. Fuel cells produce electricity with a reaction of the fuel (hydrogen) and air. Fuel cells have the advantage of being clean; only producing water and heat as by products. The efficiency of a fuel cell varies depending on the type; SOFC with CHP for example, can have a system efficiency of up to 65%. What the Authors present here is a comparison between three different configurations of flow plates of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell, the manufacturer’s serpentine flow plate and two new configurations; the maze flow plate and the parallel flow plate. A study of the input parameters affecting output responses of voltage, current, power and efficiency of a fuel cell is performed through experimentation. The results were taken from direct readings of the fuel cell and from polarisation curves produced. This information was then analysed through a design of experiment to investigate the effects of the changing parameters on different configurations of the fuel cell’s flow plates. The results indicate that, in relation to current and voltage response of the polarisation curve and the corresponding graphs produced from the DOE, the serpentine flow plate design is a much more effective design than the maze or parallel flow plate design. It was noted that the parallel flow plate performed reasonably well at higher pressures but over all statically the serpentine flow plate performed better

Cash-Cow into the Purse of Malaysian Property Investors: Students Housing Investment

Growing demand for higher education (HE) and increasing students enrolment in higher education institutions (HEI) has been a global issue especially in the last three decades and housing the growing student population has become a dilemma for all concern HEIs stakeholders. Globally increasing demand for HE and enrolment has long been not corresponding with student housing supply. Most HEIs provide housing accommodation for a small proportion of their total students’ population while the majority depend on private rental sector for their alternative housing. In most of the HEIs neighbouring community residential houses were rented out to students. These houses are not sufficient to accommodate the teaming student population because the market is dominated by traditional small-scale private developers. However, with the continuing expansion and demand for HE, increasing enrolment and increasing students housing demand, the study highlighted and suggested for private investors to pull up and dig into student housing investment. This will ameliorate and fill the shortfall created by inadequacy of HEIs housing provision. Student housing investment is a resilient market, lucrative venture and guaranteed cash cow