A conceptual model to manage lexical ambiguity in Malay textual requirements

Ambiguity is one of the most crucial problem in natural language. When a sentence can be interpreted in more than one ways by different sets of readers, the impact is huge. It would involve many stages in system development life cycle from requirement elicitation to requirement transformation, system design, system coding as well as the end product. It is very important to ensure requirement requested by the users accurately transformed onto the end system as per desired. More often than not, the understanding between users and system developer is not tele. In this paper, we attempt to publish a conceptual model on managing lexical ambiguity to reduce the possibility of misinterpretation errors in Malay sentences. The approach that we used is by identifying potential Malay vague words based on vague criteria and mapped onto constructed Requirement Ambiguity Attributes (RAA). We designed a Model of Vagueness that has the elements of vague criteria that is mapped with RAA as a hybrid method to detect potential ambiguous sentences

Pelaksanaan Sistem Pengurusan Sekolah Kualiti (SPSK) di Sekolah Rendah daerah Johor Bahru

Research was conducted to survey the implementation of the Sistem Pengurusan Sekolah Kualiti (SPSK) in Johor Bahru primary schools in terms of level of knowledge and practice of teachers as well as comparison of implementation based on gender. There are 162 survey responses received from teachers who represent the population of 277 teachers in five primary schools. Questionnaire containing 48 items based on the quality model Clarence Burns (1997) and six working procedures of the SPSK. Descriptive statistical techniques and inferential statistical techniques such as mean, frequency, Pearson correlation, t-test and oneway Anova test was used to achieve the research objectives. Three hypotheses were tested at the confidence level P <0.05. As a result of this research has rejected two of the three null hypotheses. Survey results found that the level of knowledge and practice of teachers in this district in implementing the SPSK are high and the level of practice is higher than the level of knowledge. Through t-test, shows that female teachers level of knowledge and practice are higher than male teachers. Hypothesis test results also showed that there were significant differences in level of knowledge between male and female teachers, but there was no significant difference in the level of practice. One way Anova test in this study explain the existence of highly significant differences in the level of implementation of the SPSK between schools of different types and categories further reject the null hypothesis. High Performance Schools is a school of the highest level of implementation in the SPSK followed by Cluster School and three other daily schools. Important implication of this study was gender and different types of school factors play a role in ensuring the implementation of Sistem Pengurusan Sekolah Kualiti (SPSK) in primary schools can be well implemented and achieved quality objectives. Finally some action proposals were made to improve the quality of the implementation of this system at other schools that have not yet implementing SPSK

Modeling of sound propagation in urban streets containing trees using Markovian technique

It is claimed that the trees may become a possible control method for noise in streets and hence contribute another step towards a sustainable environment. This paper examined the capability of an abatement scheme containing absorbent facades and trees in streets through a simulation model developed using the novel approach based upon Markovian techniques. The study showed that sound pressure level in a street containing trees relative to that in an empty street predicted by the Markov model was in good agreement with predictions obtained using commercial software, RAYNOISE model. Within the scope and assumptions in this study, it is shown streets containing trees and absorbent building façade result in sound reductions typically less than 1.5 dB. Hence trees in streets appear to have only a slight effect on sound attenuation, and thus make no significant contribution towards producing a sustainable environment in this respect

Assessing causes of contractual disputes from different type of condition of contracts

In a construction industry, a Condition of Contract (CoC) is primarily used to ensure a project can be delivered successfully with minimum disputes. The contractual disputes rooted from many factors, including from the improper management of conflict between parties in the project, misinterpretation of the CoC, lack of documentation, and discrepancies and ambiguities of documents which may lead to as cost overruns, project delay and project cashflow. Thus, a comprehensive CoC plays a significant role to express the rights and obligations of the main contracting parties. CoC functions in stating to each party on what they shall do and to the extent of their entitlement of rights and obligations under the contract. Despite having various of published CoC such as PAM Contract and series of PWD Form of Contract to govern the construction projects, numerous construction cases in relation to contractual disputes are still increasing over the years and there has been little discussion about the causes of disputes. It indicates the ineffectiveness of the contract provision in the CoC. Hence, this study presents thorough review of the disputes occurs in the construction industry by outlining the issues raised in the court cases. This scenario has paved this paper to achieve the objectives of the research, including to identify the factors attribute to the construction dispute and to investigate the provision in CoC that caused the contractual disputes. The data collection used was mainly through literature synthesis and surveys. The results revealed that there are five attributes of construction disputes. The findings of the paper would be beneficial to practitioners in increasing their awareness of the flaws in the CoC and could be helpful in mitigating the disputes

Evaluating The Perceived Effects Of Total Quality Management (Tqm) Training Program In Tenaga Nasional

Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) was corporatized on the 1st. of September 1990. To help achieved its new corporate mission, total quality culture now forms a major aspect of TN B's strategic initiative. Management has turned to the training and development specialist to improve the organization's capabilities through TQM training program. Before TNB was corporatized , training and development can be viewed traditionally as a discretionary expenditure. Now that it is a corporate body, for TNB to stay in business, they need to start rapid savings by reducing spending not directly related to improving their profit margin. If training can not show positive, unambiguous results, organization wil

Match between UMP furniture dimension and student's anthropometry

Ergonomic issue is one of the important issues not only in workstation but also in educational institution since it is related to the human. Chair is one of furniture that is used widely in our daily life in purpose of sitting. Having a match chair that applied ergonomic is an important aspect to look at to avoid bad effect such as back pain and should provide comfortness and safety to the user. This project is conducted to determine whether the UMP chair in the student hostel match with the students' anthropometry or not. The seat height and seat depth of the chair is measured and the student popliteal height and buttock-popliteal length is analyzed. From the analysis, it can be concluded that the chair in student hostel did not match with the student. As a solution, an adjustable chair which applied ergonomic is designed to match the UMP students' anthropometry to optimize safety, comfort and prevent back pain

Detection Of Jamming Attack At Kolej Komuniti Masjid Tanah

Wireless network grows very fast; the flawed security of most of those networks becomes more apparent. People are extremely adopting to use wireless network to access Internet. The last ten years have seen an explosion in the use of wireless technology. The wireless network medium has become target to the attackers. This study will focus on jamming attack and the case study has been done at Kolej Komuniti Masjid Tanah (KKMT). This study will involve two important phases which are investigation and implementation phase. The investigation phase is the process of getting information from previous research to get an overview about the scope of the study. The simulation of the wireless network using Opnet Modeler has been done during implementation phase. The simulation is to get the result of the affected parameters that have been choosing in investigation phase. The results generated from the simulation process has analyze four parameters affected and can be used to detect jamming attack at KKMT are network load, delay, throughput and error rate