Joe Jamail Delivers 2011 Commencement Address

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My Sight\u27s Shadow

The story in the photographs I am showing is not about a person, but about the span of experience and emotion presented through time. I am looking into things that stand alone, and things that stand together — the idea of sharing space and experience with something or someone or being by yourself. One thing that draws me to photography as a medium is the way that photographs are able to tell a story or explain something without words. Photographs offer a unique perspective which, by their nature, alters reality. There is always some amount of truth that lies in an image, but it varies. It is a compelling aspect of a story -- a fantasy or a point of view, that interjects itself into the empty spaces between photographs on a wall. There are ways in which I might take a photograph in order to make that moment seem like something that it’s not. This statement is a combination of these ideas

Praktis kepimpinan distributif dan komitmen terhadap organisasi berdasarkan kohort generasi guru

Praktis kepimpinan distributif merupakan keperluan dalam sistem pendidikan, kerana guru dan pemimpin sekolah dapat mewujudkan kerjasama dan interaksi bagi meningkatkan pencapaian pelajar.Kajian mengenai kepimpinan distibutif ini masih lagi di peringkat awal dan perlu diperbanyakkan.Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti hubungan antara kepimpinan distributif dengan komitmen guru berdasarkan kohort generasi di sekolah menengah kebangsaan. Kajian ini menggunakan seramai 298 responden yang terdiri daripada guru dan menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif berbentuk tinjauan keratan rentas.Kajian ini telah menggunakan kerangka teoritikal kepimpinan distributif Spillane (2006) yang telah menghubungkan interaksi antara pemimpin, pengikut dan juga situasi.Kajian ini menggunakan instrumen Distributed Leadership Survey (DLS) oleh Davis (2009), dan juga instrumen Affective, Continuance and Normative Commitment Scales (ACNCS) yang telah dibangunkan oleh Meyer dan Allen (1997).Pemilihan responden adalah berdasarkan kepada pensampelan rawak berstrata tidak mengikut kadar dan juga persampelan bertujuan. Sebanyak tiga hipotesis telah dibina dan diuji dengan menggunakan kaedah statistik ujian korelasi Pearson, ujian-t sampel bebas dan ujian ANOVA menerusi SPSS versi 21. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara kepimpinan distributif dan komitmen guru terhadap organisasi.Dimensi kepimpinan pengetua dan dimensi visi sekolah didapati sangat kerap dipraktiskan di dalam kajian ini. Bagi komitmen terhadap organisasi, didapati dimensi komitmen normatif adalah yang paling tinggi.Tiada perbezaan yang signifikan dalam kepimpinan distributif dengan komitmen guru berdasarkan kohort generasi dan juga jantina guru. Berdasarkan kepada dapatan kajian ini, adalah dicadangkan agar pemimpin sekolah dapat menyebarluaskan kepimpinan kepada guru di samping berkongsi visi sekolah yang jelas dan mudah difahami oleh warga sekolah, tanpa mengira jantina dan kohort generasi

Collapsibility behaviour of ABS P400 and PMMA used as sacrificial pattern in direct investment casting process

The feasibility of the Investment Casting (IC) process has been choose to be vital route in producing the metal alloy products. However, less report regarding the feasibility of portable Additive Manufacturing (AM) machines to be employed in casting process. Sacrificial wax pattern in casting process has been substitute with the AM material due to its brittleness and higher cost for hard tooling. Due to this constrain, the quality of fabricated AM materials, collapsibility analysis and strain induce was investigated. The patterns were made using ABS P400 and PMMA materials by two different types of technique which are Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and Polyjet technique. There were three different types of internal structures which are hollow, square and hexagon patterns. The thermal properties of the materials were studied by thermogravimetry analyzer (TGA) and linear thermal expansion. The collapsibility screening was determined to investigate the behavior of the patterns underneath the expansion. Apparently, patterns made by Polyjet technique shows better accuracy compare to FFF technique. It shows that, the PMMA error lies between -2.2 % until -0.63 % compared to ABS which is -2.4 % until 1.2% for hollow, square and hexagon patterns respectively. The data of the surface roughness were varies whereas internal structures does not play significant role in improving the surface roughness. From the strain analysis, it can be suggested that hexagon internal structure yield less stress compare to square patterns. In terms of collapsibility, hollow and hexagon patterns yield most successful warping whereas it indicates the patterns able to collapse underneath the expansion. Moreover, PMMA material tends to gain higher strain compared to ABS material whereas this can be illustrated by the graph of linear expansion. Nevertheless, to overcome the cracking of ceramic shell due to higher thermal expansion, different build layer thickness was adopted to overcome the issue

Shuffling algorithms for automatic generator question paper system.

Examination process is important activities for educational institutions to evaluate student performance. Thus the quality of the exam questions would determine the quality of the students produced by the institutions. Preparing exam questions is challenges, tedious and time consuming for the instructors. Usually the instructors keeping their own test bank in some form to help them prepare future exams. Current technologies help the instructors to store the questions in computer databases. The issue arise is how the current technologies would also help the instructors to automatically generate the different sets of questions from time to time without concern about repetition and duplication from the pass exam while the exam bank growing. This paper describes the usage of shuffling algorithm in an Automatic Generator Question paper System (GQS) as a randomization technique for organising sets of exam paper. The results indicate shuffling algorithm could be used to overcome randomization issue for GQS

Smart distribution board overload detector by using microcontroller

A statistic by Economic Planning Unit (EPU) on the electricity growth in Malaysia has shown an increment in line with economic growth [1]. In line with government policies, the energy supply industry has been molding itself to cater to the rapid development of the nation in hopes of creating a better and smarter nation [2]. There are many developments and implementation of smart energy consumption to save energy and cater to future energy challenges

Characteristics of grounding performance at Taman Bukit Perdana

Grounding system is one of the important part during installation of power systems. The function of grounding system is to enable protection to the power system in case of any current leakage or lightning strike. A grounding system will disconnect the circuit as soon as the fault current flows through the earth [1]. Every potential connection or equipment that may cause the current leakage must be grounded. In a simple way, it can be defined as the system to protect and stabilize the operation for human and equipment during fault conditions