UPM sertai persidangan ASAIHL 2017 di Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar

MAKASSAR, 17 Mei - Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) menyertai persidangan The Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL) tahun 2017 mulai 16 hingga 19 Mei lalu di Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia

Predicting the intention for waqf education among polytechnic staff in Malaysia

Waqf education is a unique model and an innovation of the Islamic social finance system. It is considered a promising platform to overcome economic inequality and enhance the wellbeing of the people in many areas, including socio-economic, education, and health. Therefore, it is necessary to analyse the underlying factors that can influence waqf education contribution among the public. This research summarises the findings of a survey on the determinant’s factors of waqf education contribution intention from the perspective of Malaysian Polytechnic’s staff. The empirical factors found were attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, knowledge, and religiosity. Malaysian Premier Polytechnic were chosen as research population namely Polytechnic Premier Ungku Omar, Polytechnic Premier Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah (PSA) and Polytechnic Premier Ibrahim Sultan (PIS). A survey was conducted and data from 180 respondents from various backgrounds received. An analysis was carried out to test the relationship in between independent variables as well as leaning variables. The analysis was conducted using non-parametric tests namely Mann Whitney U-Test and Kruskal Wallis H-Test. Based on the obtained results, it is suggested that all independent variables, namely attitude, subjective norms, perceived behaviour control, knowledge, and religiosity, have significant relationships with the intention to contribute waqf education. In the conclusion, the author suggests several ideas for progressing waqf education in Malaysia

Aspek sosial dan kebudayaan masyarakat Iban di Sarawak / Haslinda Md.Nazri

Sarawak merupakan negeri terbesar dalam Persekutuan Malaysia, mempunyai warisan budaya yang kaya dan berwarna-warni daripada keperbagaian adat dan tradisi penduduknya yang berbilang kaum. Budaya adalah satu sistem nilai yang menyeluruh yang terdiri daripada pelbagai aspek material dan bukan material. Budaya perlu dilakukan pendokumentasian agar dapat mempertahankan warisan budaya bangsa agar tidak dilupakan atau pupus. Walaupun sudah mencapai kemerdekaan serta hidup dalam arus kemodenan, wujudnya pertembungan berbagai-bagai bentuk dan nilai budaya tradisi dengan nilai budaya yang baru, namun begitu nilai-nilai budaya tradisonal harus dipertahankan sebagai warisan budaya bangsa

High myopia following unilateral cryocoagulation for threshold retinopathy of prematurity

Despite the proven benefit of cryotherapy in the management of threshold retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), it was shown leading to ocular adverse effects. A male infant was born at 28 week of gestation with a birth weight of 1200 g. Serial examinations revealed worsening ROP in both eyes until he reached a high risk pre-threshold ROP in his right eye and threshold ROP in his left eye. Cryotherapy was performed for the threshold ROP in the left eye while the right eye was subjected to further observation. Subsequently, ROP in both eyes regressed without cicatrisation. The patient was followed-up over 8 years and refractions showed that the treated eye developed steadily increasing myopia while the untreated eye remained emmetropic. This case demonstrated the detrimental effect of cryotherapy to the treated eye leading to the progressive myopia as the child grew

Spatial pattern distribution of dengue fever in sub-urban area using GIS tools

Dengue fever (DF) is one of the major public health problems in Malaysia. The number of cases recorded is always fluctuating. The aim of the study is to identify the high-risk area for the occurrence of dengue disease. Spatial-temporal model was used by measuring three characteristics which are frequency, duration and intensity to define the severity and magnitude of outbreak transmission. This study examined a total of 386 registered dengue fever cases, geo-coded by address in Jempol district between January 2011 and December 2015. Even though case notification figures are subjected to bias, this information is available in the health services. It may lead to crucial conclusion, recommendations, and hypotheses. Public health officials can utilize the temporal risk indices to describe dengue relatively than relying on the traditional case incident figures

Design And Fabrication Of Modular Fixture To Accommodate Flexible Assembly Systems

In the development of a modular fixture design system, it is essential to have a modular fixture specific information measurement that can be integrated with a CAD system, in addition to the other considerations such as fixture configuration, interference checking, etc., which are also important to fixture designers. The initial conditions for modular fixture assembly are established together with geometric relationships between fixture components and the workpiece to be analyzed. Of particular focus is the design of alternative locating points and components, together with examples of the 3-D fixture designs. Examples of fixture design generated by the system are also provided to illustrate the development. This thesis describes a method to create the fixture element database and model the fixturing towers like assembly of modular fixture. The main purpose for this project is to get the optimum of the modular fixture based on assembly process in order to make the product productivity and can reduce time in assembly and saving costs. The result in this case shows that the fixtures can be applied in many assembly situation such as assembly of 3-pin plug, optical mouse and alarm clock

The effect of entrepreneurial orientation, innovation capability and knowledge creation on firm performance: a perspective on small scale entrepreneurs

The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive effects of entrepreneurial orientation, innovation capability and knowledge creation on firm performance. Data for the study was collected using a cross-sectional quantitative survey. A total of 188 useable responses were collected from SMEs in Malaysia. The findings show that entrepreneurial orientation, innovation capability and knowledge creation have a positive impact on firm performance. Furthermore, the impacts of entrepreneurial orientation and innovation capability on knowledge creation are also examined in this study. The findings suggest that innovation capability is positively related to knowledge creation, but entrepreneurial orientation does not have a significant impact on knowledge creation. This study makes a considerable contribution to the existing literature on entrepreneurial orientation, innovation capability and knowledge creation of SMEs, particularly in regards to explaining the performance of Malaysian SMEs

Kajian reka bentuk radio Telekomunikasi Tentera untuk operasi ketenteraan

The research is about the design of army radio telecommunication device specifically the field radio. In order to produce practically solution in team of ergonomic user. The result of the development is an army radio telecommunication device set with innovative features and new design

Praktis Rawatan Buprenoprhine/Naloxone Di Malaysia: Kajian Dalam Kalangan Doktor Swasta Dan Pesakit

Buprenoprhine/Naloxone (BNX) merupakan sejenis ubat yang digunakan bagi merawat masalah kebergantungan dadah jenis opioid. Sejak rawatan ini diperkenalkan pada tahun 2006, tiada kajian dibuat bagi mengenalpasti praktis rawatan BNX yang diberikan oleh doktor swasta. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengenalpasti masalah yang dihadapi pesakit dan doktor swasta yang memberikan rawatan BNX, mengenalpasti praktis rawatan BNX dan mengenalpasti halangan yang dihadapi pesakit dalam menjalani rawatan. Sejumlah 253 orang pesakit dan 88 orang doktor swasta dari Semenanjung Malaysia telah mengambil bahagian dalam kajian ini yang dilakukan secara kaedah keratan rentas dengan menggunakan borang soal selidik. Majoriti pesakit (92%) berpuashati dengan keberkesanan BNX, dengan 79% mengambil dos harian BNX pada dos 2 mg ke bawah. Walaupun begitu, 55.2% pesakit masih mengambil dadah terlarang lain. Kajian juga mendapati 65% pesakit tidak pernah menjalani sesi khidmat nasihat dengan doktor bagi mendapatkan maklumat berkaitan rawatan mereka, 92% pernah mengambil BNX melalui cara administrasi lain selain subligual dan 78% pesakit mengaku mengambil dos BNX mereka beberapa kali sehari. Dalam kalangan doktor swasta pula, hanya 2.3% dalam bidang rawatan kebergantungan dadah dan majoriti (81.8%) dalam bidang general practitioner. Buprenorphine/Naloxone (BNX) is a pharmacological treatment for opioid dependency. Since its introduction in Malaysia in 2006, no study has been carried out looking at the treatment practices. The objective of this study is to identify problems encountered by BNX patients and private doctors, treatment practices and barriers experienced by patients who are in treatment. This cross-sectional study was carried out by using 2 different sets of questionnaire among 253 BNX patients and 88 private doctors in Peninsular Malaysia. Majority of BNX patients (92%) were satisfied with the treatment with average daily dose of 2 mg BNX. However, half of the patients (55.2%) were still using other drugs while on treatment. This study also showed about 65% patients had never been counselled about BNX treatment by their doctor, 92% had administered BNX using different routes other than sublingual, and 78% admitted taking BNX multiple times in a day. Among private doctors, only 2.3% had specialty in drug dependence treatment while 81.8% were general practitioners

Design and evaluation of high power density brushless DC permanent magnet machines

Permanent Magnet brushless DC motors are now competing with many other types of motors in the world industries application. However, for low and medium power applications, brushless DC motors are often the main option due to its recognized advantage such as having no commutator, more efficient, need less maintenance, smaller in size and can operate at higher speeds than conventional motors. The overall objective of this project is to produce an improved prototype BLDC motor with concentrated winding concept for an aircraft actuator application. Specifically, the aim is to extract the maximum power density and torque per kilograms by utilizing high switching frequencies, high pole numbers and minimizing magnetic material content. In this work, the research has focused on developing a procedure to design the BLDC motor by selecting several parameters and analysing their effects on the overall performance. Therefore, this research involved software and hardware methods which are broken down into field and circuit modeling, calculation of basic dimensions, magnetic circuit calculations, stator slot design, winding design, performance and loss calculation and lastly prototyping. Magnet software for finite element method (FEM) analysis and analysis programs based on standard software are used to optimize the overall performances. The proposed methods are verified by actual experimental result on the developed prototype. The performance of the prototyped machine is evaluated by using a high speed 150kw, 20,000 rpm test rig and data capturing equipment