Crime and unemployment in Malaysia: ARDL evidence

The purpose of the present study is to determine whether there is long-run relationship between crime rates and unemployment rate in Malaysia for the period 1973 to 2003.The autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing procedure was employed as the main tool to infer cointegration or the long-run relationship between unemployment and the crime rates.The results indicate that the unemployment rate, and crime rates: total crime rate, violent crime (murder, robbery, and assault), and property crime (daylight burglary, night burglary, and motorcycle theft) are cointegrated.The estimated long-run coefficients suggest that unemployment rate has negative effect on violent crime, murder, robbery, assault, and motorcycle theft. The paper shows that jobless population in Malaysia as a result of recession tend to remain in or near homes and neighborhoods and this likely will reduce the occurrence of crime

Pola pemikiran masyarakat kepulauan Malaysia berkaitan kebudayaan kebangsaan

Kepulauan adalah wilayah asas ketamadunan budaya tempatan. Pola pemikiran masyarakat kepulauan di Malaysia dalam mendepani dasar negara berkaitan kebudayaan kebangsaan tidak begitu terserlah dalam kajian-kajian lepas. Makalah ini, justeru, cuba menyerlahkan aspek ini dengan meneliti data kuantitatif via kaedah tinjauan lapangan. Borang tinjauan lapangan dimanfaatkan bagi mendapatkan refleksi sebenar orang awam berkaitan kefahaman, persepsi, dan keberkesanan dasar kebudayaan kebangsaan. Seramai 450 orang responden berlainan etnik, agama, umur serta latar sosial telah dipilih bagi mewakili populasi penduduk pulau di seluruh Malaysia. Responden berumur 20 hingga 49 tahun adalah 90% daripada jumlah keseluruhan sampel. Premis pemilihan kumpulan ini tinggi disebabkan mereka adalah kategori peserta aktif dalam pembangunan negara. Kelompok peserta berumur 50 hingga 69 tahun pula merupakan 10% daripada jumlah keseluruhan sampel. Kumpulan ini adalah golongan yang dianggap berpengalaman tinggi dalam kehidupan kerana terlibat dalam pembangunan negara secara langsung dan tidak langsung.Kaedah Strutural Equation Model dan perisian Smart Partial Least Square 3.0 dimanfaatkan sepenuhnya dalam kajian ini. Hasil dapatan kajian inimenyerlahkan hakikat bahawa masyarakat kepulauan memahami dan menerima dengan baik dasar di Malaysia yang berkaitan kebudayaan kebangsaan yang telah diperkenalkan sejak 1971 (Dasar Kebudayaan Kebangsaan). Kajian ini turut menyerlahkan sebuah model pola pemikiran masyarakat kepulauan Malaysia berkaitan kebudayaan kebangsaan. Model Pola Pemikiran Budaya Masyarakat Kepulauan Malaysia memerihalkan impak sosial masyarakat Malaysia berkaitan aspek perpaduandan jati diri. Kajian ini memberi implikasi penting terhadap kerangka teori kebudayaan kebangsaan yang pragmatik di Malaysia, khususnya melalui Dasar Kebudayaan Negara 2021 (DAKEN2021) serta penerapan agenda nasional berkaitan pemodenan, pendidikan, perpaduan dan kebudayaan

DIVERSITY, COMPOSITION AND UTILIZATION OF MOLLUSC IN SAPARUA ISLAND, CENTER MOLUCCA

Saparua Island is one of the islands in the Central Moluccas that has a complete ecosystem, unfortunately records on mollusk research is very limited. The aim of this research is to know the composition, diversity and utilization of mollusk. The objectives of the study are to determine the composition, diversity and utilization of mollusks using square transect and free collection method which conducted on April and September 2016. Water analysis is also done to determine the environmental hydrographic condition. Temperature and salinity indicate the presence of freshwater input through rivers, especially in St-2 2 (Waisisil). Concentrations of nutrients show a fairly high value, ranging from 0.001 to 0.114 mg L-1 for phosphate; 0.012 - 0.023 mg L -1 for nitrate and 0.140 - 0.443 mg L -1 for silicate. There are 641 individual mollusks of 107 species consisting of 85 species of Gastropoda and 22 species of Bivalves. Species found mostly by Littoraria scabra (Littorinidae), Cypraea annulus (Cypreidae), Terebralia sulcata (Potamididae); Clypeomorus battilariaeformis (Cerithiidae); and Nerita chamaeleon (Neritidae). The existing mollusk community has moderate and uniform diversity with low species dominance. There are at least 35 species of mollusks that can be utilized into various commodities such as food products, accessories/decorations and raw materials of drugs

Real-Time Connected Car Services

In recent years, the patterns ofconnected car are tied in with giving driversmore answers for making the journeyconsistent. Vehicles today are outfitted withhigh innovation highlights and in-vehicleavailability. The Integrated Connected VehicleServices is produced to convey an incorporateddriving experience to all vehicle owners, tomake a communication stage for drivers toimpart and share data between vehicles. Thesystem allows to discover nearby vehicles insiderange, giving the driver early notice caution ofcrisis vehicles inside certain range. Moreover,the system likewise enables the driver to sharebasic data which later plots into the maps foralternate drivers to view and plan the journey.The information of transmission between thevehicles are incorporated through firebase cloudservices. Firebase is known as an effective clouddatabase and ready to screen the applicationdevelopment

A Comparability Study on Driver Fatigue Using C#, C++ and Python

Accidents on road are very commonthese days. Most of them are caused by driverfatigueness. Some common causes and symptomshave been identified. One of the main solutionto detect driver fatigue is by analyzing the facialfeatures of the drivers. This paper discusses aboutthe facial features that can be used to detect driverfatigue. Further examples on existing vehiclesafety technology is also discussed. Primarily, thiswork emphasizes on the study of three differentprogramming languages and its compatibilitywhich works best to be integrated with theproposed hardware. Based on the study, theresult is discussed and the suitable programminglanguage is suggested

OPTIMASI ALAT PENEPUNG GULA KRISTAL HASIL GRANULASI MENGGUNAKAN MESIN HAMMER MILL PADA SISTEM PEMBUATAN GULA SEMUT

The main objective of this research is to observe the influence of the number of hammer swing, sieve diameter, production distribution, and efficiency value. The material in this research is crystal sugar which is resulted from granulation process. Then, the material is crushed using hammer mill machine. Hammer mill is used to reduce the size of the particle by impact, hit, and crush process. The process will reduce the size of crystal sugar to be powdered coconut sugar. There are two variations used in this research, the number of hammer swing (3 swing, 4 swing, and 5 swing) and sieve diameter (6mm, 2mm, 1mm). The optimum condition is obtained when the 5 swing is combined with the sieve diameter 2mm. The combination obtains the efficiency value up to 80%, production distribution up to 9.6kg/hour with the particle diameter in average 1000micron or 0.0394inch (18 mesh)

Services to library users with disabilities

Special Disable Users (SDU) is one of the category of users that uses the library at the University of Malaya Library (UML). According to Act 658, people with disabilities shall have the right to the access to information, communication and technology on equal basis with people without disabilities (Persons with Disabilities Act 2008, Act 685).The purpose of this article is to highlight all the initiatives led by the University of Malaya Library (UML) to improve the library services for the visually impaired and physically handicapped students and staffs registered as library members. This initiative was taken to support the mission and vision of the university to produce quality research and knowledgeable students. Special facilities and services should be developed to help this category of user to use the library. A survey was conducted by the UML to identify the efficiency of each service provided to engage the library services with that specific group. The result of the survey will be the guideline for UML to improve the library services provided for that particular user group. As a conclusion, it is important to ensure that UML can provide special library services concerning the specific user group, thus ensuring “a library for everyone”

Pemetaan isoglos varian dialek Terengganu berasaskan aplikasi sistem maklumat geografi

Makalah ini bertujuan menyerlahkan peta variasi Dialek Terengganu yang wujud di Lembangan Sungai Terengganu dengan mengaplikasikan perisian Sistem Maklumat Geografi (Geographical Information System). Variasi leksikal ‘aku’, ‘kamu’ dan ‘mereka’ yang berfungsi sebagai subjek dalam ujaran yang dituturkan oleh masyarakat kampung yang tinggal di sepanjang Lembangan Sungai Terengganu dimanfaatkan sepenuhnya dalam memenuhi objektif kajian ini. Kajian ini menerapkan kaedah kajian lapangan yang melibatkan teknik temu bual informan dan rakaman. Aspek geolinguistik dan bukan linguistik telah dikemukakan dalam makalah ini bagi mengukuhkan kewujudan isoglos bagi lapan varian dialek kawasan yang merangkumi varian Makam Lama, varian Tajin, varian Butut, varian Pauh, varian Bidur, varian Kuala Pueh, varian Jenagor dan varian Baung. Taburan varian untuk kebanyakan kawasan kajian di sepanjang LST adalah berbeza mengikut pengaruh pertuturan penuturnya dengan keadaan geografi kawasan kajian. Ringkasnya, penyebaran sesuatu dialek adalah sangat dipengaruhi oleh keadaan geografi atau bentuk muka bumi di persekitaran kawasan kajian seperti lembangan sungai, bukit bukau, hutan, bertanah pamah dan tasik. Dapatan kajian juga membuktikan tiada sebarang penemuan dialek luar atau bahasa Orang Asli di sepanjang Lembangan Sungai Terengganu. Kajian ini memberi implikasi kepada penambahan kosa ilmu linguistik khususnya bidang kajian Geografi Dialek, di samping mempertingkatkan kefahaman tentang variasi dialek Melayu dalam pendidikan variasi bahasa/dialek Melayu di sekolah, universiti dan kementerian pendidikan. Kajian ini adalah signifikan kepada para ahli linguistik Melayu yang berusaha meneruskan legasi pengkajian dialek di Malaysia dan kelestarian budaya Melayu