The Relationship between Students’ Spiritual and Emotional Intelligence with Subjects Learning Outcomes

The purpose of this study is to ascertain how student learning outcomes and emotional and spiritual intelligence are related. The quantitative approach with correlational study is the methodology employed. Techniques for gathering data in the form of surveys with questionnaires and measures of learning outcomes in the form of midterm exams (PTS). Assessing students' emotional and spiritual intelligence is done using questionnaires. This study used a simple random sampling method to select 106 students as its sample. The study's findings indicate a favorable correlation between emotional intelligence and student learning outcomes, a favorable correlation between emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence, and a favorable correlation between emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence and student learning outcomes

Adab teachers of Islamic religious education in Singapore: Analysis of the guidance book of the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS)

Among the problems faced by Singaporean Muslim educators is the issue of asatizah etiquette. Given their position as teachers, asatizahs become role models for madrasa students and the local Muslim community. For this reason, Islamic religious leaders in Singapore see the need for an accreditation or certification institution for educators or commonly referred to as asatizah in Singapore. The purpose of this article is to see what and how the accreditation institution for asatizahs called the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS), as well as analyzing the manners of asatizahs in Singapore which are the provisions in the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS). This research method uses a qualitative method with a literature research approach. The author obtains data from official documents related to the asatizah certification policy in Singapore issued by the Singapore Islamic Religious Council (MUIS) and the Asatizah Recognition Board (ARB). The results of this study found that the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS) program is a kind of teacher certification intended for all who teach Islamic science in Singapore. The program aims to improve the competence of Islamic religious education teachers so that they can become a credible source of reference for Singapore's Islamic community. The competence is given only to religious teachers who are worthy and suitable for preaching and teaching religion in Singapore. The teacher's manners are things that must be obeyed by teachers who take part in the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS) program, called the code of ethics. With this code of ethics, it is hoped that asatizahs will further improve their professionalism so that they can increase the trust of the Islamic community in Singapore towards asatizahs. Abstrak Di antara masalah yang dihadapi oleh para pendidik muslim Singapura adalah masalah adab atau etika asatizah. Mengingat posisinya sebagai guru, asatizah menjadi role mode bagi para siswa madrasah dan masyarakat muslim setempat. Untuk itu, para pemuka agama Islam di Singapura memandang perlu adanya lembaga akreditasi atau sertifikasi bagi pendidik atau biasa disebut dengan asatizah di Singapura. Tujuan artikel ini adalah untuk melihat apa dan bagaimana lembaga akreditasi untuk para asatizah yang dinamakan Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS), juga menganalisis adab para asatizah di Singapura yang menjadi ketentuan dalam Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS). Metode penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan penelitian kepustakaan. Penulis mendapatkan data-data dari dokumen-dokumen resmi yang berkaitan dengan kebijakan sertifikasi asatizah di Singapura yang diterbitkan oleh Majelis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS) dan Asatizah Recognition Board (ARB). Hasil penelitian ini mendapati bahwa program Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS) menjadi semacam sertifikasi guru yang diperuntukan untuk semua yang mengajar keilmuan Islam di Singapura. Program ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kompetensi guru pendidikan agama Islam agar bisa menjadi sumber rujukan yang kredibel bagi masyarakat Islam Singapura. Kompetensi tersebut diberikan hanya kepada guru-guru agama yang layak dan sesuai untuk berdakwah dan mengajar agama di Singapura Adapun adab guru menjadi hal yang harus dipatuhi oleh para guru yang mengikuti program Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS), dinamakan sebagai kode etik. Dengan adanya kode etik tersebut, diharapkan para asatizah semakin meningkatkan profesionalismenya sehingga bisa meningkatkan kepercayaan masyarakat Islam di Singapura terhadap para asatizah

Prevalence of gastrointestinal parasitic helminths among school-aged children from two selected primary schools in Mubi-north L.G.A., Adamawa State, Nigeria.

Infections involving parasitic helminths constitute a major health challenge especially as it affects children from rural and sub-urban communities of developing countries. It is also reported to be an influential cause of morbidity in children of school age who harbour the peak burden and the damaging effect of the worm invasion. Objectives: This was a cross-sectional institutional-based study aimed at investigating the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasitic helminths from two selected primary schools in Mubi-North LGA, Adamawa State. Methodology: Faecal samples were collected from 150 pupils of Staff Primary School, Federal Polytechnic Mubi, and Mubi I Primary School Lokuwa and were examined for eggs/larvae of intestinal helminths using direct smear and formal ether concentration methods. Results: The results showed an overall prevalence of 22.0% consisting of four species of helminthic parasites which includes Ascaris lumbricoides, Ancylostoma duodenale, Taenia solium, and Schistosoma mansoni. Staff Primary School had the highest occurrence of S. mansoni (5.3%), while Mubi I Primary School had the highest occurrence of A. duodenale (10.7%), A. lumbricoides(8.0%), and T. solium (5.3%). On the overall, Ancylostoma duodenale (10.0%) was the most predominant parasite, while the least was T. solium (3.3%). The result of the odd ratio and chi-square (OR=1.263, CI=0.582-2.742, P=0.554) showed that pupils in Mubi I Primary School are 1.263 times more likely to be infected with gastrointestinal helminths than pupils of Staff Primary School, Federal Polytechnic Mubi, but with no statistical difference. The relationship between gender and infection with gastrointestinal helminthic parasites (OR =1.017, 95% CI = 0.456-2.269, P=0.967) showed that females stand a higher chance of being infected with gastrointestinal helminths than their male counterparts, but the difference is not significant. The highest prevalence of A. lumbricoides and S. mansoni was observed among males, while the highest prevalence of Ancylostoma duodenale and T. Solium was observed among females. The age group 8-10 years had the highest prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites, but with no statistical difference from other age brackets (P=0.514). Conclusion: Despite low prevalence, there is, the need for urgent development of high-quality preventive and control measures that is compliant with the endemic or highly prevalent communities

Multi-Agent cubature Kalman optimizer : A novel metaheuristic algorithm for solving numerical optimization problems

Optimization problems arise in diverse fields such as engineering, economics, and industry. Metaheuristic algorithms, including the Simulated Kalman Filter (SKF), have been developed to solve these problems. SKF, inspired by the Kalman Filter (KF) in control engineering, requires three parameters (initial error covariance P(0), measurement noise Q, and process noise R). However, studies have yet to focus on tuning these parameters. Furthermore, no significant improvement is shown by the parameter-less SKF (with randomized P(0), Q, and R). Randomly choosing values between 0 and 1 may lead to too small values. As an estimator, KF raises concerns with excessively small Q and R values, which can introduce numerical stability issues and result in unreliable outcomes. Tuning parameters for SKF is a challenging and time-consuming task. The Multi-Agent Cubature Kalman Filter (MACKO), inspired by the Cubature Kalman filter (CKF), was introduced in this work. The nature of the Cubature Kalman filter (CKF) allows the use of small values for parameters P(0), Q, and R. In the MACKO algorithm, Cubature Transformation Techniques (CTT) are employed. CTT can use small values for parameters P(0), Q, and R, so CKF was developed to overcome KF and other estimation algorithms. Moreover, in CTT, the term local neighborhoods is used to propagate the cubature point in local search, where the radius, δ, of local search is updated in every iteration to balance between the exploration and exploitation processes. MACKO is evaluated on the CEC 2014 benchmark suite with 30 optimization problems, and its performance is compared with nine existing metaheuristic algorithms. Simulation results demonstrate that MACKO is superior, outperforming the benchmark algorithms, as indicated by Friedman's test with a 5 % significance level

Tinjauan Terhadap Tahap Tekanan Pelajar Universiti Semasa Pandemik COVID-19

Pandemik Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) yang melanda Malaysia dan seluruh dunia telah memberikan pelbagai implikasi yang sangat besar terutamanya dalam aspek kesihatan mental. Golongan pelajar merupakan golongan yang berisiko mengalami tekanan akibat norma baharu yang wujud susulan pandemik ini. Justeru, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti tahap tekanan pelajar dan mengenal pasti pengaruh jantina dalam menentukan tahap tekanan pelajar. Kajian ini adalah kajian kuantitatif yang menggunakan reka bentuk tinjauan. Seramai 400 orang pelajar dari sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia dipilih melalui kaedah persampelan rawak mudah. Soal selidik Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) yang dialih bahasa telah digunakan. Analisis statistik deskriptif dalam bentuk peratus kekerapan dan ujian t-test dijalankan melalui perisian Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Versi 26. Kajian mendapati bahawa seramai 340 pelajar (85%) mengalami tekanan pada tahap sederhana. Selain itu, tidak terdapat perbezaan antara jantina lelaki dan perempuan dalam menentukan tahap tekanan pelajar. Konklusinya, kajian ini amatlah signifikan dalam mengetahui tahap tekanan pelajar semasa pandemik ini. Ia boleh dijadikan sebagai garis panduan terutamanya kepada institusi pendidikan dalam mengatur strategi bagi membantu dalam meningkatkan dan mengekalkan kegembiraan pelajar

Active tremor control in 4-DOFs biodynamic hand model

This paper exhibits the performance of the active vibration method in suppressing human hand tremor. The Active Force Control (AFC) and classic Proportional-Derivative (PD) controller are proposed to control the linear electromagnet actuator and applied onto a four Degree-of-Freedoms (4-DOFs) biodynamic model of the human hand to investigate the performance of the controller. The PD controller was designed by using heuristic and optimization method. The Signal Constraint block available in Simulink Response Optimization Toolbox was employed as an optimization technique. Compared to the heuristic method, this proves to be a far more time and energy efficient approach to obtain satisfactory results. Findings show that the combination of AFC and classic PD controller provides a significant improvement in reducing tremor error. The simulation work could be used as the initial stage to study and develop an anti tremor device

Physicochemical properties associated with the presence of Burkholderia pseudomallei in small ruminant farm water supplies in Peninsular Malaysia

Burkholderia pseudomallei causes melioidosis, a life-threatening infection in both humans and animals. Water is an important reservoir of the bacteria and may serve as a source of environmental contamination leading to infection. B. pseudomallei has an unusual ability to survive in water for a long period. This paper investigates physicochemical properties of water associated with the presence of B. pseudomallei in water supply in small ruminant farms in Peninsular Malaysia. Physicochemical properties of water samples taken from small ruminant farms that included temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO2), optical density (OD), and chemical oxygen demand (COD) were measured after which the samples were cultured for B. pseudomallei. Multivariable logistic regression model revealed that slightly acidic water pH and higher COD level were significantly associated with the likelihood of the B. pseudomallei presence in the water

Cubature kalman optimizer : A novel metaheuristic algorithm for solving numerical optimization problems

This study introduces a new single-agent metaheuristic algorithm, named cubature Kalman optimizer (CKO). The CKO is inspired by the estimation ability of the cubature Kalman filter (CKF). In control system, the CKF algorithm is used to estimate the true value of a hidden quantity from an observation signal that contain an uncertainty. As an optimizer, the CKO agent works as individual CKF to estimate an optimal or a near-optimal solution. The agent performs four main tasks: solution prediction, measurement prediction, and solution update phases, which are adopted from the CKF. The proposed CKO is validated on CEC 2014 test suite on 30 benchmark functions. To further validate the performance, the proposed CKO is compared with well-known algorithms, including single-agent finite impulse response optimizer (SAFIRO), single-solution simulated Kalman filter (ssSKF), simulated Kalman filter (SKF), asynchronous simulated Kalman filter (ASKF), particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO), genetic algorithm (GA), grey wolf optimization algorithm (GWO), and black hole algorithm (BH). Friedman's test for multiple algorithm comparison with 5% of significant level shows that the CKO offers better performance than the benchmark algorithms

Sugar utilization in fermentation of nipa frond sap by saccharomyces cerevisiae

In recent years, concerns about the reduction of energy and materials, as well as limits to the ecosystem's assimilation capacity of residues have been raised in the social, political and business arena. All fossil fuels and minerals are limited and non-renewable on a human scale. These resources are thus limited physically and more stringently, economically [1]. Dependency on fossil fuel as energy source increase the oil price and often leads to economic depressions. In addition, the gas emission produced by the combustion of fossil fuels also contributes to air pollution and global warming. Most countries also experience more and more international pressure on global warming issues. Hence, renewable and clean alternative fuels have received increasing attention for present and future utilization [2]