Sexual harassment in institutions of higher learning: adequacy of the provisions in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) / Farah Afiqah Nordin, Farha Nabiha Mustaffa and Aminu Razif Zainal Ariffin

This study, "Sexual Harassment in Institutions of Higher Learning: Adequacy of the Provisions in Universiti Teknologi MARA ", is completed as a fulfilment of the course of Bachelor of Legal Studies (Hons). This study was conducted mainly in UiTM Shah Alam in order to analyse the adequacy of UiTM's provision in handling sexual harassment complaints occurred among its students and staff. This research adopted several methods in order to fulfil the objectives of the research. The methods applied were qualitative research that relied on a library-based research that were gathered from statutes, text books, journals, articles both from the shelves and also on the internet. The researchers have conducted semi-structured interviews with Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr. Shad Saleem Faruqi, a Legal Advisor of UiTM and Puan Rokiah bt. Mahmood, a Counsellor at the Counselling Unit in order to obtain a clearer opinion on the provisions and procedures of UiTM. Apart from that, the researchers have also studied the Acts and policies from other local university mainly University of Malaya and also from other foreign countries mainly United Kingdom, Australia and Canada for the purpose of comparison. Overall, it is found that UiTM did not have a specific provision or policy to govern sexual harassment and that the current provisions are not sufficient in dealing with this issue. At the end of the research, we provided recommendations in order to create a specific policy in curbing sexual harassment problem in UiTM Malaysia

Applying the Nominal Group Technique for Specifying the Interacting Dimensions Affecting Adherence to Post–Sharps Injury Follow-Up Services

Scale of adherence to post–sharps injury follow-up services among healthcare workers is uncommon compared to medication adherence scale. To develop a novel and culturally adapted scale, stakeholders should be consulted to specify dimensions by deducing it from the existing framework. This study was to demonstrate how health stakeholders were consulted to specify the dimensions. This study employed two sessions of Nominal Group Technique. Each session consisted of 12 purposive-sampled mixed participants i.e., healthcare managers and providers. A four-step sequential protocol was used for collecting participants’ key ideas on what adherence factors in post–sharps injury follow-up services: silent idea generation, round-robin collection, idea clarification, and ranking. Similar ideas were clustered and coded with an appropriate group theme and categorized it into subdimensions. Results: A total of 116 key ideas, yielding 13 and 10 themes in session 1 and 2, respectively. Those themes were coded into 16 sub-dimensions affecting adherence. They were distributed under five emerged dimensions in decreasing order of relative importance: (a) healthcare team and system-related factors; (b) patient-related factors; (c) therapy-related factors; and (d) condition-related factors. These findings guide researchers in developing culturally adapted items for measuring the level of adherence to post–sharps injury follow-up services

Development control of coastal areas: a study on development control issues in Chenang Beach, Langkawi

Urban land use regulation and control is the most important aspect of urban planning and urban geography and urban settlement studies. It is a method of controlling and planning the development of the area so that development plans made do not negatively impact on urban images, city developments, human settlements and the environment. Part III of the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 172), Amendment 2001 (Act A1129) has provided the need for the preparation of a development plan system as a development plan for a development area, whether at the state, district or special areas. This development plan consists of the State Structure Plan (RSN) covering the strategic planning of a state, District Local Plan (RTD) as a district development plan and Special Area Plan (RKK). These plans work to plan, control and guide development directions within its development area (Town and Country Planning Act 1976, Act 172). The study on coastal areas, Pantai Chenang, Langkawi, aims to assess issues related to development control which is increasingly serious and negatively affecting the population and the environment. The approach of the study is based on the principle of the spiraling research approach, using research methods on official / technical report sources, observation and interpretation of photographs. Analysis shows that among the identified issues are the threats of quality of sea and biodiversity threats, over capacity situations, land use conflicts, tourist and building safety, coastal exploitation and accessibility and circulation systems. Among the recommendations are the integrated accessibility and circulation system, rehabilitation and rehabilitation of seawater quality, coastal area development plans, land use distribution, planning control and development zones

Flow Analysis of Intake Manifold Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

The main element of the air intake system is an intake manifold. These are the main components which control the flow value that will be used in the combustion chamber. The aim of this study is to analyse the velocity of flow distribution in all runners and to compare the design of intake manifold in previous study. Simulations are performed on two types of intake manifold design which are Design 1, the inlet end is located next to the regulator chamber whilst for Design 2, the inlet end is located in the middle of regulator chamber. Intake manifold parameters such as velocity distribution, unevenness and pressure losses along the runner are used to determine the better design for better performance. From the results, the velocity and the pressure of intake manifold of these two types of design are determined. Compared with previous study, the velocity difference is 0.05%. This showed that the simulation result obtained in this study is in accordance with previous study. Next, the percentage difference between Design 1 and previous design is approximately 4%. Furthermore, the pressure losses between Design 1 and Design 2 are 0.3% and Design 1 achieved the range of acceptable values between 2500Pa to 3000Pa. The results of the velocity distribution, the evenness of each runner and the value of pressure losses shows that Design 1 met all the criteria and exhibited the best design improvement as compared to the previous design with 2% improvement. &nbsp

Flow Analysis of Intake Manifold Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

The main element of the air intake system is an intake manifold. These are the main components which control the flow value that will be used in the combustion chamber. The aim of this study is to analyse the velocity of flow distribution in all runners and to compare the design of intake manifold in previous study. Simulations are performed on two types of intake manifold design which are Design 1, the inlet end is located next to the regulator chamber whilst for Design 2, the inlet end is located in the middle of regulator chamber. Intake manifold parameters such as velocity distribution, unevenness and pressure losses along the runner are used to determine the better design for better performance. From the results, the velocity and the pressure of intake manifold of these two types of design are determined. Compared with previous study, the velocity difference is 0.05%. This showed that the simulation result obtained in this study is in accordance with previous study. Next, the percentage difference between Design 1 and previous design is approximately 4%. Furthermore, the pressure losses between Design 1 and Design 2 are 0.3% and Design 1 achieved the range of acceptable values between 2500Pa to 3000Pa. The results of the velocity distribution, the evenness of each runner and the value of pressure losses shows that Design 1 met all the criteria and exhibited the best design improvement as compared to the previous design with 2% improvement. &nbsp

Investigation of performance characteristics of plastic pyrolysis oil and crude palm oil fuel on diesel engine

Nowadays, with the increment of fossil fuel engines, there have been facing the downside of a fuel problem, and the survival of those engines has been vulnerable. The dependency on a single source which is a fossil fuel is a worrying issue because the fossil fuel is limited and takes millions of years to produce. In this paper, the performance of the alternative fuels on a diesel engine is analyzed and compared with the standard diesel to determine its compatibility with the diesel engine without any modification. The research study of the performance of plastic pyrolysis oil and crude palm oil blended with diesel at a different concentration which is 20% and 25%, on automotive 4 stroke diesel engine test system were illustrated in this paper. The brake power engine, thermal brake efficiency, brake specific fuel consumption, and exhaust temperature of the blended fuels are recorded and analyzed. The value of brake-specific consumption decreases as the concentration of the pyrolysis oil increases while thermal brake efficiency is increased. The blended fuels recorded lower brake thermal efficiency, brake-specific fuel consumption, and higher exhaust gas temperature compared to standard diesel fuel. In the aspect of performance of the diesel engine, the uses of crude palm oil and plastic pyrolysis oil are usable and applicable

Developing a Gold Price Predictive Analysis using Grey Wolf Optimizer

As the value of gold cannot be blindly rejected, forecasting the future prices of gold has long been an intriguing topic and is extensively studied by researchers from different fields including economics, statistics, and computer science. The motivation for these studies is naturally to predict the future prices so that gold can be bought and sold at profitable positions and reduce the risk of investment. However, there are still a lot of untackled questions and room for improvements in these forecasting techniques. This is because there are no optimal models for all forecasting problems. Different question needs a different answer; therefore, more experiments and modeling need to be done in order for researcher to enhance their findings. The target of this paper is to present a gold forecasting techniques using one of the optimization algorithm called Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO)

Tekanan emosi dan corak penyesuaian isteri banduan dalam mengendalikan tekanan semasa ketiadaan suami

Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji tekanan emosi yang dihadapi oleh isteri banduan semasa ketiadaan suami akibat dipenjarakan, mengkaji corak penyesuaian yang dilakukan oleh isteri banduan semasa menghadapi tekanan emosi dan juga mengkaji bentuk sokongan kaunseling yang diperlukan oleh isteri banduan. Kajian ini telah dijalankan di sekitar Daerah Johor Bahru. Seramai lima orang subjek dipilih menggunakan kaedah persampelan Snowball (Snowball Sampling). Kajian kualitatif ini menggunakan temubual bersemuka sebagai instrumen kajian. Segala data yang diterima pula dianalisis secara terperinci berdasarkan pernyataan yang diberikan oleh subjek dan diklasifikasikan kepada tiga tahap iaitu minimum, sederhana dan kritikal oleh pengkaji berdasarkan pemerhatian. Daripada data tersebut, simptom malu menunjukkan tahap kritikal yang dialami oleh isteri banduan semasa menghadapi ketiadaan suami akibat dipenjarakan. Manakala, bagi simptom tekanan emosi seperti kesal, murung, sunyi dan bimbang pula di tahap sederhana dan masih boleh dikawal. Corak penyesuaian yang sering dilakukan oleh isteri banduan semasa menghadapi tekanan ialah menggunakan pendekatan positif seperti solat, mengaji Al-Quran, berzikir dan beriadah. Manakala bagi bentuk kaunseling pula, di dapati semua subjek tidak pernah mendapatkan khidmat kaunseling bagi membantu mengendalikan tekanan emosi. Semoga hasil dapatan kajian ini dapat dijadikan sebagai panduan kepada pihak-pihak terlibat secara langsung seperti pihak penjara, Yayasan Pembangunan Keluarga dan masyarakat amnya bagi membantu golongan seperti ini

A Literature Review on Gold Price Predictive Techniques

As the value of gold cannot be blindly rejected, forecasting the future prices of gold has long been an intriguing topic and is extensively studied by researchers from different fields including economics, statistics, and computer science. The motivation for these studies is naturally to predict the future prices so that gold can be bought and sold at profitable positions and reduce the risk of investment. However, there are still a lot of un-tackled questions and room for improvements in these forecasting techniques. This is because there are no optimal models for all forecasting problems. Different question needs a different answer; therefore, more experiments and modeling need to be done in order for researcher to enhance their findings. The target of this paper is to present a critical literature review and an up to date bibliography on gold forecasting techniques over the world. Various forecasting techniques concerning the gold price prediction have been highlighted including basic forecasting approached such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), hybrid forecasting approach, Swarm Intelligence approach and so on

Pembinaan Model Pembuatan Keputusan Bagi Pemilihan Penerima Zakat di Kedah Menggunakan Pendekatan Indeks Statistik (S/O 21032)

Penjelasan dan perbahasan kriteria kelayakan penerima zakat telah dibincangkan secara terperinci dan tuntas dalam nas al-Quran dan Hadis oleh ulama terkemuka. Sehubungan itu, dapat disimpulkan bahawa agihan zakat adalah satu tugas yang penting dan institusi zakat memerlukan mekanisme yang komprehensif dalam mengagihkan zakat kerana ia melibatkan proses dan peraturan yang rumit dalam memilih penerima zakat yang layak. Dalam kajian ini, satu Indeks Penerima Zakat Kedah (ZaKRI) telah dibangunkan dalam kajian ini bagi menentukan individu pemohon yang harus diberikan keutamaan sebagai penerima zakat. Pembinaan ZaKRI ini menggunakan kaedah Pemberat Tambahan Mudah (SAW) dengan mengambil kira dua jenis pemberat, iaitu pemberat objektif dan pemberat subjektif. Pengiraan pemberat objektif menggunakan kaedah Entropi dan pemberat subjektif menggunakan kaedah Terbaik Terburuk (BWM). Kedua-dua pemberat tersebut diagregatkan dengan menggunakan kaedah pemurataan berpemberat tertib bagi menjadi pemberat tunggal sebagai nilai pemberat dalam persamaan pengiraan ZaKRI. Keputusan ZaKRI menunjukkan sejumlah 16 kriteria yang telah disahkan oleh pakar boleh diguna pakai sebagai petunjuk pemilihan pemohon yang layak. Lima kriteria utama ialah peralatan kemudahan asas rumah, bilangan tanggungan, pendapatan per kapita, pendidikan dan status perkahwinan. Dapatan ZaKRI ini diharapkan dapat menjadi panduan berguna kepada pihak pengurusan Lembaga Zakat Negeri Kedah (LZNK) dalam proses pengagihan zakat