Penerapan nilai-nilaimurnidalam kalangan pelajar Sarjana muda pendidikan teknik dan vokasional semasa Menjalankan amali di makmal

Nilai murni ialah nilai yang menjadi asas kepada pembentukan akhlak dan amat penting untuk diserapkan kepada setiap individu khususnya kepada golongan pelajar. Namun demikian menurut kajian-kajian lepas, nilai murni masih kurang diterapkan dengan memuaskan dalam kalangan pelajar terutamanya semasa menjalankan keija amali di makmal. Oleh yang demikian kajian ini dijalankan bagi mengenal pasti sejauh mana pelajar dan pensyarah menerapkan nilai-nilai murni semasa proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran di makmal. Seramai 226 orang pelajar Saijana Muda Pendidikan Teknik dan Vokasional (PTV) menjadi responden dalam kajian ini. Soal selidik merupakan instrumen utama dalam kajian ini di samping temu bual dan pemerhatian sebagai instrumen sokongan. Data-data dikumpulkan dan dianalisis menggunakan perisian SPSS Versi 12.0 bagi mendapatkan min, sisihan piawai dan inferensi ANOVA manakala analisis kandungan bagi data temu bual dan pemerhatian. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan pelajar menerapkan kesemua nilai murni yang terlibat dalam kajian ini. Walau bagaimanapun didapati hanya sebahagian sahaja pensyarah menerapkan nilai-nilai murni kepada pelajar semasa proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran di makmal. Oleh yang demikian, pengkaji mengemukakan beberapa cadangan untuk memastikan pensyarah dan pelajar menerapkan nilai-nilai murni antaranya ialah pihak Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) perlu membuat penyeliaan dari masa ke semasa bagi memastikan pensyarah dan pelajar bersama-sama menerapkan nilai-nilai murni semasa proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran di makmal

Cloning of the C-terminal cytoplasmic fragment of the tar protein and effects of the fragment on chemotaxis of Escherichia coli

A gene encoding only the C-terminal portion of the receptor-transducer protein Tar of Escherichia coli was constructed. The gene product was detected and localized in the cytoplasmic fraction of the cell by immunoblotting with anti-Tar antibodies. The C-terminal fragments from wild-type and mutant tar genes were characterized in vivo. The C-terminal fragment generated from tar-526, a mutation that results in a dominant "tumble" phenotype, was found to be deamidated and methylated by the CheB and CheR proteins, respectively. The C-terminal fragment derived from a wild-type gene was poorly deamidated, and the C-terminal fragment derived from tar-529, a dominant mutant with a "smooth swimming" phenotype, was not apparently modified. Cells carrying the C-terminal fragment with the tar-526 mutation as the sole receptor-transducer protein showed a high frequency of tumbling and chemotaxis responses to changes in intracellular pH. These results suggest that the cytoplasmic C-terminal fragment of Tar retains some of the functions of the whole protein in vivo

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy as a Neurocardiogenic Injury after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Hemodynamics and Fluid Management

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is a life-threatening systemic disorder that may occur early after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), but precise hemodynamics and fluid management remain unclear. Although TCM is often regarded as a reversible or self-limited phenomenon, it contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality of SAH patients, especially when it is complicated with other neurogenic injuries such as severe left ventricular dysfunction, pulmonary edema, and pneumonia. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the current practice in intensive hemodynamic monitoring and goal-directed fluid management of post-SAH TCM using advanced hemodynamic devices based on our institutional protocol and the relevant literature and to evaluate their effects on clinical outcomes

Polyominoes and Polyiamonds as Fundamental Domains of Isohedral Tilings with Rotational Symmetry

We describe computer algorithms that produce the complete set of isohedral tilings by n-omino or n-iamond tiles in which the tiles are fundamental domains and the tilings have 3-, 4-, or 6-fold rotational symmetry. The symmetry groups of such tilings are of types p3, p31m, p4, p4g, and p6. There are no isohedral tilings with symmetry groups p3m1, p4m, or p6m that have polyominoes or polyiamonds as fundamental domains. We display the algorithms' output and give enumeration tables for small values of n. This expands on our earlier works (Fukuda et al 2006, 2008)

High temperature fatigue characteristics of P/M and hot-forged W-Re and TZM for X-ray target of CT scanner

The fatigue strengths at 1000 °C of layered W-Re/TZM, bulk W-Re and bulk TZM for x-ray target materials were successfully evaluated under load-controlled four-point bending by introducing a fatigue failure criterion as twotimes increase of initial compliance. The obtained fatigue strengths at 1000 °C for layered W-Re/TZM and bulk WRe were similar and 280 MPa and 290 MPa at 106 cycles, respectively, while that of bulk TZM was 200 MPa. During fatigue loading at 1000 °C, dominant fatigue damage would be multiple intergranular crack nucleation and propagation, which would induce the increase of compliance. The reasonability of the fatigue failure criterion was confirmed by the fatigue process observations and the results of room temperature fatigue tests of the specimens tested at 1000 °C up to the cycles corresponding to the fatigue failure criterion

A New Test for the Absorption Mechanism of GPS Radio Sources Using Polarization Properties

We consider the use of polarization properties as a means to discriminate between Synchrotron Self-Absorption (SSA) and Free--Free Absorption (FFA) in GHz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources. The polarization position angle (PA) of synchrotron radiation at high frequencies for the optically thin regime is perpendicular to the magnetic field, whereas it is parallel to the magnetic field at low frequencies for the optically thick regime. Therefore, SSA produces a change in PA of $90^{\circ}$ across the spectral peak, while FFA does not result in such a change. We analyzed polarization data from VLA observations for six GPS sources to see if such a change in PA was present. Our results indicate that there is no significant evidence for $90^{\circ}$ change in PA across the spectral peak, suggesting that FFA is more likely than SSA for low-frequency cutoffs in these sources