The US Subprime Crises and Extreme Market Pressures in Asia

The primary objective of this study is to examine the evidence of occurrences of extreme market pressure of currencies of a number of Asian economies against the US dollar during the period of 2000-2009. In particular, we are interested in investigating the severity of these pressures during the recent US sub-prime crisis of 2007-2009. Were the currencies of these economies subjected to indiscriminate selling pressures during the period of the crisis? Was the heightened severity of the selling pressures associated with a particular event during the subprime crisis, such as the collapse of the Lehman Brothers? Our findings confirm the globally indiscriminate impacts of the sub-prime crisis on the countries examined and the greatest impact was felt and experienced by these economies around the time of the Lehman-Brothers’ collapse during the last quarter of 2008. Our findings offer far-reaching implications in terms of the linkages between macroeconomic and financial stability.Currency Crisis; Exchange Market Pressure; SEACEN; Extreme Value Theory

A study on financial analysis and management issue in Mahkota Medical Centre Melaka / Nurulhuda Mohd Nor

This study is about to review, investigate and analyze the financial condition and the management aspect of staffing shortage face by one of private healthcare centre in Melaka, Mahkota Medical Centre Sdn Bhd. Financial condition is the status of a firm's assets, liabilities and equity positions at a specific point in time, often described in a financial statement. While financial analysis means the process of evaluating businesses, projects, budgets and other finance-related entities to determine their suitability for investment. One of the most common ways of analyzing financial data is to calculate ratios from the data such as income statement and balance sheet of a company, to compare against other companies or against the company's own historical performance. For example, return on assets is a common ratio used to determine how efficient a company is at using its assets and as a measure of profitability. This ratio could be calculated for several similar companies and compared as part of a larger analysis. Any company should analyzing and review these ratios every year to ensure that their performance is good and any shortcomings should be taken corrective action. On the other hand, staffing shortage is a shortfall in the number of workers with the skills needed to fill the jobs currently available. A skills shortage may be caused by a lack of education and vocational training, or by wider social and economic factors such as new technological developments. A skills shortage may affect a region, an industry, or a whole country. Skills shortages of this type need to be addressed at national level through effective manpower planning and the development of strategies for adult education and vocational training. An organization may suffer from a skills shortage as a result of poor recruitment and employee retention policies, or through inadequate provision of training and employee development opportunities

The US Sub-prime Crises and Extreme Exchange Market Pressures in Asia

The primary objective of this study is to examine the evidence of occurrences of extreme market pressure of currencies of a number of Asian economies against the US dollar during the period of 2000-2009. In particular, we are interested in investigating the severity of these pressures during the recent US sub-prime crisis of 2007-2009. Were the currencies of these economies subjected to indiscriminate selling pressures during the period of the crisis? Was the heightened severity of the selling pressures associated with a particular event during the sub-prime crisis, such as the collapse of the Lehman-Brothers? Our findings confirm the globally indiscriminate impacts of the sub-prime crisis on the countries examined and the greatest impact was felt and experienced by these economies around the time of the Lehman-Brothers¡¯ collapse during the last quarter of 2008. Our findings offer far-reaching implications in terms of the linkages between macroeconomic and financial stability.

The Application of Epstein’s Model in the Implementation of Career Transition Programme for Students with Learning Disabilities

The career transition programme is a programme implemented to prepare students with special needs (SSN) to face future working environment. Parents are among the factors contributing to the successful completion of SSN’s career transition programme. This survey was conducted to identify the level of involvement of SSN parents in the implementation of career transition programmes in schools. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire consists of 48 items with five points Likert scale. This questionnaire was developed based on six elements of Epstein’s Parental Involvement Model: i) parenting, ii) communication, iii) decision making, iv) learning at home, v) collaboration with the community and vi) voluntary assistance. This study involved 30 respondents comprising parents of SSN who had undergone a career transition programme at Special Education Integrated Program (PPKI) at four secondary schools in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. The data were analysed descriptively using SPSS software. The findings show that parents’ involvement is high in terms of communication and voluntary assistance while their involvement in parenting, decision-making, home-based learning, and collaboration with the community is at moderate level. Parents’ education level was found to have no significant relationship with the level of parental involvement except for communication and voluntary aspects. The findings of this study can give some insights to policy makers to increase parents’ level of involvement in the context of planning and the implementation of programmes to support SSN’s readiness for the career realm. Parents are encouraged to improve their advocacy skills and awareness on the importance of their roles in the career transition

Leadership Style in TVET Education Towards 21st Century

Leadership is a critical aspect in organisation. As in 21st century, it’s shown that there are stiff competitions between giant companies to dominate the world economy. Literature shows that their secret of success depends on an open and innovative leadership. Academic leadership should be changed literally to tackle the globalization challenges, in line with technological advances. Leaders can be considered as a goal-setter, advocator, initiator, communicator, supporter, coordinator, coach, evaluator, manager, information provider and role model while implementing changes within the organisation. This study aims to identify leadership style in TVET education by 21st century. The method used for the study is by analyzing and comparing the document with reference from previous review. Identification of theories that uphold leadership style will be the result of this study. This proves the connection between the theories used in this study

Yeast Species in the Oral Cavities of Older People

Oral candidiasis is prevalent among older people due to predisposing factors such as impaired immune defences, medications and denture use. An increasing number of older people live in rest home facilities and it is unclear how this institutionalised living affects the quantity and type of fungi colonizing these people’s oral cavities. Smears and swabs of the palate and tongue, and saliva samples were taken from participants residing in rest homes (RH; n = 25) and older people living in their own homes (OH; n = 25). Yeast in samples were quantified and presumptively identified by culturing on CHROMagar Candida agar. Sequencing of the ITS2 region of rDNA was carried out to confirm yeast species. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of 7 housekeeping genes was used to compare Candida albicans strains. A higher proportion of RH residents had Candida hyphae present in smears compared to OH participants (35% vs. 30%) although this difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.74). RH residents had, on average, 23 times as many yeast per mL saliva as OH participants (p = 0.01). C. albicans and C. glabrata were the most common species isolated from both participant groups. All C. albicans strains were similar within the same participant but very different between participants. Nine strains, found in 4 rest home participants, appeared to be C. albicans/Candida dubliniensis chimeras (hybrid strains). The results indicate that communal living for those who reside in an age care facility has an impact on the abundance of yeast species and the prevalence of chimera strains. This may be due to morbidities which led to the need for residential care and/or related to the rest home environment

Harmonic Response of the Offshore Crane Boom Structure

Pedestal crane is one of the offshore oil and gas production facilities. It is used as a lifting machine to transfer offshore personnel, load equipments, tools and food stuff from the supply boat to the fixed platform or vice versa. The pedestal crane components basically consist of the operator cabin which is mounted on a pedestal, the crane boom structure and the lifting block. In the crane operation, the hoisting speed for picking up or lowering down the payload provides sustained cyclic or dynamic loads to the crane system. The purpose of this project is to study the dynamic characteristic of the offshore crane boom structure due to excitation by the payload

Motivasi dan Tahap Aktiviti Fizikal Semasa COVID-19

Dunia mengalami cabaran yang luar biasa hingga mengubah kehidupan normal manusia kepada norma baharu. Pengasingan sosial, penjarakan fizikal dan perintah kawalan pergerakan disebabkan oleh penyakit berjangkit koronavirus 2019, pandemik Covid-19 telah mengakibatkan penurunan tahap aktiviti fizikal bagi kedua-dua jantina. Pengenal pastian faktor motivasi atau pemangkin kepada melakukan aktiviti fizikal akan dapat menyumbang kepada institusi berkaitan dalam merangka strategi untuk meningkatkan tahap aktiviti fizikal semasa pandemik. Kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti faktor motivasi intrinsik dan ekstrinsik yang mempengaruhi penglibatan pelajar program Pendidikan Sukan dan Rekreasi (SUKRES), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) dalam aktiviti fizikal semasa pandemik COVID-19. Kajian berbentuk kuantitatif menggunakan instrumen soal selidik yang diadaptasi dari “Exercise Motivation Inventory” (EMI) dan “Global Physical Activity Inventory” (GPAQ) dan dianalisis menggunakan perisian “Statistical Package for Social Science” (SPSS) versi 23.0. Kajian keratan rentas ini dijalankan semasa dalam perintah kawalan pergerakan bersyarat (PKPB) merangkumi pelajar SUKRES UKM dari Tahun 1 hingga Tahun 4 yang sedang mengikuti pengajian secara atas talian “online distance learning” dan maklumat diperoleh menggunakan edaran soal selidik secara atas talian “google form”. Secara keseluruhan kajian menunjukkan majoriti pelajar Sukan dan Rekreasi Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia kurang melibatkan diri dalam aktiviti fizikal dan tidak terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan dalam perbandingan min antara faktor motivasi intrinsik dan ekstrinsik berdasarkan jantina namun didapati pelajar lelaki lebih bermotivasi intrinsik melakukan aktiviti fizikal manakala pelajar perempuan lebih bermotivasi ekstrinsik beraktiviti fizikal semasa pandemik COVID-19. Hasil kajian juga mendapati terdapat hubungan di antara motivasi ekstrinsik dan tahap aktiviti fizikal semasa pandemik yang mana boleh membantu pihak universiti dan institusi pengajian tinggi merangka strategi baharu bagi menggalakkan orang awam khususnya pelajar untuk terus melakukan aktiviti fizikal walaupun berdepan dengan wabak pandemik seperti mempromosikan pengamalan gaya hidup sihat di rumah dengan akses kepada fasiliti sedia ada di persekitaran rumah masing-masing

A study on design and safety aspect of basements / Nurulhuda Mohd Radzwan

This dissertation which titled “A Study on Design and Safety Aspect of Basement” is documented. The importance of design and safety aspect of basement is to define and clarify the problems of the basement. Otherwise, this research comprises the issues of design and safety aspect. For design are circulation of vehicles, parking space, type and level of basement. For safety aspect are flooding, ventilation, lighting and security system. In this research including of 6 chapters to completed it. This dissertation based on objective. To achieve the objectives of this dissertation should be to study on design aspect of basement to achieve the goals of comfort and safe. For instance, to identify the safety aspect at the basement to prevent problems likes flooding, ventilation, lighting, and security system. Then, know the facilities management to overcome problems at the basement. Observation, interview session, and questionnaires to the respondents are methods in this dissertation. Case study on MARA Headquarter at Jalan Raja Laut, Kuala Lumpur were undertaken to highlight the details information especially at the basement. It is documented in chapter 4. Literature review consist in chapter 2 and 3 were more on topics design and safety aspect issues

Pencirian Secara Morfologi Dan Molekul, Dan Ujian Kepatogenan Pencilan Fusarium Daripada Buahan Sayuran

Fusarium merupakan salah satu spesies kulat yang sering menyebabkan penyakit lepas tuai buahan sayuran. Kajian ini dijalankan untuk memencil kulat Fusarium daripada buahan sayuran yang reput untuk menentukan kehadiran dan assosiasi pencilan-pencilan Fusarium dengan reput buahan sayuran. Sembilan jenis buahan sayuran iaitu bendi (Abelmoschus esculentus), tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), peria (Memordica charantia), cili merah (Capsicum annum), terung (Solanum melongena), timun (Cucumis sativus), munggai (Moringa olifel), petola (Luffa acutangula) dan kacang panjang (Vigna sesquipedalis) yang diperolehi daripada beberapa buah pasar, pasaraya, Jabatan Pertanian Relau dan kebun sayur di sekitar Pulau Pinang dan Gurun, Kedah telah digunakan dalam kajian ini. Lapan puluh tiga pencilan Fusarium berjaya dipencilkan daripada gejala reput buahan sayuran dan berdasarkan ciri-ciri morfologi, lapan spesies telah dikenalpasti iaitu F. oxysporum, F. semitectum, F. solani, F. proliferatum, F. pseudocircinatum, F. sacchari F. equiseti, dan F. verticillioides. Daripada ujian kepatogenan menggunakan 70 pencilan Fusarium, hanya 21 pencilan didapati patogenik melalui rawatan luka dan lima pencilan patogenik melalui rawatan tanpa luka. Pencilan-pencilan yang patogenik adalah 12 pencilan F. solani, empat pencilan F. oxysporum, tiga pencilan F. proliferatum, satu pencilan F. semitectum dan satu pencilan F. sacchari