Hubungan perfeksionisme, keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar universiti di Sabah, Malaysia

Menurut Ryff, Keyes dan Shmotkin (2002), kesejahteraan psikologi merangkumi resolusi berjaya bagi cabaran utama dalam setiap tahap perkembangan hidup seseorang (Erikson, 1963). Kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar mula mendapat perhatian dan dilihat sebagai aspek penting dalam kehidupan seseorang individu yang bergelar pelajar sama ada pada peringkat sekolah rendah, menengah mahupun peringkat institusi tinggi. Tujuan kajian ini dilakukan untuk mengkaji hubungan tiga sub-faktor perfeksionisme, tiga sub-faktor keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar universiti. Metodologi kajian adalah berbentuk survei dalam kalangan 468 orang pelajar unversiti dengan menggunakan soal selidik iaitu Scales of Psychological Well-Being (SPWB), Almost Perfect Scale Revised (APS-R) dan Basic Psychological Needs Scale (BPNS). Subjek kajian terdiri daripada 468 orang pelajar peringkat sarjana muda di Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Data yang diperolehi telah dianalisis dengan menggunakan IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) versi 21. Hasil kajian menunjukkan terhadap hubungan yang signifikan antara perfeksionisme, keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar universiti. Implikasi dan cadangan kajian turut dibincangkan

Fingerprints of changes in annual and seasonal precipitation from CMIP5 models over land and ocean

By comparing annual and seasonal changes in precipitation over land and ocean since 1950 simulated by the CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, phase 5) climate models in which natural and anthropogenic forcings have been included, we find that clear global-scale and regional-scale changes due to human influence are expected to have occurred over both land and ocean. These include moistening over northern high latitude land and ocean throughout all seasons and over the northern subtropical oceans during boreal winter. However we show that this signal of human influence is less distinct when considered over the relatively small area of land for which there are adequate observations to make assessments of multi-decadal scale trends. These results imply that extensive and significant changes in precipitation over the land and ocean may have already happened, even though, inadequacies in observations in some parts of the world make it difficult to identify conclusively such a human fingerprint on the global water cycle. In some regions and seasons, due to aliasing of different kinds of variability as a result of sub sampling by the sparse and changing observational coverage, observed trends appear to have been increased, underscoring the difficulties of interpreting the apparent magnitude of observed changes in precipitation

A proposed approach to investigate whether postgraduate health care management education in Australian universities facilitates the development of informatics competencies

Competencies have emerged as being important in healthcare. AIDH has health informatics competencies and ACHSM has health service management competencies but as health care is rapidly changing, it is important that the required competencies continue to evolve. The aim is to investigate whether postgraduate health care management education in Australian universities facilitates the development of informatics competencies. The proposed approach followed the NWCPHP ‘Steps Used to Effectively Map Preexisting Courses to Competency Sets’ to map the health informatics competency statements against the ACHSM accredited and RACMA recognised, postgraduate health care management programs offered domestically in Australia. The initial results show that only 10% of the AHICF competencies were fully addressed, 12% of the AHICF competencies were mostly addressed, 28% were partially addressed, and 50% of the AHICF competencies were not addressed at all. The proposed course competency mapping approach demonstrates that there is a need to revisit the informatics competencies taught in postgraduate health care management programs in Australia

Hubungan di antara dimensi personaliti, Konsep Kendiri dan pengaruh keluarga ke atas pencapaian pelajar di Rancangan Skim Felda, Johor

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the dimensions of personality, self-concept and family influence on students’ performance. The sample consists of 214 students from two secondary schools in the FELDA settlement in Johor. Random cluster sampling was employed to select participants for the study. A pilot test was conducted to assess the internal consistency of the questionnaire used in the study which was the Malay version of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory (JEPI) (α = .57), the Malay version of the Tennessee Self-concept Scale (α = .86) and the family influence questionnaire (α = .79). These instruments were used to examine the effects of family influence in the aspects of family cohesiveness, religious and moral aspect and freedom aspect. Pearson's Correlation was used to analyze the relationship between the dimensions of personality, self-concept and family influence. The results show a relationship between the dimensions of personality and self-concept, and between the dimensions of personality and family cohesiveness. However, there was no relationship between the dimensions of personality and the religious and moral and freedom aspect. The results also show that there was a strong relationship between self-concept and family cohesiveness and a moderate relationship between self-concept and the religious and moral aspect. However, there was no relationship between self-concept and freedom. The implications of the study were also discussed

Steam Explosion Pretreatment of Beechwood. Part 2: Quantification of Cellulase Inhibitors and Their Effect on Avicel Hydrolysis

Steam explosion is a well-known process to pretreat lignocellulosic biomass in order to enhance sugar yields in enzymatic hydrolysis, but pretreatment conditions have to be optimized individually for each material. In this study, we investigated how the results of a pretreatment optimization procedure are influenced by the chosen reaction conditions in the enzymatic hydrolysis. Beechwood was pretreated by steam explosion and the resulting biomass was subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis at glucan loadings of 1% and 5% employing either washed solids or the whole pretreatment slurry. For enzymatic hydrolysis in both reaction modes at a glucan loading of 1%, the glucose yields markedly increased with increasing severity and with increasing pretreatment temperature at identical severities and maximal values were reached at a pretreatment temperature of 230 °C. However, the optimal severity was 5.0 for washed solids enzymatic hydrolysis, but only 4.75 for whole slurry enzymatic hydrolysis. When the glucan loading was increased to 5%, glucose yields hardly increased for pretreatment temperatures between 210 and 230 °C at a given severity, and a pretreatment temperature of 220 °C was sufficient under these conditions. Consequently, it is important to precisely choose the desired conditions of the enzymatic hydrolysis reaction, when aiming to optimize the pretreatment conditions for a certain biomass

Hubungan Perfeksionisme, keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar Universiti Di Sabah, Malaysia

Menurut Ryff, Keyes dan Shmotkin (2002), kesejahteraan psikologi merangkumi resolusi berjaya bagi cabaran utama dalam setiap tahap perkembangan hidup seseorang (Erikson, 1963). Kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar mula mendapat perhatian dan dilihat sebagai aspek penting dalam kehidupan seseorang individu yang bergelar pelajar sama ada pada peringkat sekolah rendah, menengah mahupun peringkat institusi tinggi. Tujuan kajian ini dilakukan untuk mengkaji hubungan tiga sub-faktor perfeksionisme, tiga sub-faktor keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar universiti. Metodologi kajian adalah berbentuk survei dalam kalangan 468 orang pelajar unversiti dengan menggunakan soal selidik iaitu Scales of Psychological Well-Being (SPWB), Almost Perfect Scale Revised (APS-R) dan Basic Psychological Needs Scale (BPNS). Subjek kajian terdiri daripada 468 orang pelajar peringkat sarjana muda di Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Data yang diperolehi telah dianalisis dengan menggunakan IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) versi 21. Hasil kajian menunjukkan terhadap hubungan yang signifikan antara perfeksionisme, keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar universiti. Implikasi dan cadangan kajian turut dibincangka

Hubungan Perfeksionisme, keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar Universiti Di Sabah, Malaysia

Menurut Ryff, Keyes dan Shmotkin (2002), kesejahteraan psikologi merangkumi resolusi berjaya bagi cabaran utama dalam setiap tahap perkembangan hidup seseorang (Erikson, 1963). Kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar mula mendapat perhatian dan dilihat sebagai aspek penting dalam kehidupan seseorang individu yang bergelar pelajar sama ada pada peringkat sekolah rendah, menengah mahupun peringkat institusi tinggi. Tujuan kajian ini dilakukan untuk mengkaji hubungan tiga sub-faktor perfeksionisme, tiga sub-faktor keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar universiti. Metodologi kajian adalah berbentuk survei dalam kalangan 468 orang pelajar unversiti dengan menggunakan soal selidik iaitu Scales of Psychological Well-Being (SPWB), Almost Perfect Scale Revised (APS-R) dan Basic Psychological Needs Scale (BPNS). Subjek kajian terdiri daripada 468 orang pelajar peringkat sarjana muda di Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Data yang diperolehi telah dianalisis dengan menggunakan IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) versi 21. Hasil kajian menunjukkan terhadap hubungan yang signifikan antara perfeksionisme, keperluan psikologi asas dan kesejahteraan psikologi dalam kalangan pelajar universiti. Implikasi dan cadangan kajian turut dibincangka

Loneliness, social anxiety, social influence and addiction that contributes to online social networking: A study among adolescent in Malaysia

The present study aimed to identify the contribution of loneliness, social anxiety, social influence and addiction on online social networking. In the study 220 students from different seven schools in Johor Bahru district of Malaysia were taken as sample. The obtained data was statistically analyzed by descriptive statistics through SPSS 17 version. Results demonstrated that social influence is an influential variable and has great contribution on online social networking. Further the study also revealed that loneliness was found to be the weakest factor in online social networking

Auswirkungen des Duengungssystems auf chemische Bodeneigenschaften und Schwermetallgehalte eines Schwarzerdestandortes in Nord-Ost Rumaenien

Eines der wichtigsten Ziele der Agrarwissenschaft ist die Verbesserung und die Erhaltung der Bodenfruchtbarkeit. Dieses kann durch konservierende Bodenbearbeitung und organische duengung, wie Klaerschlamm, Kompost und Ernte-und Wurzelrueckstaende, erreicht werden. Seit August 2007 werden auf einem Schwarzerdestandort bei Ezareni die Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Bodenbearbeitung (Konventionell, Minimalbodenbearbeitung, Direktsaat) auf die chemischen Bodeneigenschaften untersucht. Weiterhin wird der Einfluss des Duengungssystems (mineralische Duengung, organische Duengung, organische und mineralische Duengung)auf die chemischen Bodeneigenschaften dargestellt. In der Studie werden die Akkumulation organischer Bodensubstanz und der Hauptnaehrstoffe, sowie eine potentielle Kontamination durch Schwermetalle (Zn, Ni, Mn, Cr, Cu, Cd, Pb) aus der Anwendung von Klaerschlamm anhand von Pflanzen- und Bodenproben untersucht. Die Ergebnisse fuer die Schwermetalluntersuchungen werden im Folgenden praesentiert

Coal Integrated Gasification Fuel Cell System Study

This study analyzes the performance and economics of power generation systems based on Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology and fueled by gasified coal. System concepts that integrate a coal gasifier with a SOFC, a gas turbine, and a steam turbine were developed and analyzed for plant sizes in excess of 200 MW. Two alternative integration configurations were selected with projected system efficiency of over 53% on a HHV basis, or about 10 percentage points higher than that of the state-of-the-art Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) systems. The initial cost of both selected configurations was found to be comparable with the IGCC system costs at approximately $1700/kW. An absorption-based CO2 isolation scheme was developed, and its penalty on the system performance and cost was estimated to be less approximately 2.7$370/kW. Technology gaps and required engineering development efforts were identified and evaluated