Daya Tahan, Strategi Daya Tindak Serta Hubungannya Terhadap Tahap Kesejahteraan Psikologi Guru

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji tahap daya tahan guru, strategi daya tindak, tahap kesejahteraan psikologi dan melihat hubungan antara tahap daya tahan dan strategi daya tindak terhadap tahap kesejahteraan psikologi guru-guru di Kuala Pilah. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif berasaskan reka bentuk tinjauan. Populasi kajian terdiri daripada guru-guru sekolah rendah di daerah Kuala Pilah. Kaedah persampelan rawak mudah digunakan dan seramai 258 orang guru telah terlibat sebagai sampel kajian. Instrumen kajian mengadaptasi soal selidik daripada The Resilience Scale, Brief COPE dan Fluorishing Scale (FS). Data dianalisis secara deskriptif menggunakan kekerapan, min dan sisihan piawai manakala secara inferensi menggunakan Korelasi Pearson. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan guru-guru di Kuala Pilah mempunyai tahap daya tahan yang tinggi (M=5.68, SP=0.626), lebih cenderung menggunakan strategi daya tindak berfokuskan masalah apabila berhadapan dengan sumber stres (M=2.99, SP=0.353), dan mempunyai tahap kesejahteraan psikologi yang tinggi (M=6.13, SP=0.574) . Selain itu, dapatan menunjukkan terdapatnya hubungan yang signifikan di antara tahap daya tahan dengan tahap kesejahteraan psikologi guru-guru (r=0.640, p<0.01) dan strategi daya tindak guru (r=0.254, p<0.01). Pihak KPM dapat memanfaatkan dapatan ini untuk menyediakan latihan-latihan mapan yang mendedahkan guru-guru mengenai kesedaran terhadap kesejahteraan psikologi dan kepentingan pemilihan strategi daya tindak yang betul apabila berhadapan dengan sumber stres

Agarwood (gaharu) research rekindled interest, stirs debate at the 40th International Symposium on Essential Oils

Savigliano, Italy Sept 7-9. The MOSTI-funded research (Science Fund 02-0l-16-SF0005) headed by Prof Mashitah Mohd Yusoff rekindled tremendous interest and debate when presented by lead researcher and FIST's lecturer, Saiful Nizam Tajuddin

Spotlight on faculty member: Dr. Natanamurugaraj Govindan, marine bologist

Dr. Natanamurugaraj Govindan was born in August 1, 1979 at Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu State, India, where his parents and sister continue to play a big part in his life and career. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Botany from Bharathidasan University, Trichyrappalli and B.Ed. degree in Biological Science from Alagappa University, Ka raikudi, India. Following his Ph.D specialization in Marine Algal Biotechnology from Bharathidasan University, India, Dr. Natanam was appointed Post-Doctoral Research fellow in the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. He has written a book entitled "Marine diatoms from Ka raikal coastal region (India)': This book describes taxonomy and identification of marine microalgae (particularly diatoms) for biotechnology students

Performance Enhancement Of Optical Microring Resonator Using Taguchi Method Experimental Design

Taguchi method is a statistical approach to optimize the design parameters and improve the performance at a low cost. In this paper, Taguchi method is used as an attempt to analyze and optimize the Microring Resonators (MRRs) design, a multiple application device in optical communication systems. The silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer was selected as the medium of waveguide construction, with four control factors considered, namely width of rings and channels, radii of the microring, upper rib waveguide height and gap size. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was adopted to analyze significant trends occurring on the Quality Factor (Q) and insertion loss (IL) performances under different sets of control factor combinations. Optimum parameter values were obtained and the confirmation experiments were also carried out. Upon optimization, the Q value improved to 1550 from 786 and IL decreased to 0.03 dB from 0.27 dB. It is verified via Taguchi analysis that not only the design constraints of the Microring Resonator can be identified, the performance of the design can be enhanced as well

Compact Optical Filter Based On Microring Resonator

Optical filter that utilizes silicon micro-ring resonator (MRR) has been proposed as a solution in order to provide high-bandwidth, low power consumption and small size. MRR is the promising basic element of future optical integrated circuits due to its various applications such as wavelength filter, modulator and sensor. In this paper, we investigate the trade-off between ring radius, gap size and width of core variations to the MRR performance

Bionanotechnology

Bionanotechnology is a subset of nanotechnology: atom-level engineering and manufacturing using biological precedents for guidance. It is also closely married to biotechnology, but adds the ability to design and modify the atomic-level details of the objects created

Ibn al-Haytham

Ibn al-Haytham was born Abu Ali al-Hassan ibn al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham in Basra (Iraq) in 965 A.D. He is known in Europe as Alhazen or Alhacen

Industrial math program gets nod from expert panel

JAN 20-22 KUALA LUMPUR: An expert panel workshop with senior academics and industry mathematicians was again held at the Concorde Inn, Sepang, chaired by Deputy Vice-Chancellor(Academic & Internationalization), Professor Dr. Sabarudin Mohd

Kocip fatimah in RED BULL energy drink?

MAR 20 KUALA LUMPUR: Allswell Trading pte, Ltd. (Singapore) expressed interest to explore incorporating the research grade Kacip Fatimah extract as prepared by Prof Mashitah Mohd Yusoff in Red Bull Energy Drink

Nuclear Malaysia's Dr. Norimah lectures to first year industrial chemistry students

Dr. Norimah Yusof became guest lecturer in their Industrial and Laboratory Safety class(BSKll62)