Enhancing students’ creativity at research universities in Malaysia

Creativity is an important element in the development of educational organizations. Although many variables influence student’s creativity in universities, there is a reason to suspect that particularly the leadership behaviors’ of lecturers have powerful influences. In this study, we examined leadership behaviors contributing to enhancement of the student’s creativity. Findings of this study indicated that the leadership behaviors of lectures (e.g., idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, technical skills, and involvement) can influence student’s creativity, both directly and indirectly. The leadership behaviors of lectures may nurture or stifle the student’s creative potential. The implications of these findings for theory and practice are discussed

A Comparability Study on Driver Fatigue Using C#, C++ and Python

Accidents on road are very commonthese days. Most of them are caused by driverfatigueness. Some common causes and symptomshave been identified. One of the main solutionto detect driver fatigue is by analyzing the facialfeatures of the drivers. This paper discusses aboutthe facial features that can be used to detect driverfatigue. Further examples on existing vehiclesafety technology is also discussed. Primarily, thiswork emphasizes on the study of three differentprogramming languages and its compatibilitywhich works best to be integrated with theproposed hardware. Based on the study, theresult is discussed and the suitable programminglanguage is suggested

Real-Time Connected Car Services

In recent years, the patterns ofconnected car are tied in with giving driversmore answers for making the journeyconsistent. Vehicles today are outfitted withhigh innovation highlights and in-vehicleavailability. The Integrated Connected VehicleServices is produced to convey an incorporateddriving experience to all vehicle owners, tomake a communication stage for drivers toimpart and share data between vehicles. Thesystem allows to discover nearby vehicles insiderange, giving the driver early notice caution ofcrisis vehicles inside certain range. Moreover,the system likewise enables the driver to sharebasic data which later plots into the maps foralternate drivers to view and plan the journey.The information of transmission between thevehicles are incorporated through firebase cloudservices. Firebase is known as an effective clouddatabase and ready to screen the applicationdevelopment

Suspension kinematic analysis of UTeM’s FV Malaysia electric vehicle racing car

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the kinematic performance of students’ racing car, namely UTeM’s FV Malaysia Electric Vehicle. An elasto-kinematic analysis approach is used to predict the car’s performance during straight line drive and curvature drive. Two suspension design factors involved in this analysis are toe and camber. The kinematic analysis is iterated using the multibody dynamics simulation. The suspension performance is then compared to the standard SLA suspension. The result shows that the front suspension design does not follow the good C shaped toe and camber curves for the SLA suspension type. However, the suspension design of the rear suspension performs well as it follows the good SLA performance curve

Rate-dependent responses of electroless plated and sputtered copper layer during nanoindentation loading

A thin copper layer is an integral part of a Through-Silicon via (TSV) structure. The copper layer experiences mechanical stressing through the temperature excursion, thus raising reliability concern of the component. Such reliability assessment calls for the determination of the mechanical properties of the thin layer. In this respect, this paper discusses the experimental study to establish the loading rate-dependent behavior of the Cu layer deposited on SiO2-coated Si substrate. A series of nanoindentation tests are performed on sputtered and electroless plated copper layer. The tests cover a range of probe displacement rates from 80-400 nm/s and indentation depths up to 400 nm. Load-displacement (depth) data pairs are recorded for each test. Results show that an indentation depth of 3% of the Cu layer thickness is sufficient to eliminate the effect of surface morphology on the indentation load-displacement response. The load-displacement response of the electroless plated copper layer significantly decreases with the test speed, while a minor increase in similar effect is observed for the sputtered layer

Knowledge, attitude, pictorial health warnings and quitting attempt to smoking in Sarawak, Malaysia

10.3329/bjms.v16i2.26501Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science162266-27

Pure antimony film as saturable absorber for Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser

This paper reports on the use of Antimony (Sb) polymer film to generate stable Q-switching pulses in Erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) cavity. The SA is fabricated by coating a thin layer of Sb on a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) film through physical vapour deposition (PVD) process. A 1 × 1 mm area of the film SA is cut and integrated into between two fiber ferrules inside the laser cavity for intra-cavity loss modulation. Self-starting and stable Q-switched pulses are obtained within a pump power range from 60 to 142 mW. Within this range, the repetition rate increases from 70.82 to 98.04 kHz, while pulse width decreases from 7.42 to 5.36 μs. The fundamental frequency signal-to-noise ratio of the pulse signal is 74 dB, which indicates the excellent stability of the pulses. The maximum output power and pulse energy are 8.45 mW and 86.19 nJ, respectively. Our demonstration shows that Sb film SA capable of generating stable pulses train operating at 1.55-micron region