Aplikasi Sistem Maklumat Geografi (GIS) Bagi Mengenal Pasti Kawasan Berisiko Tinggi Bagi Penyakit Demam Denggi Berdarah Di Georgetown, Pulau Pinang [G70.215.M2 A996 2008 f rb].

Penyebaran dan kejadian kes penyakit demam denggi (DD) dan demam denggi berdarah (DDB) telah meningkat semenjak 40 tahun yang lepas. Dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) cases have steadily increased in both incidences and distributions over the past forty years

Supreme court's judicial review authority vs. constitutional supremacy in the Maldives: does the constitution still reign supreme?

The Supreme Court of Maldives is entrusted with the responsibility of upholding the supremacy of the Constitution. However, within the last ten years, the Supreme Court has been criticized for the Court’s slow but steady progression to encroach on the powers of the parliament and as a result, undermine the supremacy of theConstitution. The objective and purpose of this article are to entail how the Supreme Court of Maldives had utilized its power to judicial review to undermine the supremacy of the Constitution over the years. This article useslibrary-based research. Itanalysesthe principles of separation of powers, checks and balances and judicial review and how these principles are adopted in the Maldives.In addition, this article reviews and analyzes the decisions of the Supreme Court which are in contradiction to the Constitution.The findings of the article are evidential of how the Supreme Court had performed the constitutionally mandated legislative functions of the parliament through the Court’s power to judicial review. The Supreme Court had established guidelines, regulated the rights and freedoms specified in the Constitution, and determined procedures. This article concludesbyemphasizing the importance of exercising restraint when performing the constitutionally mandated functionsof each branch, in order to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution as well the effective functioning of the three branches of government

Community knowledge and practices toward water and vector-borne diseases. A case study in Pulau Pangkor, Malaysia

Water and mosquito-borne diseases have been considered as an immense public health concern everywhere in the world, including Malaysia. Dengue, malaria, chikungunya and cholera are among the major mosquito-borne infections present in the country. The present study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge and practice in relation to the water and mosquito-borne diseases among the community in Pangkor Island, Malaysia. A survey was carried out between June and August 2014, with the participation of 1,012 multi-ethnic respondents aged from 15 years old and above. The questionnaire form used in this survey contains three main elements such as socio-demography characteristics, knowledge and practices towards water and mosquito-borne diseases. Analysis of the data was performed using SPSS software version 18. Overall findings showed that majority of the respondents had low level of knowledge regarding transmission, signs and symptoms, prevention and treatment of water and mosquito-borne diseases. However, most of them were had better practices towards water and mosquito-borne diseases. The involvement of health authorities via health education programme is necessary in order to improve the understanding and awareness of the diseases among the island community. Keywords: Knowledge, practices, water-borne diseases and mosquito-borne disease

Mobile application as a new method in learning the history of photography course / Muhammad Asri Azuddin, Mohd Nasiruddin Abdul Aziz and Norhaslinda Shafie

Photography has an extraordinary history and numerous theories have been applied to its history and practice as part of an analytical research process contributing to the understanding of the medium. In this new era of technology, photography has become more affordable and transformed mobiles phones into a digital camera. Not only for communication but smartphones has grown more with the application where a small program can make it more fun and useful. However, informal studies about History of Photography, students still relying on the slideshow in the classroom, copying notes and lending books from the library. This traditional method of studies sometimes set the limit on the students to access the information. Parallel with Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) to propel the nations' higher education to the next level, a quantitative study has taken place to get the feedback from students on using the mobile application in learning History of Photography course. A survey was conducted with 53 of students from semester two in photography program in a local public university. The findings of this study clearly show a very positive response towards the mobile application notes rather than the traditional learning methods

CRF based feature extraction applied for supervised automatic text summarization

Feature extraction is the promising issue to be addressed in algebraic based Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) methods. The most vital role of any ATS is the identification of most important sentences from the given text. This is possible only when the correct features of the sentences are identified properly. Hence this paper proposes a Conditional Random Field (CRF) based ATS which can identify and extract the correct features which is the main issue that exists with the Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) based ATS. This work proposes a trainable supervised method. Result clearly indicates that the newly proposed approach can identify and segment the sentences based on features more accurately than the existing method addressed

Onset of Orthorhombic-tetragonal Structure in (YBa2Cu3O7-δ)1-x(Sn02)x Superconducting Ceramics

High Tc superconductors, (YBa2Cu3O7-δ)1-x(Sn02)x with x ranging from 0.00 to 0.06 were prepared in air under optimum sintering conditions. Superconductivity and the onset of orthorhombic-tetragonal structure are discussed in relation to the results of X-ray diffraction studies. Meissner effect above liquid nitrogen temperature was observed for all the samples, suggesting the retention of orthorhombic structure in the system up to 6% Sn substitution

Raman study on dispersion of carbon nanotube in organic solvent as the preparation of conductive nano-ink

Carbon nanomaterials have been magnificently high demand in the development of nano-electronic technologies since the past few years because of the splendid performance in electrical, mechanical and physical properties. This research is to prepare the dispersion of functionalized carbon nanotube in six different types of organic solvent as the pre-preparation of conductive carbon nanotube nano-ink. The focus of this research is in the study of the morphology of dispersion sample by Raman Spectroscopy data analysis, discussing on conductivity and physical properties of dried samples. From this study, it shown that dispersion with methanol and propanol are stable compared to other samples. The morphology of dispersed functionalized carbon nanotube plays an important role in the quality and performance of the nano-ink in the production of sensing material of flexible biosensors and electronics circuit for biomedical and other potential applications. Therefore, it shows that the organic solvents are suitable in dispersion of MWCNT as preparation of conductive nano-ink

Pengamalan Nilai Agama dalam Mengatasi Kemurungan Semasa Pandemik COVID-19

Wabak Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) yang telah diisytiharkan sebagai pandemik oleh Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia atau World Health Organization (WHO) telah menyebabkan ramai rakyat Malaysia mengalami masalah kemurungan. Kemurungan boleh mengganggu aspek psikologi dan kesejahteraan kendiri yang merupakan elemen penting dalam menentukan kefungsian diri manusia dan mempengaruhi sistem kesihatan dalam menghadapi penularan wabak ini. Justeru, penulisan ini bertujuan melihat cabaran kemurungan semasa pandemik COVID-19 yang menumpukan kepada aspek spiritualiti (kerohanian) bagi mencari solusi kepada kepulihan dan perubahan dalam masalah kemurungan. Kajian perpustakaan melalui kaedah analisis kandungan telah digunakan dalam kajian ini bagi merungkai cabaran dan solusi terhadap masalah kemurungan. Teori Psiko Spiritual al-Ghazali telah dirujuk bagi membantu pemahaman dalam permasalahan yang dihadapi ini. Kajian mendapati bahawa COVID-19 telah membawa kepada pelbagai implikasi yang mengundang kemurungan. Selain itu, melalui pendekatan terapi psikospiritual dengan kaedah solat, zikir, doa, amalan filantropi dan rasa redha dilihat sebagai salah satu platform alternatif yang boleh digunakan dalam menangani masalah kemurungan. Oleh itu, melalui pemahaman terhadap implikasi kemurungan, langkah pencegahan yang terpilih mengikut pendekatan yang bersesuaian dapat dilaksanakan agar masalah kemurungan dapat dirawat dan seterusnya menjamin kesejahteraan individu yang terkesan dengan wabak COVID-19

Flow analysis of piston head geometry for direct injection spark ignition engine

Constructors of gasoline engines face higher and higher requirements as regards to ecological issues, and increase in engine efficiency at simultaneous decrease in fuel consumption. Satisfying these requirements is possible by the recognition of the phenomena occurred inside engine cylinder, the choice of suitable optimal parameters of fuel injection process, and the determination of geometrical shapes of the combustion chamber and piston head. The aim of this study is to simulate flow in Fuel Direct-Injection engine with different geometrical shapes of piston head. Designing piston head shapes was done by referring to existing motorcycle, Demak 200cc-single cylinder using SolidWork and ANSYS software. The parameter investigated are shallow and deep bowl design of piston head. In term of fuel distribution throughout the combustion chamber, engine model that has deeper bowl (Model 2) shows better fuel distribution than model of shallow bowl as it manages to direct the fuel injected towards the location of spark plug. Total kinetic energy of Model 2 is about 20% higher than Model 1. Therefore, engine with deeper bowl is chose as the best model between the two models as it can create a richer mixture around the spark plug