Analisis faktor penyebab stres di kalangan pelajar

Kajian ini bertujuan menganalisis faktor-faktor penyebab stres di kalangan pelajar tahun dua yang telah menyertai Bengkel Pembelajaran Efektif (BPE), FPPSM. Kesemua subjek kajian seramai 30 orang pelajar dipilih berdasarkan pencapaian Purata Nilai Gred Kumulatif (PNGK) 3.00 dan ke bawah. Pengumpulan data adalah berdasarkan soal selidik yang telah dijawab oleh responden kajian. Kaedah analisis deskriptif yang digunakan ialah kekerapan, peratusan dan min skor bagi mengenalpasti tahap stres, faktor-faktor penyebab stres dan strategi pengurusan stres di kalangan pelajar. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tahap stres pelajar adalah sederhana. Faktor kerjaya merupakan penyebab utama stres di kalangan pelajar, diikuti oleh faktor akademik dan faktor persekitaran. Manakala, strategi pengurusan stres yang biasanya digunakan oleh kebanyakan pelajar adalah strategi berbentuk tingkah laku

Kerjasama Johor Darul Takzim dan Brunei Darussalam dalam pentadbiran agama Islam 1949 hingga 1967

Kertas kerja ini bertujuan untuk membincangkan berkenaan kerjasama antara kerajaan negeri Johor Darul Takzim dan kerajaan negara Brunei Darussalam dalam urusan pentadbiran agama Islam.Hasil penelitian rekod Arkib Negara Malaysia Cawangan Johor mendapati terdapat kerjasama yang erat antara kedua-dua kerajaan dalam beberapa bidang penting seperti pendidikan, kehakiman, pentadbiran masjid, pengurusan jenazah dan latihan para pegawai pentadbiran sama ada di peringkat pentadbiran sehingga kepada latihan untuk guru-guru agama.Kertas kerja ini hanya menggunakan sumber primer dari Jabatan Agama Johor dengan menggunakan kaedah kualitatif yang menjuruskan kepada deskriptif sejarah.Hasil penelitian mendapati bahawa Jabatan Agama Johor telah menjadi rujukan kepada Jabatan Hal ehwal Agama Islam Brunei Darussalam untuk memperkemaskan sistem pentadbiran agama Islam di negara tersebut.Malah, kini negara Brunei Darussalam telah berjaya menerapkan nilai-nilai Islam sepenuhnya dalam pentadbiran negaranya

Determinants of business performance amongst women entrepreneur in Johor, Malaysia

From historical and traditional perspectives, Malaysian women have long been involved in entrepreneurship. Although their percentage in this sector is still low compared to men, this field opens another opportunity for women to earn income. Therefore, this study is to examine the relationship between human factors, social factor, organizational factors and innovation towards business performance amongst women entrepreneurs in Johor, Malaysia. The study utilized quantitative approaches that comprised of a self-administered questionnaire to gain a better understanding of the study context. In the early stage, the study carried out preliminary interview with a women entrepreneur to observe current situation of women in handling business. In obtaining actual data, the study was later distributed questionnaire to selected women entrepreneur in Johor. The findings discovered that human factors, social factor, and organizational factors were a positive and significant relationship with business performance. However, the result from the hierarchical regression analysis shows that innovation does not moderate the relationship between organizational factors toward the business performance. From the results provide evidence and explanation of the determinants of business performance amongst women entrepreneurs in Johor, and also contribute some crucial insights to the policymakers to further develop and improve the current policy and training programs or workshops for the entrepreneurs. The study outcomes are significantly useful to the government agencies to develop upcoming policy and also set up proper support and training programs for the intended group women entrepreneurs, such as providing business skill training, increasing marketing services, providing workshops, creative thinking courses and some social welfare trade programs. To address the limitations of this study, future researchers may expand this research by emphasizing on other business platform types, so as to influence this present business performance trend amongst women entrepreneurs

Managing quality/skilled people to support organizational capabilities, and business development

This paper is a conceptual and review paper discusses management of quality/skilled people or talent, knowledge management, and leadership aim at figuring out the relation between people capabilities, commitment, and connectedness with individual and group performance and organizational success. This paper also provides a figure of people performances and potentials that show the high and top performers in an organization who are above the average line. The discussion on quality/skilled people and leadership highlights the need of quality/skilled people or talent to have fundamental skills of leadership and also the readiness of them to be promoted due to their positions as leader candidates and the stars in organization, as well as the need of organization to smoothening the succession planning in line with the positions changing plan of organization. The discussion on the relation of managing quality/skilled people or talent with managing knowledge provides an insight how knowledgeable, skillful people with good attitudes, become the assets of organization to increase customer value and to make the knowledge visible. This paper reveals that knowledge, quality/skilled people, technological, and leadership, are all important elements in supporting the business expansions of a company

Mikropolitik dan implikasinya kepada pihak berkuasa tempatan: sorotan literatur

Politik bukan hanya berpaksikan kepada politik kepartian seperti pilihanraya dan ceramah kempen, boleh juga terjadi dalam pelbagai bentuk dan situasi. Daripada isu sensitif akidah melibatkan pertembungan ideologi Syiah, kritikan Syiah Zaidiyah berkenaan Teori Imamah Syiah Imamiah dan Syiah Ismailiyah, amalan protes punk yang lahir separuh abad yang lalu sehingga membentuk sub-budaya. Namun, politik juga lahir daripada dalam pengurusan organisasi, dikenali sebagai politik organisasi atau mikropolitik. Meskipun mikro (sangat kecil), namun tidak boleh lari daripada kuasa dan pengaruh dalam mencapai matlamat peribadi. Secara umumnya, ramai ahli akademik menganggap politik organisasi sebagai tingkah laku yang berniat untuk menjaga kepentingan diri dengan menjadikan individu atau kumpulan lain sebagai korban bagi mencapai matlamat dan cita-citanya. Urusan kenaikan pangkat, perolehan tender projek, penyebaran maklumat lebih mudah dicapai dengan adanya aktiviti politik yang tidak sihat. Sehubungan itu, perbincangan ini tidak bertujuan untuk memberi fokus kepada pendekatan yang sama dalam menjawab persoalan kajian yang terarah kepada pembangunan politik daripada sudut pemerintahan dan kepartian. Malah, tidak juga berpaksikan satu bentuk analisis yang bersifat mengukur tingkat politik yang berstruktur dan melibatkan hubungan antarabangsa. Tetapi, lebih khusus kepada kepimpinan dan pentadbiran awam sebagai satu subjek tujahan dalam kerangka perbincangan bagi memahami persoalan politik organisasi dan implikasinya kepada organisasi

Optimization of Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA) Content as Cement Replacement Based on Strength and Porosity

The usage of agricultural waste in form of ashes as one of the constituent materials in concrete has been studied in recent years. Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA) is one of the largest agricultural wastes produced in Malaysia that contain high amount of silica with pozzolanic properties. The mass production of POFA are typically disposed to open area and in turn can generate environmental issues and health hazards. Due to the waste disposal problem, a number of initiatives have been done by utilizing POFA into various construction materials including as substitute to Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) in concrete production. This paper discusses on the water absorption properties and compressive strength of concrete by utilizing POFA in several series of cement replacement. OPC was replaced by POFA at 2.5%, 5%,7.5% and 10% in these series of mix design. Control OPC concrete sample was also prepared for comparison. The samples were prepared in 100 mm cubic moulds and tested for compressive strength and water absorption for 7, 14 and 28-day curing ages. Three replicates were prepared for each concrete mix and for each test conducted. The results stipulated that the higher percentage of POFA replacement decreased the compressive strength and increased the water absorption amount of concrete mixture over different concrete ages

Energy Consumption Assessment on Industrialised Building System (IBS)

Malaysia Government mission towards development of low carbon cities in reducing carbon emission by 40% by year 2020. Therefore, our construction industry plays an important role and gives negative impacts on the environment. Factors of embodied energy and carbon emission are important in selecting construction method by considering the low carbon type of construction material to be used during the construction process. This paper presents an analysis of Embodied Energy and carbon emission in a building that used IBS and conventional method to achieve sustainable construction in Malaysia. All data was recorded and analyse using a commercial Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool called Carbon Calculator. The study includes IBS component; precast concrete wall panel, column, beam and half slab and cast in situ components; burn clay bricks, reinforced concrete slab, column, and beam. The results are presented in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2E) of construction materials and comparison analysis is made between IBS and Conventional method. The results obtained from Carbon Calculator due to manufacture and installation of components show a that IBS method consumed 26.93 CO2E/m2 and conventional method offers 39.57 CO2E/m2. By comparing IBS and conventional method, it is found that the average of total energy consumption due to construction materials was 33.25 CO2E/m2 and involved 31.94% reduction in comparison with conventional method. Therefore, for further building construction’s practice in relation to type of construction method it is recommended to be below the average amount of energy consumption 33.25 CO2E/m2 (50%) and any values obtained above the average amount is considered not being able to adopt sustainable building practice. Generally, it can be concluded that implementation of IBS method can be regard as a potential in reducing the amount of embodied energy and carbon emission compared to conventional method

Design concept of horse arena in Malaysia – A case study

One of the most important facilities required for any equine centre is horse arena. Horse arena is a place where horse doing the execrsice. Its a dedicated riding space is useful for training purposes. Equine Center may include an outdoor arena, indoor arena, or both. This paper presents the findings from a case study on the arena design concept throughout Malaysia. A total of fourtytwo (42) Equine Centre throughout the country were selected and visited in the study. The items studied include the types of arena, size of arena, material used for surface and fencing. The results indicated that about 79% of the arena used outdoor design, 31% of the arena had arena size of 20m x 60m ,56% used Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) as the main material of fencing, and almost 74% used sand as types of surface in arena. Then for the indoor arena, the design concept of the roof structure was 79% used gable type of design with 81% used zinc as the roofing material. Generally, it can be said that the design concept of the horse arena in Malaysia depends on the owner needs, activities of the equine centre whether it is use for training or game

Improving vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) communication performance by using time gap following distance (TGFD) model

Today, there is a growing research study of IEEE 802.11p as one of option to help the drivers to travel more safely.Message dissemination protocols are primordial for safety vehicular applications. Periodic safety message (PSM) and Warning safety message (WSM) are two types of safety messages which may be exchanged between vehicles. In this paper we investigate the feasibility of deploying safety applications based on periodic message dissemination through simulation study with safety requirements as our priority concern.Vehicles are supposed to issue these messages constantly to inform their neighboring vehicles about their current status and use received messages for preventing possible unsafe situations on time. As reliability is the main concern in periodic message dissemination, a new metric called TGFD (Time Gap Following Distance) is defined which gives us more accurate benchmark for evaluating QoS in safety applications specifically.Thus, in order to improve the performance, the effective transmission TGFD studied

Lightning surge on the DC and AC side of solar PV system

The solar PV has become an alternative solution in Malaysia to generate electricity. Unfortunately the solar PV installed in Malaysia is attracted to the lightning strike. There were two points that have high possibilities of being strike by the lightning; on the DC side between the solar PV and inverter and on the AC side, between the inverter and the substation. Therefore, this study was performed to analyse the effects of lightning strike at these two different points at the solar PV farm without any lightning protection system (LPS)