RNA Interference (RNAi) for plants

As we are facing global population development, strategies are required to improve agricultural production in the battle against hunger and poverty. Agricultural biotechnology provides a powerful method in combination of conventional breeding, new innovations and enhanced management of resources which improves the productivity of livestock, aquaculture, and crops. After the finding of RNA interference (RNAi), researchers have made considerable growth in improving this remarkable crop especially in defence technology. RNA interference is a vital plant growth, development and reaction regulator to various types of stresses. This technology leads to higher efficiency and potency of gene silencing, thus becoming the highly promising technology for crop improvements at a rapid rate with some advantages. Nowadays, RNAi has been widely used for the improvement in agricultural biotechnology and seems to be applicable and commercialized in other fields too

An application of Dijkstra’s algorithm model in finding shortest travel time in KLCC

Nowadays, traffic congestion or also known as traffic jammed is one of the common routing problems that usually occur on road networks. Routing problems becomes one of the big concern that most of the develop country must face including Malaysia

Investigation of capabilities of electromagnetic tomography for pipeline imaging

In industrial process, pipeline leakage often only noticeable pipe condition is critical henceforth causing damages to its internal content. Therefore, pipeline inspection and monitoring work is highly demanding to take early precautions. Electromagnetic Tomography (EMT) is capable to produce images of the internal structure of an object by using external sensors without disrupting it. The coil sensors are placed around the object where the source coil transmits an oscillating magnetic field while the rest acts as receiver and measure the received signals. The measured signal provides the magnetic field distribution of the pipe, and will differ according to the materials’ passive electrical properties. In this paper, we investigate the capability of using EMT to identify metallic pipe openings by conducting a finite element analysis simulation study. The design and parameters of the EMT system, as well as the results of using the EMT model to detect various degree of metallic pipe openings is presented. The results confirm that the EMT imaging as a promising tool for inspection of metallic pipelines where the magnetic field of the investigated region differs according to the pipe opening and material of the pipeline

Acoustic metamaterial for image detection

Image detection is important especially in medical for non destructive examination. Early development of image detection used high frequency for clearer image and caused heat development. Hence, there is a need to design metamaterial that can detect the image with lower frequency. This study focused on holey structured of three dimensions (3D) metamaterial. Methodology for this study can be divided into three parts which are metamaterial design, metamaterial testing, and performance analysis. The hole size, type of material and thickness of metamaterial designed will be varied for performance comparison. The image produce at the output plane of the metamaterial is clearly with the smallest scale size of hole which is 1.5 mm and the thickness of the metamaterial at 130 mm is equal with the operating wavelength. The device perfectly operated at lower frequency of 2.6 kHz

The structural characterization and antioxidant properties of oil palm fronds lignin incorporated with p-hydroxyacetophenone

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Tahap pemahaman pelajar terhadap istilah baharu COVID-19: kajian terhadap universiti awam di Malaysia

Pandemik COVID-19 yang melanda dunia pada ketika ini telah menyebabkan kewujudan istilah-istilah baharu khususnya istilah yang digunakan dalam penjenamaan COVID-19 kepada masyarakat. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui penggunaan istilah-istilah baharu dalam COVID-19. Kajian ini merupakan kajian kuantitatif yang menggunakan kaedah tinjauan menggunakan satu soal selidik untuk mengenal pasti istilah-istilah baharu dalam COVID-19 dan mengkaji tahap pemahaman pelajar terhadap istilah dalam COVID-19. Seramai 200 orang pelajar daripada empat buah universiti awam telah dipilih dengan menggunakan persampelan rawak berstrata. Dapatan kajian mendapati bahawa pelajar UIAM mencatat jumlah pemahaman yang tinggi diikuti oleh UPSI, UKM dan UM. Daripada jumlah 3952, pelajar UIAM mencatat 1001 pemahaman terhadap istilah-istilah yang diberikan, diikuti oleh UPSI sebanyak 998, UKM 995 dan UM 958. Dapatan juga menunjukkan bahawa kebanyakan pelajar memahami istilah-istilah yang digunakan dalam COVID-19. Istilah R-Naught, Aktiviti Survelan dan Triaging merupakan istilah yang dominan tidak diketahui oleh pelajar dari keempat-empat buah universiti. Kebanyakan pelajar lebih gemar menggunakan istilah bahasa Inggeris berbanding istilah bahasa Melayu seperti mask, hand sanitizer, surveying activity dan sebagainya. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa pemahaman pelajar dilihat amat baik mengenai istilah-istilah yang wujud semasa pandemik COVID-19

Students Comprehension To The New Terminology of Covid-19

Purpose of Study: The pandemic that hit the world at this time has led to the existence of new terms COVID-19 in society. This study aims to find out the use of new terms in the COVID-19 press conference. Methodology: This study is a quantitative study that uses a survey method which is a questionnaire used to identify new terms in the COVID-19 press conference and examine the level of student knowledge of terms in the COVID-19 press conference. Main Finding: A total of 200 students from four public universities were selected using stratified random sampling. The findings of the study found that UIAM students make a higher comprehensive, followed by UPSI, UKM, and UM students. The total is 3952, UIAM students take the first as 1001 comprehensive of COVID-19 terminology followed by UPSI (998), UKM (995), and UM (958). The terms of R-Naught, Surveying Activities, and Triaging is the newest terminology not understood by all students from all chosen universities. The final finding shows that students comprehensive are really good toward the new terminology of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research Implication: The implication from this research would like to give some more information to the community about terminology. This research also enhanced the lexicon of the Malay language, thus helping the Malay language to subscribe and describe the new terminology to the other fields. The novelty of This Study: Based on the research, this paper is the new novelty would like to seek comprehensive students toward the COVID-19 terminology

Students Comprehension To The New Terminology of Covid-19

Purpose of Study: The pandemic that hit the world at this time has led to the existence of new terms COVID-19 in society. This study aims to find out the use of new terms in the COVID-19 press conference. Methodology: This study is a quantitative study that uses a survey method which is a questionnaire used to identify new terms in the COVID-19 press conference and examine the level of student knowledge of terms in the COVID-19 press conference. Main Finding: A total of 200 students from four public universities were selected using stratified random sampling. The findings of the study found that UIAM students make a higher comprehensive, followed by UPSI, UKM, and UM students. The total is 3952, UIAM students take the first as 1001 comprehensive of COVID-19 terminology followed by UPSI (998), UKM (995), and UM (958). The terms of R-Naught, Surveying Activities, and Triaging is the newest terminology not understood by all students from all chosen universities. The final finding shows that students comprehensive are really good toward the new terminology of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research Implication: The implication from this research would like to give some more information to the community about terminology. This research also enhanced the lexicon of the Malay language, thus helping the Malay language to subscribe and describe the new terminology to the other fields. The novelty of This Study: Based on the research, this pa

Comparative studies of colonial architecture influences during colonization

This chapter discusses the colonization impact on architecture in Malaysia. The chapter consists of listing of colonial buildings around Masjid Jamek Sultan Abdul Samad, the Masjid in that period that was influenced by colonial architecture such as Mughal, Gothic, Moorish architecture etc,. Certain Masjid was chosen as a comparative study to Masjid Jamek Sultan Abdul Samad which are Masjid Zahir, Masjid Panglima Kinta and Masjid Ubudiah