A corpus-based lexical and grammatical error identification: L2 learners academic writing

Writing in English has never been an easy task to many second language (L2) learners. Many of them perform poorly in their English academic writing where numerous lexical and grammatical errors are found in their report. Therefore, this thesis investigates the difficulties faced by UTHM learners involved in academic writing by identifying and analyzing errors made by them with the application of error analysis procedures. This research attempts to find out the types and patterns of errors in which it focuses on the frequency of the lexical and grammatical errors of the L2 learners in their writing. Errors were investigated and identified based on students’ 36 progress and final reports which were assembled from first year engineering students; named as the Learner Corpus Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia(LCUTHM). The LCUTHM was analyzed by means of linguistics Natural Language Processing tools (NLP) such as CLAWS 5 tag set, Markin Version 4 and categorized by MonoConc Pro II in the form of word lists. Data were also analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) software to determine the major errors learners committed in learners’ written work. The findings reveal that the major lexical and grammatical error categories made by learners were “Missing Word”, “Repetition”, and “Verb Form”. Finally, the integration of technology and the linguistics Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools can provide a fast and more effective method in assisting teachers in identifying errors, and designing syllabus in improving the language skills and achievement of L2 learners in their academic writing

Different Techniques and Algorithms for Biomedical Signal Processing

This paper is intended to give a broad overview of the complex area of biomedical and their use in signal processing. It contains sufficient theoretical materials to provide some understanding of the techniques involved for the researcher in the field. This paper consists of two parts: feature extraction and pattern recognition. The first part provides a basic understanding as to how the time domain signal of patient are converted to the frequency domain for analysis. The second part provides basic for understanding the theoretical and practical approaches to the development of neural network models and their implementation in modeling biological syste

Antarctica

His Majesty’s Visit to Antarctica This is photographic journey of His Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di–Pertuan Agong Al–Wathiqu Billah Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Ibni Al–Marhum Sultan Mahmud Al–Muktafi Billah Shah, Yang DiPertuan Agong XIII of Malaysia to Antarctica. It tells of His Majesty’s personal reflections and impressions through interviews with Prof. Dato’ Dr. Azizan Abu Samah and Tan Sri Dr. Salleh Mohd. Nor. His Majesty expressed admiration for the scientific research being undertaken by Malaysian scientists and their international counterparts on that cold continent and hoped that more Malaysian scientist will commit to undertake research in Antarctica. During the visit to Scott and Shackelton Huts, His Majesty admired and respected the courage and tenacity of the early explorers to that icy continent before the discovery of modern travel and technologies. His Majesty also expressed his admiration of the scientists who had dedicated their careers to research on the icy continent. This book also given a brief description of the Antarctic continent, the highest, driest and coldest continent in the world. It also tells about the Antarctic Treaty System and Malaysia’s involvement in Antarctic research. It concludes with a brief look at the future now that Malaysia has acceded to the Antarctic Treaty System

Bottleneck-based heuristic for three-machine flow shop scheduling

This paper considers a 3 machine flow shop (M1M2M3) with tendency of dominant (bottleneck) machine at M1. The developed bottleneck based heuristics from previous studies are considered in this case by Hezzeril (2010) and Irwan (2010), but were only tested for dominant machine at M2 and M3 respectively. The heuristics have successfully produced 67.24% of optimum solution at the middle process or M2 and 90.80% at the last process or M3 for 6 jobs problem. While for 10 jobs problem, the heuristics can produce 14.64% at M2 and 90.98% at M3. As an extension of this study, the bottleneck based heuristic scope is enlarged by developing a new heuristic for dominant machine at M1 and combining it with the previously developed heuristics for dominant machine at M2 and M3. The main objective is to develop scheduling heuristic to evaluate the performance at M1 based on bottleneck analysis for M1M2M3 flow shop and to combine with the developed heuristics from previous studies. The computer program involved were Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and the test of performance were conducted at 6 and 10 jobs problem. A simulated random data within specific limitation being assigned at each job’s processing time produces new recommended job arrangements. The generated makespan was compared with optimum makespan from complete enumeration and lower bound (LB) analysis. Total sets of 1000 simulated data at 6 and 10 jobs were allocated into 3 dominance level of P1DL; weak, medium, and strong. Optimal solutions were obtained based on the total results data that produce the ratio of 1. Based on the results, 62.40% of the solution generated is optimum result for 6 jobs while 56.33% of the solution generated equals to lower bound for 10 jobs. The heuristic performed moderately and decreased slightly when number of jobs increased, showing that BMM1 heuristic is more suitable for lesser number of jobs

Penghasilan modul pembelajaran kendiri bahan dan binaan berasaskan web

Perkembangan teknologi maklumat dalam dunia pendidikan tidak Iagi boleh dinafikan pada masa kini. Keperluan yang meningkat dalam sistem pembelajaran dan pengajaran memerlukan mereka yang terlibat memberi sepenuh tumpuan terhadap mata pelajaran bagi mencapai matlamat, untuk tujuan ini modul pembelajaran kendiri di hasilkan bagi membantu memudahkan pelajar dan pensyarah dalam mata pelajaran Bahan dan Binaan agar dapat mengikuti pelajaran tersebut secara berkesan tanpa membuang masa. Seramai 35 orang pelajar diploma kejuruteraan Awam Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah , Jitra Kedah terlibat sebagai responden. Statistik deskriptif digunakan dalam mengumpul dan menganalisis data. Secara keseluruhannya dari hasil kajian, menunjukkan para pelajar memberikan maklum balas yang positif terhadap modul pembelajaran kendiri Bahan dan Binaan berasaskan web ini. Dari hasil kajian ini juga didapati bahawa kebanyakan pelajar lebih berminat terhadap menggunakan media yang pelbagai seperti teks, audio dan visual. Walau bagaimana pun masih terdapat beberapa aspek yang perlu diperbaiki untuk memantapkan modul pembelajaran kendiri ini. Bagi menyokong perkembangan dan penggunaan teknologi maklumat dalam pendidikan keijasama daripada pelbagai pihak seperti Kementerian dan Politeknik sendiri diperlukan terutama dari segi kemudahan komputer, kursus penggunaan perisian dan sebagainya.ini adalah penting bagi melahirkan graduan yang berkualiti dan mempunyai pengetahuan yang meluas dalam bidang teknologi pada masa akan datang

Sailing the Archipelago in a Boat of Rhymes Pantun in the Malay World

The extremely popular poetic form from Insular Southeast Asia, the pantun, travelled from its unknown source throughout the Malay Archipelago, first in Malay, then in the languages of Southeast Asia. In the ports and states where they were received, local colour, other idiosyncrasies, references, and linguistic characteristics have been added, and in fact, special forms with special names developed. This basic form is known, composed, and loved in at least 40 dialects of Malay, and 35 non-Malay languages, in the Peninsula and many of the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia. It spread through trade routes, ports, and also via diasporas and colonial economic projects which caused numerous peoples to move, who in turn brought the pantun along with them. It is now the most dynamic single literary form and has the longest history

The concrete structure remedial assessements in marine environment from whole life asset management perspectives

This study makes use of a desk top review methodology to discover and understand the remedial assessment of damage concrete structures in the marine environment (sea water). Basically, the restorations of asset marine facility are done by using a correct and present repair technique to both spall concrete as well as corrode rebar and must follow the code and standards throughout construction periods. Specifically, the study undertook a comprehensive insight into the literature review of three (3) major components of research, consisting of reinforced concrete of marine structure, understanding marine environment and management of rehabilitation marine facility. The research chooses a case study of an oil refinery jetty piles terminal at Marsden Point in New Zealand. The asset facility is poorly deteriorating due to aggressive action of marine environment and need attention. The asset owners are aim to establish potential maintenance strategies in restoration of his asset facilities. The damaged marine structure will be looked at from whole life asset management perspectives; to identify various components of concrete structures that were subjected to steel corrosion and concrete deterioration. Application of whole life asset management paradigm in the case study will have significant impacts to the facilities and the owner as well. The benefits with regard to implementation of whole life asset management approaches in managing the asset marine facility correlate with risk management, accountability, service facility management and financial efficiency. The refurbishment work will make use of current repair method in assessing the restoration of damage concrete piles. This should take account of a risk management study prior selection of best procurement routes for the case studies. The case study is critically reviewed for options that suit the asset facility present condition and set up objectives to get the best approach adopted with regards to asset problem. The findings demonstrate that the adoption of the whole life asset management paradigm will promote the asset owner, to obtain best value for money concept from the investment and to gain benefits in terms of time, cost, quality and fit for purpose. It also help in promoting and prolong the asset lifespan and also to provide constant sustainable and economic service of asset facilities

Pelaksanaan program kerjasama institusi industri di Politeknik Merlimau Melaka

Kerjasama institusi-industri adalah penting dalam pembangunan sistem pendidikan negara. Penglibatan industri dalam bidang pendidikan khususnya dalam sistem Pendidikan Teknik dan Vokasional (PTV) adalah amat penting bagi menjamin kebolehpasaran para pelajar dan juga dalam pembangunan kurikulum. Kajian ini adalah bertujuan untuk mengenalapasti ciri-ciri kerjasama institusi-industri yang dilaksanakan di Politeknik Merlimau Melaka (PMM). Rekabentuk kajian ini adalah kajian kes secara tinjauan dengan mengunakan pendekatan secara kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Kajian menggunakan kaedah soal selidik dan juga kaedah temubual bagi mendapatkan data. Kajian ini dijalankan di PMM dan juga industri dengan mengambil 82 orang sebagai responden. Data-data dikumpul dan dianalisis menggunakan perisian Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS). Melalui data kajian yang diperolehi mendapati warga kerja PMM dan warga kerja industri berpendapat kerjasama yang dilaksanakan di PMM adalah bercirikan keuntungan (frekuensi = 40&33).. Pihak PMM dan industri juga berpendapat latihan pelajar juga merpakan ciri kerjasama yang kerap dilaksanakan di PMM (frekuensi 35&28). Dapatan menunjukkan terdapat pelbagai ciri kerjasama yang dilaksanakan di PMM dan keseluruhannya dapat dilihat ciri kerjasama yang banyak dilaksanakan adalah berkaitan dengan kepentingan pelajar samada dalam pembangunan, latihan dan pendidikan