An investigation of Arabic-Malay translation: problems and issues

The aim of this research paper is to look at the various issues that may arise with Arabic translations and to find possible solutions. The translation is a delicate and subtle process, and some important issues need to be taken into account. However, translation gets more difficult from Malay to the Arabic language. Consequently, a translator must have the critical linguistic knowledge and skills in undertaking both the surface and underlying relations of language. Translation includes, among other things, the transfer and transformation of different linguistic characteristics from one language to another. In terms of vocabulary, grammar, sound, style, and usage, there is a wide variety of translations between Arabic and Malay. This paper thus focuses on the challenges of translating Arabic texts in terms of types of readership, text, context, and culture

Elevating database performance: current caching and prefetching strategies for online databases in Nigeria

This study investigated caching and prefetching techniques to improve data access performance in online databases, considering factors like data popularity, access patterns, and cache coherence. The research design adopted for this study was the descriptive survey. The population comprised of 1387 undergraduates computer science students in public tertiary institutions in Ekiti State. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select 150 computer science students from three public tertiary institutions in the study area. The instrument used for data collection was a structured 4 Likert type questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to the respondents to find out the effectiveness of caching and prefetching techniques on online database. The instrument was both face and content validated by two experts from department of computer science in Bamidele Olumilua University of Education Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State. The reliability of the instrument was ensured using Pearson Product Moment Correlation formula which yielded a coefficient of 0.97. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation. The result showed that the current caching and prefetching techniques employed in online databases are highly effective; the different access patterns have effect on the effectiveness of caching and prefetching techniques in online databases and there are impacts of cache coherence mechanisms on the efficiency of caching and prefetching techniques in online databases. It was therefore recommended that the inclusion of caching and prefetching in curriculum is important across all educational level in Nigeria. In addition, caching and perfecting has come under fire for focusing mostly on computer science

Search strategies formulation among library and information science students in online database

The purpose of this study is to investigate the search strategies practiced by postgraduate students at Department of Library and Information Science in IIUM. As became future librarians or information professionals in organization of library or reputable institutions, the good search strategies is very important in order to satisfy and guide users in locate the information through various sources especially electronic sources such as online database. The findings of this study would contribute to understand of LIS students search strategies on the use of online database in order to develop better formulation of queries as well as to increase the confident in use online database when retrieve the information with an effective ways. Besides that, since LIS students get proper training and education pertaining to search skills in courses offers, the advent of technology have change their roles as a facilitator in retrieve the information and play roles in assisting and facilitating normal users from other faculties and fields to find information in efficient ways. Furthermore, the focus of this study is to examine the reasons causing the failure in getting the needed results by the postgraduate students at Department of Library and Information Science in IIUM. In addition, the study included the minor findings of which are the most online database that they always use and the purpose of use online database. Average time of searching information also taken into account in order to understand their expertise and knowledge skills in general. The study employed the descriptive survey research and utilized selfadministrative questionnaire for data collections. Data collected of the study presented in table of frequency and percentage followed by brief description of the findings

Implementation e-government initiatives among Malaysian local authorities

This paper was to study the implementation of the eGovernment initiatives among the local authorities in Malaysia which are under the jurisdiction of the local governments by using the Web Presence Measurement Model. The findings showed that the City council came out top in terms of achievement for the five Stages of Web Presence while the District council came out last which means a good number of indicators are absent from the District council websites/portals The findings also showed that the local authorities operating in the State of Selangor were much more advanced in term of representation for their websites/portals compared to those found in the State of Sabah which is located at the bottom of the list. Lessons from this study indicate that local authorities operating in constituencies with high income per capita such as Selangor are able to integrate more facilities in their websites. However, social network facilities such as Facebook and Twitter are being provided by all the local authorities websites. It is expected that the evaluation of the local authorities websites will provide a clear indication as to the extent of e-government implementation among local authorities in Malaysia

International collaboration in information and communication technology of Malaysian scholars

This paper is intended to study the pattern of scientific development in the Muslim world. For this purpose, Malaysian scholars were assessed with regard to their collaboration with scholars from the Muslim world. It was found that the main international collaborator among Malaysian scholars and institutions is Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) with 21 papers in all the three subject fields. The finding also illustrate that collaboration with those from Muslim countries is considered low. In order to improve collaboration between Malaysian scholars and scholars from the Muslim world, the government should promote bilateral, regional and multilateral programmes with countries in the Muslim world

Bibliometric assessment of scholarly publications on wāqf (Islamic Endowment)

This study aims at exploring and evaluating the growth and distribution of scholarly publications relating to wāqf using the evolving Bibliometrics technique for the period 1914-2019. For the established period (1914-2019), a total of the 476 scholarly papers were extracted using Scopus database. Basic inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied to ensure the theme of the study is critically analyzed. This study analyzes the documents based on various bibliometric measures such as year wise growth of publication, most productive wāqf authors, productive countries in wāqf publications, most productive wāqf journals, leading sponsors organization on wāqf, identification of important authors’ key words in wāqf publications, and characteristics of highly cited wāqf publications. The adopted bibliometric analysis helps determine special trends in wāqf and provides a basis for more wāqf multidisciplinary collaboration and research. Among the findings: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient is the journal with the highest number of wāqf scholarly publications within the designated period; Timur Kuran is the author with the highest number of publications on wāqf while 2018 and 2017 recorded the most number of publications on wāqf. Wāqf authors from Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Turkey have high level sponsor support. This study only explored Scopus online database to harvest scholarly publication on Wāqf