The vocational high school principal is a determining factor for the progress or failure of a school. Therefore, the principal's performance evaluation must be optimal. This study explores the government direction on this performance evaluation in two neighboring countries: Indonesia and Malaysia. The research method uses a qualitative approach, by interviewing both school supervisors and principals, and analyzing documents. The steps are 1) collection of resources through multi techniques; 2) reducing data with the aim of simplifying and categorizing data; 3) presenting data in the form of qualitative descriptions; 4) drawing conclusions and 5) compiling research reports and formulate comparative research findings. For Indonesia, once a year, the School Supervisor and a team from the Education Office in Indonesia are responsible for carrying out the review of the performance of the principals of vocational schools. The current evaluation of the principal of a vocational high school in.....

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Financial literacy has become an important element in improving the quality of individual, familial, societal, and national well-being. This study aims to find the relationship between parental income and financial literacy level among students at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. The research employed a quantitative method using a closed-ended questionnaire to collect the data for the analysis. The research sample was selected using a stratified sampling technique and simple random sampling that consists of 366 undergraduate education students. The result indicates that parental income has a weak and significant positive relationship with financial literacy levels among students. Based on the regression analysis, the father’s income explains about 2.76% of the variance in financial literacy, while the mother’s income explains 10.8% of the variance in financial literacy. The results of this study show that parental income has a relationship with student’s financial literacy lev.....

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The aim of this study is to produce a product in the form of an assessment model for autistic children through art therapy to improve their concentration ability in inclusive early childhood education schools. This research is conducted as a Research and Development (R&D) exploration employing the ADDIE model, which involves (1) analyzing the need for implementing assessments in the field, (2) designing assessment models based on the results of field analysis, (3) developing the assessment model through validation and revision towards a product that is ready for trial, (4) implementing assessment models for autistic children in five inclusive early childhood education schools in Surakarta to test the feasibility of the model, and (5) evaluating to determine the final product. The population consists of autistic students from inclusive early childhood education schools in Surakarta. Research instruments include interviews/observations, questionnaires, tests, and product validation instr.....

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Online distance learning policies were formulated and implemented among some Malaysian universities long ago, but their value emerged since COVID-19. Emanating from the diffusion of innovation theory, this study examined the perception of higher education students on the influence and relationship between six independent variables (compatibility, observability, relative advantage, complexity, trialability, and digital skills) and one dependent variable (digital literacy). A total of 524 respondents were sampled, comprising students from six public and private Malaysian universities. The findings from the correlation analysis show a significant positive relationship between the six independent variables and the dependent variable. Meanwhile, in the regression analysis, three of the independent variables (observability, trialability, and digital skill) have a significant and positive effect on digital literacy. This study placed the diffusion of innovation in a specific context that supp.....

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Air pollution has been a significant issue in recent years due to rising industrialization and maritime activity around the globe, making air pollution forecasting a crucial concept in environmental study. This prompted the deployment of principal component analysis (PCA) for the source apportionment amongst the air quality parameters and the artificial neural network (ANN) for the prediction of the significant air quality parameters in ports area for this study. The study was carried out in seven federal ports across Malaysia for the period of 2009 and 2018, and 14 air quality parameters were calculated using information on air quality acquired from the Department of the Environment. The results of the study showed PCA identified NOx, NO, SO, NO2, CO, and PM10 as the variables of significance with a variation of 44.31% with CO exhibiting the highest factor loading (0.968). Artificial Neural Network-Source Apportionment accurately predicted CO as the major pollutant with R2 in training.....

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This paper presents a new approach based on multi-dimensional evaluation and benchmarking for data hiding techniques, i.e., watermarking and steganography. The novelty claim is the use of evaluation matrix (EM) for performance evaluation of data hiding techniques; however, one major problem with performance evaluation of data hiding techniques is to nd reasonable thresholds for performance metrics and the trade-o® among them in di®erent data hiding applications. Two experiments are conducted. The rst experiment included LSB techniques (eight approaches) based on di®erent payload results and the noise gate approach; a total of nine approaches were used. Five audio samples with di®erent audio styles are tested using each of the nine approaches and considering three evaluation criteria, namely, complexity, payload, and quality, to generate watermarked samples. The second experiment involves the use of various decision-making techniques simple additive weighting (SAW), multiplicative e.....

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EuD4TEA crystals have a few fascinating properties, such as photoluminescence and mechanoluminescence. Both phenomena occur when external excitation is performed on EuD4TEA crystals. Photoluminescence is excited by external light radiation, whereas mechanoluminescence is stimulated by an external mechanical force applied to it. EuD4TEA has easily been prepared only by standard crystallisation using dibenzoylmethane, europium nitrate hexahydrate, and triethylamine. This research mainly focused on the solvent for the synthesis of EuD4TEA crystals. The solvents used were ethanol and acetone. Acetone has the main credit for producing much higher-quality EuD4TEA crystals in certain aspects. Acetone-based end products are larger and have higher light emission under excitation. © 2024, Semarak Ilmu Publishing. All rights reserved...

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The purpose of the current research was to explore the key factors in the development of grass-roots football in Indonesia, including the current development process and challenges. This research was qualitative research. A semi-structured interview was conducted to gather the data. Through interviews, the researcher gathered the participants overview and perspective regarding the current practice and challenges of grass-roots football in Indonesia. In this case, 7 coaches at a grassroots football academy in Indonesia were involved in this research, as determined by the purposive sampling method. The participants were chosen based on their coaching experience, which ranged from 5 to 16 years. A qualitative data analysis application, namely N-Vivo, was utilized to analyze the data. The finding indicated that two big themes were created: the current development of grassroot football academy in Indonesia and the current challenges of grassroot football academy in Indonesia. Both themes ha.....

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Existing research on strategies employed by preschool teachers to promote physical activities within families and communities remains limited and lacks clarity. This study aims to comprehensively explore the strategies employed by preschool teachers to promote physical activities within families and communities. Utilizing a qualitative research design specifically, multiple case studies as the research approach, and purposive sampling, ten teachers participated in the study. The interview protocol, derived from established theories and past studies, underwent validation by two experts. Thematic analysis was employed to manually analyze and code the data. Themes encompassing preschool teachers’ instructional strategies for facilitating physical activities for children in their care include the teaching of physical activities, the use of games, utilizing television to encourage children to exercise, and employing structured play and exercise routines. Additional findings highlight pres.....

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Participating in sports has been shown to promote overall wellness and, at the same time, reduce health risks. As more people are participating in sports, competitions have increased, and every aspect of the game has been focused by coaches and athletes in order to improve performance. One of these aspects is the warm-up session. The purpose of this study was to investigate the acute effect of a dynamic warm-up versus a proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) warm-up on the sprint and jump performance of recreationally active men. Thirty (n = 30) males were randomly assigned to undergo three sessions of different warm-up types, 72 h apart, involving either proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), dynamic stretching (DS), or no stretching session (control). The PNF and dynamic modes of stretching improved vertical jump performance, F (2.58) = 5.49, p = 0.046, to a certain extent (mean + 3.32% vs. control, p = 0.002 for dynamic and mean + 1.53% vs. control, p = 0.048 for .....

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