Breast cancer had become one of the most common disease among female in Malaysia. Hence this study was proposed to explore the factor towards positive quality of life among breast cancer survivors as the issue raised due to the increasing population of breast cancer survivors. In this qualitative study of phenamonolgical design, nine breast cancer survivors who attend the informal MAKNA meeting at Social Work Department, Taiping Hospital were recruited by using purposive sampling method. The raw data obtained in face-to-face interviews carried out in individual setting with several semi structured question as a guidance were then analysed by using thematic analysis method. There are five theme emerged which are spiritual belief, optimism and positive thinking, awareness, lifestyle and pleasurable activities. Optimism and positive thinking was most frequently mentioned by the informants followed by the spiritual belief. Almost all the informants had mentioned that spiritual belief and o.....

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The present study was conducted to better understand aggressive traits and experiences of bullying victimisation amongst a group of at risk female adolescents in a welfare home setting. The objectives of this study were to determine if the presence of aggressive traits in victims provoke bullying, and to explore their experiences of bullying within a setting where their bullies also reside. The sample consisted of fifty two female adolescents, aged between 13 and 18 years old, from one children’s welfare home in Perak. A self-administered questionnaire and focus-group interviews were used to collect data. As a group, the adolescents scored higher in all subdomains of aggression, particularly hostility; compared to the norm reference. Mann-Whitney U test indicated significant differences in the subdomains physical aggression, verbal aggression, and hostility; between adolescents who had experienced bullying victimisation and those who had never been bullied. 71% of the adolescents in .....

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The purpose of the study was to develop a STEM programme in learning science for low performing secondary students. The STEM programme was developed based on the design principles (integration of current national curriculum, application in daily life using STEM practices, application of educational technologies, active learning, guidelines for future study and career pathways) in Design-Based Research (DBR) with three iterative cycles and refinements. The study was aimed to determine the impact of the STEM programme on low-performing secondary students’ behavioural intention in performing STEM practices in learning science as well as students’ perceived vocational choices. Explanatory sequential mixed methods design and quasiexperimental survey design were employed with the application of the pre-survey and post-survey approach. A simple random sampling technique was used to opt for two secondary schools in the Perak state. Experimental group involved 37 students who pa.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk meneroka potensi Model Project Citizen (MPC) sebagai alat untuk mengembangkan nilai moral, perilaku karakter dan amalan kepedulian sosial siswa melalui pembelajaran kursus Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan (PKn). Kajian ini dilaksanakan dalam pendekatan kualitatif dengan menggunakan reka bentuk kajian tindakan partisipatif (Participatory Action Research atau PAR). Model PAR yang mempunyai tiga gelung (siklus) yang telah diadaptasi daripada Crane dan Richardson (2000) digunakan. Peserta kajian terdiri daripada 18 orang siswa dari Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto (UMP) yang mengikuti kursus Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan (PKn). Peserta terlibat dalam kerja-kerja amal dan sosial dalam masyarakat setempat, melalui Model Project Citizen, dalam ketiga-tiga gelung kajian tindakan partisipatif. Data untuk kajian ini dikutip melalui teknik temu bual, pemerhatian, catatan jurnal dan rakaman video. Data yang dikumpul dianalis dengan menggunakan kaedah analisis tema......

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The purpose of this research is to assess the employability level of graduated students in Ningxia Polytechnic, and form an employability framework to improve the employability of students. Five employment ability variables studied are professional ability, individual ability, vocational ability, social ability, innovation and entrepreneurship. A total of 446 China Ningxia Polytechnic graduated students participated in this research. An instrument of the self-evaluation scale of vocational college students' employment ability was developed and the validity of the content was judged by experts. The instrument consists of 41 items employability, 40 items influencing factors and 9 item basic information, which has met the psychological measurement standards. The confirmatory factor analysis was performed by AMOS SEM to test the convergence validity and discriminant validity of the variables and Cronbach's alpha used to measure internal consistency of the scores produced. The se.....

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Current identification of passive detection has been attention in the modern world due to the system's robustness as an ear recognition framework based on a multiclassifier and attempt to create user patterns via extracted features from ear images, which have unique individual identities. The collected features from the ear intersection points and the angles bounded between curves using different descriptors and classifiers are considered unique information used to generate unique features. The proposed framework commenced with the extraction of eight sets of features (LBP, BSIF, LPQ, RILPQ, POEM, HOG, DSIFT, and Gabor) from 2D ear images. Subsequently, ELM and SVM classifiers were trained on each set of features. Seven combination rules (MR, AR, GWAR, ICWAR, Borda, DS, and AV (GWAR, Borda, DS)) were utilized to acquire a total of 16 classifiers. Also, two optimization rules; genetic algorithm and brute force were proposed for accuracy enhancement. The AWE and the USTB datas.....

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The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between career indecision, career decision self-efficacy and career anxiety. The descriptive analysis is used to identify the mean level of career anxiety based on gender, while T-test is used to compare the gender differences. Besides, Pearson’s Correlation is used to identify the relationship between the variables. A sample of 95 students in Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris is involved in the study. There is total three instruments were used in the study: Career Decision Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ), Career Decision Self- Efficacy Short Form (CDSE-SF), and Career Anxiety Scales (CAS). The findings reported that there are no significant differences between males and females towards career anxiety, thus gender does not affect the level of career anxiety. Furthermore, the result showed there was a significant positive relationship between career indecision and career anxiety with the Pearson correlation of r=......

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Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti keberkesanan Modul Rimba terhadap pencapaian murid Orang Asli terutama dalam topik peribahasa. Objektif kajian adalah mengenal pasti perbezaan pencapaian min yang signifikan antara kumpulan kawalan dan kumpulan rawatan berdasarkan penguasaan peribahasa dalam Modul Rimba, mengenal pasti perbezaan pencapaian murid Orang Asli dalam penguasaan peribahasa berdasarkan latar belakang murid Orang Asli dan menganalisis hubungan antara sikap, minat dan pencapaian dalam penguasaan peribahasa murid Orang Asli terhadap pembelajaran topik peribahasa. Seramai 111 orang murid Orang Asli tahun tiga telah dipilih daripada enam buah sekolah sebagai sampel di daerah Kuala Langat, Selangor melalui kaedah intact group. Jumlah sampel daripada enam buah sekolah dibahagikan kepada dua kumpulan iaitu tiga sekolah sebagai kumpulan kawalan dan tiga sekolah lagi sebagai kumpulan rawatan. Data dianalisis dengan secara deskriptif dan inferensi. Reka bentuk yang digunak.....

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Fan Ming ju can resist the pressure from human relations and remain purely objective in her book review while at the same time excelling in catching the subtleties in the literary works. T his paper interprets and analyzes her book review from three areas. The paper first looks at how Fan Ming ju examines the na rrative structure of literary works and Taiwan's spatial politics from the perspective of the discourse power. Next, it focuses on how literature reconstructs urban images by extract ing from memory and the subject consciousness binded in local writing. Fin ally, through her analysis of the literary phenomena of different eras, she has an unwavering devotion to Taiwan ese literature.  ..

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As a Post May Fourth scholar, Ch’ien Chung Shu had gained a deep foundation for tradition studies from home, as well as underwent professional training on Western Literature. Thus, his literary perspective was much wider, familiar with the tradition and modern studies within Eastern and Western world. While comparing the Chinese and Western studies, the May Fourth scholars tended to promote “new voices” from the foreign land, taking strategic of enlarged th e advances of Western studies plus highlighted the defect of Chinese studies, in order to shape the legality of New Literature. On the contrary, the Xueheng School 学衡派 tended to absorb new nutrients from the Western Classical Literature, even analyzed the Chinese tradition studies from Western perspective . Regrettably, the Xueheng School was considered as the opposition during the New Literature Movement, their appr oach usually obscured by the tense confrontation between the new and tradition studies. Between 1932 35, .....

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