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Penyelidikan ini adalah bertujuan untuk mengkaji kesan pendekatan strategi POE (Predict-Observe-Explain) dalam mengesan kerangka altematif pelajar tingkatan empat bagi topik Pergerakan Bahan Merentas Membran Plasma. Kajian ini dijalankan menggunakan reka bentuk kuasi-eksperimen yang melibatkan 68 orang pelajar tingkatan 4 dari sebuah sekolah di daerah Kuala Terengganu. Dalam kajian ini, idea awal pelajar mengenai konsep osmosis dan resapan telah diukur menggunakan Ujian Diagnostik Osmosis dan Resapan (DODT). Ujian tersebut telah ditadbir sebagai ujian-pra ke atas 34 orang pelajar daripada kumpulan eksperimen yang menggunakan strategi POE dan kumpulan kawalan yang menggunakan kaedah pengajaran biasa. Untuk mengesan kerangka altematif pelajar, analisis respon pelajar pada fasa ramalan dan penjelasan dijalankan. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa idea lumrah pelajar adalah bertentangan dengan idea saintis. Kesan strategi POE dianalisis secara kuantitatif dengan menggunakan Ujia.....

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Complaint is important in the university as it represent the dissatisfaction of student to the facilities and services. Yet, the current complaint management system where FKMT Student need to manually fill in the complaint form and FKMT Admin need to manually send the complaint to respective department is inefficient, therefore, this project is to develop IComplain@ META which is one of the hybrid web system is developed for FKMT Student, FKMT Member and FKMT Admin in order to ease their burden on complaint management. This system is going to use within FKMT, UPSI. This system had include the Artificial Intelligence technology, which is Naïve Bayes Classification Algorithm to classify the complaints of FKMT student and send to the respective departments automatically. Other than that, Email Notification sent to FKMT Student can help them in tracking the progress of complaint made. This system is hybrid web system that developed using Bootstrap PWA, Laravel and MySQL as data.....

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This project aims to overcome the problem of manual scheduling among the education organization such as school. The project was carried out by developing timetabling system named ClassGrid which has several features that can be used to generate timetable according to users details. ClassGrid is developed using Laravel framework that consist of Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) programming language, bootstrap for the design and being tested to 10 school teacher using System Usability Scale (SUS) to evaluate to end user. The results of the study found that the developed system is effective in decrease the overlap of the time slot and subject in timetable. The use of this ClassGrid timetabling system also found that it is a good way to standardised scheduling in every school and ensure all school to have fair opportunity in education. But even though it is good in generating timetabling, it also have their limitation..

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The aim of the present research was to analyse political oppression and brutality during Saddam Hussein regime’s rule in Iraq based on fictions by selected Iraqi writers. The main objective of this research is to show how the regime abused its power to subjugate the Iraqi population as depicted in the contemporary Iraqi novels. The selected novels for analysis were An Iraqi in Paris, Dates on My Fingers, Ijaam, Saddam City, The Scattered Crumbs, and The Corpse Washer. Using Michel Foucault’s concepts of sovereign power, surveillance, and resistance as the theoretical framework, the study shows how the Baath Party’s stranglehold on power adversely affected the lives of Iraqis. The selected novels highlighted oppression, inequality, and restrictions on freedom during the regime’s rule. They were also emblematic of the Baath Party and its tyrannical domination of Iraqi society. Scattered Crumbs and The Corpse Washer describe the effect of war on Iraqis. The texts also i.....

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As the average life expectancy of populations across the world increases, there is a growing challenge to maintain the health of older adults into older age. Older adults are at greater risk of endothelial dysfunction, reduction in functional fitness and mental ill-health issues such as depression, anxiety and loneliness. Research has suggested that low physical activity (PA) among older age populations contributes to an increase in oxidative stress and inflammation, which contribute to perpetuate further endothelial dysfunction, and growing mental ill-health. Low PA coupled to the natural process of sarcopenia are factors in an older adults’ decreased functional fitness, which limits their ability to do things independently. This creates a declining spiral in ageing leading to isolation, disease and eventually death. Therefore, encouraging older adults to increase their PA and adhere to an exercise programme is crucial in offsetting the effects of ageing. However, not all .....

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The aim  of this  study  was  to  improve  antimicrobial  properties  of fish  scales  hydroxyapatite/fish collagen (FsHA/FsCol) composites through infiltration of silver nanoparticles  into the matrix for antimicrobial bone filller substitute. In this sudy both hydroxyapatite and  collagen were extracted from fish scales using simple hydrothermal extraction method. Silver  nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized from silver nitrate using microwave-assisted method in which  neems leaves extract was used as reducing agent while fish collagen as stabilizer. FsHA/FsCol/AgNPs  composites were prepared in a form of powders and beads using two different methods. Chemical and  physical properties of AgNPs and FsHA/FsCol/AgNPs composites were characterized using field  emmision scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive x-ray (FESEM-EDX), transmission   electron  microscopy  (TEM),  Fourier transform  infrared  spectroscopy (FTIR) and  x-ray  diffrac.....

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The study aims to analyze the patriarchal system, the patriarchal oppression towards female  characters, and women's resistance to this patriarchal oppression in selected novels by Miral Al  Tahawi namely The Tent, Blue Aubergine, Gazelle Tracks, and Brooklyn Heights. Radical feminism  theory is used to analyze the selected texts as it considers patriarchy as the main root of women's  oppression. The objectives of the research shed light on the oppressive patriarchal authority that  uses its power to oppress Bedouin women, the types of oppression that Bedouin women are subjected  to by the norms of oppressive patriarchal system, and the way Bedouin women resist patriarchal  oppression. The study finds that, despite the strict Bedouin patriarchal system which imposes its  oppressive rules on women, the Bedouin women try to release these restrictions in several ways.  AI-Tahawi manages to provide a sense of identity for the female characters to free them from the  opp.....

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The purpose of this study was to examine the existential predicaments of modern men in Naguib  Mahfouz's selected novels. According to Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist predicament is a dilemma  of human existence in terms of despair, perplexity, crisis or moral chaos and its meanings The  study analysed four of Naguib Mahfouz's novels about Eygptian society faced with existential  predicaments which were The Cairo Trilogy, Midaq Alley, The Thief and the Dogs, and The Beggar  based on Jean-Paul Sartre's model. These novels were selected because they were related to  existential predicament issues that beset the moderm men. The study objectives included (a) to  examine the moral chaos in selected novels, (b) to analyse the modern men's predicaments, and (c) to  explain how existentialist philosophy is able to express the predicaments of the modern men. This  qualitative study has utilised literary criticism as its research design. The underpinning theory  was existent.....

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Hysteria was a phenomenon commonly portrayed in the twentieth century's literature, and for its  importance, it needs to be discussed in the current context. In this research, I argue that  patriarchal, physical, and sexual violation are the causes of a psychological disorder that weakens  females' personality that may lead to hysteria among them. Toni Morrison is a post-modern feminist  contemporary writer, whose work focuses on the problems of slavery and women. In her Paradise, A  mercy, The Bluest Eye, and Beloved, hysteria appears as a female character that symbolizes their  problems and difficulties. This research aims to examine how females are pushed to be hysteric by  family or society, how Toni Morrison depicts it, and how these female characters get rid of  hysteria to help them live as ordinary human beings based on Kristeva's concept of abjection. In  general, females are more reserved to express their feelings openly as males do, and as such, the  form.....

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