To identify the most frequent factors that showed significant results in the previous literature of social media, a quantitative systematic approach of 713 studies was conducted. The results showed that perceived enjoyment (PE), subjective norm (SN), self-efficacy (SE), perceived critical mass (PCM), facilitating conditions (FC), perceived compatibility (PC), and information quality (IQ) were the main frequent factors that showed significant results in the reviewed studies. Accordingly, this research aims to develop a comprehensive theoretical model by extending the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with those factors to investigate the students? behavioral intention to adopt social media in higher education. The developed model is validated using the partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique through data collected from 655 students studying at eight colleges/universities situated at eight governorates in Oman. The findings showed that PE, PCM, PC, and IQ p.....

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This study aims to examine the Relative Importance Index (RII) that influences online learning in the subject of Geography. The study adopted survey research design involving five secondary schools in the state of Perak, Malaysia consisted of 135 preuniversity students selected via simple random sampling method. Data were collected through a questionnaire developed by the researchers. The questionnaire was composed of 45 items to measure interest, acceptance, and effectiveness. The collected data were analyzed via SPSS software using descriptive analysis and RII analysis. Findings of the study revealed that the statement; ?when learning there is an interesting video display? had the highest RII value (RII = 0.8933), while ?I prefer to learn through the internet because any time I can learn ?received the second highest RII value (RII = 0.8296) for the factor acceptance criteria. For the learning effectiveness criteria, the ?online learning factor created curiosity to me in the subject o.....

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In the current new era of digital, e-commerce platform has been growing rapidly. Thus, this research aimed to study the determinants affecting customer perceived e-service quality (PeSQ) towards e-retailing shopping site in Malaysia and to examine the most significant determinants of e-service quality towards customer PeSQ from e-retailing shopping site in Malaysia. In order to study this, the researchers have selected 384 respondents as sample using Google Form questionnaire distributed online. For the finding analysis, the researcher used SPSS software with explanatory factor analysis test of the data. It depicted that there were exactly five factors extracted in the research. Multiple regression tests were used to find the most significant factor. The results showed that privacy as the most significant predictor but reliability was not significant in the research. Copyright ? 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd...

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Context and background: Corona virus (COVID) has rapidly gained a foothold and caused a global pandemic. Particularists try their best to tackle this global crisis. New challenges outlined from various medical perspectives may require a novel design solution. Asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers show different health conditions and no symptoms; hence, a differentiation process is required to avert the risk of chronic virus carriers. Objectives: Laboratory criteria and patient dataset are compulsory in constructing a new framework. Prioritisation is a popular topic and a complex issue for patients with COVID-19, especially for asymptomatic carriers due to multi-laboratory criteria, criterion importance and trade-off amongst these criteria. This study presents new integrated decision-making framework that handles the prioritisation of patients with COVID-19 and can detect the health conditions of asymptomatic carriers. Methods: The methodology includes four phases. Firstly, eight important lab.....

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In order to achieve phytoremediation during agricultural production, it is essential to identify high genotypes yield that is able of accumulating many types of heavy metals not in the edible parts which have significant nutritional value but in the non-edible parts. This study conducted to estimate the heavy metal ATPases 5 (HMA5), Phytochelatins synthase (PCs) and metallothionein 2 (MT2) genes expression in plant Vicia faba in response to an elevated concentration of copper and zinc in nutrient media. Using Quantitative Real-Time PCR (RT-qPCR) technique, the results of hydroponic culture methods with high concentrations of copper (75 �Mol / L) and high concentration of zinc (500 � Mol / L) showed high expression level for the three genes of Vicia faba plant compared with control. Established that the expression of the genes under the influence of copper ion was higher than the expression under zinc ion influence. Besides that, gene expression increased with increased exposure tim.....

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Educational games are generally perceived as less interesting and engaging as compared to entertainment or video games. The stigma of having created for entertainment purposes is hindering teachers or lecturers from using educational games in formal educational contexts. Hence, there is a need to learn from experienced and successful video game designers in order to make educational games engaging, particularly on providing game players the immersive user experience (UX) through an emotional context. This study was conducted to examine the attitude, experiences and understanding of prominent game designers in the Southeast Asia region on the concept, definitions and elements of UX when designing immersive games. The designers were interviewed and the recordings were transcribed on verbatim basis to allow coding for narration. The outputs of the narration were mapped on to an emotional context, specifically for designing immersive educational games. The findings revealed that the primar.....

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We designed an at-home experiment on the inverse square law of light as an alternative to a standard in-campus experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The collaborative experiment uses smartphones with remote instructor?s support. ? 2021 The Author(s)...

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The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) focuses on human capital growth in educational settings. This leads to the demand for educators who can bring creative temperaments to English Language teaching as mentioned in the National Education Blueprint (NEP) and Integrated Curriculum for Secondary School (KSSM) in line with the 21st Century Teaching and Learning philosophy. Despite a pool of pedagogical tools and ideas available to teach writing creatively, some teachers still lack creativity skills and knowledge to adopt, integrate, and apply teaching strategies to boost students' interest and writing skills. A preliminary qualitative study was conducted among 4 ESL participants in secondary schools in Selangor to assist in the analysis phase of the actual module development project. The main objective of this study was to describe the challenges faced by teachers to teach writing creatively. Data collected through semi-structured interviews and observations resulted in a strategic solution .....

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This study aims to analyze the relationship between environmental performance and carbon emission disclosure to share returns. To test our hypotheses, we using 130 firm-year observations, manufacture listed firms in Indonesia Stock Exchange that included in PROPER assessment from 2013 to 2016. Ordinary least square regression result shows that environmental performance does not have a relationship to share return, while carbon emission disclosure has a positive relationship to share return. These results indicate that, in general, the market will respond to information as a particular signal toward an event that affects the firm's value, which reflected by the firm's share price. This study is crucial for the investor to consider non-financial factors such as corporate social responsibility disclosure and environmental performance in the context of select a proper investment. ? 2021 RIGEO. All Rights Reserved...

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As benchmarking for individual future success, selecting a profession is certainly a vital and critical decision. It is very difficult to anticipate whether one will remain in the same profession during his or her entire career or not. This is due to the fact that the choice to stay in or leave the profession is always influenced by many factors. Having a career as an early childhood educator is indeed an exciting and challenging. Yet, the decision to remain in this field is tremendously a difficult and critical decision to make. This may due to the substantial responsibility that should be carried out by every early childhood educator. Furthermore, the accessibility to quality education in early childhood is limited, especially in developing countries. Previous literatures cite many factors that impact a teacher's decision to remain in his or her career. Hence, this study aims to examine the decision factors of early childhood teachers' career retention, whether to remain in or leave .....

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