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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This paper examines Sheikh Dawud al-Fatani's ?d?hu l-b?b li-mur?di l-nik?h bi-l-saw?b (?Explanation of the chapter for the one who desires a good marriage?), which outlines his understanding and mastery of the jurisprudence of Islamic family law. Al-Fatani is a renowned nineteenth-century Malay Muslim scholar, and his work is widely referred to in Islamic education institutions in the region. A close scrutiny of ?d?hu l-b?b offers a profound understanding of nineteenth-century Malay Muslims' view of the institution of marriage. The foci of this paper include the general concept of marriage in Islam; guidelines on spouse selection; the obligations of both husband and wife; and the law on inter-religious marriage. In summary, al-Fatani shows that marriage requires a meticulous consideration of all parties involved; after all, family is a paramount social unit that needs to be preserved to ensure stability in the development of a society. ? Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2021..

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Data visualizations make data easier for the human brain to understand, and visualization also makes it easier to detect patterns, trends, and styles in groups of data. With the development of the data visualization, more and more data which contains the information of disabled population has been collected. However, researchers have pointed out some problems with visualizing data especially using traditional methods. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a web-based system for data visualization of disabled people distribution in Kuala Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia. Prototyping methodology was chosen in order to develop the web-based system. The results show two main interfaces of the web system which are the admin module and user module. Users may see a specific area, type of disabled people categories and the number of disabled people in the located area from the Google Map. This web system is hope to help public in identifying disabled people location using data visualization techn.....

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The present study was designed to evaluate the anticancer properties of girinimbine and its derivatives. Two different routes for the synthesis of girinimbine involving a two-step reaction or a one-pot reaction were studied. Girinimbine was synthesised through metal-catalysed heterocoupling, indole ring closure, ether formation, and Claisen cyclisation. Girinimbine derivatives were prepared by the semi-synthesis of isolated girinimbine from Murraya koenigii through alkylation or acylation reactions. Natural and synthetic girinimbines, five derivatives of N-substituted girinimbine, and three intermediates from the synthesis of girinimbine were evaluated for cytotoxicity activity against human lung cancer (A549) and normal lung (MRC-5) cell lines. The structures of all the synthesised compounds were confirmed by spectroscopic analysis and comparison with published data. The cytotoxicity assay showed that the natural girinimbine and nitrobiphenyl intermediate exhibited high toxicity (IC50.....

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Eleven undescribed triterpenoids (pentandrucines A to K) were isolated from the n-hexane extract of the stem bark of Chisocheton pentandrus (Blanco) Merr. These comprised ten undescribed dammarane-type triterpenoids and one undescribed apotirucallane-type triterpenoid. Additionally, two dammarane-type triterpenoids, four apotirucallane-type triterpenoids and two tirucallane-type triterpenoids were also isolated. The chemical structures of pentandrucine A-K, were fully elucidated using 1D and 2D-NMR, and high resolution MS. All of the compounds were evaluated for cytotoxic activity against MCF-7 breast cancer cells in vitro. Melianodiol proved to be the most active with an IC50 of 16.84 ?M comparing favourably with Cisplatin (13.2 ?M). ? 2021 The Author(s)..

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Cyber aggression has become a growing problem in today's society. It offers convenient opportunities to humiliate, bully, or harass others online. Global studies on cyber aggression found that youths who were aggressed online reported feeling depressed, anxious and afraid. They showed poor academic performance, and experiencd eating disorders, alcohol, drugs and substance abuse. Therefore the study aimed to investigate the interrelationships between predictive factors namely peer attachment, parental attachment, exposure to the Internet and cyber aggression-victimization among youths. The renowned general aggression model (GAM) was applied to understand the phenomenon. A sample of 430 urban youths aged between 13 and 18 years living within Klang Valley area were randomly selected to participate in the study. Data were gathered through self-report questionnaires and later analyzed using SPSS and AMOS. The results revealed several noteworthy findings; most of respondents made use of the .....

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