Kajian ini dilakukan apabila tiadanya satu instrumen yang khas untuk mengesahkan serta menguji kebolehpercayaan item bagi penceritaan digital terutamanya bagi subjek Bahasa Inggeris. Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti tahap reaksi dan pembelajaran guru Bahasa Inggeris terhadap Instrumen Penilaian Penceritaan Digital (IPPD) yang dibangunkan menggunakan pendekatan Model Penilaian Kirkpatrick untuk menilai kualiti kandungan bahan penceritaan digital bagi mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggeris. Kajian ini telah dijalankan terhadap 180 orang guru Bahasa Inggeris yang mengajar di daerah Kuantan. Data yang diperolehi melalui instrumen penilaian dianalisis menggunakan analisis deskriptif. Dapatan kajian reaksi guru pakar terhadap IPPD adalah positif apabila nilai pekali Alpha Cronbach untuk kajian ini ialah 0.95 yang menunjukkan pemboleh ubah menyediakan ukuran dalaman secara konsisten. Sementara itu, nilai skor min yang diperolehi bagi tahap pembelajaran guru pakar Bahasa Ing.....

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Student evaluation on instructors is used in almost every high institution throughout the world whether in university or even colleges. The objective of this paper is to examine the factors that contribute to the student's evaluation on instructors among undergraduate students at Northern University of Malaysia (UUM) by using factor analysis method. The respondents of this study were 153 undergraduate students at the School of Quantitative Science via convenience sampling and snowball sampling method. The questionnaire was distributed to the participants via Google Form regarding demographic information and evaluation of the instructor. The questionnaire evaluation of the instructor consisted of 31 questions in total and 153 responses were received. The factors were classified into dependent and independent variables to identify the significance of the variables. In this paper, the variables of Student Interest, Student-Instructor, Course Demands and Course Organization were grouped as.....

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Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) planting is one of the economic pillars of countries rich in biodiversity in tropical regions. However, pest and disease are the most serious limitation of oil palm production. Bagworm, Metisa plana (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) is considered the most destructive pest in the oil palm plantation in Malaysia, which could cause high yield losses up to 43% over two years after a serious infestation and become a primary concern among stakeholders. Conventional excessive use of pesticides causes serious environmental pollutions and damage to non-target organisms. Thus, biological control can be reduced the pest populations safely and efficiently by beneficial insects such as parasitoids. This study aims to (i) evaluate the bagworm infestation in an oil palm plantation, Perak, Malaysia; (ii) determine the impact and damage of the bagworm stages on the oil palm plantation, and (iii) evaluate the parasitoid in such areas. A total of 57 palm trees have been systematically.....

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This study aimed to identify the display of the elements of Lord Shiva’s ‘Sorubam’ and ‘Thadatham’ in Thirunaavukkarasar’s songs based on the theories found in the Saiva Sidhantham. Rooted on the theory, ‘Sivanyabotham’ is referred to in context of this research to analyze the display of the focussed elements. The methodology used in this research is of mixed method, whereby both qualitative and quantitative method were used descriptively based on the analysis of the texts used in Thirunaavukkarasar’s songs. Data is obtained through document analysis and questionnaire. 100 Thirunaavukkarasar’s songs were used for data collection through document analysis. The questionnaire consists of 3 parts with 24 items in total, with Part A consisting of seven items pertaining to Thirunaavukkarasar, Part B with 10 items pertaining to ‘Enkunanggal’, and Part C with seven items pertaining to ‘Aintholil’. Data obtained is analyzed thematically and percentage wise.....

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The study investigates the effect of carbonization temperature of palm kernel shell (PKS) biomass, with a view to obtaining char suitable for electrode material. Char were obtained from palm kernel shell by carbonization at temperatures of 600, 800, 1000 and 1150 °C under inert condition for 60 mins each. The effect of carbonization temperature on proximate and ultimate, electrical conductivity, structural and morphological properties was investigated using the ASTM standard method for examination of coal and coke, elemental analyzer, four-point probe, x-ray diffractometer (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The proximate analysis results showed the char yield to decrease from 29.68 % to 25.27 % as the temperature increases from 600 °C to 1150 °C. While the fixed carbon content in the raw sample was found as 22.22 %, it increases to 73.02 % in char obtained at 600 °C with highest value of 87.45 % obtained at 1150 °C. The vo.....

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The study was carried out to develop a valid and reliable test in Plane Trigonometry for college students. Four research questions were drawn to guide the establishment of validity and reliability for the Plane Trigonometry summative test. It is a multiple choice objective test of four options with 50 items. All students enrolled in plane trigonometry were used as participants to determine the reliability of the test. Three (3) experts/judges were used for the content validity of the test. After validation to the three experts/judges, the result showed that the Plane Trigonometry test has a very high validity. The test item validity was determined through difficulty and discrimination indices. The test has a reliability coefficient of 0.909 established through the use of Cronbach’s Alpha. The test is valid and reliable for assessingstudents’ content knowledge in Plane Trigonometry. Thus, the constructed test can be used for institutional entrance examination in the field of mathema.....

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Titanium dioxide is one of the most powerful semiconductor that chemically stable and widely used in the photodegradation of wastewater process. However, titanium dioxide have wide band gap (3.2eV) which only can be activated by using UV light. In order to overcome the weakness of this photocatalyst, the doping technique by using sol-gel method applied to the titanium dioxide. Nitrogen and magnesium were used as dopand. Thus, in this study, nitrogen and magnesium doped TiO2 will be applied on Reactive Black 5 dye to study the photocatalytic performance and the result will be analysed.  ..

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Peningkatan permintaan sumber air selari dengan peningkatan jumlah penduduk terutamanya di kawasan bandar. Hal ini menunjukkan terdapat keperluan bagi meramal aras air sungai supaya air yang mencukupi dapat disalurkan ke empangan utama bagi memenuhi permintaan penduduk. Maka, kajian ini dilaksanakan untuk membina model peramalan dengan menggunakan pendekatan kalut terhadap data siri masa aras air Sungai Klang yang terletak di kawasan bandar. Peramalan berasaskan pendekatan kalut dibahagikan kepada dua fasa iaitu pengesanan telatah kalut dan proses peramalan. Pengesanan telatah kalut dilaksanakan dengan menggunakan kaedah ujian 0 – 1. Manakala, peramalan dilaksanakan dengan menggunakan kaedah penghampiran linear setempat (KPLS). Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa data siri masa aras air di Sungai Klang adalah bertelatah kalut dengan menggunakan kaedah ujian 0 – 1. Seterusnya, peramalan dengan menggunakan KPLS menunjukkan bahawa peramalan yang dilaksanakan adalah bagus kerana hasil pe.....

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Kajian ini berfokus kepada menganalisis dan meramal data siri masa karbon monoksida (CO) di salah sebuah kawasan perindustrian di Malaysia iaitu Seberang Perai, Pulau Pinang menggunakan pendekatan kalut. Sebelum proses peramalan, data siri masa diuji terlebih dahulu untuk mengenalpasti kehadiran dinamik kalut. Melalui Kaedah Cao, didapati bahawa sifat kalut hadir dalam siri masa CO. Oleh yang demikian, proses peramalan dijalankan melalui Kaedah Penghampiran Setempat. Pekali korelasi dipilih sebagai petunjuk prestasi. Keputusan peramalan menunjukkan bahawa nilai pekali korelasi adalah 0.9032 yang mana nilai tersebut hampir kepada satu. Hasil ramalan yang sangat baik ini menunjukkan bahawa Kaedah Penghampiran Setempat boleh digunakan untuk meramal kepekatan CO. Kesimpulannya, pendekatan kalut telah berjaya menganalisis dan meramal siri masa CO di kawasan perindustrian Seberang Perai. Diharapkan dengan penemuan ini dapat membantu pihak bertangunggjawab untuk mengawal pencemaran CO di kawa.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan impak sistem LRT terhadap harga hartanah komersial di Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Bagi mencapai tujuan ini, reka bentuk penyelidikan kajian kes dan beberapa teknik statistik seperti Linear Trend Line (LTL), Polynominal Trend Line (PTL), Model Harga Hedonik (HPM) dan model Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) telah digunakan. Dapatan daripada teknik linear trend line dan polynomial trend line menunjukkan bahawa impak sistem LRT terhadap harga hartanah komersial adalah positif dan signifikan. Namun begitu, perubahan harga hartanah komersial di setiap stesen adalah tidak sama, kerana terdapat stesen yang mengalami perubahan harga yang tinggi, sementara stesen yang lain adalah sebaliknya. Seterusnya, dapatan model harga hedonik menunjukkan bahawa harga hartanah komersial boleh meningkat kira-kira RM 350 bagi setiap meter dari stesen LRT terdekat. Sementara itu, dapatan analisis geographically weighted regression memberikan maklumat yang le.....

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