Kajian  ini  bertujuan  untuk  mengenal  pasti  penilaian  terhadap  buku  teks  Kurikulum Standard  Sekolah  Menengah  (KSSM)  Pendidikan  Islam  tingkatan  satu  di  sekolah menengah  kebangsaan meliputi daerah Saratok, Sarikei dan Daro, Sarawak. Teori Ibnu Khaldun  dan  panduan   peranan  buku  teks  oleh  KPM  dijadikan  teras  utama  dalam membina  struktur  bagi  penilaian   buku  teks  (KSSM)  Pendidikan  Islam  ini.  Kajian tinjauan ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif  melalui instrumen soal selidik untuk mengumpul data kajian. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 50 orang  guru Pendidikan Islam yang  dipilih  menggunakan  teknik  persampelan  rawak   mudah.  Data  kajian   telah dianalisis secara deskriptif dan inferens menggunakan peratusan, min, sisihan piawai,  ujian-t,  ANOVA  dan   korelasi   Pearson.   Secara   keseluruhannya,   dapatan   kajian  menunjukkan tahap pengetahuan guru terhadap pera.....

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Malaysia is one of the major migrant workers’ receiving countries in Southeast Asia. The migrants from various countries like Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, and South Asian countries come to Malaysia for job opportunities. According to Malaysia's immigration department’s statistics, a total of 1.99 million foreign workers in Malaysia were registered under the Temporary Visiting Work Permit as by August 31, 2019. The majority of workers are semi and low skilled, mainly working in manufacturing, construction, services sector, plantation, etc. The research objective is to examine the migrant worker’s psychological issues, intercultural issues, ethnocentrism and overall issues related to adaptation in a foreign country. The data will be obtained by using the qualitative method− in-depth interviews with 30 participants using the non-probability sampling technique from three countries, namely, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. Expectantly, the results of this study will.....

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School-based professional learning communities (PLCs) have been one of the strategies of professional development in schools that have proven to impact teachers’ quality and student performance. Most of the PLC models are widely researched in western countries, whereas PLCs in Asian countries are limited. The characteristics of these PLC models are different based on the institutional and cultural context. Therefore, there is a need to understand the concept of PLC practices, by developing a PLC model based on the Malaysian institutional context. In this paper we described the design development research method, which includes 4 major phases: literature review, design and development, implementation and finally validation of the proposed model  ..

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One of the heritages can be denoting to the values of human activity in the past and its cultural oral narratives. To virtualize these heritages, it means to actualize the heritage into the digital content. When attempting to understand a particular cultural heritage site, the challenge here is that the connection to the past is non-existence due to insufficient historical information of the heritage sites. On the other hand, crowd simulation has been widely applied for the purpose of construction and reconstruction of tangible and intangible digital heritage. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to bring past life into digital cultural heritage and it would need the inclusions of the visual information of the surroundings and the people in the past. This paper also investigates the phase-by-phase methodology to deal with crowd simulation of different ethnic groups with heterogeneous behaviors in digital cultural heritage. The crowd is modeled and simulated based on the cl.....

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Technological devices are commonly used in different styles and for several uses with educational systems. Instructors have to avoid using technology together with the utmost effectiveness but to additionally serve as role models for pupils in regards to the correct use of technology. Different methods, strategies, equipment, along with tools are used to enhance the effectiveness of coaching and learning operations in the classroom, of that Digital Storytelling is among them. Digital Storytelling (DST) has transformed into a good educational tool for both students and teachers. This paper offers a review of DST as well as portrays where it originated from, how it really well may be utilized to help guide as well as how understudies that discover the way to whip their own advanced stories improve a lot of instruction abilities. What's more often, info is shown about the device which might be utilized to help the instructive utilization of DST. This paper, in addition, has a discussion o.....

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The increasing demand for image dehazing-based applications has raised the value of efficient evaluation and benchmarking for image dehazing algorithms. Several perspectives, such as inhomogeneous foggy, homogenous foggy, and dark foggy scenes, have been considered in multi-criteria evaluation. The benchmarking for the selection of the best image dehazing intelligent algorithm based on multi-criteria perspectives is a challenging task owing to (a) multiple evaluation criteria, (b) criteria importance, (c) data variation, (d) criteria conflict, and (e) criteria tradeoff. A generally accepted framework for benchmarking image dehazing performance is unavailable in the existing literature. This study proposes a novel multi-perspective (i.e., an inhomogeneous foggy scene, a homogenous foggy scene, and a dark foggy scene) benchmarking framework for the selection of the best image dehazing intelligent algorithm based on multi-criteria analysis. Experiments were conducted in three stages. Firs.....

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A phytochemical investigation of the stem bark of Calophyllum canum resulted in the isolation of a new xanthone dimer identified as biscaloxanthone (1), together with four compounds; trapezifoliaxanthone (2), tra-pezifolixanthone A (3), taraxerone (4) and taraxerol (5). The structures of these compounds were determined via spec-troscopic methods of IR, UV, MS and NMR (1D and 2D). The cytotoxicity of compounds 1-3 were screened against A549, MCF-7, C33A and 3T3L1 cell lines, wherein weak cytotoxic activities were observed (IC 50 > 50 μM).  ..

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This study performed to investigate the chemical compounds, toxicology, in vitro and in  vivo  antioxidant  capacity  of  Malaysian  Peperomia  pellucida  plant  towards  ICR mice.   The  qualitative  chemical  compound  test  was  performed  and  the  antioxidant capacity of P.  pellucida plant extract was analyzed by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH),  β-carotene   bleaching  and  oxygen  radical  absorbance  capacity  (ORAC) assays. The in vivo sub-acute  toxicity study that used the best solvent from  in vitro assay was done using ICR mice which were  randomly divided. The different doses of 50 mg/kg, 150 mg/kg, 200 mg/kg, 500 mg/kg and 1000 mg/kg  body weight of extract were administered daily for 21 days to the treated mice. The antioxidant  enzymes in liver and kidney of mice were investigated using standard assays.  P. pellucida only  exhibited the presence of alkaloid, phenol and saponin. The ability to scavenge free radical i.....

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Kajian ini dijalankan untuk menentukan pengaruh pengetahuan, kemahiran dan sikap terhadap kesediaan menggunakan perisian AutoCAD dengan keperluan latihan sebagai mediator.  Responden kajian terdiri daripada 193 pengajar Teknologi Pembinaan yang dipilih  secara  rawak  di   kolej vokasional (KV)  di  semenanjung  Malaysia.  Instrumen yang  digunakan  dalam kajian ini  ialah  ujian  dan soal  selidik.  Data kajian  dianalisis secara  deskriptif  menggunakan   kekerapan,  peratusan,  min  dan  sisihan  piawai  serta secara  inferens  menggunakan  analisis   korelasi  Pearson  dan  regresi.  Hasil  analisis deskriptif  mendapati  komponen  pengetahuan   berada  pada  tahap  belum  kompeten dengan purata markah ujian 55.3% dan dapatan soal selidik  menunjukkan responden bersetuju (M=3.24, SP=0.87) bahawa mereka agak mengetahui mengenai penggunaan  perisian  AutoCAD.  Dalam  konteks  kemahiran  menggunakan  perisian  AutoCAD, r.....

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The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of interset rest duration on muscle activation  and  performance  during  resistance  training.  Fifteen  trained  men  were randomly  recruited  based  on  volunteerism  as  participants  of  this  study.  Participants were  instructed to perform three sets of bent-over row and biceps curl exercises with three  different   rest  intervals:  i)  60  seconds  (60s),  ii)  90  seconds  (90s)  and  iii)  120 seconds  (120s)   between  sets  in  a  randomized  crossover  design.  The  rest  interval between sets were  randomly performed in different days with a rest period of 72 hours. Each set was performed with 10  repetitions maximum loadings until fatigue. Muscle activation,  number  of  repetitions,  rating   of  perceived  exertion  (RPE)  and  heart  rate (HR) were analyzed using One Way Analysis of  Variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures.  Results  showed.....

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