Using language function as the basis of research, Forensic linguistics helps in soving the problems related to crime and punishment for the police and judicial departments. In the legal processes, the important language evidences are to be analysed from the point of view of linguistic principles and research methods to help the Law courts in solving criminal problems.  For this purpose, the present paper has brought in evidences giving eight crimes that occurred in Tamil Nadu. The data were collected from the author’s Ph.D. thesis. The article follows the structural and comparative method to analyse the materials. It has also brought out the six language functions proposed by Jacobson, namely, Referential function, Poetic function, Emotive function, Conative function, Phatic function and Metalinguistic function and uses the principles of them in analysing the confessions, statements, etc. and helps in identifying the culprits. Furthermore, the article helps in analysing the languag.....

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The major objective of the research is to how the Ethic literature portrait the Thinai theory which is also in Sangam literature. Sangam literature describe the poems’ theme with the background of the Nature. But Tamil Ethic literatures focus the theme only not about the landscape. Ethic literatures teach the morality to the people. This research is based on qualitative method. Descriptive and Comparative analysis approaches have been used for this research. The findings show that Sangam people lived with ecological based life. So, they focused the Nature in Sangam poems. After that period, People guided by religions, so Ethic literature focused the morality.  ..

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Teaching literature, so far, focused on the traditional ways of giving word meaning, discussing about the poetic features, author’s style, etc. However, this article aims at bringing in a new method of teaching Tamil literature called ‘conceptual moves’ in opposition to scenes as in drama. It is essential to include the developments in Linguistics, Stylistics, Psychology, Sociology, etc., in teaching literature. The article follows a descriptive comparative method of analysis for discussion. The article while following the approach of discourse analysis has brought out the importance of the design and the techniques of conceptual movements of the author for better understanding of the literary piece in hand. The conceptual movements proposed are introductory, stabilizing, structuring, continuing, focusing, and reflection. With these conceptual movements, the article gives explanation with appropriate illustrations. Since the article focuses on the learning of the concepts, the co.....

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This study was conducted to explore the impact of soft skills on the employability of graduates and employees in technology industry companies of Malaysia. The objectives of this study are identifying the soft critical skills required by the technology industry sector in Malaysia based on Fuzzy Delphi Analysis, investigating the impact and importance of soft skills on employability and define the most influencing soft skills, and developing a new model which includes the soft skills factors that impact employability. This study was conducted based on a few theories in three domains: soft skills relationship with employability domain, second, soft skills and employability assessment domain, and third, soft skills model and instrument development domain. The leading theory that supports this study is the human capital theory. This study was based on a multi-method research approach. The first method was the Fuzzy Delphi method, which was utilised to identify soft critical skil.....

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ADAS supports drivers with the required tools and augments to properly decide while driving the car. It can safely control the car either by providing relevant information around the car to the driver, or by taking control of the vehicle movement, partially or completely. The purpose of this study is to develop an ADAS Data Acquisition Engine based on heterogenous platform that utilises SoC and FPGA platforms. Furthermore, the design methodology of heterogenous SoC-FPGA platform is developed to reduce design complexity of heterogenous design flow. Furthermore, it unifies the hardware and software design flows to reduce design cycle time required for development. The proposed system was verified indoor to confirm system functionality. After that, the proposed system was implemented on car for real-time system validation and testing. The system was able to interact with LiDAR sensor, four ultrasonic sensors, and Inertial Movement Unit (IMU) sensors. The LiDAR and ultrasonic we.....

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Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is one of the tropical fruits that is cultivated in Malaysia for export as well as domestic use. Unfortunately, the production is heavily affected by the red tip disease which was detected in the southern part of Malaysia 3 decades ago. Despite the identification of this disease, causal agent receives less attention from researchers. Nevertheless, symptoms associated with this infection and the mode of transference inside the plantations indicate viral-like disease. RNA extracted from the pineapple infected leaves introduced to Nicotiana tabacum cv. Coker by kneading the plant leaves to extract fresh sap. Yellowish necrosis was detected three weeks after artificial inoculation. The staining of the fresh diseased sample and inoculated Nicotiana tabacum cv. Coker showed the existence of round particles with an average diameter of 94.25nm under the transmission electron microscope. SDS-PAGE analysis revealed proteins bands similar to those of tospovirus at 25, 5.....

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Di Malaysia, penanaman cendawan Volvariella volvacea secara komersial telah bermula pada tahun 2014. Pada peringkat awal, jerami padi telah digunakan sebagai media pertumbuhan. Walau bagaimanapun, penggunaan jerami padi telah didapati mempunyai beberapa kelemahan seperti kurang kebolehdapatan di seluruh negara, bermusim, hasil kutipan rendah dan penyediaan media yang rumit kerana memerlukan proses pemotongan dan perendaman dalam air kapur. Dalam tahun kebelakangan ini, tandan buah kosong kelapa sawit (TBK) didapati mampu memberikan hasil kutipan yang lebih tinggi berbanding jerami padi. Proses penyediaan media TBK juga lebih ringkas, tidak memerlukan pemotongan ke saiz kecil. Kos penyediaan media TBK adalah rendah secara relatif memandangkan TBK banyak diperoleh sebagai sisa kilang minyak sawit sepanjang tahun. Selain jerami padi dan TBK, penggunaan biojisim lain seperti daun pisang kering yang terbukti berjaya di negara Filipina dan Ghana, belum pernah dilaporkan dalam domain umum di .....

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PbTiO3 has emerged as a promising material for the thermoelectric application. In this study, we proposed to use density functional theory to investigate the underlying mechanism for improving the thermoelectric efficiency of ATiO3. The thermoelectric parameters of the designed surface structures have been obtained by using the Boltzmann transport equation approximation. The properties of the structure, electronic, and thermoelectricity were measured and analyzed. The surface (001) modification through the AO termination layer has increased the electrical conductivity, thus increasing the power factor. On the other hand, increasing the Seebeck coefficient, which is aided by declining thermal conductivity, which is aided by low thermopower, improves the figure of merit. It is shown that the thermoelectric performance of surface (001) SnTiO3 is higher as compared to PbTiO3 making it interesting towards lead-free materials in thin-film application..

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This paper investigates the impact of the domestic and global outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the trading size of the Malaysian stock (MS) market. The theoretical model posits that stock markets are affected by their response to disasters and events that arise in the international or local environments, as well as to several financial factors such as stock volatility and spread bid-ask prices. Using daily time-series data from 27 January to 12 May 2020, this paper utilizes the traditional Augmented Dickey and Fuller (ADF) technique and Zivot and Andrews with structural break' procedures for a stationarity test analysis, while the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method is applied according to the trading size of the MS market model. The analysis considered almost all 789 listed companies investing in the main stock market of Malaysia. The results confirmed our hypotheses that both the daily growth in the active domestic and global cases of coronavirus (COVID-19).....

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Background and Purpose: This research aims to investigate the effects of Malay, Chinese and Indian cultural based text types on reading comprehension. Methodology: An exploratory case study research design was employed to explore the use of cultural schemata in reading comprehension of three types of cultural text format: narrative, descriptive and info graphic. The purposive sampling method was used to select participants based on their ethnicities, English proficiency level, and their scores in prior knowledge assessment and retelling assessment. A total of 15 students, between 11- 12 years old, were selected. The retelling technique in written form, a comprehension test and an interview protocol were used as instruments to gather data in this research and they were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Findings: The overall findings have shown that the comprehension test scores showed better performance in info graphic texts. However, the retelling assessment scores showed.....

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