The objectives of this study is to determine the chronic effects of unilateral versus bilateral resistance training on physical performance, movement mechanics, bilateral deficit and muscle architecture. Forty-five trained men were recruited as study participants and were divided into three groups; i) unilateral, ii) bilateral and iii) control group. The participants were divided into groups according to their 1RM strength performance in order to ensure that each groups are balanced in terms of strength or lifting abilities. During this study, participants underwent pre-test consisted of physical performance tests (unilateral and bilateral 1RM test, 30m sprint, vertical jump, agility t-test), movement mechanics (muscle activation and kinematics), bilateral deficit (sum of left and right limbs compared to bilateral strength score) and muscle architecture (muscle thickness, pennation angle and fascicle length of vastus lateralis, biceps femoris, biceps brachii, triceps brachii) .....

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This study attempts to determine the level of learner and customer identity among Malaysian students, their impact on academic performance (AP) and student-lecturer relationship (SLR) and the differences between students at public and private higher education institutions (HEIs). This study adopted a quantitative approach. Data collected from a sample of 400 students with at least in their second years of study was selected using a cluster sampling method. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire and analysed using descriptive statistics and structural equation modelling (SEM). The findings reveal the high level of learner identity (LI), but low in customer identity (CI) among Malaysian university students. LI has a positive and significant effect on academic performance and student-lecturer relationship, but CI only has a significant negative effect on academic performance. All the relationships do not differ significantly across public and private HEIs. The finding.....

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The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the educational landscape. As part of a state university's learning continuity plan, a flexible delivery system was implemented. This descriptive phenomenological study aims to investigate, through unstructured online interviews, the online teaching experience of ten (10) interns. Rigor was established following Lincoln and Guba’s (1985) Trustworthiness Framework. Using Colaizzi's (1979) thematic analysis, emergent themes were identified. The interns revealed their reached and unmet expectations, as well as the challenges in delivering their lessons and managing their classes. Nevertheless, they acknowledged the presence of a solid support system. They maintained a strong cognitive-social-teaching presence. They also displayed a growth mindset, resilience, integrity, and persistence in overcoming the challenges. Despite the difficulties they faced, they experienced successes and had realizations during their online teaching internship. Moving fo.....

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Co-operatives in Malaysia have crucial roles in developing business systems, and making it possible for the country to join the global co-operatives society and sophisticated economies. Therefore, top management in Malaysian Co-operatives are aggressively designing and executing their strategic plan through management accounting practices. The purpose of this research is to examine the association between the contemporary management accounting practices and managerial performance in the Malaysian’ co-operative sector. An empirical survey via questionnaires conducted on a sample of 100 leading co-operatives in Malaysia and management team of each co-operatives were the respondents. Descriptive statistics on the adoption level and its relationship with the managerial performance has been analysed. The finding indicates the level of contemporary management accounting practices is high and there is significant relationship between contemporary management accounting practices and manageme.....

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The implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) in the Philippines is being criticized by stakeholders whether it is a better approach for pupils in the primary levels than the monolingual-Second language (MSL) approach using Tagalog. Several studies in the past decade attempted to test the effect of MTB-MLE on pupils' learning on different subject areas. However, there is yet no available study on the effect of MTB-MLE on Science learning variables such as metacognitive learning orientations and achievement among Grade 3 learners whose mother tongue is Ilocano. This quasi-experimental study was conducted to test the effect of MTB-MLE on the academic achievement, metacognition, learning processes, and self-efficacy of Ilocano Grade 3 pupils in Science learning. Fifteen (15) Ilocano pupils were randomly selected from each of two elementary schools of a district in Isabela Province, Philippines. The two groups were taught in Science using Tagalog-only (MSL) and.....

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Numerous commercially available ligand with simple structures as donor and acceptor moieties can be engaged in fabrication of one-dimensional (1D) materials. Metal coordination approach is an effective and facile method for generating 1D luminescent nanowires with length ranging from several nanometres up to hundreds of nanometres compared to the other methods available. In this research 1D photoluminescence pyrazine-based coordination complexes were fabricated by integrating an electron-donor (D) tetra-2-pyridinylpyrazine (tppz) unit and electron-acceptor (A) 2-phenylpyrimidine (ppm) moiety or 2,6-bis(2-benzimidazolyl)pyridine (bzimpy) to form a D–A–D configuration. The tppz itself hardly fluoresces, but upon complexation with metal ions the fluorescence of tppz-metal was observed. This may be resulting from the change of lowest excited-state due to complexation with metal that acts as a strong Lewis acid. Tppz has been utilised as a bridging ligand in building block of m.....

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The teacher education program in Thailand has undergone various reforms, with the latest being the shortening of the teacher education curriculum from five years to four. To date, very few studies have accounted for this reform. To address this gap, our study sought to analyse pre-service English teachers’ perceptions towards the reform. This was done through a semiotic analysis of visuals contributed by the pre-service teachers. There were a total of 43 visual contributions, which were analysed through Labbo’s typology of symbolisms and attributes discerned from the visuals and their corresponding captions. We were able to categorize the visuals to three types of symbolisms, which were transformative, typographic, and the third type being a combination of the first and second. The most common attribute was positive affect (emotion), with a few visuals rationalizing or questioning the reform. The analysis revealed that the pre-service teachers did not really understand the nature o.....

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Monthly precipitation data during the period of 1970 to 2019 obtained from the Mete-orological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency database were used to analyze regionalized precipitation regimes in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. There were missing values in 52.6% of the data, which were handled by a hybrid random forest approach and bootstrap method (RF-Bs). The present approach addresses large missing values and also reduces the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) in the search for the optimum minimal value. Cluster analysis was used to classify stations or grid points into different rainfall regimes. Hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA) of rainfall data reveal the pattern of behavior of the rainfall regime in a specific region by identifying homogeneous clusters. According to the HCA, four distinct and homogenous regions were recognized. Then, the principal component analysis (PCA) technique was used to homog-enize the rainfall series and optimally reduce th.....

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This study aims to determine the compositions of surfactants extracted from urban particulate matter (PM) and motor vehicle exhaust soot. A high volume air sampler (HVAS) has been used to collect PM sample at Kuala Lumpur urban area. Meanwhile, the vehicle exhaust soot was collected randomly from exhaust pipe of various types of diesel and petrol vehicles, using a soft brush during dry days. The concentration of anionic surfactants as Methylene Blue Active Substances (MBAS) was determined by the colorimetric method using UV-Vis Spectrophotometer. The presence of microorganisms as bacteria and fungi was investigated by colony count. In addition, correlation between surfactants and traffic related air pollutants, and meteorological factors were also been investigated. Results revealed that the average concentration of PM was 107.68 ± 7.91 μgm-3 while surfactants in PM was 105 ± 48.8 pmolm-3. Diesel vehicles demonstrated higher surfactant concentration in exhaust soot with av.....

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Waste dyes such as Congo red at certain levels can damage the environment because of toxicity and may cause malfunctioning of the liver, kidneys, and nerves. Therefore, this study aims to analyze optimum pH, concentration, particle size of the adsorbent, and the eluent flow rate on the adsorption of Congo red by Napa soil (NS). The results showed optimum pH of 6, an initial concentration of 20 mg/L, and a particle size of 75 μm and the optimum flow rate of the eluent of 40 drops/minute. Furthermore, the determination of adsorption at the optimum condition of the NS as adsorbent without treatment (fresh) has a higher capacity than the purified Napa soil. The absorption capacity was 0.37 mg/g and 0.25 mg/g, and desorption at the optimum condition (recovery column) showed that the highest percentage is by using ethanol. Besides reducing the concentration of the Congo red dye and determining the absorption capacity of the adsorbent, the other aim of the adsorbent application is for pre-co.....

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