The main objective of this study is to identify the spatiotemporal rainfall patterns using Robust Principal Component Analysis and Fuzzy C-means (RPCA-FCM) of torrential rainfall of the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. As a methodology, the RPCA-FCM model was proposed to solve issues in identifying torrential rainfall. Generally, most rainfall data were missing for various reasons. The missing data mechanism was identified to choose suitable imputation methods. RF-MLR was chosen as the best imputation method in handling missing rainfall data. Dimension reduction method coupled with clustering approach was applied to reduce the data dimensions and perform the cluster partition. An RPCA-based Tukey’s biweight correlation and the optimum breakdown point to extract the number of components in RPCA were proposed. The data used in this study was generated using Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate the performance of the proposed statistical model. The result revealed that a bre.....

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This  case  study  explored  parental  involvement  in  early  childhood  education  in  the Philippines  from  kindergarten  stakeholders'  perspectives.  Purposive  sampling  was used  to   select  13  school-cases  with  87  participants  comprising  of  kindergarten children,  parents,   teachers,  school  principals,  and  government  officials.  Document analysis was used to examine  existing documents related to this study. From this, four themes  emerged.  These  are  kinds  of   parental  involvement,  stakeholders’  capacity, characteristics   of   school-facilitated    parental   involvement,   and   basis   for   the development of a program. Interview protocol was  developed based on these themes. The   interview   instrument   was   validated   by   five    independent   early   childhood education experts. Then,  interviews among  stakeholders were   conducted.  Data from .....

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This  study  compared  the  Kindergarten  Program  (KP)  of  Philippines  and  Malaysia towards  the  development  of  a  program  evaluation  model  for  the  Philippines.  The  objectives  of  the  study  were  to  identify  the  laws  and  policies  that  guide  the  implementation of the Kindergarten Program; to describe the issues and challenges in the   implementation  of  the  program  in  terms  of  management,  curriculum,  teachers, instruction,  assessment, learning resources and instructional materials, learning space and  environment,  and   parental  and  community  involvement;  and  to  develop  a Kindergarten Program evaluation model  for the Philippines. This case study involves four public kindergarten schools that included four  principals/headmasters, 12 teachers, eight  parents  and  one  kindergarten  supervisor.  The   Discrepancy  Evaluation  Model (DEM) of Provus (1971) and Steinme.....

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Tujuan utama kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti persepsi pelajar terhadap Amalan Pembelajaran Penyebatian (APP) iaitu Aktiviti Berpusatkan Pelajar, Soal Jawab dan Pemodelan Guru di  dalam pembelajaran Pendidikan Islam. Ia juga bertujuan mengenal pasti persepsi terhadap Pemikiran  Logik dan Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi (KBAT) pelajar. Model kajian dibina berdasarkan Model  Pembelajaran Penyebatian (Swartz, Fischer & Parks, 1999) sebagai model asas kerangka kajian. Dua  model kajian diuji untuk mengenal pasti kesan pengantaraan pemboleh ubah Pemikiran Logik di dalam  hubungan  antara  APP  dengan  KBAT.  Model  pertama  menguji  APP  sebagai  satu konstruk manakala  model kedua menguji APP secara berasingan. Kesaling-hubungan antara pemboleh ubah disahkan terlebih  dahulu supaya kesan pengantaraan boleh diuji. Kajian kuantitatif ini menggunakan kaedah tinjauan  dengan teknik pensampelan rawak, melibatkan seramai 388 responden. Data kajian dianalisis  me.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membina modul pembelajaran kendiri strategi pemahaman membaca  teks  bahasa  Arab.  Proses  pembinaan  modul  berdasarkan  adaptasi  Model Sidek melalui  tiga fasa utama iaitu, analisis keperluan; reka bentuk dan pembinaan; penilaian   dan    pelaksanaan.   Pendekatan   kualitatif   digunakan   dalam   semua   fasa pembinaan  melalui   pemerhatian,  temubual  separa  berstruktur,  kajian  kepustakaan, bukti dokumen, ulasan dan komen  peserta kajian. Data kualitatif disokong oleh data kuantitatif  yang  diperolehi  daripada  soal   selidik  kesahan  kandungan  modul  oleh empat  orang  pakar  bidang,  dan  ujian  pencapaian  (pra   dan  pasca)  oleh  30  orang responden.   Data   kualitatif   dianalisis   dengan   mereduksikan,    memaparkan,   dan membuat kesimpulan serta pengesahan data. Data kuantitatif dianalisis  menggunakan kadar peratusan dan kekerapan bagi soal selidik k.....

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According to the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), over 500,000 car accidents occurred in 2016, making cars an unsafe means of transportation. This research aimed to collect driver behaviour-related data for Malaysian drivers to provide useful insights for Malaysian driving profile and to modulate machine learning for classification tasks. Twenty-one drivers (11 male and 10 female) were studied and compared for their driving style in Lebuhraya Behrang Stesen-tg malim (11 km per driver). Drivers were asked to drive naturally while considering their safety. Two analysis techniques were utilized (i.e. Statistical and Machine Learning-Based). Different conclusions were drawn from each analysis. The number of driving events for each driver was calculated (i.e. aggressive, normal and safe) and statistical tests (i.e. Mean, Standard Deviation, Correlation analysis, Oneway ANOVA and T-test) presented significant differences between each driver from the same gende.....

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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that caused the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a newly discovered severe and contagious disease. Due to its seriousness, the rapid spread of the virus has awakened worldwide attention in a short time. Due to the scarcity of effective treatment options for the rising positive cases worldwide, the risk of COVID-19 is observed serious for the infected persons with chronic diseases as well as vulnerable populations including infants and aging groups. By applying the spatial-based solution tool of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this paper aims to localize the spatial distribution of cumulative COVID-19 cases and the density of different age groups of all districts for both West and East Malaysia. The non-spatial data used in this research paper were the cumulative number of COVID-19 positive cases on 25th of January, 15th of February, 21st of March, 31st of March, 14th of April & 12th of May 2020 and the total n.....

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The rapid urban population growth worldwide has given rise to complex cities across the globe, particularly concerned with place attachment and digital technologies. In this new landscape, the emergence of smart devices is highly favorable to connect everyday infrastructures via the present networks available to create a sense of place. The concept of sense of place in heritage and culture is synonymous with Melaka as a famous heritage site which achieved recognition from UNESCO. However, when it comes to tourist behaviors, their place attachment, arrivals and purpose of visit highly influence their perceptions. Their priority in selecting Melaka as their holiday destination might differ based on several place attachment affective factors which are influenced by digital technologies. There are several problems to consider in order to improve place attachment in the study area, which are the prosperity of the tourism industry in Melaka threatening its own authenticity and the rapid mode.....

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Pandemik COVID-19 yang berlaku di seluruh negara telah menyebabkan banyak negara mengenakan sekatan perjalanan dan kawalan pergerakan. Di Malaysia misalnya, sektor perniagaan kecil adalah salah satu sektor yang paling terkesan oleh perintah kawalan pergerakan (PKP) yang dilaksanakan. Ini berikutan daripada penutupan bagi sektor sokongan seperti peruncitan dan juga pengangkutan yang menyebabkan kebanyakan peniaga kecil tidak dapat beroperasi dan sekaligus menyebabkan mereka hilang punca pendapatan. Namun demikian, sekiranya komuniti peniaga kecil memanfaatkan sepenuhnya aplikasi digital dalam perniagaan maka punca pendapatan mereka tidak begitu terkesan ekoran daripada krisis COVID-19 yang melanda pada masa kini. Justeru, adalah penting untuk mengkaji sejauh mana amalan dan penglibatan peniaga kecil menerusi aktiviti pemasaran digital dalam memperkasa norma baharu perniagaan di samping meninjau strategi perniagaan pasca COVID-19 pada masa depan. Kajian ini dijalankan ke atas 75 peniaga .....

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Severe thunderstorm and rainfall activities are dangerous to any humankind activities including the airport operations. Thorough studies about the thunderstorm activities at the airports are important for flight safety as scholars have attempted to understand thunderstorm behavior that is measured from atmospheric stability indices. The atmospheric stability indices at Kuching and Miri airports were analyzed to predict the precursor of the phenomenon and to improve the forecasting skills among the forecasters. The result shows that the stability indices suggested by the models were found not to be exclusive to represent the phenomenon that had occurred at some points. The phenomenon might not occur at all, although the index falls within the suggested model’s range. A linear relationship between any two models was analyzed to observe how they interact between them. A strong negative linear relationship between SI -TTI and CAPE-LI was found negative while TPWKI was in a positive corre.....

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