Research supervision is an academic activity that are planned and executed to enhance learning and maximize learning experience in the first-degree level of Institute of Teacher Education (ITE) Malaysia. The study aims to identify and rank elements in Best Practice construct for The Synergistic Psycho-Social Model (SyPSM) based on expert consensus. The expert consists of 15 experts from all ITEs, and possess variety of expertise in research supervision for first degree level. In addition, the chosen expert equipped with 10 years' experience in their respective fields. The study utilizes Fuzzy Delphi Methods (FDM) technique to analyse the data. The findings indicate that all 12 elements in Best Practice construct were accepted. These elements were accepted since the threshold (d) value is less than 0.2, the Fuzzy A score is > 0.5 and percentage of expert group consensus is more than 75%. In conclusion, the research has successfully identified elements for supervision process construct b.....

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This study presents a benchmarking and evaluation approach for active queue management (AQM) network congestion control methods, which are considered as a problem of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). In recent years, the development of MCDM methods has been studied from various perspectives. The latest one called fuzzy decision by opinion score method (FDOSM) has proved its efficiency in solving the concerns faced by other methods. However, the approach of FDOSM and its extension is based on fuzzy type-1, which suffers from issues, especially minimising the effect of data uncertainties. Therefore, this study extended FDOSM into a fuzzy type-2 environment that utilises interval type-2 trapezoidal (IT2T) membership, and then discusses the effectiveness of such membership on AQM method benchmarking. The methodology of this study involves two consecutive phases. The first phase is the construction of a decision matrix utilised in AQM method benchmarking based on a list of AQM methods .....

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This paper reports on the findings of a study by design graduates on their belief and intention on ethical issues in the creative design industry. The study was conducted at two universities (University A and University B) in Malaysia, which included 120 undergraduates in design. A survey was conducted in which a questionnaire was distributed among respondents to determine their degree of agreement with respect to each argument in the questionnaire. The results of the data showed that the belief and intention of design graduates towards design ethics is poor, with the exception of the respondents of University A who have strong belief towards social, environmental and sustainability issues. These results indicate that a well-structured model of design ethics education and effective teaching mechanism for design ethics education should be in place. These would have an impact on students' belief and intention towards design ethics. As such, the research results serve as a cornerstone fro.....

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This study proposes a new real-time sign recognition system based on a wearable sensory glove, which has 17 sensors with 65 channels. We introduce the DataGlove to recognize various, possibly complex hand gestures of the Malaysian Sign Language (MSL). With 65 data channels, DataGlove can satisfy the requirement suggested by the analysis of hand anatomy, kinematic and gestures. Four groups of sensors were tested to select the optimal sensors that can capture hand gesture information. Also, a 3D-printed humanoid arm is used to validate the sensor mounted on the glove. In an extensive set of experiments to test our system, five well-known MSL participants were chosen to perform 75 gestures, all taken from the MSL numbers, alphabet, and words. The error rate was used to check system performance. Discussion confirms that the proposed system competes well with an advanced benchmark of previous works is up 100% based on 14 criteria in term of the type of captured signals, recognised gestures,.....

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The problem complexity of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) has been raised in the distribution of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, which required solid and robust MCDM methods. Compared with other MCDM methods, the fuzzy-weighted zero-inconsistency (FWZIC) method and fuzzy decision by opinion score method (FDOSM) have demonstrated their solidity in solving different MCDM challenges. However, the fuzzy sets used in these methods have neglected the refusal concept and limited the restrictions on their constants. To end this, considering the advantage of the T-spherical fuzzy sets (T-SFSs) in handling the uncertainty in the data and obtaining information with more degree of freedom, this study has extended FWZIC and FDOSM methods into the T-SFSs environment (called T-SFWZIC and T-SFDOSM) to be used in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The methodology was formulated on the basis of decision matrix adoption and development phases. The first phase described the adopted.....

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Theoretical models have become increasingly complex, but the dual-phase structural equation modelling (SEM) and artificial neural network analysis can be used by scholars to unveil the causal interactions and nonlinear relationships between variables. However, not only a single open issue and challenge?but several of them?are encountered in the use of different multi-assessment types of measurement model to achieve the reliability and validity whilst implementing SEM, but the gaps have not been fully determined at present. The issues significantly impact the effectiveness process of selecting the most suitable method to assess the measurement model of SEM. Once the best sequence quality improvement is met, it then needs to present a recommendable solution. To this end, this study completes the literature by presenting a systematic review of all main advanced aspects of the SEM reliability and validity approaches. Firstly, the databases of ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore, Web of Science and .....

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The original version of this Article contained an error in Affiliation 2, which was incorrectly given as ?Nanotechnology Research Centre, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900, Tanjung Malim, Malaysia?. The correct affiliation is listed below: Nanotechnology Research Centre, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia The original Article has been corrected. ? 2021, The Author(s)...

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Technical drawing is a means of communicating between the designer and the manufacturers to bring ideas into reality by means of drafting. This study investigated attribution styles as collates of students? technical drawing task-persistence and academic performance using correlational research design. The population for this study consisted of 864 students of year II and the sample study comprised of 150 (93 males and 57 females) randomly selected from six technical colleges in Edo State, Nigeria. Three instruments, Academic Performance Attribution Style Questionnaire (APASQ), Technical Drawing Task-persistent Rating Scale (TDTPRS); and Technical Drawing Performance Test (TDPT) were developed and used for data collection. Cronbach Alpha reliability method was used to determine the reliability of the instruments and the results were obtained: SAASQ = .87; TDTPRS=.79; AND TDAT = .85. The findings of the study revealed that the technical drawing task-persistence of students was positivel.....

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This paper reports the Machine Translation (MT) systems submitted by the IIITT team for the English?Marathi and English-Irish language pairs LoResMT 2021 shared task. The task focuses on getting exceptional translations for rather low-resourced languages like Irish and Marathi. We fine-tune IndicTrans, a pretrained multilingual NMT model for English?Marathi, using external parallel corpus as input for additional training. We have used a pretrained Helsinki-NLP Opus MT English-Irish model for the latter language pair. Our approaches yield relatively promising results on the BLEU metrics. Under the team name IIITT, our systems ranked 1, 1, and 2 in English?Marathi, Irish?English, and English?Irish respectively. The codes for our systems are published. ? 2021 Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages, LoResMT 2021. All rights reserved...

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Introduction: Previous literature suggests that good nutrition knowledge does not necessarily translate into desired eating behaviours among adolescent athletes, which may affect their sports performance. The purposes of the study were twofold, which were to examine nutrition knowledge and practice between the sexes, and to evaluate the magnitude of relationship between nutrition knowledge and practice among adolescent handball athletes in Malaysia. Methods: Three hundred and twelve male and female adolescent handball players competing in a national level competition voluntarily participated in this study. The participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which consisted of items on their demographic information and about their nutrition knowledge and eating practices. Independent t-test and Pearson?s correlation were used to compare nutrition knowledge and practice between the sexes and to describe the relationship between variables, respectively. Results: The results showed tha.....

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