Preterm birth (PTB) occurs before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Although many factors influence the course of pregnancy, the actual cause of PTB remains unknown, and current medical efforts focus more on reducing the effects rather than preventing them. Therefore, a technology-based approach is needed to predict essential characteristics and develop a prediction model using machine learning algorithms. This study aims to identify the characteristics of PTB and develop a prediction process model using machine learning. Data was collected from Hospital Dr M. Ansari Saleh in Banjarmasin between 2020 and 2022, involving 915 samples. Factors include maternal factors, demographics, nutritional status, and current pregnancy, which are assessed using a machine- learning algorithm. To determine the best accuracy, this study tested the algorithm's performance with data division ratios of 90/10, 80/20, 70/30, and 60/40. Optimum results were obtained with 80/20 division, then optimized using Particle Swa.....

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The philosophy of beauty has been argued and debated for centuries, whether in China or Western countries, particularly examining human association with beauty that developed culturally. This research aims to deepen the understanding on _beauty_ according to Lao Tzu (571 B.C.-470 B.C.), as a representative of Chinese philosophy of Beauty, and Heidegger (1889-1976), as a representative of Western philosophy of Beauty. The purpose of this study is to reveal the similarities and differences between these two influential philosophies of beauty by conducting a comparative analysis on series of painting between Zhu Da (1626-1705), the Chinese ancient prominent painter, and Francis Bacon (1909-1992), the Western distinctive painter. This study conveys a qualitative study using document reviews, visual analysis, thematic analysis, and comparative analysis which consists of three main stages. The first stage reviews the philosophies of beauty according to Lao Tzu and Heidegger to obtain the sig.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan ciri-ciri keusahawanan, kompetensi, dan pengalaman kerja sebagai faktor kejayaan teknousahawan wanita PKS di Malaysia. Kajian ini berbentuk kuantitatif menggunakan kaedah korelasi yang melibatkan seramai 302 teknousahawan wanita PKS di Malaysia. Kaedah pensampelan strata rawak bernisbah (proportionate stratified random sampling) dan rawak mudah telah digunakan dalam pemilihan sampel. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan statistik diskriptif dan inferensi menggunakan perisian SPSS. Kajian mendapati bahawa ciri-ciri keusahawanan, kompetensi, pengalaman kerja, latihan dan kejayaan teknousahawan berada pada tahap sangat tinggi. Kajian juga mendapati ciri-ciri keusahawanan (r=0.257, p..

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The assessment landscape in Maldivian schools is currently undergoing change. The new draft Maldivian National Curriculum (Education Development Centre, 2012a) and associated documents, aim to realign assessment, instruction and curriculum in schools to better optimise learning conditions. In terms of assessment a key future focus involves promoting the use of formative assessment in classroom practice. For Maldivian teachers who have traditionally placed emphasis on summative assessment, the transition towards developing a more balanced assessment approach is expected to be challenging. The issues this paper addresses are twofold. The first is to discover how Maldivian primary teachers are currently interpreting formative assessment and putting it into classroom practice. The second is to determine how these practices might act as indicators for identifying future teacher professional development needs. The intent is to provide insight into the complexity of implementing formative ass.....

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An ex-post facto study was conducted to determine which teacher practices can promote critical thinking among secondary school students. A total of 1200 students in 12 schools in a district in Selangor participated in the study. The study employed an extreme group causal comparative design where students who tested high in critical thinking as measured using the Cornell Critical Thinking Test Level X (CCTT-X) were compared with students who obtained low scores in the CCTT-X. Twelve experiences with regard to teacher practices in the classroom differed significantly between the high and the low scorers when analysed with the Mann-Whitney U Test. Implications of the study, particularly on ways to teach better to promote critical thinking are discussed. Key words: Critical thinking, Teacher practices, Malaysia..

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The internet has been an integral part for most EFL teachers nowadays. Those teachers make use of the internet to help them at least search for appropriate materials for their classroom teaching. Some others use the internet to discuss particular courses outside the classroom time. However, the fact that the internet has been of central use, the research on it in relation to literacy (read, write, research and publish) for EFL teacher personal and professional development in developing countries is under explored (Warschauer, Shetzer and Meloni, 2002, cited in Cahyani & Cahyono, 2012). In that regard, this article is to address that critical issue. As an EFL teacher from the developing country myself, my personal and professional experiences and my encounters with colleagues on the internet use inform my subjectivities in writing this article. As the current globalized world requires teachers to have multi-literacy skills, I deliberately frame the internet use within New Literacy Studi.....

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Over hundreds of years of modern education system has been developing and implemented in the schools at European countries and slowly around the world. Not only the education system has changed, but also more and more tools and gadgets had been invented and developed for the sake of better education. In most developing countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Brunei, Interactive whiteboard (IWB) becomes a strange tool for most new and even experienced teachers. The purpose of this study is to review back the related literature reviews of the effectiveness of the use of IWB for teaching and learning which currently have mixed findings on its contributions as a tool in the classrooms. Thereafter, it believes will lead to the understanding of the use of IWB for teaching Chinese characters. Key words: Interactive whiteboard, Educational technologies, Teaching tools..

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Kewujudan masalah disiplin dalam kalangan remaja terutamanya pelajar sekolah menengah yang sentiasa meningkat kini telah menjadi trend bagi budaya persekolahan. Persoalan mula timbul iaitu dari siapakah remaja mempelajari nilai moral dan kehidupan? Remaja tahu apa yang betul dan apa yang bermoral akan tetapi mereka tidak bertindak sewajarnya kerana ia lebih sukar untuk memenuhi keperluan mereka dengan cara tersebut. Oleh itu, remaja terutamanya pelajar yang bermasalah disiplin menghadapi kesukaran untuk memikirkan yang terbaik untuk diri mereka berdasarkan kemoralan. Berdasarkan kepada faktafakta ini, objektif utama kajian yang berbentuk kuantitatif telah ditetapkan iaitu untuk mengkaji darjah pertimbangan moral dalam kalangan pelajar bermasalah disiplin. Kajian ini menggunakan sampel bertujuan berjumlah 100 orang responden. Borang soal selidik yang telah dibangunkan oleh Daniel Brugman, Gibbs dan Fuller (2007) iaitu _Sociomoral Reflection Measure _ Short Form Objective_ (SRM-SFO) digu.....

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Penyelidikan ini bertajuk Perspektif Feminisme dalam Karya Tari Terpilih Ciptaan Ni Putu Ari Handayani yang dikaji menggunakan kaedah kualitatif dengan pendekatan kajian kes. Kaedah analisis kualitatif sebagi proses inkuiri untuk memahami masalah sosial berdasarkan isu-isu perempuan. Manakala kajian kes deskripsi dan penerangan yang melibatkan koreografi yang merefrsentasikan kekuatan perempuan. Kajian ini juga menggunakan teori feminis eksistensialisme oleh Simone De Beauvoir (2019) dan teori simbol Susanne K. Langer (2006). Kajian ini membincangkan masalah gender wanita Sasak dalam penciptaan karya tari Ni Putu Ari Handayani. Sebagai koreografer wanita di Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Ni Putu melihat fenomena sosial dalam masyarakat khususnya yang berkaitan dengan wanita. Ni Putu membangkitkan topik wanita dalam karya tari beliau khususnya berkaitan peranan dan fungsi kewanitaan dalam tradisi Sasak. Fenomena wanita dalam budaya Sasak sentiasa melekat pada aspek inferiority yang dalam .....

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Murid yang terpilih mengikuti tahfiz aliran perdana di sekolah-sekolah Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia (KPM) merupakan murid-murid yang dianggap mampu dan layak untuk mengikuti kedua-dua aliran iaitu akademik dan hafazan dengan baik dan seimbang. Justeru, pelbagai gaya dan strategi yang digunakan oleh murid-murid ini bagi menguasai pembelajaran. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti gaya pembelajaran murid-murid sekolah tahfiz aliran perdana di bawah Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia, dan menganalisis hubungan gaya pembelajaran murid tersebut dengan penguasaan akademik dan hafazan murid berdasarkan model visual, aditori, reading & writing dan kinestetik (VARK) dan Ibn Khaldun. Reka bentuk kajian ini menggunakan kaedah kuantitatif dengan soal selidik sebagai alat pengumpulan data. Seramai 495 responden dipilih dengan kaedah persampelan rawak mudah. Data kajian dianalisis dengan menggunakan perisian Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) untuk mendapatkan kekerapan, peratus, min.....

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