The research was aimed to measure the effectiveness of an education game (EG) which employed challenge characteristic for learning mathematics among primary school students. A game prototype with two different versions were developed using a multimedia authoring tool namely EG (challenge alone) and EG (challenge and score). A quantitative approach using quasi-experiment design was used to measure the effectiveness of the education game. A usability study has also been carried out, particularly focusing on testing the mobile-device and measuring reliability and validity aspects of the game. Forty standard one pupils were chosen using a purposive sampling technique as studied subjects. The subjects were divided into two groups of twenty pupils for the control and treatment groups equally. Data were collected and recorded for score achievement analysis for pre-test and post-test session. Data were statistically analysed using Mann Whitney U Test to investigate the differences between the .....

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Digital watermarking evaluation and benchmarking are challenging tasks because of multiple evaluation and conflicting criteria. A few approaches have been presented to implement digital watermarking evaluation and benchmarking frameworks. However, these approaches still possess a number of limitations, such as fixing several attributes on the account of other attributes. Well‐known benchmarking approaches are limited to robust watermarking. Therefore, this paper presents a new methodology for digital watermarking evaluation and benchmarking based on large‐scale data by using external evaluators and a group decision making context. Two experiments are performed. In the first experiment, a noise gate‐based digital watermarking approach is developed, and the scheme for the noise gate digital watermarking approach is enhanced. Sixty audio samples from different audio styles are tested with two algorithms. A total of 120 samples were evaluated according to three different metrics, nam.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan meneroka perkembangan pertuturan murid-murid bermasalah pendengaran dari segi latihan oro-motor, sebutan bunyi vokal dan sebutan bunyi konsonan menggunakan Video Latihan Pertuturan. Pendekatan kualitatif dengan reka bentuk kajian kes telah digunakan untuk menjawab tiga persoalan kajian. Tiga instrumen kajian digunakan iaitu pemerhatian berstruktur, senarai semak dan analisis dokumen untuk memperolehi maklumat perkembangan pertuturan. Seramai empat orang kanak-kanak bermasalah pendengaran dipilih menjadi responden melalui teknik persampelan bertujuan. Data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah naratif iaitu huraian perkembangan responden menggunakan Video Latihan Pertuturan. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan murid-murid bermasalah pendengaran dapat melakukan dengan cemerlang aktiviti membuka dan menutup mulut dan menyedut minuman di dalam latihan oro-motor manakala lemah dalam aktiviti menggerakkan lidah. Kajian juga mendapati murid-murid bermasalah pendengaran dapat menyebut buny.....

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Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengukur pelaksanaan elemen Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi (KBAT) pada arahan aktiviti pembelajaran dalam Buku Teks Bahasa Melayu Tahun Enam. Reka bentuk kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif, iaitu menganalisis dokumen untuk mengenal pasti elemen KBAT pada arahan soalan aktiviti pembelajaran bagi setiap kemahiran bahasa. Kajian ini menggunakan Buku Teks Bahasa Melayu Tahun Enam sebagai sampel kajian. Data dikumpul menggunakan senarai semak ciri-ciri elemen KBAT, senarai semak arahan aktiviti pembelajaran dan temu bual pakar bagi mendapatkan respons terbuka. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis, dirumus dan dibandingkan antara setiap kemahiran bahasa. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan sebanyak 50 peratus elemen KBAT diterapkan dalam buku teks. Dapatan kajian juga menunjukkan elemen KBAT sesuai dilaksanakan dalam aktiviti kemahiran mendengar dan bertutur, kemahiran membaca dan kemahiran menulis. Kesimpulannya, kajian ini membuktikan bahawa pelaksanaan elemen K.....

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Evaluating and benchmarking software and hardware ¯eld programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital watermarking are considered challenging tasks because of multiple and con°icting evaluation criteria. A few evaluation and benchmarking techniques/frameworks have been implemented to digital watermarking or steganography; however, these approaches still present certain limitations. In particular, ¯xing some attributes on account of other attributes and wellknown benchmarking approaches are limited to robust watermarking techniques. Thus, this study aims toward a new methodology for evaluation and benchmarking using multi-criteria analysis for software and hardware \FPGA"-based digital watermarking or steganography. To achieve this objective, two iterations are conducted. The ¯rst iteration consists of two stages: discussing software and hardware \FPGA"-based digital watermarking or steganography to create a dataset with various samples for benchmarking and discussing the evaluation m.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan membina dan menentukan keberkesanan modul pembelajaran mnemonik EZY bagi meningkatkan pemahaman konsep pembundaran dalam kalangan murid Tahun Empat di pedalaman Sarawak. Kajian kuantitatif ini menggunakan kaedah kuasi eksperimen. Seramai 41 orang murid terlibat dalam kajian ini. Dua buah sekolah, iaitu sekolah A dan B yang terletak di pedalaman daerah Baram, Sarawak terlibat sebagai kumpulan kawalan dan kumpulan rawatan. Kumpulan kawalan di sekolah A terdiri daripada 16 orang murid, manakala kumpulan rawatan di sekolah B terdiri daripada 25 orang murid. Modul pembelajaran mnemonik EZY dibina berdasarkan model ADDIE. Ujian pra dan ujian pos adalah instrumen kajian yang digunakan untuk mengumpul data. Statistik inferensi digunakan untuk menganalisis data. Dapatan kajian rintis menunjukkan bahawa nilai pekali kebolehpercayaan alfa Cronbach instrumen Ujian Pencapaian Matematik adalah tinggi iaitu 0.84. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa penggunaan modul pembelajaran mne.....

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This study was intended to evaluate customer feedback towards the purpose and facility of online banking and an indirect way to evaluate their satisfaction towards website design. On the other hand, this study was used to investigate relationship between demographic variables and respondents feedback towards the purpose and facility of online banking and website design. This study applied the method of cross sectional design by using quantitative method. The number of sample was 450 respondents selected from three different banks, i.e. CIMB Bank Berhad (CIMB), Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank) and Public Bank Berhad (PBB) in Kuala Lumpur area. The finding shows the majority of the respondents claimed that online banking system of bank helped them to save time by reducing travelling cost. Other than that, online banking has proven that it can reduce error transactions. Meanwhile, it was reported that majority of of respondents had high level of satisfaction towards website design while t.....

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This paper presents a new approach based on multi-dimensional evaluation and benchmarking for data hiding techniques, i.e., watermarking and steganography. The novelty claim is the use of evaluation matrix (EM) for performance evaluation of data hiding techniques; however, one major problem with performance evaluation of data hiding techniques is to ¯nd reasonable thresholds for performance metrics and the trade-o® among them in di®erent data hiding applications. Two experiments are conducted. The ¯rst experiment included LSB techniques (eight approaches) based on di®erent payload results and the noise gate approach; a total of nine approaches were used. Five audio samples with di®erent audio styles are tested using each of the nine approaches and considering three evaluation criteria, namely, complexity, payload, and quality, to generate watermarked samples. The second experiment involves the use of various decision-making techniques simple additive weighting (SAW), multiplicati.....

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To increase the quality of loans provision and reduce the risk involved in this process, several credit scoring models have been developed and utilized to improve the process of assessing credit worthiness. Credit scoring is an evaluation of the risk connected with lending to clients (consumers) or an organization. The GustafsonKessel (GK) algorithm has become one of the most valuable tools for credit scoring. However, this algorithm demonstrates a relatively poor capability to identify a subset of features from a large dataset. Most methods that use the GK algorithm require a predefined number of clusters.This paper presents a new GK-based modified binary particle swarm optimization (MBPSO) approach to increase the classification accuracy of the GK algorithm. The proposed MBPSO consists of three parts. First, the figure of particles is utilized to determine the optimal number of clusters automatically and overcome the drawback of the GK algorithm that requires a predefined number of c.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji aplikasi teori 'agamarabu' dalam cerpen peravai kathaigal yang telah diterbitkan sejak tahun 2006 hingga 2016. Peravai kathaigal merupakan koleksi cerpen yang terpilih menerusi pertandingan anjuran Universiti Malaya. Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti 'agamarabu' dalam 'Peravai Kathaigal' di antara tahun 2006 hingga 2016. Kedua, mengkaji aspek unsur 'agamarabu' dalam 'Peravai Kathaigal' dan yang ketiga mengenal pastiperbezaan pada zaman Tholkappiyar dan pada masa kini dari aspek 'kalavu' dan 'karpu'. Kajian juga menganalisis cerpen Peravai Kathaigal dari segi unsur seperti kalavu, karpu, sifat lelaki sebagai ketua, sifat perempuan sebagai ketua, dan juga sifat lelaki dan juga perempuan sebagai ketua dalam rumah tangga. Ini merupakan kajian kualitatif dan dibuat berdasarkan pendekatan kajian perpustakaan. Berdasarkan metodologi ini, sumber primer dikumpulkan dan dianalisis bersama sumber sekunder dan maklumat-maklumat yang berkait rapat d.....

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