Projek penyelidikan ini bertujuan menganalisis gaya hidup digital dalam konteks teknologi mudah alih dalam aspek interaksi yang berlaku di antara manusia dengan mesin menerusi fabrikasi karya seni arca. Projek penyelidikan ini menginterpretasi fenomena masyarakat tentang pengalaman gaya hidup seharian pengguna menerusi elemen interaksi sosial, tingkah laku dan obsesi terhadap alat teknologi mudah alih. Artis rujukan utama yang terlibat dalam kajian ini adalah Nam June Paik, Xaviar Veilhan, Dario Tironi dan Koji Yoshida, Tom Price, Scott Snibbe, Aristarkh Chernyshev & Alexei Shulgin, Roger Belveal, Anah Dunsheath, Justine Khamara dan Susy Oliviera. Penerokaan idea terhadap aspek gaya hidup digital di dalam karyakarya pelukis yang dirujuk melibatkan isu amalan masyarakat pengguna terhadap teknologi, ikon dan simbol, trend penyebaran dan perkongsian sosial serta budaya berhibur menerusi hiburan mudah alih. Projek penyelidikan ini menggunakan kaedah penyelidikan praktik studio .....

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Kajian ini dijalankan untuk menilai tahap kecergasan fizikal dan pengetahuan pelajar Tingkatan Enam yang memilih untuk belajar ke jurusan Sains Sukan. Kaedah tinjauan ini melibatkan responden seramai 390 orang yang terdiri daripada 148 pelajar lelaki dan 242 pelajar perempuan dipilih secara rawak mudah dari 10 buah sekolah Tingkatan Enam. Bateri ujian FITNESSGRAM® dan ujian Pengetahuan Asas Konten Sains Sukan digunakan sebagai instrumen penilaian dalam proses pengumpulan data. Kesahan kandungan ujian Pengetahuan Asas Konten ialah r = 0.93 dan kebolehpercayaan r = 0.77. Analisis menggunakan ujian-t tidak bersandar menunjukkan tahap pengetahuan asas konten Sains Sukan [t (388) = -.102, p = .92 (p > 0.05)] tidak menunjukkan perbezaan yang signifikan berdasarkan jantina. Analisis ANOVA sehala bagi tahap kecergasan fizikal secara keseluruhan antara Sekolah Mod 1, Mod 2 dan Mod 3 menunjukkan terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan bagi pelajar perempuan [F (2,239) = 9.293 (p..

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Kajian  ini  bertujuan  untuk  mengenal  pasti  penilaian  terhadap  buku  teks  Kurikulum Standard  Sekolah  Menengah  (KSSM)  Pendidikan  Islam  tingkatan  satu  di  sekolah menengah  kebangsaan meliputi daerah Saratok, Sarikei dan Daro, Sarawak. Teori Ibnu Khaldun  dan  panduan   peranan  buku  teks  oleh  KPM  dijadikan  teras  utama  dalam membina  struktur  bagi  penilaian   buku  teks  (KSSM)  Pendidikan  Islam  ini.  Kajian tinjauan ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif  melalui instrumen soal selidik untuk mengumpul data kajian. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 50 orang  guru Pendidikan Islam yang  dipilih  menggunakan  teknik  persampelan  rawak   mudah.  Data  kajian   telah dianalisis secara deskriptif dan inferens menggunakan peratusan, min, sisihan piawai,  ujian-t,  ANOVA  dan   korelasi   Pearson.   Secara   keseluruhannya,   dapatan   kajian  menunjukkan tahap pengetahuan guru terhadap pera.....

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Malaysia is one of the major migrant workers’ receiving countries in Southeast Asia. The migrants from various countries like Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, and South Asian countries come to Malaysia for job opportunities. According to Malaysia's immigration department’s statistics, a total of 1.99 million foreign workers in Malaysia were registered under the Temporary Visiting Work Permit as by August 31, 2019. The majority of workers are semi and low skilled, mainly working in manufacturing, construction, services sector, plantation, etc. The research objective is to examine the migrant worker’s psychological issues, intercultural issues, ethnocentrism and overall issues related to adaptation in a foreign country. The data will be obtained by using the qualitative method− in-depth interviews with 30 participants using the non-probability sampling technique from three countries, namely, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. Expectantly, the results of this study will.....

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School-based professional learning communities (PLCs) have been one of the strategies of professional development in schools that have proven to impact teachers’ quality and student performance. Most of the PLC models are widely researched in western countries, whereas PLCs in Asian countries are limited. The characteristics of these PLC models are different based on the institutional and cultural context. Therefore, there is a need to understand the concept of PLC practices, by developing a PLC model based on the Malaysian institutional context. In this paper we described the design development research method, which includes 4 major phases: literature review, design and development, implementation and finally validation of the proposed model  ..

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One of the heritages can be denoting to the values of human activity in the past and its cultural oral narratives. To virtualize these heritages, it means to actualize the heritage into the digital content. When attempting to understand a particular cultural heritage site, the challenge here is that the connection to the past is non-existence due to insufficient historical information of the heritage sites. On the other hand, crowd simulation has been widely applied for the purpose of construction and reconstruction of tangible and intangible digital heritage. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to bring past life into digital cultural heritage and it would need the inclusions of the visual information of the surroundings and the people in the past. This paper also investigates the phase-by-phase methodology to deal with crowd simulation of different ethnic groups with heterogeneous behaviors in digital cultural heritage. The crowd is modeled and simulated based on the cl.....

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Technological devices are commonly used in different styles and for several uses with educational systems. Instructors have to avoid using technology together with the utmost effectiveness but to additionally serve as role models for pupils in regards to the correct use of technology. Different methods, strategies, equipment, along with tools are used to enhance the effectiveness of coaching and learning operations in the classroom, of that Digital Storytelling is among them. Digital Storytelling (DST) has transformed into a good educational tool for both students and teachers. This paper offers a review of DST as well as portrays where it originated from, how it really well may be utilized to help guide as well as how understudies that discover the way to whip their own advanced stories improve a lot of instruction abilities. What's more often, info is shown about the device which might be utilized to help the instructive utilization of DST. This paper, in addition, has a discussion o.....

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The increasing demand for image dehazing-based applications has raised the value of efficient evaluation and benchmarking for image dehazing algorithms. Several perspectives, such as inhomogeneous foggy, homogenous foggy, and dark foggy scenes, have been considered in multi-criteria evaluation. The benchmarking for the selection of the best image dehazing intelligent algorithm based on multi-criteria perspectives is a challenging task owing to (a) multiple evaluation criteria, (b) criteria importance, (c) data variation, (d) criteria conflict, and (e) criteria tradeoff. A generally accepted framework for benchmarking image dehazing performance is unavailable in the existing literature. This study proposes a novel multi-perspective (i.e., an inhomogeneous foggy scene, a homogenous foggy scene, and a dark foggy scene) benchmarking framework for the selection of the best image dehazing intelligent algorithm based on multi-criteria analysis. Experiments were conducted in three stages. Firs.....

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A phytochemical investigation of the stem bark of Calophyllum canum resulted in the isolation of a new xanthone dimer identified as biscaloxanthone (1), together with four compounds; trapezifoliaxanthone (2), tra-pezifolixanthone A (3), taraxerone (4) and taraxerol (5). The structures of these compounds were determined via spec-troscopic methods of IR, UV, MS and NMR (1D and 2D). The cytotoxicity of compounds 1-3 were screened against A549, MCF-7, C33A and 3T3L1 cell lines, wherein weak cytotoxic activities were observed (IC 50 > 50 μM).  ..

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This study performed to investigate the chemical compounds, toxicology, in vitro and in  vivo  antioxidant  capacity  of  Malaysian  Peperomia  pellucida  plant  towards  ICR mice.   The  qualitative  chemical  compound  test  was  performed  and  the  antioxidant capacity of P.  pellucida plant extract was analyzed by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH),  β-carotene   bleaching  and  oxygen  radical  absorbance  capacity  (ORAC) assays. The in vivo sub-acute  toxicity study that used the best solvent from  in vitro assay was done using ICR mice which were  randomly divided. The different doses of 50 mg/kg, 150 mg/kg, 200 mg/kg, 500 mg/kg and 1000 mg/kg  body weight of extract were administered daily for 21 days to the treated mice. The antioxidant  enzymes in liver and kidney of mice were investigated using standard assays.  P. pellucida only  exhibited the presence of alkaloid, phenol and saponin. The ability to scavenge free radical i.....

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