Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti faktor – faktor yang mempengaruhi mekanisme penerimaan sokongan sosial terhadap tahap kesihatan mental atlet yang merangkumi masalah kemurungan, kebimbangan dan stres khususnya dalam kalangan atlet pelajar di Sekolah Sukan Malaysia. Pengkaji menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan menggunakan teknik persampelan rawak berstrata untuk memilih 300 orang atlet pelajar daripada tiga buah sekolah sukan. Atlet pelajar yang terlibat dalam kajian ini adalah (lelaki = 158, perempuan = 148). Satu set borang soal selidik yang mempunyai tiga bahagian iaitu bahagian A, faktor demografi. Bahagian B, Perceived Social Support Questionnaire (PSS-Q) dan bahagian C, Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) digunakan dalam proses pengumpulan data. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara sokongan sosial daripada keluarga terhadap kemurungan (r = -.36, p < .01) dan kebimbangan (r = -.32, p < .01). Selain itu, terdapat .....

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Tujuan kajian ini untuk mengukur hubungan antara iklim organisasi dan ciri personaliti dengan prestasi kerja dalam kalangan pekerja di syarikat Bumiputera, Selangor. Pengkaji menggunakan pendekatan soal selidik yang melibatkan 214 responden di Syarikat Teras Bumiputera. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah kuantitatif dimana soal selidik telah diedarkan untuk mengkaji prestasi kerja, iklim organisasi dan ciri personaliti. Penemuan hasil kajian menunjukkan hubungan yang signifikan di antara iklim organisasi dengan prestasi kerja. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan nilai korelasi yang positif di antara kelimalima dimensi iklim organisasi iaitu struktur, ganjaran, hubungan mesra sokongan dan identiti dengan prestasi kerja. Seterusnya, penemuan juga menunjukkan hubungan yang signifikan di antara ciri personaliti dengan prestasi kerja. Dapatan kajian juga menunjukkan nilai korelasi yang positif bagi ekstraversi, kesetujuan, kehematan dan keterbukaan. Namun demikian ciri personaliti neurostisme .....

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Taking a legal-based paper among the Accounting students is often set as a challenge due to a complexity of legal terms and its application to bring a conceptual and technical knowledge to a real case situation. Being aware of its course natures, determine a knowledge structure would assist the students and course instructor in the development of effective styles of teaching and learning. Guided with the main objective of study to analyze how the Third year of accounting students in a Taxation Class constructed their knowledge by using a semi-structured questionnaire. At the end of the semester, student achievement was measured for describing how students who were successful in this course used effective ways of constructing their knowledge. Based on the analysis, the result shows that a Taxation subject is a hierarchical knowledge structure and to be succeeding in this subject requires a student to acquire a high degree of conceptual and technical knowledge. Given the lens through the.....

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The extrapolation technique has been proved to be very powerful in improving the performance of the approximate methods by large time whether engineering or scientific problems that are handled on computers. In this paper, we investigate the efficiency of extrapolation of explicit general linear methods with Inherent Runge-Kutta stability in solving the non-stiff problems. The numerical experiments are shown for Van der Pol and Brusselator test problems to determine the efficiency of the explicit general linear methods with extrapolation technique. The numerical results showed that method with extrapolation is efficient than method without extrapolation...

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This research attempted to examine the acute effects of exercises order during upperlower body alternated supersets among trained men. This study was conducted by using quantitative time series experimental design. Twenty resistance-trained men performed different exercises order of bench press and squat: (i) upper body to lower body (order A) and (ii) lower body to upper body (order B) in random arrangement for three sets with 120 seconds rest inter-set. All participants performed both exercises at 75% of their one repetition-maximum (1RM) value. Muscles activation, repetitions completed, heart rate and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) were recorded during both exercises order. Repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyse the different on all variables. Results showed order A produced higher upper body muscles activation (pectoralis major: ρ < .05, triceps brachii: ρ < .05) and number of repetitions completed (ρ < .05) in bench press for all three .....

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Kajian ini dijalankan untuk melihat penggunaan komik terhadap kemahiran membaca dalam kalangan murid pemulihan tahun 2 dan 3 untuk mata pelajaran Bahasa Malaysia. Kajian tindakan ini telah dijalankan di dua buah sekolah di daerah Jempol (Negeri Sembilan) dan melibatkan lima belas orang responden. Objektif kajian ini ialah untuk meningkatan penggunaan komik dalam program pemulihan bacaan sebagai bahan bantu mengajar. Objektif kedua ialah menarik minat murid pemulihan untuk membaca, dan ketiga ialah untuk memperbaiki kemahiran membaca dalam kalangan murid pemulihan.Pengkaji memilih penyelidikan kualitatif untuk melaksanakan kajian tindakan ini. Instrumen kajian terdiri daripada analisis dokumen (keputusan peperiksaan Linus), pemerhatian (penggunaan komik dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran), temubual (untuk mengetahui minat murid membaca komik) dan soal selidik (menggunakan skala Likert) Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan kaedah triangulasi dan perisian komputer ATLAS.ti. Kajia.....

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The paper focuses on establishing accounting standards for the awqaf system in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of its operation. Standardization could cut costs and reduce the risk of mismanagement so that services provided by awqaf strengthen development fundamentals. Thus, it is essential that Muslim countries adopt unified accounting standards to ensure accountability and transparency of various transactions related to awqaf. This will provide flexibility concerning allocations of awqaf endowments so that priority will be given to projects related to people’s basic needs. The proposed framework is designed based on the literature review to conceptualize the need of standardization of accounting for awqaf. The contribution of this paper is to add value to the literature of accounting for awqaf...

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Background: Low-back pain is one of the most common reasons for work stress, poor health, sickness, and reducing the quality of life. While obesity is a growing public health concern, it was proved that obesity is a risk factor for lowback pain. Whereas obese low-back pain people cannot avoid weight load on the spine in any exercise, but they can easily carry out the exercise in water. This study aimed to know the effect of aquatic exercise on quality of life among obese low-back pain people. Methods: A total of 39 women with BMI≥27 kg.m-2 who had non-specific chronic low-back pain were purposively selected for this study. They randomly assigned in two groups; exercising (N=19, 37.85±5.83 years with 32.97±4.84 kg. m-2) and control group (N=20, 40.8±5.25 years with 31.87±4.79 kg.m-2). The exercising group carried out the aquatic exercise, twice per week, 60 minutes per session, for 12 weeks. Quality of life was measured using the SF-36v2 questionnaire with eight domains; physical.....

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Critical and creative thinking skills are vital in new Malaysia curriculum starting 2011. These skills are advised to be integrated in all subjects in school. Hence, knowing the teachers thinking style can be an advantage as this can give the impression on how the students will be. This study was conducted to identify the tendency to which creative critical thinking style of Design and Technology (DT) teachers across Malaysia. A total of 367 teachers are involved and required to answer the instrument known as YPCreative-Critical Test which consist of 34 items. This instrument was develop using Google Form and been send out to the respondent through email, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and Instagram application to ease the teachers to respond online. The data then analyzed using descriptive statistic and inferential statistics. The finding from this study showed that nearly half of the DT teachers having balance thinking style. Creative thinking style has 35.4% of the total while critica.....

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High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is an important aspect of teaching and learning. An individual’s thinking can affect learning ability, learning speed and effectiveness of learning. The weakness in implementing HOTS is one of the reasons for a student not being creative in solving all the problems that arise. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of HOTS’s Self-Instructional Manual (SIM) in teaching and learning for assignment achievement among polytechnic students. This study uses a quantitative approach and the Quasi Experimental design - “Pretest-Posttest Non-equivalent Comparison Group Design” consisting of one Treatment Group (TG) and one Control Group (CG) involving 78 students at Polytechnic of Sultan Abdul Halim Muad'zam Shah. The assignment evaluation rubric was modified to assess the level of students’ assignment achievement. The findings showed that most of the students for TG and CG achieved good result in the individual pre-assignment. Addi.....

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