A notable feature of empirical research on the inclusion of the economic uncertainty in the money demand function is that very few published papers rely on thespecifcations with formal clarity by studying the response of precautionary demand for money to changes in economic uncertainty. To overcome this shortcoming, this study uses the augmented form to specify the demand for money function and examines the empirical validity based on a sample of eleven countries, including four developed countries and seven developing countries. Using the panel error-correction technique, the fndings provide some policy implications; the augmented form of money demand function can characterize the diference between the three primary motives of money demand—the precautionary motive, the transactions motive and the speculative motive, and support the choice of narrow money as a guide for monetary policy that ensures that economic agents have enough money to meet unexpected expenses triggered by econom.....

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With the advancement of technology, considerable effort has been made to implement the utilization of mobile technology in learning, especially in STEM related subjects. However, this raises another issue in that the question of ethics when using these kinds of technology has not been addressed for the local context. Based on the current research, participants are concerned about the ethics of mobile technology. Thus, this research is conducted to investigate and identify the mobile ethics of students through mobile learning in a local context. The methodology used in this research is largely qualitative with students from a local university and analysed using thematic analysis. The preliminary findings shed light on the issue of ethics in mobile learning for the local context.  ..

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Rote memorisation and dependent teaching approaches are still common among ESL teachers teaching writing. The lack of practicability of creative approachesto violate the ‘spoon-feeding’ trend among students needs attention. This paper aims to provide an overview of theories and how these theories govern the ESL practices to teach writing creatively, using integrated strategies for weak ESL students, in order to enhance their essay writing skills. Teaching of writing creatively refers to three of the 21st Century teaching and learning skills. The three elements which are essential in the 21stCentury are: creativity (C1), collaboration (C2) and communication (C3). Therefore, this paper suggests that the teachers be exposed to the 21st century teaching skills and theories needed to teach writing. It is vital to prepare the nation’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and high performance to set a benchmark among other countries by international standard, thus, avoid unemp.....

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Technology has always been an important part of the teaching and learning environment. Today’s era of digital technology has provided teachers and educators with more chances to be innovative with their teaching sessions in the classroom. However, regardless of the waves of technology flooded into the education, teachers still have trouble getting learners interested in learning English language. Learners tend to be unmotivated and not fond of learning English language in the classroom. Thus, it is believed that there is a need for an innovation on the type of materials used in the classroom. One such material is the video blog or ‘vlog’ and is developed to provide learners with more meaningful and authentic materials and help learners to be more interested in learning English language in the classroom. It is hoped this innovation will be able to assist both learners and educators in their future...

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In disruptive need to create healthy workplace in organization, in other side, 98% employee experienced workplace incivility. Most of experienced workplace incivility instrument is developed and validated in English, and has not been much studied about experience workplace incivility instrument adapted from English to Indonesia. Hence, the research aims to cross-culturally adapt the Workplace Incivility Scale. The process of the translation and culture adaption is referred to the guidelines for the cross cultural adaptation process, as suggested by Beaton, consisting of 6 stages. The first stage is forward translation, second stage is synthesis, third stage is back translation, the fourth stage is expert committee review, the fifth stage is pilot-test, and sixth stage is submission and appraisal of all written reports by developer’s/committee. Translation is conducted using two independent translators, two language native translators, expert committee review that consisted of four ex.....

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Violation of workplace norms is perceived as incivility and could potentially bring negative consequences to psychological health and organizational attitudes. Given this, abundant research on incivility is conducted to look at the dynamics, causes, and outcomes of incivility and its negative impacts on employees’ well-being. Up until this date, no work of bibliometric study has been carried out and published. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze, and reports published works related to incivility based on the data obtained from the Scopus online database. Using standard bibliometric indicators, this article reports the growth rate of publications, analysis of the citation, global trends and research productivity. A total of 594 valid published documents is retrieved and finalized based on selected keywords search results. The results show that there is an increased growth rate of incivility literature, particularly in nursing and health-related area. The plausible reason for this is.....

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The purpose of this research is to investigate the e?ciency of ex-plicit diagonally implicit multi-stage integration methods with ex-trapolation. The author gave detailed explanation of explicit di-agonally implicit multi-stage integration method and compared thebase method with a technique known as extrapolation to improvethe e?ciency. Extrapolation for symmetric Runge-Kutta method isproven to improve the accuracy since with extrapolation the solu-tions exhibit asymptotic error expansion, however for General linearmethods, it is not known whether extrapolation can improve the ef-?ciency or not. Therefore this research focuses on the numericalexperimental results of the explicit diagonally implicit multistageintegration with and without extrapolation for solving some ordi-nary di?erential equations. The numerical results showed that thebase method with extrapolation is more e?cient than the methodwithout extrapolation  ..

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This study was conducted to understand the factors affecting the implementation of LINUS Numeracy program for hard-core students in three schools in the Kinta Utara District, Ipoh, Perak. This study used a purpose sampling method in selecting teachers as participants. Interviews, observations and review of documents ware used to gather information. The data was analysed using content analysis and constant comparative method. The findings showed that the hard-core students have attendance problem, lack of focus during the learning process, health and learning problems, not giving response when questions are asked by the teacher, have no interest in learning and have family problems. All of these problems will implicate the performance of LINUS in the school, state and the ministry particularly if they are not controlled earlier. Various parties need to play their roles in ensuring the performance of LINUS results is at a commendable level. There are several programs to attract students .....

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Currently, most companies or organizations can select a number of methodologies to improve their business processes, which include Six Sigma, Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma, Business Process Reengineering, Total Quality Management, Kaizen and Poka-Yoka. However, selecting an appropriate methodology has to be guided by the organization’s objectives. In this respect, the BPR is one of the best methodologies that can help organizations to ensure the continuity of their businesses so they will remain relevant for a long time. More importantly, the BPR can help members of organizations to rethink about their existing practices such as to introduce significant improvements to their business process. Based on a literature review, the researchers carried out a comparative analysis on four leading methodologies, namely BPR, Six Sigma, Lean Thinking, and Kaizen. The comparison of the methodologies were based on 11 aspects, namely the concept, effect, use of information technology, focus, involv.....

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Makalah ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti unsur Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi (KBAT) yang terdapat melalui peribahasa dalam bahan multimedia kartun Pada Zaman Dahulu. Ia dilihat mampu memberi nilai yang baik dan mampu memberi kesan yang besar dalam pendidikan murid sekolah rendah. Pendekatan pengajaran berasaskan multimedia mampu memindahkan sesuatu maklumat daripada buku teks yang statik kepada suatu corak pembelajaran yang menarik. Di sini animasi memainkan peranan penting bagi menceriakan lagi persembahan sesebuah informasi. Perkara ini penting untuk memastikan murid dapat menumpukan perhatian dan tidak merasa jemu ketika proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran serta mendapat ilmu yang berterusan. Makalah ini akan memanfaatkan teori semiotik (Peirce, 1965) dan teori konstruktivisme (1987). Semiotik mementingkan tanda, penanda dan petanda. Dari sudut pengajaran, guru bijak menggunakan kecergasan fikiran untuk memahami sesebuah peribahasa. Teori semiotik mengajak guru untuk melihat hubun.....

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