The utilization of teaching aids is crucial in enhancing students’ mathematical process skills. However, teachers give less accentuation on this aspect of usage which leads to students’ low competence in mathematical process skills. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a developed teaching aids, in particular, a Smart Kit in enhancing mathematical process skills and achievement among selected primary school students in Hulu Kinta, Perak. The experimental method was used in this study. Cluster sampling was used to select the samples. The samples were divided into two groups, the control and treatment groups which each consisted of 36 respondents. The treatment group was engaged with the developed Smart Kit while the students in the control group followed the conventional method of teaching and learning. Measurement and Geometry topics at primary school level were selected and students’ mathematical process skills were assessed based on Malaysia Assessmen.....

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Kajian   ini   bertujuan   untuk   menjawab   beberapa   persoalan   berkaitan   tradisi pengebumian klirieng sebagai amalan pengebumian sekunder masyarakat Tatau di Tatau, Sarawak. Fokus  kajian merangkumi sejarah asal-usul orang Tatau, kepercayaan yang diamalkan, kaedah pembuatan  klirieng, fungsi dan analisis perlambangan di sebalik motif dan ukiran yang terdapat di bahagian  permukaan klirieng. Kajian ini juga melihat hubungan antara masyarakat Tatau dengan klirieng  melalui hubungan spiritual iaitu klirieng sebagai perlambangan kepada aspek cara fikir dan falsafah  masyarakat Tatau. Kaedah kualitatif dengan menggunakan pendekatan etnoarkeologi iaitu cabang kepada  ilmu arkeologi digunakan untuk mendapatkan dan menganalisis data yang diperolehi. Tiga pendekatan  yang dimaksudkan ialah pemerhatian di lapangan terhadap objek klirieng dan tapak pengebumian,  temubual terhadap individu berautoriti seperti ketua adat, ketua rumah panjang dan juga penelit.....

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Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji kesan program latihan kekuatan jangka pendek linear dan tidak linear terhadap prestasi otot di kalangan pemain bola sepak lelaki  Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Skudai. Reka bentuk kajian ini adalah quasi-experimental kerana  kajian ini menekankan analisis perubahan min skor prestasi otot selepas empat minggu latihan linear  dan tidak linear. Tiga puluh pemain bola sepak lelaki UTM Skudai yang berumur 18-23 tahun terlibat  dalam kajian ini. Pembolehubah bebas dalam kajian ini adalah program linear (LST) dan tidak linear  (NLST) dan pemboleh ubah bersandar adalah ujian kekuatan maksimum (1RM) bahagian atas badan, ujian  kekuatan maksimum (1RM) bahagian bawah badan, 30 meter larian pecut, dan ukur lilit lengan dan  peha. Kajian ini menggunakan ujian Paired Sample T untuk menganalisis ujian pra dan pasca untuk  peserta di dalam kedua-dua kumpulan latihan dan Multivariate Analysis of Variances (MANOVA) untuk  menganalisis perb.....

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Kajian  ini  bertujuan  untuk  mengenal  pasti  kesan  aplikasi  realiti  augmentasi  terhadap pencapaian akademik, pemahaman dan tumpuan dalam kalangan murid lembam yang mengikuti Program  Pendidikan Khas  Integrasi  (PPKI) Masalah  Pembelajaran.  Pendekatan kualitatif dengan reka bentuk  kajian kes digunakan bagi kajian ini. Dua orang guru sekolah rendah di daerah Kuala Terengganu  telah dipilih menggunakan kaedah pensampelan bertujuan. Aplikasi realiti augmentasi dibangunkan  menggunakan teknologi markerless augmented reality berlandaskan metodologi pembangunan perisian  instruksi ADDIE. Aplikasi yang dikenali sebagai ARCard ini dibangunkan khusus untuk murid lembam  bagi pembelajaran topik Benda Hidup dan Benda Bukan Hidup dalam Sains Tahun Empat. Kajian ini  menggunakan kaedah temubual sebagai pemgumpulan data manakala analisis naratif digunakan sebagai  teknik analisis data. Dapatan kajian ini  menunjukkan peningkatan pencapaian akademik melalui  .....

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This  study  aimed  to  develop  an  optical  stiffness  calibration  system  using  three methods. The used methods were Boltzmann statistics (BS), equipartition theorem (ET) and power  spectrum density (PSD) analysis. This study consisted of two phases; system development phase and  testing phase. System development phase involved hardware and software components. Testing phase  involved actual experimental optical stiffness calibration. The finding of the study was a  calibration system consisting hardware and software parts. The hardware part was an optical  tweezers that was equipped with quadrant photodiode (QPD) and piezostage. The software part was a  custom made software which was constructed on LabVIEW 2012 platform, namely OSCal. This study  showed the conversion factor (used in ET and BS methods) and optical stiffness depends on trapping  laser power. In conclusion, this study successfully developed the aimed system with comparable  optical sti.....

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This paper examines UN resolutions 242 and 338 to find whether these two milestone texts of UN discourse on the Palestine Question, taken as the basis for “the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East,” genuinely and practically work towards an amicable solution to this prolonged problem, this almost century-long unequal conflict. The study seeks to find out whether such UN discourse is linguistically structured to achieve such an end; with the ultimate goal being offering us “the possibility that we might profitably conceive the world in some alternative way” (Fowler, 1981 cited in Jaworski & Coupland, 1999, p. 33) as is the case with any discourse study that adopts ‘critical’ goals. The study therefore employs Ruth Wodak’s Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) — an approach within the pluralistic framework of CDA. The findings show that temporisation of the Palestine Question has been an indirect result of the bad faith and linguistic manipulation of.....

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This paper scrutinizes reported education studies in kinematics, which is a basic topic in the field of physics. Articles were searched on major databases about the related studies using keyword search. These were classified into the assessment tools, conceptual difficulties and teaching strategies in kinematics. ..

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During on-Job Training (OJT), students are assessed by using the OJT (Organisation) assessment rubric. However, soft skill elements in the current assessment rubric are quite general in assessing students according to the job scope for Diploma in Construction Technology. The items in the current assessment rubric are not specific to assess soft skills of site supervisors which are important in the construction industry. Therefore, this study aims to identify the soft skill elements for OJT (Organisation) assessment rubric for Construction Technology students. The research design for this study is a survey that was carried out quantitatively through questionnaires involving contractors of G4 to G7 as the population of this study and administered to 180 contractors by using simple random sampling. After document analysis and expert validation process, five items were selected to be the constructs of soft skills and 21 items were chosen to be the elements for soft skills. From the Rasch M.....

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Education 4.0 has emphasised on the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in education. Enhancing the creative and innovative thinking among pre-service teachers has become one of the important elements in Education 4.0. Most of the art students, who take Form Four economics in secondary schools, generally face difficulties in mastering economic concepts. In order to make the lessons more interesting and easy to remember, the economics teachers should develop some innovative teaching and learning methods to attract students’ attention. This study aimed to examine pre-service teachers’ learning interest. This study also further examined the understanding of economics concepts. Learning with songs can make learning activities more interesting for the class, especially with music videos. This study employed the survey as research method. A total of 50 pre-service teachers were employed randomly as samples. From the findings, music videos can enhance learning in.....

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This study aimed to investigate the chemical constituents from Alphonsea cylindrica as well as their cytotoxic and xanthine oxidase inhibitory activities. The chemical compounds were isolated and purified by various chromatographic techniques and their structures were elucidated via modern spectroscopic techniques including NMR, MS, IR, UV and comparison with literature. A study on the barks of A. cylindrica has found eleven known compounds were identified as stigmasterol (1), isoursuline (2), cyathocaline (3), kinabaline (4), muniranine (5), isooncodine (6), iraqiine (7), O-methylmoschatoline (8), kareemine (9), atherospermidine (10) and N-methylouregidione (11). The cytotoxic effect of hexane, DCM and methanol of bark of A. cylindrica as well as the isolated compounds; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 were estimated on MCF-7 human breast cancer cells and isoursuline possessed the most potent inhibitory activity with IC50 value of 33 µg/ml. Eight compounds 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 11 di.....

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