Background: Physical fitness has a strong relationship with health and academic achievement. This study aims to identify the health-related physical fitness level among Form Six Sports Science students in the State of Kedah by gender. Methods: 225 students (107 male and 118 female) were purposively selected to participate in this descriptive study. This study was conducted using the Prudential FITNESSGRAM® test battery instrument, which introduced by Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research, (1992). Researchers determine the physical fitness level of the subjects using five test items: cardiovascular endurance, muscle endurance, muscle strength, flexibility, and body mass index (BMI). Results: The findings use descriptive statistical analysis to identify the physical fitness level based on health components using the norms developed by Elumalai et al. (2019). The overall fitness analysis showed that almost 50% of boys and girls were in the range of a good level. Around 20% were in the.....

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Tujuan  kajian  ini  untuk  menganalisis  ciri-ciri  perwatakan  wanita  Melayu Islam dari perspektif feminisme Barat dan Islam. Objektif kajian adalah untuk menganalisis  perwatakan wanita Melayu Islam berasaskan Konsep Feminisme Talbiah,  mengaplikasikan  Konsep   Feminisme  Talbiah  terhadap  karya-karya prosa  Aminah  Mokhtar  dan  membangunkan  kerangka   konsep  Feminisme Talbiah  berasaskan  model  Elaine  Showalter  dan  Yusuf  al-Qardhawi.  Kajian  ini  menggunakan  reka  bentuk  kajian  kepustakaan  dan  analisis  dokumen. Pengkaji telah  menggunakan empat elemen ginokritikan oleh Elaine Showalter dan enam elemen kedudukan wanita dalam  Islam menurut Yusuf al-Qardhawi. Elemen-elemen ini digunakan untuk membentuk Konsep Feminisme  Talbiah. Dapatan  kajian  mendapati  ginokritikan  mempunyai  kelompangan,  iaitu  tidak  bersandarkan  kepada  pegangan  Tauhid  dan  bertentangan  dengan  perwatakan wanita  Melay.....

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An experiment was carried out to determine the synergistic effects of biochar and peat moss on growth and soil-plant interaction of choy sam. It was implemented at the Soil Science Laboratory, Sultan Idris Education University. The plants were treated with different amount of biochar (0g and 20g) and peat moss (0g and 20g). Parameters of the sample such as root and shoot length, plant biomass, soil pH and soil moisture content were analysed after 44 days of transplanting. Total of experimental units were 20 pots. The experimental design used in this experiment was Randomised Complete Block Design (RCBD). Data were analysed by using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) (SAS University Edition) and means were compared using Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT) with significance level (P ). Results in the experiment showed that soil amendment with biochar and peat moss applications did not affect any growth parameter studied such as root and shoot length, plant biomass, soil pH and soil moisture.....

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Water quality plays a major role in influencing the health of aquatic organisms and their interactions with parasites and disease. Pollutants that enter the aquatic environment, such as heavy metals, can potentially alter the relationships between hosts and their parasites and as a consequence influence the completion of parasites life cycles. Here, the influence of the heavy metal pollutant zinc on a life cycles stages of the cestode Schistocephalus solidus is investigated. In vitro culture of the parasite allowed the production of eggs, which were then incubated in a range of zinc concentrations (0.2 µg/L, 2 µg/L, 20 µg/L and 200 µg/L). The effect of zinc on S. solidus egg viability, on the survival of emerging free-living, motile infective stages (coracidia) and on the subsequent development or growth of the parasite in copepod hosts was then quantified. The development and hatching success of S. solidus eggs developed normally in elevated zinc concentrations up to 0.2 µg/L but.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh budaya dan iklim sekolah terhadap keberkesanan sekolah pada Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK) di Bekasi. Reka bentuk kajian dengan menggunakan kaedah tinjauan manakala pengumpulan data menggunakan soal selidik. Soal selidik diubahsuai dari pelbagai sumber yang disesuaikan dengan reka bentuk, sampel dan objektif kajian. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan statistik deskriptif dan inferen. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tahap budaya sekolah (min: 119, SD: 22), iklim sekolah (min: 146, SD: 33) dan keberkesanan sekolah (min: 149, SD: 22) berada pada tahap tinggi. Seterusnya terdapat perbezaan budaya sekolah, iklim sekolah dan keberkesanan sekolah berdasarkan latar belakang guru. Terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan antara iklim sekolah terhadap keberkesanan sekolah (β: .42, P≤.05) dan terdapat juga pengaruh yang signifikan antara budaya sekolah terhadap keberkesanan sekolah (β: .39, P≤.05). Kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa keberkesa.....

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The paper aimed to examine the stock returns performance around sectors redefinition by Bursa Malaysia and how its impact on shareholders' return. The study uses a standard of event study methodology on three listed companies which previously under the sector of trading and services, and now they are classified under utilities (TNB), telecommunications and media (Maxis) and consumer products and services (Genting). From the analysis, main finding shows that shareholders' return experienced a loss by 10% during the period of 31 days. When an event study analysis was extended to different event windows, negative CARs were observed with all values were insignificant. The results suggest that the shareholders returns were influenced by information release, however, the probability of leak information before an official announcement could dedicate to the result.  ..

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The objective of this study was to investigate the mediating role of Principal Empowerment Practices on the relationship between Teacher Quality and Expected Students’ Academic Performance  in Kwara State Public Secondary Schools, Nigeria. A quantitative exploratory research design was  utilized. A total of 450 teachers were chosen as a sample through a stratified random sampling  technique. Data analysis using the structural equation modeling indicated a strong relationship  between Teacher Quality and Expected Students’ Academic performance with standardized regression  weight of 0.817 and significant at p0.05. Further, it was  found  that  Principal  Empowerment  Practices   acted  as  a  partial  mediator  in  the relationship  between  Teacher  Quality  and  Expected   Students’  Academic  Performance since total indirect effect of 0.56 (p>0.05) was less than a  direct effect of 0.81 (p..

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The research aimed to study the effects of webcomics on students‘ reading comprehension ability. Ten hypotheses were generated from three main research questions. The webcomics were developed by employing the principles of multimedia learning on designing of multimedia presentations and the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. This study employed a quasi-experimental design with multiple method enquiries, a survey and a focus group interview. A pre-test was administered prior to the six week intervention and a post-test after that. A set of questionnaires was distributed to the experimental group and a focus group interview was held after the quasi-experiment to obtain data on the effect of webcomics on the students‘ comprehension of the text. The dependent variables of comprehension studied were literal comprehension, reorganisation, inference and prediction. The respondents were 34 students in the experimental group and 33 students in the control group. They were .....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membina dan menentusahkan instrumen ujian subjektif yang dinamakan Ujian Subjektif Kemahiran Proses Sains Asas dan Bersepadu (USKPSAB) untuk sekolah rendah bagi mengukur penguasaan kesemua 12 kemahiran proses sains. Kajian ini menggunakan gabungan dua fasa. Fasa pertama melibatkan pembinaan item instrumen yang mana item soalan subjektif ditulis berdasarkan jadual spesifikasi item. Kesahan kandungan, kesahan muka dan pilihan jawapan ditentusahkan secara kualitatif oleh panel pakar. Fasa kedua pula melibatkan penentusahan aspek psikometrik instrumen melalui data kajian yang menggunakan 216 murid Tahun 4 hingga Tahun 6. Jumlah skor ujian yang diperolehi oleh murid semasa ujian rintis yang melibatkan 153 item ialah 63 hingga 150 (min = 119.4, sisihan piawai = 13.1) dengan nilai pekali kebolehpercayaan KR-20 ialah 0.84. Instrumen kemahiran proses sains yang terhasil mengandungi 75 item: 42 item kemahiran proses sains asas (dengan min = 155.27, sisihan .....

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Objektif kajian ini menentukan hubungan antara kepimpinan transformasi pengetua dengan motivasi guru guru-guru di Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Daerah Seremban. Seramai 425 orang responden daripada 37 buah sekolah menengah daerah Seremban telah menjawab soal selidik. Data dianalisis menggunakan analisis statistik deskriptif untuk menentukan frekuensi, peratus, min, dan sisihan piawai. Analisis sta tistik inferens iaitu analisis kolerasi Pearson r digunakan bagi menguji hipotesis. D apatan kajian menunjukkan; i) hubungan kepimpinan transformasi pemimpin dengan motivasi esktrinsik dan intrinsik guruguru-guru adalah tinggi; ii) skor min kepimpinan transformasi pengetua bagi Dimensi Motivasi Berinspirasi adalah paling tinggi tinggi, diikuti dengan Pengaruh Yang Ideal, Ransangan Intelek dan Pertimbangan Individu. Dapatan ini membantu pengetua mengenal pasti tingkah laku dan pendekatan yang bersesuaian untuk diguna pakai dalam meningkatkan motivasi guru guru-guru di sekolah agar sent.....

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