Thisresearch was conducted to examine the relationship between depression and child abuse among career parents in Melaka. Career parents both father and mothers in different fields (N=60) were randomly selected from Melaka, Malaysia. Clinical Assessment of Depression (CAD) and Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI) instruments were used to collect the data. The results revealed that depression has significant positive relationship with child abuse potential inventory (r=.640**). The results concluded that there is significant positive relationship between depressions with the child abuse potential among career parents in Melaka and depressions is a predicting factor related to child abuse potential among career parents in Melaka. Child abuse is a complex phenomena which needs to be studied for the management of health parents and child relationship. This study helped to explore the causes of child abuse issues and parents level of depression...

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To explore communicative readiness and motivation among refugee teachers in Malaysia, 30 refugee teachers registered under UNHCR were recruited Drawing on a quantitative approach, questionnaires consisting of 20 items adapted from McCroskey and Richmond’s (2013) Willingness to Communicate Scale, Gardner’s (2004) Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) and Fulmer’s (2010) Organisational Communication Survey were distributed. The data analysis revealed that communication apprehension was negatively associated with willingness to communicate and anxious teachers were less willing to communicate with strangers and acquaintances. A negative relationship between interpersonal conversation subscale of communication apprehension and intrinsic motivation was also observed. Those who regarded learning English as important were more willing to converse in the said language. It is hoped that this study could serve as an introductory guide to NGOs and existing voluntary groups when designing .....

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The systemic approaches connect a set of interacting, functioning, and interdependent or elements with mutual relationships. The objective of this study is to analyze how students' cognitive ability profiles if measured using Chemistry Systemic Multiple Choices Questions (CSMCQs). This study was conducted by testing CSMCQs to the 157 students who studied with the usual learning approaches by teachers. Data collection technique were conducted using the objective test instruments consist of C1 to C6 cognitive abilitiy domains. Data were analyzed using descriptive percentage analysis. The results showed that students' cognitive ability is in the highest category. Based on these result, Chemistry Systemic Multiple Choice Questions (CSMCQs) can be used as an alternative learning evaluation instrument to develop students’ cognitive abilities...

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Plant tissue culture technology offers the potential of producing medicinally important secondary metabolites such as anti-malarial artemisinin from Artemisia annua. In this study, callus induction of three different varieties of A.annua, namely T1, T2 and Hi varieties was carried out using leaf explants on Murashige & Skoog (MS) and Litvay (LV) media with three different supplementations. MS medium added with 0.5 mg/L BA, 0.5 mg/L NAA and 0.5 g/L of casein hydrolysate (CH) induced the highest yield of callus biomass compared to the effect of picloram- or 2,4-enriched MS medium. T2 variety was found to be the highest yielding variety in this medium. Picloram-enriched MS medium induced better callus in term of callus biomass and friability than 2,4-enriched medium. Hi variety induced in MS medium added with 0.5 mg/L picloram produced highest callus biomass among the three varieties. Callus formed on 0.5 mg/L picloram was also much more easily dispersed than callus of all three varieties.....

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The determination of linear and nonlinear optical efficiency of glass materials is crucial in extensive optical applications especially the laser glass. Nanoparticles appear to be an excellent dopant to improve the efficiency of laser glass. In this paper, the novel neodymium nanoparticles (NPs) doped tellurite glass had been fabricated for the first time via melt-quenched technique. The existence of nanoparticles in the glass network was proved by Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) image with an average size of 20 nm. The structural parameter of TeO3 non-bridging oxygen was determined by FTIR analysis. The optical parameters of neodymium NPs doped tellurite glass were characterized by UV-Vis spectrometer, photoluminescence and Z-scan technique. The optical band gap energy of the glass network was reduced in the range of 3.178 - 3.209. The upconversion emission of the laser glass excited at 800 nm was found in the ultraviolet region. The optical efficiency of neodymium NPs doped te.....

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The purpose of the study was to investigate attitude towards science among lower secondary students in Johor Bahru. The attitude in this study included interest, perception towards science and motivation. The study was carried out in Johor Bahru, Johor. The study adopted quantitative descriptive research designs and questionnaires were used in the study. A total of 370 respondents constituted the sample of the study, which included Form 2 lower secondary students from Johor Bahru. Data was analysed to obtain frequency, mean and standard deviation. The results revealed that laboratory activity, curiosity to discovery science and science as a tool to understand the world is able to improve science learning. As a conclusion, interest especially created by laboratory activity, perception of student when they are curios to discovery science and motivation factor when students know that science as a tool to understand the world are able to improve students science learning in lower secondary.....

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Al doped ZnO (ZnO:Al) thin films was grown on corning glass substrate using dc magnetron sputtering. ZnO:Al thin film grown with plasma power 40 watt and 500 mTorr argon pressure for 120 minutes. Film was grown annealed on oxygen atmosphere with different pressure for 20 minutes. The crystalline of ZnO:Al film deposited has an hexagonal structure. The crystallites preferred orientation shift gradually from (002) to (101) direction as the pressure of oxygen increases. Transmittance in the visible regions increases with increasing pressure of oxygen about 81,27%. The optical characterization indicated that the band gap shift toward lower energies with increasing pressure of oxygen...

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Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) ability to improve electrical, optical and mechanical properties of nanocomposites, have attracted great amount of interest for their huge potential in applying them as filler in polymer matrix. However, this application was hindered because of their low dispersion in polymer matrix and tendency to self-associate into macro-scale aggregates. Recently, diffusion of MWCNTs in cellulose polymer matrix was studied and prepared via latex technology approaches by the addition of 1-butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium (BMIM)-surfactant. The performance of BMIM-surfactants for dispersing MWCNTs in polymer was characterized using a range of techniques including field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), and Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Meanwhile, the conductivities of the nanocomposites were also investigated using four-point probe measurements. In this study, MWCNTs were efficiently dispersed in cellulose utilizing 1- butyl-3-methyl imidazolium-dodecyl .....

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Habits of mind (HOM) is one of the kind response to those questions and problems whereby the answers to which are not immediately known which can attribute to effective problem solvers and critical thinking development. However, the emphasis on this aspect is still low especially among science educators as well as secondary science students which in the long run will retard the production of knowledge worker who are able to behave when confronted with life’s problems. The study addressed the integration of Thinking Based Learning (TBL) and the 6E Instructional Model as a teaching approach in nurturing habits of mind among secondary students while doing their Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) project. The study involved 30 students from a Lower Secondary School in a sub urban school in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Students were given a STEM Raft Module integrating TBL and 6E Instructional Model for five weeks to come out with a model of a raft based on science concepts .....

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The innovation in this instruction was the use of medicine card as a learning media of periodic table of elements. This research aimed to know the process of learning conducted by using medicine card and to know the students' motivation and learning outcomes as the result of the implementation of medicine card in the classroom activity. This research used a quantitative descriptive method. The implementation of the media was conducted in fourfold meetings in Health Vocational School of Sadewa, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A SWOT analysis was conducted at the beginning of the learning innovation and was followed by the observation and the preparation of material and media. The class activity began with explanations of medicine card games, group divisions, game execution, and confirmation. The final step was evaluated using a questionnaire of motivation and post-test problems. The result of the questionnaire indicated that the students’ motivation was in the good criterion and the learning o.....

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