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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui penjelasan lelaki dan wanita guru-guru muda cina dalam sebab-sebab konflik hubungan dalam pasangan serta mengenal pasti sama ada penjelasan-penjelasan itu mencerminkan empat sudut pandangan dalam perbezaan jantina. Empat sudut pandangan ilmiah telah dikenal pasti untuk menjelaskan mengapa kesukaran komunikasi berlaku antara lelaki dan wanita, iaitu biologi, budaya, kuasa dan retorik. Teori pendirian digunakan untuk mengkaji respon subjek dan seterusnya membantu menjelaskan perbezaan penjelasan antara subjek lelaki dan wanita. Dengan menggunakan kaedah kualitatif, tiga kumpulan fokus yang menjadi subjek kajian ini menjawab soalan dan membincangkan sebab-sebab konflik pasangan. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahawa lelaki dan wanita percaya bahawa sebab-sebab konflik pasangan adalah naluri biologi, percakapan dan pemahaman berbeza, mementingkan diri, penghargaan, tempoh hubungan, didikan keluarga dan keperluan yang berbeza. Penjelasan lelaki dan wanita kep.....

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Kajian ini memfokus pada pembangunan dan keberkesanan modul pembelajaran kendiri berasaskan multimedia bagi topik Cahaya dalam mata pelajaran Fizik ke atas pelajar Tingkatan Empat MRSM. Reka bentuk kajian ini adalah kajian reka bentuk dan pembangunan modul pembelajaran kendiri berasaskan multimedia. Manakala keberkesanan modul dikaji dengan menggunakan reka bentuk kuasi-eksperimen yang melibatkan 254 orang pelajar MRSM. Teknik persampelan rawak berkelompok digunakan dalam kajian ini. Kajian ini menggunakan set soalan ujian penilaian, borang soal selidik Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) dan Maryland Physics Expectations Survey (MPEX). Hasil kajian rintis menunjukkan bahawa nilai pekali kesahan reka bentuk dan kandungan serta nilai kebolehpercayaan Cronbach’s Alpha untuk modul ini ialah 0.99, 0.99 dan 0.802. Hasil dapatan dianalisis menggunakan ujian statistik inferensi ANCOVA, ANOVA sehala dan Wilcoxon T. Keputusan analisis ujian ANCOVA menunjukkan bahawa terdapat perbezaan yang sig.....

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The Islamic Real Estate Investment Trust (i-REIT) serves as an alternative Islamic investment instrument to sukuk and shariah compliant stock, which observes i-REIT experiencing a significant growth and demand in portfolio property value and Islamic market capitalization. The attractiveness of i-REIT has made it to become one of the common real estate investments apart from the physical property investment with a long-term and cheaper capital for property ownership. Likewise, the continual expansion of the i-REIT market in Malaysia is making great financial motivation that expands the investment spectrum. Therefore, the need to study the driving financial and macroeconomic interaction force with i-REIT stock return, which in turn further contributes to the Islamic finance literature. This study was confined to nine study variables and two latent which the financial and macroeconomic factors. The financial factors comprise the long-term bond yield, systematic risk, stock mark.....

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The Islamic capital market operates in parallel with convention capital market in expanding, deepening, and broadening Malaysia financial system. The Islamic Real Estate Investment Trust (Islamic REIT) serves as an alternative Islamic investment instrument to sukuk and shariah compliant stock, which observes Islamic REIT experiencing a significant growth and demand in portfolio property value and Islamic market capitalization. The attractiveness of Islamic REIT has made it to become one of the common real estate investments apart from the physical property investment with a long-term and cheaper capital for property ownership. Likewise, the continual expansion of the Islamic REIT market in Malaysia is making great financial motivation that expands the investment spectrum. Therefore, the need to review the Malaysia Islamic REIT framework to thrive and revitalize structures conforms to the shariah laws and the guideline issued by security commission of Malaysia. This inevitably means the.....

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the essential oils, phytochemicals, and antioxidant activity of Magnolia candollii and Magnolia alba (Magnoliaceae). The essential oils were obtained via hydrodistillation technique and their chemical compositions were determined by gas chromatography-flame ionization detection (GC-FID) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The phytochemicals were isolated using chromatography techniques and their structures were confirmed by spectroscopic data and comparison with literature. The antioxidant activity was determined through total phenolic content and DPPH free radical scavenging assay. The study showed that the essential oil of M. candollii consists of α-pinene (29.7%), elemol (10.2%), β-pinene (8.5%), β-caryophyllene (7.2%), α-terpineol (7.0%), and guaiol (5.4%). In addition, the major components of essential oil from M. alba were linalool (65.4%), β-caryophyllene (6.7%), and (E)-nerolidol (5.2%). Isolation and p.....

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The purpose of this study was to develop a supervision framework for teaching practice in a public university. This study also aimed: (a) to identify issues faced by student teachers, supervisors and mentor teachers during the teaching practice, (b) to explore valuable elements for developing a supervision framework, and (c) to validate the framework. The research design in this study was a framework development. The instruments used in this study consisted of a set of questionnaires, semi-structured interview, focus group discussion (FGD) and document analysis. This study involved 62 trainee teachers in the focus group discussion, eight supervisors and eight mentor teachers were involved in the interview and 353 trainee teachers were selected to respond to the questionnaires. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were used in the study to analyse quantitative data. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data. Key findings from.....

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The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most unparalleled disasters the world has ever seen. Previously, the global community has faced the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), and Severe Acute Respiratory (SARS). However, the tremendous rate of infection created by the global COVID-19 pandemic is unmatchable with its rapid spread all over the world. Therefore, it is considered as a Black Swan event as created previously by the 2008 financial crisis, SARS, and 9/11 terrorist attack. All these events have triggered panic selling that affected the confidence of investors and businesses. Subsequently, stock market performance has affected the choice of investment decisions that translated into stock return. Therefore, this paper was undertaken to investigate the co-integration and causality relationship among global COVID-19 daily infected cases, COVID-19 recoveries rate, COVID-19 death rate, investor sentiment, government policy, foreign exchange rate, Malaysia.....

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This study aimed to investigate the chemical compositions of the leaf essential oils of Magnolia villosa (Miq.) H. Keng. and M. maingayi King. growing in Malaysia. The leaf essential oils were obtained by hydrodistillation and fully characterized by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Analysis of M. villosa and M. maingayi leaf essential oils resulted in 96.4% and 98.7% of the total essential oil, respectively. The main components of M. villosa leaf essential oil were ?-caryophyllene (32.8%) and ?-humulene (8.8%), while in M. maingayi leaf essential oil gave ?-elemene (27.4%), ?-caryophyllene (16.4%), and (E)-nerolidol (14.4%). Anticholinesterase inhibitory activity was also evaluated using acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) inhibitory assays. M. villosa leaf essential oil revealed a moderate inhibitory effect on AChE (percentage inhibition, I%: 62.5%) and BChE (I%: 74.8%) at a concentration of 1,000 ?g/mL. In conclusion, the leaf esse.....

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Higher education academics are lacking the knowledge on how to implement Design Thinking for transdisciplinary design studies that would produce Fourth Industrial Revolution Workforce Skills (4IRSkills), due to the sparsity in literature and implementation guidelines. This research aims to develop a Teaching and Learning Framework (TLF) for transdisciplinary design studies with a desktop-based Virtual Reality Learning Environment (VRLE) simulation of studio-based learning. The TLF builds on Selander’s Learning Design Sequence (LDS) with the embedded Design Thinking process complemented with social constructivist pedagogies of project-based and situated studio-based learning. The study employed a sequential explanatory mixed-method approach with triangulation protocols to examine the effectiveness of the TLF with VRLE on 30 undergraduate transdisciplinary students. A quasiexperiment was conducted on a control and treatment group over two different fully online academic sem.....

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