bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Distribution Characterisation of Coil Spring Strain Histories Using Mixed Weibull Analysis
Authors: Mahmud M , Abdullah S , S. K. Singh S , K. Ariffin A , M. Nopiah Z , Arifin A
Published: April 2019

This paper investigates the scatter of strain histories obtained from coil spring of a vehicle suspension system. Statistical characterisation is essential in fatigue analysis due to the random nature of fatigue process. The element of uncertainty can be dealt with appropriately by applying probabilistic approach. In this study, four different road profiles were used to obtain strain signal data. Initial description of the strain histories was achieved by computing the global statistics values. The strain range data was calculated from the counted fatigue cycle and distribution fitting was performed using the Anderson Darling test. Four different types of distribution; the exponent, Gamma, 3P-Weibull, and 2P-Weibull; were compared to find the appropriate fit to model the strain range data. The results showed that strain range data are highly skewed with thick-tailed indicating a non-Gaussian distribution. All four tested distribution turned out to be insignificance, with the closest p-value of 0.01 produced by the 2P-Weibull distribution at significance level of 0.05. Due to the non-straight probability plot of data, the mixed Weibull distribution was chosen to model the data. The campus area and highway profiles follow this distribution with 2 sub-populations while rural and housing area resulted in 3 sub-populations. Finally, this distribution is found suitable for analysing the strain range data of vehicle coil spring and hence can be used in time-domain fatigue life evaluation.
Morphological and Otsu’s Thresholding-Based Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation for Detection of Retinopathy
Authors: Kipli Kuryati , Jiris Cripen , Kudnie Sahari Siti , Sapawi Rohan , Junaidi Nazreen , Sawawi Marini , Hong Ping Kismet , Mohd Afendi Zulcaffle Tengku
Published: April 2019

Retinal blood vessel segmentation is crucial as it is the earliest process in measuring various indicators of retinopathy sign such as arterial-venous nicking, and focal arteriolar and generalized arteriolar narrowing. The segmentation can be clinically used if its accuracy is close to 100%. In this study, a new method of segmentation is developed for extraction of retinal blood vessel. In this paper, we present a new automated method to extract blood vessels in retinal fundus images. The proposed method comprises of two main parts and a few subcomponents which include pre-processing and segmentation. The main focus for the segmentation part is two morphological reconstructions which are the morphological reconstructions followed by the morphological top-hat transform. Then the technique to classify the vessel pixels and background pixels is Otsu’s Thresholding. The image database used in this study is the High Resolution Fundus Image Database (HRFID). The developed segmentation method accuracies are 95.17%, 92.06% and 94.71% when tested on dataset of healthy, diabetic retinopathy (DR) and glaucoma patients respectively. Overall, the performance of the proposed method is comparable with existing methods with overall accuracies were more than 90 % for all three different categories: healthy, DR and glaucoma.
Evaluation of Microfine Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA) as Cement Partial Replacement Material for Mitigation of Chloride Attack
Authors: Ahmadi Raudhah , Syukry Saiful Mohd , Fahmi Zawawi Dzul , Zaman Abdul Rahman Shahrul , Ismail Idawati , Abdul Mannan Mohamad , Sakura Zainal Abidin Ana , Mohamed Nazri Fadzli
Published: April 2019

This paper investigates the effect of microfine palm oil fuel ash (POFA) as cement replacement material for mitigation of chloride attack in concrete. The raw POFA obtained from a local palm oil mill is initially grinded using Los Angeles abrasion machine, and then sieved using 150 μm sieve before it is burned in a furnace at 500°C. The burned POFA is then grinded using electric powder grinder to obtain the targeted microfine size ranging between 1-10 μm. Treated microfine POFA is used in the production of concrete samples for experimental tests; compressive strength test, sorptivity test and chloride penetration test to determine its physical properties and the chloride resistance parameter for the mitigation of chloride attack in concrete. Results showed that 20% of microfine POFA replacement in concrete gives the highest compressive strength at 56th day and reduces the rate of absorption of water and chloride penetration.
Application of Freundlich and Temkin Isotherm to Study the Removal of Pb(II) Via Adsorption on Activated Carbon Equipped Polysulfone Membrane
Authors: Anwar Mohamad Said Khairul , Zakirah Ismail Nor , Liyana Jama'in Ramizah , Ain Mohamed Alipah Nurul , Mohamed Sutan Norsuzailina , George Gadung Genevieve , Baini Rubiyah , Syuhada Ahmad Zauzi Nur
Published: April 2019

The aim of this study was to investigate the application of membrane equipped activated carbon for heavy metal removal. An adsorption capacity of the activated carbon inside membrane matrix was performed against environmentally problematic ions specifically Pb2+, in aqueous solution. The adsorption process was examined by Temkin and Freundlich isotherm. From the SEM observation, membrane exhibit sponge-like structure with dense micro-void formation across the matrix. This phenomenon was usually observed with membrane mixed with polyethyleneimine. For the adsorption studies, it is shown that Freundlich isotherm show better fit based on R2 value of 0.9893 with Temkin isotherm fitted with R2 of 0.9009. Through the fitted model, the adsorption occur on the surface of activated carbon are possibly multilayer type adsorption based on theory by Freundlich isotherm and fall under non-ideal reversible adsorption.
Mobile Technical Calculators with a Flipped Classroom for Sustainability Machining Process
Authors: Rahmat Setiadi Bayu , Sukardi Thomas , . Sugiyono
Published: April 2019

This study has the primary objective in planning machining practices early on through the precision of machining parameter analysis with mobile technical calculators combined with the flipped classroom. This research will compare the calculations with manual and mobile phone devices and measure the effectiveness of the media concerning the three elements of sustainable development, i.e., economic, environmental, and social. The research used posttest-control design experiment design which was divided by random sampling. The sampling technique uses saturated sampling. Data collection using performance test, observation, and questionnaire. Data analysis using independent sample test. The results show the use of mobile technical calculator with a flipped classroom is more effective in generating the accuracy of analysis than manual analysis. The t-test results state that there is a difference if this media is applied in machining practice. Also, students' perspectives on the application of these auxiliary media analyzes have an increasing impact on sustainable machinery processes concerning elements in sustainable development.
Eligibility Multimedia Interactive Language Skills Learning for Primary School Teacher Education
Authors: Ebi Praheto Biya , . Andayani , Rohmadi Muhammad , Eko Wardani Nugraheni
Published: April 2019

This study aims to determine the eligibility of interactive multimedia for Indonesian language skills courses in Primary School Teacher Education Study Program. This study is part of the development research at the limited trial stage. This research was conducted in university Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa in the even semester of the academic year 2017/2018. The object of this research is the students who taught the subjects of Indonesian language skills, lecturers of Indonesian language skills courses, media experts and material experts. Based on the results of eligibility assessment from the expert, material expert, media experts, and users both lecturers and students can be seen that interactive multimedia skills in Indonesian language is declared eligible with the good category. The results of the assessment are media experts with a score of 3.38 percentages 67.63%, material expert score 4.41 percentage 88.14%, lecturer score 4.25 percentages 85% and students 4.42 percentages 88.43%. The average eligibility score of 4.12 with 82.3% percentages is in very good category.
The Effect of Adding Waste Tire Rubber Powder on Asphalt Concrete of Highway Density
Authors: Sujatmiko Heri , . .
Published: April 2019

Diseases in plants are something that can happen to many plants either caused by pests or other factors, the disease in plants can be detected based on the symptoms that appear on the plant before spreading to all plants, to recognize the symptoms and types of diseases contained in plants require plant experts or also by applying expert systems with expert knowledge base applied to the system by using certain methods such as certainty factor method. Expected results with the availability of this expert system to the user can help many users to detect diseases in plants.
Extraction Zoning Feature to Diabetic Retinopathic Detection Models
Authors: Sirait Erwin , Zarlis Muhammad , Efendi Syahril
Published: April 2019

The health sector is one area that has been applying various computer technologies. To diagnose a patient's illness was already done with computers. One is to diagnose diabetic Retinopathic disease that can happen to anyone. Diabetic Retinopathy, which is one of the complications caused by diabetes. Symptoms shown from this disease is mikroneurisma, hemorrhages, excudets and neovascularos. The detection of the disease is done by looking at the information on the retinal image and can then be classified according to severity. This research aims to develop a method that can be used utuk classify Diabetic Retinopathy. The process of classification is based    fiture-fiture the retinal image obtained by the extraction process using extraction methods Zoning. The process is then performed to classify the Bayes Method and the results obtained Diabetic Retinopahty classification. The results of this study yield maximum   accuracy 65%.
A Comparative Analysis of Economic Farming Activity of Farmers Rice-Livestock Integrated Farming System (RLIFS) and Non RLIFS
Authors: Lindawati L , Buhari Sibuea Mhd. , Novita Desi , Ilham Riyadh Muhammad , Hasibuan Abdurrozzaq
Published: April 2019

Integrated farming system is a system that emphasized linkages and synergism of farming units waste utilization. The objective of this study was to analyze  the economic farming activity of Rice Livestock Integrated Farming System (RLIFS) and non RLIFS farmers. The results showed the usage allocation of family and external labor to RLIFS farmers was relatively greater than non RLIFS farmers. The RLIFS farmers’ income of rice farming, other crops and non-agricultural was relatively larger than non RLIFS  farmers, while non RLIFS farmers had greater income from livestock (cow and non cow) business and farm labor. The production costs of rice farming and livestock business were still greater in RLIFS farmers although they used manure produced by their own and also provide straw of rice production as animal feed. This was due to several factors (1) The proportion of the cost of using manure was very small in the cost of rice farming if the use of manure only a supporting fertilizer and not the main fertilizer for plant. (2) Some farmers were still buying and using anorganic or chemical fertilizers because of their mindset who wanted fast and instantaneous ones. Some farmers also felt that manure contained less nutrients so they used it in small quantities. The household income total of RLIFS farmers was higher than non RLIFS farmers.
POS-Taggging Malay Corpus: A Novel Approach Based on Maximum Entropy
Authors: Abu Bakar Juhaida , Khairuddin Khairuddin , Faidzul Nasrudin Mohammad , Zamri Murah Mohd
Published: April 2019

Jawi and Roman scripts are represented Malay language. In the past, Jawi writings are widely used by the Malay community and foreigners; and it can be seen in the old documents. Old documents face the risk of background damage. In order to preserve this valuable information, there are significant needs to automated Jawi materials. Based on previous literature, POS-tags are known as the first phase in the automated text analysis; and the development of language technologies can barely initiate without this phase. We highlight the existing POS-tags approaches; and suggest the development of Malay Jawi POS-tags using extended ME-based approach on NUWT Corpus. Results have shown that the proposed model yielded a higher accuracy in comparison to the state-of-the-art model.
Theoretical Underpinnings of Learner Engagement in Software Visualization System: A Systematic Literature Review Protocol
Authors: Abdullah Al-Sakkaf Abdullah , Omar Mazni , Ahmad Mazida
Published: April 2019

Having a solid theoretical foundation is essential for designing an effective software visualization (SV) tool. Despite the decades of developing different SV tools, there are still doubts about their effectiveness. Furthermore, learner engagement plays an important role in building a successful SV tool. In programming education, the problem of the high failure rates among students is still unresolved. Therefore, there is a need to understand the theories behind the exciting SV tools from the engagement perspective in order to have a road map for future tool construction. Yet the factors influencing learner engagement in SV tools are still unclear. This study set out to determine how to develop an SV design model to enhance student engagement in an introductory programming course. A systematic literature review (SLR) was used to obtain an overview of the current theoretical foundation used. The search identified a total of 432 papers between 2011 and 2017. This study examined 58 papers selected based on a well-defined selection process. In this paper, the contribution in constructing the protocol for SLR is presented as well as the preliminary results of the study. The researchers were in the process of data extraction phase to address the research questions. The expected outcomes of this review became the identification of a theoretical background used to construct and explain engagement in software visualization. The expected output of this study was a list of the factors that have a positive impact on learner engagement in SV tools.
Adjusted-Program-Budget Marginal-Analysis for Student Development Activity Planning and Budget Allocation
Authors: Maijama’a Bilkisu , M. Nazri Engku
Published: April 2019

Setting priorities and making decisions on allocation and reallocation of university resources based on the direction of the university as translated in its strategic plan must be executed with transparency and accountability and will be of great importance. It is becoming even more crucial, particularly for universities in Malaysia with the recent budget cut imposed by the Malaysian government. In this paper, we proposed an implementation of Program-Budget Marginal-Analysis (PBMA) which is currently being employed for strategic budget planning in the health industry to be applied for the university strategic budget plan as part of the overall strategic planning process. Firstly, the similarities between the steps in PBMA with the steps involved in planning and executing the university strategic plan were studied. Next, the existing PBMA was adjusted and modeled to suit the needs of the steps involved in selecting and allocating budget for the students of U-ABC’s 2017 development activities. The outcome of this implementation using 0-1 integer programming model showed that the targeted achievements could be realized within the allocated budget that was provided by the university. This adjusted-PBMA will be useful and suitable to be implemented by organizations with key performance indicator-oriented programs and having limited budget allocation issues.
A Systematic Review for Computer Based Observational Techniques for Assessing Exposure to Risk Factors for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
Authors: Aziana Abdul Rahman Syahrul , Nasrull Abdol Rahman Mohd
Published: April 2019

The objective of this review are to systematically examine the existing techniques of computer based observational method for assessing Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) and analysed them to the needs of different potential users. Articles related are searched and collected from scientific database starting from 1977 to 2016. Seven methods are identified for computer based observational techniques and from these methods, only three methods have been evaluated as the intra-observer reliability and five methods are evaluated as inter-observer reliability where the average results are moderate to good agreement. For concurrent validity, five methods have been evaluated with moderate agreement. Some of the risk factors that related with WMSDs are; physical, psychosocial, work organization and individual factors. In addition, these existing techniques did not fulfil the criteria of reliability and validity testing during the development of these methods.
Dimensions and Sub-Dimensions for the Evaluation of M-Learning Apps for Children: A Review
Authors: Hussain Azham , O.C. Mkpojiogu Emmanuel , Hassan Fa’alina
Published: April 2019

The introduction and rapid growth of mobile learning applications (m-learning apps) has improved the role of teachers in facilitating the learning process especially among children. The learning experiences of children are enhanced and enriched with the use of m-learning apps for children. There are several m-learning apps developed for children in the market today, however, some of these apps do not succinctly support and adequately assist in the learning process and educational endeavors and quest of these young minds. In this paper, a systematic review of literature was conducted to assess past research and studies on usability dimensions and sub-dimensions utilized in evaluating children’s m-learning apps. The systematic literature review consisted of the following approach: the definition of search strategy, selection of primary studies, data extraction, and implementation of synthesis strategy and lastly, the presentation of findings. The result of the review reveals that effectiveness, efficiency, learnability, and user satisfaction (with their corresponding sub-dimensions) were the top four usability dimensions used in the evaluation of m-learning apps for children. In addition, the works reviewed showed that usability evaluation is prominent only during the implementation phase of the applications’ development.
The Effectiveness of Pedagogical Role Online Teachers’ on Students with Difference Learning Style in Their Critical Thinking Using Pbwiki On-Line Learning
Authors: Rathakrishnan Mohan , . .
Published: April 2019

Online learning integrates collaborative learning among students of all level. By using Pbwiki web site, students can create, add, remove and edit content in hypertext quickly and easily. In this paper, a study on the students’ different learning style and critical thinking skill conducted to examine the effectiveness of pedagogical roles online teachers’ in General Paper essay writing.  The students’ learning style (active or reflective learning style) is the moderating variable that was investigated to identify whether PBwiki online learning influence their critical thinking in essay writing. A total of 80 Form Six (Grade 12) students from two high schools in Penang were involved in this 2x2 factorial quasi-experimental study. These students have to write and edit their essays in General Study’s subject with the assistance of pedagogical role online teachers (PROT). Felder and Silverman (1988) instrument was used to measure the moderating variable [1]. Paul’s (1993) model was used to analyze student’s critical thinking in online General Studies essay writing [2]. The findings show that students who received the PROT treatment performed significantly better in critical thinking score and enhanced students’ critical thinking in General Studies essay writing.
Collaborative Mobile Money Service Provision: Recommendations for National Issues
Authors: Zeinelabdin Karrar Azza , Abdul Rahman Azizah
Published: April 2019

Recently, the developing countries are considering the development of mobile money ecosystems that supports more inclusive financial systems to overcome the high financial exclusion of their population. Such ecosystems can be enabled by facilitating the collaboration between diverse stakeholders from different sectors: financial, telecommunication, regulatory bodies and IT service providers. This development of mobile money ecosystem emphasized on considering existing issues of main stakeholders’ and their conflicting interests. The aim of this paper is to discuss set of recommendations that can help in resolving national issues when participating in collaborative mobile money ecosystem. The research used the Sudanese national mobile money project as case study. The data collection method was qualitative interpretive interviews with different stakeholders in different sectors in Sudan. The researchers analyzed the collected data using qualitative data analysis approach. The results of the analysis focus on representing the multiple perspectives of stakeholders on each identified government’s issue. The research identified six national issues and the interrelation between these issues. The identified issues are: non utilized huge deposits, accountability of big transactions amount, strict customer registration procedures, unsatisfying batch processing, responsibility of customer management and monitoring international remittances. These findings contribute toward better understanding to the mobile money ecosystem in Sudan from government’s perspective. This understanding can facilitate building successful value propositions between mobile money stakeholders which can results in better financial services.
Deep Learning Algorithms for Arabic Handwriting Recognition: A Review
Authors: AL-Saffar Ahmed , Awang Suryanti , AL-Saiagh Wafaa , Tiun Sabrina , S. Al-khaleefa A
Published: April 2019

Computer vision (CV) refers to the study of the computer simulation of human visual science. Major task of CV is to collect images (or video) so that they could be used for analysis, gathering information, and making decisions or judgements. CV has greatly progressed and developed in the past few decades. In recent years, deep learning (DL) approaches have won several contests in pattern recognition and machine learning. (DL) dramatically improved the state-of-the-art in visual object recognition, object detection, handwritten recognition and many other domains. Handwritten recognition technique is one of this tasks that targeted to extract the text from documents or another images type. In contrast to the English domain, there are a limited works on the Arabic language that achieved satisfactory results, Due to the Arabic language cursive nature that induces many technical difficulties. This paper highlighted the pre-processing and binarization methods that have been used in the literature along with proposed numerous directions for developing. We review the various current deep learning approaches and tools used for Arabic handwritten recognition (AHWR), identified challenges along this line of this research, and gives several recommendations including a framework based (DL) that is particularly applicable for dealing with cursive nature languages.
Measuring the Financial Performance of Enterprises Under Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (EMR) an Indonesia Experience
Authors: Mardawiyah Daryanto Wiwiek , Samidi Sudarmawan
Published: April 2019

The assessment of financial performance is becoming increasingly important. The Decree No. KEP-100/MBU/2002 issued by Ministry of Stated Owned Enterprises of Indonesia on June 2002 provide the mandatory measuring and rating the financial health condition for all subsidiaries of SOEs. The circumstance is of relevance in the Indonesian context, characterized by a strong corporate governance but the lack of transparency. This study aims to measure the level of financial performance by investigating return on equity, return on investment, cash ratio, current ratio, collection period, inventory turnover, total asset turnover and total equity to total asset ratio. Then, to compare the company’s financial performance between coal mining and natural gas industry. The data were collected from two stated owned enterprises under Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (EMR) for the period 2011 – 2015. The result shows that the industry has a good financial health condition which achieved level AAA and AA. Furthermore, this industry has a challenge in inventory management and assets utilization. Therefore, this study can be useful for the manager to tackle the challenge and improve its efficiency.
Relationship Analysis of Corporate Governance Mechanisms, Audit Fees, and Financial Report Quality in Indonesia
Authors: Hapsoro Dody , . .
Published: April 2019

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on the financial reporting quality and examine the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on audit fees. In addition, this study also aimed to examine the effect of audit fees on the financial report quality. The sample in this study is manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in the period 2014 and 2015. The total sample is 144 companies. Data analysis was performed using Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results of this study show that the proportion of independent commissioners and audit committee from the board of commissioners and audit committee negatively affect audit fees; the proportion of independent commissioners and audit committee from the board of commissioners, audit committee, and board of directors negatively affect audit fees; the proportion of independent commissioners and audit committee from the board of commissioners and audit committee do not positively affect the financial report quality; the proportion of independent commissioners and audit committee from the board of commissioners, audit committee, and board of directors do not positively affect the financial report quality; and audit fees negatively affects the financial report quality.
Expatriates Self-Motivation, Competencies, Job Performance and Cultural Adjustment: Empirical Evidence from the ICT Sector in Malaysia
Authors: Singh Kartar Singh Jugindar , Hasnaa Nik Mahmud Nik
Published: April 2019

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of self-motivation and competencies towards job performance of expatriates working within the ICT sector in Malaysia. Additionally, this study examines the mediating effect of cultural adjustment. A survey strategy associated with a quantitative method using a self-administered questionnaire was carried out. Data was collected through simple random sampling from a sample of 301 expatriates. The AMOS software developed for analyzing the Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized. Emotional and job related competencies were found to have a significant effect on expatriate job performance. However, the impact of self-motivation on job performance was found to be not significant. The findings also supported the role of cultural adjustment as a mediator.  The theoretical framework emerging from this study support the results from some earlier studies and also brings out several new ideas such as the importance of competencies and cultural adjustment. The findings have significantly contributed to the advancement of knowledge as it is evident that expatriate emotional and job related competencies facilitate job performance and cultural adjustment. By investigating self-motivation and competencies, this study informs organizations on ways they can implement improvements in the areas of expatriate hiring, training and support practices. It is recommended that organizations consider both emotional and job related competencies and implement suitable HR policies when selecting, training and motivating the right candidate.
The Street Vendors Perception to the Information of Public Access Disruption as the Effect of their Existence
Authors: Yadewani Dorris , . Syafrani
Published: April 2019

Street vendors is a phenomenon in almost all regions in Indonesia, which is always a positive and negative impact on the region where the street vendor activity. The positive is the economy in a sustainable life in areas where street vendor activities, while the negative effects are disturbed some public access as a result of the existence of such street vendor, such as public roads are always jammed, the sidewalk is not functioning, trash increases or the environment increasingly neglected, area aesthetics will show discomfort. For the more crowded street vendor activities will have an impact upon the producer. However street vendor unaware that what was done to give effect to society because of disruption of public facilities. It is very necessary of information for the  street vendor’s understanding and perception to the impact caused by their presence in an area. The research was conducted by qualitative method with type research field investigations and descriptive analysis of the street vendor, managers, buyers and decision makers who do trading activities in S. Parman Street, UlakKarang Padang.  Samples as research subjects were the street vendors as much as 5 people, managers, local government, the buyer and road users. The data used are primary data and secondary data. Data Collection Techniques conducted by observation, interview, and documentation while data analysis is conducted qualitatively by a descriptive approach. The findings and the results are show that the information obtained is correct in running its activities to seek fortune already utilizing public access such as sidewalk and road. Contributions to the street vendors are expected to have awareness in running its activities mainly on the utilization of public access and if you want to keep running its activities must be willing to abide by all the regulations set forth by the government, because it became a street vendor answers to some of the problems faced by street vendors as well as for the government attempted to manage and regulate the existence of street vendors to be in line with policies that have been set by the government for street vendors somehow able to overcome the problem of the existence of the public economy.
Properties of Accounting Income in Indonesia: Net Income and Total Comprehensive Income
Authors: Fitri Puspa Dwi , Srimulatsih Listiana , . Zaitul
Published: April 2019

Introduction- This study aims to investigate the quality of net income and total comprehensive earnings from four properties or characteristics. The characteristics in question are persistence, variability, predictability and value relevance. The samples of the research are manufacturing companies listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2012. By employing sampling technique based on the criteria, 24 companies were selected as samples with period of data collection from2012 to 2014. There are six hypotheses tested by using regression technique. The results of the research show some findings, namely that net income is more persistent than total comprehensive income, there is no significant difference in the variability between total comprehensive income and net income, net income has the ability to predict cash flow and net income for the upcoming year is better than the total comprehensive income and the relevance of net income is different from the total comprehensive income both by applying price and return model. IFRS convergence financial accounting standards require companies that have public accountability in Indonesia to present a comprehensive income statement that includes the presentation of net income, other comprehensive income and total comprehensive income. The results of the research on the characteristics of net income and total comprehensiveness benefit for various parties such as investors, financial analysts and creditors concerned with the quality of profit that is characterized from 4 perspectives mentioned before.. For the financial accounting standards setter, results of this study provide information about the quality of comprehensive earnings.
Does Securitization for Government Staff Personal Loan Perform?
Authors: Hariri bin Bakri Mohammed , Dabas Nurayati , Ismail Shafinar , Abdul Hamid Baharom
Published: April 2019

Malaysian firms have been reported to involve in Asset-Backed Securities since 1986s where Cagamas is a pioneer. The objective of this study to determine the primary market spread and analyze on firm financial performance. The methodology for this paper using regression analysis for the study period 2007-2012. They are three determinants that contribute and statistically significant for this research paper. The measurement of financial performance does not have any impact during subprime mortgage crisis. The firm results shows increasing profitability, reducing debt, stronger company value and shareholders earning better dividend.
Capital Investment and Profitability Across Malaysian Construction Sectors
Authors: Qi Yang Lim , Ramakrishnan Suresh , Mohd Jamal Noriza , Mohamed Saat Maisarah , Faizan Malik Muhammad
Published: April 2019

Capital investment and profitability are the most important factors in every firms. Capital investment will determine profitability of the firm by having efficient and effective investment portfolio to the firm. This study investigates the relationship of capital investment and profitability among Malaysia listed construction firms from 2001-2014. Furthermore, this study also analyzes the impact of capital investment on profitability in different economic sub-periods. In addition, this study also used Pooled OLS analysis and fixed effect analysis to analyze and determine the relationship between dependent and independent variables. I.e.: capital investment such as investment to asset, capital expenditure and current capital expenditure along with profitability such as return on asset and return on equity as well as the control variables namely firm size and leverage. The overall results revealed that capital expenditure have significant relationship with return on asset and return on equity. On the other hand, the relationship between capital investment and profitability are differ across different economic sub-periods will produce different outcome. Investment to asset had significant impact towards return on asset and return on equity during pre-crisis period and post-crisis period but during Global Financial Crisis period current capital expenditure has the largest impact towards profitability of the firm.
Exploring Housing Governance in Malaysia
Authors: Teng Teoh Chai , Lateef Olanrewaju Abdul , Yeow Tan Seong
Published: April 2019

Malaysia, in this era of increasing globalisation and rapid pace of urbanisation coupled with socioeconomic inefficiency, is suffering from severe housing problems – most notably affordable housing crisis. Though several prescribed measures in terms of incentives, policies and schemes attempting to alleviate the affordable housing crisis has been implemented, so far the result has proven to be insignificant. With the housing industry today becoming ever more complex, fragmented and involved by an ever increasing number of heterogeneous stakeholders, thereby it is not applicable for the government to have a one-sided decision making power on housing and other related policies. As such, the ‘governance’ approach, which ably brings together both public and private housing stakeholders into a collective body of decision-making and actions, has been deemed as a prerequisite for dealing with the Malaysian housing dilemma. There has been much discussion about bringing governance into urban development, land delivery, construction projects or other related services to bring about positive effects. However, the housing industry in Malaysia, particularly in the affordable segment, has not adopted this approach to the same extent. In order to remedy this issue, this study aims to develop housing governance for the Malaysian affordable housing industry. This paper reports part of the study in achieving the mentioned aim by literature reviewing factors involved that negatively influence the Malaysian affordable housing delivery. It was identified that there are 65 indicators, classified into financial factors, policy and regulatory factors, administrative factors and knowledge factors that constrains the Malaysia affordable housing delivery.
Urban Agriculture Program: the Intention of Participants to Remain As Volunteers
Authors: Ramalingam Leelanayagi , Sharifuddin Juwaidah , Abidin Mohamed Zainal , Ali Fazlin
Published: April 2019

Community Garden Program is a program where people from a residential area practice urban agriculture together in a common place. Production of crop and livestock within cities is known as urban agriculture. Community Garden Program is one of the most popular initiatives by the Malaysian government in enhancing urban agriculture. Nevertheless, the program is facing challenges in attracting and retaining the volunteers. This article aims to identify the association between socio-eco-demographic characteristics and intention to remain as a volunteer for Urban Agriculture Program. The survey was conducted among 375 volunteers in Klang Valley using questionnaire. Descriptive analysis, reliability analysis and chi-square test for independence analysis were conducted. The result from descriptive analysis shows that most participants have the intention to remain as volunteers. The Cronbach’s Alpha test specified that the internal consistency of intention to remain items was excellent. Chi-square test for independence indicated that elder male with high income is more likely to remain as volunteers for the Urban Agriculture Program. This study expands the existing literature on volunteerism among the urban dweller regarding participating in community-based Urban Agriculture Program.
Verification Concept of Assesment for Physics Education Student Learning Outcome
Authors: Yuniarti Suhendi Herni , Ali Ramdhani Muhammad , S. Irwansyah Ferli
Published: April 2019

Physics learning is one of the principal pillars in learning science and a foundation of technology development, so that required effective physics learning strategies that is with a good assessment technique. The purpose of this article is to discuss about verification of assessment on learning physics. The methodology for this study is a qualitative analysis with study main source obtained from literature review, then clarified through focus group discussion in lecturers scope. The verification concept reviews the effectiveness of learning outcome asessment system based on the indicators of the improvement of student’s cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domain.  This study showed that the verification of assessment tehnique in learning physics can be done in several approaches, including analytical verification and operational verification. This study recommended that learning physics can work effectively are necessary to apply the design of verified technique assessment so the measurement tool of student’s domain can be accounted objectively and academically.  This study contributed in providing academic paradigm and operational reviews to see the objectivity of assessment in learning physics.
Performance Efficiency of Higher Education in Indonesia: a Stakeholders’ Perspective
Authors: Wardoyo Cipto , Herdiani Aulia , . Sulastri , . Sulikah
Published: April 2019

This study aims at analyzing the necessity of performance evaluation in higher education institutions based on a benchmarking model of Educational Development Efficiency (EDE), which further will be employed to analyze the inclination of stakeholder in deciding which program and university they prefer to choose. The analysis is performed by using binary logistic regression to predict the inclination of stakeholder based on provided assessment factors. The results of this study are consistent with previous studies where input variables in EDE model significantly influence the quality of university outcomes. Furthermore, referring to observed factors, quality of academic services and comprehensive quality of educational institution are emphasized by a stakeholder in choosing program and university, while the rank issued by National Accreditation Institution of Higher Education in Indonesia contributes as supporting information.
Translation Issues in the Children Comic ‘Donald Duck’
Authors: . Nurlaila , Nababan Mangatur , . Djatmika , Santosa Riyadi
Published: April 2019

This research is conducted as other researches discussing translation issues focused on identifying techniques implemented to translate a specified translation issue rather than identifying all issues which are possible to be obstacles for translators. However, a research covering as many issues as possible becomes important in order to contribute theories and solutions to ease translator’s job. The aim of this research is to identify translation issues in the English version of Donald Duck Comics. The data are texts contained in the comic panel involving words, phrases, clauses and sentences which are potential to be difficulties for translators. Document analysis is employed to collect the data by reading the comic thoroughly, and noting down them. The validation is conducted by focus group discussion involving one translation expert and three members of doctoral program students majoring in translation. The result of this research shows that there are nineteen (19) translation issues involving abbreviation, cultural terms, dialect, ellipsis, humor, idiomatic expressions, informal expressions, interjections, kinship terms, measurement unit terms, non-standard grammatical structure, onomatopoeia, pronoun, proper name, sarcastic expressions, slang, speaking fluency disorder, swearing and wordplay. The result of this research can be developed into a translation model providing a translation issues mapping along with translation techniques choices which can be used as a translators’ guide.
Can Thai Students Survive without English Teachers? a Case Study of Primary School Students in Thailand
Authors: Dueraman Bayatee , Tunsakul Kanasin , . .
Published: April 2019

Particular interests in English language teaching practices have been given much attention recently. This study attempts to examine whether trained English majors can help teach English to students in a primary school where there is short of English teachers. Two English instructors, twenty English majors and ninety-four students participated in the study. Theoretical and practical training sessions were organized for twenty English majors before they start teaching the students.  English lesson plans were designed relative to four major content areas found in the standardized national English test include vocabulary, reading, conversation, and public signs were used as a guideline for both training and teaching sessions. Pre and post-tests were administered to primary school students before and after the teaching intervention accordingly. Data collected through participant observations were also used to support data collected from the interviews and tests. Results show that our trained English majors could help improve the students’ English language proficiency in spite the unavailability of qualified English teachers at their school. Findings offer some insights on possible alternatives to teaching English to primary school students who face similar problems.
Student’s Social Moral in Adolescent Psychological Development
Authors: Ainissyifa Hilda , Fauzi Ridwan Fauzi
Published: April 2019

Education in adolescence period is one of the important bases in students’ moral building. In education process, student’s behavior is allegedly influenced by the development of adolescent psychology. This study aims to reveal the influence of adolescent psychological development to student’s social moral. The method used in this research is a quantitative method with statistical descriptive and inferential approach. The research data are taken based on the occurring phenomenon and drawing conclusion from the data of sample result by t-test. This study involves 41 students as respondents, and the research site is Vocational School (SMK) of Al-Mukhtariyah, Cinisti Village, Bayongbong sub-district, Garut, Indonesia. The research finding showed that the variable reality of adolescent psychological development and students’ association moral are seen to have quite well criteria. The correlation between adolescent psychological development variable and students’ social moral is in the high category. According to the result of a significance test, the study stated that adolescent psychological development has significant positive effect on students’ social moral. The study recommends a holistic form of education, which does not only apply moral education at school. Moral education needs to get more attention from all parties such as school, society, parents, and government.
Perception of Urban Population on Herbal Plants Information Presentation in Television’s Talk show Program
Authors: Dida Susanne , Setianti Yanti , C. Priyatna Centurion , Ari Agung Prastowo FX.
Published: April 2019

The purpose of this research is to explore the needs of urban population on herbal plant television program and producing an ideal outline of herbal plant television program. Based on the previous research as a starting point, it is revealed that level of trust from people towards herbal plants, as one of the heritage from past, are still high. This occurs as people believe that herbal plants have been identified as a cure for some diseases in a very long period of time. This research uses a descriptive method, which applied to explain a particular event. Preliminary data shows that the trust level on herbal plants is higher, owing to the fact that herbal plants is considered to be cheaper and purely without additional chemical ingredients. Other than that, herbal plants are also believed to be able to compete, in term of quality and the health effect, with pharmaceutical-grade medicine prescribed by doctors. The result shows that the perception towards talk-show program is positive, caused by, basically, the need of information on herbal plants. It is established that the benefit of talk-show program is valued highly, which must be maintained by the use of credible experts on herbal plants in the talk-show.
Determinants of Local Commercial Banks' Performance in Malaysia
Authors: Wee Jeng Lee , Ramasamy Suganthi , Rasiah Devinaga , Yuen Yee Yen Peter , Devi Pillay Shalini
Published: April 2019

Commercial banks play an important role in developing a country’s economy and maintaining its financial stability. Commercial banks will usually receive deposits from customers and lend out the money to people who need the money for their businesses or other legal purposes. Therefore, their performance is extremely important for a country’s financial stability and economic growth. This research examined the determinants of local commercial banks’ performance in Malaysia. Performance was measured using Return on Asset, Return on Equity and Net Interest Margin. Using data from eight local commercial banks in Malaysia from tea 2006 to year 2015, this study found that credit risk, liquidity risk, bank’s size and inflation rate significantly affect banks’ performance.