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Adoption of financial technology (Fintech) in mutual fund/ unit trust investment among Malaysians: unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT).
Authors: Mohamad Engku Abdullah Engku , Abdul Rahman Aisyah , Abdul Rahim Ruzita
Published: July 2018

Disruptive innovation is related to financial technology and known as FinTech. It includes  design, delivery, and provider of financial investment services such as payments, real estate, investment, insurance/ takaful, deposits, financing, banking, saving and capital market. This study is about Adoption of Financial Technology (FinTech) in mutual fund/ unit trust investment among Malaysians: Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The study aims to identify the level of financial technology consumption in mutual fund/ unit trust among investors in Malaysia. The objectives of this research are: 1) to determine the level of awareness on FinTech application in mutual fund/ unit trust investment; 2) to examine the adoption of FinTech  in mutual fund/ unit trust investment. The objectives will explore on how FinTech changes the customers in terms of to what extent Malaysians have adopted FinTech so far. The research methodology in an adoption of FinTech service in mutual fund/ unit trust was conducted through questionnaires survey. This study assists participants in financial service management to take advantage of the opportunities offered by FinTech services. Developing the effective and systematic framework is a must for FinTech service especially in mutual fund/ unit trust investment. Implementation of FinTech will provide service improvement and transformation for investment management services in future.
The legality of land lease by the state-owned company pt. kai (Persero)
Authors: Mirwati Yulia , Mirwati Yulia , . Yakub
Published: July 2018

Indonesia Train Company or PT Kereta Api Indonesia (hereafter referred to as PT. KAI (Persero) is a State Owned Campany or Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN), which needs resources to carry out its business. To boost its capital, PT.KAI (Persero) leases its unused land located along the railways that have been closed due to ineffectiveness or the decrease in the operation. This lease carried out over either certified or uncertified land. Although many of the trains in West Sumatra no longer work since independence, PT. KAI (Persero) still leases land. The lease is done in the form of lease quotation document whose format is solely determined by PT.KAI (Persero), similar to a standard contract. In such quotation, the state is leaser and the leaseholder is only obliged to pay for the lease and enjoy / use the land without a balanced agreement. This situation raises the following question: does the arrangement and status of right and lease of land by PT.KAI (Persero) to the public have any legality / legal validity? The study draws on socio-legal data, both primary and secondary obtained through library and field research. The research was conducted in Regional Division II of West Sumatra with land tenants / users of lands that are deemed as assets by PT KAI (Persero). The site was chosen purposively. The results reveal that the leases of PT. KAI (Persero) arein accordance with the provisions of the Ministerial Decree on State-Owned Company along with the Regulation on Railways. However, land leases by PT.KAI (Persero) basedon the Decision Letter from the Ministry of State Owned Company, which is not specifically intended to PT.KAI (Persero), is illigal
Evolution of Malaysia’s technology transfer model facilitated by national policies
Authors: Rahman Hamdan Abdul , Syazli Fathi Mohamad , Mohamed Zainai
Published: July 2018

The government of Malaysia has introduced several national policies to facilitate industrialisation and technology development in the country throughout the years. However, the effectiveness of this policy in facilitating technology transfer has never be measured quantitatively. The objective of this paper is to review the evolution of Malaysia's technology transfer model and process since Malaysia gained its independence. This paper will look into the past and current national policies that have facilitated the technology transfer process in the country. A literature review was conducted on various frequently used technology transfer model since 1940s and compare it to the technology transfer process evolution in the country. From the analysis, the national policies introduced over the years have a direct and indirect effect on the technology transfer process in the country. However, the effectiveness of technology transfer model that was facilitated by the policy was never measured quantitatively. Further study needs to be conducted in measuring the efficiency of the technology transfer process that facilitated by a specific policy introduced by the government. The factors and sub-factors affecting the technology transfer process facilitated by this specific policy also need to be identified so that further improvement can be proposed.
The influence of E-WOM on purchase intentions in local culinary business sector
Authors: Alam Hamdani Nizar , Abdul Fatah Maulani Galih
Published: July 2018

With a large population and high consumer interest in local culinary, Indonesia becomes a potential market for small and medium-sized local culinary enterprises. However, most of local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in culinary sector face a wide range of challenges especially when it comes to huge promotion costs. Fortunately, the ever-increasing numbers of Internet users in Indonesia provides an opportunity for these SMEs to promote their products through Electronic Word of Mouth (E-WOM). E-WOM can provide solutions for them since it has a quick and wide promotion reach. The purpose of this study is to find out the influencing factors of E-WOM on consumers’ perceived quality and purchase decisions. This study used a descriptive and verification method. The samples include 76 followers of Instagram accounts of the local culinary enterprises based in Garut, Indonesia chosen using the probability, simple random sampling technique. To find out the influencing factors of E-WOM on the brand image, the data were analyzed using SPSS confirmatory factor analysis. Factors that are formed from the results of the analysis are product information and Emotions. In addition, a PLS method was carried out to explore the influence factors of E-WOM on consumers’ purchase intention using SmartPLS software. Based on PLS calculation, it can be concluded that E-WOM has positive influence on purchase intention.
Service innovation capability, that spurs internationalization in Indonesian SMEs
Authors: Sudarmaji Eka , Nasip Ismiriati
Published: July 2018

Many companies search and develop new innovations as pivotal activities for better approaches to fulfill the existing customer’s requirements but failed to serve the future, service innovations that produce new markets. The absorptive capacity variables utilize the new external information and new knowledge in relation to the company innovativeness into the new product, new services, new processes, and new systems for internationalization achievement. This study investigates several factors that affect the service innovation capability based on samples of 38 Indonesian SMEs. We presume that our samples previously have a potential absorptive capacity as a basis to enhance their innovation capabilities and company’s performance. We test the hypotheses on several samples of Indonesian SMEs, using multivariate OLS regression analysis and Multi Discriminant Analysis. The results indicate that the combined factors of “number sales & marketing”, “product launching” and the “customer involvement” have a significant effect on “internationalization” in as a representation of service innovation capability. By keeping these "science-push" and "demand-pull” of SMEs on innovation as a top priority, the innovation opportunity will be alive and better practice under AEC implementation.
Production of reserpine of rauwolfia serpentina [L] kurz ex benth through in vitro culture enriched with plant growth regulators of NAA and kinetin
Authors: Subandi Muhammad , . Dikayan , Firmansyah Efrin
Published: July 2018

Rauwolfia serpentine [L] Kurz ex Benth is a valuable plant yielding alkaloid of reserpine. The aim of this study was to find the most effective way of reserpine production. Growth regulators {naphthalene acetic acid [NAA] and Kinetin}were applied to promote and to regulate the growth of explant of R. serpentine cultured in vitro. The study was conducted at the laboratory of Bandung Institute of Technology [ITB]. Nine formulations of NAA and Kinetin were the treatments that were repeated twice in completely randomized design. Weight of callus was measured at one, two, three and four weeks after induction of explant. Reserpine analysis was performed by High Performance Liquid Chromatography [HPLC]. The result showed that the best callus induction was the treatment of 2.5 ppm NAA + 2.5 ppm Kinetin, and the highest content of reserpine was in root organ [0.0021 g / L], and in callus [0.0021 g / L] at the age of 4 weeks after induction. There was revealed that in vitro culture method was more productive in producing reserpine compound than the conventional plantation of R serpentine.  Production of reserpine by callus culture was more effective and may be the basic for recommended further effort.
Board Governance Attributes and Organizational Characteristics of Mosque Co-Operatives in Malaysia
Authors: Sallehhuddin Abdullah , Shamsudin Azizi , Abu Said Al Mansor , Jais Mohammad , Ariff Mustafa Mohd , Shukor Masuod Md , Hasmanto Nor , Ismail Hishamuddin
Published: July 2018

Performances of mosque co-operatives rely on the effectiveness of the board of governance. The board has responsibilities to determine the strategic direction of mosque co-operatives, oversight management, and ensure the integrity of members’ rights and interests. The board of governance functions is becoming more challenging since the launching of National Co-operative Policy II (2011-2020), which among another, place greater emphasis on the expansion of mosque co-operatives movement via initiative of 1 Community, 1 Co-operative. Furthermore, the board of governance of mosque co-operatives is expected to deliver not only economic performance but also socio-economic governance, especially in supporting the activism of mosque institutions. Hence, as an initial observation, this study attempts to highlight the board governance attributes and mosque co-operatives organisational characteristics. The initial findings are essential in assisting regulator and policy maker like Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operative, and Consumerism (KPDNKK), Malaysia Co-operative Societies Commission (SKM), and Malaysia National Co-operative Movement (ANGKASA) in preparing the Mosque Co-operative Strategic Plan 2017-2020, and National Co-operative Policy III (2021-2030).
Patient Intimacy and Innovation Development to Improve Health Service Performance
Authors: Tri Ratnasari Ririn , Gunawan Sri , Qudzi Fauzi Moh , Fitrisia Septiarini Dina
Published: July 2018

This study aim to determine the impact of patient intimacy and developing innovations to improve the performance of health services in public health centers which ISO certified in Surabaya. This research was conducted with a quantitative approach survey to patients who are on treatment or health check at public health center. The sampling technique is simple random sampling. Furthermore, the data were processed using partial least square. Result from this study are first, communicaton, social interaction, and compromise as part of a patient intimacy significantly affect the performance of health service in health centers which certified by ISO. Second, communication, compromise, and social interaction as part of the patient intimacy have significant impact on the innovation development of public health centers which certified by ISO. Third, the innovations development significantly affect the performance of health services in primary public health centers which have ISO certificate.
Competencies of Engineering Graduates: What are the Employer’s Expectations?
Authors: Najwa Azmi Aini , Kamin Yusri , Khair Noordin Muhammad
Published: July 2018

Recently, universities keep receiving complaints from the industries regarding the capability of engineering graduates when starting their new job. The complaints were always about the inability of the engineering graduates to adapt in the industry. This is due to minimum exposure of industrial training period given by university to them. As a result, most of fresh engineering graduates do not have enough industry experience that is demanded by industry. Worse case, there is mismatching skill during industrial training which not relevance to what they are studied before. This problem contributes to unemployment issue among engineering fresh graduates. The purpose of this paper is to review and analyse about the engineering competencies from all over the world. The paper is written on extensive secondary data analysis. It is revealed that the criteria needed by employers from most developed countries are almost similar. Based on summary, technical and non-technical skills are both important to become a competent engineer. There are some recommendations to develop and improve both technical and non-technical skills that can be emphasized by authorities of higher education especially in Malaysia.
Application of Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Correlate of Students Attitude, Self-Belief, Students Engagement in Mathematics Lessons and Mathematics Achievement
Authors: Rahmatina Desi
Published: July 2018

The study aimed to propose the Confirmatory Factor Analysis via four latent variables : 1) Students Attitude toward mathematics, 2) Self-belief in mathematics, 3) Students engagement in mathematics lessons and 4) Mathematics Achievement  and 19 observed variables and then we conduct to the correlations between latent variables and observed variables. The subjects were 5795 eight grades students from the result of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011 assessment conducted in Indonesia. Data Analysis were undertaken using the Lisrel software to examine the effect of students attitude toward mathematics, students self belief and students engagement in mathematics lesson for mathematics achievement. The proposed Confirmatory Factor Analysis model of the latent variables and observed variables fit well with the empirical data set (RMSEA = 0,071). The results of multivariate analyses has shown a strong negative relationship between student attitude toward mathematics, self-belief in mathematics and their mathematics achievement (t value = -6.32 and t = -6.10, respectively) and a strong positive relationship between students engagement in mathematics lesson with mathematics achievement (t value = 8,28).
Drought Risk Assessment Using Remote Sensing and GIS in Yemen
Authors: Ahmed Ali Dhaifallah Ali , Bin MD. Hashim Noorazuan , Bin Awang Azahan
Published: July 2018

Drought remains the most frequent and serious environmental threat in the Middle East area. In Yemen, drought has negatively been affecting both livelihood and sustainable development of the country. This research aims to monitoring and assessing the drought risk through the changes in vegetation cover and sand dunes deposit in Tihama Plain, Yemen using remote sensing and GIS. Landsat TM5 of 1985 and OLI8 of 2015 were used to evaluate the environmental indicators of drought using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to recognize the progressive decline of vegetation based on the fact that vegetation absorbs red light and reflects infrared light of the electromagnetic spectrum. Through the index maps generated in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment, the results showed that there was an increase of 26% in the area under severe drought during the period from 1985 to 2015. Similarly, the areas under moderate drought also increased to approximately 64%. On the other hand, areas under mild drought and those receiving normal rain experienced a decrease during the period as they gradually transformed into mild and severe drought situations. Within the study period, the area also recorded 74% increase in sand dunes deposit.
Health Political Communication After the Issuance of Presidential Regulation No. 18 Year 2016: a Case Study in RSUD Kabupaten Karawang
Authors: Nursanti Siti , Dida Susanne , Hidayat Mien , Afriandi Irvan
Published: July 2018

Amendment to Government Regulation number 18 of 2016 begins with the issuance of Law Number 23 Year 2014 on Regional Instrument Organization to replace Law no.  32 year 2014.  In this study, researchers used qualitative methods with  Case Study approach, the researchers considered this method is very appropriate that best describe the phenomenon in political communication research related to post-implementation of Government Regulation No.  18 of 2016.  Ability to provide rich portraits which is the main benefit of case studies.  The research reader should be made to feel as if you were there with you in your research, see what you see, summarize what you have concluded. This research was conducted in Public Hospital Karawang regency.  In this study researchers found that: 1. Hospital changed the status that was originally Regional Technical Institute into Limited Service Unit Region under the health service 2. The Director is a physician or dentist whose functional status is then given an additional duty to become the Director of the Hospital 3. The Health Office is a member of the hospital supervisory board as well as the operational operator of the hospital has resulted an overlapping coordination in organizational communication
Uses if Social Media as Electronically Mediated Interpersonal Communication [EMIC] on Commuter Marriage Family [Phenomenology Studies at Postgraduate Women Student in Abroad]
Authors: Setyastuti Yuanita , Ratna Suminar Jenny , Hadisiwi Purwanti , Zubair Feliza
Published: July 2018

Self-actualization, career and professional demand sometimes require a person to pursue further studies at a higher level for both men and women. A woman who has married and has children then studying a postgraduate abroad certainly faces a complicated situation relating to eastern and patrilineal cultures that are identical to the roles and responsibilities of mothers in domestic affairs and parenting. In carrying out the role, required high quality communication by media with spouses and children when being separated residence during a relatively long study and with a long distance location. The aim of this study is to know how the uses of social media as electronically mediated interpersonal communication [EMIC] on commuter marriage family at Postgraduate Women Student in aboard. This is a qualitative approach study with phenomenology studies. Study done by depth interview with 4 [four] respondents whose studied at aboard, in Australia, America, and Europe. The result of this study was found that the respondent used Social Media to ccommunicate with their family, especially by WhatsApp, Line, Facebook and Skype. Most of respondents have enough skills of both sender and receiver for electronic message. Most of respondents also have enough communication richness, communication speed and presence. Social media also augment family communication by providing opportunities for social support beyond family members. The respondent also could kept maintaining the role of a mother and reduce the loneliness feeling and guilty feeling by video call and social media chatting. The contribution of this study was to give recommendation to some mother and/or wife who are in commuter marriage to escalate the skills of family communication trough social media so they could still run the role of mother and/or wife as much as they could.
Prevalence and Socio-Demographic Association of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Among University Students
Authors: S Hishan Sanil , Jaiprakash Heethal , Ramakrishnan Suresh , Mohanraj Jaiprakash , Shanker Jayanthi , Boon Keong Lim
Published: July 2018

Prevalence of Stress, anxiety and depression has been identified to be high among university students which may affect their social and professional lives. The study aims at assessing the prevalence of stress, anxiety and depression among university students and analyzes their association with gender, ethnicity and area of upbringing. The study also intends to identify their coping strategies. This was a cross sectional study utilizing validated questionnaires. It was conducted among a total of 143 university students in Johar bahru. The questionnaires used were the socio-demographic questionnaire, DAAS-21 questionnaire and Brief coping strategy Questionnaire. Data was analyzed using SPSS software. Descriptive statistics was used. The mean age of the students under the study was 25.02±8.6 years. Depression was seen in 62.2% of the students and anxiety and stress were seen in 78.3% and 55.9 % students respectively. Depression, anxiety and stress were found more in females than males. Anxiety was more in Malays and depression and stress was more among other ethnic groups. Anxiety and depression were seen more in students with a rural upbringing and stress in students with a urban upbringing. There was no significant association between depression, anxiety, stress and gender, ethnicity and area of upbringing. The mean score for the common coping strategies employed which was acceptance, positive reframing and self distraction were 2.8±0.9, 2.8±1.0, 2.8±1.0 respectively. Prevalence of anxiety was more compared to stress or depression. Students used active coping Strategies to cope with stress.
Application of Sidra 4.0 Software Traffic Flow in Intersection in Kuala Lumpur
Authors: B. Z. Alshetwi Abduraouf. , Atiq Abdullah O.K. Rahmat Riza , Nazri Borhan Muhamad , Ismael Albrka Ali Shaban , Imhimmed Mohamed Irtema Hamza
Published: July 2018

Traffic signals are one of the most effective Traffic Flow and flexible active traffic control utilized extensively in a number of global cities. The traffic signal benefits include an organized traffic movement, an increased intersection capacity and needs only modest geometric design. Furthermore, there are numerous significant methods in improving network performance by directing the traffic lights’ flow at the intersection. This study showed, together with the capability of improving the level of service (LOS), the intersection light signal volume, fuel consumption (FUC), average delay (AVD), operating costs (OPC), Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2E) and travel speed (TS). The Jalan Kampung Pandan intersection light signal capacity is 1985.3, Jalan Imbi – Raja Chulan 1793.2 and Jalan Imbi 3238.1. The FUC present condition is approximately 58,881.3 lit/s from Jalan Raja Imbi- Chulan, in addition to 34,687.6 lit/s Jalan Kampung Pandan on the trip, along with 55,173.6 lit/s to Jalan Imbi railway journey. Additionally, the results displays that the quantity of OPC acquired was 1138847.2 RM/hr for Jalan Raja Imbi- Chulan, 659235.5 RM/hr for Jalan Kampung Pandan and 1054115.7 RM/hr for Jalan Imbi. The CO2E results amount of CO2E attained were 147203.3 to Jalan Raja Imbi- Chulan, in addition to 86719.1 Jalan Kampung Pandan and 137934. To Jalan Imbi. Peak Travel speed at TS intersection current status is approximately 0.5 km/h from Jalan Imbi- Raja Chulan, along with 0.8 km/h for Jalan Kampung Pandan in the trip, together with 1.2 km/h to Jalan Imbi on a trip.
Prediction of Sound Absorption Coefficient for Double Layer Rubberised Concrete Blocks
Authors: Haron Zaiton , Jusli Euniza , Md Nor Hasanan , Putra Jaya Ramadhansyah , Yaacob Haryati , Yahya Khairulzan , Mohamad Azman , Nizam Yahya Musli
Published: July 2018

Nowadays rubberised concrete is used to support construction sustainability and contribute to a better development of efficient construction material, in particular by using waste rubber tyre. The use of rubber in block pavement is one of the actions in order to reduce the noise from tyre-road interaction and hence able to reduce pass by noise pollution. In this paper, the influence of waste rubber tyre as the replacement for aggregate on the sound absorption coefficient of double layer rubberised concrete blocks was investigated. Non acoustics and acoustics experimental investigations were carried out on a series of block with thickness of 80 mm with facing layer (FL) of block varies in thickness from 10 to 40 mm. FL and bottom layer consist of concrete mixture containing waste tyre rubber granules (RG) of 5 mm to 8 mm and 1 mm to 4 mm, respectively as replacement of natural aggregate within the range of 10-40%. The ratio for cement: aggregate: sand was 1: 1.7:1.5 and water to cement (w/c) ratio of 0.47. Noun acoustics parameters include density, compressive strength, water absorption and porosity. Acoustic parameters investigation of specimens of double layer block showed that concrete pavement blocks have maximum sound absorption located at low frequency of 500 to 700 Hz. This indicates that it is suitable for application of mitigation of low speed traffic condition. A model was developed to predict the maximum sound absorption coefficient of the double layer block pavements which included the percentage of rubber content, thickness of FL and porosity as statistically significant predictor (p < 0.05). This would benefit the road engineers in managing traffic noise management as the sound absorption coefficient is the key important element in reducing tyre/road interaction noise.
Design of 2.75-2.85 Ghz Frequency Microstrip Band Pass Filter with Square Open-Loop Resonator in Radar Method
Authors: Faroqi Adam , Ali Ramdhani Muhammad , Dwi Andika Dzikron , Soedarsono Suryadi
Published: July 2018

Radar is an important component for people. A number of functions could be taken into account on a various aspect in term of quantifying the distance of a specific object, developing a map, and/ or forecasting climate. Generally, one of the main instruments within a radar is a filter. The aim of this study is to design a simple Band Pass Filter which able to be effectively worked on frequency 2.75–2.85 GHz. The filter is designed at the mid frequency of 2.8 GHz with ≤ -20 dB of Return Loss Range, ≥ -3 dB for Insertion Loss, and 100 MHz for Bandwidth, then it is manufactured into a Square Open-Loop Resonator microstrip. The filter uses Rogers R04035B for its substrate with 3.48 of Dielectric Constant Values  and 1.524 mm of Substrate Thickness (h). The radar’s filter is simulated by a software of Computer System Technology (CST) suite 2015. The simulation results -31.608995 dB for Return Loss Range, -2.0529871 dB, and 100 MHz for Insertion Loss and Bandwidth respectively. By the end of this process, this instrument is applied and a Network Analyzer is then utilized to get a comparable output. It produces a quite different ranges of -23.519 dB for Return Loss, -2,183 dB for Insertion Loss and 90 MHz for Bandwidth.  The study results a design of radar’s simple band pass filter which work effectively on frequency 2.75–2.85 GHz.
Arabic Part-of-Speech Tagger, an Approach Based on Neural Network Modelling
Authors: Ali Abumalloh Rabab , Muaidi Al-Serhan Hasan , Bin Ibrahim Othman , Abu-Ulbeh Waheeb
Published: July 2018

POS-tagging gained the interest of researchers in computational linguistics sciences in the recent years. Part-of-speech tagging systems assign the proper grammatical tag or morpho-syntactical category labels automatically to every word in the corpus per its appearance on the text. POS-tagging serves as a fundamental and preliminary step in linguistic analysis which can help in developing many natural language processing applications such as: word processing systems, spell checking systems, building dictionaries and in parsing systems. Arabic language gained the interest of researchers which led to increasing demand for Arabic natural language processing systems. Artiﬁcial neural networks has been applied in many applications such as speech recognition and part of speech prediction, but it is considered as a new approach in Part-of-speech tagging. In this research, we developed an Arabic POS-tagger using artificial neural network. A corpus of 20,620 words, which were manually assigned to the appropriate tags was developed and used to train the artificial neural network and to test the part of speech tagger systems’ overall performance. The accuracy of the developed tagger reaches 89.04% using the testing dataset. While, it reaches 98.94% using the training dataset. By combining the two datasets, the accuracy rate for the whole system is 96.96%.
Tracing the Linkage of Several Unified Modelling Language Diagrams in Software Modelling Based on Best Practices
Authors: Sa’adillah Maylawati Dian , Ali Ramdhani Muhammad , Syakur Amin Abdusy
Published: July 2018

Designing software aims to ensure that the systems will be developed truly reflects the needs of users. To ensure the software and the needs of users requires designing software with a good methodology, which can capture a wide range of user needs properly and accurately. One method of designing software is applied through the implementation of Unified Modeling Language (UML) concept. The objective of this article is to reveal the general system and concept of object-oriented software design with UML. The methodology used in writing articles using literature reviews as the primary source of analysis object oriented software design with UML The method that used in this article is literature review as a major source of object-oriented software design analysis with UML. In the next phase, the main topic of the article is clarified, validated, and verified by the model of the Focus Group Discussion. The respondents of this study are informatics lecturers at UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. This article describes the approach of object oriented software designing with UML, especially how to use use-case, class, and sequence diagram well with the right linkage. And also, how to trace the linkage between those diagrams thus meet all software requirements. Through a good UML method, the produced software is expected to meet the standards of good software quality, which is able to solve problems quickly and accurately.
Strategic Design of Information System Implementation at University
Authors: Darmalaksana Wahyudin , Ali Ramdhani Muhammad , Cahyana Rinda , Syakur Amin Abdusy
Published: July 2018

Higher education over the past decade has experienced several view changes that include: paradigm shift, management and competition changes, and so forth. The only university supported by the excellent IT that will be able to enhance and maintain its advantages. The purpose of this article is reviewing the strategic design of IT implementation at the university.  The analysis used to reveal the fact, problem and problem-solving in this article adopts the model of Strategic Management of Information Technology (SMIT) developed by Flodström.  The strategy design of IT implementation based on the competitive environment of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung is coordinated with its business strategy. The role of IT as an enabler or tool that allow the university to be able to create cheaper-better-faster educational process. In this article, there are designed two types of IT Functions: back office and front office. For back office application function, there is a software management with specific modules to support the implementation of university management. In the front office function of IT usage, there are some types of IT usage concepts that directly and indirectly affect the way of establishing education that leads to quality improvement which can be implemented through: media simulation, course management, virtual class, computer-based training (CBT), knowledge portal and cyber community.  The strategic design of IT implementation presented in this article is a generic model of the plan, design, and implementation of IT in the object of study.
Performance of Soil Water Content Using Ground Penetrating Radar with Different Antenna Frequencies
Authors: Izzati Abd Karim Nurul , Albati Kamaruddin Samira , Che Hasan Rozaimi
Published: July 2018

Accurate measurements of Soil Water Content (SWC) with applicable and relevant support are essential in many fields of earth and soil engineering research. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a geophysical tool that measures and provides accurate results for determination of the SWC. To prove the accuracy of SWC measurement using GPR, a field survey was performed in peat soil. This paper presents a fieldwork survey with the aim of assessing the SWC measurement using GPR. The survey work was conducted at Johor Bharu using different antenna frequencies (250 and 700 MHz). Five profiles, which is 5m by 5m in length, were scanned along an east-west direction with a common offset at an equal spacing of 1m.  To measure the SWC using GPR, the researchers used the velocity from the GPR’s signal from the receiving antenna to the soil. Statistical analysis was carried out based on the dielectric permittivity and SWC. Schaap’s equation and Roth’s equation were used to distinguish the relative dielectric permittivity of the soil to SWC. The results of this study show the linear function,  for the measured SWC. The validation graph shows that at a frequency of 250 MHz, the depth of penetration was greater compared to the frequency of 750 MHz. These results, suggest that a higher frequency will give higher resolution but lower depth penetration.
Web-Based Knowledge Evolution for Thinking Green Transportation Using Expert Systems
Authors: M Abdelsalam Hassan , Nazri Borhan Muhammad , Milad Abdalrhman , Imhimmed Hamza , Y Y Alfakhri Aboubaker , B.Z. Alshetwia Abdurauf. , Atiq Ok Rahmat Riza
Published: July 2018

In many developing nations, it is difficult for development planners and novice engineers to determine the point of transportation service and usability based only on the master plan of the city. On the other hand, nowadays managers in the organizations use computerized support for making decisions on a day-to-day basis. The experts are capable of identifying problems easily and finding solutions fast but novice engineers are unable to do so. This expert system is designed to fulfill the gap that exist between the urban design experts and user who wish to use Green transportation system namely students, decision makers and engineers. Verification, process validation and comparison of the system with similar systems showed that the system is reliable and practical. In order to create the expert system, sources related to Expert system concerning transportation have been studied and interviews with experts have been conducted. The proposed expert system is developed using Visual Studio as the building tool and SQL as the query tool. The knowledge base of thinking green transportation [T Green T] includes three modules and each module may contain a number of sub-modules, parameters, strategies, and criteria. The system incorporate rules and images for various types of measurements. Lastly, several recommendations for maintaining and improving the system are suggested. The development’s suitability can be characterized using websites of other modes of transportation such as bicycles and pedestrian traffic.
Expert System in the Application of Learning Models with Forward Chaining Method
Authors: Herawan Hayadi B , Bastian Adolf , Rukun Kasman , Jalinus Nizwardi , Lizar Yaslinda , Guci Asriwan
Published: July 2018

Expert System (ES) is one of the course subject contained in the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pasir Pengaraian (UPP). There are several methods in ES, and one of them is Forward Chaining Method. This method is quite difficult to understand such that 30.1% of students did not pass the course. Therefore we need a tool or model of learning in the delivery of this Forward Chaining Method.
AN Overview of Radioisotopels Study in Water Pollution
Authors: Umi Kalthum Ab Wahab Siti , Azrin Sabuti Asnor , Armi Abu Samah Mohd , Yunus Kamaruzzaman
Published: July 2018

Radioisotopes can be defined as the radioactive isotopes of an element. They refer to the atoms that contain an unstable combination of neutrons and protons. The combination can occur naturally or by altering the atoms. Nowadays, radioactive materials have become major contributing pollutants for a lot of cases of disability and mortality in all over the world. They have become a serious fear of the human, environment, and aquatic organism, although they are exposed to low levels of exposure. Therefore, to overcome these problems, the effective and easier prevention strategies should be taken and encouraged by all related parties such as industries, residents, and government. Radioisotope becomes as an essential part in medical, radiography and other fields of research including the environmental study. One of the applications is they can be used as the indicators in order to identify the pollutant sources. This method can be applied in surface water around industrial area and non-industrial area. As the example, the standard limit concentration of Uranium is 10ppb while for Thorium is 0.50 ppb. The study regarding radioisotope usually uses analytical instruments, for example, Inductively Coupled-Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF). Basically, this paper will give ideas on overview of radioisotope study and reference for acquiring a better quality of surface water in the present and future by using the environmental forensic study application.
Emphasizing Grid Feature as Flood Zonal Identification to Support Flood Relief Mechanism
Authors: Shaheed S Muhammad , A Zuhairi
Published: July 2018

Grid in Geographic Information System [GIS] mapping is used to determine specific location. This is a study to highlight the utilization of square grids network with flood forecast map modelling for regional identification of inundated zones focusing on Pekan sub-district. Satellite information, raster and digital elevation model [DEM] are used to produce a flood prediction map model to simulate inundation of the study area. Vertical elevation has been converted to match between WMGEOID04 with EGM96 ellipsoidal height for the multiple offsets of water layers in inundation simulation process because geoid and mean seal level values are set to be the same. Inundated zones are populated based on selected readings of Sungai Pahang gauging station located at Department of Irrigation and Drainage [DID] Pulau Jawa station, Bandar Pekan [Station ID: 3434401]. Flood spreads are monitored based on the 1.0m layer offsets starting from 2.5m [alert level] until 5.5m. Finally, square grids tessellation of the whole area within the boundary is generated and the affected zones are projected in different color code to indicate danger zones. The graphical output that are produced are able to be used to assess the rate of accessibility, habitability, and affected infrastructures which have the potential to act as flood relief center. Integrating these information with disaster web provider like ‘InfoBanjir’ [DID] and ‘disaster portal’ [NADMA] should be emphasized to ensure systematic flood management in the future.
Effect of Curing Method on Properties of Lightweight Foamed Concrete
Authors: Kado Bishir , Mohammad Shahrin , Huei Lee Yeong , Ngian Shek Poi , Aida Ab Kadir Mariyana
Published: July 2018

Lightweight construction is aimed to achieve a sustainable feature by reducing transportation frequency and construction materials usage during construction phase. Lightweight precast concrete may serve an alternative for the lightweight construction. There are rarely application can be found for structural members as lightweight panels always to be used for secondary or non-load bearing members. This paper presents an experimental study on properties (compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, water absorption) of lightweight foamed concrete (LFC) at two different curing methods. LFC with densities of 1500, 1700, and 1800 kg/m3, cement-sand ratio of 2:1 and water-cement ratio of 0.5 were investigated. The results showed LFC can be produced with the properties ofdensity range of 1500 to 1800 kg/m3 and corresponding compressive strength of 10 to 39 MPa. The higher the density of LFC, the less the water absorption for all the curing method considered, the highest and the lowest water absorption was 11.3% and 2.0% for 1500 kg/m3 cured in water and 1800 kg/m3 cured in air respectively. Compressive strength of LFC increases with age and density while water cured LFC has high compressive strength. Splitting tensile strength increases with density of LFC, but air cured LFC has more splitting tensile strength than water cured of the same density. The highest splitting tensile strength recorded was 3.92 MPa for 1800 kg/m3 cured in air, which was about 16% of its compressive strength at 28 days of curing age. These properties are important and can be applied to LFC precast structural members with air or water curing method which have less references for LFC in structural usage.
A Study to Investigate Technopreneurship Talent for Higher Education Students [Engineering, Agriculture Engineering, and Information Technology Students in Universitas Andalas Indonesia]
Authors: Kamil Insannul , Yuliandra Berry , . Taufik
Published: July 2018

Lack of new business and jobs has led unemployed issues. This problem can be settled by increasing the number of new technopreneurs, entrepreneurs creating new business and jobs through technological innovations. The study is to find out technopreneurship talent of the students of faculty of engineering, agriculture engineering and information technology of Universitas Andalas. Then, they are compared by four criteria or dimensions: [1] Entrepreneurial Characteristics, [2] Absorptive Capacity, [3] Knowledge and Learning Skills, [4] Business and Communication Skills. A set of indicators is developed for each criterion and assessed qualitatively using questioners as tool. The assessments are carried out in three stages: indicators, criteria, and technopreneur talent assessment. Attitudes measurement technique is used for indicators assessment while Weighted Sum Model [WSM] is used for criteria and technopreneur talent assessment. The overall technopreneur talent assessments show that engineering students are relatively better with information technology students and agriculture engineering students are adept in some aspects of technopreneurship.
Feasibility of Using ISO Shipping Container to Build Low Cost House in Malaysia
Authors: King Hui Wong Edric , Siang Tan Cher , Chie Hui Ling Philip
Published: July 2018

The idea of shipping container house is no longer a revolutionized to western country but in Asia country particularly in Malaysia it is relatively new. The idea of container house is relatively new and there is no clear sign of how far does Malaysian citizen can accept this idea. There is no indicator of what are the expectations from Malaysian citizen about the container house. This research serves as basic references for both government and private sector to the future property industry development of shipping container house as well as shipping container non-residential building in Malaysia to pursue Malaysia’s unity, economic and national integration. The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of using ISO shipping container to build low cost house. Four set of questionnaires are prepared to assess the opinion of respondents about the acceptance of shipping container house. The result obtained is that the acceptance level of the idea to live inside a container house is only 45% but the acceptance level of using shipping container as means of storage, office, and business development is highly acceptable by Malaysian citizen.
Built the Effective Internal Control System in Local Governments of Developing Countries : A Case Study on Tegal City
Authors: Hadianto Arief , V. Salomo Roy , Panggabean Maralus
Published: July 2018

The purpose of this paper is to formulate the recommendation to reconstruction the Internal Control Policy in order to embody the Government Internal Control System, a specifically local government in Indonesia that is more effective. The research is using the qualitative method based on literature review and depth interview with a relevant source, including the top management of Tegal City and policy expertise as well. A policy analysis and Grindle theory are used to investigate the factors that contribute to the implementation of Government Regulation Number 60/2008 in uneffective Tegal City. The result shows that the reward and punishment in the policy is certainly needed, a derivative policy as an instrument to operate the must be applied policy, the rules regarding the local government officials should be revised, a professionalism strengthening and an independency of monitoring officials, the coordination and collaboration between local government to build a harmonization partnership in order to implement the policy that has to be improved, a dissemination policy and the integration of the internal control system report into a budgeting system and organization cultural development to create the better control environment in order heading to an effective internal control system.
The Flipped-Blended Model for STEM Education to Improve Students' Performances
Authors: Wibawa Basuki , Kardipah Seipah
Published: July 2018

Flipped-Blended model, a combination of flipped classroom and blended learning environment, has become increasingly popular, especially in K-12 education. Flipped-Blended model takes advantage of technology for a more flexible learning environment and facilitates a more learner-centered as well as a more active learning in classroom. Flipped-Blended can be seen as an innovation and a new learning paradigm. This is more than just flipped the in-class and out-class activities, the flipped-blended also change the passive learning into active learning. This model can work well for STEM education due to its active learning and learner-centered nature. Thus, students can explore themselves in class by doing lab work or doing research in small group or individuals. Research method used was a descriptive method. This conceptual paper describes many of the characteristics of flipped-blended model and STEM education. The paper concludes by proposing a flipped-blended theoretical model and offers recommendation regarding implementation in STEM Education.
Ecological Factors in Adolescent Transgender:Case Study
Authors: Isa Fadzlunesa , Abd Ghani Faizah , Zahari Azura , Isa Khairunesa
Published: July 2018

Gender dysphoria phenomenon is spreading among Malaysian. This case study focuses on the alternative transgender lifestyle among adolescent. Five young Muslim male respondents are involved in this study. The purpose of this study is to investigate the ecological factor that influences the formation of transgender identity. Interview method is used to acquire samples, researchers used purposive sampling. The result of this study finds that peers are a dominant factor that influences the respondents to be inclined towards transgender identity formation. Aside from that, negative treatment from the mass media and family are also a factor. In terms of religion, according to the respondents they believe that transgenderism and religious practice are two different entities. When the respondents were asked on their emotion status, they felt happy, accepted and have a good relationship among the transgender community. Suggestion for future research is to study how ecological factor can help transgender to return to their original gender.