bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Development of CFA Dashboard for Continuous Audit Using R Language
Authors: Shuhidan Shuhaida Mohamed , Haslan Muhd Farihin Azmy , Mohd-Nassir Mohd Daniel , Hamidi Saidatul Rahah , Mohd-Sanusi Zuraidah
Published: June 2020

Current manual auditing system may be difficult to the auditors, due to the enormous amount of data. Some auditors probably overlooked some illegal business processes that can cause money loss or embezzlement by the workers. Research study conducted to identify the problem by using the current manual financial auditing system found that the current system is not efficient in continuous auditing for business process. It is known that vast amount of financial data being processed during auditing may slow down the process during auditing. It can also be complex to handle which sometimes can be beyond auditors’ capability to audit business processes. Our research proposes an informative dashboard to assist auditors to assess risk. The informative dashboard is a category of operational dashboard. We apply big data management concept and implement the dashboard using the web development life cycle approach. The dashboard is implemented using R language and Shiny package.
The effects of interset rest duration on performance and muscle activation during resistance training
Authors: Azzeme Mohamad Shahrul Azzfar Mohamad , Tan Kevin , Sazali Muhammad Hannan , Japilus Siti Jameelah Md , Waqqash Ebby , Nadzalan Ali Md
Published: June 2020

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of different rest intervals on performance and muscle activation during multi-joint (bent over row) and single-joint (biceps curl) exercises. Fifteen trained men that have experienced at least one year in resistance training were instructed to perform both exercises using three protocols in a randomized crossover design; each consisting of three sets with three different rest intervals; i) 60 seconds, ii) 90 seconds and iii) 120 seconds rest interval between sets. Each set was performed with hypertrophy designed loading (75% of 1RM) until fatigue. Results showed performing bent over row with 120 seconds rest interval produced higher number of repetitions and greater latissimus dorsi muscle activation compared to 60 seconds and 90 seconds rest interval. For biceps curl exercise, results showed 90 seconds and 120 seconds rest interval produced higher number of repetitions and greater biceps brachii muscle activation compared to 60 seconds rest interval. In conclusion, performing bent over row with 120 seconds rest interval interset and 90 seconds and 120 seconds rest interval during biceps curl exercise allow participants to produce greater lifting performance while recruiting more motor unit for activating the muscles in every set. The findings of this study is hoped to be used as a guideline for resistance training design planning in order to achieve optimum benefit while been time-effective.
Assessment of water quality index and heavy metals in Sungai Bunus, Malaysia
Authors: Rahim AHA , Kasmuri N
Published: June 2020

Water Quality Index (WQI) is an indicator of water quality. The index is shown in classes where Class I indicates a Natural Level of water quality, Classes IIA/IIB, Class III and IV indicate the presence of a certain amount of pollutant, and Class V highly polluted water. Hence, this study was conducted to evaluate the current WQI and the extent of heavy metals present in Sungai Bunus, a river in Selangor, Malaysia, by Harkins’s Standardized Distances Method (HSDM). Water samples were taken six times between 24th October 2016 and 11th November 2016 at the upstream, middle stream and downstream of the Sungai Bunus. Five in situ tests and eight laboratory tests were conducted. The findings showed that the upstream of the Sungai Bunus was the cleanest, measured 63.40 % while the downstream the dirtiest, 39.97 %. Secondly, it showed that this river contained the lowest heavy metals in the upstream compared to the other parts. The upstream Harkins index was 12.17, the middle stream between 11.33 and 30.47, and the downstream 15.67 - 28.70. Cadmium, chromium, iron, and manganese were found in the river water, which exceeded the Raw Water Quality and Drinking Water Quality Standards. It was also found that the cadmium and chromium exceeded the highest permissible effluent standards B, where cadmium was 0.02 mg/L while chromium 0.05 mg/L. To improve the water quality of this river to the Class IIB standard, it is recommended that the Bunus Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) be upgraded and the source of pollutions identified.
Potential acoustic treatment analysis using sabine formula in unoccupied classroom
Authors: Abdullah R , Ismail SI , Nik Dzulkefli NNS
Published: June 2020

Effective teaching and learning, not only taking into account the good teaching methodology and facilities but the acoustic level in the classroom should also be addressed. RT-60 is the time required for sound decay in a classroom. The time taken for the sound to decay depends on the absorption coefficients (α) of surface material and the volume of the room. This paper aims to identify potential treatment materials for improving the value of RT-60 of the selected unoccupied teaching hall/classroom at one of the higher learning institution in Malaysia. The value of RT-60 is calculated using Sabine formula and used the same parameter like the surface material, surface area, and room’s volume identified in previous research. The best RT-60 value is 0.6s for the classroom with 10k-20k cubit feet in volume and it coincides with the volume of the selected classroom which is about 14320 cubic feet. To ensure that room has the optimum RT-60 values, the materials used on the ceiling, walls, floors, windows, and doors are assessed for sound absorption rate and then materials with appropriate absorption coefficient are proposed for improvement purposes. As a result, it found that gypsum board is suitable to use for wall and plywood 12mm thick is proposed for ceiling material. By applying this proposed material will then enhance the acoustical performance of the unoccupied teaching hall especially in RT-60 value.
Effect of leaching treatment on extraction of silica from combination of rice husk and rice husk ash
Authors: Zarib N A , Abdullah S A
Published: June 2020

Rice husk and rice husk ash are one type of agricultural wastes that can easily be found around the world. A rice husk contains over 70 % of organic silica. The focus of this paper is to analyse the effect of acid treatment of silica extraction of rice husk and rice husk ash due to silica as a raw material that can be apply in industrial. Parameters such as concentration of acid and weight percentage used in mixture of rice husk and rice husk ash during organic leaching method were also compared. In this paper, citric acid (C6H8O7) was used for production of silica from rice husk. Samples were characterized using Scanning Electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDEX). The result indicates that highest percentage silica of rice husk, rice husk ash and mixture between rice husk and rice husk ash after leaching was on 1.0M and has an amorphous structure.
The Study on Curcuminoids in Chromatography, Spectroscopy and Regioisomerism
Authors: Abdul Zahar Z , Mohsin H F , Ibtisam AW
Published: June 2020

The turmeric or Curcuma species was macerated with organic solvents. By executing both analytical and preparative thin-layer chromatographic analysis of the crude material, the chromatographic profile of the curcuminoids could be improved. The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectra of the pure curcumin, demethoxycurcumin and bisdemethoxy-curcumin was acquired. Additional focus for discussion includes the keto–enol tautomerisation of the products. It is concluded that the understanding of this medicinal herb and its curcuminoidal content, is heightened with advanced technological aid.
Radiation Induced Polymerization of N-isopropyl acrylamide Polymer Gel Characterized by Raman Laser
Authors: Adenan Mohd Zulfadli
Published: June 2020

Radiation dosimeter is a device that can quantify the amount of a dose. One type of chemical dosimeter is known as a polymer gel dosimeter that is capable of measuring 3D dose distribution. Thus, this work aims to synthesize N-isopropyl acrylamide (NIPAM) polymer gel and study the effect of NIPAM monomer and N, N’-methylene-bis-acrylamide (BIS) crosslinker concentrations on the polymerization of NIPAM polymer, and NIPAM and BIS consumptions in gelatin matrix induced by gamma rays at dose between 0 to 21 Gy. The dose response of irradiated NIPAM polymer gel was determined using Raman spectroscopy. Raman peak intensities were identified in the samples at 815 cm−1 assigned bonding for C-C of NIPAM polymer gel, 1025 cm−1 assigned bonding for C=C of NIPAM and 2353 cm−1 bonding for C=C of BIS. The result shows that the intensity of carbon covalent bonds decreases, while the intensity of carbon single bonds increases after the irradiation process.
Analysis on Coupled Forming-Welding Process Using FEM Simulation and Experimental Verification
Authors: Bauer Alexander , Manurung Y HP , Redza M R M , Joeran  , Graf Marcel , Birgit
Published: June 2020

In this paper, a coupled forming-welding process is to be analyzed. Therefore, the process chain of a tube u-/o-bending process was combined with the longitudinal welding of slotted tubes. Both processes were conducted and evaluated experimentally as well as numerically. To verify the process in a wide range of experimental technologies, different analyzing methods were used, which include geometric measurements, microsections (microstructure), X-ray-diffraction and material phase analyses. A good agreement was found for the numerical simulation of the welded tube in accordance with the experimental processes, based on the different evaluation methods. For this reason, it can be concluded that the developed setup can be used as a good forecast for metal inert gas welding processes of tubular products.
Zorabots: A suitable robot-mediated telerehabilitation interface
Authors: Rosly Muhammad Aliff , Kamaruzaman Dayana , Zulkornain Luqmanul Hakim , Shamsuddin Syamimi , Zahari Nur Ismarrubie , Yussof Hanafiah
Published: June 2020

Research on NAO robot-mediated Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) therapy intervention via telerehabilitation network has been gaining popularity in recent years. It eliminates the distance barrier between a therapist and a child with autism by allowing remote physical interactions between them thus enabling the therapy to be conducted even in a long-distance. In general, the system requires a robot, a child with autism, and a helper which normally is a close kin to be present at one place and a specialized therapist at another. Connected via remote communication technology such as the Internet of Robotics Things (IoRT), a remote therapist is able to monitor the therapy session through robot vision or its sensors and if necessary, provide physical feedbacks through robotic features such as voice or body movements. One of the system’s important aspects is the therapist’s interface controlling the robot. The interface must be user-friendly to non-programmer user yet having enough technical features to control a sophisticated NAO robot. Choregraphe, an official NAO robot platform and interface to program and control the NAO robot, has many advanced programming functions. Thus, it is considered quite intimidating to the non-programmer user, in this case, a specialized therapist. As an alternative to this interface, this paper reviews the suitability of commercially available software, Zorabots, as the therapist’s interface to monitor and control NAO Robot in telerehabilitation environments.
Flood and Notification Monitoring System using Ultrasonic Sensor Integrated with IoT and Blynk Applications: Designed for Vehicle Parking
Authors: Hasbullah Amirah , Rahimi Aiman Hakimi , Amrimunawar Ahmad Ikram Hafiz , Redzwan Fatimah Nur Mohd , Mahzan Najwa Nasuha , Omar Suziana , Zin Nooradzianie Muhammad
Published: June 2020

Terengganu received heavy rainfall during the Northeast monsoon which strikes between October and March thus can leads to severe floods almost every year all over the state. The floods around Dungun area of Terengganu state was due to the combination of physical factors such as elevation and its close proximity to the sea apart from heavy rainfall received during the monsoon period. A flood warning system is designed to warn and alert the owners of the vehicle about the flood immediately. The system will detect water level through an ultrasonic sensor and will automatically send a notification via IoT technology to the owner’s smartphone through the Blynk Application. A water level sensor will be set at two points which is at 0.05m and 0.09m from ground level. When the water reaches this point, it will light on LED and trigger buzzer that acts as an alarm to alert both owner and authorities. Alerting signs of water level are notified on the Blynk application that was connected through ESP8266 Wi-Fi module via IoT teechnology.
User experience testing on interactive assistive courseware for young low vision learners: Observation approach
Authors: Aziz Nurulnadwan , Mutalib Ariffin Abdul
Published: June 2020

This research reports an ongoing project related to user experience testing of interactive assistive courseware which specifically designed to cater the needs of young low vision learners. It is called as AC4LV which has been developed by utilizing User Centered Design (UCD) approach. To ensure the usefulness of AC4LV, it has to be tested to the targeted users. Initial round of user experience testing has been carried out and reported in the previous studies. From the testing, rich and valuable data were gathered through the reactions and behaviours of low vision learners while using the AC4LV. Also, their opinions regarding the AC4LV which gathered through their thought in the interview session has been discussed previously. Thus, to overcome the weaknesses and intrinsic biasness that came from the previous testing and to produce a more comprehensive interpretation, the second round of observation approach is needed. Think aloud protocol has been utilized throughout the testing. The result explains the usefulness of AC4LV in terms of information accessibility, navigationability, and pleasurabilty.
Initial stage analysis of conceptual data model of International Research, Innovation, Conference, and Competition System (IRICC)
Authors: Aziz Nurulnadwan , Jalis Mohd Hairi , Kassim Abd Razak Abu
Published: June 2020

Over the past ten years, Universiti Teknologi MARA Terengganu Branch (UiTMTB) Malaysia through Department of Research and Industrial Linkages has actively organizing conferences and innovation competitions as a platform for the researchers (i.e. lecturers and students) to share knowledge and exchange ideas in various field of expertise. All these events encourage researchers to be more productive to write and submit their research work for publication. The Department of Research and Industrial Linkages, UiTMTB has put a great deal of effort from planning until implementation to organize and ensure each of the programmes’ objectives achieved successfully. However, initial investigation has found that the Department of Research and Industrial Linkages, UiTMTB still struggling to execute four main tasks which are i) participants registration, ii) reviewing process, iii) article status notification, and iv) fees payment process as all of these tasks have to be performed manually by the program committees. This has led to errors such as disorganize information, and miscommunication among the team members, reviewers, and participants throughout organizing the programmes. Looking at the situation, it indicates that the program committees needs a systematic system to execute all the critical tasks efficiently and effectively. Therefore, this study aims to propose a conceptual data model namely Conceptual Data Model of International Research, Innovation, Conference and Competition (IRICC) System that specifically address the user requirement particularly in organizing conferences and innovation competitions. Prior to developed the proposed model, initial stage of analysis to determine the availability and the needs has to be carried out. Three phases of research activities have been conducted which are (i) user experience investigation, (ii) analysis of the previous works, and (iii) result analysis. Having carried out all three phases of research activities it was found that a Conceptual Data Model of International Research, Innovation, Conference and Competition (IRICC) System is urgently need to be explored.
The correlation between telecommuting and work life balance in oil and gas industry
Authors: Khairudin Nik Nur Qamarina Mohd , Aziz Nurulnadwan
Published: June 2020

In line with the industrial revolution 4.0, telecommuting becomes more robust and relevant to be implemented in Malaysia even though this working arrangement is not widely accepted by most of Malaysia’s companies due to some hindering factors. There is a limited encouragement from the management and awareness of the benefit of telecommuting shared to the employer, employees, and organisation. For this reason, the researcher aims to determine the relationship of telecommuting among employees in the East Coast Region of oil and gas industry which is consisted of Kelantan, Pahang, and Terengganu with work-life balance. Employee acceptance with regards to telecommuting is the independent variable, and work-life balance was evaluated using a component of each dependent variables, which are: (i) more family time (ii) and increased productivity. The items in questionnaires are a closed-ended type using a five-point Likert scale and the sample of 70 respondents being selected from the oil and gas industry in the East Coast Region. The researcher distributed 70 sets of questionnaires and returned 60 questionnaires, with a return rate of 86%. Correlation was applied in analysing and interpreting the collected data. The findings of correlation between telecommuting and work-life balance generally support the hypotheses in this study and eventually had answered the objectives for this study. As a conclusion, there is a significant correlation between telecommuting and work-life balance which is associated with the acceptance of telecommuting among oil and gas industry in the East Coast Region, Malaysia.
Arduino Based RFID Vehicle Tracking for Home Security
Authors: Ismail Nuraiza , Wahid Syawal , Ahmad Norhayati
Published: June 2020

The development of security devices has been an important concern for everyone as most devices’ usage are limited at certain places that require verification. Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is used to transmit data via radio frequency (RF). The RFID technology is enabled as the main technology in various applications such as automated, collection of wireless data and contactless. Therefore, this study proposes simple design for tracking identifications using well known components like Arduino Uno that used IC Atmega 328p, sticker tag as an RFID tag and RFID ID-20LA. The RFID reader wirelessly communicates with the sticker tag to identify the code where each tag has its own identification number or code. The data from the sticker tag is then sent to Arduino board, which is basically used as a Microcontroller based board. The received data is collected by the Arduino microcontroller in order to compare with valid data that acts as a reader. The reader acts like a decoder where the encoded data in the tag’s integrated circuit is decoded for processing computer host. LCD screen display is used to display the data while the buzzer sound will go off if the valid data is read.
Density Based Traffic System via IR Sensor
Authors: Dzulkefli Nik Nur Shaaadah Nik , Rohafauzi Suziyani , Jaafar Afiza Nur , Abdullah Rina , Shafie Rosmawati , Selamat Muhammad Shahmir , Azman Nazrul Syafi , Muhammad Muhammad Zakwan Zakaria
Published: June 2020

This paper presents an inventive prototype design of a traffic light which is purposely used at junctioned road since traffic light is the best way to supervise and manage traffic at any busy junction or intersection. This project is designed to develop a density based traffic signal system where its signal timing changes automatically after sensing the traffic density at the intersection. Traffic density is define as the amount of vehicle congested at a certain place, in this case an intersection. The more vehicles available, the higher the traffic density is. This increasing number of vehicles on the road will produce many problems such as traffic jammed thus will also drive to road accidents. Conventional traffic light uses fixed time which cause difficulties in controlling the traffic itself. In order to resolve this problem, design of this traffic light will help to reduce traffic jammed at a particular location. This traffic light uses an Arduino UNO microcontroller to create an automation function together with an Infrared sensor (IR sensor) to detect the density of the traffic. Each vehicle is set to 3 seconds. All vehicles pass through the traffic light is measured and processed accordingly to delays. If there is no vehicle on the road for at least 1 second, then it will change to another traffic light. By using this, all vehicles will be counted and interacted with the system thus increase delay period for the green light at each traffic light which may have high density of traffic. Thus, it will reduce problems which might rooted from traffic congestion at the intersection.
The Relationship between Service Failure and Service Recovery with Airline Passenger Satisfaction
Authors: Ali Siti Rapidah Omar , Said Nur Shafini Mohd , Jislan Fatanah , Mat Khalid Amin , Aznan Wan Nini Maisarah Wan
Published: June 2020

Service failure and service recovery of a firm can greatly influence on customer satisfaction as well as the relationship quality with the firm, regardless of other firm’s efforts to establish the strong relationships with its customers in the long run. Airline companies particularly struggled with numerous obstacles regarding their continuity to survive. One of the problems is they are accountable to service failures which is unavoidable to evade. This research aims to recognize the relationship of service failure and service recovery with AirAsia passenger satisfaction. The data was gathered from 361 domestic passengers departing from Sultan Ismail Petra Airport, Kelantan. The convenience sampling has been employed as the sampling approach for this study. The findings indicated that the service failure has negative significant relationship with passenger satisfaction while the service recovery has positively influenced passenger satisfaction. The implications of this study are the management team and staff should plan effective recovery instruments to correct the failures such as well-planned corrective actions, effective apologies, willing to be responsible for failure occurred and other actions. The frontline employees should be aware of the customers’ emotions when the service failure happens, and the excellent recovery effort can thus prevent negative emotion of customers.
Land Cover Changes Detection Using Region Growing Segmentation
Authors: Brilliant Muhamad , Irianto Suhendro Yusuf , Karnila Sri , Abdul Aziz R.Z.
Published: June 2020

This paper try to explore an image segmentation model using the region growing method, the method used to segment landsat (land satelite) images for detecting land cover changes. More than 100 images was used in the works, and they collecting from google earth start from year 2015 to year 2019. The accuracy and effectiveness of developing area segmentation methods was computed using using ROC (receiver ooperational ccharacteristics) and studying changes or deterioration quality of certain areas using Landsat satellite images. By building a model or pattern of changes that occur over a certain period of time, and ultimately we will know how new conditions will occur in the near future. on a foundation based on the pattern as well as what is expected to occur in the future (disaster forcasting) can be seen the information. Finally, from the experiment more white pixel shown more land cover changes happened.
Raspberry Pi-based Finger Vein Recognition System using PCANet
Authors: Wen Quek Ee , Kamaruddin Nurul Maisarah , Rosdi Bakhtiar Affendi
Published: June 2020

Finger Vein Recognition System (FVRS) is a biometric technology that identifies or verifies an individual identity based on unique vein patterns. Compared with other biometrics, it is more secure, anti-forgery and hygiene. Thus, it successfully utilized in many authentications nowadays. A feature extraction process is mandatory in maximizing recognition rate of the system. However, majority of feature extraction techniques utilized in FVRS only can provide low-level features, which return an unsatisfied result. A simple deep learning network is proposed in this paper, namely Principal Component Analysis Network (PCANet). PCANet composed of three basic data processing components: 1) PCA filter, 2) binary hashing 3) histograms. PCA is employed for learning multistage filter banks. Binary hashing and block histograms are the steps for indexing and pooling. The features extracted are represented in block-wise histograms. In this paper, PCANet is compared with PCA in term of performance and effectiveness. PCANet retrieved an accuracy of 98.5% under limited training samples, an increase of 21.3% than that of PCA. Factors which impact PCANet are studied to identify the limitations of PCANet. Classifier utilized in FVRS is kNN with Euclidean distance. OpenCV image processing library and C++ language are used in the development. The results returned prove that PCANet performance does not easily influenced by intra-class variability and limited training datasets. Meanwhile, the research noticed about the difficulty in recognition as age increased. The performance evaluation shows that the accuracy of FVRS is 92.67% with the utilization of PCANet. Concluded that PCANet is a promising technique in finger vein recognition.
The Level of Physical Fitness among First Year Female Students in National Defence University of Malaysia
Authors: Kassim Mohar , Othman Norfazilawati , Ujang Edawaty
Published: June 2020

The physical fitness among university students is a basic necessity that is equally important to the needs of education. Thus, it is important to know which level are they in physical fitness. As a student especially among female, are they fit enough to live in multi-tasking exercise in their daily life? In more systematically and accurately, the level of their physical fitness can be measured by implementing the test batteries. The objective of this study was to measure the level of physical fitness and to build the fitness norm among the first year female students at the National Defence University Malaysia (NDUM) Kuala Lumpur, based on seven test batteries. The sampling population were all the NDUM first year students. Those who passed the selection criteria had been selected as subjects who consist of 130 female students from the various demographic backgrounds. The instruments involved the seven test batteries (2.4 km running, sit-up, push up, 30-meter sprint, 10-meter zigzag, sit and reach and stand long jump) and self-administered questionnaire for demographic characteristics. Data collection has been conducted in the standard size synthetic track and gymnasium in the university. The subjects had been given a description and physical fitness manual procedures before performing all the physical exercise. The end of the study, the physical fitness level of 130 first year female students at NDUM had been determined based on the seven test batteries. The construction of fitness norms has also been successfully set up. In average, less than 30% of the subjects have an excellent physical fitness. The results of this study can be used as a reference for future scientific studies among university student in Malaysia.
Visualizing Software Risks in Software Engineering Projects using Risk Sensitivity Analysis Approach
Authors: Ghazali N.A.H. , Fauzi S.S.M. , Gining R.A.JM. , Sobri W.A.W.M. , Suali A.J.
Published: June 2020

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Project risk management involves a systematic process of identifying, analyzing and responding to software risk in the project. Unfortunately, there were too many software risks involved in software engineering projects. Thus, it took a lot of time to investigate all the software risks that potentially occur in the project. Most of the project managers were only aware about the software risks when the software risk has occurred during the project. Therefore, an overview to visualize and prioritize software risks using sensitivity analysis need to be developed to help project managers determine software risks that has occurred in software engineering projects. This study adopts Systematic Literature Review (SLR) as the methodology to identify the software risks that have occurred in the project and a web-based integrated with risk sensitivity analysis approach to visualize and prioritize the software risks. The study suggests that a web-based application integrated with risk sensitivity analysis can be an alternative technique to assist project managers to identify high potential software risks that might occur in software engineering projects.
Examining the trend of the research on the internet of things (IoT): A bibliometric analysis of the journal articles as indexed in the Scopus database
Authors: Raja Mohd Ali R H , Ahmi A , Sudin S
Published: June 2020

Studies related to the Internet of Things (IoT) has grown tremendously since 2010 even though this topic has been found published in Scopus since 1970. Several studies have been published in the Scopus database to analyse the trend in this topic. However, it does not account for the whole years (since 1970 up to 2019). This study employs a similar bibliometrics technique to study the trend in IoT by taking into account the first year it was published until today. Results show that this topic has grown extensively since 2010 until today. The top two journals are IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Access with more than 500 articles. This topic has been studied quite extensively in computer science and engineering discipline. Apart from IoT or “Internet of Things”, the top three keywords used are “wireless sensor networks”, “network security”, and “energy efficiency”. While most of the publications were written in English, the majority of the publications were contributed by Asian countries of which the English language is not their native language. The results of this study might contribute to the body of knowledge on providing comprehensive trend analysis of the studies related to IoT, which was published in the Scopus database from the year 1970 to 2019.
Investigation on designing a fun and interactive learning approach for Database Programming subject according to students’ preferences
Authors: Rahmalan Hidayah , Ahmad Sharifah Sakinah Syed , Affendey Lilly Suriani
Published: June 2020

Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Internet of Things are two important area which requires development of computational system. To allow this to become reality, students in most higher education institution were taught with programming and database as their fundamental subjects that can be related to develop computational systems and automation concept. For better efficiency, PL/SQL was also being taught but only in a certain higher education institution. In previous years, to attract students being active in learning PL/SQL, we have developed an offline game covering the topic of stored procedure and trigger. To enhance the enjoyable of learning this subject among the students, a survey has been conducted among undergraduate students of the Faculty of Communication and Technology (FICT) in Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. This survey involved 33 junior students and 12 senior students of Computer Science majoring in Database Management. The results show that students have preferences on a game that include socializing elements such as interaction among themselves, testing their thinking ability with some challenging task and expected elements but should not put pressure on time management.
5.8 GHz Circular Polarized Microstrip Feeding Antenna for Point to Point Communication
Authors: Ariffah Sharifah Nur , Mustafa Wan Azani , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed , Muhammad Atiqah
Published: June 2020

In this paper, the circular polarized 5.8 GHz patch antenna has successfully designed and simulated. This paper presented a design where both of the opposite edges of the rectangular patch of the antenna are truncated using micro strip feeding technique. Both simulations of the proposed antennas had been analyzed. The objectives of this paper has been achieved which is to design and simulate the circular polarized antenna with operating frequency of 5.8 GHz. From the results, the proposed antennas with different feeding technique that radiate at a constant frequency showed some distinct value towards the size of the antenna and the characteristic of its radiation. The results indicate that the antenna that uses micro strip feed line technique yields 2.337 dB directive gain, return loss and axial ratio at -14.042 dB and 3.193 dB respectivel. Meanwhile, the directivity values for the antennas is 5.31 dBi. It can be conclude that the designed 5.8 GHz antenna is ideal for point to pint communication antenna due to its performances.
Analyse the impact of physician technical skills on health services quality in Malaysia by using SPPSS
Authors: Ismail Fauziah , Hassan Junainor , Hassan Hassad , Aziz Mohd Kasturi Nor Abd , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship of the physician technical skills with patient’s satisfaction. This study was conducted at the Penang mainland general hospital under the Ministry of Health Malaysia. Data was collected using questionnaires to n=115 outpatients who attended the hospital clinics except for psychiatric clinic. The finding in this study has proven that there was a strong relationship between technical skills by physicians and patient’s satisfaction. Physician technical skills are seen as key determinants to improve health services quality in Malaysia.
Assessment of patient satisfaction in a healthcare setting; doctor-patient communication issues
Authors: Ismail Fauziah , Manaf Abdul Rahman Abdul , Johanis Mohd Arsad , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed , Hamzah Mohammad Rezal
Published: June 2020

This study aims to better recognize patient satisfaction in healthcare settings about communication issues. There are affiliation styles and control styles used to explore the effectiveness of patient satisfaction. This study was conducted among outpatient clinics at Hospital Seberang Jaya, Penang. Data analysis was conducted using statistical package for social sciences students SPSS 13. Purposive sampling is used to obtain a total of 115 patients responded to this survey. Pearson correlation used in this study and show that affiliation style had significant positive relationships with patient satisfaction. While no relationship between control communication style and patient satisfaction. This study contributes to the development of health services in Malaysia.
Conversion of SLA document into Fuzzy Rule base approach and applied in MAPE-K
Authors: Ramli Ahmad Kamal , Wahab Mohd Helmy Abd , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is the legal catalyst to monitor any contract violation between end users and ISPs and is embedded within a Quality of Service (QoS) framework. It strengthens and advances the quality of control over the user’s application and network resources and can be further stretched to fulfill the QoS terms through negotiation and re-negotiation. Moreover, the present literature does not focus on the combination of rule-based approaches and adaptation together to update the established learning repository. Therefore, this mainstream of this research in the context of SLAs is to fill in this gap by addressing the combination of rule-base uncertainties. The key to this exercise is the conversion of signed SLA document into set of rules in the rule base approach.
Development of Body Stress Analyzer based on Physiological Signal
Authors: Majid Nor Aini binti Abd. , Sahar Nan Md. , Sari Suhaila , Taujuddin N. S. A. M. , Nurliza M.N. , Wahab Mohd Helmy Abd , Ambar Radzi , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

Ehealth is one of the system that use modern technologies that be apply to the healthcare organization. This system allowed the patient to access the system to monitor their health records and else by using internet as a platform to communicate. Thus, this project is inspired by Ehealth system to making a hardware device with software application that act as monitoring system to the people. For the hardware, the user only need to grasped the two terminal in the device that contains of all the sensor for doing the testing procedure. Thus, all the data that be contain will be sent to the apps via internet of things for storing them. This will helps physical education and health teacher to do observation and record the data obtain from the apps.Besides, this way also will avoiding any incident to be occur towards the students if they carry on the activities in abnormal condition of their body system. The scope for this project is focusing on monitoring students body condition before they starting their outdoor activities in the field. The way for sensing the parameter including pulse sensor, LM35 and Galvanic Skin Response sensor with arduino as a microcontroller to process the input and output signal.
Motor Development Index (MDI) Based on Combination of Human Development Index (HDI) and Sport Development Index (SDI) as a Success Parameter of Motor Development among Preschool Children: An Observational Study
Authors: Sutapa Panggung , Prasetyo Yudik , Pratama Kukuh Wahyudin , Karakauki Manil , Mustapha Aida , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

The principle of development is the occurrence of changes that involve the functioning of the nervous system and muscles as well as the change itself concerning the quality of motion that can be measured by tests of motor skills. Changes of the quality in motor movement among children is determined by the factor of teachers/counsellors, infrastructure facilities, and the existence of environmental factors. In measuring successful motor development among preschool children, this paper proposes the Motor Development Index (MDI) to be used as one of the parameter indicator. MDI is a composite index that includes (1) child enrolment rate (2) availability of public service venues (3) gross and fine motor skills (4) availability of builders/instructors as well as (5) sources of financing. The results showed that MDI in motor development among preschool children is still very low, with the value of only 0.387. However, the proposed MDI measurement is better than Sports Development Index (SDI) of value 0.345. In the future, the MDI measure is proposed to be parameters of motor development success among preschool children as MDI components allows presenting a more comprehensive measure.
Tricet Method to Increase the Hypertrophy Muscle
Authors: Nasrulloh Ahmad , Prasetyo Yudik , Nugroho Sigit , Yuniana Rina , Pratama Kukuh Wahyudin , Mustapha Aida , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

Tricet method of weight training is an exercise that involves using three types of tools to train one group muscle in the sequence order, but with different types of exercises for each set and without breaks between sets. Exercise with this method is able to provide maximum response to a group of muscles that are trained so that the potential for muscle development is more optimal. This paper investigates this method by giving a treatment in the form of weight training with the tricet method to be carried out 3 times a week, with exercise intensity of 70% to 80% or One Maximum Repetition (1RM), 3 sets, and 8-12 repetitions with the aim of increasing muscle hypertrophy. The results of the pre and post-test hypertrophy t-test analysis of arm, chest, thigh, and calf muscles in the experimental group showed a significant difference (p < 0.05). This investigation concluded that weight training based on the tricet method is able to increase hypertrophy over body large muscle.
Determination of Weight Coefficients for Stochastic and Fuzzy Risks for Multimodal Transportation
Authors: Nitsenko Vitalii , Kotenko Sergiy , Hanzhurenko Iryna , Ingram Keisha LaRaine
Published: June 2020

Research shows that the risks of multimodal transportation in the Northern ports of the Azov and Black seas, in real time, can vary by large quantities. This can cause significant problems for dynamic management of transportation, providing that transportation costs and time are minimized. Therefore, it is essential to formulate a mathematical model to determine the integral risk of freight traffic involved as it could help minimize the need for additional computer resources for the operation of logistics machinery. Determining the value of the integral risk is further complicated by the fact that the mathematical apparatus used for calculating stochastic and fuzzy risks tend to differ from one another. Therefore, an additional tool developed for the unification of various mathematical apparatus was done. The main task was conversion of local risks weight factors to components of integral risks, determined in actual time. The mathematical model has been tested for the dynamic management of freight traffic on the Black Sea ports - Mariupol, Odesa, Chornomorsk, Mikolaev, and Kherson. The route optimization was carried out for container and bulk cargoes, in particular, for grain cargoes. This allowed coverage for the whole range of risks that are inherent to multimodal transportation within the Azov-Black Sea region. The results confirmed that such an approach grants the possibility to choose routes with minimal transportation costs and time, as well as minimization of the use of computer resources.
Developing a Conceptual Framework Suitable for E-Health in War-torn Zones: The Case of Libya Conflict Regions
Authors: Yosser Ibrahim Mohamed , Syed Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Bin , Ali Amani Ali Elmetwaly
Published: June 2020

The myriads of healthcare challenges are no doubt more complex among nations under the siege of war and conflicts, such as the case of Libya. The healthcare systems are mostly overburdened due to escalated cases of injury, poor hygiene and limited number of medical expertise. Libya prior to the civil uprising had depended on foreign medical expertise, and as a result of the uprising these experts were forced to relocate. Series of civil conflict and random attacks has further weakened the health care system in Libya, which is basically the traditional or conventional system. This conventional system of health record management, diagnosis and prescription can easily be damaged or loss in the phase of conflict. Application of ICT in the health sector known as e-health has proffered solutions to most of these challenges through electronic health record management, diagnosis, booking appointments and medical prescriptions. Hence health records can be accessed online and easily on request. While developed countries have since adopted and implemented the e-health system, it is still a relatively new phenomenon in most developing countries like Libya. It is pertinent to know that adoption and successful implementation of e-health requires a thorough assessment of readiness level in terms of the different components and factors affecting e-health system. The study aims to apply knowledge from e-health readiness assessment to the design of a suitable e-health framework for implementing e-health services for the case of conflict zones such as Libya.
Technology Readiness Index 2.0 as Predictors of E-Health Readiness among Potential Users: A Case of Conflict Regions in Libya
Authors: Yosser Ibrahim Mohamed , Syed Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Bin , Ali Amani Ali Elmetwaly
Published: June 2020

The use of various e-health products to improve health care services delivery is a viable solution to health challenges all over developing countries and more importantly the regions battling with conflict. This is important considering the damages to the health record and the risk of attack during transit to healthcare facilities among several other challenges. While the sustainability of e-health is an issue that still poses a challenge to the developing world. That is, implementation framework to support the long-term sustainability of E-Health systems in conflict regions and generally the developing countries faces enormous challenges. Accordingly, evidences abound among developing countries that several E-Health pilot projects could not progress to full-scale implementation. Several studies have indicated that the success of E-Health implementation is linked to the acceptance of such technology by end-users (Michel-Verkerke, Stegwee, & Spil, 2015; Fanta & Pretorius, 2018). This indicates that, while the adoption and implementation of innovative technology such as e-health is paramount, evaluating the effect of behavioral characteristics of potential users can be related to its success. Identifying those intrinsic individual factors responsible for technology readiness among potential users is paramount, so also is the evaluation of the likelihood of assigning users into distinct category base on the individual’s perception about e-health readiness. The TRI approach principally developed for evaluating people’s readiness is a prerequisite for systematically addressing these issues. Extant literature concerning the adoption of innovative technologies strongly recommends that a consumer concurrently poses favorable and unfavorable factors that shape their perception about using any technological products or services. Analysis was performed using SMART-PLS, to assess the TRI 2.0 constructs in e-health domain Thus, determining the significance of the variables of the current research. The outcome is that insecurity was the only constructs that showed a significant and positive effect on e-health readiness. Other constructs innovativeness, optimism, and discomfort were found not to be statistically significant in determining E-health readiness for the case of Libya.
Music video as intervention therapy in reducing depression among Malay female juvenile detainees in rehabilitation center
Authors: Hassan Junainor , Hassan Hassad , Fuhaili Ameer , Danu Norhudi’in
Published: June 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the use of music video as intervention tool in reducing depression among the Malay female juvenile detainees in rehabilitation center in one of the northern state of Malaysia. This is an experimental study which uses BDI II with a cronbach alpha of 0.86 in assessing the depression level with a dimension of physical, behaviour, education and life perception, self-perception and, family and society. The findings of this study concluded that music video (relaxation therapy) can be of an effective tool in reducing depression with a condition that the therapy itself must not exceed two times within four weeks in a row. Physical, behaviour and, education and life are the most significantly associated with the use of music video intervention (relaxation therapy).
E-training and development, motivation and employee performance among academicians: Case study of academicians in UniMAP
Authors: Hassan Azlini , Hassan Junainor , Yen Tan Ai
Published: June 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the e-learning and development; motivation and job performance among academicians in Universiti Malaysia Perlis. The finding of this study has shown that e-learning and development is the key factor in enhancing job performance among academicians. The other finding was e-learning and development was also seen as a tool to motivate academicians in producing better quality work.