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Development of Performance Measurement Framework for Supply Chain in Desalination Industry using AHP
Authors: M. Nopiah Zulkifli , Balfaqih Hasan , Saibani Nizaroyani
Published: April 2019

The concern regarding desalination technology has been rising gradually for the last years because of the enlarged need for drinkable water worldwide. Yet, there are not many studies concerned assessing the seawater desalination supply chain (WDSC) from end to end. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to propose a framework which is intended to assess the performance of WDSC. Different desalination and supply chain performance criteria and metrics have been revised and distributed into financial, social, operation, and environmental perspective. The performance criteria and metrics have been further revised by a panel of experts using Delphi-AHP technique. A weight factor has been allocated to every perspective, criteria and metric based on its importance to the WDSC. The proposed framework could serve as a reference for the researchers in desalination industry. The proposed framework would be helpful for both academics and practitioners.Â
Reserve Potential Sandy Clay as a Raw Materials Cement Village Hambalang, County Citeureup District Bogor Province Jawabarat â€“ Indonesia
Authors: Syahrulyati Teti , Irianto Singgih , Suhendi Yusup
Published: April 2019

Administratively the research area is in Hambalang Village Kec. Citeureup Kab. Bogor West Java, travel time to the location of the city of Bogor for 60 minutes by motor vehicle, the area of research around 1732 ha. The existence of sedimentary rocks in the form of limestones and batulempung is utilized by one cement factory in Indonesia as raw material of cement. Measurement and sampling is done to know the amount of measured reserves. Analysis of the content of oxide compounds is done by AAS method to determine the levels of the compounds they contain. The results of the calculations of SiO2 and Al2O3 are abbreviated as (AI = alumina Index) and the pattern of distribution is made with the aim that the mining process becomes effective, efficient and directed. The method use to principle of the concept of three-point method is used as the basis for making contours of the distribution of compounds contained. Drilling data, chemical analysis, DTM (Digital Terain Modeling) data and Isoline data generated were obtained using Autoclan 3D map 2015 and Autoplan Geomo. The calculation of reserves (AI / Alumina Indek 3.21 - 3.70%) with the highest reserves 1,643,814 Tones. The smallest reserve (AI quality 5.00 - 6.01%) is 199,980 Tones. This research resulted in a map of the distribution of Alumina index, so as to facilitate the extraction and very helpful in executing the area / block that must be mined.Â Â
FPKIN: Firewall Public Key Infrastructure for NEMO
Authors: Sami Hasan Amer , Hashim Jaber Zaid
Published: April 2019

Network mobility (NEMO) is an important requirement for internet networks to reach the goal of ubiquitous connectivity. With NEMO basic support protocols, correspondent entities suffer from a number of limitations and problems that prevent route-optimization procedures to be established between the correspondent nodes and mobile network nodes associated with NEMO. The goal is to alleviate the signaling load and execute the route-optimization steps on behalf of the correspondent entities that are not sophisticated enough to support route optimization. This paper introduces a new architecture that uses firewall as a new entity with new mobility filtering rules and acts as root certificate server supporting PKI infrastructure. The PKI-firewall executes the route-optimization procedure on behalf of these correspondent entities depends on CA distributed to its mobile end nodes. User entities is reachable via optimized path approved by mobile node or user CA As a result of completing the above procedure, performance degradation will be reduced, especially when signaling storm occurs; applying these modifications will increase the security, availability and scalability of NEMO optimization and enable wider NEMO deployment. An analytical model is used to validate the new proposed framework and understand the behavior of this framework under different network scenarios.Â
Knowledge of Five-Tier Fish Farming
Authors: Punya Lertgrai Dr. , . . , . .
Published: April 2019

A study about the knowledge of five-tier fish farming was conducted in order to study:1) the learning process and Â knowledge about the five-tier fish farming, andÂ  2) the process of developing a five-tier fish farming model using qualitative research. By analysing and synthesising, the researcher tried to develop knowledge and lessons on how to solve farmersâ€™ problems. Using knowledge about the nature of the fish, the aim was to develop a fish farming model in the target area. The research found that five-tier fish farming is well suited to lowland conditions when there is a canal nearby and family members can be used. Knowledge about the right management style will enable farmers to live well in their community. By learning, observing, monitoring and investigating phenomena happen and using the obtained knowledge to develop continuously and with academic and government support, farmers can obtain their goals. Educational field trips, listening to new ideas and analysis of talks with knowledgeable people will also be useful. The model obtained in this way will have to be tried out and periodically evaluated with input from the grassroots. Knowledge obtained through small-scale experiments can then be used on a bigger scale in order to expand the results. Small experiments in five-tier fish culture can be used as the learning base for the process of naturally raising fish. The learning process must be self-directed through development and evaluation of knowledge and wisdom. This has to be done by observation, analysis and self-management of various models. The results of any evaluation should be discussed with knowledgeable experts. Then turn back to the development stage and to further trials. Development should be analysed using the Spiral Model to achieve better results and to finally arrive at a form of five-tier fish farming that is suitable to the environment of each area.Â Â
GFRecog: a Generic Framework with Significant Feature Selection Approach for Face Recognition
Authors: Rahef Nuiaa Riyadh , Ali Abdulhussein Seif , Kareem Mohammed Bahaa
Published: April 2019

Identification of Humans uniquely is given paramount importance in the contemporary world. It is evident in applications of all fields so as to ensure secure and accurate transactions. Out of many approaches biometric approach became a dependable mechanism for this purpose. Face is one of the biometrics that plays vital role in recognizing humans across the globe. Many approaches came into existence for face recognition. In this paper we proposed a generic framework known as GFRecog that is extendable to support future methods of face recognition as well. We propose a methodology for face recognition using Gabor wavelets by extracting significant features from training dataset and perform matching operation with the given input image. Projection of face images onto a feature space that reflects diversity of face images is considered an efficient approach. Our approach works with faces that are captured under different lighting conditions, expression and pose. We built a prototype application using MATLAB with a benchmark dataset to demonstrate the proof of concept. The empirical results revealed that the accuracy of the proposed face recognition method is significantly high.Â Â
A Design of Faceted Search Engine â€“ a Review
Authors: Najah Mahdi Mohammed , Ismail Roslan , Rahim Ahmad Abdul , Thambiratnam Kavintheran , Abdulameer Mohammed Mohammed
Published: April 2019

The World Wide Web (WWW) allows the people to share information and data from large database repositories globally. The amount of information is already in the billions of databases. We need to search the information with specialize tools known generically as search engine (SE). With the huge data that needs to be handled, search engines need to retrieve meaningful information intelligently, whereby only information of interest to the searcher needs to be returned. Facets (the particular aspect or feature of something being searched) can play an important role in helping the user understand an information space better. Queries techniques within faceted search will make the search results immediate and the interaction between searcher and search engine uninterrupted and focused. They can contribute to the userâ€™s understanding of the researched terms or topics. Furthermore, they are more fun and interesting to use because users directly manipulate the search controls and the results can be displayed through choices of presentation such as text displays, transition animations, graphs etc. which bring the process closer to an experience in game playing. This paper review the design of faceted search engine.Â
Financial Performance Analysis Before and After the Decline in Oil Production: Case Study in Indonesian Oil and Gas Industry
Authors: Mardawiyah Daryanto Wiwiek , Nurfadilah Dety
Published: April 2019

Indonesia’s oil and gas industry is the huge contributor to government export revenues and foreign exchange and contributes a substantial amount to state revenue. However, the total of oil production declined around 4,41% per year since 2007, and the sharpest decline was in 2013. This situation gives impact to the performance of oil and gas industry, especially government revenues. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to measure the financial performance of Oil and Gas Industry and to examine the significance differences between the financial performance before and after the decline in oil and gas production. The data were collected from financial report and the period was divided into two periods, before the decline in production (2011 – 2012) and after the decline in production (2014 – 2015). Paired sample t-test and financial ratio analysis (FRA) were used to analyzed the data. The finding shows that the largest oil and gas company in Indonesia is still in good financial condition, although it gained loss. In addition, current ratio and return on equity had significance difference during the period of before and after a decline in oil and gas production. The authors believe that the findings will be helpful for managers who continuously attempt to explore opportunities to provide a higher return.
Collective Impact of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Risk Propensity on Entrepreneurial Intentions; Mediating Role of Perceived Social Support
Authors: Khalid Arusa , Bashir Mohsin , Saqib Shahnawaz
Published: April 2019

In order to extend the discussion of entrepreneurship, this empirical study has indicated the crucial impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intentions of a person, while this relation is being moderated by ability based approach of emotional intelligence. Our findings have indicated the extent to which the students of business studies remain successful in exploring market opportunities and will turn into successful entrepreneurs under the umbrella of emotional Intelligence .Moreover it has also elucidated the influence of perceived social support in persuading self-employment. The sample of 260 business Students was taken from Pakistan. Research findings helped students witnessing those depicting higher level of emotional intelligence are more willing to take and tolerate risks and are eager to start up their own businesses .Results also revealed that risk propensity has moderate effects on entrepreneurial intentions. Implications are also being discussed for clear understanding of vitality of discussion.
Determinant of Intention to Check-Up Back to Doctors at Public Hospital
Authors: . Sedianingsih , Tri Ratnasari Ririn , Prasetyo Ari , Mawardi Imron
Published: April 2019

The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that influence the intention to check up back if it pain to Dr. Soetomo Hospital and Hajj Public Hospital. This research was conducted with a quantitative explorative approach with an analysis design factors. The first stage of this research is exploring the factors that exist in the minds of patients with spreading open questionnaire, having acquired these factors, then the second phase of this study, carried out a survey to patient non BPJS outpatient and inpatient care in Dr. Soetomo Hospital and Hajj Public Hospital. The sampling technique is purposive sampling. Furthermore, the data were processed using factor analysis. The output of this study is an international journal. The results of this study indicate that factors that affect intention to return (check up back) if pain to Dr. Soetomo Hospital and Hajj Public Hospital formed by six factors. Factors that formed called the service factor, the factor of the facility, hospital image factor, the factor of interpersonal relationships, and location factors. Indicators with the highest loading values obtained from the calculation of the rotation factor is an indicator of the X6 in hospital image factor is the hospital that has the most complete medical equipment in the city of Surabaya.
Employee Satisfaction Building Through Transformational Leadership and Organizational Culture
Authors: Tampubolon Nurdin , Propheto Arfendo
Published: April 2019

ASEAN Economic Community / AEC has made the competition even more sharply and pooling of regional economy exposes the company in increasingly competitive, and dynamic. These conditions require companies to utilize all available resources in order not to lose out in the global competition. Human resources is one of the resources owned by the company among several other resources and a vital corporate assets that are expected to utilize all the potential available in the company. This research was conducted at PT Bangkitgiat Usaha Mandiri (PT BUM) is a company engaged in the cultivation and processing of palm crude palm oil (CPO) is located in the city of East Waringin Central Kalimantan. The company's performance is inseparable from how the business and what has been done by employees. Therefore, the company must seek a way in order to satisfy employee. Meanwhile, to satisfy the employees, the role of transformational leadership, organizational culture plays an important role. This Research wanted to know how the influence of the independent variable leadership, organizational culture on employee satisfaction as the dependent variable. This research will contribute in increasing employee satisfaction to the firm. This paper is still conceptual framework and will be continued to be a research proposal as part of the writing of a dissertation.
Students’ Satisfaction of Food Services at the University Cafeteria: a Comparative Study Via PLS Approach
Authors: Mui -Ling Chang Dyana , Mohd Suki Norazah
Published: April 2019

This research investigated the effect of food quality, price fairness, staff performance, and ambience on students’ satisfaction of cafeteria food services by comparing responses from Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Malaysia with Mercu Buana University (MBU), Indonesia. Data was analysed using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) application in SmartPLS computer software version 2.0. Path coefficients from PLS results revealed ambience as the most significant predictor of students’ satisfaction of food services at the university cafeteria in both UMS and MBU settings, followed by aspects of staff performance and food quality. It is imperative for university cafeteria operators at both sites to uplift students’ satisfaction of food services at their cafeterias by enhancing ambiance such as installing decorations that project a warm and cosy environment. The result of these findings could be utilised as guidelines for the respective university management to incorporate elements that could improve food services in their cafeterias thus increasing the satisfaction of their users (students).
Factors Affecting Bankruptcy in Malaysian Listed Companies
Authors: Patricia Zoe , R Suganthi , R Devinaga , Yeen Yen Yuen , . Shalini
Published: April 2019

In a number of studies bankruptcy has been known to bring about the downfall and embarrassment of firms as well as destroying a lot of careers. On the other hand for bankruptcy of corporate institutions, factors such as accounting aspects that include, profitability, leverage as well as liquidity are mainly the core of this issue as mentioned by Boettcher, Cavanagh, and Xu (1). Nowadays corporate governance has been added into the mix. In order to support both affected and smoothly running firms, it is crucial for researchers to investigate all the aspects of the management of the firm as expressed in their annual reports. The methods focused on in this research includes the models such as, multicollinearity, polled least square model and finally the fixed effect model. The annual reports and indexes were used to get values in the measurements. This study found that corporate governance, firm size and profitability were not significant to the bankruptcy of the firm. However, Liquidity and leverage contributed to firm bankruptcy.  In conclusion, this study is generally meant to explore the impact of different factors that probably contributed to bankruptcy among Malaysian firms.
An Analysis of the Relationship between Risk and Expected Return in Malaysia Stock Market: Test of the CAPM
Authors: Xin Rui Koh , Rasiah Devinaga , Yee Yen Yuen , Ramasamy Suganthi , Devi Pillay Shalini
Published: April 2019

Investment theory describes the concept of relationship between risk and return. Capital Model Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) was based on the risk and return relationship. CAPM described that asset’s expected return that is above the risk free rate is directly related to the non-diversifiable risk that is measure by beta. Focus of this study is to identify the impacts of risk toward the stock return in Malaysia stock market during the year 2007 to 2015 by testing on the applicability of Capital Asset Pricing Model. The data is from monthly stock returns from 24 companies listed on the stock exchange for investigation. The analysis of monthly stock market closing indexes from using regression model was carried out on the standard CAPM model. When testing the CAPM model for the whole period, it has not showed strong evidence that support the validity of this model and in order to get better estimates, this study divided the whole sample into 3 sub periods of five years each. The study found high beta value does not related to higher level in stock return. The positive relationship between systematic risk and return does not have a strong evidence to support it. The research also identify that the securities market line has direct relationship between risk and return. The unsystematic risk does not have an effect on the return. It means that stock prices cannot be effectively predicted by CAPM and Malaysia Stock and the validity of CAPM does not exist in Malaysia Stock Exchange Market for the period 2007-2015 due to some limitations such as time frame, sample size and others. This paper suggest a different assets pricing model and takes into consideration of some related variables in predicting future stocks returns. This research provides important implication to investors, analysts, stock brokers, speculators, fund managers, practitioners, relevant authorities, and government.
Mobile Advertising: Behavioural Intention Among Undergraduates in Malaysia
Authors: Sook Fern Yeo , Cheng Ling Tan , Kah Boon Lim , Wee Lian Fong Stany , Ming Jie Fong
Published: April 2019

In today's world, smartphone has become a necessity in our daily life. All the businesses will take advantage of mobile phone to advertise their product to create awareness. Due to the new techniques and technologies, mobile advertising has become more efficiently (Saadeghvaziri & Hosseini, 2011). Therefore, we conduct the factors that influence the effects of mobile advertising campaign, especially the case of Short Messaging Service (SMS). According to Yeo, Tan and Lim (2016), mobile technology is growing intensively. Smartphone become more convenience and able to let users to have fun while they experience mobile device shopping, and they able to open many browsers so they can either comparing the price, shopping or purchasing good. The research framework such as the five independent variables (perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, irritation, credibility, and informativeness) has connected with dependent variable (behavioural intention). This research design has planned to involve 300 respondents. The unit analysis for this study is all undergraduates in Malaysia. A total of 274 undergraduates have participated in this study which comprised of 91% of the response rate. There are about 21.5% experiencing the mobile advertising through SMS/MMS. Furthermore, the frequency of the respondent towards these mobile advertisement is approximately 24.5%. The findings revealed that four direct relationships hypothesized namely perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, credibility and informativeness were significantly related to the behavioural intention towards mobile advertising.
Are the Effects of Age Still Relevant in Predicting Malaysian Investors’ Risk-Taking Behavior in Stock Market?
Authors: Lim Li Chin Audrey , Shahzad Arfan
Published: April 2019

The role of age in moderating investor’s self-confidence bias, herding, conservatism bias, familiarity bias, and regret in risk-taking behavior is explored using data collected from retail investors in Melaka, Selangor, and Wilayah Persekutuan (W.P.) Kuala Lumpur. As indicated in data analysis by Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM), age plays an important moderating role in herding, regret, and self-confidence bias in investor’s risk-taking behavior. While younger investors who tend to herd are more risk averse and feel more regret in risk-taking than the older group, older investors seem to exhibit a higher level of self-confidence bias than younger investors. However, the risk- taking distribution between the age groups indicates no significant difference. Thus, the readiness in greater levels of risk acceptance depends on the individuals’ preference towards herding, regret, and self-confidence bias. Furthermore, this study also address contradictions in the existing literatures that fuels stereotyping and discrimination based on age. Therefore, age stereotype should be avoided when formulating microstructure strategies to raise the investor’s participation in the stock market.
A Sustainable Model for Heritage Property: an Integrative Conceptual Framework
Authors: Afiqah Md. Azmi Fatin , Ismail Suriatini , Ab. Rahman Rosdi , Tahir Sabit Mohammad , Mohammad Junainah
Published: April 2019

Malaysia is one of the developing countries but the management and investment by the local authority and investors in the heritage property remain limited which are apparent in the literature. Studying an integrative literature review is the most appropriate way to address the problem of heritage property. It is indicated that the local planning authorities do not have the financial capacity for providing incentives because the conservation and preservation works are costly. If the heritage property is neglected, deteriorated, and dilapidated, the value of archaic services may be affected. The objective of this paper is to review the heritage management system in Malacca and Penang, considering the institutional, legal, and resources frameworks and concerning on the heritage conservation, investment, and valuation. In this study, some variables have been obtained by database that can be used to evaluate the existing frameworks. Finally, all variables are summarized in a new sustainable model by identifying the gaps in the local literature. It is hoped that the present review would be considered as a kind of strategy for the future research and has made substantive contributions to the knowledge as well as inventing new thinking in the field of heritage property.
Selection of Contractor: a Flexible Performance-Based Approach
Authors: Mohamad Shukery Nurshikin , Amirudin Roslan , Abdul Rahiman Nafisah , Liyana Tajul Ariffin Hamizah , Hendra Mahmud Syamsul
Published: April 2019

Contractors are the main players in construction industry. Appropriate selection of contractor is crucial in determining the future performance of a project in any case. Sometimes this selection procedure is performed without proper consideration and deliberate methodology that it merits, thus bringing negative outcomes. This paper proposes a performance-based contractor selection approach that will empower the utilization of expert’s experience and data. A flexible performance-based contractor selection system is proposed to bolster this decision-making process. To characterize and design the system, semi structured interviews and questionnaire surveys were led within public sector concentrating on the way that the selection process is carried out in practice and the evaluation connected with it. A prototype of a Flexible Performance-Based Contractor Selection System (FPCSS) was developed by using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. The system is validated by construction industry professionals in public sector. As a conclusion, the FPCSS is a significant tool for contractor selection, by helping organizations to select a competent contractor and decrease the subjectivity of the decision-making process. The advantage as gave by the system favours a reliable indicator to predict performance of construction project by selecting a contractor based on his best performan
Perceived Consumption Values, Satisfaction and Loyalty in the Tourism: Case of Malaysia
Authors: Shu Wan Tan Adeline , Falahat Mohammad , Kai Sia Bik
Published: April 2019

Domestic tourism is a substitute for outbound travel has a potential to create income and employment in the home economy. These potentials also create opportunities through the linkage at destinations. This study extent the concept and evaluates the empirical evidence of the relationship between perceived consumption values toward tourism loyalty. Drawn from revised framework of the Sheth-Newman Gross Model of Consumption Values and the European Consumer Satisfaction Index (ECSI), we examine the relationship of perceived consumption values, tourist satisfaction and tourist loyalty. Data obtained from 255 tourists visited the state of Malacca, Malaysia. The results indicated that tourist loyalty is affected by perceived consumption values and fully mediated by tourist satisfaction. The findings provide valuable insights to the policy makers, industries and academics in developing strategies and exploring possible factors to consider in tourism sector and thus, boost the national economy. As for policy makers, this study can be seen as exploitation to increase the influx of international tourists by implementing policies or improving tourist spots.
Marital Satisfaction, Communication and Coping Strategy Among Malaysian Married Couples: Factors Prediction and Model Testing
Authors: Zainul Abidin Rozaina , Ismail Khamsiah , Sariah Syed Hassan Sharifah , Ahmad Sudan Salmi
Published: April 2019

Empirical evidences on the understanding of marital satisfaction as a multidimensional construct in the context of a multicultural multi-religious society are found to be limited. In this study, an attempt has been made to predict and hypothesize the factors in influencing marital satisfaction, communication and coping strategy in marriage among Malaysian married couples. Using 5-Likert scale agreement, the new Marital Satisfaction Scale has been constructed and administered among 150 respondents in a cross-sectional survey, Descriptive statistics and backward Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) were adopted to ensure the models were estimated based on the contributions from each predictor to determine the model specification. The results have shown that the best predicted models of Marital Satisfaction and Communication are explained by 76% of variance while the prediction of Coping strategy is explained by 30% of variance. This study has recognized the usefulness of multiple regression analysis in model testing before further research on model prediction via Structural Equation Modeling is conducted. A newly hypothesized Marital Satisfaction Model was initiated by integrating the VSA Model of Marriage (Karney and Bradburry, 1995). This study is significant in contributing to pre/post-marital education and counseling fields as well as in crafting a better intervention strategy to promote a more satisfying marital institution.
The Influence of Parenting and Socialization Religious Values for Early Prevention Behavior toward Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Authors: Sartika Iriany Ieke , Pasciana Rostiena
Published: April 2019

This research motivated by the rise of deviant behavior news by various media, the deviant behavior including LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) that lately become a hot actual topic. The purpose of this study is to discuss the influence of parenting and socialization of religious values in attempt to avoid behavior prevention of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. The study used the quantitative approach with survey technique and the parents Vocational High School (SMK) Class XI in Garut Regency, West Java Province of Indonesia as its population. Seventy-two people determined through a simple random sampling. The data collection techniques used questionnaires, observations and interviews for primary data and secondary data obtained from a review of the documentation and reports from competent agencies such as the Special Services Police Garut Unit, women's and children Committee (KP2A). Data analysis performed in non-parametric statistics that would examine the influence of the independent variables: parenting and socialization of religious values, on the dependent variable: early prevention behavior LGBT. According to the research, it concluded: parenting is in the criteria fairly well. Socialization of religious values are in the criteria fairly well. Early prevention of behavior LGBT is in the criteria well. The results of the research hypothesis testing, both the main hypotheses and sub-hypotheses indicate that parenting and socialization of religious values are significant and have positive effect on early prevention LGBT behavior. The conclusion from the result of the discussion and the theories used, it found that there was an ideal democratic parenting to form the early prevention of LGBT behavior within teenagers in vocational high school. The result of the research provides input to education policy makers in order to include subjects concerning the manners of upbringing and socialization models of religious values. Particularly, to conduct affirmative movement through brochures, pamphlets about the importance of parenting. Benefits theoretically research for the development of knowledge of the parents and practically an education policy maker.
The Relationships Among Language Learning Strategy, Motivation, Anxiety and Autonomy in Chinese EFL Learners
Authors: Jianfeng Cheng , Sagaya Raj Gerard , Tan Tjin Ai Joanna
Published: April 2019

This study attempted to explore the relationships among language learning strategy, motivation, anxiety and learner autonomy. Cluster sampling method was adopted to select 600 non-English major students as subjects at three universities in Henan province, China. Quantitative data collected from questionnaires was analyzed by SPSS 19.0. Results from Pearson correlation analysis showed that among the three investigated variables, language learning strategy and motivation had a significant positive relationship with learner autonomy in a decreasing order, but anxiety was significantly and negatively correlated with learner autonomy. Results from multiple regression analysis indicated that learning strategy could best significantly predict the variance of learner autonomy, followed by motivation and anxiety. The findings would make suggestions to university policy-makers, English language lecturers, and learners on the implementation of autonomous English language learning.
Juxtaposing the Primary School Assessment Concepts and Practices in Singapore and Malaysia
Authors: Mohamed Mazidah , Sallehhudin Abd Aziz Mohd
Published: April 2019

The assessment practices in schools have moved from the traditional way of assessing students, which is too exam oriented and relies heavily on standardized exams, towards a more holistic assessment which involves the integration of Central Assessment and School-based Assessment. This paper aims to review the relevant studies on Central Assessment, School-Based Assessment, Formative Assessment (FA) and Assessment for Learning (AfL) in Singapore and Malaysia. It begins with a brief history of assessment in Malaysia and Singapore. Then, it critically reviews the concepts of Formative Assessment and Assessment for Learning as practiced in both countries. From the review, some differences and challenges between the two educational systems particularly with regard to the implementation of classroom assessment are identified. These differences include the medium of instruction, the assessment system and the average class size. Despite the challenges, School-based Assessment, Formative Assessment and Assessment for Learning should be duly implemented regardless of the increased workload and the level of the teachers’ skills in assessment. It is found that these factors do not adversely affect the practices of Formative Assessment and Assessment for Learning by the teachers.
Region of Interest (ROI) for EEG Activity in Depressed Young Adult
Authors: Zi Xiang Lim , Fauzan Norsiah
Published: April 2019

Several abnormal neural activities in regions such as dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) are known to be associated with depression. However most studies focused on major depression disorder and less on mild and moderate depression, moreover, these studies are mostly conducted in United State and European countries. This study uses data from 12 mild and moderately depressed and 12 healthy control young adult in Malaysia to examine the differences in brain activity via spectrum and coherence analysis in quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). The study found that depressed group have higher beta on the anterior region that is found on people with depression and recurrent depression in previous studies, and higher theta on the prefrontal cortex may associate with deficits in attention and working memory in resting state compare to healthy control. Furthermore, left and right frontal showed low beta2 coherence that may indicate imbalance of functional processes.
Comparison of different feature extraction methods for the analysis of uterine magnetomyography signals to predict term labor
Authors: Ananda Babu T , P. Rajesh Kumar Dr
Published: April 2019

The prediction of term labor by analyzing the uterine magnetomyographic signals attempted in this research. The existing works did not focus on the classification of the signals. Publicly available MIT-BIH database records were divided into term-labor and term-nonlabor groups. This research presents two methods for feature extraction, discrete wavelet transform and wavelet packet transform. Energy, standard deviation, variance, entropy and waveform length of transform coefficients used in the first method. The normalized logarithmic energy of wavelet coefficients from each packet of the total wavelet packet tree used as the feature space for the second method. The labor assessment done through the classification of the features by using five different classifiers for different mother wavelet families. Discrete wavelet transform features extracted using coif5 wavelet with random subspace classification gives the accuracy, precision and FPrates of 93.9286%, 94.2014% and 5.7986% respectively. Using sym8 wavelet for wavelet packet transform features classified with SVM classifier performed well with 95.8763% accuracy, 95.9719% precision and 4.0281% FPrate. The results obtained from the research will be helpful in term labor assessment and understanding the parturition process.
Hydrodynamic studies comparison by simulation with experimental results of reverse fluidized bed
Authors: Upender H , Pavan Kumar L , K. Anand Kishore Dr
Published: April 2019

In present days we are much believed computer aided (simulation) results much more than our experimental results even though time consumption, low-cost processes and we can get the efficient results when compare to experimental results. In this task, I compared my experimental results with simulation results (Ansys fluent version 17.2) in the solid liquid reverse fluidized bed system. In this, I did this comparison using Gidaspow drag model and remaining parameters were same the particle diameter was changed. I found that the hydrodynamic behavior by experimentally and by simulation those were bed height profile, pressure drop profile and Voidage profile by changing the velocity profile
Redevelopment of buildings in Mumbai city: risks and challenges
Authors: Vanvari Vinod , Sumedh Mhaske Dr
Published: April 2019

In most cities of developing countries, old buildings always tend to undergo redevelopment. There are one or more than one reasons for this. Such as buildings which are in dilapidated condition or uneconomic to repair or tenants are in a need of more usable floor area. This activity of building redevelopment is much visible in Mumbai city for past decade and half. Because of various constraints and considerations, this process of projects of building redevelopment is quite complex. It takes considerable efforts and time to accomplish the projects. If a proper and time bound process is not followed, or if the risks, uncertainties and challenges are not handled properly, even a seemingly simple project can fail, thereby causing great anguish and hardship to the stakeholders. Sometimes this may lead to prolonged litigation. There is a need to identify risks and challenges involved in the process of building redevelopment projects. The aim of researchers is to interact with all the stakeholders of building development projects of housing societies and identify various risks and challenges visa-a-vis gains. The study has also revealed various pitfalls and uncertainties related to these projects. This will enable concerned stakeholders to prepare to address these.
Ascendancy of youth tourism on the travel and tourism preferences
Authors: K.P Vyshak , Nath B Sabary , S. Nair Sundeep , K. Sudhakaran Aarathy
Published: April 2019

Youth Tourism or Youth Travel in simplified terms deliberate out as the travel and touring plans followed by the population groups standing out between the age group of fifteen to thirty for a period ranging from more than one day and less than one consecutive year, making out on economical lines of stature to build out unique life experiences.The study is concentrated among the youth population of Kerala, who possesses a deliberate and distinguishing views on travel and touring idea. The study tries to evaluate the attitudes and choices of the youth on travel and tourism and to develop an authoritative model of their preferences. A focus is given on measuring the influence of youth on travel. And study also analyses the impact of tourism destinations on youth, and their preferences.
Investigation of base flow for an axisymmetric suddenly expanded nozzle with micro JET
Authors: Ilahi Chaudhary Zakir , B. Shinde Vilas , A. Khan S
Published: April 2019

This investigation presents the outcome of the tests conducted to control the pressure in the re-circulation zone. Also, the efficiency of the flow controllers to govern the pressure at the base in a rapidly expanded pipe has been investigated. Tiny jets our in number of 1 mm diameter are positioned at the interval of 90 degrees at 6.5 mm from the central axis of the main jet. The Mach numbers of the abruptly expanded flows studied for base pressure range from 1.1 to 3 and the obtained wall pressure distribution is depicted for Mach number 1.6 and 1.8 respectively. Axi-symmetric round brass tubes were used to join jets; and cross-sectional area of those tubes are 2.56. L/D ratio of the broadened pipe was differed from 1 to 10 and NPR was shifted from 3 to 11. Notwithstanding, the outcomes displayed were for Low L/D values of 4, 3, 2 and 1 individually. Also, when the stream was released to the pipes of the given area ratios, it stayed connected with the channel divider for all the inertial levels and the NPRs tried in the present case. Further it is understood that level of expansion assumes a noteworthy part to choose the pressure at the base and its control adequacy. At whatever point, the stream is over expanded, it leads to the formation of an oblique shock at the nozzle lip, prompting improvement of the pressure in the base locale. Shock waves formation, reflection and recombination proceeded till the pressure winds up noticeably environmental and seen that the stream stays intact for low L/D ratio of 4. Very small scale (micro) jets proved to fit in as controllers for the base pressure.
A comprehensive review of energy efficiency in cloud computing environment
Authors: S R Jayasimha , J Usha , Iyengar S G Srivani
Published: April 2019

High energy consumption in the cloud has become a huge problem in the data center. Energy represents direct significant cost in the operation of the data center. In Information Technology, infrastructure, Internet applications are in more demand. Cloud computing provides IT resources in the form of infrastructure, platform and application by providing services through the Internet Technology. This leads to more energy being consumed as cloud is used to provide IT services from the IT resources to the IT industry and to the Organizations. To analyze power consumed in the data center, applications are deployed in cloud and tested using different workload conditions. Virtualization depicts more energy utilization in the cloud data center. In this paper discussed about the comparison of cloud and cloud computing, cloud type providers, component performance through secured shell. Identified the various levels of energy consumptions in the cloud. the different techniques which is used to reduce the power consumption in the server and workload consolidation using various parameters are considered.
Model Implementation of Quality Management System ISO 9001: 2008 Study on Motives, Benefits, Obstacles, and Success Factors
Authors: . Adman , . Rasto , Sarino Alit , Yatimah Durotul
Published: April 2019

The problems are formulated as follows: ISO 9001: 2008 certification focuses more on proving compliance with standards and has not accommodated the needs of the education world to meet the expectations of stakeholders as well as continuous improvement of organizational performance. The need for implementation of Quality Management System in education sector becomes important. The focus of this research is to describe the condition of motives, benefits, obstacles and success factors of ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Management System. The research method used is explanatory survey method with descriptive analysis technique. The population of research states vocational school in Bandung and the sample is the manager of Quality Management System. The results describe the condition of motives, benefits, obstacles and success factors of implementation of ISO 9001: 2008 quality management. The motives categorical are high, high benefit, medium barriers and factors of high category success. This means that the impetus of the school to apply ISO is very good, the benefits of good ISO implementation and success factors in the application of ISO is very good, while in its application there are still barriers in the medium category.    Implementation of ISO 9001: 2008 quality management becomes a very important thing to improve the competitiveness of state vocational school in Bandung. A serious effort is required in implementing the ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Management system..
Moral Disengagement in Middle School Students: Survey in Religious Education
Authors: . Yufiarti , Nuraini Sri , Solihin Muhammad , Rachmadtullah Reza
Published: April 2019

Indonesian culture has many schools which based on religion. The main objective of the Islamic school is to make their students have moral or wonderful behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate moral disengagement of students at religious education. This survey on 171 students included female and male.  Data analysis used descriptive as graph and percentage. Children can enroll to the religious schools. Profile shows that many children varieties such as gender, age. Student’s at moral disengagement was multiple diverse.
Admissibility of Iqrar as Evidence: the Issue of Voluntariness from Syariah Principles Perspective
Authors: Azam Mohd Shariff Ahmad , Rajamanickam Ramalinggam , Kaur Harnam Singh1 Parveen , Khadijah Md Lazim Siti , Sofea Nurol Adzmi Anna , Xin Xian Lim , Faris Haikal Mad Zahudi Muhammad , Noor Azira Tg. Zainudin Tg.
Published: April 2019

Iqrar is a form of bayyinah or evidence which could be tendered during trial at the syariah court. The syariah evidential principles renders it relevant and admissible with varying effect. Iqrar sorih or confession, once admitted by court, would become binding against the accused. In such a scenario, the court may convict the accused based on such confession without any need for further proof. On the other hand, the court may also admit an admission or iqrar kinayah but it could never convict the accused based on such admission alone. In other words, based on admissibility of such admission, a court could only convict the accused should such admission is further corroborated and strengthened by other evidence. This article however observes that the strength of a confession very mush depends on voluntariness of the maker of the confession. There is also some confusion among syariah practitioners as regards to the difference between both forms of iqrar. The conducted research is pure legal and qualitative in nature. Data and materials on iqrar confession and admission are collected via library research method. These data and materials are then analysed using critical and content methodologies.. This article analyses the relevancy and admissibility of iqrar confession and admission in the eyes of syariah evidential principles. It then strives at identifying problems relating to its admissibility and interpretation. This article eventually offers some ideas on ways of avoiding future misinterpretation of iqrar while simultaneously looking into some ideas on how to improve its application.
The Importance of Attestation Prior to the Registration of Instruments under the National Land Code 1965
Authors: Natasha Halid Shahrul , @Zaidi Hass Jady
Published: April 2019

Recent events had put the question of security of land transactions at the forefront of not only the political and economic agenda worldwide, but also posed some key questions for law and the future regulation of property rights. The Torrens System of land registration which is practiced in Malaysia can be traced back to Sir Robert Torrens in South Australia during the late eighteenth century. The land registration system should be made flexible enough to adapt to the changing of technologies but also secure enough to ensure that the registered proprietors have good title to their lands. This article is intended to explore the rigorous and somewhat tedious process that is provided under the National Land Code 1965 relating to the attestation of instruments before the presentation for registration.