bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The association between physical activity and basic fitness tests in female junior Reserve Officer Training Unit (ROTU), National Defence University Malaysia (NDUM)
Authors: Kassim Mohar , Ujang Edawaty , Othman Norfazilawati
Published: June 2020

The aim of this research is to determine the association between physical activity and basic fitness tests in female junior ROTU. This research is a descriptive quantitative research using IPAQ and it involves a 2.4 km run test, push-up and sit-up. A total of 103 respondents from ROTU, NDUM 2017 session were selected at random for this research. The findings showed that inactive physical activity led to failed basic fitness tests. There is an intention of investigating the association between physical activity and basic fitness tests in female senior and intermediate ROTU.
Comparative Study between Wearable Sensor and Cuff Arm Blood Pressure Meter in Measuring Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Monitor Using Statistical Approach
Authors: Cheng E M , Lim E A , Tan W H , Mustafa W A , Syed Idrus S Z , Mohd Nasir N F , Abdulmalek M , Beh H G , Lee Y S , Mou Yusop S N A
Published: June 2020

Heart rate and blood pressure monitoring during physical activity and exercise allow early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and obesity. Plethysmography(PPG) has become popular worldwide for personal health monitoring systems. However, the accuracy of this technology in monitoring heart rate and blood pressure during activity is poorer than at rest. It limits their application. In this study, the performance of the wearable sensor and arm cuff blood pressure meter in measuring heart rate and blood pressure on the left arm is compared. Five healthy volunteers conducted the same exercise protocols, i.e., at rest, jump rope, treadmill walking, running (long run) and sprinting (short-run). The wearable sensor shows a mean absolute percentage error in 6.08% and Pearson coefficient in 0.61. Besides, the lowest range of 95% limit of agreement for diastolic blood pressure during treadmill run was found at 30.50.
Decision Making Process in Keystroke Dynamics
Authors: Yaacob Mohd Noorulfakhri , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed , Ali Wan Nor Ashiqin Wan , Mustafa Wan Azani , Jamlos Mohd Aminudin , Wahab Mohd Helmy Abd
Published: June 2020

Computer system intrusion often happens nowadays. Various methods have been introduced to reduce and prevent these intrusions, however no method was 100% proven to be effective. Therefore, to improve the computer’s security, this writing will explain the application of KD in the application system. The effectiveness of KD could not guarantee one hundred percent to prevent the computer intrusion, but it can be used as a second level of security after the login page in the application system. The pattern and time taken while typing by an individual is the core for the second level of security check after the login page. This writing will elaborate and conclude past studies related to KD on the aspects of decision-making process. Various methods of processing KD data that have been used are listed and the results of the study are compared. The results of this writing are expected to help new researchers in the process of evaluating KD data.
Analyse the impact of health services in Malaysia by using SPSS
Authors: Ismail Fauziah , Basir Siti Norayu , Mutalib Suhana Abdul , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

This study aims to analyse the impact of health service in Malaysia. A descriptive study was designed using survey method. This study was conducted under government hospital in Penang. Data were collected using statistical package for social sciences SPSS. A total of n = 115 patient responded to this survey. This study showed that access to services, have a positive relationship with patient satisfaction. Access to services are acknowledge as key determinants to improve health services quality in Malaysia.
Mobile Application Outdoor Navigation Using Location-Based Augmented Reality (AR)
Authors: Asraf Syed Muhammad Hazry , Hashim Ameer Fuhaili Mohamad , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

In order to formalize and co-create the Industrial Revolution 4.0. Augmented Reality is indispensable to facilitate human life. As a result, the difficulty is experienced by the user to know the exact location. As such, these developed applications can greatly assist mobile application users in making it easier to decide where to use their smartphones in specific location. Using Augmented Reality GPS location-based is well suited to a phone’s ability to have GPS sensors. Therefore, the place the user is searching or choosing is at the end of the user’s finger and it is in the form of virtual environment real-time.
Analyzing Diabetic Data using Classification
Authors: Razali Nazim , Mustapha Aida , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed , Wahab Mohd Helmy Abd , Madon Siti Aida Fatimah
Published: June 2020

In modern day, Diabetes has become one of prominent disease that affecting people all around the world. Over 425 million people worldwide with a majority of them are adults living in low and middle income countries had been affected by diabetes. According to the Diabetes Atlas from International Diabetes Federation in 2017, the number of people affected by diabetes disease are expected to increase to over 629 million by 2045. Along with the increasing of the computer science and information technology in researches, its has continued advent into many field including the medical and healthcare field which the cases of this disease and the symptoms are well recorded and documented. This paper aims to use several data mining techniques such as Naive Bayes, Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO), RepTree and Simple Logistic Regression for classifying whether positive or negative result of diabetes diagnostic. Then, the results will be measured using confusion matrix in term of accuracy, precision and recall as evaluation metric for measuring the classification performance.
Architecture of SLA Adaptation Manager using MAPE-K Framework.
Authors: Ramli Ahmad Kamal
Published: June 2020

The key to the proposed architecture is the utilization of self - * capabilities designed to have self-management over uncertainties and the provision of self-adaptive interactions. Thus, the Monitor, Analyse, Plan, Execute and Knowledge Base (MAPE-K) approach can deal with this problem together with the integration of Fuzzy and Q-Learning algorithms. The proposed architecture is in the context of autonomic computing. An adaptation manager is the main proposed component to update admission control on the ISP current resources and the ability to manage SLAs. A general methodology type-2 fuzzy logic is applied to ensure the uncertainties and precise decision-making are well addressed in this research.
The Impacts of Viral Video Through Whatsapp Among Adolecense in Penang, Malaysia
Authors: Ahmad Nor’izah , Rose Nurul Naimah , Ishak Aida Shakila , Pratiba Chettiar R.
Published: June 2020

WhatsApp was launched in 2009 as the most popular messaging app that owned more than 600 million users worldwide. The statistic in Social Bakers indicates the growth of WhatsApp users in Malaysia is increased 334 by week and 1225 by month. Being alert towards the nature of social media sites becomes important because not all the contents of WhatsApp produce a good context for children and adolescents. Some of the potential problems of WhatsApp are cyberbullying, sexting, and vulnerability of improper contents. Even though, the outstanding advantage of WhatsApp is included the ease of communication; however WhatsApp also have the possibilities to demolish an individual’s or organization’s status, and create a sense of depression to the public. This study was conducted to investigate the types of viral videos that spread among adolescents in Penang as well as to explore the impacts of viral videos through WhatsApp. Participants of the study made up of nine adolescents aged between 15 to 19 years old from Penang, Malaysia. The methodology of this research is a qualitative method by using in-depth interviews. The findings showed that there are six types of viral videos that spread among adolescents involved in this study. Meanwhile, both negative and positive has been identified as impacts of viral videos in this study.
Students’ Perception in Learning Mathematics across Gender and Ethnicity
Authors: Daud Anith Safura , Aziz Mohd Kasturi Nor Abd , Ali Wan Nor Ashiqin Binti Wan , Adnan Nor Syamimi Mohamed , Embong Zulmaryan
Published: June 2020

This study attempts to integrate students’ perceptions in mathematics knowledge in answering and explaining problems of mathematics learning that is presence in the classroom. The survey instrument used in this study called “Students’ Perception on Mathematics Survey“(SPMS). All the marks and data gathered were tabulated, summarized, and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 18. ANOVA analysis was used to analyze the data gathered. The data analysis reveals that there is no relationship between perception in mathematics across gender and ethnicity. It is recommended that future research employs bigger sampling for generalization purposes. In this way, results from this study may help to improve teachers’ teaching methods in mathematics as well as to enhance students’ academic performance in mathematics.
Influence of exercise and physical fitness toward student sleep quality
Authors: Ramadhani Andi Febrianty , Sadmita Salki , Ahsaniyah A. Besse
Published: June 2020

Sleep is one of human physiological need which naturally happen due to changes in consciousness with characterized by decrement in consciousness and response to stimuli. Exercise is organized, and planned tone movement aimed to increase the body functional ability to achieve specific purpose. The study aim was to determine the influence of physical fitness and exercise toward the SMA Negeri 2 Barru student ‘s sleep quality. The study was used pre experimental using pre-test and post-test group design. The study population was all grade X students in SMA Negeri 2 Barru aged between 15 years old and 16 years old which total of 71 students. The samples were 31 samples who volunteered to involve in this study. The respondents had followed four weeks physical fitness and exercise with three times per week with 15 minutes duration. The sleep quality was measured using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) on the pre-test and post-test. The result showed mean score on pre-test was 9.55±1.710 and post-test was 5.39±1.874. Meanwhile, statistical test showed p=0.001<0.05 which meant there was decreased global score on post-test. These results proved that there was influenced of physical fitness and exercise toward the student sleep quality after the post-test.
Influence of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation toward activities of daily living ability in post stroke patients
Authors: The Feronika Prabowo , Rusly Herdin , Darwis Atifa
Published: June 2020

The stroke is among one disease caused mortality in the worldwide. The stroke patients who have limitation in implementing activities of daily living which affected their independent. Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) method among one effective method used to increase activities of daily living in the stroke patients. The study aims to understand the influence of PNF exercise toward activities of daily living (ADL) among the stroke patients. The study was used quasi experimental research with pretest-posttest time series design. The study samples were 20 stroke patients and 12 times of PNF exercise was given to the stroke patients which met the inclusion criteria such as stroke patients (diagnosed by neurology doctor) with activities of daily living problem who had Barthel index score at least 62, attended physiotherapy for 12 times and willing to be respondents. The data was collected included activities of daily living level ability that measured using Barthel index. The result showed influence of PNF exercise toward activities of daily living ability among post stroke patients after received 6 times of PNF exercise (p=0.046) but 12 times of PNF exercises (p=0.001) gave optimum result. The study showed there was increment of activities of daily living ability in post stroke patients after received PNF exercise.
Influence of myofascial release technique toward changes in pain level among non-specific low back pain patients
Authors: Sawali Muhammad , Aras Djohan , Nurhikmawaty
Published: June 2020

Non-specific low back pain is a condition causes pain in the lower back that cannot be found in a specific disorder included mechanical pain, joint pain, postural pain, muscle strain, ligament sprain and muscle spasm. This study aims to determine the effect of myofascial release technique toward changes in pain level in non-specific low back pain patients. The study was used quasi-experimental design using time-series experimental design. The study population were all non-specific low back pain patients seeking treatment at Physiotherapy Poli of Bontang Hospital. The samples were 20 patients who met the inclusion criteria. The data was analysed using Wilcoxon test with SPSS program. The result showed that highest number of non-specific low back pain patients were aged ≥45 years old. The study also showed changes in pain level on post-test 1 and post-test2 was high than pre-test. The pain level before and after given Myofascial Release Technique showed significant changes with pre-post 1 and pre-test 2 = 0.000 with 95% confidence level. Based on Wilcoxon test with pre-post 1 and pre-post 2=0.000<0.05 had shown there was an effect of Myofascial Release Technique on changes in the pain level with nonspecific low back pain.
Relationship between primitive reflex values and gross motor abilities in children with spastic cerebral palsy
Authors: Ryani Daeng Tammi H , Noviana Mita , Nasaruddin Fitrah
Published: June 2020

Primitive reflexes are basically present in normal growth and these reflexes are background of gross motor development in the children. However, Cerebral palsy in the children had motor activity disruption. This study aims to determine the relationship between primitive reflex value and gross motor ability level in the children with spastic cerebral palsy. The study was used correlative research method with cross sectional design. The study population were children had spastic cerebral palsytipe who undergone therapy. The samples were 30 children who met the inclusion criteria such as children with spastic cerebral palsytipe who undergone therapy at Physiotherapy clinic, aged below than 8 years and willing to be respondents. The primitive reflex assessment used reflex value scale and gross motor skills is assessed based on Gross Motor Functional Classification System (GMFCS) level. The result found there was significant relationship between primitive reflexes and gross motor skills in 6 times of primitive reflexes such as ATNR (p=0.015), STNR (p=0.028), Moro (p=0.035), Neck righting (p=0.001), parachute (p=0.019) and foot placement reaction (p=0.015). Meanwhile, there was not significant relationship between extensor thrust and gross motor skills, p=0.164.
Comparison between myofascial release technique (MRT) and Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) toward pain level in non-specific neck pain patients
Authors: Malik Abdul , Rusly Herdin , Gondo Adi Ahmad
Published: June 2020

Non-specific neck pain is neck pain that does not spread to upper limbs, pain located in the neck of the occipital area to the back shoulders. Non-specific neck pain is caused by several factors such as incorrect posture, anxiety, stress and excessive movement. The rigid and pain in the neck muscles also occurs headaches and migraines. The study aims to determine myofascial release technique (MRT) and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) toward the pain level in the non-specific neck pain patients. The study was quasi experimental methods with one group pre-test and post-test design. The study was conducted in Anuntaloko Parigi Hospital on March until April 2017. The samples were 20 respondents who met the inclusion criteria. The result obtained different before and after intervention MRT was 23.2 with p=0.000. These results indicated significant decrease or change in the pain level. Meanwhile, independent t-test obtained the difference of probability before and after intervention was 0.286>0.05 which concluded there was no significant difference in the intervention MRT and TENS toward pain levels in the non-specific neck pain patients.
A Comparative Study between Commercially Available Type 1 Plywood and Plymer, a HDPE and Pineapple Leaves Composite
Authors: Ngo Joehanna K. , Arma Jamairra , Bautista Mae Nicholle , Reyes Zyrae Angelli , Sabio Jennica Bianca
Published: June 2020

Pineapple in the Philippines, with an annual production rate of more than 2 million tons, is ranked the third largest pineapple producing country in the world, with 172,000 acres dedicated to its production. Under this scenario, pineapple is a subtropical fruit with a considerably higher proportion of by-products consisting of peels, stems and leaves, leading to a high production of agricultural waste. In particular, pineapple leaves fiber as one of the most abundant by-products rich in cellulose. The researchers compared the properties and composition of commercially available type 1 plywood to a mixture of high density polyethylene plastic chips with dried pineapple leaves called Plymer. The ratio of the Plymer was 80 % HDPE and 20 % leaves. The series of tests carried out by DOST-FPRDI were screw removal, static bending and tensile strength. The researchers used the statistical tooltest to compare the results of the test. In conclusion, Plymer is the best option for static bending and tensile strength testing.
Application of Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach on Crop Rotation Practices in Organic Farms in Central Luzon and Calabarzon, Philippines
Authors: Ong Nestor R. , Castro Ma. Alyssa R , Osorio Patricia S , Tycangco Jeleen Gail D , Umali Anne Marianela F
Published: June 2020

The primary objective and purpose of agriculture is to sustain society. With this is mind, two farming concepts have emerged with different methods and systems in complying with the industry’s objective. Organic farming, the less practiced between the two, is more fitting to uphold the sustenance of society in a healthier and long term span. Crop rotation scheduling, the required method in organic farming has always been done manually with no established basis. The aim of this study is to maximize the efficiency of organic farming in the second and third highest agricultural land area in the Philippines. Thus, a decision making tool is utilized to be applied to simple crop rotation practices in the industry. This tool takes into consideration several variables in organic farming. Best-selling and top produce in the areas are used with the corresponding profit organic farms may obtain with planting them. Constraints are generally stated to fit a realistic situation in farms, neglecting too complex variables to maintain simplicity and uniformity. Generation of a crop rotation schedule has been successful, showing which crops to be planted, how many, and in what period to be planted in the span of twelve (12) months, including the fallow. However, we suggest that further study and tests must be conducted using more powerful and complex analytic tools with consideration of specific variables and constraints applicable to different settings to generate more accurate crop rotation schedules.
An Analysis On The Effects Of Social Media On Students’ Academic Performance: The Case Of Selected Students Of The Faculty Of Engineering Of The University Of Santo Tomas
Authors: Ngo Joehanna K , Del Rosario Hector Juan IV P , Pangan Dania Marie B , Villadelrey Mikaela Mae A
Published: June 2020

In today’s generation, social media has become known worldwide for its ability not just to connect people but to share stories of people. People are able to share pictures, videos, sentiments and happenings in their lives. It is most popular with the youth which uses different types of social media platforms every day. Students in particular have one or more social media platforms that they use for different reasons. Examples of these are: Facebook, Instagram, twitter, snapchat, YouTube and the like. It has been part of our daily lives and it affects the lives of most people today. This research aims to study the relationship of Social Media with the Academic Performance of the student of the Faculty of Engineering of University of Santo Tomas. The study will focus on what social media platforms are most used by the students and how these platforms are influencing their daily activities. It will also look into how much time the students spend on their social media platforms and the amount of time they spend on finishing their academic responsibilities. The data that will be used to determine the students” academic performance is their General Weighted Average (GWA).
A Secondary Data Analysis Examining Personal Narratives of Filipino Language Dominant 4:0-4:11Year Old Children in ECCD Monitored Day Care Centers in Metro Manila
Authors: Jacinto Paul William D. , Maximo Czarina Catherine B. , Aldeguer Camille Therese M. , Baleva Mary Angeline A. , Dy Kathleen R. , Guidote Lois Abigail A , Ortega Catherine May M. , Puno Riana A.
Published: June 2020

This study describes the parts of a narrative, structural pattern, narrative productivity (total number of words, total number of clauses, number of C-units), and mean length of C-units present on nineteen typically developing Filipino-Dominant 4 :0-4:11 year old children in ECCD-monitored day care centers in Metro Manila. Narrative samples were transcribed and then analyzed to identify narrative productivity, parts of narrative present and structural patterns presented by story theme and by all participants. The structural patterns have shown that children may already be in the transition phase from two-event to chronological narrative patterns, which is similar to the study of the personal narratives of 6-10-year-old African American children. Literature on Japanese and American children’s narratives showed similar results for the parts shown by the participants in this study, with an orientation-complicating action-resolution pattern. Among the participants, the average number of C-units produced was 8.13, the average number of words 34.11, the average number of clauses 7.73 and the average number of MLCUs 4.43. This study provided preliminary data on the personal narratives of Filipino children 4:0-4:11 years of age who may still be explored and further explored in future studies.
An Assessment of an Online Learning Program of Hospitality College in a Private University
Authors: Andalecio Avi Ben P. , Ferrera Erjohn Ivan V. , Martinez Mary Grace A. , Singayan Samantha Isabella A. , Tamag Gabriel Robert D.
Published: June 2020

The education sector had same demand for technology in thriving and evolve. e-Learning continues to thrive in technologically advanced educational setting. The hospitality education is no exception to this advancement. This study was conducted to address any issues that might hinder the program usage effectiveness. This study aimed to provide basis on the effectivity and applicability of eLearning Access Progrmam (eLeAP) usage in the service-oriented nature of the hospitality education setting. The two data gathering tools were utilized to provide data needed for this study. The survey questionnaires has been disseminated to Hotel and Restaurant Management students of different collegiate level and facilitators of different courses within HRM program. In this study, the qualitative aspect had utilized semi-structured interview guide for both student and facilitators. This study expound further on applicability of eLearning Access Program (eLeAP) in its technological nature in contrast to the service-orientation of hospitality industry.
Effect of Transforming Offline Purchasing of Tamil Books into Online Mobile
Authors: Ali Wan Nor Ashiqin Wan , Adnan Nor Syamimi Mohamed , Azahari Nur Azila , Annaturie Harshinipriyah , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

Tamil books are less accessible among Indian community due to its less demand. People less aware about Tamil books, thus MG Bookstore mobile application is developed to promote the MG Bookstore among people. Mobile application is the appropriate medium for online business in order to reach people and easily. MG Bookstore mobile application is developed for every age of people, but it is only applicable for Android users. In order to attract the buyers, researcher added free reading feature in the MG Bookstore mobile application, which is barely to find in other online business mobile application. Researcher designed and developed this MG Bookstore mobile application by using Buildfire software. Researcher runs the usability test by conducting interview and questionnaire. Researcher also seeks for media experts’ and content expert’s advices and suggestions to enhance the features of this mobile application. In conclusion, researcher concludes that MG Bookstore mobile application is applicable for everyone and helps the MG Bookstore to expand their business by reaching more people through it.
Promoting Salon Service Business through Interactive Video
Authors: Ali Wan Nor Ashiqin Wan , Katty Kok , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

Video is one of the medium to convey information to the audience. Interactive video is a new method that able to receive responses and instruction from its viewer rather than usual video. It will give the viewer a new experience to access it. Researcher has planned to create an interactive promotional video for SS Hair Design Salon. The main objective of this project is to develop interactive video as a medium to assist for SS Hair Design salon in promoting services and conduct the usability testing in measuring the effectiveness purposed interactive video for SS Hair Design salon in promoting services. The results of this project shows that the objective is achieved which the interactive element becomes a medium assist to promote the services of SS Hair Design Salon. The functionality and usability test had made a result that the interactive promote video for hair salon is effectiveness.
The Development of Augmented Reality Mobile Information System (ARMIS) influences the Psychological Factors in Consumers’ Preferences
Authors: Ismail Siti Nur Annisa , Ali Wan Nor Ashiqin Wan , Hashim Ameer Fuhaili , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed
Published: June 2020

Nowadays, the technologies had experienced massive changes. With the enhancement of technologies, enable devices, software as well as application to be synergised together and creating a new system. The synergised new system enables humankinds to have more productive live ahead in the future. Augmented Reality Mobile Information System (ARMIS) is a system developed using smart phone devices, web studio, mobile application and Quick Response (QR) Code; used to create an overlay image that able to portray the information of products. This system was developed due to the price checker in hypermarket giving out several problems towards the hypermarket customer & retailers, such as giving out a few information regarding towards the product, consuming more electric current, it hidden somewhere in the store and the linear barcode which holding less information. The crucial concept of ARMIS is development of QR Code, development of AR, development of mobile application and the implementation of ARMIS into smart phone devices. Using the model of Alessi Trollip, the product had undergone a few procedures in its development. The main objectives are to develop and introduce ARMIS and to test the ARMIS reliability whether it meets the need of the consumer. ARMIS system also had undergone the Alpha Test where the survey was done towards the The Store hypermarket’s customer in Kangar, Perlis, multimedia expert possesses Master or Ph.D and as well as the KPDNKK’s officer.
The Relationship between the Use of Social Media Technology and Healthy Life Style Practice among Undergraduate Students.
Authors: Muzaqeer Izzat , Ahmad Yasmin
Published: June 2020

This study was conducted to identify factors of social media use as a healthy lifestyle practice among Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) students’. This study used a quantitative approach. About 100 UniMAP students’ were involved in answering the research questionnaire. The results show that WhatsApp is the most commonly used by UniMAP students. The findings of this study shows that there is a significant relationship between interaction factors with healthy lifestyle practices among UniMAP students. The findings of this study also shows that there is a significant relationship between information factors with healthy lifestyle practices among UniMAP students. Based on the result in this study, its shows that social media is not only used for entertainment or social purposes but also for healthy lifestyle practice.
The Development of an Interactive Animation to Prevent Social Media Fraud
Authors: Lun Chu Wei , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed , Ali Wan Nor Ashiqin Wan , Ishak Noormaizatul Akmar , Mustafa Wan Azani , Jamlos Mohd Aminudin , Wahab Mohd Helmy Abd
Published: June 2020

Technology is the creation, invention, methods or systems of something new that has the purpose to overcome human’s limitation, so that the creation can help human to complete the task that they cannot do. However, the world is getting advanced day-by-day, and so do the online frauds, where it is getting more types due to the ease of these technologies. People would use these advanced technologies to scam others, especially through social media. Thus, the number of online scam seems to be rising, and it is an appropriate action that someone does to bring benefits only for themselves. This paper is about the development of an interactive animation to increase the awareness of social media frauds among people and ways to prevent it. Subsequently, we created an animation that can raise the awareness of social media fraud among people, and hence they can also learn effective ways to prevent social media fraud from happening.
A Study on Preparedness and Response of Oil Spill
Authors: Ishak Ismila Che , Ishak Nor Amira Liana , Ali Nazliah Mohd , Isha @Isa Ahmad Shahrul Nizam
Published: June 2020

This study determines the success of an action prepared at an oil terminal in Kemaman, Terengganu. The oil spill is defined as a liquid hydrocarbon release into a marine environment and mostly is caused by human activity which produces water pollution. The oil spill could occur due to the production of crude oil from shipbuilding, drilling rigs and spill from refined petroleum products. The oil spill could affect severe sea ecosystems, fish and rocks, causing environmental damage as well as affected human health and millions of dollars were spent on recovery and consume longer period to recover completely. In addition, the success rate of the oil spill is important which influences by results of the preparation and the response activity. This study analyzes three elements namely assets, human error, and response as the major contribution for the oil spill preparedness towards the oil spill response. 50 respondents from related government agencies such as marine department and environment department and team response members have participated in this research. The results show a strong positive relationship between preparedness and response at 0.857.
Performance Improvement of Reflectarray Antennas using Organic Substrate Materials
Authors: Ismail M Y , Malik H I , Mokhtar M H
Published: June 2020

An innovative approach to address the issue of narrow bandwidth in reflectarray antennas have been demonstrated using organic substrate materials. Three robust paper based substrate materials with controlled material composition have been proposed with efficient dielectric material properties. Material characterization results show low dielectric permittivity results of 1.81, 1.63 and 1.84 along with loss tangents of 0.053, 0.046 and 0.057. Moreover in order to overcome the problem of linear phase range Double C slot element configuration have been implemented on the proposed substrate materials. Scattering parameter measurements of the proposed design show promising bandwidths of 265, 326 and 242 MHz along with a phase ranges of 310°, 297° and 317° respectively.
Measurement of the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and the Process Improvement on Radiator Crimping Line
Authors: Hendri  , Kholil Muhammad , Hanum Bethriza , Hidayat Atep Afia
Published: June 2020

PT SS.Tbk is a producer of several high-quality automotive components that have a market share in the country and abroad. One of the products is Radiator. The study was conducted on the crimping line because this line still has many obstacles in production. One of them is low production capacity and is not in accordance with machine standards. OEE Method is a calculation of several elements, namely Availability, Performance Efficiency, and Rate of Quality Products. The beginning of the research is to find supporting data to calculate the three elements. From the available data and through the calculation phase can produce 99% availability, performance of 50.9%, and quality rate of 99.68%. From the results of the three elements, the OEE value can be determined by multiplying the three elements and the result is 49.23%. From these results it can be seen that the element that must be improved is performance by increasing production capacity. After doing research, the main problem is the handling and movement of operators that require a long time. This can be determined by comparing the processing time of the machine with the handling or movement of the operator. From the available data can be generated for the process of the engine its capacity is able to produce 193.54 pcs per hour, while the calculation of handling and movement of the operator generated 47.26 pcs per radiator. From this it can be planned several improvements to minimize handling and movement of the operator, namely the first, by approaching the crimping machine and radiator forming components and the second, by making conveyors for radiator components.
Study of Pivot Panel Mechanism on the Self Start-Ability of a Darrieus Wind Turbine
Authors: Seng Cheong Thean , Misaran Mohd Suffian , Wan Ibrahim Mohd Kamel
Published: June 2020

In South East Asia countries such Malaysia, wind turbine is generally not suitable to be used in large scale to generate electricity due to inconsistent wind speed and suitable land site availability. However, a small scale application is of preference as the wind speed in the region lies within the low speed range of approximately 2-5 ms−1with intermittent highs up to 8 ms−1. The performance of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) is known to be better compared to Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs) in urban conditions due to its omnidirectionality, which allows it to operate in fluctuating turbulent wind conditions. However, the major drawback of VAWTs is the inability to self-start under low wind speed conditions. Hence, the objective of this work is to investigate the Pivoting Panel Mechanism (PPM) which aims to assist VAWT models to self-start at low wind speed condition. Three sets of PPM width configurations (70mm, 80mm, 90mm) are used to study the effect of increasing the pivot panel surface area on the VAWT performance. Performance test showed that the PPM model improved the power coefficient values at the tip wind speed range of TSR<0.75 (PPM 70mm>80mm>90mm). Further investigation revealed that the larger PPM surface area (90mm) was able to assist the VAWT model to achieve a shorter RPM response time at wind speed of v = 2.5ms−1and 2.9ms−1. These findings have considerable implications for future researches for the optimization of PPM design parameters and its adaptations in VAWT turbine design.
Mimo Antenna for LTE Advance Application
Authors: Jamlos Mohd Aminudin , Mustafa Wan Azani , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed , Husna Hafizatul
Published: June 2020

In this paper, the MIMO antenna design for LTE Advance Application is realized. The paper focused on designing high gain MIMO antenna for LTE Advance Application. The purpose of designing a MIMO antenna is to fix the problem of low/moderate gain of SISO antenna since to have higher gain in LTE Advance normally is by having array antenna which lead to larger antenna and higher cost and mutual coupling between MIMO before can cause loss of spectral efficiency and degrade performance of a MIMO system. The designed antenna used FR-4 board as the substrate material due to its good parameters for most application. It is also more available and much cheaper than any other PCB material. Meanwhile, copper has been chosen as conductive material which copper is high relative and also cheap. For the designing stage, Advance Design System (ADS) software has been used to design the antenna. The ADS software also has been used for the simulation of the designed antenna in terms of return loss (S11) and (S22), mutual coupling (S12) and (S21), gain, directivity, radiation pattern, power radiated and also impedance matching. For the measurement stage, the fabricated antenna has been using by Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). From this project, it can be seen that the measurement results were slightly different from the simulation results due to a few factors such as cable losses, and also soldering technique. However, the designed antenna still met the requirement of efficiency which is less than -10 dB of return loss and get at a frequency of 2.5 GHz.
Overview of Segmentation X-Ray Medical Images Using Image Processing Technique
Authors: Mustafa Wan Azani , Salleh Nurshahira Mohd , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed , Jamlos Mohd Aminudin , Rohani Mohamad Nur Khairul Hafizi
Published: June 2020

Image processing techniques have been used in a wide variety of applications nowadays to enhance the quality of raw image data. Today, image segmentation or detection of x-tray medical imaging is very popular and challenges task in order to improve the diagnosis and analysis result. An x-ray image is one of the oldest photographic films that is mostly used in medical diagnosis and treatment. An x-ray image is a very useful modality for the physicians and doctors to determine and analyze the bone fracture, which is an important symptom used for diagnosis, but x-ray produces an only medium quality image, which will normally affect the information of the image. This article provides a review study of the medical image segmentation. Based on this study, the advantages and drawback each method clearly explained. This article presents an exhaustive review of these studies and suggests a direction for future developments in order to propose segmentation methods.
Smart Home with Biometric System Recognition
Authors: Noh Nor Syazwani Md , Jaafar Haryati , Mustafa Wan Azani , Idrus Syed Zulkarnain Syed , Mazelan A. H.
Published: June 2020

In the last decade, smart homes have become applicable and widely developed where all the electronic devices and household appliances are controlled from a centralized control unit. However, the rise of misuses such as the security aspect and interoperability mechanism is proving them to be less reliable. Moreover, the traditional home automation system is complex, expensive and they are inconvenient for the aging population or disable persons. Besides, most smart home technologies forcing users to use their hands in order to control electronic devices. Therefore, the smart home with biometric system recognition is proposed to increase security, efficiency and decrease manual labor effort. This project used biometric of the human voice as an input command. The scope of this project is only focused on fan and lamp as an output of home appliances. The proposed system is divided into two main parts which are speech recognition (software development) and electrical home appliance control system (hardware development). In the speech recognition, the process contains two main modules which are feature extraction and pattern matching. Meanwhile, in hardware development, the microcontroller board is used to process the home appliance system such that the system can be operated automatically. It is expected that this project allows the user to conveniently control the home appliances by using voice. The experiment shows that the highest performance of the system achieves an accuracy of 83.25% with the number of k, training, and testing is 1, 20, and 40 respectively.
The Study of Pertaining to Sujud Postures in Muslim Prayer Based on the Hadiths and EMG Analysis
Authors: Harun H. , Mohd Nasir N.F. , Salleh A.F. , Mustafa W.A. , Cheng E.M , Syed Idrus S. Z.
Published: June 2020

Sujud (prostration) is one of the main pillars of a Muslim’s prayer. It involves seven limbs as derived from the sayings or the acts of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) or the hadiths. However, the correct way in pertaining to sujud has received different opinions from Muslim scholars. The differences are based on the hadiths and there are two different ways of acts interpreted by Muslim scholars which are: preceding by hands or preceding by knees. Thus, this study investigated the differences in terms of statistical analysis using electromyography signals (EMG) of the lower limbs muscles, specifically the Gastrocnemius and Tibialis Anterior Muscles. Here, it was shown that there was no significant difference between the muscles on these postures of solat, although there are different opinions on the way of pertaining to sujud based on the authenticity of the hadiths and also their interpretation by the scholars.
An Improvement of Plasma Cleaning Time towards Leadframe Oxidation Performance
Authors: Amri MS , Rashid Wan Norhisyam Abd , Harun Fuaida , Kadmin A.F , Basar M.F. , Rahman K.A, A.
Published: June 2020

Package delamination causing the tendency to absorb humidity which lead to device failure towards Integrated Circuit (IC) packaging[1]. Most of the screened unit being analyzed and results showed failure due to popcorn effect. Popcorn effect caused by moisture penetration effecting the packaging to expend causing delamination and cracking during high temperature application. In this paper, delamination had been filtered from Scanning Acoustic Microscope (SAM) towards the failure units and once package encapsulation had been done the root cause being identified as leadframe oxidation problem. The leadframe oxidation can be easily observed during wire bonding and oven curing process since it involved with high temperature process which the indication showed leadframe discolouration appearance. The aim of this work is to evaluate plasma parameter to achieve delamination free product by assessing the plasma cleaning time. Additional plasma cleaning before molding process had been identified as a solution towards free leadframe oxidation process which leads to zero delamination issue for package that using Copper leadframe. Higher plasma cleaning time produced significantly lower leadframe oxidation issue however the Unit Per Hour (UPH) will be effected.
HECTORSLAM 2D MAPPING FOR SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING (SLAM)
Authors: Saat Shahrizal , Abd Rashid WN , Tumari MZM , Saealal MS
Published: June 2020

This paper presents an application of LiDAR sensor for 2D mapping construction in an unkwown environments and capability to localize its own location based on landmark detected. Previously, there are various research actively conducted by others researchers for SLAM application. In general, it can be categorized based on three different type of sensor measurement and technique such as Vision based SLAM, RGB-D based SLAM and also Laser based SLAM. The main focus in this project is to present an experiment result conducted of a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) application based on laser sensor which is LiDAR in term of capability of mapping construction and localization it self. LiDAR sensor is put on the vehicle that will operate in real-world environments and computational processing done by using Robotic Operating System (ROS). This project is tested and verified in a curtain room with several parameter by using Robot Operating System (ROS). SLAM was implemented to provide localization estimates in environments, where there are static landmarks that are only rarely recognized by the vehicle or robot. This project also consider the features that enter and leave the environment as temporary landmarks that can be used in combination with the rarely seen static landmarks. As conclusion, performance of SLAM by using LiDAR sensor can be apply for several robotic system such as flight control, obstacle avoidance, navigation and other function in the future application.
Development of Folktales Digital Story Module as Basic Literacy Learning for Indigenous Children in Rural Preschool
Authors: Rahman Mohd Nazri Abdul , Ghani Rosmah Abd , Jamaluddin Khairul Azhar , Lah Hazlina Awang , Mahmood Anis Salwani , Sulaiman Ismail , Mustafa Wan Azani
Published: June 2020

Folktales Digital Story Module is a potential teaching and learning tool to develop basic literacy skills for indigenous children. This is because this module introduces the fundamental of creative story-practices and traditions of indigenous people. Therefore, this study aims at identifying the suitability of folktales Digital Story Module as Basic Literacy Learning for indigenous children. The study employed Fuzzy Delphi approach in identifying the suitability of folktales in the module as a teaching and learning tool for the indigenous children. Data were collected from 20 experts from various fields including early childhood education, language and literacy, nursery teachers, lecturers in Kadazan-Dusun language and also education for indigenous people. The findings indicated that folktales are suitable to be developed and integrated in the module for indigenous people specifically to meet the needs of children with learning problems and LINUS. Therefore, the researchers recommended the implementation of Folktales Digital Story Module as Basic Literacy Learning among children of indigenous people to be extended to other indigenous tribes such as the Iban, Bajau, Bidayuh, and other ethnic groups in Malaysia.
Early Childhood Degree Students as Digital Software Designers Based on 21st-Century Learning Skills
Authors: Ghani Rosmah Abd , Lah Hazlina Awang , Mat Roshidah , Rahman Mohd Nazri Abdul , Sulaiman Ismail , Mustafa Wan Azani
Published: June 2020

This study is an early analysis of the ability of IPGKSM’s early childhood education PPISMP educator to become a multimedia courseware designer. The student’s ability was tested only through digital material production workshops over a limited period of time. Analysis of these findings is divided into three important stages; an early perspective of multimedia technology learning, basic technology learning (digital image manipulation), advanced multimedia technology learning (interactive interface design and visual programming). 6C Skills is a skill that is included in the skills needed in 21st-century learning skills. Two 6C skills tested in this study are creativity and critical thinking. The findings show that educators are capable of designing multimedia software if given space and opportunity.