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- PublicationA Study On The Motivational Factors Of Employee Performancein The Furniture Industry In Ganzhou, China: The Mediating Role Of Employee Engagement(2025-07)This study aims to explore the impact of motivational factors (compensation, work environment, job autonomy, and supervisory support) on employee engagement and employee performance (task performance, innovation performance) among furniture designers in Ganzhou, China, with a particular emphasis on the mediating role of employee engagement. Prior research has largely overlooked motivational mechanisms and performance enhancement among Chinese furniture designers, this study aims to address this gap by providing empirical evidence.
- PublicationInvestigation On The Potential Of Artocarpus Altilis Latex As Protein –Based Wound Healing Agent(2025-07)Research on plant latex has been done extensively to evaluate its potential in wound healing. Artocarpus altilis (Breadfruit) is one of the plant species with medicinal properties such as diarrhoea, stomach aches, ear infections, fungal infections, injured eyes broken bone and wound. This study was done to evaluate the potential of breadfruit’s latex in wound healing through protein profiling and in-vitro studies. The breadfruit was collected from Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
- PublicationTrajectory Prediction And Near Miss Detection Using Social Distancing Monitoring And Distance Based Proximal Indicators(2025-07)Despite efforts to improve road safety, accidents persist due to insufficient evidence from manual police reporting, non-optimized detection algorithms, and technical limitations in real-time video processing and modelling. This study focuses on detecting and tracking vehicles within a monitoring system and analysing near-miss incidents (black spot and blind spot), specifically examining the influence of video quality on detection performance using advanced model detectors (YOLOv3-tiny, YOLOv4-tiny, YOLOv5, YOLOv7, YOLOv7+G3HN, YOLOv7+CNeB, and Faster RCNN). The experiment employed methods for vehicle detection and trajectory prediction through the monitoring system.
- PublicationThe Relationships Between Learning Outcomes, Project-Based Learning, Assessment Strategies And Graduate Competence In Public Higher Vocational Education In China(2025-07)Bridging the skills gap between labour market demands and graduate preparedness is vital for the sustainable development of China’s Higher Vocational Education. Outcome-Based Education (OBE) has emerged as a promising approach, yet empirical evidence remains limited on how its core components contribute to competence development in specialised programs such as Cross-Border E-Commerce (CBEC). This study examines the relationships among intended learning outcomes, project-based learning, and assessment strategies, and their individual and combined effects on graduate competence in public higher vocational colleges (PHVCs) in China.
- PublicationThe Effectiveness Of Dtb Speaking Module On English-Speaking Competence, Collaboration Skills, And Creativity Among Chinese Art Major Undergraduates(2025-07)This study aims to address the inadequate English-speaking competence (ESC), collaboration skills, and creativity among Chinese Art Major Undergraduates (AMUs) by developing a drama-technique-based (DTB) speaking module to examine whether there is any significant difference in the mean scores of ESC post-tests, collaboration skills post-questionnaires, and creativity post-tests between the experimental and control groups.
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- ItemDoes better performance associate with managing more Unit Trust Fund?(2007)This research has carried out to analyze the performance of Malaysian unit trust funds for the long-term periods. The period chosen for this research was from January 1990 to December 2001. The NAV values were obtained from 'The Star' and 'The Sun'· newspapers, published on monthly basis. The main objective of this study is to explore further on the unit trust performance and also whether the managing companies that managed more than one fund assures better returns to the investors. The KLCI and KLIBOR rate was used as market benchmark in this research. The study conducted by using regression test, correlation, one-way ANOVA and also Kruskal-Wallis for the different performance measurement on unit trust funds in Malaysia. Overall the results explained were not significant on number of fund managing companies with the performance of the unit trust fund. The test on risk, size and age were also not significant because it also didn't influence on the number of fund managing companies. There is no evidence showing that the performance of the unit trust companies is outperformed the market.
- PublicationAnthropometric profiling of state level sepak takraw players(2016-06)INTRODUCTION: Data of anthropometric measurement are important for talent identification and developmental program. To date, the profile of anthropometric components among state level sepak tak.raw players have been scarce. Thus, this study was carried out to provide data on anthropometric components of sepak tak.raw players for age under 15 and 18 year old especially at the state (developmental) level. PURPOSE: This study was carried out to access the anthropometric profile and body type of state level sepak tak.raw players. METHOD: Fifty four males participants (n = 54) participated in this study, who originated from Penang (n = 30) and Kelantan (n = 24 ). All participants were currently playing at state level and age ranging from 13 to 18 years old. The participants were measured for their standing and sitting height, weight, skinfold measurement (i .e. 8 sites skinfold), girth (i.e. calf and arm flexed with tensed) and breadth (i.e. humerus and femur) . RESULT: The result represented the participants' anthropometric data of the standing height, body weight, sitting height, percentage of body fat and somatotype value. The tallest between all three positions in under 15 category was server 165.57 ± 9.05 em. Under 18 category, the tallest player was the killer 168.31 ± 5.94 em. The total mean of BMI for all three positions for under 15 category was 19.43 ± 2.70 kgm-2 and 21.40 ± 2.45 kgm-2 for under 18 category respectively. The highest measure for sitting height between all three positions in under 15 and under 18 category was the server (85.56 ± 4.83 em) and (87.64 ± 3.02 em). The highest mean percentage of body fat for under 15 category was the server (6.53 ± 3.15 %) while the lowest value was the killer (4.45 ± 1.54 %). Meanwhile, the highest mean percentage of body fat for under 18 category players was the server (6.52 ± 3.51 %). Then, the lowest value was the killer (5 .15 ± 3.14 %). Finally, for somatotype, the total mean of somatotype value for players under 15 category was 2.3-4.4-3.2 which is refer to as ectomorphic-mesomorph category. In addition, the total mean of somatotype value for players under 18 category was 2.2-5-2 .8 which is refer to as ectomorphicmesomorph category. CONCLUSION: The measurement of the anthropometric and somatotype value of state level sepak takraw players showed different body physique and body composition among all three positions. Since there were limited data in previous study, thus, results of this study will provide new information and contribute to the athletes ' performance and selection of athletes in sepak takraw.
- PublicationApplication Of Two-Stage Game Cross- Efficiency Approach To Primary Health Care In Nigeria(2023-04)This study aims to analyse the performance of primary health care (PHC) in Nigeria by using two states (Benue and Lagos) as case studies and the game theory-based data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique is introduced. Game theory helps to uncover the dominant (leader) stage of an unobservable two-stage decision making unit (DMU) in the absence of prior knowledge.
- ItemPendekatan sistematik dalam rekabentuk sistem· perkhidmatan bangunan: kajian kes terhadap sistem perkhidmatan lif di Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak (KOMTAR)(1995-04)Pembangunan yang pesat di Malaysia teJah membawa kepada pembinaan bangunan tinggi. Bangunan tertinggi yang sedang dibina di negara ini ialah bangunan Petronas, iaitu Kuala Lumpur City Centre. Memandangk'm bangunan tinggi scperti ini begitu kompleks dari segi menyediakan sistem perkhidmatan, maka adalah perlu pemilihan terhadap sistern perkhidrnatan bangunan dibuat dengan cara sistematik. Berdasarkan hakikat ini, kajian ini dibuat untuk melihat pendekatan-pendekatan sisternatik yang digunakan dalam rnenghasilkan rekabentuk sistem perkhidmatan yang baik. Di dalam bah 1, dibincangkan bagaimana kajian ini dibuat daripada peringkat awal sekali hingga ke tahap penyerahan manuskrip akhir. Turut · dibincangkan bagaimana pemilihan tajuk ini dibuat. Sebelum kita membuat pemilihan sistem perkhidmatan yang hendak dipasang di c sesebuah bangunan, kita perlu ada mekanisma untuk membuat keputusan yang terbaik. Sebaik-baiknya mekanisma ini melalui proses yang sistematik. Olch itu di dalam bab 2 dibincangkan dasar-dasar rekabentuk sistcm perkhidmatan bangunan. Rasionalnya pcmiJihan yang tcrbaik dinibi deng:m angka-angka a tau statistik tertentu. Di. dalam bab . ini juga diperturunkan konsep-konsep tersebut. SeJain itu ia memhincangkan sistern perkhidmatan dati segi kos. Bangunan KOMT AR dijadikan bahan kes dalam kajian ini. Bagaimanapun kita hanya akan menilai sistem perkhidmatan lifnya sahaja. Sebelum kita kaji seterusnya, adalah clok jika sekiranya kita tabu masalah-masalah dan isu-isu penting dengan sistem lif. Bab 3 akan membincangkan perkara ini. Di dalam bab 4, kita akan menyoroti sejarah perkembangan Iif daripada sistem yang paling ringkas pada waktu sehingga sistem yang semakin kompleks kini. Tujuannya untuk memberi gambaran bagaimana rekabentuk lif itu sendiri berkembang dari masa ke semasa. Dengan ini diharapkan kajian ini lebih menyeluruh. Apa yang penting bagi sesebuah bangunan tinggi ialah perkhidmatan lif yang cekap dan efektif. Oleh itu kita akan memastikan pilihan kita terhadap sistem lif adalah terbaik. Faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi pemilihan sistem lif ini dibincangkan dalam bah 5. Bagi menghasilkan rekabentuk yang praktikal, analisis lalulintas seharusnya dapat dilakukan dengan lebih sistematik. Jadi di dalam bab 6 kita akan membincangkan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi rekabentuk sistem perkhidmatan lit: Begitu juga :~· ..' t dengan aspek perancangan yang akan dibincangkan dalam bab 7. Seterusnya di dalam bab 8, kita akan membincangkan penemuan-penemuan di dalam sistem perkhidmatan lif di KOMTAR. Aspek-nspek yang dibincangkan termasuklah rekabentuk dan ciri-ciri sistemnya, mekanisma kawalan dan operasinya yang kesemuanya menjurus kepada perkara-perkara yang telah dilihat dalam bab-bab lalu. Setelah kajian dan penelitian dibuat terhadap sistem perkhidmatan lif maka segala rumusan-rumusan dan perbandingan-perbandingan dibincangkan di dalam bah 9. Akhir sekali, bah 10 akan memberikan kesimpulan yang menekankan bahawa pendekatan yang sistematik amat perlu dalam rekabentuk sistem perkhidmatan bangunan.
- PublicationThe Effectiveness Of Using Ground And Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Uav)-Based Bird Deterrent Methods In Industrial Setting(2025-04)Controlling pest birds in large industrial areas presents greater challenges compared to smaller residential settings due to the scale, complexity, and persistent bird activity. This study evaluated the effectiveness of 14 ground-based bird deterrent methods and various unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) in deterring common pest bird species such as barn swallow (hirundo rustica) and asian glossy starling (aplonis panayensis) from perching at a large semiconductor factory. The ground-based deterrents were generally categorized as auditory, visual and chemical deterrents. Testing various ground-based bird deterrent and uavs was necessary due to differences in species-specific responses, potential habituation to single deterrents, and the environmental complexity of industrial areas, where birds exploit numerous roosting sites. Industrial zones, like semiconductor factories, are particularly vulnerable due to large, sheltered infrastructure that attracts persistent bird populations, creating operational, health, and safety risks. Results showed that none of the ground-based methods were effective in deterring pest birds over a 4-day period. However, multirotor and predator-design uavs were effective in dispersing asian glossy starling flocks during active operation times, though birds often relocated to nearby areas.