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    Identifying The Components And Factors Of Graduate’s Employability: The Perspectives Of Policymakers, University Administrators, Undergraduates And Employers In Penang
    (2023-09)
    Hao, Moo Keng
    There numerous of study about employability has been conducted by researchers from different discipline previously. However, the research that conducted did not touch on all four stakeholders that this study looks into. Beside that, the unemployment rate of Malaysia is having the trend of increase yearly, and effort that taken are not uniform. Therefore, this study explored the concept of employability by unpacking this from the perspectives of policymakers, university administrators, employers and undergraduates. Policymakers, university administrators representatives, employer representatives and undergraduate representatives were recruited as participants in this study. These respondents were selected because they are the ones who produce the direct impact and direct beneficiary of employability. Data for policymakers was collected through the policymaker who is from the Ministry of Higher Education, whereas the university representatives are from a public research university in Penang and an international college in Penang. While for employers, the chosen employers' representatives are those who are involved directly in the recruitment process of that particular company. Lastly, student representatives are the students who are still studying at the public research university and the international college in Penang. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured interviews as instruments. Results showed that employability is a process, and it has four characteristics which are job suitability, ability to be employed, readiness of employment and job sustainability. The study also found that employability skill can be interpreted in both the short-run and long-run. Skill-based employability and knowledge-based employability primarily contribute to short-term employability, while competence-based employability and capability-based employability, along with the other two employability types, contribute to long-term employability for graduates.
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    A Study On Academic Staff’s Perceptions Of Internationalisation Of The Curriculum In University Of Technology And Applied Science, Salalah
    (2023-08)
    Kathiri, Ali Mohammed Fael Hubais Al
    The internationalisation of the curriculum (IoC) has been a significant trend in higher education across the globe. However, there is a dearth of empirical studies on this area of research in the Arab countries, including the Omani higher education context. Thus, this study was conducted to explore academic staff’s perceptions of curriculum internationalisation at: institutional, departmental and course levels at University of Technology and Applied Science (UTAS-Salalah), Salalah, Oman. Additionally, the study investigated how academic staff’s perceptions of curriculum internationalisation differ according to their years of experience in higher education, years of experience at UTAS-Salalah, and departments. The study also tried to explore academic staff’s perceptions of the three core levels of curriculum internationalisation (awareness, competence, and expertise) at UTAS-Salalah and identify challenges that academic staff encounter in the internationalisation of the curriculum at UTAS-Salalah. The two-phased explanatory sequential mixed-methods design was utilized to answer five research questions addressed by the study. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. While the quantitative data were collected using an adapted questionnaire, the qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The samples of the study included 267 academic lecturers in the quantitative phase and nine academic staff for the semi-structured interviews. The quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA in SPSS, whereas the qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis
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    Factors Influencing Esp Learners’ Behavioural Intention Towards The Use Of Edmodo At A Malaysian Public University
    (2022-09)
    Muniandy, Jayanthi
    Edmodo, a social learning network site has been acknowledged for its potential in enhancing learners’ language skills and online discussions. Nevertheless, studies on the intention to use Edmodo as a platform for a virtual learning community among ESP learners are still in dearth. The concept of a virtual learning community has emerged as an avenue to unite learners through an online learning platform although they are separated by physical distance. In the field of technology acceptance in education, studies have measured the acceptance of Edmodo through technology acceptance factors but have neglected the educational factors. Therefore, the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) that consists of technology acceptance factors such as performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating condition was expanded by incorporating an educational factor, namely virtual community of practice (VCoP) to determine factors influencing ESP learners’ behavioural intention in using Edmodo as a platform for a virtual learning community. In addition, ESP learners’ individual differences such as gender, fields of study, and proficiency level were integrated as the moderating effects. The study was carried out by disseminating a questionnaire survey to 200 ESP learners and conducting focus group interviews with 16 learners
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    Enhanced Technique For Maximizing Wireless Sensor Networks Lifetime Based On Utilizing The Phenomena Of Overlapping Nodes And Data Transmission Mohammed
    (Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2018-09)
    Abdel Lateif Al-Shalabi
    Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have attracted the attention of the researchers in the last few decades due to their involvement in many applications such as monitoring environment, fire tracking, and health care monitoring. In WSN, sensor nodes are deployed on the target area to sense the required events. The deployment of nodes can be formal (in specific locations) or random (in random locations). In the WSN that uses the random deployment of nodes, one of the common problems, when the sensors are close to each other, is the overlapping between them. This overlapping causes sensing approximately the same data by different nodes and also the transmission of duplicate data to the Cluster Head (CH), which leads to more energy consumption. Another problem in WSNs is the direct transmission of data from a CH to the Base Station (BS), which also negatively influences the overall network lifetime. Moreover, the random selection of the CHs leads to select nodes with low energy to be CHs which reduces the network lifetime. This thesis intends to solve the overlapping between nodes and the direct data transmission using different mechanisms. In this thesis, a mechanism is proposed to prolong the network lifetime by reducing the negative effect of the overlapping problem and utilizing the overlapping nodes to maximize the efficiency of the network in terms of network lifetime and energy consumption. This mechanism considers the distance between nodes in an efficient way in order to identify the overlapping between them based on the nature of the application with considering the blind area of the overlapping nodes. Moreover, the alternating sensing process should be applied on the overlapping nodes in an efficient way to maximize their lifetime. In addition, the critical cases such as the overlapping among more than two nodes and the dealing with the overlapping nodes when one of them dies are to be taken into consideration. Other mechanisms are proposed to prolong the network lifetime by solving the problem of the direct data transmission from the CHs to the BS, and by solving the randomness in the CHs selection. These mechanisms adapt the Genetic Algorithm (GA) as an optimization technique to find the optimal multi-hop path from a source CH to the BS. A pre-processing technique is implemented to enhance the GA and to increase the efficiency of it. Furthermore, suitable parameters are proposed to formulate the fitness function. These processes maximize the network lifetime by reducing the consumed power in the CHs. The experimental results using the simulated data show that the proposed technique improves the overall performance of a network in terms of the network lifetime by increasing the number of rounds by approximately 2709 rounds in average (with approximately 180.3%) compared to several related protocols, and in terms of the number of transmitted packets to the BS by increasing the total number of these packets by approximately 6821 packets in average (with approximately 77.5%) compared to several related protocols.
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    Peranan pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) dalam membangunkan Kuala Lumpur sebagai ideopolis.
    (Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2011-07)
    Idris, Nur Rafidah Asyikin
    Ideopolis atau bandar raya intensif pengetahuan merupakan entiti baru bandar dalam era ekonomi dipacu pengetahuan. Ideopolis ini semakin berkembang luas di negara maju. Secara kasar Kuala Lumpur dilihat berpotensi sebagai ideopolis. Tambahan pula, peranan penting Greater Kuala Lumpur di peringkat nasional dan antarabangsa telah diperkenalkan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Kesepuluh (RMKe-10). Ideopolis or knowledge intensive city is a new urban entity in an economic era driven by knowledge. In the developed countries, ideoplolis are ever expanding.. Broadly speaking, Kuala Lumpur is perceived as having potentials as an ideopolis. . Furthermore, the important role of Greater Kuala Lumpur (Greater KL) at the national and international level was introduced in the Tenth Malaysia Plan, 2011-2015 (RMKe-10).