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Design of a Plane Figure Mathematics Education Game for Class IV Students Based on Android
Get PDFMathematics is a branch of knowledge related to developing abstract concepts, structures, and relationships in the form of numbers, symbols, and patterns. The issue some students still have trouble recalling formulas, doing division in one of the flat shape materials, and doing multiplication using the formula for the perimeter and area of flat shapes. This research discusses the design of educational games to help fourth-grade students learn flat-shape mathematics. Interviews were conducted with class IV teachers at SDN Sirnajaya Five in conveying material to students; they did not use learning media or visual aids. The problem that often arises is that some students still need help learning flat-shape mathematics. This research aims to build a flat-shape math educational game application for fourth-grade students so that these students can quickly understand the basics of flat-shape material, the definition of flat shapes, formulas, and the properties of flat shapes. The method used is the Multimedia Development Life Cycle (MDLC), a pattern for developing software systems consisting of Concept, Design, Material Collecting, Assembly, Testing, and Distribution stages, which form a workflow for planning and controlling the design of Educational Game applications. This research results in an Android-based flat-shape mathematics educational game application
Citrus Tree Nutrient Deficiency Classification: A Comparative Study of ANN and SVM Using Colour-Texture Features in Leaf Images
Get PDFNutrient deficiency in Citrus reticulata (mandarin orange) plants causes reduced plant resistance against diseases and pests. This research presents a combined approach to identify nutrient deficiencies in Citrus Reticulata var. Fremont leaves using image processing and machine learning techniques. This study uses leaf images to accurately and efficiently detect nutrient deficiencies in mandarin orange plants. The image data is divided into four classes: normal, N-minus, P-minus, and K-minus. The file sizes are compressed using a lossless compression method, resulting in an average file size reduction of 96.99%. Subsequently, the images undergo contrast stretching to improve their quality. Parameters such as Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) are measured. The maximum PSNR is 35.801412680386456, and the minimum PSNR is 14.011790825259139, with a good range of 25-30 dB for PSNR. The SSIM scores after compression and contrast stretching are 0.9734938845160109 (maximum) and 0.8860099106663607 (minimum), which fall within the good range of 0.8-0.9. The second stage involves applying segmentation processes to the images using the Canny and Sauvola methods. Canny effectively identifies sharp and clear edges, while Sauvola retains image details, making it more suitable for texture and colour feature extraction. The third stage involves extracting colour and texture features from the images. Colour feature extraction is done using the H (Hue), S (Saturation), and V (Value) colour space. Texture feature extraction utilises the Grey-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) method. The feature values will be used for the classification process in the next stage. The fourth stage involves the classification process based on the segmentation results using the Canny and Sauvola methods, performed separately using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) methods. These process results in four datasets: Canny-ANN, Canny-SVM, Sauvola-ANN, and Sauvola-SVM. The highest accuracy is achieved by the Sauvola-ANN method, with a value of 93.75%
The UTAUT Model Explaining Intentions to Use Telemedicine Among Thai People During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study in Krabi, Thailand
Get PDFThis study aims to explain the influence of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model on individuals’ intentions to use telemedicine among people in Krabi, Thailand, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The qualitative approach was used as a research strategy. In-depth interviews were conducted with six key informants to determine the intention to use telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic related to the UTAUT model in Krabi, Thailand. Thematic analysis and NVivo were employed to analyse the qualitative data. Telemedicine is an essential technology for remote or online consultations between healthcare providers and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the four key dimensions of the UTAUT model (performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions) impact individuals’ intentions to use telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic in Krabi, Thailand. Telehealth is an important tool for providing remote healthcare, and its popularity has grown during the COVID-19 pandemic. The UTAUT model adoption is critical as it is related to individuals' intention to use telemedicine. Healthcare providers and directors should consider the UTAUT model adoption in telemedicine technology because it is related to individuals' intention to use telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
This study added to the existing literature on the UTAUT model (performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions) to explain telemedicine and intentions to use telemedicine. Hence, this study's findings may aid academics in broadening their research by incorporating more potential elements. The study's findings may benefit healthcare providers and directors in developing and implementing a strategy to meet the needs and expectations of individuals or patients using telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Communicating Sustainable Brand Equity in a High Carbon Footprint and High-Risk Sector: Comparing Malaysia and Indonesia Oil and Gas Industry
Get PDFThe oil and gas industry is classified as a high carbon footprint and high-risk sector from the sustainable development perspective. Its operational activities risk potential threats to the environment and the local community. Globally, there are multiple cases of local community discontent towards oil and gas operations in their area. Consequently, the oil and gas industry shifted into corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to indicate their dedication to sustainability. Studies have been conducted to investigate the impact of CSR activities on the oil industry. However, there is still limited research looking into sustainable brand positioning, which might be affected by the execution of multiple CSR programs by the industry. Looking into the oil and gas industry in Malaysia and Indonesia, this study compared the industry’s sustainable brand positioning amongst the local community. By adopting Aakker’s brand equity model, this study investigated the effect of sustainable brand awareness, the perceived quality of sustainable initiatives, brand association, and brand loyalty on sustainable initiatives towards sustainable brand equity. There are 448 respondents involved from both Malaysia and Indonesia. Using PLS-MGA, this study identified that brand loyalty on sustainable initiatives and brand association are significant predictors of sustainable brand equity. Findings from this study also indicate that no group (i.e., Indonesia and Malaysia) is significantly larger than one other in the path coefficient score. However, using an independent sample t-test, the study indicates that the oil and gas industry has better sustainable brand positioning amongst Malaysia’s local community than Indonesia
The Influence of Organizational Culture on Organizational Citizenship Behavior of Indonesian Post Office Employees
Get PDFThe goal of the research was to examine the impact of organizational culture on the organizational citizenship behavior of employees at the Indonesian Post Office (Persero). Correlational research is the method employed. This study was conducted at PT Post Indonesia, namely at Post Offices in DKI Jakarta. Research time is JuneDecember 2021. The population of this research is all permanent employees and contract employees of PT Pos Indonesia, throughout DKI Jakarta who have been employees for at least 1 year. The population of this research is 2,835 people, with details of permanent employees as many as 2,700 people and 135 contract employees. This survey was used to collect data for this investigation. Smart PLS 3.0 was used to do univariate and bivariate analysis on the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable. According to the findings, there is a 0.758 significant effect of organizational culture on organizational citizenship behavior with a P-Value of 0.000 0.05. A higher value on the parameter coefficient indicates that the better the organizational citizenship conduct, the greater the organizational culture
A Model To Identify Factors Influencing Individual Phishing Susceptibility Among E-Mail Users
Get PDFE-mail phishing is a serious problem for the human society as well as for the organisations. Previous studies have identified that an individual’s personality characteristics were among the key contributors to the problem. As such, this study has applied a combination of the Big-Five Personality Traits Theory, the Protection Motivation Theory, and Cialdini's Principle of Persuasion as its research model. The structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique was used to measure hypothetical, direct, and mediated relationships between the constructs of the study. Data collection using survey questionnaires was collected from 403 respondents who use e-mails as part of their daily tasks. This study's findings revealed a relationship between individuals' personality traits and how they perceive themselves in appraising phishing
threats and associated coping strategies. The study also found that individual levels of appraisal concerning the threat of phishing and coping strategies can affect their likelihood of becoming a phishing victim. Finally, the study discovered that the relationships between an individual’s personality traits and an individual’s phishing susceptibility can be further explained through the mediating effect of threat and coping appraisal. The primary contribution of this study lies in its novel approach of utilising the Protection Motivation Theory to explain the factors that render certain characteristics of individuals more vulnerable to phishing attacks as a result of their unique personality traits
Evaluation of the Activetalk English Proficiency Programme among Franchisors, Parents, Teachers and Student in Selangor, Malaysia
Get PDFThe issue of English language proficiency for children born with different mother tongue has long been a focus of educational research and a recurring debate in public education systems. It is also related to the underpinning theory of learning English as a second language for Malaysian children because of the country’s historical roots under British colonial rule and its multiracial and multilingual population of Malays, Chinese, Indians and other ethnic East Malaysia communities. Public schooling systems, that is, government schools are not be able to meet the demand requirement of students of various ethnic and different income groups for English language classes due to limited resources and tight schooling-time schedule. Hence, the demand to fulfil need for private tuition or delivery of English language classes fell into the language-franchise operators throughout the country. Specially, the purpose of the study is to examine the way to fill the demand gap to better prepare mother tongue-need children to learn and acquire the English language proficiency through the Selangor Activetalk English in Malaysia, as the pioneering initiative before its subsequent expansion into other Malaysia states. The target population and sample in this qualitative approach are focused on children and adolescence between the ages of 3 to 17 years old. The interview questionnaire and the respondent-participants therefrom provided the finding-results feedback for content analysis, thematic analysis and conclusion synthesis based on responses from the Activetalk EnglishCentre franchiser, its franchisee-license managers, teachers, students and parents from the current total of 7-active Activetalk English Centres throughout the State of Selangor. Overall, the result-outputs suggest that Activetalk English so far is performing well, with a reasonable steady income stream of committed teachers who are satisfied with their remuneration package based on their Activetalk teaching materials, the latter having positive feedback from parents and children who have successfully and competitively engaged in term-end or year-end pubic-speaking contests in public places such as popular and new commercial complexes of Shopping-Malls. The output-outcome suggests that the potential for promoting more subscribers (as parental-children-clients or franchisee-investors) to Activetalk English is yet fully unexplored. In this direction, future plans include a new Activetalk English Centre to be located within the premises of a Subang Jaya international university building to capture the market segmentation in this resident-commercial area in the State of Selangor
Study on the Relationship Between Market Orientation and Customer-Focused Workplace Culture Amongst Selected Real Estate Organizations in Malaysia
Get PDFCustomer-focused organizations are held together by a central value that every decision begins with customer for advantage. In reality, however, organizations are facing many challenges and internal issues that deter an organization to becoming customer focus. The principal objective of the current study was to examine the relationship between market orientation and customer-focused workplace culture (CFWC). The research model was built by adapting to the theory of market orientation and self-determination. The research uses quantitative method and stratified sampling method to collect data. There were 192 responses in the survey collected from senior employees amongst selected real estate organizations in Malaysia. The researcher first uses PLS-SEM examines the relationships between the behavioral components of market orientation and CFWC. The behavioral components of the current study were customer orientation, information sharing and innovation and creativity. In a separate test, the researcher then uses the disjoint two-stage approach to creates higher order construct model and examines the relationships between market orientation and the research outcome. The researcher outlined two competing explanations of mediation, i.e., internalized extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation and then present evidence for each for comparison. In general, this research confirmed that: market orientation, customer orientation and innovation and creativity have positive correlation with CFWC and the relationships are partially mediated through intrinsic motivation; whereas information sharing has no direct effect with CFWC but the relationship is fully mediated through intrinsic motivation. On the contrary, internalized extrinsic motivation has no mediation effect between market orientation and CFWC. This research contributes new insights and produces new model, namely Customer Focus Cultural Means Framework for business leader and professional practitioner who wish to understand about workplace culture, particular on setting and formulating strategy in customer-focused organizations
Silenced By Design and Displaced By Will: A Foucauldian Study of Native American Literature
Get PDFThe study seeks to explore how in the pertaining hegemonic scenario of the White world the Native American literature offers a critical perception on some of the vital present day issues of survival, resilience and power imbalance that they are facing. The selection of literary works is made from a range of genres written by different Native Americanwriters over the last four decades. Undertaken dissertation debates that the Native American literature addresses the issues that are disrupting the indigenous culture. It encounters the false formation of the Native Americans as misnomers through the dominant White narratives. The works of Sherman Alexie, Thomas King, Doug Boyd and Louise Erdrich selected for analysis incorporate the complex aspects of the Native American literature, culture and history in the milieu of the subjective perspectives and experiences of the writers. By incorporating close reading method as the methodological approach, this study has attempted to read across Native American texts by applying the theoretical ideas of power politics of White governmentality by the French theorist Michel Foucault. The findings indicate that suppression of the Native Americans caused by the monopoly of the White hegemony is the crux of the whole fiasco that ultimately paved the way to silent the Native American narratives. It reveals that by reclaiming historical memory and using storytelling to establish their Indigenous identities, Native American authors dynamically fight against cultural erasure. These works serve as acts of cultural survival, presenting alternative epistemologies that contest colonial narratives and establish sovereignty over their own representation, in addition to exposing the mechanics of systematic oppression. Addressing historical injustices and dispelling persistent stereotypes are crucial goals of this study, which concentrated on the deliberate exclusion, misrepresentation, and ongoing stereotyping of Native Americans. This research is significant from the Native American perspective as it highlights the marginalized Native American narrative in its counter discursive approach and also highlights that how the privileged white sphere shapes, misinterprets, and discards an entire narrative based on falsified notions. This counter-discursive strategy fights misrepresentation by correcting misconceptions, promoting narrative sovereignty, and encouraging a more equitable portrayal of Native American experiences
Management of a Holistic Sleep Healthcare in Selected Malaysian Hospitals
Get PDFSleep apnea is an under-recognized public health issue and is underdiagnosed in Malaysia. The awareness of sleep disorders is slowly increasing in Malaysia, but the
availability of sleep centres remains critically low. A holistic approach to managing sleep healthcare patients is needed to bridge the knowledge gap. Obstructive Sleep
Apnea (OSA) remains underdiagnosed and undertreated. OSA does not kill the individual but can cause fatal cardiovascular-related complications such as high blood
pressure and stroke. OSA amplifies the risk of multiple health conditions associated with increased morbidity and mortality. There could potentially be more OSA patients
in Malaysia based on the 7.1% prevalence of clinically suspected OSA in Malaysia. Practical Information Technology will lead to immediate patient care and outcomes improvement. Big data analytics allow business and clinical models to transform into innovative and efficient care delivery. The low cost of wearables that can detect sleep
information is a favourable tool for investigating the sleep architectures of individuals. As of today, the data of sleep diagnostics, sleep therapy and wearables are stored
independently and do not interact with each other. The idea of integrating data from sleep diagnostics, sleep therapy and wearables has never been explored nor implemented in Malaysian hospitals. In addition, it has yet to be investigated on the feasibility of the integrated data in improving clinicians' management of sleep health
patients holistically. The other problem identified is, sleep medicine knowledge is generally low among medical students and clinicians. Lack of education and training in
sleep medicine has resulted in a culture of clinicians with minimal knowledge about sleep disorders. There is a need for a multidisciplinary approach to managing OSA patients. There is a need for clinicians from different specialities to treat the multiple medical conditions that the patient may have. The use of a single platform with integrated sleep data could potentially drive knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer among clinicians. This study employed qualitative research with a focus on phenomenon approach. Interview research technique is adopted for this study. The data
analysis revealed that 86% of sleep clinicians agreed that multidisciplinary collaboration is a good practice. The sleep clinicians interviewed for this article agreed
that data pooled together would allow them to understand better how they manage their sleep health patients with comorbid diseases plus allowing them to examine undetected
correlations and trends between specific variables of interest. Data analytics would provide insights that would improve patient care and assist sleep clinicians in increasing patient awareness. The sleep health patients interviewed unanimously agreed that their sleep health issue has adversely affected their capacity to carry out everyday responsibilities because of their persistent daytime somnolence, poor energy, and insomnia. With the integrated data, the sleep clinicians agreed that they would be able
to manage their sleep health patients more holistically. It also enhances the multidisciplinary collaboration among clinicians to look beyond the OSA condition alone, filling the knowledge gap in sleep medicine and allowing a team-based holistic approach to the patient’s condition with diverse expertise in diagnostic and therapeutic
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