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Strategi pencapaian objektif kualiti dalam penulisan dan penerbitan / Kamisah Ariffin
No full textSasaran kualiti bagi penulisan dan penerbitan telah ditetapkan pada nisbah satu penulisan satu pensyarah setiap tahun bagi semua pensyarah di UiTM Pahang. Petunjuk Prestasi Utama (Key Performance Indicator - KPI) penulisan bagi setiap pensyarah juga telah dinyatakan dengan jelas dalam Sasaran Kerja Tahunan iaitu satu penulisan sepanjang tempoh satu tahun yang dinilai. Namun begitu, analisa bagi hasil penulisan pensyarah di UiTM Pahang menunjukkan bahawa sasaran ini masih belum tercapai sejak ianya ditetapkan pada tahun 2005. Kertas kerja ini membincangkan strategi yang boleh diatur di peringkat pengurusan UiTM Pahang dan juga individu dalam usaha mencapai objektif dalam penulisan dan penerbitan seterusnya membolehkan objektif kualiti kampus tercapai secara keseluruhan
Understanding utterances : The need for pragmatic competence / Kamisah Ariffin
No full textThe colossal time spent on learning grammatical rules of a language may still not make a learner proficient in that language. The sociolinguistics perspectives have moved to the notion that there is more to learning a language than learning about rules and grammar. Since the use of a language is seen as a social activity, the concept of ‘communicative competence’, that is, knowing what to say, to whom, and how to say it appropriately was seen as an important element of teaching a language (Hymes 1965; Saville-Troike 1985). However, this concept is enormously complex. Before a speaker should know what to say and to whom in an appropriate way, s/he needs another competence, i.e pragmatic competence, to understand the meaning of utterances in context. This is because the divergent of what is said and what is implied have made communication difficult with many opportunities for mistakes and understanding to occur. This paper addresses the need of pragmatic competence to be taught along the other language skills
Feasibility studies on Teruntum Complex, Kuantan / Noor Kamisah Abu Bakar
No full textThe actual condition of Teruntum Complex, unfortunately shows a significant drawback of retailers, customers and thus contribute to maximum loss of profit, for the once popular shopping complex in Kuantan, Pahang. The needs to outlined the aspects of feasibility studies become the main intention of this dissertation, as clearly defined from the title of the dissertation “Feasibility Studies On Teruntum Complex, Kuantan”. Chapter 1 of this dissertation contains the introduction of this dissertation, including the objectives, issues, scopes and research method. Background studies will be featured in Chapter 2 which emphasise several background research as general review on the feasibility stua.es and shopping complex development in Malaysia. Aspects on market studies that emphasise the evaluation on the surrounding area of Kuantan is the main topic of Chapter 3. The aspects of the market studies include the study on the competitors, socio-economic and site potential, as well as other related aspects. Chapter 4 contains the aspects of feasibility studies on Teruntum Complex, which focus on the existing condition of this shopping complex, including all details on previous aims and future plans. Chapter 5 is a compilation of analysis and reviews based on the studies as reveal in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4; while Chapter 6 is the conclusion of the dissertation’s title and topic with additional section on recommendations
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
How conversational implicature can account for ordinary human conversational interaction / Kamisah Ariffin
No full textSuccessful communication hinges on the hearer's grasping more than what is said by the speaker. The hearer normally relies on the presumption that the speaker is speaking truthfully, informatively, relevantly and appropriately in manner to make an inference from the utterance. However, what a speaker implicates may be different from what s/he says and from what his/her words imply. This article looks at how the conversational implicature can account for ordinary human conversational interaction
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Palm tocotrienol-rich fraction improves vascular proatherosclerotic changes in hyperhomocysteinemic rats
No full textPalm Tocotrienol-Rich Fraction Improves Vascular Proatherosclerotic Changes in Hyperhomocysteinemic Rats
Author(s): Norsidah, KZ (Norsidah, Ku-Zaifah)[ 1 ] ; Asmadi, AY (Asmadi, Ahmad Yusof)[ 2 ] ; Azizi, A (Azizi, Ayob)[ 3 ] ; Faizah, O (Faizah, Othman)[ 4 ] ; Kamisah, Y (Kamisah, Yusof)[ 5 ]
Source: EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Article Number: 976967 DOI: 10.1155/2013/976967 Published: 2013
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Abstract: This study investigated the effects of palm tocotrienol-rich fraction (TRF) on aortic proatherosclerotic changes in rats fed with a high methionine diet. Forty-two male Wistar rats were divided into six groups. The first group was the control (fed with a basal diet). Another five groups were fed with 1% methionine diet for 10 weeks. From week 6 onward, folate (8mg/kg diet) or palm TRF (30, 60, and 150mg/kg diets) was added into the diet of the last four rat groups, respectively. The high methionine diet raised the plasma total homocysteine and aortic lipid peroxidation, which were reduced by the palm TRF and folate supplementations. Plasma nitric oxide was reduced in the high methionine group compared to the control (3.72 +/- 0.57 versus 6.65 +/- 0.53 mu mol/L, P < 0.05), which reduction was reversed by the palm TRF (60 and 150mg/kg) and folate supplementations. The increased aortic vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 expression in the methionine group (2.58 +/- 0.29) was significantly reduced by the folate (1.38 +/- 0.18) and palm TRF at 150mg/kg (1.19 +/- 0.23). Palm TRF was comparable to folate in reducing high methionine diet-induced plasma hyperhomocysteinemia, aortic oxidative stress, and inflammatory changes in rat
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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