257 research outputs found
A simulation study of slope stability affected by construction of new buildings at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai.
No full textLandslide occurrences had caused failure of sheet pile wall located about 6 m from Bangunan Tambahan, Fakulti Kejuruteraan Mekanikal (FKM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in Skudai, Johor. With the aim of investigating cause(s) of the failure, the slope stability conditions prior and after construction were simulated using SLOPE/W Version 3.03. The results showed that effects of load of a newly filled water tank sited on the top of slope contributed to subsident of the slope surface within the vicinity by creating tension cracks near its raft footing. The slope became more unstable as the soil moisture or pore-water pressure increased due to infiltration of rainwater. This has reduced the shear strength, in particular the cohesion value, c. The simulation also confirmed the hyphothesis that the global soil mass movement started from the hill top where the water tank was located toward the installed sheet pile. The combined mobilized shear force and lateral pressure of the global slope was about 8 times the strength of the sheet pile. The associated stresses are found to be related to the formation of the heave pushing up the soil at the toe of slope and soil under the road pavement adjacent to the new laboratory buildings
Enhancing visual art communication for Ar-Rahnu awareness
No full textAr-Rahnu provides a convenient source of funding for those who encounter challenges from traditional financial institutions. Ar-Rahnu is Islamic pawnbroking that allows individuals to obtain loans using their valuables as collateral by adhering to Islamic principles such as the prohibition of usury (riba). Ar-Rahnu is also known as Islamic pawnbroking which is Sharia-compliant financing scheme that allows individuals to obtain loans by pledging their valuable assets as collateral (Azman, Kassim, & Adeyemi, 2018)
Search engine for books / Amierul Izzuddin Azman
No full textSearch engine is web-based software that searches for and identifies things in a collection that match the user's keywords or characters, and is mostly used to locate specific websites on the Internet. The basic idea of information retrieval (IR), as is well-known in the computer industry, is to search a given amount of data and retrieve those records that fulfil a set of criteria. For this project, it will be more on developing a search system that focus on the domain of books. Although many search engines available for book searching, most of them still have room for improvement. The reality to find books using search engine are quite challenging because, the users need to know the title of the book in order to retrieved relevant result from the search engine. Therefore, this project aims to propose a search engine that might produce better result by manipulating the indexing structure of the search engine. Software Development Life Cycle also known as SDLC was used as the methodology in this project development. This project applies the vector space model for the matching process, because the chosen software library for this project which is Apache Lucene is using the vector space model as its foundation. In addition, the Bag-of-Words approach was used as the basis for the indexing module. The indexing process indexed the information of the books such as the book title, the author name, publisher, year published, pages count and synopsis of the book. The search engine's assessment criteria include recall and precision. In IR, recall and precision have long been used as standard evaluation criteria. Keenly, the results of this project prove that index files that contain more domain information can increase the relevancy of a search engin
Finite element analysis of rib cushion positioning for expanded polystyrene packaging
No full textThe home appliance industry often chooses to use expanded polystyrene as a product packaging medium because of its rigidity as well as its undeniable effectiveness in protecting various products. However, the effectiveness of this type of packaging needs to be demonstrated through destructive testing such as side-clamping evaluation. Forklift clamping is a machine test applied to evaluate the packaging of flat screen televisions to ascertain if the model has potential risk. In addition, destructive testing evaluation will be repeatedly conducted until a solution is found. Indirectly, this method increases the working hours and development costs of television packaging. Thus, a cushion with a density of 20 kg/m3 and different rib cushion positions was analyzed to see the existing stress distribution and cushion deformation. The analysis was run using the ANSYS software. The results showed that the rib cushion combination design was the best according to the maximum stress values of 6.222 MPa and 4.056 MPa. All results are presented and discussed. In conclusion, the cushion performance was significantly influenced by the rib cushion positioning
Report on five species of harpacticoid copepods from vegetative area of Sungai Pulai, Johor
No full textAmeridae Monard, Lang, Parastenhelia Thompson & A. Scott, Dactylopusiidae Lang, Tisbidae Sars and Diosaccidae Sars. Harpacticoid copepod species described from this study were Ameira sp. (Ameridae Monard, Lang), Parastenhelia sp. (Parastenhelia Thompson & A. Scott), Paradactylopodia sp. (Dactylopusiidae, Lang), Idyanthepusilla (Tisbidae, Sars) and Stenhelia sp. (Diosaccidae Sars). Further study on functional morphology would explain their adaptability to both conditions of sea bottom
Pushing the frontiers of Islamic finance through socially responsible investment Sukuk
No full textThis study explores the potentials of SRI sukuk as a source of financing for projects that address community and social issues, thus giving positive impact to the society. Focusing on several cases of SRI sukuk in critical yet not so commercially-attractive for profit-motivated financial institutions to participate in such as education, environment and health sectors, this study highlights the mechanisms and challenges as well as potentials of SRI sukuk as a source of financing for these projects. Since the field of SRI sukuk is still in its infancy stage especially in Islamic finance, this study hopes to contribute towards enriching the literature as well as exploring the potentials for further applications in other areas in the Islamic finance industry
Perkembangan persatuan tiga kaum utama di Tanah Melayu sebelum perang dunia kedua
No full textPersatuan yang terdapat di Malaysia telah melalui proses evolusi yang menarik kerana ia bermula dan berkembang bersama masyarakat majmuk di Tanah Melayu suatu ketika dahulu. Tumpuan tempoh perkembangan adalah sebelum Perang Dunia Kedua kerana masyarakat majmuk telah membesar dan semakin jelas kegiatan awal untuk berpersatuan dalam kalangan kaum Melayu, Cina dan India. Oleh itu bagi memahami perkembangan awal persatuan dengan lebih mendalam, tumpuan atau objektif kajian adalah dengan mengenalpasti faktor penubuhan persatuan dan menjelaskan keperluan persatuan kepada ketiga-tiga kaum iaitu Melayu, Cina dan India. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan analisis kualitatif mengikut tema. Penelitian adalah berdasarkan kepada sumber primer dan sekunder. Sumber primer terdiri dari dokumen rasmi, surat rasmi dan akhbar. Fail dari Pejabat Suruhanajaya Tinggi (HCO), fail Pejabat Tanah Jajahan CO 273, laporan tahunan negeri-negeri, Warta Kerajaan, fail pejabat setiausaha kerajaan negeri menjadi sumber bagi melihat perkembangan masyarakat dan isu tempatan. Sumber sekunder adalah dari buku, jurnal, kertas kerja, latihan ilmiah, tesis di peringkat sarjana serta doktor falsafah. Kajian ini mendapati bahawa tercetusnya usaha menubuhkan persatuan adalah untuk menyatukan kaum Melayu dalam memperbaiki ekonomi, sosial dan politik serta menghalang perkembangan pengaruh kaum Cina dan India. Bagi kaum Cina dan India pergolakan politik yang berlaku di negara asal telah menggalakkan penubuhan persatuan. Selain itu, pelbagai persatuan ditubuhkan mengikut keperluan dan kepentingan mereka dari segi ekonomi dan sosial yang mana kebanyakannya adalah berasaskan kepada kebiasaan dan amalan budaya yang diwarisi dari negara asal
Green feasible route preparation for PMMA vs PS: Its properties for photonic crystal application
No full textPengaruh sikap pelajar dan pengajaran guru terhadap penguasaan Bahasa Arab dalam kalangan pelajar ppib, UMS.
No full textKajian yang dijalankan ini adalah bertujuan untuk melihat pengaruh sikap pelajar dan pengajaran guru terhadap penguasaan bahasa Arab dalam kalangan pelajar. Bagi mencapai tujuan tersebut, kajian lapangan telah dilakukan terhadap 200 orang pelajar yang mengambil kursus bahasa Arab di Pusat Penataran Ilmu dan Bahasa, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Instrumen yang digunakan ialah set ujian dan set soal selidik. Tahap kewajaran ujian dan soalan dinilai dan diperakukan oleh pakar akademik sebelum kajian dilaksanakan. Data yang dikumpul dianalisis secara Deskriptif dan Inferensi dengan melibatkan ujian T tidak bersandar, korelasi Pearson dan regresi berganda. Secara keseluruhannya, dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tahap penguasaan bahasa Arab pelajar berada pada tahap yang sederhana. Dapatan kajian juga mendapati bahawa sikap pelajar dan persepsi pelajar bagi pengajaran guru berada pada tahap yang tinggi iaitu mencatatkan nilai skor min 3.66 dan 4.09. Selain itu, dapatan menjelaskan bahawa tidak terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan dalam kalangan responden lelaki dan perempuan bagi kedua-dua variabel sikap pelajar dan pengajaran guru. Dapatan kajian juga mendapati bahawa terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara sikap pelajar dengan penguasaan bahasa Arab, begitu juga dengan pengajaran guru dengan penguasaan bahasa Arab. Selain itu, analisis regresi mendapati bahawa pengajaran guru memberikan pengaruh yang besar iaitu sebanyak 48.1%, berbanding sikap pelajar iaitu 8.1% terhadap penguasaan bahasa Arab. Dapatan ini memberikan implikasi kepada pemantapan amalan pengajaran guru bahasa Arab dalam meningkatkan sikap yang positif untuk menguasai bahasa Arab sekali gus memperkasakan pencapaian dalam kalangan pelajar
P.Ramlee di cakera Nusantara
No full textP. RAMLEE disanjung sebagai "Seniman Agung". Beliau merupakan aset yang paling
kreatifdalam dunia hiburan di Malaysia, dengan memiliki pelbagai bakat - penyanyi,
penggubah, penulis seni kata lagu, pelakon, pengarah, penulis jalan cerita dan
penerbit seorang yang serba boleh. Sebagai pelakon dan penyanyi dalam filem,
kehadirannya dilayar perak begitu ketara sekali sehingga rakyat Malaysia dapat
mengingati beliau sebagai Sazali, Sarjan Hassan, HangTuah, dan Kassim Selamat.
P. Ramlee mampu membawakan watak yang cukup dekat dengan masyarakat dan
dirinya sendiri, seperti pekeIja kelas rendah (Amran dalamPenarek Becha), pemuzik
(Kassim Selamat dalamlbu Mertuaku), anak manja (Sazali dalamAnakku Sazali),
perwira bangsa (SaIjanHassan dalam Sarjan Hassan), dan pahlawan Melayu (Hang
Tuah dalam Hang Tuah). P. Ramlee berkemampuan memberikan karisma dan
dinamisme kepada watak-watak ini
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