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The Novels Of Syed Muhammad Ashraf and Ecological Discourse
No full textEcocriticism is geo-centered philosophy which examines environmental changes and its effects on literature. The novel gives special place to environment in its vast canvas. Syed Muhammad Ashraf is considered among the great fiction writers of Urdu. The setting of his novels is mostly rural. In them, the presentation of the environment and its related elements are seen indirectly. In his novels there is an unconscious deep connection with his surroundings. Animals and birds form an integral part of his fictions. In his fiction, flora and fauna play an important role in the development of the story. Natural environment and environmental elements are unique features of the fiction of Syed Muhammad Ashraf
The Novels Of Syed Muhammad Ashraf and Ecological Discourse
No full textEcocriticism is geo-centered philosophy which examines environmental changes and its effects on literature. The novel gives special place to environment in its vast canvas. Syed Muhammad Ashraf is considered among the great fiction writers of Urdu. The setting of his novels is mostly rural. In them, the presentation of the environment and its related elements are seen indirectly. In his novels there is an unconscious deep connection with his surroundings. Animals and birds form an integral part of his fictions. In his fiction, flora and fauna play an important role in the development of the story. Natural environment and environmental elements are unique features of the fiction of Syed Muhammad Ashraf. </span
The Novels Of Syed Muhammad Ashraf and Ecological Discourse
No full textEcocriticism is geo-centered philosophy which examines environmental changes and its effects on literature. The novel gives special place to environment in its vast canvas. Syed Muhammad Ashraf is considered among the great fiction writers of Urdu. The setting of his novels is mostly rural. In them, the presentation of the environment and its related elements are seen indirectly. In his novels there is an unconscious deep connection with his surroundings. Animals and birds form an integral part of his fictions. In his fiction, flora and fauna play an important role in the development of the story. Natural environment and environmental elements are unique features of the fiction of Syed Muhammad Ashraf. </span
AniMake Ezzy / Muhammad Ashraf Mohamad Diah
Full text linkAniMake Ezzy is a new business that provide a service of online animation courses. The main focus and objectives of establishment of AniMake Ezzy is to make sure that anyone who has a dream to learn animation becomes a reality.
We realized that the animation course seems can only be learn by people who has a good background and have a proper education. The people that does not have a good financial did not have a chance to register on the animation course because it is usually quite expensive and challenging. Because of that, we are trying to find an alternatives on how to provide an education to everyone that has the intention and determination to learn animation seriously without facing any issues regarding the fees registration.
Because of that, AniMake Ezzy have come out with a solution to provide the best training but at the same time offering an affordable prices. We choose to use PowerPoint application software as a platform to create the animation. This application is chosen based on its familiarity and easy to use by most people.
We also offer an adjustable timetable where student can choose between the two session that we from Monday to Friday and extra one session on Saturday and Sunday. Only 1 session are needed to be attend for each week which is about 2.5 hours. It means that students can choose the time they are available to attend the classes.
Since the start of our first online course intake, we have receive many application for the registration. It is a good sign where are business are on the right track and people are starting to notice the existence of our business. In the future, we are aiming to receive more registration and produce high quality students that are expert in animation
Antecedents of online product recommendation continuous usage intention / Muhammad Ashraf
Full text linkImmense product choices, the complexity, and enormous amount of information available
on business to consumer (B2C) e-commerce site challenge customers’ limited
information processing capabilities, and identifying a product which fits their need is not
an easy job. There is also consumers’ dilemma of wanting to have more information on
the one hand and being overloaded with too much information on the other hand.
Therefore, to help consumers deal with this dilemma, e-retailers are increasingly
equipping their e-commerce sites with distinct product recommender systems to provide
highly personalized product recommendations, and assistance in searching, comparing,
and evaluating product information. The online product recommendation (OPR) also
consisting of past consumer recommendations in the form of product ratings and reviews,
which pursued the customers to buy recommended products. It subsequently can be
resulted in higher consumer spending and improved retention rate. However, drawing
benefits out of these advantages depends on whether and to what extent consumers
embrace and fully utilise OPR. The current percentage of Amazon sales based on OPR
usage indicated that a large proportion of online consumers are not using OPR for their
online buying decision given the fact that they have not yet developed trust in OPR.
Nevertheless, no matter how useful OPR is, a critical issue is whether consumers accept
and continue OPR use. This is an important yet neglected issue in existing OPR research.
Therefore, the current study develops an integrated research model to investigate salient
determinants of OPR continuous usage intention and to understand how they influence
the dependent variable. With regards to that, this study specifies four research issues. First, to identify the factors that can be used as surrogate measure of OPR performance in terms of OPR usage outcomes. Second, to identify the factors that measure the consumers’ OPR evaluation beliefs in terms of their instrumental, social-psychological, and affective beliefs. Third,
to ascertain how the consumers’ perception of OPR performance influences their
behavioural intention towards OPR continuous usage. Fourth, to examine the impact of
OPR evaluation factors on consumers’ perception of OPR performance. However, four
theoretical models; IS continuance model, effort-accuracy model, theory of trust
formation, and flow theory, were adopted and integrated to describe the causal linkages
between the determinants of OPR performance and OPR continuous usage intention.
Subsequently, six main hypotheses were developed and tested based on the integrated
research model. A questionnaire that reflects the research constructs is developed to collect the primary
data for this study. The data were collected from 626 Amazon customers who have used
OPR for their buying decision over at least six months. Since this study is quantitative
with a deductive approach, it employs Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation
Modelling (PLS-SEM) to validate and confirm research model by testing the relationships
that were hypothesized. The findings of this study provide empirical evidences on the
salient determinants of OPR continuous usage intention. The PLS results showed that all
evaluation factors (i.e. ease of use, usefulness, confirmation, trust, and enjoyment) have
statistically proven significant impact on OPR performance, except perceived ease of use.
Furthermore, the study findings approve the influence of OPR performance on
consumers’ OPR continuous usage intention for future buying decision. The findings
indicated that consumers’ perceived decision effort, decision quality, and satisfaction
representing OPR performance are direct determinants of OPR continuous usage
intention and indirect measure of actual OPR continuous usage behaviours. Finally,
research implications, limitations, and future researches are highlighted
Experimental Data of Curb Opening Inlets
No full textCollection of experimental data for curb opening inlets
Development of a men's health index / Muhammad Ashraf Khalid
No full textMen have a higher burden of disease and mortality as compared to women across the
globe. Despite this alarming phenomenon, focus on the health of men is notably absent
in global health policies and programmes. One facilitator that might potentially capture
the attention of policymakers, health professionals, and academics is the development of
a men’s health index. An index can function in two major ways—to assess the magnitude
of a problem, and to monitor changes in the problem, both over space and time. The
purpose of this study is to examine the global state of men’s health by developing a men’s
health index. This study was conducted in three phases. In phase 1, a scoping review was
conducted to explore theories, models, and frameworks in men’s health studies. In phase
2, another scoping review was conducted to identify existing population health indices
and to examine the methods used to develop these indices. In phase 3, a health index that
measures health-related behavioural outcomes of countries and territories was developed
to show the poorer health status of men as compared to women across the globe. The
scoping review in phase 1 found theories, models, and frameworks of men’s health to be
either generic to health sciences, generic to social sciences, or specific to men’s health.
Three types of processes were observed: behavioural, cognitive, and gender processes.
The scoping review in phase 2 discovered a low number of population health indices that
measure specific health topics or health of specific sub-population. There is also lacking
in the usage of universal theories, models, or frameworks in developing these indices. In
phase 3, the developed health index comprises of five dimensions of health-related
behaviours: (1) healthcare utilization, (2) diet, weight and physical activity, (3) substance
use, (4) risk-taking, and (5) violence. The index evidently shows that men perform more
health-compromising behaviours as compared to women and this gap remains consistent
over the years. The index also shows significant associations with healthy life expectancy and the gender inequality index. The health index presents a multidimensional global
assessment of health-related behavioural outcome, which explains the poorer health status
of men as compared to women. The behaviours represented are modifiable lifestyle habits
and the resulting adverse health effects of these behaviours are preventable. The index
may serve as a baseline assessment and monitor the effectiveness of men’s health policies
and programmes over the years. The comparable measure of the index provides objective
assessment and potentially helps health policy design using evidence-based decision
making to address men’s global burden of ill health
BloodNetwork: blood donors community mobile application / Muhammad Ashraf Umar
Full text linkBlood had always been on demand all over the world. Blood donation would sometimes appear as troublesome to some people due to busy working schedule and the difficulty to search for nearest location and nearest blood donation events. The lack of advertising element in an event may resulted to low numbers of blood donors. The objectives of this project are to identify the user requirements for BloodNetwork application, to design and develop BloodNetwork application by following the Mobile Application Development Life Cycle (MADLC) methodology. This project however will be developing up until testing phase only. This project is intended to create blood donor’s community platform whereby the donors can locate blood donation events even in busy working list and creating awareness on the importance of blood donation while ensuring the repeating blood donation among blood donors. Geolocation technology will help users to stay informed of the location of blood donation events. Users may chat with other blood donors in requesting for blood and asking for advices for the potential blood donors. BloodNetwork can set a reminder for blood donors on their future donation in their device’s calendar application. The public user and the healthcare industry are the significance for this project. Users does not need to search for blood donation events in social media anymore hence it is time consuming and the blood supply may slightly increase due to the awareness on the importance of blood donation. For the future direction of BloodNetwork, this project is planning to be collaborating with National Blood Centre Malaysia to know the blood donation records for the blood donors and the insufficient blood supply in other regions. However, the limitation of this application is the chatting feature can only be used if the user’s device is installed with WhatsApp application
Performance evaluation of corner effect in 3G network in user perspective / Muhammad Ashraf Zulkapli
Full text linkThe purpose of this project is to analyze corner effect in 3G network. In this paper, two 3G service provider in Malaysia were selected in order to obtain more accurate data. Software used in this drive test is RF signal tracker and G-Net track from Google Play installed on android mobile phone. The drive test data was collected alongside Jalan Tun Razak, Jalan Ampang and Jalan Yap Kwan Seng. The drive test data further analyze by using Google Earth, and graph was plot by using Microsoft Excel .The main parameter to determine corner effects are Ec/No and RSCP level of User Equipment. From drive test conducted, Celcom show a better performance in 3G signal quality as compare to U Mobile. Corner effect was happen near to Ampang Park and both service providers experienced the same problem. Corner effect happen when user equipment experience sudden drop in signal level. Problem occur because of blockage in line of sight between user equipment and Node B. Detail analysis on corner effect included in next part of this paper
Service quality perceptions and customer satisfaction in life insurance companies in Labuan / Muhammad Ashraf Zulkifli
Full text linkThis paper aims to evaluate the service quality perceptionsand customer satisfaction of Life Insurance Companies in the Federal Territory of Labuan through customer’s assessment. A total of 120 respondents who had life insurance policies wereparticipated in answering the questionnaires, in order to gather information related to their perception of service quality in the life insurance company they committed with. Descriptive analysis such as percentage and table presentations was used to analyse the collected data. The study revealed that among the five service quality dimensions (Assurance, Reliability, Tangible, Empathy, Responsiveness), privacy of customer’s information of assurance dimension is the most important factor considered by the customers. Through the regression analysis done, reliability dimension of service quality found to be the most significant factor that influences customer satisfaction
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