3,792 research outputs found
Pioneers of Library Movement in Pakistan
No full textThe paper aims to describe in brief the contribution of seven leaders of Pakistan librarianship, viz. K.B. Khalifa M. Asadullah, Prof. Dr. Abdul Moid, Dr. Abdus Subuh Qasimi, Muhammad Shafi, Fazal Elahi, Khawaja Nur Elahi and S. V. Hussain. The early library developments are given for better understanding of the role of these leaders
Transkrip wawancara bersama tokoh seni Tarian Saba Puan Che Wan Noorsaidi binti Che Wan Abdul Rahman / Nuur Athirah Abu Hashim and Nur Arifah Syahadah Yusnilzahri
No full textTemubual ini dilakukan bersama seorang tokoh kesenian yang mewarisi kesenian persembahan Saba daripada arwah ayah beliau iaitu Che Wan Noorsaidi Binti Che Wan Abdul Rahman atau lebih dikenali sebagai Mak Zah untuk mengetahui tentang perkhidmatan beliau dalam kerjayanya sebagai seorang pemain persembahan saba. Che Wan Noorsaidi Binti Che Wan Abdul Rahman atau Mak Zah telah terdedah kepada persembahan ritual Saba sejak kecil lagi iaitu sekitar tahun 70-an. Mak Zah merupakan satu-satunya tokoh kesenian Saba yang boleh memainkan persembahan Saba ini dengan baik. Beliau juga mengetahui kisah-kisah yang wujud dalam persembahan Saba. Che Wan Noorsaidi Binti Che Wan Abdul Rahman @ Mak Zah adalah merupakan pakar rujuk untuk kesenian Saba ini. Pelbagai ujian dan cabaran yang dilalui oleh Mak Zah dalam meneruskan perkhidmatan beliau sebagai pemain persembahan Saba dari dulu hingga kini. Sejarah kehidupan dan kerjaya beliau boleh dijadikan sumber inspirasi bukan hanya kepada mereka yang terlibat dalam dunia seni tetapi juga kepada semua lapisan masyarakat
Book Talk with Author: Puan Faza Fayza Mohd Fawzy
No full textPenerbit UiTM dengan kerjasama Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR) menjemput seluruh warga kampus dan masyarakat untuk menyertai secara langsung program Book Talk with Author, sebuah inisiatif kolaboratif dalam usaha membudayakan ilmu melalui pembacaan dan perbincangan buku
Persembahan saba: suatu ritual penyembuhan dari perspektif kosmologi
No full textTulisan ini meneroka persembahan saba sebagai suatu ritual untuk penyembuhan dengan tumpuan kajian terhadap
tingkahlaku dan budaya. Cerakinan idea tentang persembahan saba ditelusuri melalui perspektif kosmologi. Ia
berkaitan dengan alam semesta yang melibatkan fenomena dalam ruang dan masa meliputi alam fizikal dan alam
metafizik serta kedudukan manusia dalam ruang tersebut. Hubungan manusia dengan alam mencetuskan kreativiti
dan keupayaan luar biasa untuk menghasilkan karya seni. Karya seni yang dihasilkan itu pula melambangkan
semangat mereka terhadap kosmologi kepercayaan keagamaan pengkarya. Ia turut berkaitan dengan empat unsur
kosmos, iaitu tanah, air, api dan angin. Karya seni yang dihasilkan turut dipercayai memiliki semangat ataupun jiwa.
Sehubungan itu, sudut pandang kosmologi menemukan pelbagai dimensi ruang dan kosmos yang menjadi pencetus
kepada penglahiran suatu pandangan dunia tentang fungsi persembahan saba sebagai suatu ritual penyembuhan
Language Teaching in the New Normal: A Comparative Study between Malaysia and Iraq
No full textCovid-19 has a severe impact on the way we teach and learn today. As the global pandemic has severely impacted our education sector, adaptation is much needed in the way we teach and learn as we adapt to the new normal. This comparative study involves four sets of data involving two teachers from Malaysia and two teachers from Iraq. The researchers interviewed the respondents and sorted their feedbacks according to the themes of this study. The study reveals the differences and similarities in how teachers adapt to the new way of teaching English and teaching methods for receptive and productive English skills to high school students in both countries. It also reveals teachers’ opinions on using first language materials in their English teaching. The study highlights the teaching theories and principles applied by teachers in both countries in teaching in the new normal. The study also reveals that the respondents managed to adapt authentic teaching and learning materials for online teaching and revamped their lesson plans and timetables. The respondents also used the Telegram application to share teaching and learning materials and connect with their students. All respondents agree with the use of first language materials in teaching English and the role of teachers to motivate students in learning English in the new normal. Finally, the study reveals that all respondents from both countries manage to adapt to the new teaching method in the pandemic
The spread of Misinformation on social media: An insightful countermeasure to restrict
No full textThe term misinformation on social media has got significant attention in public sermons over the last few decades. This research article explores the growing tendency of misinformation on social media, how it influences people and prescribes insightful measures to counter the spreading of misinformation on social media. Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was employed on the three databases; Google Scholar; Scopus, Web of Science, following keywords; "misinformation", "disinformation", and "social media". A total of 34 articles were finally found suitable for the study. This study confirmed that self-motive and election campaigns are the major causes of misinformation on social media. This study manifested that machines can detect fake news to some extent but cannot be relied upon solely. Human intervention is equally important in identifying misinformation. Moreover, an efficient conceptual model has been proposed to counter the misinformation spread on social medi
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism Impact on Shaping Oral Literacy and Communicative Competence
No full textThis study was conducted to investigate on how does the multilingual and multicultural factor affect an individual oral literacy by conducting an interview session and correspondingly examine the features of the conversation from the interview session through a conversational analysis method. The purpose of the study is to have a better understanding of the strategies involved during the learning and acquisition process, the peers and surroundings of the participants, the elements of multiculturalism and multilingualism exhibited in the case of study. The studies show a different strategy was adopted in order to achieve the communicative competence as suggested by Canale and Swain (1980). The results shows that the learners achieved the communicative competence by recognizing the specific structure and features of the language (grammatical competence), understanding the historical background of the ethnicity belong to the language (sociolinguistic competence), practicing the languages ( strategic competence) and understanding the language coherent by listening (discourse competence)
Students’ Perception Towards Flipped Classroom Approach in The Islamic And Asian Civilisation Studies (Titas)
No full textFlipped classroom is an active, student-centered approach that has been developed to enhance the quality of time in the classroom. This study investigates the perceptions of third year Bachelor in Teaching English as a Second Language (BTESL) and Bachelor in Accounting (BIA) students in a Higher Education Institute, Malaysia. It aims to examine the students’ perceptions towards the use of flipped classroom approach in Islamic Civilisation and Asian Civilisation subject (TITAS) and to identify whether there is any significant difference between the perceptions of two groups of students with different educational backgrounds. This study involves 124 respondents consisting of 82 (66.1%) third year BTESL students and 42 (33.9%) BIA third year students. It adopted a quantitative research design using a survey method for data collection. The questionnaire was adapted from previous studies as the instrument for this study. Data were analysed through SPSS software and were interpreted through descriptive analysis and an Independent sample T-test. The findings show the majority of BTESL and BIA students perceived the usefulness of flipped classroom implementation in TITAS class positively. However, the study findings also revealed that there is no significant difference between the perceptions of BTESL and BIA students. Consequently, the outcomes were inferred that students perceived flipped classroom approach in TITAS class to be useful and there is no significant difference between the perceptions of the two groups of students with different educational backgrounds
Cellular studies of neuromuscular disorders related to the sarcomeric proteins
No full textSarcomere is the basic unit of cardiac and skeletal muscle contraction and its proper
function requires an invariant organization of this structure. Mutations in sarcomeric
proteins are known to cause increasing number of different cardiac and skeletal muscle
diseases. The front line in research on muscle diseases is at present to define the genetic
background and pathogenesis of these diseases. The potential for development of effective
therapies depends on elucidation of the molecular and cellular impact of the mutations on
morphological abnormalities and muscle weakness that accompany pathogenesis.
In paper I we identified an unexpected skeletal muscle myopathy in an infant with fatal
cardiomyopathy due to a homozygous mutation in MyBPC3. The ectopic expression of
cardiac MyBPC was restricted to abnormal type 1 muscle fibres, indicating that the muscle
pathology was caused by a dominate-negative effect of mutant MyBPC3.
In paper II we addressed the expression profile of a panel of sarcomeric components during
myogenesis, with a focus on proteins associated with a group of congenital disorders. The
analyses were performed in cultured human skeletal muscle myoblasts and myotubes. We
identified early expression of certain isoforms involved in congenital diseases, suggesting
the possibility of an early role for these proteins as constituent of the developing contractile
apparatus during myofibrillogenesis.
In paper III we used human tissue-culture cells as a model to investigate the primary trigger
for β-tropomyosin-related myopathies and the basis for the histological changes seen in
muscle biopsies of patients. Protein localization and pathobiology caused by dominant
TPM2 mutations were investigated by transfecting human myoblasts and C2C12 with WT
and mutant EGFP-fusion β-TM constructs. Abnormal aggregation of β-TM variants and
their localization within the thin filaments was observed in myoblasts and differentiated
myotubes. We demonstrated that histopathological phenotypes associated with β-TM
mutants might be accounted for the variable response to the cellular environment
influenced by physiological context, in combination with the time course of expression of
mutant protein rather than the alteration of amino acid itself. Our results confirmed that cell
cultures of human skeletal muscle are an appropriate tool and environment closer to the
reality in human skeletal muscle and more reliably mimic the disease conditions.
In paper IV we identified and characterized a new human protein aggregate myopathy and
cardiomyopathy associated with combined mutations in isogenes TRIM63 and TRIM54,
encoding muscle specific ring finger proteins, MuRF1 and MuRF3, respectively. Our
morphological and cellular investigation suggested that the disease is caused through
impaired organization of the microtubule network and sarcomeric M-band proteins.
The results from this study have deepened the understanding of pathogenesis of a group of
sarcomeri
Theory of Optimal Taxation and Current Tax Policy in Pakistan’s Agriculture
No full textpublic finance into the mould of classical welfare economics by emphasising minimisation of dead weight losses resulting from the imposition of a tax or faulty tax structure. As such, these modern theories have much in common with the traditional approach in terms of efficiency and equity. In spite of this, however, the differences remain. For example, the former theories adhere strictly to the norms of classical welfare economics which treats individual consumers as utility maximisers where improvements in welfare involve change that makes one individual better-off without making someone else worse-off [Stern (1987)]. In contrast to the emphasis of traditional theories on lump-sum taxes, the optimum tax literature is concerned with the implication of using non-lump-sum taxes which have a wider range and therefore more useful to the policy-maker. The recent work on normative tax theory looks at the impact of taxation on individual decisions and the trade off between raising revenues or redistributing tax burdens and the efficiency losses [Atkinson (1987)]. Finally, the optimal tax literature may be more pragmatic in its approach than traditional works as it realistically deals with government objectives and constraints and combines them into models that are sufficiently rich to allow for differences between people regarding income and expenditure patterns.
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