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A comparative study on perceived accident risk among the cyclists, motorcyclists and drivers in the mixed traffic.

2026-04-07T07:50:51Z

In Malaysia, motorcycles are a common mode of ransportation, while cycling has recently had a resurgence in popularity, primarily as a form of recreation and sport. Road accidents happen often in Malaysia and are getting worse every year. This study investigates risk perceptions among cyclists, motorcyclists, and drivers in order to develop and implement mitigation strategies to improve road safety for cyclists, motorcyclists, and drivers in mixed traffic in Malaysia, with the aim of reducing the accident rate. The focus of this study was on working drivers and motorcyclists as well as recreational cyclists in Penang. Through a questionnaire, demographic data and selfreported risk perception were collected. Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS) was utilized to perform the statistical analysis. This research evaluated the significant difference in risk perception between cyclists, motorcyclists, and drivers. Although there is a significant difference in the socio demographic, experience, and characteristics of travel for drivers, motorcyclists, and cyclists, only 3 variables out of 16 self-reported perceived risks are significant differences, which are: the respondents have no problem adapting their driving, riding, or cycling to road surface conditions; the respondents can be lost in their thoughts when driving, riding, or cycling; and the presence of someone with the respondents in the car or on the motorcycle or behind them distracts them and deteriorates their driving, riding, or cycling. There is only 1 variable out of 3 self-reported perceived risks towards other road users that has a significant difference, which is among the drivers and the cyclists that they will reduce their speed when they see motorcycles on the road.

Effects Of Improvisational Chinese Bamboo Flute Course On Autistic Traits, Emotion Regulation, And Perceived Stress Among The Music Major University Students In Hunan Province, China

2026-04-06T03:39:41Z

This study explores the effects of a 12-week improvisational Chinese bamboo flute course on first-year university music students, analyzing changes in autistic traits, emotion regulation, and perceived stress. In summary, this research enriches the field of music and inclusive education by showcasing how adaptive pedagogical approaches can effectively foster academic success, personal growth, and overall well-being among music majors at the university level, particularly for those students who exhibit high autistic traits.

Architectural Renewal And Retrofit Design Of Rural Primary School Learning Space In Jiangsu Province, China

2026-04-06T03:08:50Z

This study addresses the need to adapt rural primary school learning spaces in China to support the transition from traditional lecture-based teaching to diverse teaching and learning (TnL) activities in line with UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goal 4 and China’s Educational Reform. Focusing on rural primary schools in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, the research investigates the relationship between learning space design and TnL activities, focusing on spatial layout, physical attributes, technology, and furniture.

Division Of Housework Among Married Indian Women During The Covid-19 Pandemic In Malaysia

2026-04-03T02:22:25Z

The study aims to explore the division of housework among Indian married working women during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings show that reasons that lead to unequal division of housework include: (i) housework is routine work for women; (ii) obligation; (iii) women uphold higher cleanliness and tidiness standards than men; (iv) traditional gender roles and parents’ socialisation; and (v) time availability. The findings also highlights that informants experienced stressed and dissatisfied with the unequal division of housework during the COVID-19 pandemic because housework is considered as women’s responsibility and not men's.

Cryptocurrency Quantitative Trading Strategy Based On Machine Learning Approach

2026-04-03T01:29:17Z

This thesis adopts the LSTM model to predict the price trends of cryptocurrencies by combining their historical prices with various technical indicators as features for research. We designed six control experiments to compare the impact of different technical indicators as features on the model. The final results indicate that the LSTM model combined with technical indicators can effectively improve prediction accuracy, but not all technical indicators contribute to the improvement of the model.

Synthesis, Characterization, And Photocatalytic Degradation Activities Of Tio2/Go And Zno/Go In Aqueous Medium

2026-04-02T09:07:42Z

This research covers the preparation of TiO2 and ZnO photocatalysts using environmental friendly methods that involved the use of lime peel extract as a reducing and capping agent.

Simulation Studies Of Push, Conwip And Modified Conwip Systems In A Wafer Fabrication Environment

2026-04-01T04:30:31Z

Wafer fabrication is a front-end semiconductor manufacturing. Notoriously complex, it has attracted voluminous researchers to improve its production planning and control. This study is a fundamental research with the aim to obtain greater understanding of the basic aspects of conwip-based systems in the wafer fabrication environment. This comparison was achieved by five production control systems in a manufacturing environment emulating the complexity of wafer fabrication. These include push, constant work-in-process (conwip) and modified conwip systems (conload, m-conwip and nested conwip). Except nested conwip, the other systems are methods established in different industries. Nested conwip is a newly conceived method in this research to allow early release of complementary cards to influence job selection. Characteristics of interest relevant to wafer fabrication are the re-entrant process flow, job dependent setup, job mix, priority and batching. The performance measures considered are total output (to), total critical output (tco), average flow time (avgft), standard deviation flow time (sdft), average waiting time (avgwt) and machine utilization (mutil). The study was performed by using the discrete event simulation and statistical analysis. The selection of parameters, variables and performance measures in the simulation was relatively based on a wafer fabrication case study. For statistical analysis, analysis of variance (anova) determined the relationship between variables and performance measures for each system.

Micro-Crack Detection Of Solar Cells Featuring Adaptive Anisotropic Diffusion Filter And Semi-Supervised Support Vector Learning

2026-04-01T04:29:17Z

In this thesis, a machine vision-based application for detecting micro-crack in an electro luminescence (el) image of solar cell is presented. The detection is a very challenging problem due to the complexity of the textural properties and background inhomogeneity of el images. Nevertheless, the micro-crack defect exhibits some unique properties such as high in gradient and low gray-levels. These properties together with the shape feature of the micro-crack are used in developing the detection algorithm. In this work, an image processing algorithm featuring an adaptive anisotropic diffusion filter and a segmentation technique based on twostage thresholding is proposed. The outcomes of this algorithm have demonstrated a highly accurate segmentation results compared to other standard methods. Based on the accuracy measure, the proposed methods achieve the highest f-measure of 0.0821. The local image features such as shape representation of the binary connected components are extracted and used in the machine learning to distinguish between cracked and good solar cells.

Design, Fabrication And Performance Analysis Of Su-8 Piezoresistive Micro Pressure Sensor

2026-04-01T03:52:37Z

In this thesis, su-8 piezoresistive micro pressure sensor is designed, modeled and fabricated, and its performance is characterized. As piezoresistive micro pressure sensor is commonly fabricated using silicon, many issues and challenges such as selection of piezoresistor material, release method and sensitivity enhancement need to be tackled in order to develop successful su-8 piezoresistive micro pressure sensor. The novelty of this research focuses on integrating micro pressure sensor with su-8/silver composite (su-81ag) as piezoresistor, ohp transparency as substrate and novel dry release method as release protocol. Su-8 is selected as structural material for micro pressure sensor due to its low cost and easy to fabricate. Besides, the low young's modulus of su-8 provides better sensitivity compared to silicon. Analytical method using small deflection theories of plate and fmite element analysis (fea) via ansys® are carried out to characterize the diaphragm thickness. Both methods show thickness at 147j.1m provides optimum sensitivity and linearity for 6000j.1m square su-8 diaphragm. Fea is also applied to find the most suitable geometry and the best location of piezoresistors for improved sensitivity. A simple and low cost protocol is established to fabricate su-8 based pressure sensor.

Influence Of Palm Oil Fuel Ash As A Supplementary Binder On Properties Of Self-Compacting Concrete

2026-04-01T03:50:44Z

Palm oil fuel ash (pofa) obtained from a palm oil mill was subjected to treatment process via sieving, grinding and heat treatment in order to improve its particles size and its potential reactivity as pozzolanic material in self-compacting concrete (sec). The treated pofa was then utilized as partial cement replacement in the production of see with pofa contents of 0%, 20%, 40% and 60% by mass of ordinary portland cement (opc). The properties of fresh scc mixes were explored through slump flow, slump flow t5oo, l-box, sieve stability as well as proctor penetration tests where the inclusion of pofa at replacement of 60% gave excellent results which satisfied the stipulated requirement for scc. On contrary, the hardened properties of see was evaluated through compressive strength, porosity, initial surface absorption (i sat), gas permeability, water permeability, rapid chloride permeability (rept) and rapid chloride migration (rmt) tests. The results obtained indicated significant improvement in the hardened scc properties with the inclusion of pofa. Sce with 40% pofa exhibits the greatest compressive strength value which exceeded the targeted strength of 50 mpa. [n term of durability related properties, all pofa-scc mixes showed better properties than the opc-sec, where the mix containing 60 % pofa exhibiting the greatest improvement at 180 days of water-curing period for all tests.

Building A Better Workplace With Employee Engagement

2026-04-01T03:49:42Z

Employee engagement is a vast construct that touches almost all parts of human resource management facets we know. If every part of human resources is not addressed in appropriate manner, employees fail to fully engage themselves in their job response to such kind of mismanagement. The construct employee engagement is built on the foundation of earlier concepts like job satisfaction, employee commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. Employee engagement is stronger predictor of positive organizational performance clearly showing the two-way relationship between employer and employee. Although there is a growing body of literature investigating employee engagement, scholars have noted that academic research lags behind practitioner developments. This is particularly notable with respect to the role of immediate supervisor. The novel of the study would be to introduce the supervisory support has the moderating effects on employee engagement. Employee engagement is a deep and broad connection that employees have with a company that results in a willingness to go above and beyond what's expected of them to help their company succeed.

Kajian Penggunaan Tarikan Tinja Lipas Dalam Kawalan Lipas Domestik (Dictyoptera: Blattidae, Blattellidae Dan Blaberidae)

2026-04-01T03:31:56Z

Kajian ini telah bertumpu kepada penarikan tinja lipas oleh tujuh spesies lipas domestik dan beberapa aspek kegunaan yang mungkin bagi tinja lipas dalam rancangan kawalan lipas. Semua spesies lipas dalam kajian ini adalah serangga asli di pulau pinang, malaysia; mereka adalah periplaneta americana (lipas amerika), periplaneta brunnea (lipas perang), periplaneta australasiae (lipas australia), neostylopyga rhombifolia (lipas harlequin), nauphoeta cinerea (lipas lobster), supel/a iongipalpa (lipas jalur perang) dan blattella germanica (lipas jerman). Semua spesies lipas dalam kajian ini menunjukkan tarikan kepada tinja lipas terutamanya tinja yang dikumuhkan oleh spesies sendiri, kecuali n. Cinerea. Penarikan kebanyakan tinja lipas adalah tidak spesies spesifik; sesetengah tinja lipas dapat menarik lebih daripada satu spesies lipas. Nimfa lipas adalah lebih tertarik kepada tinja lipas jika dibanding dengan lipas dewasa. Bila makanan dicampurkan dengan 1.00% w/w tinja lipas amerika, ia dapat menarik lebih banyak lipas, terutamanya uimfa lipas amerika yang datang ke makanan tersebut.

Perindustrian Pesat Dan Perhubungan Persekutuan-Negeri Di Malaysia: Kajian Kes Negeri Pulau Pinang

2026-04-01T03:30:50Z

Semenjak kemerdekaan pada tahun 1957, perhubungan persekutuan-negeri di malaysia menunjukkan satu kecenderungan pemusatan kuasa dalam tangan kerajaan persekutuan. Keadaan ini berlaku kerana rekabentuk perlembagaan yang bias kepada kerajaan pusat, terutamanya pengawalan kerajaan persekutuan terhadap kerajaan negeri dalam bidang kritikal seperti kewangan, perancangan, pembangunan dan perlaksanaan dasar membolehkannya mempengaruhi perjalanan pemerintahan di sesebuah negeri. Kecenderungan ini diperkukuhkan lagi melalui kawalan sebuah parti gabungan politik, iaitu barisan nasional secara umum dan lebih khusus lagi umno, terhadap kerajaan persekutuan dan hampir semua kerajaan negeri di malaysia. Melalui kawalannya terhadap jentera perancangan dan perlaksanaan pembangunan serta kewangan, kerajaan persekutuan berupaya mempengaruhi tempo dan arus pembangunan yang berlaku dalam sesebuah negeri di malaysia. Tesis ini merupakan satu kajian terhadap aspek pembangunan dalam perhubungan persekutuan-negeri di malaysia. Lebih khusus lagi, ia merupakan satu kajian terhadap perhubungan antara kerajaan persekutuan dengan kerajaan negeri pulau pinang dari 1970 hingga kini dalam konteks perindustrian pesat yang dialami di negeri pulau pinang. Apa yang membezakan proses perindustrian pulau pinang dari kecenderungan pemusatan yang berlaku dalam persekutuan malaysia ialah penglibatan aktif kerajaan negeri dalam proses ini.

Construction Of Synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone Gene Via Polymerase Chain Reaction

2026-04-01T03:16:24Z

A synthetic gene of 643 base pairs (bp) was successfully assembled and generated using the polymerase chain reaction (pf'r), this synthetic construct carries the sequence coding for the 190 amino acids long mature bovine growth hormone (bgh) polypeptide, restriction enzyme sites and elements necessary for prokaryotic transcriptional and translational processes. The gene was assembled in three stages. Each stage needed diffferent per parameters. The initial product contained deletions possibly caused by mispriming by one of the oligonucleotides and this was eventually repaired. To get an overview of the efficiency and potential of this technique for gene assembly and generation, the final product was sequenced. Seven nucleotide rnisincorporations were detected and this value represented about 1% of the synthetic construct.

Kesan Intervensi Pekerja Sosial Ke Atas Dinamik Kelompok Masyarakat: Kes Rancangan Pemdasmian Kemiskinan Di Jawa Darat, Indonesia

2026-03-31T03:34:45Z

Kajian lni mengenal kesan intervensi pekerja sosial ke atas dinamik kelompok masyarakat, kes kelompok sasaran rancangan pembasmian kemiskinan. Kajian dilakukan di jawa barat, indonesia pada bulan mei sampai ogos 1995. Kajian ini bertujuan; (i) untuk memahami kesan intervensi pekerja sosial ke atas dinamik kelompok masyarakat. (ii) untuk mengenal pasti petunjuk-petunjuk yang boleh digunakan dalam menjelaskan dinamik kelompok masyarakat, dan (iii) untuk menilai dinamik kelompok masyarakat yang telah memperoleh intervensi pekerja sosial (kelompok ujikaji) dan kelompok masyarakat yang tidak memperoleh pekerja sosial (kelompok kawalan). Intervensi pentingnya kajian lni adalah kerana la dapat memberi gambaran mengenai ke atas masalah keberkesanan intervensi pekerja sosial yang dihadapi masyarakat lapisan bawahan dan juga dapat memberi panduan kepada .Pembuat dasar tempatan dan atau di indonesia dalam bekerja dengan kelompok-kelompok sasaran dari suatu rancangan pembangunan.

Penggunaan Natrium Glukonat Sebagai Agen Pengkompleks Dalam Proses Penyaduran Tanpa Elektrik Kuprum

2026-03-31T03:33:37Z

Kajian tentang penggunaan natrium glukonat sebagai agen pengkompleks dalam larutan penyaduran tanpa elektrik kuprum bagi pelaplsan kuprum ke atas plastik akrilonitril butadiena stirena (ass) telah dijalankan. Pengkompleks asid etilena diamina tetraasetik (edta) dan natrium kalium tartrat telah digunakan sebagai perbandingan terhadap glukonat. Kajian beberapa gabungan glukonat-edta dengan nisbah kompleks glukonat-edta 1 :1, 1:2 dan 2:1 juga dilakukan untuk mengetahui kesannya terhadap kestabilan, ph, kadar pelapisan, suhu dan kepekatan komponen aktif. Didapati penggunaan pengkompleks glulmnat-edta (1 :1) [komposisi larutan terdiri daripada kuprum sulfat 5-hidrat sebanyak 8.0 gil, natrium glukonat -. Sebanyak 3.5 gil, edta sebanyak 6.0 gil, formaldehida (37 ok) sebanyak 90.0 mill dan natrium hidroksida sebanyak 10.0 gil] adalah lebih stabil berbanding dengan larutan yang hanya mengandungi pengkompleks glukonat sahaja [komposisi larutannya terdiri daripada kuprum sulfat 5-hidrat sebanyak 8.0 gil, natrium glukonat sebanyak 7.0 g/l, formaldehida (37 o..{,) sebanyak 90.0 mill dan natrium hidroksida sebanyak 10.0 gil]. Larutan penyaduran tanpa elektrik kuprum yang menggunakan penqkornpleks tartrat paling tidak stabil. Keadaan operasi yang optimum bagi pengkompleks glukonat ialah ph antara 12.4-12.6 dan pada suhu bilik. Kadar pelapisan bagi larutan menggunakan pengkompleks glukonat adalah paling perlahan manakala kadar pelapisan bagi pengkompleks edta yang paling cepat.

Embriogenesis Somatik Dan Penginokulatan In Vitro Tebu (Saccharum Officinarum) Dengan Kulat

2026-03-31T03:32:36Z

Three types of explants used in this experiment were spindle, . Apical meristem and subapical meristem. From the culturing process, the production of calli were identified as compact callus, soft callus and mucilagenous callus. The first two calli are embryogenic. From the comparison done, the spindle explant was capable in producing the embryogenic calli when cultured on the ms medium with the presence of 2,4-d (2,4- dichloro phenoxy acetic acid) and activated carbon. Explants on the ms medium + 3.0 mg/l 2,4-d and 2.5 gil activated carbon produced the largest quantity of calli. Somatic embryogenesis process was achieved through the culturing of embryogenic callus on the ms medium + 0.25 mg/i kinetin + 2.5 g/l activated carbon for the purpose of multiple shoots formation. Ms medium + 5.0 mg/l naa (ce-naphtalene acetic acid) and 2.5 gil activated carbon were used in roots induction. However, the additional of 7% of sucrose in this medium increased the quality of roots produced. The somatic embryogenesis process produced the complete somatic embryo which consists of scutellum, coleoptile, shoot meristem, col eorhiza and root meristem from the embryogenic callus. A complete plantlet was produced within 3 months of culturing. The presence of somaclonal variation were observed amongst plantlets which include these characteristic; colour and shape of the leaves, as well as the height of the plantlets.

Further Improvement Of Analytical Methods For The Determination Of Arteether Derivatives (Artemether Arteether And Tiiefr Metabolites) In Biological Fluids: Application To Pharmacokinetic Studies

2026-03-31T03:31:26Z

Artcmisinin (qi-is) and its derivatives are the most pronusing compounds against multidrug resistant falciparum malaria. Artemethcr (arm) and artecther (are) were found to be more effective than their parent compound, qhs. The objectives of the study were to improve the sensitivity of the analytical methods for the quantification of arm and are, together with their majur metabolite, dihydroartemisinin (dqhs) in plasma, and to study the pharmacokinetics of arm in healthy volunteers and in patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria. The present study has developed a rapid, selective, reproducible and specific high performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detector for the determination of arm and dqi-is with the sensitivity limit in plasma of 2.5 and 1.25 ng/ml respectively. Through minor modifications, the analytical procedure was extended to the analysis of are in plasma with a sensitivity limit of 5.0 ng/ml. The method was succesfully applied in clinical pharmacological studies of arm in human.

Which Moufang Loops Are Associative

2026-03-31T03:30:12Z

A loop is a Moufang loop if it fulfills the identity xy. zx = (x- yz)x. Nonassociative (i.e., non-group) Moufang loops of order 24, 34 and p5(p is a prime greater than 3) are known to exist. It has also been proven that all Moufang loops of order 2a (a s 3), 3fJ (P s 3) and pY (y s 4) are associative. The aim of our research is to study the following problem: "Given a positive integer m, are all Moufang loops of order m associative?" Since O. Chein has studied the problem extensively for even values of m, we Limit our research to odd values of m in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. Writing m as the product of powers of distinct odd primes, we answer the question above affirmatively for the following values of m: (i) pq2(p

Modeling Of High Performance Surface Mount Molded Pqfp Packages

2026-03-31T03:29:05Z

Surface mount plastic packaging technology has evolved in order to meet the stringent standards demanded by high density and low cost integrated circuits devices. The internal heatsink plastic quad flat pack (pqfp) has been developed to replace the traditional single layer pqfp in order to enhance the package's electrical and thermal performance. Higher external package warpage is observed on heatsink package compared to the traditional package and thus this might affect the reliability and performance of the package. This study aims to set some guidelines regarding the standard design rules for heats ink sizes and die sizes for 28x28 mm pqfp heatsink package. This will lead to improvement in the process assembly procedure and hence reduction in leadframe cost. The software mechanica developed by rasna corporation which utilizes the p-version finite element method is used in this study to analyze the impact of heatsink sizes and die sizes on the package warpage and thermal performance of the package.