The presence of words and concepts in the English language that do not correspond with the meaning held by Muslims has been highlighted by many Muslim scholars. It is argued that there are many English words fail to reflect the meanings that Muslims intend to convey due to the fact that many Arabic words are not accurately translatable into English

This paper explores the secondary school Principals views and experiences in managing change their organizations. The focus is upon how innovative the Principals are in their decision-making and leadership styles. The study adopts a qualitative research methodology using open-ended interviews to explore the leadership styles of the six Principals i

This preliminary study focuses on academic staff’s perceptions and experiences on professional development opportunities in selected public universities in Malaysia. The research design involved the collection of semi-structured interview data from nine academic staff of three public universities. There are mixed reactions on academic staff’s r

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This paper evaluates the authors’ experiences in supervising a construction of a landscape project of an institution. The works involved an upgrading of the landscape and hardscape of the main entrance, while the supervision was originally devised by several lecturers. The live project provided good impacts to both students and lecturers. For ins

A multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/plasticized polylactic acid (PLA) composite was prepared using a two-roll mill set at 170C and 50 rev/min. The material was characterized using dynamic mechanical analyzer (DMA). Characterization works include obtaining mechanical properties, such as tensile and flexural properties of the nanocomposites. Po

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the problem-based learning approach (PBL) on students in language classes in two areas: course content and language development. The study was conducted on 128 students, grouped into the experimental and control groups, and employed an experimental research design. The syllabus, textbook,

In this paper, we propose a method for EEG emotion recognition which is tested based on 2 dimensional models of emotions, (1) the rSASM, and (2) the 12-PAC model. EEG data were collected from 5 preschoolers aged 5 years old while watching emotional faces from the Radboud Faces Database (RafD). Features were extracted using KSDE and MFCC and classif