The purpose of this study was to gain insights into the student’s perception on the usage of technical appliances in online learning. The study was conducted in the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) based on the sample of 1084 distance learners with the experiences of using the E-learning Portal in their distance education academic programme courses. The students were surveyed on the participatio...

Electronic journals are a new scenario for the Malaysian scholarly community. Thus, this paper presents the positive and negative impacts of the scenario. Currently, Malaysian universities are competing with each other to be in the list of top ranked world universities. To achieve the target, academicians are under pressure to become visible by publishing their works in journals indexed by vari...

UNLABELLED This study aimed to investigate the association of facial proportion and its relation to the golden ratio with the evaluation of facial appearance among Malaysian population. This was a cross-sectional study with 286 randomly selected from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Health Campus students (150 females and 136 males; 100 Malaysian Chinese, 100 Malaysian Malay and 86 Malaysian Ind...

The acoustic characteristics of sustained vowel have been widely investigated across various languages and ethnic groups. These acoustic measures, including fundamental frequency (F(0)), jitter (Jitt), relative average perturbation (RAP), five-point period perturbation quotient (PPQ5), shimmer (Shim), and 11-point amplitude perturbation quotient (APQ11) are not well established for Malaysian Ma...

Blastocystis cysts were detected in 38% (47/123) (37 Scottish, 17 Malaysian) of sewage treatment works. Fifty percent of influents (29% Scottish, 76% Malaysian) and 28% of effluents (9% Scottish, 60% Malaysian) contained viable cysts. Viable cysts, discharged in effluent, provide further evidence for the potential for waterborne transmission of Blastocystis.

Approximation of Human Breast Tissue Properties at 6 GHz Ultra-Wideband Centre Frequency Ikram-e-Khuda, Sabira Khatun*, Khondker Jahid Reza, Md. Mijanur Rahman, Md. Moslemuddin Fakir #5 # School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis Pauh Putra Main Campus, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia. 1 [email protected] 2 [email protected] [email protected] mijanur@u...

The reported study was conducted to compare and contrast current manufacturing practices between two countries, Australia and Malaysia, and identify the practices that significantly influence their manufacturing performances. The results are based on data collected from surveys using a standard questionnaire in both countries. Evidence indicates that product quality and reliability is the main ...

Rashid A. Fayadh , F. Malek , Hilal A. Fadhil , Nael A. Al-Shareefi, and Hussein Saad Mohammed 1,3,4,5 School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) Pauh Putra, 02000 Arau, Parlis, Malaysia 2 School of Electrical System Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) Pauh Putra, 02000 Arau, Parlis, Malaysia a [email protected], [email protected], h...