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  • Publication
    2-D analysis based ILC for linear time-variant discrete systems with multiple time delays
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2009-10-11)
    Lim Eng Aik
    This paper presents Two-Dimensional (2-D) system analysis based Iterative Learning Control (ILC) methods for Linear Time-Variant (LTV) discrete systems with multiple time delays. Both the state delays and the input delays are considered in the ILC design. The ILC research strategy for LTV discrete systems with multiple time delays is to rescontruct the derived ILC error equations into the 2-D Roessor’s model, so that the convergence conditions for the proposed ILC rules can be derived according to the convergence property of the 2-D Roessor’s model. A numerical example is used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed ILC methods.
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    A concept paper on compliance with NADOPOD regulation and guideline Vis-À-Vis the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 among technology-based SME in Northern State of Peninsular Malaysia
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-11-12)
    Dayang Hasliza Muhd Yusuf
    ;
    Azuddin Bahari
    ;
    Wan Sallha Yusoff
    Many researchers claim that technology-based risks are growing in number and frequency. The major accidents, which often involve large numbers of workers and the public, and adversely affect the environment, have highlighted the dangers in both large and small enterprises. However, Small enterprises are often characterized by poor working conditions and a hazardous working environment. In this paper, an attempt to defined the compliance of guidelines and Regulations of (Notification of Accident, Dangerous Occurrence, Occupational Poisoning and Occupational Disease) Regulations 2004 [NADOPOD] on the Safety and Health, Ministry of Human Resources in Malaysia on the basic concept of technology-based SME in Northern Malaysia. The methodology on determining the awareness and compliance to NADOPOD guideline amongst Technology-based SME is illustrated. This conceptual paper is aimed to improve the conceptual parts of analysis, on the establishment of the level of awareness and compliance to NADOPOD among SMEs and identify the challenges and issues that impede compliance and assist the authority in their effort towards improving enforcement and promoting occupational safety, health and welfare of people at work.
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    A conceptual Kano and Quality Function Deployment (QFD) framework for healthcare service
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-11-12)
    Norshahrizan Nordin
    ;
    Razli Che Razak
    Healthcare organization is struggling to provide customer driven quality service. The key success of healthcare service is the ability to develop a comprehensive healthcare service and deliver the best service direct to customer as required. Coherently, the measure of customer feedback should definitely show good perception of service fulfillment and satisfaction. As part of quality improvement process, an outstanding healthcare organization should practice an effective complaint management system (CMS) as the main voice of customer (VOC) source, which directly mirror the quality of healthcare service. The CMS will act as an essential decision support tool by providing seamless handling of complaints, introduces systematic improvement process, thus enabling hospitals to turn weakness into opportunities. However, Malaysian top public healthcare organizations are implicitly not really put much efforts to have a kind of proper CMS to treat complaints as critical and need immediate resolution. In other words, the VOC might not be heard in right way and account as the customer demand, expect and desire. This scenario may be the evident and reason why the present states of public Malaysian healthcare service providers are still unable to fully incorporate the customer requirement or complaint in to their strategic agendas, which account all the customer needs and expectations. This paper presents the current scenario of local public healthcare service with special focus to their implementation of CMS or similar system, in conjunction with healthcare constraints and VOC. Based on recent healthcare literature, an inclusive comparison is made and discussed to justify the gap of improvement in healthcare service. From findings, it is identified that complaint management practice is lacking of systematic procedure to prioritize complaints by customers. To be competitive, an alternative customer prioritizing approach mainly incorporates the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Kano’s Model is proposed conceptually. The new mechanism concept is hope to effectively address a complaint which not only satisfies the customer but also an opportunity to create positive experience with customers, building a healthier foundation, stronger brand value and avoiding legal penalties. It also provides fair balance information for decision making while facing constraints such as operational, legal, human resource and market pressures.
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    A conceptual paper on factors influencing financial institutions on lending technologies to technology-based SMEs in the northern region of Malaysia
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-11-12)
    Wan Sallha Yusoff
    ;
    Chuthamas Chittithaworn
    ;
    Noor Asliza Abdul Rahim
    The unavailability of external financing and lack of access to formal finance are topics of significant research interest to academicians and important issues to policy makers around the globe. However compared to large firms, SMEs frequently tend to report financing as amajor obstacle. The financial constraints of SMEs to access to finance are beyond question by many researchers. Thus, this study attempts to discuss the factors that lead to influence financial institutions in lending technologies to provide finance to SMEs in Malaysia. The methodologies on the relationship between the requirements of financial institutional and the type of lending technologies provided for SMEs is illustrate. This conceptual paper is aimed to improved the theoretical parts of analysis, on the factors influencing Financial Institutions on lending technologies to technology-based SMEs in the northern region of Malaysia and identify the challenges issues regarding the requirements of financial providers based on the lending technologies adoption, be it transaction lending or relationship lending. Furthermore, the methodologies will also be able to assist researchers to get more information on the unique needs for finance of SMEs and tailor the finance providers’ requirements to be SMEs friendlier i.e. better meet SMEs ability and needs in order to achieve win-win situation.
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    A conceptual paper on factors influencing financial institutions on lending technologies to technology-based SMEs in the northern region of Malaysia
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-11-12)
    Wan Sallha Yusoff
    ;
    Noor Asliza Abdul Rahim
    The unavailability of external financing and lack of access to formal finance are topics of significant research interest to academicians and important issues to policy makers around the globe. However compared to large firms, SMEs frequently tend to report financing as a major obstacle. Thus, this study attempts to discuss the factors that lead to influence financial institutions in lending technologies to provide finance to SMEs in Malaysia. The methodologies on the relationship between the requirements of financial institutional and the type of lending technologies provided for SMEs is illustrate. This conceptual paper is aimed to improved the theoretical parts of analysis, on the factors influencing Financial Institutions on lending technologies to technology-based SMEs in the northern region of Malaysia and identify the challenges issues regarding the requirements of financial providers based on the lending technologies adoption, be it transaction lending or relationship lending. Furthermore, the methodologies will also be able to assist researchers to get more information on the unique needs for finance of SMEs and tailor the finance providers’ requirements to be SMEs friendlier i.e. better meet SMEs ability and needs in order to achieve win-win situation.
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    A high performance DTC strategy for torque ripple minimization using duty ratio control for SRM drive
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2009-10-11)
    Veena P
    ;
    Jeyabharath R
    ;
    S.N. Sivanandam
    Direct torque control (DTC) of Switched reluctance motor is known to have simple control structure with comparable performance to that of field oriented control techniques Direct Torque Control has get more and more attentions, but there still are many problems need to be solved in this field. One of these is to minimize the torque ripple and current harmonics. As we all know the output voltage in DTC contains much harmonics for applying hysteresis band in this kind of system. In this paper the torque ripple in DTC is analyzed in detail with little signal model. It is found that the torque ripple can be divided into two parts, one is only related to the motor parameter and the other is related to not only the applied voltage but also the rotor angular velocity. Based on the analysis, a duty ratio modulation method is proposed that only sends the voltage vector in part of the sampling period, while in the rest time of the sampling period zero voltage vector is sent. The duty ratio modulation algorithm, which is induced from the torque ripple analysis, allocates the sampling period. Simulation results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed torque ripple minimizing method.
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    A literature review on marketing information systems for managing customer value of hypermarket business in geographical marketplace
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-11-12)
    Abdul Manaf Bohari
    ;
    Ruslan Rainis
    ;
    Marimuthu Malliga
    Managing customer lifetime value in the geographical marketplace is one of the strategic needs and requirement for successfully of sustaining the business performance especially for large scale of business, includes hypermarket business. Specifically, capturing and managing the data of customer lifetime value of hypermarket are vital important for determine the most valuable customer’s to the hypermarket. Either in the global meltdown or even in stabilizes economy environments, managing lifetime value of customer can be done, regularly by utilizing marketing information system or MKIS. The adoption and or adaptation of MKIS is various part of departments is purposely for managing the customers data such as demographic data, purchasing record, sales and performance record, and so on. However, MKIS is not perfect enough for handling dynamics types of data regarding customers in the marketplace. To the best of knowledge, not surprisingly, MKIS have disadvantages of counting important variables of customer behaviour such as recency, frequency and monetary value of every single customer in the real marketplace. Most importantly, customers is a location problem and differs from one to another space, thus, MKIS is unable to handle such kind of problems. Thus, this paper is purposely for review’s MKIS methods and application issues, theoretically and practically, that would be affecting the future prospect of MKIS. Moreover, understanding MKIS issues on customer lifetime value is practically important to the Marketing Manager to educating them on understand the capabilities and constrains of MKIS methods. At the end, suggestion was made on how to improvise some aspects of MKIS for achieve better performance rather than before.
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    A preliminary study on calcium oxide as potential catalyst for gasification of palm oil empty fruit bunch to produce syngas
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-06-09)
    Khomah Ismail
    ;
    Yarmo M.A.
    ;
    Y. H Taufiq-Yap
    ;
    Aishah Ahmad
    Gasification of dry palm oil empty fruit bunch (EFB), by using a temperature-programmed instrument was performed to determine the amount of synthesis gas produced. The potential of calcium oxide as catalyst for the gasification was studied. Dry and finely crushed EFB was pre-mixed with calcium oxide. Gasification was done at temperature from 50⁰C – 550⁰C and also from 50⁰C – 700⁰C using 5% oxygen in Helium. The products were monitored using an online mass spectrometer. Major products detected from this reaction were H₂, CO, CO₂ and CH4. The effect of calcium oxide amount (CaO : EFB ratio) was also investigated. A very significant increase of H₂ and CO gases produced when nano-size calcium oxide was used as catalyst compared to bulk CaO. Reaction at 700oC using nano-size CaO reduces the formation of carbon dioxide during gasification. The characteristics of the catalyst used were analyzed by using XRD and XPS show some significant changes from CaO to CaCO₃
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    A proposed decision making model for Malaysia
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-11-12)
    Yoshifumi Harada
    The paper introduces a proposed decision making model based on two different conventional decision making processes. The aim is to develop an appropriate model for any organization in Malaysian and to assess its implications for change in a contextual global context. The Japanese decision making procedure is one model considered. This, the ringit system, uses a bottom up approach. The United State‘s procedure is the other whereby a centralized system follows a top-down approach. The two systems are analyzed to establish why the systems have developed differently in each country. Certain cultural dimensions, such as power distance and individualism (Geert Hofstede and Gert Jan Hofstede (2005), are considered as factors. These useful interpretations of homogeneous and heterogeneous societies are used to understand the culture of America and Japan with their different ethnic and social contexts. This analysis of the two different cultural dimensions provides the basis for developing a decision making model for Malaysia. This model is put forward for use by Malaysian decision makers to achieve their missions and visions. A preliminary assessment is undertaken of the implications of the model for decision making for Malaysian engineering in a global context.
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    A study of earning quality among MESDAQ listed companies
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-11-12)
    Siti Nor Junita Mohd Radzi
    ;
    Suraiya Ibrahim
    ;
    Md. Aminul Islam
    This study attempted to find out whether the size of audit firm, internal audit establishment and former senior auditor as company director have any significant effect on earning management. All data were extracted from the annual reports. The sample firms used in this study were all the companies listed on Bursa Malaysia under Malaysia Exchange for Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation (MESDAQ) technological sector in 2006. There were 128 MESDAQ Companies listed in 2006. However due to unavailability of reports, 113 were used for analysis. Earning Management can be viewed from financial reporting perspective. From a financial reporting perspective, managers may use earning management to meet analysts’ earning forecast, thereby avoiding the strong negative share price reaction that quickly follow a failure to meet investor expectations. Too much earning management, however, reduces the earning quality and the ability investor to interpret current net income as well, particularly if the earning management is buried in core earning or otherwise not fully disclosed. The reported net income is useful to investor in evaluating future firm performance but excessive earning management may reduce this usefulness. Thus this study is very important because from the research findings shows that the size of audit firm, internal audit establishment and former senior auditor as company director have no significant effect on earning management. An understanding of the earning management is also important to accountants because it enables an improved understanding of the usefulness of the net income, especially for reporting to investor. It also may assist them to avoid some of the serious legal and reputation consequences that arise when firms become financially distress where such distress is often preceded by serious abuse of earnings management.
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    A study of industrial water pollution at Kawasan Perindustrian Jejawi, Perlis
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-06-09)
    Khairul Nizar Ismail
    ;
    Juliana Abdul Rahman
    Hundred and ten water samples were collected for heavy metal and water quality analysis along Sungai Jejawi. Sampling was conducted four times over a period of a month, six times over a period of weekday and weekends and also seven times over a period of a week on December 2009. DR2800 Spectrophotometer and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) was used to determine Mn, Cu, Zn and Cr .All the selected heavy metal such as Cu (0.42 mg/L), Mn (0.178 mg/L), Cr (0.091 mg/L) and Zn (0.05 mg/L) had followed the Standard quality. For the XRF determination the trend of heavy metals in water system is Ru> Pd >P> Ca> Hf >Al> Cu >Fe >Os. This river was classified into class III, based on Interim National Water Quality Standards for Malaysia (INWQS) which is it can be use as second water supply, but it required conventional treatment.
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    A study of infrastructure for real-time location system
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2009-10-11)
    Hazry Desa
    ;
    Mohd Sofian Mohammad Rosbi
    ;
    Mohd Zahiruddin Md. Zain
    This paper proposed the infrastructure for real-time location system (RTLS). RTLS determine and track the location of assets and person using active tags which contain a battery and can transmit signals autonomously to a reader. Two or more readers can estimate the tag’s range from each reader and determine its location. The data will be send to the data location engine before displayed in the geographical interface server(GIS) which includes mapping software and its application with remote sensing.
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    A study of students’ language strategies use and difficulties during group discussions
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-11-12)
    Anis Maesin
    ;
    Surina Nayan
    ;
    Nazira Osman
    ;
    Mahani Mansor
    ;
    Latisha Asmaak Shafie
    Even after years of learning English in both primary and secondary levels, many university students are still rather weak when it comes to speaking in English, including performing discussions in the language. Many are not confident and afraid to use English in public. Thus this study attempts to investigate whether students are using appropriate language strategies as they take part in a group discussion. Data was gathered through group observations of part three Civil Engineering diploma students of University Teknologi MARA Perlis. The findings reveal that the students were able to employ varying language forms that were introduced to them, in assisting them to communicate their ideas effectively while performing a group discussion.
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    A study of viewers’ attitude towards TV advertising in Thailand
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2010-11-12)
    Chuthamas Chittithaworn
    ;
    Md. Aminul Islam
    ;
    Orachot Thooksoon
    The aim of this study is to examine the relationships Belief Dimensions and attitude of viewers towards TV advertising. Earlier research was mainly explored in the west with some finding were positive and some being negative on certain aspects of viewers perception. Whilst this study is exploratory in nature in understanding the relationship between Belief Dimensions and attitude of viewers towards TV advertising. Generally the Thai TV viewers tend to have a more negative attitude towards TV advertising. Three Belief dimension were found to be significant towards TV advertising and theses are informational benefits, negative contents and offensive. Three were not significant and these are availability, advertising format and non-informative. The result shows a number of implications for the management of business organization in particular the advertising agencies. They need to address the issue of peoples’ perception being negative towards TV adverting; secondly combine the demographic characteristics and belief dimensions to maximize advertising’s reach and effectiveness. By understanding the viewer profile advertising agencies may be able to do a better media planning and focus on creativity and presentation.
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    A study on communication method between two humans during cooperative task
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2009-09-11)
    Shahriman Abu Bakar
    ;
    Ryojun, Ikeura
    ;
    Ahmad Faizal Salleh
    ;
    Takemi, Yuno
    At present the majority of autonomous robots are mostly used in factories where speed and accuracy are given highest priority. In our research, we are focusing in the area where the robot that cooperate with human to lift or carry a human subject. In this area the robots are required to interact with human and move in such a fashion where it will move with human-like motion so that the human subject that is being move will not feel intimidated. In order to design robot that have smooth human like motion capability during human robot interaction in cooperative task, we need to understand how human-human understand each other, how and what kind of information are exchange between them that enable human-human to be able to accomplish to move object with smooth qualities. Based on this, we need to design a system that is available to be used not only by robotic experts but by general population so that anybody can use this system for their care giving purpose. In this paper we conduct a study of how human-human utilize their sense in moviug and stopping an object and we analyzed the smoothness of the motion by analyzing the hand jerk characteristic during the said task.
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    A study on voltage sag in industry system with adjustable speed drive
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2008-03-15)
    Syahrul Ashikin Azmi
    ;
    Mohd Fayzul Mohammed
    ;
    Siti Rafidah Abdul Rahim
    ;
    Mohd Rafi Adzman
    ;
    Zainuddin Mat Isa
    ;
    Ismail Daut
    The awareness of electric power quality has increased over the past decade as electronic equipment has become more susceptible to power disturbances. The most distruptive power disturbances is voltage sags. Voltage sags produce an important effect on the behavior of adjustable speed drives (ASD's). Tripping of ASD is one of the greatest voltage sag problem, causing motor to stop with the resulting loss of time and production, or damaged equipment may cause significant economical loses. This paper is focused on the effect of voltage sags on adjustable speed drive (ASD) which commonly used in industry system. Voltage sags are normally used described by magnitude variation and unbalanced (asymmetry). These factors are important to determine the behavior of ac motor drive during sags. A VSI (Voltage Source Inverter) driving a three-phase induction motor is analyzed through digital simulation. Simulation on sag depth and three types of voltage sags which are based on voltage sag classification, with an emphasis on the changes dc bridge voltage, rms inverter voltage and motor speed were done. Thus, voltages and speed measurement are obtained. Simulation result clearly show that the different types of sags and sag depth would cause dc-link voltage variation and finally result in motor speed changes.
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    'Adapun' dalam Taj Al Salatin
    (Penerbit UniMAP (UniMAP Press), 2019)
    Nor Diyana Saupi
    Makalah ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis penggunaan penanda wacana adapun yang terdapat di dalam manuskrip Melayu lama Taj Al Salatin hasil karya Bukhari Al Jauhari. Teks ini telah dihasilkan pada abad ke-16 semasa pemerintahan Sultan ‘Alauddin Ri’ayat Shah Sayyid al-Mukammil (1590-1604) dengan tujuan untuk membantu baginda memerintah kerajaan Acheh dengan baik berteraskan ajaran agama Islam. Perbincangan tertumpu kepada penghuraian tentang penggunaan kata wacana adapun yang bertindak sebagai penanda wacana yang hadir di pangkal ayat dan kelas kata yang hadir selepasnya. Analisis makalah ini direalisasikan dengan menggunakan 74 data yang dijana daripada Malay Concordance Project (MCP). Kerangka yang mendasari kajian ini ialah Teori Fungsional-Sistemik sebagaimana yang dicadangkan oleh Halliday dan Hasan (1995). Kajian ini dilihat berpotensi dalam membuka satu lembaran baru kepada penyelidikan dalam struktur nahuan dengan menggunakan data manuskrip Melayu lama.
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    Aluminium–Polymer ABS product
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2009-12-01)
    Mohd Ichwan Nasution
    ;
    Shamsul Baharin Jamaludin
    ;
    Che Mohd Ruzaidi Ghazali
    ;
    Khairel Rafezi Ahmad
    Material used for aluminium product usually made of aluminium scrap. Currently, the price of aluminium scrap is increased. It is necessary to minimize the cost of production by reducing the weight of the aluminium product at the same time remain the form or the shape of the product. Fabrication of aluminium matrix composite is one of the method to reduce the weight of aluminium but the modulus improved due the addition of ceramic materials as reinforcement. In this research, the idea of combining aluminium with polymers has been developed. Acrylonitrine Butadiene Styrene (ABS) was selected because of its low density and low melting temperature. The results indicated that homogenous microstructure and better strength can be obtained.
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    Amalan kepimpinan pengajaran pengetua di sekolah berkesan dan sekolah kurang berkesan
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2012-03-29)
    Hirwan Jasbir Jaafar
    ;
    Hamiza Omar
    Kajian ini memberikan tumpuan terhadap tahap amalan kepimpinan pengajaran pengetua dari segi pengamalan dimensi kepimpinan pengajaran antara sekolah berkesan dan sekolah kurang berkesan. Kajian ini dilaksanakan di 5 buah sekolah berkesan dan 5 buah sekolah kurang berkesan yang terdapat di negeri Perlis. Satu set borang soal selidik telah diedarkan kepada guru-guru yang mengajar di sekolah tersebut secara rawak bebas. Sebanyak 350 borang soal selidik telah diedarkan dan jumlah yang diterima semula adalah sebanyak 322. Seramai 164 orang responden terdiri daripada guru-guru yang mengajar di sekolah berkesan dan selebihnya iaitu serarnai 158 Orang responden terdiri daripada guru-guru yang mengajar di sekolah kurang berkesan telah mengisi borang soal selidik. Sebanyak lima hipotesis alternatif telah dibina dan diuji dengan menggunakan kaedah statistik min dan ujian-t. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan dalam dimensi mentafsir dan menyampaikan matlamat, dimensi mengurus kurikulum dan pengajaran dan dimensi memupuk iklim pembelajaran yang positif antara sekolah berkesan dan sekolah kurang berkesan. Manakala bagi dimensi mencerap dan memberi maklum balas kepada guru dan dimensi menilai program pengajaran, dapatan kajian menunjukkan tidak terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan antara sekolah berkesan dan sekolah kurang berkesan. Secara keseluruhannya, statistik deskriptif yang diperolehi menunjukkan bahawa tahap pengamalan tingkah laku kepimpinan pengajaran pengetua di sekolah berkesan adalah lebih tinggi iaitu pada min (M=3.80, SD=.59) berbanding sekolah kurang berkesan iaitu pada min (M=3.62, SD= .50). Kesimpulannya, pengetua di sekolah berkesan mengamalkan tingkah laku kepimpinan pengajaran lebih tinggi berbanding pengetua sekolah kurang berkesan.
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    An analysis on power quality measurement and monitoring techniques for nonlinear load
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2008-03-15)
    Shahrul Ashikin Azmi
    ;
    Mohd Rafi Adzman
    ;
    Mohd Fayzul Mohammed
    ;
    Siti Rafidah Abdul Rahim
    ;
    Zainuddin Mat Isa
    ;
    Ismail Daut
    Electric power quality is an aspect of power engineering that has been with us since the inception of power systems. The measurement of the quality of the electric power in a network is therefore becoming an urging need especially in a deregulated electricity market. In the paper, the types of power quality variation are described and the method of characterizing each type with measurements are presented. By using the advances of power quality monitoring equipment and tools, analysis on power quality measurement result are described. The increased amount af data being collected requires more advanced analysis tools. power quality monitoring has advanced from strictly problem solving to ongoing monitoring of system performance.