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PublicationPresident Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration and the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, 1963-1966: a review of the foreign relations of the United States document(AIP Publishing, 2023-04)This study focuses on the US administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson and its relationship to the Indonesia-Malaysia conflict from 1963 to 1966. The main objective of this research is to clarify issues concerning economic interests and communist threats that influenced President Johnson's administration's reaction to the confrontation. The emphasis is on the period from the end of 1964, when President Johnson replaced President John F. Kennedy, to the end of the conflict in 1966. This study employs archival research methods with material obtained from the National Archives of Singapore as well as documents from The National Archive in London. The main reference document is the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) file, which contains the President's statements, memoranda, and telegrams during the conflict. The primary document has been selected, processed, analysed, and compiled to form a more objective and authoritative argument. Furthermore, secondary sources such as theses, journals, books, and memoirs were used to create a discussion narrative. In the end, this study concluded that economic interests and the communist threat influenced President Johnson's administration's reaction to the Indonesia-Malaysia conflict.
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PublicationPilot study analysis for acceptance towards 5S quality management among university students(AIP Publishing, 2023)The 5S quality management is a standardized process that when properly implemented creates and maintains an organized, safe, clean and efficient workplace. An organized workplace is one of contributing factor for effectiveness for study activity among students in university. Therefore, a study to explained the determinant factors that influence acceptance towards 5S quality management is crucial to be carried out in university. This study developed pilot study analysis for acceptance towards 5S quality management among university students. This study performed questionnaire quantitative method in assessing the acceptance of 5S quality management among students in university. Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is selected as underpinning theory for conceptual research framework. Additional variable namely Knowledge (K) is added as additional variable to improve the theoretical framework of this research. The number of respondents is 40 students for pilot test in validating research instruments. The value of Cronbach Alpha for all four variables are larger than 0.7. Therefore, the pilot test result shows all instruments in measuring four variables meet the requirement for validity and reliability test. The finding of this study add knowledge to body of literature. In the same time, this study helps practitioners in developing policy for university in achieving sustainable green campus.
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PublicationThe rhetorical moves of abstracts in thesis(AIP Publishing, 2023)Abst-ract plays an important role in representing research articles (RAs) or theses. A clear, concise, informative and interesting abstract helps the RAs or theses in terms of visibility and drawing attention towards the research. Being among the first writings read by the target audience, that is after the title and name of the researcher/s, it determines whether the rest of the RA or thesis will be read or not. Therefore, this paper draws attention to the rhetorical moves found in Engineering discipline thesis abstracts compared with the TEFL discipline thesis abstracts. The sample of the study are 10 thesis abstracts, selected from the best thesis award recipients of Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). All the thesis analysed are from the engineering discipline and are written in English. The corpus size is 4540 words. Then, the result obtained were compared with a previous study on TEFL thesis abstracts done by [1]. The study uses Move analysis guided by CARS Model (2004) and utilizes frequency count (presence of Move). The findings of the study show that Move 3 is the most utilized Move in these abstracts. Move 3 is present in all of the theses for both the Engineering and TEFL abstracts. The Move step analysis indicated that for Move 2, the Engineering discipline thesis has more occurrences as compared with the TEFL discipline abstracts. The finding can be used by instructors for teaching abstracts writing based on best practice and from a more personalized perspective taking into account the discipline and cultural variation of the abstracts. As most instructors teaching academic writing in university comes from the linguistic or English language education background, it is hoped that the comparison made in this study would benefit those instructors teaching academic writing, particularly abstract writing for Engineering students.
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PublicationMalaysian entrepreneurs’ strategies on product pricing during COVID-19 outbreaks(AIP Publishing, 2023)The outbreaks of Covid-19 have had a significant effect on the economy. Therefore, they may affect the companies’ decision to determine prices for goods and services to sustain and be competitive. During this recession period, customers focus on product value and prices, suppliers are concerned about cash, and workers are concerned about their jobs. Therefore, this study provides an understanding of the price-setting strategies used by entrepreneurs during this pandemic. In addition, an online survey has been distributed by using the snowballing method to reach out to entrepreneurs for a duration from May to June 2020. The outcomes of this study showed instead of using a price promotion strategy to remain competitive, most of the respondents prefer to create product values on customers.
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PublicationDisaster information by national disaster management agency (NADMA) on social media during disaster: a qualitative perspective(AIP Publishing, 2023)Disaster information flashing a warning news and preparing the public to face an inescapable natural disaster. This paper presents a case study approach to explore the disaster information prepared by NADMA on social media during disaster. In-depth interviews were conducted with disaster management teams from National Disaster Management Agency Malaysia (NADMA). It provides the coding frameworks for analysis of semi-structured interviews with five individuals. The interviews were transcribed and then analyzed by using software. Results show NADMA often provides current situation news and disaster help response information for the public. There were clear preferences that the response guidelines and disaster preparedness education were the most information published in social media. Theoretically, this study aims to enriched the study of communication especially in disaster situations. The results could guide the aspect of information management by disaster management teams during disasters.
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