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    Pemerkasaan al-Quran dan al-Sunnah penyumbang kepada kecemerlangan Tamadun Melayu: satu analisis
    Nur kebenaran yang terpancar daripada isi kandungan al-Quran dan alSunnah mengandungi asas-asas keluhuran pembentukan peradaban sebagai panduan asas untuk diikuti oleh seluruh manusia. Al-Quran dan al-Sunnah menyeru semua masyarakat supaya kembali kepada pemikiran rasional dan realistik dan menyangkal pemikiran yang diikat dengan fahaman animisme, paganisme dan “syncretism”. Sebagai kitab yang paling sempurna diciptakan oleh Allah, maka al-Quran merupakan obor kebenaran yang menerangi liku-liku kehidupan yang perlu dilalui oleh setiap manusia. Begitu juga al-Sunnah yang disampaikan oleh Nabi Muhammad SAW melalui petunjuk Ilahi menjadi petunjuk kepada manusia untuk menguruskan sistem kehidupan. Sejarah telah mencerahkan bahawa pengajaran yang terkandung dalam al-Quran dan al-Sunnah telah memberi impak yang positif terhadap kebudayaan Melayu. Ajaran Islam yang telah berstimulasi dalam kebudayaan Melayu telah menimbulkan satu gelombang yang hebat dalam menggerakkan proses merevolusi sistem pandangan hidup masyarakat yang telah memalingkan dari alam seni mitos yang khayal kepada pembentukan alam akal dan budi yang menuntut kepada kaedah tertib yang teratur. Islam telah mengubah lanskap kebudayaan Melayu kepada kepercayaan rasionalisme dan pengetahuan akliah. Manifestasi ini dizahirkan melalui sistem masyarakat yang berasaskan kepada kebebasan, keadilan dan kemuliaan keperibadian insan. Justeru itu, penelitian yang lebih kritis dan saintifik terhadap impak pengajaran al-Quran dan al-Sunnah terhadap perkaitannya dalam memperkasakan bangsa Melayu perlu dilakukan. Kajian yang dijalankan ini adalah bersifat kualitatif dengan mengkaji persejarahan Islam bagi mendapatkan gambaran yang lebih tepat tentang aspek budaya dan pemikiran serta realiti hidup masyarakat Melayu kini. Natijahnya, ajaranal-Quran dan al-Sunnah telah berjaya mewarnai sistem kepercayaan, falsafah, bahasa, sejarah dan kesenian masyarakat Melayu. Sifat dan hakikat kecemerlangan kebudayaan Melayu tidak dapat dijuzukkan daripada pengajaran Islam. Apa yang nyata, umat Melayu akan terus unggul dan berdaya saing sekiranya berpegang teguh dengan pegangan al-Quran dan al-Sunnah.
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    Intercultural sensitivity among teachers and prospective teachers: A review
    The diversity of students in the classroom requires prospective teachers to have an appropriate sensitivity and competency as a preparation for teaching students from various ethnicities and cultures background. However, realizing this goal is not a simple task. Teaching culturally and ethnically diverse students is a huge challenge for teachers as well as prospective teachers. It is possible that teachers have an awareness of cultural differences but may not be sensitive enough to the cultural differences in the classroom. Therefore, there is a need for teachers to not just have an awareness of cultural differences but also be sensitive to teach a diverse student effectively. Teacher education programs is very important period in preparing prospective with all the competencies needed. Teachers as well as prospective teachers must have a high level of cultural sensitivity so they can respond effectively in terms of diversity in their classrooms and prepare their students to live and work in a global society. This paper discusses on intercultural sensitivity among teachers and prospective teacher and related theories regarding this issue.
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    Perception of teacher on cooperative learning
    The participation of students in the process of learning is one of the keys to ensure effective learning outcomes either in terms of knowledge or skill. However, teacher-centred teaching methods which have been practiced in this country after so long avert students to fully engage in the learning process especially in a classroom. Various attempts have been made by the government to emphasize student’s development in term of communication, creativity and innovation through the of process learning in class. It requires school to implement student-centred teaching methods such as cooperative learning. Cooperative learning is a teaching method that requires teachers not only interacts with the students but also with other teaching aids such as audio, video and computer. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify teachers' perception on the implementation of cooperative learning in the teaching and learning process in class. 25 teachers were selected as respondents. Mixed methods were used in this study, where the instrument of questionnaires and interviews were used to collect the data. Quantitative data analysis was made using descriptive statistics of frequency, mean and percentage. While, qualitative data analysis was based on the recommendations of the Miles & Huberman (1994). The findings showed teachers have a positive attitude toward cooperative learning and they are ready and feel confident to practice it. However, the constraints are classroom control, time and limited teaching aids
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    Psychological factors influencing online buying behaviour among students
    Online shopping has become a trend nowadays and a survey shows that youngsters among Generation Y are the most active users on using online shopping. In the meantime, National Consumer Complaints Centre (NCCC) has received lots of complaints about online shopping scams. Therefore, this study determines the psychological factors influencing online shopping behaviour among students of Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). A conceptual framework is proposed by applying the constructs of Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) including attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, buying behaviour and two additional factors which are perceived risks and perceived benefits adopted from the past empirical studies which are determined as psychological factors of online shopping. This quantitative research used a questionnaire via google form link distributed to 390 respondents selected by convenience sampling among UniMAP students. The results showed that attitude, perceived risks and perceived benefits had relationship toward online buying due to p=<0.05. Meanwhile, subjective norms have a very weak relationship with r-value=.130 and perceived behaviour control was not correlated with online shopping (P-value=0.870). Perceived behavioural control influence an individual's understanding of the complexity or ease of executing a specific action concludes that psychological factors partially influence online shopping among UniMAP's students.
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    Screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the psychometric measures
    ( 2018)
    Mohamad Hashim Othman
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    N.S. Alias
    Urinalysis was used in previous studies among higher institution students (n=16252) in Malaysia to answer the question of whether university students are involved in drug abuse. However, the use of urinalysis had faced some problems. The problems were related to human rights issues and the cost to perform the urinalysis was expensive and quite impossible to be implemented to a large population of university students. To overcome this problem, this study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of psychometric measures in screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse. The Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory A2 (SASSI-A2) was used for this purpose. SASSI-A2 is a brief screening tool designed to identify individuals who have a high probability of having a substance use disorder, including both substance abuse and substance dependence. SASSI-A2 comprises of 72 items that are rated on a two point scale with response; true and false. SASSI-A2 was translated into Malay language and it was refined through a back-translation technique and focus group approach. Psychometric testing was undertaken on a sample of 750 university students from five public universities in Malaysia. All participants were aged between 19 and 20 years. Internal consistency coefficients were calculated for the total scale and its subscales. Chronbach's alpha obtained for SASSI-A2 was 0.72. This relatively high level of Chronbach's alpha showed relatively high level of reliability. The results demonstrated that the whole SASSI-A2 meets the fundamental measurement properties and can discriminate groups of higher institution students from high to low on the substance dependency variable. The accuracy of the test has been found to be unaffected by gender, ethnicity, age and years of education. Although more rigorous validation studies are needed, it is recommended that SASSI-A2 be considered for usage to higher institution students populations when a brief, objective, and accurate screening tool for chemical dependency is needed.
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    Ekspektasi antara hasrat dan realiti wanita bekerjaya terhadap pengurusan kekeluargaan: kajian di Universiti Malaysia Perlis
    Arus globalisasi yang mewarnai kehidupan manusia memberi dampak antaranya, kos sara hidup semakin meningkat dan kualiti pengurusan rumah tangga. Justeru, pendapatan yang stabil dan pengurusan masa yang amat diperlukan untuk memastikan keperluan keluarga diberi keutamaan. Realiti yang berlaku ini mendorong para isteri yang bekerjaya menyusun dan merancang pengurusan masa dan perlaksanaan tanggungjawab secara berhikmah dalam memenuhi keperluan tersebut. Di samping itu, status pendidikan tinggi yang diperolehi oleh kaum wanita pada hari ini membolehkan mereka membina kerjaya masing-masing. Hakikatnya, apabila kedua-dua ibu bapa bekerja, masa yang dihabiskan bersama keluarga menjadi longgar. Implikasinya, secara tidak langsung mengakibatkan masa menguruskan keluarga semakin singkat. Akibatnya, sebahagian daripada masa penting perlu diagihkan kepada profesyen kerjaya dan sudah tentu memberi impak terhadap kualiti rumahtangga. Anak-anak perlu disemai dengan nilai-nilai murni dan harmoni kerana ia akan memperngaruhi personaliti peribadi yang terpuji. Ibu-ibu yang bekerja sering menghadapi dilema sama ada patut meneruskan pekerjaan atau tidak apabila terbit naluri keibuan dalam diri mereka. Tidak dinafikan setiap wanita yang berkahwin mempunyai hasrat yang tinggi untuk menguruskan keluarga dengan baik. Meskipun begitu, apabila mereka bekerjaya secara realitinya mereka perlu bijak membahagikan fokus tumpuan terhadap rumahtangga. Adakah ini benar? Maka kajian ini ingin melihat sama ada wanita bekerjaya mampu merealisasi hasrat menguruskan keluarga mereka dengan baik. Selain itu, faktor-faktor penyumbang kepada permasalahan keluarga dan tindakan yang diambil oleh responden apabila menghadapi masalah juga dilakukan kajian. Umumnya kajian ini melibatkan 92 orang responden. Kajian mendapati implikasi yang berlaku ke atas wanita bekerjaya di UniMAP di antara hasrat dan realiti terhadap keberkesanan pengurusan keluarga menunjukkan mereka mampu mengimbangi antara tugas di pejabat dan tugas di rumah. Malah sebahagian besar wanita bekerjaya di UniMAP berserah kepada Ilahi dan menyelesaikan masalah sendiri apabila menghadapi masalah keluarga. Secara fitrahnya, apabila manusia menghadapi sebarang kesulitan dan kesusahan mereka akan mengadu dan meminta bantuan daripada Ilahi.
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    Self-Disclosure on SNS: Trust and Perceived Risks as Moderators
    This research is intended to discover the influence of the proposed moderators in the relationship of privacy concerns and self-disclosure. The moderators are trust and perceived risk, which were expected to have differing influence on the relationship. Using SEM method through multigroup analyses, the results show that both trust and perceived risks have significant moderating effects in between the relationship of privacy concerns and self-disclosure. Trust moderates the relationship in a positive way, whereas higher trust will increase self-disclosure in SNS. Meanwhile perceived risks has a negative moderation effect, in such higher perceived risks will decrease self-disclosure.
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    LexisNexis database: A study on usage and satisfaction
    Providing access to information especially in the forms of articles and journals has given students access to reliable information for references. In this study, the researchers identify the level of usage of LexisNexis among the students from the Faculty of Law, Universiti Teknologi Mara due to its appropriateness towards the Law field. Also, the study aims to identify the level of user satisfaction towards the usage of LexisNexis, based on the Technology Acceptance Model.
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    Memory inhibition and later retrieval
    (AIP Publishing, 2023-04-24)
    Huzili A.I.
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    Yusof H.A.M.
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    Forgetting is adaptive because it decreases future interference (a conflict between information in memory), and it enables selectivity of information recollection. Thus, relevant information can be activated, and irrelevant information can be inhibited. Memory inhibition is the ability to override memory as a whole or a part of it, with or without intention. This conceptual paper will provide an in-depth literature review based on a few empirical types of research that provide evidence that information in memory can be inhibited and the attempt to impede memory would hinder the information retrieval later. Within this study, the author identified various empirical research that inhibition of the memory is possible through (a) retrieval-induced forgetting, (b) directed forgetting, and (c) direct suppression: think and no-think paradigm. In addition, research gaps and limitations are identified, which would provide additional information for extended research in future.
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    Adoption of TPB and TAM in investigating online self-disclosure among youth
    The purpose of this paper is to extend the understanding of the predictors of self-disclosure among young social media users. The framework adopts the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to come out with predictors of online self-disclosure in SNS setting. With the inclusions of the proposed constructs, the conceptual framework is deemed as appropriate and relevant in explaining users' self-disclosure in SNS.
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