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The Effects Of Recasts And Metalinguistic Corrective Feedback On Grammar Acquisition Of Postgraduate Esl Learners / Mandana Rohollahzadeh Ebadi, Mandana Rohollahzadeh Ebadi Jan 2015

The Effects Of Recasts And Metalinguistic Corrective Feedback On Grammar Acquisition Of Postgraduate Esl Learners / Mandana Rohollahzadeh Ebadi, Mandana Rohollahzadeh Ebadi

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The issue of efficacy of oral corrective feedback on grammar acquisition of second language learners in an English language classroom setting remains controversial in recent years due to the implicit and explicit types of corrective feedback and different positions of interface toward implicit and explicit knowledge. This study investigated the impact of implicit corrective feedback in the form of recasts and explicit corrective feedback in the form of metalinguistic information on grammar acquisition of ESL learners. The quantitative study was conducted at the University of Malaya Centre for Continuing Education in Kuala Lumpur with 136 female and male international postgraduate …

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Penguasaan Istilah Fiqh Dalam Kalangan Murid Sekolah Rendah: Kajian Di Sekolah- Sekolah Rendah Dalam Zon Pudu, Wilayah Persekutuan / Muhamad Mazlan Abdul Majid, Abdul Majid Muhamad Mazlan Jan 2015

Penguasaan Istilah Fiqh Dalam Kalangan Murid Sekolah Rendah: Kajian Di Sekolah- Sekolah Rendah Dalam Zon Pudu, Wilayah Persekutuan / Muhamad Mazlan Abdul Majid, Abdul Majid Muhamad Mazlan

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menilai tahap penguasaan murid sekolah rendah terhadap istilah-istilah fiqh yang terdapat di dalam buku teks Pendidikan Islam KBSR. Di sini kajian akan menumpukan kepada aspek pengajaran guru berkaitan istilah-istilah fiqh serta faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi pembelajaran murid. Populasi kajian ini adalah murid-murid tahun 5 dari tujuh buah sekolah dalam Zon Pudu, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur. Seramai 350 orang murid dipilih sebagai sampel dalam kajian ini di samping 7 orang guru. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah tinjauan (survey) untuk mengumpul data dan ianya dianalisis secara diskriptif. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tahap penguasaan murid terhadap istilah-istilah fiqh yang terdapat dalam …

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A Case Study Of The Role Of Higher Order Thinking Skills On The Development Of Sight Reading Ability For Piano Beginners At Age Seven To Ten / Siow Lian Cheng, Lian Cheng Siow Jan 2015

A Case Study Of The Role Of Higher Order Thinking Skills On The Development Of Sight Reading Ability For Piano Beginners At Age Seven To Ten / Siow Lian Cheng, Lian Cheng Siow

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To access towards the effectiveness of higher order thinking skills towards children’s sight-reading ability improvement individually, this study used qualitative observations and a qualitative analysis of sight-reading ability improvement, upon four young piano beginners, with age, 7, 8, 9, and 10. The four subjects in this study were selected based on their distinct behaviors and distinct sight-reading abilities. All students participate in seventh week of sight-reading lessons, which the first week was a pretest of sight-reading before proceeding towards the first lesson in the second week, and the seventh week was a posttest of sight-reading after a period of five-week …

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Penggunaan Tasybih Dan Isti'arah Dalam Cerpen Arab Dan Melayu : Satu Perbandingan / Nurul Ashiqin Binti Jaafar, Nurul Ashiqin Jaafar Jan 2015

Penggunaan Tasybih Dan Isti'arah Dalam Cerpen Arab Dan Melayu : Satu Perbandingan / Nurul Ashiqin Binti Jaafar, Nurul Ashiqin Jaafar

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This dissertation entitled "Comparison Tasybih and Isti‘arah in Arabic and Malay Stories", discuss about comparison study between Arabic and Malay stories. The aim of this research is to introduce of the styles of tasybih and isti‘arah (style of comparative language) in Arab and Malay short stories. Tasybih and isti‘arah is a form of Arab rhetoric that led to the study and teaching of effective communication through the use of proper language style according to language experts. It not only describes the structure of a brief, but included definitions and examples as well as comparisons between tasybih and isti‘arah in Arabic …

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The Translation Of Idioms In George Orwell's “Animal Farm” Into Arabic / Kareema Abdulnabi Lafta, Kareema Abdulnabi Lafta Jan 2015

The Translation Of Idioms In George Orwell's “Animal Farm” Into Arabic / Kareema Abdulnabi Lafta, Kareema Abdulnabi Lafta

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This study aims to investigate the phenomenon of idioms, their types, the strategies applied in translating them and how effectively they are rendered in the English novel “Animal Farm” and its Arabic version “يضسػح انؽٛ إٌ ” Mazraat (Farm) Al-haywan (Animal). The objectives of this study are: (i) to investigate the strategies used in translating the idioms in Orwell‟s “Animal Farm” into Arabic, (ii) to find out if the idioms in the English source text are effectively translated into Arabic, and (iii) to find the most suitable strategies for conveying the idioms that have been translated inappropriately from English into …

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Kajian Semantik Kata Nama Pinjaman Dalam Daichouhen Doraemon / Nadiah Binti Zubbir, Nadiah Zubbir Jan 2015

Kajian Semantik Kata Nama Pinjaman Dalam Daichouhen Doraemon / Nadiah Binti Zubbir, Nadiah Zubbir

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Kajian ini dijalankan dengan tujuan untuk melihat kekerapan dan bilangan kata nama pinjaman dan untuk mengenalpasti perubahan makna yang dibawa oleh kata nama pinjaman bahasa Inggeris dalam bahasa Jepun. Kajian ini telah menyelidik lima buah manga yang bertajuk Daichouhen Doraemon dengan mengutip kata pinjaman yang berbentuk kata tunggal. Kekerapan dan bilangan kata nama pinjaman diteliti melalui perbandingan dengan bilangan kekerapa kata kerja pinjaman dan kata adjektif pinjaman. Hanya perkataan yang selalu digunakan dalam kehidupan seharian dan tiga jenis perubahan makna sahaja dipilih iaitu peluasan makna, pemilikan makna baru dan pengurangan makna untuk diteliti dalam kajian ini. Tambahan pula, hanya kata …

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Interactional Patterns Of Chinese Speakers Of English In Group Interaction / Li Li, Li Li Jan 2015

Interactional Patterns Of Chinese Speakers Of English In Group Interaction / Li Li, Li Li

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Group discussion as a speech event is commonly used by young adults in various contexts throughout the process of tertiary studies. With the increasing number of such young adults from China pursuing their tertiary level education in Malaysia, this study seeks to look at how these foreign language users of English carry out group discussions, specifically focusing on their interactional patterns. In particular, the aims of the study are: (1) to investigate the features and the politeness strategies used in opening and closing sequences in group discussions; (2) to explore the speech produced by the Chinese speakers and ascertain if …

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A Multimodal Analysis Of Cover Stories On Mobile Phones: An Ideational Perspective / Salveen Kaur Gill A/P Sakdev Singh, Sakdev Singh Salveen Kaur Gill Jan 2015

A Multimodal Analysis Of Cover Stories On Mobile Phones: An Ideational Perspective / Salveen Kaur Gill A/P Sakdev Singh, Sakdev Singh Salveen Kaur Gill

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Cover stories generally contain magazine articles which focuses the subject matter on the cover. The interest of this study is on new products specifically mobile phones presented in “Mobile World” magazine as nowadays, there is a competition in selling mobile phones (Ni’Mah, 2012). Therefore, the study will explain on how linguistic and visual features of cover stories could be deciphered as an adverting message through investigating linguistic and visual representation used in magazine cover stories. The data in this study are taken from a magazine of cellular consumer’s guidance, namely “Mobile World” magazine published by One World Solutions Sdn Bhd. …

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Keberkesanan Komik Dalam Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab Di Sekolah Menengah / Nor Sakinah Binti Ismail Zawawi, Nor Sakinah Ismail Zawawi Jan 2015

Keberkesanan Komik Dalam Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab Di Sekolah Menengah / Nor Sakinah Binti Ismail Zawawi, Nor Sakinah Ismail Zawawi

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Beberapa kajian menunjukkan pelajar Bahasa Arab masih memerlukan kaedah yang sesuai untuk menarik minat mereka dalam mempelajari Bahasa Arab (Mohd Fadzli & Mohd Sukki, 2012). Hal ini bertambah rumit apabila pelajar Bahasa Arab juga dibuktikan menghadapi masalah ingatan di mana ia boleh menyekat kebolehan kelancaran mereka untuk berbahasa (Norhayuza, 2001). Justeru, untuk mengatasi masalah ini, penulis menjalankan satu kajian yang bertujuan untuk menilai keberkesanan pembelajaran Bahasa Arab menggunakan komik untuk mengetahui adakah kaedah ini menepati keperluan pelajar dalam mempelajari Bahasa Arab. Data yang dikumpulkan menggunakan tiga intrumen kajian, iaitu soal selidik keatas pelajar, temu bual ke atas guru dan ujian …

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Learner-Computer Textual Gloss Interactions For Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition / Mohamad Ali Yusuf, Abdullah Mohamad Ali Yusuf Jan 2015

Learner-Computer Textual Gloss Interactions For Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition / Mohamad Ali Yusuf, Abdullah Mohamad Ali Yusuf

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Working from an Interactionist approach to Second Language Acquisition (SLA), this study further investigated the potential of Gass’ (1997) Input-Interactionist model for SLA in a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) environment. The model is used as it is described as the most comprehensive and clear statement of the roles played by input and interaction in L2 acquisition currently available. The amalgamation of different hypotheses such as the Input Hypothesis, Interaction Hypothesis, Noticing and the Comprehensible Output Hypotheses form the framework of this model. This Input-Interactionist model was operationalised through the learners’ interactions with a textual computer gloss (modified input). The …

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Aspek Kala Dalam Gaya Bahasa Nafi Dalam Juz ‘Amma / Ahmad Wan Abd Rahman, Wan Abd Rahman Ahmad Jan 2015

Aspek Kala Dalam Gaya Bahasa Nafi Dalam Juz ‘Amma / Ahmad Wan Abd Rahman, Wan Abd Rahman Ahmad

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Kajian ini membincangkan mengenai aspek kala gaya bahasa nafi dalam Juz ‘Amma. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti aspek kala dalam gaya bahasa nafi bahasa Arab dan menganalisis penggunaan gaya bahasa nafi dalam al-Quran al-Karim dan hubung kaitnya dengan unsur kala dalam Juz ‘Amma. Tiga instrumen digunakan dalam kajian ini, iaitu penelitian (istiqrā’), deskriptif dan analisis data. Instrumen penelitian (istiqra’) dan deskriptif digunakan untuk mengenal pasti aspek kala dalam gaya bahasa nafi bahasa Arab, manakala instrumen analisis data digunakan untuk menganalisis penggunaan gaya bahasa nafi dalam Juz ‘Amma dan hubung kaitnya dengan unsur kala. Hasil kajian mendapati terdapat tiga …

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Pengajaran Bahasa Arab: Kajian Terhadap Kaedah Pengajaran Bahasa Berasaskan Tugasan (Kpbbt) Di Pusat Asasi Uiam / Nor Syahida Binti Ahmad, Ahmad Nor Syahida Jan 2015

Pengajaran Bahasa Arab: Kajian Terhadap Kaedah Pengajaran Bahasa Berasaskan Tugasan (Kpbbt) Di Pusat Asasi Uiam / Nor Syahida Binti Ahmad, Ahmad Nor Syahida

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Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji penggunaan Kaedah Pengajaran Bahasa Berasaskan Tugasan (KPBBT) di Pusat Asasi UIAM. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengetahui tahap pemahaman pensyarah terhadap kaedah ini dan pengalaman mereka menggunakan kaedah tersebut dalam pengajaran bahasa Arab. Di samping itu, penulis telah meninjau persepsi pelajar terhadap pengajaran pensyarah yang menggunakan KPBBT di dalam kelas dan keberkesanan kaedah ini dalam memperbaiki mutu pembelajaran bahasa Arab mereka. Kajian ini melibatkan dua kumpulan responden iaitu 15 orang pensyarah dan 30 orang pelajar. Penulis menggunakan kaedah soal selidik sebagai instruman kajian. Data yang diperolehi daripada instrumen tersebut dianalisis menggunakan statistik diskriptif iaitu peratusan …

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A Corpus-Driven Analysis Of Male And Female Weblog Users In An Esl Context / Huang Wen Jie, Wen Jie Huang Jan 2015

A Corpus-Driven Analysis Of Male And Female Weblog Users In An Esl Context / Huang Wen Jie, Wen Jie Huang

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Weblogs ushered a new epoch for Malaysian ESL learners ever since its first entry to Malaysia in 1998 (Hopkins, 2010). Since then, scholars in the field of English as a Second Language (ESL) have paid considerable attention to blogging, especially those who teach writing courses (Mah and Er, 2009; Mah and Liaw, 2011; Gedera, 2012; Kaur, Ganapathy, and Sidhu, 2012; Yunus, Kiing, and Salehi, 2013; Ubaidullah, Mahadi, and Ching, 2013). However, little research has been undertaken from a sociolinguistic perspective, let alone gender-oriented to analyse adults’ weblogs. To fill the gap and promote online communication in an ESL community, the …

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Penggunaan Maf‘U:L Bih Dalam Kalangan Pelajar Melayu / Mohd Shupian Bin Majid, Majid Mohd Shupian Jan 2015

Penggunaan Maf‘U:L Bih Dalam Kalangan Pelajar Melayu / Mohd Shupian Bin Majid, Majid Mohd Shupian

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Kajian ini dilakukan bertujuan untuk mengumpul fakta sejauh mana penguasaan maf‘u:l bih dalam kalangan pelajar Melayu, mengesan punca dan bentuk kesukaran yang sering dihadapi oleh responden semasa mempelajarinya serta mencadangkan pendekatan (kaedah dan teknik) pengajaran yang sesuai. Kajian hanya melibatkan 80 orang responden di Kolej Islam Pahang Sultan Ahmad Shah yang mengikuti pembelajaran nahu Bahasa Arab berkaitan tajuk kajian yang dipilih secara rawak. Dalam menjalankan kajian ini, penulis akan menggunakan beberapa metode seperti pengumpulan data daripada teks Arab melalui kajian perpustakaan dan kajian lapangan yang melibatkan soal selidik berkaitan latar belakang responden dan berkaitan dengan pembelajaran dan pengajaran BA. Kajian …

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A Comparative Study Of The Translation Profession In Malaysia And Korea / Kang Myoung Sook, Myoung Sook Kang Jan 2015

A Comparative Study Of The Translation Profession In Malaysia And Korea / Kang Myoung Sook, Myoung Sook Kang

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The translation profession is regarded as one of the emerging professions in present times owing to its increasingly important role in disseminating information between various nations and cultures of the world. Nevertheless, translators face numerous obstacles in their quest to be recognized as full-fledged professionals. This study endeavors to provide a comparative description of the current status of the translation profession in Malaysia and Korea and to highlight the issues and challenges affecting the profession in both these countries. Past research has shown that translators from both developed and developing countries face many challenges in their practice. Amongst the problems …

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A Transitivity Analysis Of The Mandarin Ba Construction / Wang Jiaqi, Jiaqi Wang Jan 2015

A Transitivity Analysis Of The Mandarin Ba Construction / Wang Jiaqi, Jiaqi Wang

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Mandarin BA construction is quite a controversial but frequently-used unique sentence pattern with the most salient characteristic of sentence order. Since it is different from the most frequently-shown sentence order of subject-verb-object (SVO) in Chinese, BA construction tends to follow the pattern of “NP1+BA+NP2+V/VP”. It has been implied that the character of BA plays the role in enabling the post-verbal NP2 to occupy the pre-verbal position. Due to its structural peculiarity, the BA construction has received a considerable attention of grammarians. There have been many voices (L. Wang, 1945; Li and Thompson ,1981; H. Wang, 1984; Tsao, 1987; Li, 1990; …

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Attitude Of Iranian State University Students To General Lexical Items Created By Apll / Ehsan Barzegar, Ehsan Barzegar Jan 2015

Attitude Of Iranian State University Students To General Lexical Items Created By Apll / Ehsan Barzegar, Ehsan Barzegar

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This study focuses on the attitudes of Iranian state university students towards the neologisms suggested by Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL). A questionnaire-based survey was administered to 500 students in Tehran. This was followed by interviews with 21 students as well as 5 APLL experts to supplement and probe the data. Being familiar with/interested in APLL and its activities by approximately 40%, participants seem to have low attitude towards APLL and its success in word-creation by 41%. This figure decreases to 33.3% as to the interviews. Concerning the involvement of linguists and men of letters in creating neologisms, …

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Analisis Etnografi Dan Semiotik Sosial Pertuturan Masyarakat Seletar / Samsur Rijal Bin Yahaya, Samsur Rijal Yahaya Jan 2015

Analisis Etnografi Dan Semiotik Sosial Pertuturan Masyarakat Seletar / Samsur Rijal Bin Yahaya, Samsur Rijal Yahaya

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Penyelidikan mengenai bahasa-bahasa orang asli di seluruh dunia sebenarnya adalah suatu usaha untuk menyelamatkan bahasa-bahasa ini daripada diancam kepupusan. Namun begitu, usaha menyelamatkan sesuatu bahasa ini hanyalah merupakan salah satu daripada sekian banyak tujuan murni yang ada. Objektif kajian yang ingin dicapai ialah (1) untuk menghuraikan jenis-jenis wacana yang terdapat dalam pertuturan masyarakat Seletar, (2) untuk mendeskripsikan ketiga-tiga unsur gaya yang terdapat dalam pertuturan ini, dan (3) untuk menganalisis pertuturan masyarakat Seletar dari aspek modaliti, dan (4) untuk menghuraikan etnografi masyarakat Seletar. Penyelidikan ini menampilkan Teori Semotik Sosial, Etnografi, Demografi dan Visual Antropologi bagi memperolehi kajian yang holistic. Pembahasan mengenai …

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A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Malaysian Corporate Social Responsibility Reports / Kumaran A/L Rajandran, Kumaran Rajandran Jan 2015

A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Malaysian Corporate Social Responsibility Reports / Kumaran A/L Rajandran, Kumaran Rajandran

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This research studies the communication of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Malaysian CSR reports. CSR is a new domain in Malaysia and CSR reports are a relatively new register for Malaysian corporations. There is little research for CSR reports, compared to other registers in corporate discourse. Two major strands of investigation identified are for adherence and communication. CSR adherence studies conformity to various standards but not language and image and CSR communication has studied language more than image but it often does not study recontextualization and ideology. This research can contribute to research on CSR communication by conducting a detailed …

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Improving Online Decision Making Process Based On The Ranking Of User Reviews And Product Features / Azra Shamim, Azra Shamim Jan 2015

Improving Online Decision Making Process Based On The Ranking Of User Reviews And Product Features / Azra Shamim, Azra Shamim

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The ubiquity of Web2.0 with the proliferation of blogs and social networks transformed the way people express their opinions about different entities, such as products and services. Online reviews have become a powerful source of information for customers and business that gauge customers’ purchase intentions and enterprise strategies. The amount of user generated content has grown at a fast pace that forces users to gravitate through a number of online reviews in order to get decision oriented information, which is time consuming and tedious job. Consequently, a new line of research ‘opinion mining’ has emerged. Opinion mining techniques can help …

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Data-Driven Learning And Teaching Of Colligations Of Prepositions : The Case Of Law Undergraduates In Malaysia / Kamariah Binti Yunus, Kamariah Yunus Jan 2015

Data-Driven Learning And Teaching Of Colligations Of Prepositions : The Case Of Law Undergraduates In Malaysia / Kamariah Binti Yunus, Kamariah Yunus

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Data-Driven Learning (DDL) is the pedagogic application of corpus linguistics in classrooms. This study examines the impact of guided DDL (paper-based and online searching) on law undergraduates’ colligational competence, i.e. colligations of prepositions, one of the most essential lexico-grammatical components in legal texts. Firth’s (1957b) contextual theory of meaning and Vygotsky’s scaffolding theory (1978) become the premises of this study. Forty semester three law undergraduates in the Faculty of Law and International Relations (FLAIR), UniSZA, Malaysia took part in the seven-week experimental study. Data were collected from the pretest and posttest and analysed using the Mann-Whitney U test to find …

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A Study On Solution Of Matrix Riccati Differential Equations Using Ant Colony Programming And Simulink / Mohd Zahurin Mohamed Kamali, Mohd Zahurin Mohamed Kamali Jan 2015

A Study On Solution Of Matrix Riccati Differential Equations Using Ant Colony Programming And Simulink / Mohd Zahurin Mohamed Kamali, Mohd Zahurin Mohamed Kamali

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Swarm intelligence is a modern artificial intelligence discipline that is concerned with the design and optimization of multiagent systems with applications in robotics. This non-traditional approach is fundamentally different from the traditional approaches. In- stead of a sophisticated controller that governs the global behavior of the system, the swarm intelligence principle is based on many unsophisticated entities (for example such as ants, termites, bees etc.) that cooperate and interact in order to exhibit a desired behav- ior. In this thesis, we implement the modified ant colony programming (ACP) algorithm for solving the matrix Riccati differential equation (MRDE). Solving MRDE, especially …

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The Philosophy Argument In Proving Validity Of Al-Qur’An: Thematic Analysis On The Thought Of Said Al-Nursi / Amad Kadhim M. Salih, M. Salih Amad Kadhim Jan 2015

The Philosophy Argument In Proving Validity Of Al-Qur’An: Thematic Analysis On The Thought Of Said Al-Nursi / Amad Kadhim M. Salih, M. Salih Amad Kadhim

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This study resulted in the ideological and philosophical methodology submissions to disclose the truth of the Quran and prove the superiority of the philosophical, theoretical material and his school of thoughts. This study was conducted on selected topics from the book "Rasaili al-Nur" from the aspect of strengthening the foundations of faith and the attack on the Muslim mindset. This study began with the introduction of the history of al-Nursi Bediuzzaman life and thoughts as well as his scientific publications. In addition, this chapter also reveal the new approach in a more philosophical arguments to support and glorify the truth …

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Neuro – Genetic Model For The Projection Of Crude Oil Price Capable Of Handling Of Uncertainty / Haruna Chiroma, Chiroma Haruna Jan 2015

Neuro – Genetic Model For The Projection Of Crude Oil Price Capable Of Handling Of Uncertainty / Haruna Chiroma, Chiroma Haruna

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Some events occur sometimes without any warning, such as war, revolution, financial crises, terrorist attacks, political conflicts, false news, natural disasters, earthquakes, and extreme weather conditions. These types of events which we termed as uncertain events, when related to crude oil have significant effects on the price and will contribute to oil price volatility. Volatility in crude oil market has direct and indirect negative effects on the global economy and inflicts suffering on communities across the globe. The effects of crude oil volatility have no geographical boundary as there is no restriction to a specific country or region of the …

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A Correlational Study Of Efl Learners’ Language Proficiency With Their Beliefs And Language Learning Strategies / Xiang Yang, Yang Xiang Jan 2015

A Correlational Study Of Efl Learners’ Language Proficiency With Their Beliefs And Language Learning Strategies / Xiang Yang, Yang Xiang

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The present study aims to identify learners’ beliefs and language learning strategies as well as their proficiency of English language, focusing on postgraduate students from China studying English in the Malaysian context. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were utilized. The questionnaire of BALLI (Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory) established by Horwitz (1988) and SILL (Strategy Inventory of Language Learning) by Oxford (1990) were delivered to 82 participants, among whom 10% were interviewed. Finding released the fact that participants have strongest beliefs of the nature of language learning and the lowest beliefs of the difficulty of language learning, and they used …

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A Hybrid Multi-Criteria Analysis Of Energy Efficient Co2 Iron Making Technologies With Carbon Capture And Storage / Md Abdul Quader, Quader Md Abdul Jan 2015

A Hybrid Multi-Criteria Analysis Of Energy Efficient Co2 Iron Making Technologies With Carbon Capture And Storage / Md Abdul Quader, Quader Md Abdul

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An increase in CO2 emissions to the atmosphere from the fossil fuel based industries has contributed serious global warming problems. Among several greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 is the prime contributor and accounts for approximately 60% of the greenhouse effect due to its immense amount of discharges. The iron and steel industry is known as the largest energy consuming manufacturing sector, contributing 5% of the world’s total energy consumption. Also, this industry is emitting about 6% of the total world anthropogenic CO2. Therefore, investigation, development and deployment of alternative energy-efficient iron-making breakthrough technologies along with CO2 capture technologies are receiving high …

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Growing Better Beginnings: An Evaluation Of A Family Literacy Program For Pre-Schoolers, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Carmel Maloney Jan 2015

Growing Better Beginnings: An Evaluation Of A Family Literacy Program For Pre-Schoolers, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Carmel Maloney

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This paper investigates the implementation and outcomes of Growing Better Beginnings: a family literacy program for four and five year olds. The program builds on Better Beginnings: Birth to Three launched in 2005. Parents, teachers and librarians were surveyed and interviewed to ascertain their perceptions of the program. An analysis of the factors which facilitate the implementation and outcomes of Growing Better Beginnings and issues associated with the effectiveness of the implementation process is discussed. Findings indicate that perceptions of the program, central coordination, relationships and resources were viewed as facilitating implementation, whilst communication, impact on work, training and …

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The Troubled Sense Of Otherness Among Christian And Non-Christian Esl Freshmen At A Christian College In The Midwest, Yin Lam Lee-Johnson Jan 2015

The Troubled Sense Of Otherness Among Christian And Non-Christian Esl Freshmen At A Christian College In The Midwest, Yin Lam Lee-Johnson

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

This study was derived from an ethnographic study conducted with five ESL learners and their peers in a Christian college in the Midwest. The theoretical framework of this article was built upon Freire’s (2000) and Kumashiro’s (2001) anti-oppressive education. The study employed various data sources to find out how Christian and non-Christian ESL freshmen experienced a sense of otherness in the local college community. The findings reveal the hidden norms in the faith-based college, which marginalized the non-Christian ESL freshmen from being legitimate participants (Lave & Wenger, 1991). The researcher provides recommendations to educators and administrators in higher education for …

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Electrophysiological And Behavioral Working Memory Differences Between Musicians And Non-Musicians, Benjamin P. Richardson Jan 2015

Electrophysiological And Behavioral Working Memory Differences Between Musicians And Non-Musicians, Benjamin P. Richardson

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The current study examines the P300 brainwave and working memory differences between musicians and non-musicians. Differences in aspects of recorded electrical brain activity have been used to quantify differences in updating processes of working memory possibly related to differences in amount of music experience. The current study is designed to partially replicate and enhance a method previously implemented in research describing how music experience may be associated with differences in visual processing as well auditory working memory and executive function. Behavioral data were collected using six standardized subtest measures of the TOMAL – II, followed by ERP recordings during a …

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Bank Recovery Plan Regulation, Republic Of Austria: Financial Market Authority Jan 2015

Bank Recovery Plan Regulation, Republic Of Austria: Financial Market Authority

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