The rapid growth on ICT have reshaped our live today, and nowadays' university students in Higher Learning Institutions have an immense use of mobile phones, iPads and other portable devices. Mobile learning or m-Learning focuses on the mobility of the learner while interacting with portable technologies. The use of mobile learning among university students is seen as an alternative to increase their interest and motivation on learning the academic programmes at Higher Learning Institution. The m-learners use mobile device for educational purpose at their own time convenience. An online questionnaire survey will be used to collect data for this study. The findings will reveal on the students" readiness which are basic readiness, skills readiness, psychological readiness and budget readiness at a public university in Malaysia in relation to mobile learning. The study will also explore the students" motivation towards the use of mobile technologies for learning English in the university. A discussion on the implications of the findings will also be presented. Contribution/ Originality: The paper"s primary contribution is finding that the respondents were prepared for the integration of m-learning in UTHM and were motivated to participate in m-learning for English course in the university. Thus, more studies on m-learning perception and motivation should be piloted to other universities" staff and educators in Malaysia. (Rahamat et al., 2017). Moreover, the rapid growth on ICT have reshaped our live today, and nowadays' university students have an immense use of mobile phones, iPads and other portable devices. All these smart phones and other portable devices are equipped or ready for social media applications like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Instagram, which are part of what is known as Social Web 2.0, best characterized by the notions of social interaction, content sharing, and collective intelligence (Alabdulkareem, 2015). Thus, the use of appropriate materials and tools in the teaching and learning is definitely helpful in making the process more meaningful (Rahamat et al., 2017).
Many biodegradation studies have focused on survival of isolated bacteria to increase the bacteria population and subsequently enhance the efficiency of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) biodegradation. However, there is limited research on enhancing the performance of isolated bacteria through reinoculation. Thus, this study was designed to evaluate the effects of reinoculation on the performance of Sphingobacterium spiritivorum in degradation of phenanthrene contaminated sand. Experiments were performed in three different reactors. Inoculation was performed once (day 0) in reactor 1. In reactor 2, inoculation was performed twice (day 0 and day 5). The bacteria was isolated from reactor 2 and inoculated into reactor 3. The study results show reactor 3 having the highest degradation rate (13.61 mg/kg/day) and percentage removal (95.36 percent). In contrast, without reinoculation in reactor 1, 68.93 percent of phenanthrene was removed. Thus, the performance of S. spiritivorum in phenanthrene degradation can be enhanced through reinoculation. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Presently, outdoor water filtration (OWF) system becomes one of home appliances that is a must-have for every house in Malaysia. Even though the tap water is a guarantee can be consumed directly, Malaysians still need the appliances. These home appliances become popular nowadays, however the requirement of the OWF is never determined. This study focuses on OWF system which improves quality of water from the plant treatment at point of entry before it gets to consumers. The purpose of this study was to understand qualitatively the requirement of OWF system through awareness of the consumers. In addition, residual chlorine was also measured to determine the performance of the system. Seven houses that have been using OWF were asked on their awareness on the technology used in their system and mostly said they knew the technology used. However, they are less aware on types of filter media and water parameter that are related to quality of effluent water. Based on the measurement of residual chlorine, the percentage removal after the system was in the range of 76% to 96%. This high removal was reduced the chlorine concentration far below the recommended, thus the safety of water effluent is uncertain. This study shows that requirement of using the system can still be disputed and therefore the large number of sample may require for further study to obtain the real need of OWF system in Malaysia.
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