Thursday, July 31, 2014

SELAMAT HARI RAYA!


Semua warga MPWS mengucapkan 
SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFIRI, 
Selamat Pulang ke Kampung dan Berhati-hati di Jalanraya. 

  


Monday, July 21, 2014

Biodata of Speaker

Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff (ResearcherID: F-1014-2010) was born in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia on 28th March 1958. He received a PhD in Forest Engineering Survey (a multi disciplinary field) from Cranfield University, England, UK in 1992 under the Committee of the UK Vice– Chancellor’s Overseas Research Student Award (ORS). His postdoctoral work on Advance Digital Image Processing was with The University of Dundee, Scotland under the sponsorship of British Chevening Research Scholar Award. He was a Professor (Grade VK6/B) with Universiti Putra Malaysia and has been a Visiting Professor/Scholar/Scientist with Harvard, Kyoto, Yale University and an Erasmus Mundus Professor with Lund University, Sweden and ITC, The Netherlands. In April 2013, he was offered a Grade VK5/A Professor with the UTM Perdana School of Science, Technology & Innovation Policy but declined the offer.

He was attached with Universitas Hasanuddin (UNHAS) in Makassar, South Sulawesi for a month as a Consulting Editor for International Journal of Agricultural Systems (IJAS) cum Visiting Expert Professor with UNHAS Program Pascasarjana. He has also been invited twice to deliver keynote talks to postgraduate students and staff at the Oxford University Center for Environment (OUCE), Grenoble Institute of Technology in Grenoble, southern France and University of Maryland@ Baltimore County (UMBC), USA in the area of forestry airborne hyperspectral imaging and advance image processing. He has authored/co-authored and published more than 300 papers on top of his four technical (Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging for Forestry & Agriculture Applications) and four non-technical books including his three popular books entitled “Secrets of Successful Journal Writing & Publication Revealed”, “Academician Career Roadmap” and “The ABCs of PhD”. As of 21 Oct 2013, his has an H-Index (GS) of 13 with 975 total number of citations and 844 number of new citations in the last 5 years (since 2008) to all his cited publications.

He has been invited by almost all the Malaysian public (UPM, UKM, USM, UTM, UM, UIAM, UiTM, UTHM, UTeM, UniMAP, UPSI, UMP, USIM, UUM, UPNM, ASWARA), private universities and colleges (Monash University Sunway Campus, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, UNIRAZAK, MMU, UTP, UNISEL, UniKL, KISDAR/KUISAS, KUIS), private organizations/Foundation/NGOs (IKIM, YaPEIM, IEM) Polytechnics (POLIKB, POLISAS), Ministries (Peninsular Malaysia Forestry Dept HQ, IHMMoH, AKEPT-MoHE/MoE) and research institutions (MPOB, MIMOS, NUCLEAR) to conduct 1-4 days Workshops on Journal Writing & Publishing, Postgraduate Research Proposal Writing and Research Methodology since 2007. In 2012-2013 alone, he has been invited more than five times to Indonesia to conduct similar workshops at UNHAS, UNDANA, UNIMED, UMI, and UNHALU to selected Indonesian academics to assist them in international Scopus/ISI ranked journal publishing.




Recently, he has also been invited to conduct High Impact Journal W&P by Beaver & Beaver Management Solutions (PTY) Ltd, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon his return from The Harvard Forest, Harvard University in 2010, his deep interest covers the art of journal writing and publishing across a multi, inter and transdisciplinary field of arts, humanities and social sciences applications to the human aspects of forestry, engineering, higher education, academic leadership, IT and Islamic development. He is currently serving 10 international ISI/Scopus/Citation/Direct Open Access indexed journals covering multi/cross disciplinary fields of sciences, social science, arts and humanities as Chief Editor/Editorial Board Member/International Scientific Advisory Board Member. On personal front, Hj. Kamaruzaman’s approachable personality renders him a referral point for advice and insights for budding academics in the world of academia. Having taken the lead, shared and with his noteworthy achievements of lasting value to human kind and of university importance, he seldom, if not hardly fails to let down those who seek his assistance, advice and assurance from his words of wisdom. Indeed, Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff, an outstanding persona in the world of academia and leadership, deserves the standing ovation.

Want to know more about Professor Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff? Come join us in this workshop;

Course Title: Three Days Workshop on High Impact Journal Writing and Publishing


Date: 22 & 24 August 2014 (Friday & Sunday) 
Time: 8.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. 
Venue: MPWS Training Centre, 63-1, 63-2, Jalan Kajang Impian 1/11, 
Taman Kajang Impian, Seksyen 7, 43650 Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor 
Speaker: Professor Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff 

Registration Fee: RM450 (early bird rate) until 10 July 2014

                          RM600 (Normal Rate)

Medium: English

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

ANALYZING THE MEDIATOR IN A COMPLEX MODEL

In practice researchers are working with complex models and their theoretical framework in AMOS Graphic is also complicated. Thus, analyzing the mediator in a complex model is quite challenging for new researchers. At all times, the researcher needs to focus on the concept of triangle as stated in Figure 1 which indicates the direct effect and indirect effect when analyzing the mediator. The direct effect is the effect that goes directly from exogenous construct to endogenous construct, while the indirect effect is the effect from exogenous construct to endogenous construct that goes indirectly through the mediator in the model.

Figure 10 illustrate the position of mediator construct namely customer satisfaction in the model. In this example, the researcher is interested to assess the role of Customer Satisfaction as a mediator in the following relationships:

i) The relationship between Service Quality and Customer Loyalty
ii) The relationship between Corporate Image and Customer Loyalty


TESTING THE MEDIATION EFFECT OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SERVICE QUALITY AND CUSTOMER LOYALTY
First of all, obtain the standardized regression weights and the probability values which indicate the significance for the respective path (Figure 10). The required information is given in Table 9. Draw the triangle as shown in Figure 11.


Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Bengkel Sehari Analisis Data Kualitatif menggunakan ATLAS.ti

"If you want to do good qualitative research, you need a reliable tool to help you. ATLAS.ti does that"
- Vita Poštuvan, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia

ATLAS.ti gives you all the tools you need for computer-based qualitative data analysis. With this powerful «Knowledge Workbench» you can conduct your research both systematically and creatively. Get started right from the tutorial and code your way through your material in no time. Sophisticated yet intuitive features help you arrange, reassemble and manage data in virtually any digital format – and with your material under control, you can focus on making sense of it all. It’s really that easy. Whether you work in anthropology, economics, criminology, medicine, or other fields, ATLAS.ti is the key to getting the most out of your analysis.



Jom sertai bengkel sehari di MPWS

Date
»
17 August 2014  (Sunday)
Time
»
8.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.
Venue
»
MPWS Training Centre, 63-1, 63-2, Jalan Kajang Impian 1/11,
Taman Kajang Impian, Seksyen 7, 43650 Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor # map
Speaker
»
Dr. Othman Bin Talib
Registration Fee
»
RM150
Medium
»
Bahasa Malaysia
Website
»
http://postgraduateworkshop.com/atlas.ti.DrOT

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Three Day Workshop on AutoCAD Essential Training



 

Date
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2 - 4 August 2014 (Saturday - Monday)
Time
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8.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.
Venue
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MPWS Training Centre, 63-1, 63-2, Jalan Kajang Impian 1/11,
Taman Kajang Impian, Seksyen 7, 43650 Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor # map
Speaker
»
Wong Yoke Mei
Registration Fee
»
RM 600 (Early bird rate - until 30 June 2014)
RM 900 (Early bird rate - from 1 July 2014 until 18 July 2014)
RM 1200 (Normal rate - from 19 July 2014 until closing date)
Medium
»
English
Website
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http://postgraduateworkshop.com/autocadessential