Kamarudin Shafinah

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Lecturer at Universiti Putra Malaysia

Sabah mencatatkan kadar kemiskinan tegar enam kali ganda daripada kadar nasional dan terus meningkat akibat daripada ketidaksetaraan dan pembangunan yang tidak seimbang daripada pelbagai sudut termasuk pendapatan, pendidikan dan infrastruktur. Hal ini menyebabkan Malaysia agak sukar mencapai Agenda Pembangunan Mampan 2030 untuk Matlamat Pemban...

This study explores the transformative potential of game-based learning (GBL) as a pedagogical approach to enhance youth entrepreneurship education, specifically focusing on the "Store Manager: My Supermarket" simulation game. Conducted in the National Information Dissemination Centre (NADI) PPR Intan Baiduri, Kepong, Malaysia, the research targete...

The movement control order (MCO) has led to a surge in internet usage among children, becoming the new normal. Most countries heavily rely on online platforms for education, granting children more freedom to explore the internet using electronic devices. Yet, it is challenging for parents to monitor their online activities. Children may stumble upo...

Technological advancements have made their way into the heart of human civilization across numerous fields, namely healthcare, logistics, and agriculture. Amidst the sprouting issues and challenges in the agriculture sector, particularly, the growing trend of integrating agriculture and technologies is roaring. The public and private sectors work h...

Smart farming, one of the most rapidly growing technologies in the agriculture sector in the midst of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 era, signifies the integration of technologies into the industry. Numerous challenges of the agriculture sector were able to be decoded and formulated efficiently. Over the past few years, research on smart farming has...

Since 2016, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) has contributed a positive effect on current business and educational developments in Malaysia. Therefore, various organisations are actively engaged in sharing knowledge and information with the public as part of the impact of the establishment. Hence, higher education institutions (IPT) and no...

Rice has a pivotal role as a crucial staple food for more than 50% of the worldwide population, including the nation of Malaysia. The challenges such as invasive and native pests, water scarcity issues, difficulties in accessing markets, pesticide-related health issues, and farmers' outmigration to find employment affect the production of rice. The...

Due to Malaysia's population growth, solid waste production has grown, with each individual producing 1.17 kg of rubbish daily and Malaysia producing an estimated 39,000 tons of garbage daily. The trash produced by households, industry, and trade increases in volume and becomes a key problem if not properly managed. Municipalities or governments mu...

The number of cyber attacks launched has increased five-fold since the advent of the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic (COVID-19) in 2019. Ransomware is currently one of the highest digital risks as it aids cybercriminals to use persistent threat tools and techniques to get access to targeted networks by way of third parties. Therefore, this study aims...

This study proposes a two-stage strategy to ensure the successful execution of critical tasks. In the first stage, an Enhanced Task Offloading (ETO) algorithm is introduced to determine the appropriate computing layer—edge, fog, or cloud—for offloading incomplete tasks. The algorithm makes this decision by assessing the availability of idle computi...

The revolution of IoT and its capabilities to serve various fields led to generating a large amount of data for processing. Tasks that require an instant response, especially with sensitive delay tasks send to the fog node due to the close distance, and the complex tasks transfer to the cloud data center for its huge computation and storage. Howeve...

The Internet of Things (IoT) generates massive data from smart devices that demand responses from cloud servers. However, sending tasks to the cloud reduces the power consumed by the users’ devices, but increases the transmission delay of the tasks. In contrast, sending tasks to the fog server reduces the transmission delay due to the shorter dista...

Packet routing has always been an issue that affects network performance. The traditional protocol is known to work with local information and thus not able to produce a global optimal decision. In the software-defined network (SDN), its centralized controller obtains unified access to the entire network topology information and has the ability to...

Online gaming is a very popular electronic game among the 21st-century generation now. This century's generation prefers to play to fill their free time. One of the factors contributing to this trend of electronic games is the stress factors experienced by students. Among the effects of these electronic games are causing addiction and health proble...

The COVID19 pandemic has caused a paradigm shift in teaching and learning (T&L) methods in higher learning institutions to online medium. The practice of online T&L increases the use of computer for a substantial amount of time to ensure that T&L activities are conducted successfully This is seen as causing a direct impact on the extensive use of e...

Business activities such as human resources management, payroll, finance, and accounting are crucial for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, adopting technologies such as cloud computing is expected to improve SMEs’ efficiency. The migration from current business practices to cloud computing amongst SME entrepreneurs remains a challenge...

In an emergency incident time is of the crucial factor, and the basic philosophy of an emergency response agency is to respond as quickly as possible to minimize the loss of life and property damage. Emergency response operations are very important activities in the oil and gas industrial areas. As an incident in an integrated facility at oil and g...

A good quality game may depend on the results obtained from game testing and evaluations. This is because there is currently no univesal standard capable of determining the quality of a game (Ramadan & Hendradjaya, 2014; Schultz & Bryant, 2016). However, the quality of a game also depends on the the purpose of the game as well as its targeted playe...

The use of information communication technology (ICT) is growing and has been a compulsory norm in society. However, the increased use of ICT facilities in all developing countries has contributed to higher energy use and lead to environmental pollution. This study explores the extent of awareness among the younger generation about green computing...

The dependency of Malaysian imports on raw meat products in particular, is high. This is closely linked to the challenges of Malaysia's livestock industry, which includes the high prices of livestock. The current industry revolution 4.0 is expected to give an advantage in this sector, especially from the use of ICT in the livestock industry. Nevert...

Business technology has brought conventional marketing methods to the next level. These emerging integrated technologies has contributed to the growth and understanding of the consumer decision making process. Several studies have attempted to evaluate media content, especially on video advertising or TV commercials using various neuroimaging techn...

To date many Information Technology Companies in Indonesia implement Scrum Framework which is one of the frameworks that uses Agile principles. The implementation of the Scrum Framework does not guarantee that these companies will be free from risk, since many risks will also appear during the implementation of the framework itself. Therefore, risk...

Aquaculture in Malaysia is now being promoted as an important engine of growth and eventually becoming the pillar of the economy of the nation. However, healthy fish production requires intensive care, and to ensure a stable and healthy production environment inside the fishpond is a challenging task. While cultivating aquatic organisms, water qual...

This paper presented a mobile application to be used for agricultural advancement. The criteria needed for the development of a mobile application are described. A mobile application known as m-Naslada was also proposed and highlighted. m-Naslada is a mobile application prototype developed for agricultural purposes. m-Naslada is specifically aimed...

Physics concept is an understanding of natural occurrence. Physics is one of the natural science subjects that involves the study of matter and motion through space and time, along with related concepts. The concepts of physics explained everything involving the environment and human relation that happened in our daily life. Physics is one of the t...

The application of Project Outcome-based Learning (Po-BL) has been applied in teaching and learning environments for many years. Po-BL plays an important role in ensuring students learning effectiveness and frequency. Po-BL offers tangible invention as a result that is proof of student participation and which confirms student competency in the rele...

Physics is one of the science subjects that need a proper understanding through the process of learning. Since physics is difficult among secondary school students, this study is conducted to investigate the level of thinking ability in physics subject. This study has been done by given question paper based on taxonomy bloom which consists of 10 qu...

Abstract— Malaysia has the distinction of being the world’s fifth largest pepper producer country whereby 98% of the country's annual production comes from the State of Sarawak. However, crop loss due to pest and disease incidence has been identified as one of the major pepper production constraints. Inefficient advisory mechanism and assistance fr...

Metodologi Kajian ??? Apa tu ??? Bila kita mendaftar sebagai pelajar pasca siswazah sama ada di peringkat sarjana mahu pun PhD, kita diwajibkan untuk mengikuti kelas Kaedah Penyelidikan atau dikenal sebagai kelas Research Methodologi (RM). Walaupun kelas ini tidak ada gred penilaian, hanya lulus dan gagal sahaja, tetapi tugasan yang diberikan oleh...

Kebiasaannya dalam kajian yang melibatkan sains sosial, terdapat dua reka bentuk kajian yang selalu digunakan oleh pengkaji, iaitu reka bentuk kajian kuantitatif dan reka bentuk kajian kualitatif. Di dalam bab ini, fokus hanya diberikan kepada reka bentuk kajian kuantitatif. Kebiasaannya, apabila pelajar berjumpa dengan penyelia (supervisor, SV), S...

Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) adalah salah satu kaedah yang boleh kita guna untuk analisis data yang kita peroleh dari kajian kita. Pertama kali aku berkenalan dengan PLS-SEM sekitar tahun 2014. Itu pun kerana aku menemani seorang sahabat menghadiri kursus berkaitan PLS-SEM. Memang agak sukar terutama newbie macam aku. Te...

Lean production or lean manufacturing has become one of the most well-known paradigms for the elimination of waste in the manufacturing industries. Past research in lean shows that there are some set of techniques, tools and practices which have been applied to certain levels across firms according to the respective understanding of lean production...

The development of software application for image reconstruction system is essential in the research study of computed tomography (CT). An experimental prototype was the research tool used in developing a series of useful prototype to evaluate the reconstruction methods. A CT scanner software prototype was created using the MATLAB image processing...

Logic modeling and mathematical model can aid system analysts, system developers and programmers to construct a system during a system development process. Logic modeling and mathematical model are the techniques used in the system analysis phase. In the midst of the most common logic modeling, are decision tables and structured English. These tech...

The use of mobile services is upraising worldwide due to the positive progression of mobile technologies. In contrast, less attention are given on matters concerning the user Behavior Intention (BI) on mobile application and services. The purpose of this article is to shed light on selected models that deals with user BI studies. This study views i...

Crop pest and disease diagnosis are amongst important issues arising in the agriculture sector since it has significant impacts on the production of agriculture for a nation. The applying of expert system technology for crop pest and disease diagnosis has the potential to quicken and improve advisory matters. However, the development of an expert s...

Abstrak Lada hitam (Piper nigrum L.) merupakan salah satu tanaman industri yang mempunyai nilai eksport yang tinggi dan menyumbang kepada pertumbuhan ekonomi di Malaysia khususnya di Sarawak. Kebelakangan ini insiden serangan penyakit terhadap tanaman lada hitam telah merencat pengeluaran produktiviti tanaman ini. Situasi semasa yang dihadapi oleh...

The software engineering approach for image reconstruction in the field of computed tomography was explored and studied. The research development initiated from a series of experiment using an experimental prototype. A computed tomography prototype was developed in the Matlab image processing environment. The prototype model approach was mainly sel...

Tomography image reconstruction using fan-beam geometry configuration was studied. The research methodology consisted of a series of experiment using a Matlab image processing toolbox to validate the conceptual framework reconstruction that later might guide the development of application using fan-beam geometry. The Matlab programming knowledge is...

Image reconstruction in computed tomography (CT) has been extensively studied from different angles, to find new methods and algorithms for better execution of the reconstruction tasks. In this study, three challenging problems in developing a prototype for the image reconstruction system using a summation back projection approach are highlighted n...

At present, most of the computer systems are integrated into a network. The purpose of integrating a computer system into a network is to make system more effective and easy to access. In this integrated system, most of the data and information are stored in a file at a server. On the other hand, the information, data and file stored in the server...

System evaluation is a necessary step in system development process to measure the successfulness of a system. However, this step has often been overlooked by system developers during the development process. This study aimed to discuss several system evaluations for Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and to explain the methodology used to evaluate a...