Mohamad Ibrani Shahrimin Adam Assim

Universiti Putra Malaysia | UPM · Department of Social Science

Lack of public awareness of biodiversity conservation is the leading cause of biodiversity loss. This needs to be emphasized by stakeholders in the conservation effort, particularly in some major conservation areas, including the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Gunung Mulu National Park (GMNP). As a result of threats such as natural catastrophes, po...

Despite great improve of technologies and new rules & regulations, there are rooms to prevent occurrence of pilot accidents. Pilotage being one of the most important sectors of supply chain, port or shipping industries, the human error still constitutes about 80% of all accidents. A shift from improving technologies, design of the ships and focusin...

Lack of public awareness of biodiversity conservation is the leading cause of biodiversity loss. This needs to be emphasized by stakeholders in the conservation effort, particularly in some major conservation areas, including the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Gunung Mulu National Park (GMNP). As a result of threats such as natural catastrophes, po...

Pterygium is an eye condition that causes the fibrovascular tissues to grow towards the corneal region. At the early stage, it is not a harmful condition, except for slight discomfort for the patients. However, it will start to affect the eyesight of the patient once the tissues encroach towards the corneal region, with a more serious impact if it...

Oroo’ secret sign language is a medium that has been used to communicate in the forest among Penan community. It is threatened language and identified as living cultural heritage that has high potential to be promoted as a major tourism product in the World Heritage Site, Mulu. However, the local level appreciation on their cultural elements is a q...

One active site that is involved with onshore oil and gas activity is Bintulu, which is in Borneo, Sarawak. There is an average of 1800 contractor workers at the site with a size of 276 hectares, an average of 462 Permit-To-Work (PTW) released daily. The site recorded 1 fatality case in every 5 years cycle since 2009. This trend shows that serious...

Gunung Mulu National Park (GMNP) has gained recognition as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS) due to its outstanding universal value for natural heritage. This status is particularly significant in supporting the ex-situ conservation of biodiversity, including protecting threatened species of flora and fauna in high endemism area of GMNP....

Universally, the educational systems are undergoing restructuring and transformations. The role of teachers has increased following this reformation and experiencing growing pressure to perform. Given that the nature of the teaching profession is both challenging and rewarding, it is vital to understand teachers' psychological well-being to support...

Penan and Berawan indigenous communities have customary access rights to hunt animals and collect forest products at Gunung Mulu National Park (GMNP) to sustain their livelihood. However, their level of knowledge on the types of animals and plants that are allowed to be hunted or collected is a question that needs to be addressed. A poor knowledge...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of 2019, more than 170 million patients have been infected with the virus that has resulted in more than 3.8 million deaths all over the world. This disease is easily spreadable from one person to another even with minimal contact, even more for the latest mutations that are more deadly than its p...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of 2019, more than 170 million patients have been infected with the virus that has resulted in more than 3.8 million deaths all over the world. This disease is easily spreadable from one person to another even with minimal contact, even more for the latest mutations that are more deadly than its p...

Bako National Park (BNP) is a protected area that supports a conservation-themed interpretation that seeks to surge public awareness on conservation of natural resources, encourage them to join with the conservation efforts, and develop an ecocentric attitude. However, it is unclear to what extent they are aware of the principal objective of establ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the ecotourism industry in Bako National Park. It is a challenge to the community livelihood that depends on this tourism industry where they are severely impacted due to the drastic decline of tourists because of movement control order by the authorities. In this study, we investigate the well-being...

The problems associated with oil spill clean-up has been of burden to all oil spill stakeholders all over the world and the method of clean-up depends on the type of spill, the volume of spill, the location and weather at the time of clean-up. Generally, while the clean-up of oil spill on the sea involves the use of standard oil boom, foxtail skimm...

This paper seeks to describe the vital traits of sociocultural artifacts within collaborative social interactive patterns exhibited by indigenous and non-indigenous children in a computer environment. The case investigative method was used in one pre-primary centre in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia, to examine the patterns of collaboration a...

Purpose of the study: This study examined the predictors of intention in career development, specifically the intention of applying for promotion among Malaysian excellent teacher candidates. Methodology: The premise of the theoretical analyses in this study was based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. The correlational study design was employed to...

This study envisaged in determining the relationship between the intensity of Facebook usage and social capital among undergraduates at Universiti Putra Malaysia. A number of factors (respondent's personal and family background, the intensity of Facebook usage and social capital) have been studied with regards to their relationships with each other...

This study was carried out to envisage and examine the plausible relationships of parental road safety knowledge, attitude and practice in relation to preschool children's involvements in a road safety education programme in Perak, Malaysia. Three local preschools were selected for this purpose, in which the children underwent and an educational ro...

The development of organizational commitment related to personal and work characteristics of school teacher's is still not well understood and very few studies have explored this concept. Hence, empirical researchevidence is needed to support the proposed link between teachers' commitment and their personal-work characteristics in schools as educat...

To date, little if any formal research on family strengths has been conducted in Malaysia nor have any known (to the current authors) family strengths measures been developed or adapted from non-Malaysian contexts for the purpose of measuring family strengths in Malaysia. In the present study, exploratory component analysis was used to identify the...