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Although stylistic analysis is the most popular approach in the learning and teaching of an introductory analysis to novels, a very little pedagogical demonstration has been done in the field. One reason is that reader response and postcolonialism approaches are more familiar to the students. Hence, this paper discusses the learning and teaching of K.S. Maniam's In a Far Country to Malaysian students using linguistic analysis. Specifically, this paper demonstrates the use of stylistics in exploring the text in relation to the major themes and tropes as well as text and context. The reason for studying K.S. Maniam is because he is one of the most prominent writers in the domain of Malaysian literature in English. He has written three novels, two plays, numerous short stories, and a sea of poetry. This study focuses on In a Far Country. It is a set text that has been used in Malaysian schools and universities. It is often used as a set text because it delves into nationalism, identity, culture, diaspora, and other pertinent issues that are very much important for the students to grapple. Hence, this paper demonstrates the stylistic analysis of the text. Students have shown some aspects of the analysis and how this analysis entails meaning-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze integration of Knowledge Management (KM) and Business Intelligence (BI) in order to achieve competitive edge in context of intellectual capital. Methodology includes review of literatures and analyzes the interviews data from managers in corporate sector and models established by different authors. BI technologies have strong association with process of KM for attaining competitive advantage. KM have strong influence from human and social factors and turn them to the most valuable assets with efficient system run under BI tactics and technologies. However, the term of predictive analytics is based on the field of BI. Extracting tacit knowledge is a big challenge to be used as a new source for BI to use in analyzing. The advanced approach of the analytic methods that address the diversity of data corpus - structured and unstructured - required a cognitive approach to provide estimative results and to yield actionable descriptive, predictive and prescriptive results. This is a big challenge nowadays, and this paper aims to elaborate detail in this initial work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper sketches a careful analysis of an exceptional classroom event where students develop, without explicit instruction, a model equivalent to Newton’s thermal law as a composition of intuitive knowledge elements. Lessons about how social (cultural, discursive, situated, etc.) and cognitive perspectives may interact are put forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Students tend to make lots of careless mistake during the process of mathematics solving. To facilitate effective learning, educators have to understand which cognitive processes are used by students and how these processes help them to solve problems. This paper is only aimed to determine the common errors in mathematics by pre-diploma students that took Intensive Mathematics I (MAT037) in UiTM Sarawak. Then, concentrate on the errors did by the students on the topic of BODMAS rule and the mental processes corresponding to these errors that been developed by students. One class of pre-diploma students taking MAT037 taught by the researchers was selected because they performed poorly in SPM mathematics. It is inevitable that they finished secondary education with many misconceptions in mathematics. The solution scripts for all the tutorials of the participants were collected. This study was predominately qualitative and the solution scripts were content analyzed to identify the common errors committed by the participants, and to generate possible mental processes to these errors. Selected students were interviewed by the researchers during the progress. BODMAS rule could be further divided into Numerical Simplification and Powers Simplification. Furthermore, the erroneous processes could be attributed to categories of Basic Arithmetic Rules, Negative Numbers and Powers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mankind dominates the cosmos with their creations and exerts their reign over the universe by expanding their contributions towards the progressive facets of science and technology. The escalation in human's cognitive domain is steadfast, but the social dimension of the human is descending with a weaker version of human values. Humanity is the composition of compassionate feelings and emotions which appears to be a deficit in this present scenario and the society witnesses a space created by the lack of humanity. This emptiness should be filled with positive instigating thoughts by accelerating the radiance of spiritual intelligence to the mankind of this present world. The educational institutions are bearing the prime responsibilities of spreading the significance of the values to the younger generation of this smart age for creating the future world of human with humanness. Can spiritual intelligence be activated in the youth of this techie age? If so how? To find more satisfactory answers to these questions, this research work is put forward with the plithogenic mathematical model of finding the most desirable strategies of redeeming humanity through spiritual intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]