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Covid-19 has significantly changed the world. New norms and new practices have been introduced to control the spread of this Coronavirus. Medical practitioners struggled from day one until today to formulate vaccine for Covid-19. Up-to date, Malaysia has experienced the third wave of the spread. Thus, many sectors have been affected including the education sector. Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Cawangan Pulau Pinang, Malaysia was affected too. During the pandemic outbreak, there were 255 students locked down in the campus. Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) was employed as a tool to determine stress, anxiety and depression level. From the survey conducted, it was found that 70%, 55% and 60% of students experienced normal stress, anxiety and depression, respectively. Meanwhile for the extremely severe cases, the percentage for stress, anxiety and depression were 0.8%, 7.1% and 2.7%, respectively. In conclusion, DASS successfully provided insight information of students' condition during the lockdown. Further actions were taken accordingly by the Student Affair Department to help those students during the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malaysia is surrounded by the tectonic feature of the Sumatera area which consists of two seismically active inter-plate boundaries, namely the Indo-Australian and the Eurasian Plates on the west and the Philippine Plates on the east. Hence, Malaysia experiences tremors from far distant earthquake occurring in Banda Aceh, Nias Island, Padang and other parts of Sumatera Indonesia. In order to predict the safety of precast buildings in Malaysia under near field ground motion the response spectrum analysis could be used for dealing with future earthquake whose specific nature is unknown. This paper aimed to develop of capacity demand response spectrum subject to Design Basis Earthquake (DBE) and Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCE) in order to assess the performance of precast beam column joint. From the capacity-demand response spectrum analysis, it can be concluded that the precast beam-column joints would not survive when subjected to earthquake excitation with surface-wave magnitude, Mw, of more than 5.5 Scale Richter (Type 1 spectra). This means that the beam-column joint which was designed using the current code of practice (BS8110) would be severely damaged when subjected to high earthquake excitation. The capacity-demand response spectrum analysis also shows that the precast beam-column joints in the prototype studied would be severely damaged when subjected to Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCE) with PGA=0.22g having a surface-wave magnitude of more than 5.5 Scale Richter, or Type 1 spectra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]