Proceedings of the International Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (ICSTSS) 2012

Dr Azman Kasim obtained his Ph.D in amorphous lasing materials from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor in 2010. In 2000, he obtained his M.Sc in Physics Ultrasonic and in 1995 he completed his degree in physics from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Currently, he is a senior lecturer at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pahang, Malaysia. He has worked at UiTM since 2000 and has been appointed the Academic Publications Coordinator (JAPENA). His appointment as the Physics Association advisor has ensured active involvement with undergraduate students’ affairs and development projects. He has supervised M.Sc and Ph.D students to carry out research activities. In research and publications, Dr Azman has collectively published research papers related to his field of studies in refereed journals both locally and internationally. He has also been awarded grants by the Malaysia government (Ministry of Education) to carry out research works related to his field of studies in collaboration with other Malaysian higher educational institutions. Dr Azman has been enrolled as a life member of the Malaysia Association of Solid State (MASS), Malaysia, as well as the member of Glass Society, UK, since 2008. Wan Siti Atikah has been working at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Pahang, as a biology lecturer since 2006. She obtained her first and second degrees from Universiti Putra Malaysia.  She was granted BSc. in Bioindustry (Majoring in Microbes and Bioprocess Technology) and MSc. in Fermentation Technology in 2003 and 2009, respectively.  She has a few years in teaching pre-university, diploma, and first degree levels.  She is also involved in curriculum design for a few programs offered in UiTM. She has supervised undergraduate projects and MSc students in her field.  She has also been awarded grants from Ministry of Education, Malaysia, as funds for her research activities. Her works have been published in local and international proceedings.  She is also alife member of Malaysian Society for Microbiology (MSM) since 2012. Nor Hidayatun Abdul Razak obtained her Masters in Electronic Marketing and Information Management from the University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia in 2004. In 1996, she completed her degree in Marketing and Management (BBA) from the Northwood University (NU - Michigan), USA. She worked for Sibexlink Sdn Bhd in 1997 as Product Executive and was promoted to Senior Executive in year 2000. She was then involved with United Multimedia Sdn Bhd as Instructional Designer (2001 to 2003), Content Solution Sdn Bhd as a Senior Instructional Designer (2004 to 2005) and Malaysian Institute of Management (MIN) as a manager (2006 to 2007). She joined Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang (UiTM) in 2007 where she spent 7 years as a lecturer and produced several articles on orang asli agropreneurship and halal issues. She is now pursuing her PhD in Halal Marketing at University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Nor Lailatul Wahidah Musa obtained her Masters in Conservation Biology from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Selangor in 2007. In 2005, she graduated with Bsc. (Hons) in Biology from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). She joined Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang (UiTM) in July 2008 and is currently is pursuing her PhD in Plant Biochemical and Ecology at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). During her 5 years working at UiTM Pahang she has produced several research papers related to the field of studies both locally and internationally. Roslilee Ab.Halim has been working in Universiti Teknologi MARA (Pahang), Malaysia since 2005. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at the university and has held the position of Economics Coordinator since 2011. She obtained her Master of Economics from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Selangor in 2005 and completed her first degree in Economics from the same university in 2000. She is actively involved in writing articles for national and international proceedings, refereed journals, and other publications. Her research interests include Islamic economics, International Economics, Halal market, Consumer behavior, e-commerce, Childcare and Female labor supply issues. She has also been awarded grants by the Malaysia government (Ministry of Education) and Pahang state government to carry out research works related to her field of studies. Siti Rosiah Mohamed obtained her M.Sc in Management Mathematics from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), in 2008. In 2006, she completed her first degree in Computational Mathematics from University College of Science and Technology Malaysia (KUSTEM). Currently, she is a lecturer at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pahang, Malaysia. She has worked at UiTM since 2008 and has been appointed as the Type Setting Editor (JAPENA). She has published research papers related to her field of studies both locally and internationally.

Part 1: Social Sciences.- Chapter 1: Using Reader’s Theatre to Promote Reading the Judicial Decisions (Court Case) Among Foundation Law Students.- Chapter 2: The Use of Ar-Rahnu by Islamic Bank Customers in Malaysia.- Chapter 3: Retailers’ Perspective on Electronic Reservation Services in Malaysia.- Chapter 4: Parenting Behavior of Mothers and School Adjustments of Adolescents in Malaysia.- Chapter 5: Numerical Visualization of Rudder Inflow as Effect of Increasing Angle of Attack.- Chapter 6: Narcissism as Predictor of Facebook Usage among Students in a Malaysian Public University.- Chapter 7: Managing Event: Environmental Friendly Perspective.- Chapter 8: Malaysia’s New Economic Model and Innovative Capability Development: A Focus on Knowledge Workers in MSC Malaysia.- Chapter 9: Integration of Visual Cues in an Augmented Reality Application for Enhancing the Learning of Engineering Concepts.- Chapter 10: Innovation on Product Life Cycle Through Environmental Management Systems Standards Towards Malaysia Polypropylene Firms' Eco-Efficiency.- Chapter 11: Initiative of Developing E-Counseling System: Importance and Application in UNITEN.- Chapter 12: Ecological Conceptualization of Halal-Haram Divide.- Chapter 13: Dynamic Geometries in Traditional Malay-Muslim Art and Architecture: Evidence of Advanced Building Sciences in Malay Building Tradition.- Chapter 14: Customer Satisfaction in Event Management Organized by District Islamic Religious Office (PAID) in Pahang.- Chapter 15: Client’s Business Risk Assessment and Auditor’s Test.- Chapter 16: Childcare Service Quality: Measuring Expectations of Working Parents using SERVPERF Dimensions.- Chapter 17: Certified Halal Logo: The Importance towards Muslim Customers in Bandar Pusat Jengka Pahang.- Chapter 18: Awareness on Legal Rights and Data Protection in SNS: The case of Facebook in Countryside Campus.- Chapter 19: Change of Age Specific Fertility Curves in Peninsular Malaysia: An Approach ofFunctional Data Analysis.- Chapter 20: Intention to Whistle Blow among Future Accountants in Malaysia.- Chapter 21: Family Controlled Companies and the Issuance of Going Concern Opinion in Malaysia.- Chapter 22: Counselling Students' Perceptions toward Integrating Spirituality into Counseling Among Children.- Chapter 23: Assessment Literacy: A Catalyst to the Success of School-Based Assessment in Malaysian Schools.- Chapter 24: Discriminant Analysis: A Study on Corporate Distress.- Chapter 25: Waterfront Development in Malaysia: Best Practices in Future.- Chapter 26: Human Resource Management from Islamic Perspectives: Experiences of GLCS.- Chapter 27: The Application of Consistent Minimum Vector Variance (MVV) Estimators on Hotelling T2 Control Chart.- Chapter 28: Ethical Sensitivity and Ethics Education: Case of Accounting Students.-Chapter 29: Visualisation Skills of Geometric Figures: Its Effect in Visualisation-Based Teaching.- Chapter 30: Measuring Customer Needs and Wants: Exploring Servqual Dimensions in Cooperatives.- Chapter 31: Model of Self-Esteem, Job-Search Intensity and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy for Undergraduates Students.- Chapter 32: An Empirical Analysis of Consumers’ Behavioral Intention towards Perceived Usefulness and Service Quality – A Malaysian Perspective.- Chapter 33: The Effect of zikr on Physiological Coherence: A Case Study on Selected University Students.- Chapter 34: Supply Chain Integration Implementation and Operational Capability in SMEs: A Literature Review and a Research Agenda.- Chapter 35: Solar Cooking Activity for Preschoolers in Developing Inquiry Skills.- Chapter 36: Anxiety in Learning English among Low Achievers: The Questions of Gender, Language Preference and Academic Performance.- Chapter 37: Electronic Reservation Services in Malaysia from Customers’ Perspective.- Chapter 38: Teenagers’ Interaction in Photo Story Teenagers: A Discourse Analysis.- Chapter 39: Exploration on Innovation Culture inBatek Tribe.- Chapter 40: Analysing the use of Superiority Claims in the Local Complementary and Alternative Medicine Print Advertisements in Malaysia.- Chapter 41: Investigating the Satisfaction and Intention to Use Blog: The Application of Extended Tam.- Chapter 42: A Preliminary Exploration to Chinese Popular Adjectives in Chinese Website.- Chapter 43: Effects of Student’s Workload and Academic Procrastination on Attitude to Plagiarize: A Partial Least Squares Application.- Chapter 44: A Study on Relationship between Awareness and Knowledge of Muslims’ Sellers toward Halal Cosmetic Products.- Chapter 45: Islamic Jurisprudence on Reproductive Technology: A Methodological Appraisal.- Part 2: Sciences and Technology.- Chapter 46: Predictions of Relative Risks for Dengue Disease Mapping in Malaysia Based on Stochastic Sir-Si Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Transmission Model.- Chapter 47: The Effects of Caffeine on Archery Performance: A Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Study.- Chapter 48: Characteristics of Rdf Produce from Paper and Plastic Wastes and Potential of Rice Straw as a Binder.- Chapter 49: Artificial Pollination on Pepper (Piper Nigrum L.): Procedures to Prevent Self-Pollination and Guidelines to Ensure Reliability of Methods Used in Prevention of Self-Pollination.- Chapter 50: Day-Lighting Tropical Building Interiors from Skylight: The Case for Separating Heat from Useful Visible Light.- Chapter 51: Kinetic Modelling for Hydrogen Reduction of Ferric Oxide using Matlab.- Chapter 52: Factors Influencing Starch Digestibility.- Chapter 53: Removal of Reactive Dye by Flat Sheet Supported Liquid Membrane using Tridodecylamine as a Carrier.- Chapter 54: Extraction of Ionized Nano silver by Emulsion Liquid Membrane using Cyanex 302 as a Mobile Carrier.- Chapter 55: Gasification of Triple Fuel Blends using Pilot Scale Fluidized Bed Gasification Plant.- Chapter 56: Properties of Kelempayan Particleboard in Relation to Particle Size and Type ofResin.- Chapter 57: Effects of Different Resin Content and Densities on some Properties of Hybrid Wood Sawdust-Acacia mangium Composites.- Chapter 58: Performance Evaluation of CRP Algorithm for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks.- Chapter 59: Online Malaysian Bumiputera & Aslian Language Researchers’ Database (OMBALRD): Solution for Bumiputera & Aslian Languages Preservation.- Chapter 60: Framework Design of Computational Method Using Singular Value Decomposition for Gender Classification in Words Usage.- Chapter 61: Flood Frequency Analysis at Un gauged Sites in the Peninsular Malaysia Using Multiple Linear Regressions.- Chapter 62: TL-Moments: Application to the Generalized Logistic Distribution.- Chapter 63: On the Performance of Several Approaches to Obtain Standardized Logistic Regression Coefficients.- Chapter 64: Comparison of Anthropometric Characteristics, Body Composition, Speed and Agility Performance of Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Football Players.- Chapter 65: Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Evaluation of IT Supplier.- Chapter 66: Factors Affecting Early Adaptation of Post Intracerebral Haemorrhage Patients with Stroke Related Disability During Acute Inpatient Recovery Phase.- Chapter 67: Extended Non-Controllable Variable Input-Output Oriented Model in DEA Analysis.- Chapter 68: The Existence of Golden Section in the Traditional Malay Architecture.- Chapter 69: Cartesian Representation for Location Determination in Parts of Islamic Architecture.- Chapter 70: The Potential of Pseudomonas Sp. in Ammonia Removal of Landfill Leachate.- Chapter 71: Phytochemical Investigation of the Leaves of Tetracera Scandens Linn. And Antidiabetic Activity of Hypoletin in Vitro.- Chapter 72: Bioactive Terpenoids from the Stem Bark of Entada Spiralis Ridl. (Sintok).- Chapter 73: Effect of Hydrogen Peroxide Treatment of Rubber Leaf Powder in Removing Pb(Li) Ions.- Chapter 74: DNA Fingerprinting of Parent Stocks and the Progenies Produced UnderDifferent Salinity Acclimation of Chlorella Sp.- Chapter 75: Genetic Polymorphisms of Unicellular Green Algae Strains using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA.- Chapter 76: Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (IPMC): Potential Material for Micro technology Devices.- Chapter 77: Effects of Post-Deposition Annealing Time in Nitrogen Ambient on Y2O3 Films Deposited on Silicon.- Chapter 78: Road User’s Perception towards Landslide Warning Signage.- Chapter 79: Fabrication and Characterization of Porous and Non-Porous Y2CaBa4Cu7 Superconductor.- Chapter 80: Study on the Floristic Composition and Forest Structure of Heath Forest at Dungun Area in Terengganu.- Chapter 81: Effect of Salinity on Growth and Cytotoxicity of Extracts from a Marine-Derived Penicillium Sp. (LY1L5).- Chapter 82: Physical and Optical Properties of PBT: Nd3+ Glass System.- Chapter 83: On the Ochiai Index with Hurwicz Criterion in Ranking Fuzzy Numbers.- Chapter 84: Suitability of Sewing Thread on Different Types of Sheer Fabrics.- Chapter 85: Simulating the Effect of Feed-in Tariff on Renewable Energy Penetration: A System Dynamics Approach.- Chapter 86: Problems on Commercialization of Genetically Modified Crops in Malaysia.- Chapter 87: Potential Identification of Compacted Soil as Alternative Material in Cold-Formed Steel Column.- Chapter 88: Persona Design Analysis of Digital Storybook for Remedial Students.- Chapter 89: Impact of applying radiant barrier fitted beneath the roof in hot and humid climates.- Chapter 90: Study the Effects and Interaction of Operational Parameters on the Fabrication of Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)-loaded Chitosan-Polylactic Acid Based Films Using Full Factorial Design.