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In the face of increased demand and exposure to environmental effects, the condition of road pavements continues to decline while resources for their preservation remain limited. Thus, the task of managing pavements has to be done systematically and objectively. This paper outlines the steps involved in developing a multi-year pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation (M&R) plan. These include:...
Recent years have witnessed how education has rapidly evolved into integration of technology or computer in the process of teaching and learning. As computer potentially enhances the process, this paper reports on the user need analysis on Science subject in Malaysian secondary schools that focus on Personalized Learning Environment (PLE), methods and materials and why PLE is needed. Several surveys...
The lesson study concept is certainly not a new thing in the development of teaching activities. The concept is one sharpshooter concept that can support the existing learning activities to be able to continue to grow each time. Unfortunately at this time, the development of systems based on lesson are still very few in number and the research related to that system development is still not widely...
Navigating complex routes and finding objects of interest are challenging tasks for the visually impaired. The project NAVIG (Navigation Assisted by artificial VIsion and GNSS) is directed toward increasing personal autonomy via a virtual augmented reality system. The system integrates an adapted geographic information system with different classes of objects useful for improving route selection and...
This article highlights the need to assess the impact of the innovation over its environment in general sense, as a factor determining its future success. This impact has to be evaluated, not only taking into account the vendor-customer relationship, but studying the entire network of actors of the innovation's environment. First, a comprehensive analysis of the meaning of the term impact is made,...
This article is based on our on-going research to determine the suitability of three Chinese language textbooks and the supplementary teaching materials currently used at UiTM. Our research has four objectives: a) to investigate learners' reasons for studying Chinese as a third language; b) to determine specific knowledge and skills learners wanted to acquire c) to examine the suitability of the contents...
The appliance of ERP System is a project with high risk and high investment, and there are various risks in the whole process of implementation. Firstly, this paper proposed and analyzed eight types of risks of ERP system implementation, namely, implementation purpose, need analysis, process reorganization, software selection, basic data, implementation organization, external environment and system...
The root cause of the questions that many organizations faced, such as low efficiency, inadequate execution and dissatisfactory organizational performance, was the lack of process design of organization management. As the variety of organization types this paper divided the organization types into three, namely manual labor-based, skill-based, intelligence-based, according to the principal staff who...
It is imperative to construct an English curriculum with features of high vocational and technical. English for special purposes is a new teaching model which can benefit students both in English learning and specific knowledge. It also provides an effective way to improve the quality of English teaching because of its strong practicality and professional characteristic. This paper analyzes the current...
Internet, with its vast source of information and new communication technology, has been embraced as an important tool for language teaching. This paper explores how teachers of Business English, a branch of ESP, may make good use of Internet to facilitate teaching. It first specifies the scope of Business English, and explores the resources online that can be employed to optimize the Business English...
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