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International MAAC Symposium 2019
Politeknik Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia. 25-26 September 2019

[ID PB1004]

Student Understanding of Menstruation and Obesity: An Overview in Psmza Students

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Che Nor Kharsiah binti Yasina , Noraini binti Ismail , Nor Hasniati binti Abdullah @ Mahmud
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Department of General Studies,
1,2,3 Polytechnic Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin,Dungun Terengganu.
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E-mail : kharsiah@psmza.edu.my, noraini@psmza.edu.my, nor.hasniati@psmza.edu.my.

Abstract . The debate on the issue of women's blood, menstruation is very delicate and thorough among
scholars. It often causes confusion among students in particular and the community at large. This
confusion arises from their misunderstandings and lack of knowledge of jurisprudence although this
issue is importance as it relates to the perfection of daily worship. The purpose of this study is to provide
students with an understanding of menstruation and medicine, the calculation of the sacred duration
and practice during this situation. This is because it does not only involves women's personal hygiene
but it also covers other religious matters such as prayer, fasting, tawaf, recitation of the Quran and so
on. This study is quantitative by using questionnaire method. The sample of this study consisted of 200
students, randomly from four departments in PSMZA. The instrument used consisted of 36 question
items in the form of likert scale. The data obtained are presented in a descriptive manner using frequency
and percentage. The results of this study were analyzed using Statistical Package For Social Science
(SPSS) version 21.0. The results show that there are still many students who are unable to distinguish
between menstruation and relaxation and the difficulty of calculating the sacred and superficial
knowledge of menstruation practices. This problem can be worsened by the end of the menstrual period
especially in the case of irregular blood. Therefore, all parties should play a continuing role and work
together in an effort to provide understanding to the students.
Keywords: Student understanding, menstruation, women's blood

[ID PB1001]
Development of Arduino Controlled Robotic Arm

Norfarida binti Awang
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Politeknik Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, KM 8 Jalan Paka, 23000 Dungun Terengganu, Malaysia
E-mail : norfarida@psmza.edu.my

Abstract. Robots are playing a vital role in today’s industrial automation and monitoring system. As
technology developed, these robots have increased their applications. Working robots that cooperate to
the people makes the work less effort and uncomplicated. A robotic arm is a type of mechanical arm,
usually programmable, with similar functions to a human arm. In this project, a programmable robotic
arm is redesigned and implemented, and aimed to move using remote control and hand gesture from a
certain distance by using wireless component. This robotic arm is based on android application control
for remote operation. Inputs are sent to control the movement of the robot either to move in x-axis, y-
axis or z-axis using 1Sheeld application on android smartphone. Five motors are interfaced to the
microcontroller whereas one motor is used for gripper movement, while the other four motors are used
at the joints of the robotic arm for movement. The android application device transmitter acts as a remote
control by using hand gesture that has an advantage of adequate range, while receiver (1Sheeld) and
Bluetooth device are fed to the microcontroller (Arduino) to drive DC motor via motor driver IC L298N
for clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation. On 2012, studied found that Bluetooth is also a platform to
control robot without using the cable. The movements of the robot are controlled remotely using
Bluetooth connectivity[1]. The same result had been found in earlier study [2].Remote operation is
achieved by any smartphone with android upon Graphical User Interface (GUI) based touch screen
operation.

Keywords: robotic arm, Arduino, 1Sheeld

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