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Research News - Jump-starting Youngsters’ Jawi Skills
UiTM lecturers are reviving Jawi, the characters of Arabic scripts which are adapted to the sound of Malay language. Learning it is challenging as one has to know the characters and their shape, writing, connecting the characters and finally reading the text. Norizan Mat Diah, Marina Ismail, Putri Mazliana Abdul Hami and Suzana Ahmad of UiTM Shah Alam hence developed a software to teach children between the ages of 4 to 6 years old to write the Jawi characters.
Jawi letters are difficult for children to write as they require the use of fine motor skills. Research indicated that up to 95% of students had negative attitudes towards Jawi because they found it very complicated. It was found that some 9-year old children were unable to master Jawi writing but adept at Romanised writing. ...More
Research News - Singling Out the Fake
WAR stories often tell the heroic help of the masters of forgeries forging travel documents for the prisoners. Or we have watched a movie, Catch Me if You Can - Leonardo Di Caprio playing the great con Frank Abagnale forging cheques. Worse now, cons are getting cleverer faking paintings, money, wills, and the list goes on. Surely document examiners and police are busy tracing.
Analysis of writing materials like inks is a very important part of forensic examinations. Sadly, modern writing materials, with increased technology and literacy, increase document forgery, giving the forensic document examiner more jobs to do. Hence, to ease those in the forensic department, Mohamed Izzharif Abdul Halim of the Faculty of Applied Sciences planned to create a method to distinguish colours, brands, types of pen inks and their chemicals...More
