The elderly generation is distinctive, and this reflects their housing preferences. This study aims to offer an outline of the Malaysian generational elderly housing preferences. The main objectives of this study; (i) To define elderly; (ii) To classify the features of elderly housing preferences; and (iii) To ascertain the elderly housing preferences by generations. This study applies mixed-method strategy and shown; (i) Health; (ii) Safety; (iii) Convenience; (iv) Community; and (v) Amenity as the preferred elderly housing features. This study guides the main actors of property development on the preferred elderly housing by the Malaysian generations.Keywords: Ageing in Place; Generations, Elderly (Senior) housing; Residential Environment PreferenceseISSN 2398-4295 ©2020 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v5i18.185

Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, technology in education has been important. This is a new norm in learning patterns. The study first investigates how user experience factors (useful, desire, accessible, usable) influence secondary school students' open distance learning (ODL). The second aim is to measure the emotion associated with their profiles. The method used is a questionnaire involving 161 respondents aged 13 to 17 years old. Findings show that user experience factors are significant to ODL, and the emotions associated with the likelihood ratio of gender and type of school are pleasant and unpleasant. Future work expands different target respondents, expands other user experience factors such as findable and credible, and expands different types of emotions.

Sports analytics has become very popular in recent years. Many researchers have been using the tools and technique to study tennis player performance in various aspects during matches. However, much of the studies were performed on male players while much less attention were made on female players. This study explores the female players’ characteristics and serve performance that leads to winning matches in women’s singles 2018 Grand Slam tennis tournaments. Using data provided by the official website of the Women Tennis Association (WTA), 1016 single matches in all four 2018 Grand Slam Tournaments were analysed to evaluate winning traits in tennis specifically looking at the two most important strokes in tennis which are the serve and return of serve. Additionally, other personal player characteristics that would influence the match outcomes were also evaluated. To achieve the objectives of the study, odds ratio and chi-square test were used to compare between the match winner and match loser. The study revealed that percentage of first serve return won (PFSRW) has the highest odds ratio value (OR=1.263) followed by the percentage of first serve won (PFSW) with odds ratio equal to 1.244. These showed that having a good first serve, plays an important factor in increasing the winning odds as compared to second serve either in serve or in return of serve. This study also reveals that a taller player had the advantage over a shorter player for faster serve speed (p-value<0.05).

Perceived self-efficacy refers to the people’s beliefs in their capabilities to exert control over their own functioning and over events that affect their live. Accessing student self-efficacy can provide educator with additional insight of students’ subsequent performance. Hence, this study examined the relationship between self-efficacy and mathematics performance among Applied Science university students. The sample consisted of first year Applied Science university students from two different backgrounds; matriculation and diploma. Students were given two sets of survey questionnaire which were developed by the authors to measure the students’ self-efficacy and their ability to solve the integral calculus questions. The questions were divided into four domains namely concept of calculus, translation from concept to formula, techniques of integration and recognition of functions. The findings from this study did not fully provide evidence to support the view that positive self-efficacy beliefs in mathematics increase mathematics performance since there was no significant impact on what the students perceived and what they actually scored. However, this study found out that if the aspects of self-efficacy were to be examined individually to see if there was any significant impact towards mathematics performance, it can be seen that Techniques of integration (r = 0.243, p < 0.05) and Recognition of function (r = 0.205, p < 0.05) were significant and positively related to mathematics performance to some extent. The study also showed that self–efficacy is correlated with all of the aspects of performance which the correlations values are as follows: Concept in Calculus (r = 0.730, p < 0.01), Translation from Concept to Formula (r = 0.705, p < 0.01), Techniques of integration (r = 0.852, p < 0.01) and Recognition of function (r = 0.773, p < 0.01). The results of this study can help the educators to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the current mathematics teaching.