The study was done in Johor Bahru Allied Health Sciences College to gather information on academic stressors, stress levels and ways of coping among year one semester one nursing and assistant medical officer students. One hundred and twenty five nursing students and one hundred and twelve assistant medical officer students (total of two hundred thirty seven respondents) participated in this descriptive, cross sectional quantitative study. Instruments employed were Ying's Formal Academic Stress Scale 2009, Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale, 1983 and Ways of Coping by Lazarus and Folkman, 1984. The result of the study reported the highest academic stress that students are facing is related to peers. Highest mean was reported by both groups of students for this construct. Second highest mean was related to tests. Data analyzed using descriptive and t test proved significance (p value of 0.05) of academic stress among respondents. Analysis of stress levels were performed. The result demonstrated that students are facing high stress levels. Eighty eight percent of nursing students had more than average and high stress levels. Eighty nine percent of assistant medical officer students demonstrated the same. Ways of coping contained 8 constructs and highest mean determined the most used. Majority of students stated accepting responsibility for ways of coping. This finding was similar for both nursing and assistant medical officer students. Demographic variables were tested and demonstrated no significance differences according to race, age and sex. This finding is contradictory with other findings whereby the male and the female have different ways of coping, whereby women demonstrate more emotional coping compared to males. High stress levels need to be addressed as these students have just stepped into college life and need assistance to cope. Personal and group counseling can be effective in reducing stress and improving academic success. � Serials Publications.

Principals are school leaders who experienced stress while leading their schools towards excellence. However, principals stress experiences are always ignored and least studied. This mixed-methods study investigates primary principals’ stress experiences and their Islamic coping strategies used in incapacitating the stress experiences. A total of 216 Muslim primary principals across different gender, types of schools and years of experiences as school leaders responded to the administrative stress and the Islamic coping strategies items. In addition, seven primary principals were purposefully selected and interviewed in exploring their reasons of using Islamic coping strategies for their relieving process. Results discovered that primary principals experienced fairly stress level and they perceived managing students’ academic achievement was the most stressor followed by managing teachers’ capabilities. Although findings revealed that no significant differences in terms primary principals’ demographics; male primary principals, and experienced between 6 and 10 years and positioned in schools with least students (SLS) category have slightly higher level of stress. In terms of Islamic coping strategies used by primary principals, saying dhua to Allah, performing dhikir and reciting the Yassen are selected coping approaches employed in handling their stress. From interviews, primary principals also revealed that they used Islamic religious approaches as part of meaningful activities not just to overcoming their stress but also as part of religious approaches in remembering Allah, thinking back their past mistakes as part of the Muhasabah process. Therefore, we believed that religious approaches should be taken into consideration in principals’ training as it provides peaceful and treatment in managing principals’ stress issue.

Masdor N, Shukor MSA, Khan A, Halmi MIE, Abdullah SRS, Shamaan NA, Shukor MY. 2015. Taxonomy and distribution of species of the genus Acanthus (Acanthaceae) in mangroves of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Biodiversitas 16: 238-246. Pollution as a result of anthropogenic activities is a severe global issue. These activities including inappropriate disposal, industrial and prospecting activities and unnecessary use of agricultural chemicals have triggered international initiatives to eliminate these contaminants. In this work we screen the ability of a molybdenum-reducing bacterium isolated from contaminated soil to grow and reduce molybdenum on various detergents. The bacterium was able to grow on SDS as a carbon source although the compound did not support molybdenum reduction. The bacterium reduces molybdate to Mo-blue optimally between pH 5.8 and 6.3 and between 25 and 34�C. Glucose was the best electron donor for supporting molybdate reduction followed by sucrose, d-mannitol, d-sorbitol, lactose, salicin, trehalose, maltose and myo-Inositol in descending order. Other requirements include a phosphate concentration between 5.0 and 7.5 mM and a molybdate concentration between 5 and 20 mM. The absorption spectrum of the Mo-blue produced was similar to previous Mo-reducing bacterium, and closely resembles a reduced phosphomolybdate. Molybdenum reduction was inhibited by mercury (ii), silver (i) and copper (ii) at 2 ppm by 62.1, 33.9 and 33.6%, respectively. Biochemical analysis resulted in a tentative identification of the bacterium as Klebsiella oxytoca strain Aft-7. The ability of this bacterium to detoxify molybdenum and degrade detergent makes this bacterium an important tool for bioremediation. � 2015, Society for Indonesian Biodiversity. All rights Reserved.

Human resources are valuable assets for organizations and engaged employees is one of the most determining factor for an organization. Employees experience engaged condition when they have a leader with a supportive leadership style. The aim of the study is to find the role of the leadership style in generating work engagement to volunteers of humanity organization. The research method is by using Neuro-research. The calibration of the scoring sheet is by using Principle Component Avis approach through Varimax iteration (ratation) in which each reliability index ? is 0.781 and 0.873. Hypotheses test is conducted by using linear regression and classification regression tree (biner segmentation). The result of the research shows that (1)volunteers of humanity organization tend to sometimes engaged significantly at ?< 0.05, (2) volunteers of humanity organization has the condition of leadership which tends to have an inspirational motivation significantly at ?< 0.05, (3) there is an influence of leadership style towards work engagement of volunteers in humanity organization significantly at ?< 0.01, and (4) inspirational motivation is a kind of leadership style which is the strongest in determining the work engagement of volunteers in the humanity organization significantly at ?< 0.05 while to generate inspirational motivation is highly determined by improving the role of idealized influence (behavior) and contingent reward. Thus, based on the study is recommended to do some intervention for volunteers of humanity organization in order to increase the engagement by improving the leaders' self ability to be able to become an aspirator and motivator for humanity acts. Serials Publications.

The study aims to identify the self- efficacy, self- regulation and academic motivation among students. Research design for this study is case study which used quantitative method. The study involved 140 respondents randomly selected among students Permata Insan in Islamic Science University of Malaysia from Form 1 until Form 4 respondents involved in this study using stratified sampling method which based on their availability to participate. Instruments used are The Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, The Self- Regulation Questionnaire and Academic Motivation Scale. The design of the study uses a survey method. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, independent sample t test and correlation. Research findings shows there is significant relationship between self- efficacy and academic motivation among students, significant relationship between self- regulation and academic motivation among students and significant difference between self-efficacy, self-regulation and academic motivation based on gender among students. Thus, to improve self-esteem, self-regulation and academic motivation among student, there is need of teachers to make diversify in style of teaching when delivering in classroom to ensure delivering are more effective towards students.