Assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in Pulau Tinggi Malaysia

Natural history collection is significant to examine the environmental impacts from human activities. The contribution of the natural history collection has been discussed and praised in recent years. Yet in the scientific literature, there are lack of public records and publication regarding the...

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Main Author:	Zahari, Fatin Nur Atikah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English English
Published:	2022
Subjects:	T Technology (General)
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spelling	my-uthm-ep.82622023-02-07T03:41:58Z Assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in Pulau Tinggi Malaysia 2022-04 Zahari, Fatin Nur Atikah T Technology (General) Natural history collection is significant to examine the environmental impacts from human activities. The contribution of the natural history collection has been discussed and praised in recent years. Yet in the scientific literature, there are lack of public records and publication regarding the management of natural history specimens especially in the aspect of preservation techniques. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the perception of subject matter experts (SMEs) on various preservation techniques, analyse the time taken and the cost of each technique, develop the systematic decision tree (SDT) model that analysed by practitioners and come out with a development plan of Natural History Gallery in Pulau Tinggi. Interview sessions with five SMEs were done and questionnaire was distributed to 13 practitioners by using semi-structured and structured questionnaire to collect qualitative and quantitative data. Five types of preservation techniques namely taxidermy, resin, pinning, preservation in alcohol and diaphonization were conducted and analysed using SDT. The outcomes from the analysis showed that there are three types of SDT model which are difficulty level, time taken and cost spent. The SDT model of difficulty level shows that pinning technique was found to be the easiest method while taxidermy is the most difficult technique. Practitioners agreed on taxidermy being the easy method, but they think preservation in alcohol is easier. As for the SDT model in term of time taken, diaphonization takes the longest time to complete the process while pinning takes the shortest time in preservation. Practitioners concur for diaphonization but they think preservation in alcohol takes the shortest time. While SDT for costing aspect shows that pinning requires the lowest expense while diaphonization needs the highest cost and practitioners do agree with the statement. All data acquired from this study is important and will be used as a guide for the development and improvement of natural history gallery in Malaysia. 2022-04 Thesis http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/1/24p%20FATIN%20NUR%20ATIKAH%20ZAHARI.pdf text en public http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/2/FATIN%20NUR%20ATIKAH%20ZAHARI%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf text en staffonly http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/3/FATIN%20NUR%20ATIKAH%20ZAHARI%20WATERMARK.pdf text en validuser mphil masters Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Fakulti Sains Gunaan dan Teknologi
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description	Natural history collection is significant to examine the environmental impacts from human activities. The contribution of the natural history collection has been discussed and praised in recent years. Yet in the scientific literature, there are lack of public records and publication regarding the management of natural history specimens especially in the aspect of preservation techniques. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the perception of subject matter experts (SMEs) on various preservation techniques, analyse the time taken and the cost of each technique, develop the systematic decision tree (SDT) model that analysed by practitioners and come out with a development plan of Natural History Gallery in Pulau Tinggi. Interview sessions with five SMEs were done and questionnaire was distributed to 13 practitioners by using semi-structured and structured questionnaire to collect qualitative and quantitative data. Five types of preservation techniques namely taxidermy, resin, pinning, preservation in alcohol and diaphonization were conducted and analysed using SDT. The outcomes from the analysis showed that there are three types of SDT model which are difficulty level, time taken and cost spent. The SDT model of difficulty level shows that pinning technique was found to be the easiest method while taxidermy is the most difficult technique. Practitioners agreed on taxidermy being the easy method, but they think preservation in alcohol is easier. As for the SDT model in term of time taken, diaphonization takes the longest time to complete the process while pinning takes the shortest time in preservation. Practitioners concur for diaphonization but they think preservation in alcohol takes the shortest time. While SDT for costing aspect shows that pinning requires the lowest expense while diaphonization needs the highest cost and practitioners do agree with the statement. All data acquired from this study is important and will be used as a guide for the development and improvement of natural history gallery in Malaysia.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Zahari, Fatin Nur Atikah
author_facet	Zahari, Fatin Nur Atikah
author_sort	Zahari, Fatin Nur Atikah
title	Assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in Pulau Tinggi Malaysia
title_short	Assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in Pulau Tinggi Malaysia
title_full	Assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in Pulau Tinggi Malaysia
title_fullStr	Assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in Pulau Tinggi Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in Pulau Tinggi Malaysia
title_sort	assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in pulau tinggi malaysia
granting_institution	Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
granting_department	Fakulti Sains Gunaan dan Teknologi
publishDate	2022
url	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/1/24p%20FATIN%20NUR%20ATIKAH%20ZAHARI.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/2/FATIN%20NUR%20ATIKAH%20ZAHARI%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8262/3/FATIN%20NUR%20ATIKAH%20ZAHARI%20WATERMARK.pdf
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Assessment on different animal preservation techniques based on systematic decision tree for the development of natural history gallery in Pulau Tinggi Malaysia

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