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Assessing the effectiveness of modern dressing and Hamizal Bridge Offloading (HBO) among diabetic mellitus patients with plantar wound
No full textDiabetes Mellitus (DM) is a major public health concern in Malaysia, and the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes is 18.3% in 2019. According to the International Diabetic Federation 2019, 463 million people have diabetes, and this number is projected to reach 578 million by 2030 and 700 million by 2045. Diabetes Foot Ulcers (DFU) are the major complication among DM patients. In 2011, modern wound dressing has been used to treat DFU in Malaysia. However, it is not widely practiced in hospitals and health clinics. The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of modern dressing and Hamizal Bridge Offloading (HBO) in treating plantar wounds among DM patients. This qualitative study was adopted using a descriptive design and, individual interviews were conducted face-to-face with six respondents who have diabetic wounds on the soles of their feet. The collection of the data was conducted through voice recording at Centre of Excellence Wound Care, Senawang Health Clinic, Negeri Sembilan. The findings from this study are consistent with the findings of several studies related to modern dressing and Hamizal Bridge Offloading (HBO) among Diabetic Mellitus patients with a plantar wound. In addition, the findings of the data obtained show a patient’s wound healing within a month after using HBO and modern dressing. Modern Dressing with HBO treatment is very effective in assisting to help wound healing and reducing the amputation rate on a patient's limbs. Moreover, it can reduce the cost of treatment in terms of purchasing offloading products on the market
Atheism in Pakistan: Influences and challenges amongst Muslim youth
No full textAtheism is a growing socio-religious phenomenon across the world; however, its understanding, forms, influencing factors, and the challenges it has produced are varied from one social context to another. As atheism is also growing in Pakistani society, this study is an attempt to explore the forms of atheism, factors behind its spread, and the challenges it has produced for the Muslim youth of Lahore, Pakistan. This research is significant to comprehend the arguments offered to alienate the youth from their religion, and to initiate a way forward to encounter atheism. This study focuses on answering the basic question as to what are the forms, influencing factors, and the challenges the Muslim youth of Lahore are exposed to deviate from their belief in the behests of Islam, their religion at birth. The researcher has used Semi-structured qualitative interviews as a method for the current study and 19 self-identified atheists ranging from their diverse educational, institutional, and bents of mind and 14 religious scholars have been interviewed on the bases of comprehensive open-ended questionnaire. A non-probability snow-ball sampling technique has been used for the selection of the participants for interviews. Each interview has been recorded, transcribed, and the data has been interpreted to realize the argument in the participants’ responses. This study concludes that Muslim youth of Lahore equate atheism with liberty and freedom of life and are following implicit atheism, a form of atheism. It has also been concluded that the factors which led the Muslim youth of Lahore towards atheism as based on social, intellectual, or emotional dimensions. Moreover, it has also been figured out the challenges which have been produced by atheism include morality without religion, religious laws, and unaccountable sense of liberty. In conclusion, the major findings suggest that the debate of atheism is highly contextual and adaptation of research methodologies from context to context should be done; therefore, the results of the study in hand cannot be over-generalized
Understanding the antecedents of intention to knowledge sharing mediated by student interaction among internship students
Get PDFMajority of universities in Malaysia include an internship program in their syllabus in order to prepare the students to the working environment. During the internship program, students are exposed to the practices of the organization, and from there, students learn how to adapt themselves to the real working environment. Students who undergo internship program must prepare a final year project or their report for practical training, as one of the graduation requirements. Every student were supervised by the assigned supervisors. Hence, students are required to communicate with their supervisors in order to get assistance in completing their final year project or report for practical training. At the same time, students also share related information with other internship students who enrolled in the same program for the same batch. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate factors influencing intention to knowledge sharing among internship students. This study also further examines student interaction as the mediator to share the knowledge. The research framework in this study consists of intention to knowledge sharing as the dependent variable and three individual characteristics were chosen as the independent variables namely, absorptive capacity, motivation, and attitude. In addition, student interaction is included as the mediator to support the framework. This study has been conducted using quantitative method and data being analyzed using SPSS version 26. As a result, a survey of 241 undergraduate internship students from School of Business Management (SBM), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) revealed that all three independent variables are significant towards intention to knowledge sharing. Moreover, student interaction also mediates the relationship between the three independent variables to the intention to knowledge sharing. Later, few implications and recommendations are suggested in this study
An integrated ontology and multi-objective optimization model for intercropping decision support systems
No full textIntercropping in rubber plantations is a resource allocation problem to achieve Multiobjective Optimisation (MOO), including higher earnings, low investment, and using less water for cultivation. Moreover, the MOO model must be suitable for area conditions. Since each farmer has different conditions, areas, and limitations, therefore the decision process must involve Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) approach. This study proposed a new Decision Support System (DSS) model with integrated ontology and Goal Programming model (GP) for solving the MOO intercropping plantation problem by selecting crops that are suitable for each farmer and recommended by experts. The methodology used an ontology with the triangulation method and MOO modelling development. The DSS is designed to work in (i) a plant introduction section and (ii) a multi-purpose resource allocation section. The findings revealed that: (i) the Intercropping in Rubber Plantation Ontology and Recommendation Rules Section provided recommendations with accuracy up to 91.00% and precision equal to 95.79 % based on three rubber planting experts; (ii) the list of plants from the ontology base approved as a decision variable in the GP if the system recommended more than one plant is suitable to allocate resources and constraints of each farmer to achieve the above three objectives; and (iii) to adjust the scale of the values target error from different objectives units of measurement, a
minimum percentage of deviation summation is used. The model has improved decision-making by solving the problem of plant selection. This complex MCDM problem requires consideration of both quantitative and qualitative criteria and solving the problem of area allocation that meets the MOO requirements. The intercropping ontology has covered the modelling weakness in a selection problem through a hierarchical structure alone. In addition, the model can be applied to solve many other
resource allocation problems with MCDM and MOO
Factors influencing selection of contractors’ all risk Takaful product among Bumiputera contractors in Malaysia
Get PDFContractors' All Risks (CAR) is a complete insurance policy in the construction project to insure building construction works and other civil engineering works. However, CAR Takaful selection among Bumiputera contractors is still low as project data records from Pasukan Projek Khas 1, JKR Malaysia, show that only ten percent of the Bumiputera contractors choose CAR Takaful over CAR insurance. Also, statistics show that CAR Takaful's share of gross contributions is still much lower than CAR insurance's share of gross premiums. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between internal factors (attitude, awareness, understanding, and religiosity) and external factors (subjective norm, service quality, and role of agents) with CAR Takaful product selection. This study also analyses the mediating effect of intention in the relationship between internal and external factors with CAR Takaful product selection. The study uses the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as the underpinning theory. Through the quantitative survey method, 311 questionnaires were collected from targeted Bumiputera contractors in Malaysia (Grade G1 to Grade G7), except in Sabah and Sarawak, that are registered with the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) and are also members of Persatuan Kontraktor Melayu Malaysia (PKMM). The data was analysed using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) technique. The findings showed that understanding, religiosity, subjective norm, and intention positively affect CAR Takaful selection. However, attitude, awareness, service quality, and role of agents did not affect CAR Takaful selection. In addition, attitude, religiosity, and subjective norm positively affect intention. The findings also found that the relationship between attitude, awareness, religiosity, subjective norm, and role of agents with CAR Takaful selection is positively mediated by intention. These findings can guide Takaful operators and agents to formulate the right strategy, policies, and services to attract Bumiputera contractors to select CAR Takaful products in the construction project
Evaluating the effect of talent management practices and succession management implementation on employee engagement and quality of services for federal authority for identity and citizenship in Dubai
Get PDFThe main objective of this research is to evaluate talent management practices and implement succession management to improve employee engagement and service quality of the Federal Authority for identity and citizenship in the Emirate of Dubai. This is done by examining the impact of succession management and talent management as independent variables on service quality, which acts as the dependent variable. This study also examines the mediating role of employee engagement in the relationship between succession management and talent management as an independent variable on the one hand and service quality on the other. This research is conducted quantitatively using statistical evaluation based on detailed solutions and variance and covariance, correlation and regression techniques. This study is a large research topic since it is related to talent management practices and the implementation of succession management in Federal Authorities, where there have been previous studies being conducted. Questionnaire was used to collect data for the study and was generated from literary works and modified to suit the study conditions. The population of this assessment is employees working in the Federal Authority for identity and citizenship in the Emirate of Dubai, with the target sample size of 370, but the actual valid data set was 325 samples. The results of the main dependent variable, the service quality of the Federal Authority to show satisfactory predictive power and significant predictive significance. The proposed model can explain 88.7% of the variance in the degree of spell check in service quality, which has a good relationship with succession management and talent management as independent variables. While in the results of the analysis of employee engagement, the correlation of employees in the relationship between talent management replacement management as an independent variable on the one hand and service quality on the other hand is a satisfactory result
Factors influencing audit quality in tax audit among IRBM’s tax audit officers in Malaysia
Get PDFThis paper aims to determine the factors that influence audit quality in tax audit among IRBM’s tax audit officers in Malaysia. Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (IRBM) is a government tax collection agency who collects direct taxes in Malaysia and after the taxpayers implement the Self-Assessment System, their main activity is audit. A tax audit officer is responsible to perform tax audit from one of the three audit units namely Company Audit Unit Other Than Company Audit Unit and Individual Audit Unit. Audit activity is essential as it can be a way to educate taxpayers, hinder non-compliance and increase revenue collections. Hence, it is important to maintain the highest degree of audit quality in tax audit. To achieve that, it is essential to understand factors that could influence audit quality in tax audit in IRBM. Data collection involved 100 tax audit officers of IRBM from three audit units from all over Malaysia. Two theories were applied in this study namely Attribution Theory and Theory of Planned Behaviour. Based on these theories, five factors were identified which are accountability, time limit, job satisfaction, competency, and taxation technical training. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between variables. The findings show that accountability, competency, and taxation technical training positively affect audit quality in tax audit, meanwhile, time limit and job satisfaction do not affect audit quality in tax audit
Reward and compensation system on employee performance during pandemic Covid-19
Get PDFAn employee is an organization's most asset. This is because employees' decisions or conduct will affect the organization's success or failure. The firm's management should motivate employees by providing them with the best possible compensation to assure their optimum performance. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of reward and compensation on employee performance during pandemic Covid-19. A survey was distributed through online questionnaire focuses on employee in Negeri Sembilan especially in Kuala Pilah, Rembau and Bahau. A total of 157 data was collected and used for analyses purpose using linear regression. The findings of this study indicate reward has significant positive influence on employee performance during pandemic Covid-19 by using regression of coefficient (ß = 0.315, p > 0) However, compensation shows insignificant result in current study (ß = -0.061, p > 0). The implication, limitation and recommendations for future studies were further discussed
Factors affecting efficiency of indirect tax auditors
Get PDFIndirect tax auditors’ efficiency, audit quality, effective information system and tax legi
Influence of home country push factors on intention to migrate among Iraqi medical doctors
Get PDFThe migration of talented human resources from one country to another has become a concern worldwide. This study aims to investigate the effects of economic, political, and social push factors specifically economic instability, financial difficulties, political instability, corruption, family well-being, and life dissatisfaction on the intention of medical doctors to migrate in the context of Iraq. This study also aims to examine the mediating effect of psychological distress. Using a cross-sectional survey design, this study gathers data from a sample of 460 medical doctors working in private and public hospitals in Iraq. The Partial Least Square ( PLS ) path modelling was used to test the direct and indirect hypotheses. The findings revealed that financial difficulties and economic instability has a positive relationship with the intention to migrate, whilst political instability, corruption, life dissatisfaction and family well-being has a negative and insignificant relationship with the intention to migrate. Meanwhile, financial difficulties, economic instability, political instability, and corruption has a positive relationship with psychological distress, which in turn positively related to intention to migrate. Family well-being also has a positive and significant effect on psychological distress, whilst life dissatisfaction has negative and insignificant direct effect on psychological distress. The findings also revealed the full mediating effect of psychological distress on the relationship between financial difficulties, economic instability, political instability, corruption, and family well-being with the intention to migrate. However, the mediating effect of psychological distress on the relationship between life dissatisfaction and the intention to migrate is insignificant. This study offers insights on the mechanism that can be used by human resource managers and policymakers to improve the psychological state of medical doctors in Iraq to mitigate the migration among them. Finally, the limitations of the study were identified along with suggestions for future research