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Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM): The Application of Digitalization in Conserving Negeri Sembilan Traditional Malay House
No full textRumah kampung, or Malay house, exemplifies the richness and insight of traditional buildings, sharing a home with people, and living in peace with nature. The typical Malay home is a building elevated on stilts high above the ground, covered with thatch roofs, encased with wooden walls, and pierced with windows and lattices in its most basic form. Due to the increasing interest in cultural heritage as a driving force of socio-economic development, many initiatives involving its preservation, conservation, restoration, and dissemination are undertaken throughout the globe. Conservation entails taking physical steps to preserve the fabric and elements of heritage buildings. It is a method of preventing deterioration from extending the life of buildings. According to the conservation concept, building conservation should maintain as much of the original building structure and fabric as feasible. Heritage buildings are now conserved based on historical and cultural considerations, and the cultural value of the architecture of historic buildings is slowly appreciated. The techniques, methods, and materials used to build and construct the buildings are the primary concern in conservation projects. This paper aims to investigate the current conservation process using the digitalization approach to document Negeri Sembilan Traditional Malay House. Data collection provides a literature review, whereby the current conservation process for cases in Malaysia and various countries will be reviewed. Content analysis was utilized to analyze the results. The findings of this paper provide helpful information regarding the potential development of digitalization based on the conservation process to be used further in the future traditional conservation building
Barriers of Applying Building Information Modelling (BIM) According to BIM ISO
No full textBIM is not new but it is still not widely applied in Malaysian construction industry. Many have claimed to have adopted BIM but failed to have applied BIM in accordance to BIM ISO standards. The issues of cost overrun and time overrun persisted in the BIM construction projects. BIM proved to have various tools that will definitely mitigate the issues but not many are familiar with BIM ISO 19650 to unleash the full potential of BIM. BIM ISO is a standard to manage the information for a project. This research is aimed to evaluate the barriers of apply BIM to the standards of BIM ISO 19650 during design phase in the construction industry in Johor, Malaysia. Online questionnaire is sent through email to the building designers – architects and engineers. After the primary data is collected, the findings are displayed with relative importance index (RII). This research has discovered the low practice level of BIM in Johor is mainly due to the barrier of lack of detail and guidance of national standard
A Brief Review of the Industrial Manipulators in Product-line
No full textThis article provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial manipulator, brief
history, classification, application, and design process. It is crucial for designers, engineers, and
researchers to be familiar with various types of industrial manipulators and applied codes used
by engineering companies, as well as key factors that need to be considered during the design
process. This paper provides a basic understanding of the industrial manipulators in order to
optimize the current manipulator design and propose new designs. To optimize and construct the
design, it is necessary to understand different types of errors related to the design and the codes
that lead us to a suitable design. These error types and codes have been explained in detail in this
document
MAHARAJAH’S RESTRUCTURING VIA, ACQUISITION: A CRITICAL CASE ANALYSIS
No full textThe acquisition of Air India- a prodigal child by the Tata Group is the talk of the town. Air India was a prosperous airline till it was with its Indian aviator- JRD Tata. It started suffering losses since 2007-08, all turnaround and financial restructuring plans failed to work out and the Government had to pay Rs. 20 crore per day to keep it alive. Its disinvestment failed in 2017 but finally in 2020 Government sweetened the deal for the buyers by selling 100% of its stake in the airlines and Tata Group won the bid. This research paper deeply analyzes the case of acquisition of Air India by the Tatas, discovers the facts which led to its catastrophe, examines the consequences of its failure, records the issues which came in the way of its sale, assesses the viability of its restructuring via- 100 per cent disinvestment plan and sheds light on the gravity of business restructuring mechanism. It also examines the facts, issues and decision of the case. This case is very important as Air India was once a pinnacle airlines of India and also amongst the major international airlines of the world. It is a prominent case to underscore the significance of business restructuring tools for the rehabilitation of sick yet viable companies and the economy. The World Bank’s research also recognizes that effective corporate reforms can reduce the cost of credit, increase timely repayments and lower liquidate rate amongst economically distressed companies. The researcher in this study evinces that the companies should not rely on debt and should keep a close eye on the debt because debt is one of the prime reasons for the collapse of a company and economy. Air India’s restructuring is though a herculean task for the Tatas but still it is the best route for its resurrection as the acquisition will help in using the synergies of both the companies and at the end of the day it will be beneficial for the Indian Economy as a whole. The researcher eventually suggests that the Tatas should try to reduce costs, debt burden, make best use of available talent and resources, incorporate new technologies, expand its operations and implement an effective framework. The study also puts forward that due to the aftermath of COVID-19, large number of small and medium sized companies have become sick and are suffering losses, so for them corporate restructuring is the solution to revive. This novel research study will prove to be a principal research study for the researchers, policy makers and professionals in conducting future researches to study the impact of business restructuring (via, takeover of Air India). Since, Air India is recently acquired in January, 2022 so the effect can’t be studied at the present stage. A comparison of various ratios and statistical tools before and after restructuring can be done in the following years to measure the benefits of restructuring of Air India
E-Learning App Using Image Processing, Detection, Ranking, and Progress Monitoring for Preschoolers
No full textWith the world rapidly adapting to online education, preschoolers are left behind to cope with this new approach to learning. In reality, preschoolers require more engagement and interaction; they require hands-on activities/exercises to stimulate their learning progress. As a solution, the author came up with an e-learning application that implements machine learning and image/text recognition for a subtle and fun way of learning. The application has three basic learning activities such as the alphabet, numbers, and color activity. For the alphabet and number activity, the application will simply take the student’s hand-drawn input from the built-in canvas, run it through the image processing/recognition and instantaneously allocate points for the student based on their answer. The color activity is slightly adventurous, where the students will take pictures of a particular color based on the given question, this allows the students to wander around their surroundings making it more interactive and fun. The application additionally includes the student analysis function, which is a detailed student management system with the capability to track student progress and identify their interest to find out their strengths and weaknesses in a particular subject based on the points and activity involvements. The application also has an in-app monitoring and ranking system along with individual student profiles that make student management easier for a larger group of students in a learning center or kindergarten
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE INTENTION TO ADOPT E-WALLET: A REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION PERSPECTIVE IN MALAYSIA
No full textCurrent mode of cashless payment in Malaysia has reached maturity. E-wallet players has transcended globally, more so with the onset of Covid-19 pandemic that mandated social distancing in early 2020. The renewed and acute need awareness triggered an immense support of e-wallet adoption. Yet, contrary to expectations, only 11% of the total population adopts e-wallet which is one-fifth of total smartphone users in the nation. More than 50% of Malaysia’s revenue comes from taxes. However, substantial revenue is lost through high tax evasion due to less traceable transactions and increased illegal financial outflow. Quenching this curiosity, the research explores factors influencing adoption of e-wallet based on constructs of knowledge, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, social influence. Besides, a regional distribution, and the mediating effect of perceived trust between knowledge and intention to adopt e-wallet is examined. Notwithstanding the current technological prevalence in Malaysians’ lifestyle, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness is purposedly posed as respective independent variables rather than as a mediator as in the Technology Acceptance Model. Using a quantitative approach and purposive sampling technique, data collection is engineered to have a prerequisite of minimum 50 respondents per region. Based on parameters of two tailed test with confidence interval of 95% (significance level 0.05), a total of 400 responses were analysed via SmartPLS with PLS-SEM algorithm. Knowledge, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and the mediating effect of perceived trust on knowledge were found significant. Thus, both the daily performance improvement and effort to manoeuvre e-wallet are essential. Social influence was, however, found insignificant. It could imply that promoting e-wallet adoption through advertisements and peer reviews is not adequate as generally expected. In contrary, enhancing user experience of the e-wallet adopters in terms of ease of use and usefulness is the ultimate key. Regional distribution findings showed that Northern Region (Perlis, Kedah, Penang, and Perak) has the highest e-wallet adoption rate of 94.4%, followed closely by Central Region (Selangor, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, and Putrajaya) at 92.3%. Reminiscing upon a current launch of e-Tunai (e-cash) at Penang at time of the study, practical knowledge is found to be impactful in influencing the intention to adopt e-wallet. As such, opportunities are abundant for relevant stakeholders to strategize and enhance e-wallet adoption among the public as well as the under-served community
Implementation of Good Corporate Governance in Creating Bank Performance Sustainability Using Partial Least Square Method
No full textPerformance is an achievement picture of activity implementation in realizing the company's goals. An important goal in the establishment of a company is to improve the welfare of its owners or shareholders by maximizing shareholder wealth through increasing the company's value. Business performance is needed and important for the company. This certainly will be a distinct advantage for a company if it has good business performance. PT. Bank Pembangunan Daerah Jawa Barat dan Banten, Tbk. with the call name bank BJB is one of the BUMD that is engaged in the banking industry sector with category of BUKU 3. The research analysis unit is conducted at branch offices throughout all the bank BJB network of service and operations. In the last five years, the trend of bank BJB performance still tends to fluctuate, especially in the period 2013-2014 and 2016-2017 which has decreased. This can be seen in the balanced scorecard parameters of each branch office performance index for the 2014-2018 period. One reason for the decline in bank BJB performance is the poor implementation of Good Corporate Governance (GCG). The phenomenon of bank BJB performance fluctuated in line with the GCG ranking statistics issued by the LPPI where bank BJB's GCG rating was above the average rating of the national banking industry's GCG standard. The current GCG implementation is mostly carried out at the corporate level and lacks of optimal GCG implementation at the business, operational and functional levels, in this case, is the branch office. The modeling of the research framework is designed using the Partial Least Square model which is a method for estimating the path model that uses latent extract with multiple indicators. Based on the phenomenon that occurs in bank BJB, the research framework that will be explored is testing the hypotheses related to the description of the external environment, internal environment, and corporate value towards the GCG implementation in creating bank performance sustainability
Performance of One-Stage of Multi-Stage Flash System
No full textOne of the most extensive desalination facilities, the multi-stage flash (MSF) system uses saltwater to create desalinated water, which is then utilized to develop high productivity fresh (sweet) or non-salt water. The operation of MSF plants is depending on using thermal energy to evaporate some vapor (pure water) from the seawater based on the reduction in the operating pressure, which the generated vapor will condense to form the product. This article will outline the design of the brine heater and the one-stage (just the first stage) MSF system. The thermal performance (MSF plant efficiency) of the suggested system (one-stage of MSF), measured by Gain Output Ratio, reaches 0.45 (very low value). Therefore, the MSF plants must be designed with multi-stages to increase its thermal performance. A parametric study has been done to study the effect of tube length and vapor temperature on the number of tubes
CHALLENGES IN QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (HEIS) OF PAKISTAN
No full textThe motivation behind this study depends on exploratory examination to distinguish "Challenges in Quality of Education in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of Pakistan". The exploratory examination approach is utilized to accomplish the goals of the concentrate significantly quicker and with reasonable means. Throughout the previous few years, Pakistan is confronting a ton of difficulties in the sector of education like curriculum, not many preparation establishments, debasement in training, educator's way of behaving, and less exploration work. Arising Issues in the education sector are less preparation establishments and the pattern toward research work which is fundamental to follow for the development and strength of any economy. The reason for our exploration is to distinguish the significant difficulties in the instructive area in Pakistan which the instructive area is languishing over most recent couple of years. The researcher utilized triangulation to convey the unwavering quality and legitimacy of the information for results. Thus, to direct this triangulation the researcher involved poll surveys for the understudies, questionnaire for the instructors and meetings with the administration. In such manner essential information was gathered from the engaged gathering of understudies involving an example of 100 surveys for every institution were filled by the understudies of the chose five institutions. The discoveries feature positive relationship of value schooling with educational program, not many preparation organizations, and defilement in training, educator's way of behaving and less exploration work. These difficulties caused limitations in achieving equipped instructing and learning regarding quality training. As per the ongoing circumstance in Pakistan, similar difficulties are being confronted
Analysis of Information Security Resource Requirements in Local Governments
No full textInformation Security Resources Needs Analysis and Management in Local Government is compiling the information security resource requirements by the Regional Government so the implementation of information security can guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. The lack of related research causes innovation and the fulfillment of information resource needs not to develop. Therefore, this study aims to carry out the local government's information security resources needs with a portrait adapted to existing conditions.
In this study, the methodology used is Input-Process-Output and the objects of information security resources are asset security management, human resource management, and knowledge management which carry out city government affairs and must comply with applicable regulations and policies