89 research outputs found
Authorship Characteristics in Sekitar Perpustakaan 1994-2003: A Bibliometric Study
No full textThis bibliometric study attempts to explore the authorship characteristics in Sekitar Perpustakaan, one of the earliest library and information science (LIS) periodicals published by the National Library of Malaysia (PNM – Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia) since 1977. A total of 148 articles published in 20 issues of Sekitar Perpustakaan covering the period 1994-2003 were analyzed. Author characteristics such as name, gender, status, institutional affiliation, language preference of articles and authorship of articles were obtained, studied and analyzed. The findings reveals single-authored articles far outnumbered multi-authored articles at 79%; female contributors (65.74% or 71 authors) predominates male contributors (34.26% or 37 authors); middle-level professionals were the largest contributors of articles (59.3%); 83 (56%) of the articles published were in Bahasa Melayu, the national language, while 65 (44%) articles were in English; the top ranked contributor is Ding Choo Ming, Senior Research Fellow of Institute of the Malay World & Civilization, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia with nine contributions; and the most prolific institution is PNM with 41 contributing authors
An insight into the practical budgeting for productions of production houses / Shahrul Azlan Mohd. Zulkifli
No full textThis project paper is done with the intention of gaining an insight into the practical aspect of budgeting applied by the management of a Production House for its productions. The study was deemed essential as there were many grouses about the film industry being not so financially lucrative. There were a number of failed financial ventures into this glamourous industry. The creative and artistic elements of this business field have been discussed many a time in various media and sometimes with a touch of nostalgia. However, only a few have touched on the financial and management aspects. Thus the author would like to gain an insight into a component of that important but least studied aspect of the business, that is budgeting and how it is practised in this highly creative and artistic business in Malaysia
Bluetooth and security
No full textDetta arbete behandlar hur Bluetooth fungerar samt säkerheten kring Bluetooth och några allmänt tillgängliga attack verktyg. Syftet med uppsatsen är att försöka fastställa hur säkert Bluetooth är i dagens läge. Bluetooth har länge varit tillgängligt för att utbyta data över korta avstånd. Därför har man valt att implementera det i kommunikationsenheter som mobiltelefoner och laptops med mera. Det har funnits en debatt om hur säkert Bluetooth är. För att kunna genomföra denna undersökning så har vi satt oss in i hur Bluetooth fungerar, vilka allmänt tillgängliga attacker och implementationer av dessa, som finns. Vi har även testat några implementationer av de funna attackerna. I vår undersökning testade vi nio attackverktyg mot en implementation av den senaste version av Bluetooth. Värt att tänka på är att vi inte vet om de finns andra attackverktyg som fungerar på dagens Bluetooth-teknik. Vi kan fastställa att det är säkert ifall du följer de säkerhetskriterier som vi presenterar
Implementation of total quality management (TQM) and management by objectives (MBO) in university / Shaiful Azlan Abdul and Wan Kalthom Yahya
No full textOrganization can practices any techniques or styles of management. It depends on the type of industry, the nature of business and the condition of the market and environment. MBO has been debated for more than 25 years either it work or not. TQM was popular in lately 80 's and early 90 'so Some company had proven successful after applied this concept and plan. UiTM is undergone of TQM and is still under process. The author trying to suggest how these concepts will be implemented without lessens each other. The suggestion and proposal will work in university environment
Transition Theory in Decision Making for Regional Peace amongst Disputing Nations in Event of Nuclear Radioactive Contamination in South China Sea
No full textRegional peace in the South China Sea, despite
claimants by many nations is often transitory
ranging from the search for survivors of MH370
tragedy to creating supposedly common and
sustainable fishing grounds. This study explores
transition theory which explains the shifting of
a state to a viable end-state with incremental
steps to achieve regional peace in a scenario
of an environmental tragedy from nuclear
radioactive contamination in South China
Sea. The transition theory uses Multi-Level
Perspectives (MLP) framework which combines
both qualitative context and quantitative process
in one integrated decision making framework.
The decision making outcomes from the MLP
can be on fairness under competition and
cooperation for the common welfare gains.
It can also be a decision-making outcome on
equity with respect to each participating actors’
willingness to pay for the precautionary or
damage abatement costs. A survey was conducted
amongst ‘actors’ (N=20) as respondents on
an assumed nuclear power plant radioactive
contamination in the South China Sea region.
The study shows that decision-making outcomes
for equity and fairness by using transition
theory in the MLP framework may lead to
higher precautions that may be unaffordable to
some of the disputing nations in South China
Sea. However, technological innovations in
long term radioactive contamination damage
abatement technology which lead to lower
precautions may provide the ‘common ground’
amongst the disputing nations to vouch for a
more permanent regional peace
Open questions and recent advances in the control of a multi-host infectious disease: animal tuberculosis
No full textAnimal tuberculosis (TB) control is globally important for public health, economics and conservation. Wildlife species are often part of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) maintenance community, complicating TB control attempts. We describe the current knowledge on global TB distribution and the significance of wildlife hosts; identify insufficiently known aspects of host pathology, ecology and epidemiology; present selected time series in wildlife TB; and summarize ongoing research on TB control, providing additional insight on vaccination. Six specific research needs are identified and discussed, namely: 1) complete the world map of wildlife MTC reservoirs and describe the structure of each local MTC host community; 2) identify the origin and behaviour of generalized diseased individuals within populations, and study the role of factors such as co-infections, re-infections and individual condition on TB pathogenesis; 3) quantify indirect MTC transmission within and between species; 4) define and harmonize wildlife disease monitoring protocols, and apply them in a way that allows proper population and prevalence trend comparisons in both space and time; 5) carry out controlled and replicated wildlife TB control experiments using single intervention tools; 6) analyse cost-efficiency and consider knowledge transfer aspects in promising intervention strategies. We believe that addressing these six points would push ahead our capacities for TB control. A remaining question is whether or not interventions on wildlife TB are at all justified. The answer depends on the local circumstances of each TB hotspot, and is likely to evolve during our collective progress towards TB control in livestock and in wildlife.TB research funding was provided via a Plan Nacional grant AGL2011-30041 (MINECO, Spain and FEDER) and an EU FP7 grant WildTBvac #613779. The corresponding author acknowledges additional support from Campus de Excelencia Internacional (CYTEMA). Azlan Che Amat acknowledges a grant from the Malaysian Government.Peer Reviewe
Razor clam (Ensis directus) shell as a low-cost adsorbent for the removal of Congo red and Rhodamine B dyes from aqueous solution
No full textActive biopolymer film based on carboxymethyl cellulose and ascorbic acid for food preservation
No full textRemoval of methyl orange and methylene blue dyes from aqueous solution using lala clam (Orbicularia orbiculata) shell
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