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Go - Life Enterprise: "Fruit Cutter Tumbler" / Muhammad Shakir Zakaria...[et.al]
Full text linkGoLife Enterprise is a business partnership. The business address is at G-17, Jalan Plumbum, Seksyen 7, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan. There are 5 shareholders that have cooperated and responsible in collecting some capitals to build this company. They are Muhammad Shakir Bin Zakaria as general manager, Radziah Abd Razak as administration manager, Nur Munirah binti Mohd Azmi as marketing manager, Mohamad Syafiqul Hafiz as operation manager and Nurul Nadia binti Rahim as financial manager.
The main focus of this business is to produce high quality of farm and housemate tools and apparatus that can serve demand from local and international. The first our innovations product by GoLife Enterprise is FRUIT CUTTER TUMBLER that comes with combination of conventional and modem technologies. Although our product is existing in the market but we making some adjustment and improvement to make sure the fruit cutter tumbler to be different from others cutter by applying some special features such as sharp cutter blade, light in the weight and etc. Fruit cutter tumbler is a type of innovation to help users to slice fruits into section on one swift movement making it perfect for making bite sized chunk. Safe and health, suit to apple, pear, orange and other fruits, quick and easy to use and portable at anytime and anywhere because it is light in weight and small in size. We also would like to produce our own brand to reduce cost. Other than that, we also would like to expand our business to become more competitive and comprehensive. Next, just like another company we also have the marketing strategies that have one target market. Our company target market is office worker, housewife, health-trainer and student. Fruit cutter tumbler act as our product because in take opportunity on people who are living in healthy life-style where they love to eat healthy food, discovering the potential of using this innovation due to changes in demographic and perceptual and help people to consume fresh fruits without using a lot of time for preparation. In additions, we have our competitors that survive in sell the product that have same nature of business like us. Our competitors come from the same industry but different level of business. Examples the competitors are Tupperware, Nicer Dicer Plus and Zicome that contribute to our market segmentation. Last but not least, we will do the promotions regarding our product to people out there because their knowledge about
cutter fruit is limited and maybe one day, tumbler fruit cutter will be a substitute product against other knives
Development and characterization of electro-textile antenna for wearable application / Muhammad Shakir Amin Nordin
Full text linkNowadays, wearable antennas for body area networks, especially textile-based antennas, have gathered much attention due to being resilient, lightweight, and easily embedded into garments. Wearable antennas are highly in demand to support the Internet of Things (IoT) application, which includes tracking and navigation, mobile computing, public safety, and wireless communication. However, conventional textile-based wearable antennas such as copper tape, copper foil, or copper powder will lead to many related antenna performances. For example, the fabricated antennas can be easily detached from the fabric after being washed or worn many times, causing degradation in antenna performance. Thus, developing a new Self-Manufactured Electro-textile (SME-t) with a more structurally practical conductive fabric was proposed and analyzed in this research work. A rectangular patch wearable antenna fabricated using a SME-t material designed at 1.575 GHz based on the allocated spectrum for Global Positioning System (GPS) application is presented in this research. The SME-t was made up of 0.14mm copper threads as the conductive element and polyester threads as the non-conductive element with the weight ratio of 83:17 respectively using the plain weaving technique. To ensure the textile model's accuracy in the electromagnetic solver, the new textile's characteristics shall be taken into consideration. The dielectric constant, loss tangent, and fabric thickness were measured for the non-conductive element to determine the dielectric properties and electro-textile material's electrical properties. Meanwhile, for the radiating elements, the electrical conductivity was measured and analyzed, accordance to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards. Four design antennas were developed and analyzed to analyze and validate the capability and performance of the SME-t as a radiating element for the wearable antenna. As a reference and for performance comparison, two antennas were developed using established materials such as adhesive copper tape as a radiating element for Design-1 antenna (CPC antenna) and commercial off-the-shelf conductive fabric named SHIELDITTM as radiating element for Design-2 antenna (SPC antenna). Meanwhile, the Design-3 antenna (EPC antenna) is formed by fabricating the SME-t at the front(patch) and copper tape as the ground, while for the Design-4 antenna (EPE antenna), both sides are using the SME-t. The measured return loss values at the desired resonant frequency for the CPC antenna is -20.75dB with 1.5dB gain, while the measured return loss for the SPS antenna is -15.34dB, with 1.23dB gain. The fabricated EPE antenna gives good return loss performance, which is -17.83 dB at 1.575 GHz resonant frequency with 68MHz bandwidth. However, the frequency is slightly shifted by about 1% to the left due to fabrication and measurement uncertainties. Meanwhile, acceptable antenna gain and efficiency of 0.61 dB, and 25.95% are obtained through measurement. The deformation condition for the electro-textile antenna was conducted by focusing on a wearable implementation. For that reason, the bending effect of the EPE antenna was performed and analyzed for two specific bending angles associated to a 125° arc of radius, which resembles the human upper arm, and 171° for the human wrist. Moreover, the effect of bending on the electro-textile antenna in the H-plane and E-plane have also been simulated, measured and analyzed. Based on the results, both planes give relatively good agreement with return loss values of -16.52 dB and -11.03dB at 1.575GHz for H-plane and E-plane, respectively
Catching customer's attention on BIMB: a study on marketing aspects / Muhammad Shakir Ismail
Full text linkCurrently, most people know about the current account, time deposit account but not aware about the modaraba, musharaqa, etc. Some people only have accounts in BIMB just for depositing and withdrawing purposes (wadiah & qardh al - hassan), but they don't know about other products provided. This may be due to marketing problems such as promotions, products, distribution channels and human resources. Effective marketing needs to be considered for effective responses. The objective of this study is to investigate the level of knowledge and understanding on BIMB's products and services and the effective marketing strategy that needs to be taken by BIMB to spread its products and services in Kuala Lumpur. There are 5 potential variables that can be used to meet the objective which are knowledge and understanding, advertising, customer's attitude, reputation, and product and service quality as the independent variables and marketing on BIMB's products and services as the dependent variable. The data will be collected through questionnaire survey. The questionnaire will be distributed to the BIMB customers of Kuala Lumpur using simple random sampling. The data collected from the questionnaire will be run through IBM SPSS Statistics 22. The econometric methods uses in this research are Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Linear Regression. Pearson Correlation Coefficient is used to identify the relationship of dependent variable and independent variables whether it show positive or negative result
The outbreak of rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) in oil palm at selected oil palm plantations / Muhammad Shakir Zakaria
Full text linkOryctes rhinoceros also known as rhinoceros beetle and the most important pest cause huge damage on selected oil palm crop in plantation area. This study aims to generate useful information about the population rhinoceros beetle and their ecology in order to help farmers in reducing of population and huge losses on the oil palm crop that caused by rhinoceros beetle in their field. The objectives of the study were to determine the abundance of rhinoceros beetle over a year in replanting, immature and mature at selected oil palm plantations and evaluate the related factors that affect the population of rhinoceros beetle. Thus study started from 5th August 2017 until 30th October 2017 and was carried out in Parit Jawa, Batu Pahat and Tangkak, Johor
and required 11 samples of pheromone traps. As a result, comparison between graph showed that Tangkak area have greater amount of beetle compared to another area. However, there was no significant differece between population of rhinoceros beetle in immature and mature (P-value=0.671>0.05). In addition, the result for the mature and replanting (P-value=0.071>0.05) still showed there was no significant difference. Moreover, the comparisons number of rhinoceros beetle between in immature and mature oil palms showed there was significant different (P<0.05). While, the lowest number of beetle population is at immature area or Batu Pahat, Johor. All the result show that all beetle population is fluctuate but still not achieve threshold level. The results indicate that replanting site can cause high population of beetle and need take care more seriously to avoid the production of oil palm became lowered
An evaluation on the performance suitability and adaptability of bees in protected and nonprotected beehives at oil palm smallholders / Muhammad Shakir Zakaria
Full text linkNowadays, the oil palm is the largest plantated crop in Malaysia, most noteworthy yielding oil crop, and positioning first on the world in oil production. However, there were some challenges in every action and situation for the plantation industry especially the pest attack in oil palm contribute to human and elephant conflict (HEC).Several outbreaks have been reported around Malaysia including Kampung Gol, Jerantut, Pahang and problem has never been solved even though there have been all the types of controls that been introduced. The main issue in human-elephants conflict was the crop-raiding of oil palm. Following this, the effectiveness of selected bee(Apis cerana) will be studied in Malaysia as the first attempt in mitigating or controlling wild elephant attacks in smallholder’s oil palm plantation. The purpose o fthe study was to evaluate the population abundance of Apis cerana over a year sampling in the beehives, to quantify the best practice for a successful mass rearing ofApis cerana in the selected testing area, to determine the relationship between the population of Apis cerana in different method practice and climatic factors and to measure the relationship between Apis cerana in different method practice and its predator. This study was conducted on 10 beehives from April 2018 until March 2019in Kampung Gol, Jerantut, Pahang. Apis cerana colonies were being labeled and the data collection was done by counting bees. Every single comb or brood of the beehives was photographed, insert to the computer, marked by the grid area (cm2), and calculated by using empirical measures techniques. The bee population density percm2 was determined by counting the number of bees directly in square equaling onecm2. The data bee’s population were recorded and analyzed. However, protected beehive equipped with lathing mesh or net, bee excluder and water or grease oil as protection and non-protected beehive was origin beehive. The population of bees, Apiscerana was found significant different (P0.05) between the population of Apis cerana with abiotic factor whether in both methods except rainfall in protection beehives Apiscerana prefered to stay outside the beehives that equipped with has a zinc roof. The findings also showed that Apis cerana had significant relationship (P0.05) in protection beehive. As a recommendation for future research, beekeepers must consider the ventilation of beehives by making more aeration hole at beehives box to fulfil increment of abundance of bee population. The beehive must be arranged with optimum distance and using protection methods such as double lathingmesh to inhibit natural enemies attacked. Lastly, place the beehives at the place that reduce light intensity and avoid from extreme weather to avoid bee’s absond from their beehive and to be more successful of the mass rearing of Apis cerana inmitigating human and elephant conflict the researcher must transfer the wild of Apiscerana colonies straight to the bee-fencing prototype at the field
Time theft in Majlis Perbandaran Sungai Petani Kedah (MPSPK) / Muhammad Shakir Zufayri Nur Hisham and Amshar Hisham Badrul Hisham
Full text linkChapter 1 focuses on the background of the study which is time theft in workplace. It introduces the overall concept of time theft in workplace and followed by problem statement, research questions, and research objectives, scope of study, significance of study and the definition of key terms and the concepts that is used in this study. The issue of time theft came into the eye of the employers during 1983 when employees stole 15 minutes in a week and up to 5 weeks a year after Robert Half International published a report (Watt, 2009). Time theft can be defined as arriving for work 5 minutes late or leaving 5 minutes earlier, taking extended lunch breaks, unnecessary personal phone calls and emails, browsing the internet and engaging personal conversation with colleague. (Update, 2007). Back in 1983, the employees only wasted about 15 minutes a week but in current days employees steals about 30 to 45 minutes per day. Time theft is one of the major problems in organization in terms of its frequencies and financial cost. Time theft are also discussed in religious perspective. In Islam, Islam practitioners encourages its people to manage and use their time properly. This is to ensure that they are working at their best performance in order to get the blessing from Allah S.W.T
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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