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Managing condensationand mould in Malaysia
Full text linkDr Muhammad Syukri Imran Abdullah, registered professional engineer with BEM Malaysia, and Dr Khairul Azmy Kamaluddin, president of Biomedical Engineering Association of Malaysia (BEAM), look at the strategies Ministry of Health Malaysia is using to manage condensation-related mould issues in healthcare facilities, showcasing how they prioritise health and safety while navigating moisture control complexities
Making Malaysia’s public healthcare system ‘greener’
Full text linkDr Khairul Azmy Kamaluddin, Ts Noor Muhammad Abd Rahman, and Dr Muhammad Syukri Imran Abdullah, discuss the advancement of sustainability programmes by the Malaysian Ministry of Health (MOH) to reduce carbon emissions within the country’s public healthcare sector
Carbon-neutral blueprint strategies and challenges
Full text linkThe Malaysian Carbon Neutral Healthcare Facilities Blueprint outlines the roadmap for achieving carbon neutrality in healthcare facilities across Malaysia, and delineates key
strategies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability within the healthcare sector. Several challenges hinder the implementation of these strategies, including financial constraints, technological limitations, and regulatory frameworks. Overcoming these is crucial to realising the vision of carbon-neutral facilities in Malaysia and advancing towards a more sustainable healthcare system, as Dr Muhammad Radzi bin Abu Hassan, Ts Huszian Husin, Dr Noor Muhammad Abd Rahman, Dr Khairul Azmy Kamaluddin and Dr Muhammad Syukri Imran Abdullah explai
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Virtual Environmental Imaging Technology Enhances Maintenance of Biomedical Assets
Full text linkGovernment hospitals provide a wide range services and house many facilities including biomedical equipment to ensure 24-hour healthcare services. The hospital’s facility managers need to leverage current resources to ensure minimum interruption to all critical functions which heavily rely on various type of biomedical equipment (BE). There are opportunities to integrate the use of emerging technologies such as 3D virtual environment imaging in facility management services of hospitals. The visualisation capability provided by such technology could greatly improve BE maintenance management process such as BE inventory upkeep, BE operation and routine maintenance processes, BE replacement and upgrades and BE safety and health. It also helps in the disaster management process as seen in increased mobility of BE across the Ministry of Health (MOH) facilities during the recent COVID 19 pandemic. The feasibility and acceptability of such technology in BE management should be further explored to optimise disaster response as well as out-of-hospital management of BE. MOH have taken a keen interest in such technology and is moving forward to test and implement such tools in this era of distance learning and distance managing
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