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A conceptual approach of 5S to improving quality and environmental performance of Malaysian Oil Palm dealers
No full textGlobal concerns on quality and environmentally sustainable products are giving extensive pressure on the competitiveness of Malaysian palm oil industry. As part of palm oil supply chain, the fresh fruit bunch (FFB) dealers play an important role in the development of the industry as well as contributing a significant impact on the environmental pollution. Despite the adoption of codes of practice (COPs) by dealers, recent studies reveal the problem of quality deterioration of FFB is caused by ineffective handling practices including poor housekeeping and delay in transportation. Empirical evidence shows that the quality and environmental performance of firms improve through 5S practices. Therefore, this conceptual study primarily aims to improve the existing practices for the handling of harvested oil palm by incorporating the 5S concept (sort, set in order, shine, standardize, sustain) into COPs. In this context, several propositions are formulated based on literature. The findings of survey and case studies within FFB dealer sub-sector shall be used as input to enhance the proposed improvement work. The propositions shall be validated by a panel of experts through the Delphi technique before it can be used as a reference by FFB dealers to simultaneously improve their quality and environmental performance
Penggabungan konsep 5S dan 3R untuk menambahbaik prestasi alam sekitar syarikat pembuatan PKS ke arah pembangunan lestari
No full textSyarikat pembuatan pengusaha kecil dan sederhana (PKS) memainkan peranan penting dalam pembangunan ekonomi dan pencemaran alam sekitar global. Kini, konsep hijau yang mengambilkira kepentingan alam sekitar dalam amalan pengurusan semakin menjadi keutamaan syarikat pembuatan untuk mencapai keberdayasaingan. Namun, PKS menghadapi kesukaran untuk mengguna pendekatan sedia ada disebabkan kekangan sumber. Kertas kerja ini mencadang kerangka konsep pelaksanaan amalan hijau (GP) dengan menggarap penggunaan kaedah 5S dan 3R untuk memenuhi keperluan syarikat pembuatan PKS di Malaysia. Kajian terdahulu membuktikan amalan 5S berjaya menambahbaik prestasi syarikat tanpa memerlukan pelaburan yang besar. Manakala aktiviti 3R adalah asas bagi GP, dan ia dilihat mampu dilaksana oleh PKS untuk mengurangkan kesan alam sekitar. Di akhir kertas kerja ini, beberapa cadangan terhadap penggabungan konsep 5S dan 3R dibentang. Ia menumpu kepada operasi pembuatan dan sokongan untuk membantu PKS dalam menambahbaik prestasi operasi dan alam sekitar ke arah pembangunan lestari, sekaligus memberi mereka kelebihan untuk berdaya saing
Hubungan di antara pelaksanaan 5S dan prestasi hijau syarikat pembuatan PKS di Malaysia: satu model konsep
No full textDisebabkan agenda pelestarian global, faktor alam sekitar kini semakin menjadi keutamaan dalam pelaksanaan amalan
pengurusan dan strategi keberdayasaingan. Beberapa sistem pengurusan seperti ISO 9001 dan ISO 14001 mampu
meningkatkan prestasi syarikat ke arah mencapai keberdayasaingan pasaran. Namun, bukan semua syarikat mampu
melaksanakan amalan ini terutamanya perusahaan kecil dan sederhana (PKS). Di sebalik kepentingan sektor pembuatan
PKS sebagai penyumbang utama kepada pembangunan ekonomi dan pencemaran alam sekitar dunia, mereka mempunyai
kekangan sumber dalam menangani isu alam sekitar. Sebagai alternatif, konsep pengurusan hijau yang memberi penekanan
kepada penambahbaikan prestasi hijau, iaitu dalam aspek operasi dan alam sekitar telah diperkenalkan. Dalam konteks ini,
amalan 5S merupakan pendekatan yang digunakan secara meluas untuk meningkatkan prestasi syarikat tanpa memerlukan
kos pelaburan yang besar. Pelaksanaannya telah berkembang daripada berkonsepkan prestasi operasi kepada prestasi
hijau. Namun, kejayaan pelaksanaan 5S bergantung kepada ciri-ciri dan faktor-faktor dalaman syarikat. Objektif utama
kajian ini adalah untuk menyiasat sejauh mana konsep 5S digarap sebagai amalan pengurusan hijau di sektor pembuatan
PKS Malaysia. Beberapa hipotesis dan model konsep hubungan pelaksanaan 5S dengan prestasi hijau turut dibina. Dalam
model konsep yang dicadangkan, beberapa faktor merangkumi perancangan strategik, komitmen dan prosedur pelaksanaan
dikenal pasti mampu mempengaruhi kejayaan pelaksanaan 5S untuk mencapai prestasi hijau
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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