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Study on facilities management at basement parking / Hanim Senawi
Get PDFFacilities management is involving property, performance and organization. To achieve good performance, aspect in building for instance functionality, safety and satisfaction from user must be determined even it just a space at basement parking. Basement parking may open great opportunity in business for organization and may attract many visitors to visit the building. Indeed offering
suitable facilities and safety to user may increase potential in investment and reduce possibility in crime. Each facilities offered at basement parking must serve comfort and easy to user including safety aspect. Those facilities should be maintain to determine the functionality and planning in maintenance work to keep the facilities perform and in good condition so it can serve user better. Providing safety aspect to avoid any injury or unexpected crime or fatal to visitor and occupant of building. Gathering information regarding basement parking, facilities
management, maintenance and safety will help to determine the condition on site besides based on observation and opinion from visitor or user. Finally, identify suggestion or opinion regarding the level of satisfaction on facilities and safety at basement parking and the condition between 3 case studies Plaza MPK; Complex PKNS and SACC Mall. Analysis will conclude the findings regarding the rate on condition and determine the conclusion for rating of condition for facilities and safety at basement parking on the selected case study
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) of Malaysian listed property companies / Asma Senawi
No full textThis exploratory research aims to investigate the level of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure among Malaysian Listed Property Companies. In addition, the relationship between the CSR disclosure and several corporate attributes is also examined. To measure the extent of disclosure made by companies, a CSR Disclosure Index was developed specifically for property companies. Content analysis had been used to analyse the activities carried out by companies using annual reports and company websites. Twenty property companies listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia was selected randomly. This study found that very few property companies in Malaysia are making efforts to carry out CSR practices in their businesses. The highest CSR disclosure is community involvement followed by environment, marketplace and workplace. It was also found that significant number of the lowest ranking companies suffered losses during the period under study and significant proportions of the top ranking companies were big size corporations and paid higher audit fees
Compatibility and mechanical properties of biocomposite polymer, derived from palm oil empty fruit bunch as the reinforcement material / Rosman Senawi
No full textTraditional composite are reinforced with inorganic fibers which is expensive and harmful to the environment. In recent years, composites o f polymer reinforced natural fibers have received much attention as they offer advantages as compared with inorganic fillers in terms of cost and biodegradability. Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) fibers were selected as reinforcement for this research due to the renewable, low cost, low density and its have a similar structure like natural fiber. To fulfill the biodegradable properties of the composites, Polylactic acid (PLA), a type o f biopolymer was selected as the matrix. To enhance compatibility and improve interfacial adhesion between the fiber and the matrix, the fiber surface must be pretreated with chemicals or coupling agents. Therefore, six different chemical treatments were used in this research; NaOH, silane and NaOH/silane, NaOCh, NaOC12/silane and NaOC12/NaOH treatment. Thus, the objective o f this research is to evaluate the effect o f fiber surface treatments and fiber loading on the mechanical, thermal and morphology of PLA/EFB biocomposites. The best treatment is then selected and two types of additives were added. The first one is diphenylmethane-4, 4'-diisocyanate (MD1) known as a coupling agent and the other is triallyl isocyanurate (TAIC), one crosslinking agent. Both biocomposites samples were irradiated using electron beam and the effect of radiation to the properties o f the biocomposites was studied. The testing results revealed that the mechanical, thermal and morphology of the biocomposites using treated fiber were improved compared with untreated fiber. The best surface treatment for the EFB fiber is NaOH/silane and the optimum fiber loading was achieved at 10 wt%. The addition of MDI and TAIC improved the mechanical and thermal properties also the morphology. However after irradiation, TAIC shows better results for mechanical and thermal properties as well as morphology o f the biocomposites compared with MDI
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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