Total Quality Management Practices and Technology Transfer in Malaysian Public University

It is widely accepted that the implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) as a management philosophy has significantly contributed to good management practice in business organization particularly in the manufacturing and service sectors. The applications of that concepts, techniques and tools have been successfully tailored to non-profit service or government-based organization. In the context of higher education institution, it has been seriously debated by the TQM scholars and academicians on the issue of to what extent TQM can be applied and how relevant its practices are to higher education\u27s core business i.e. teaching and research. Despite having sufficient knowledge and research on TQM implementation in the scope of manufacturing practices and administration-related services, it is hard to find a research on TQM, which focuses on the scope of R&D at a university. This gap has to be filled because the management of research is a critical topic for universities worldwide. For developing countries such as Malaysia the need to have good management practice in R&D is even greater. Without effective research management, the task of becoming significant players in the global knowledge market will become harder. Thus, the first part of this paper will discuss the applicability of TQM and propose a theoretical framework or model of TQM to suit the need of R&D context. The constructs for the TQM framework are based on previous empirical studies and the evaluation criteria of world standard criteria such as MBNQA, EFQM, and QMS ISO 9000. The TQM constructs that will be proposed are leadership, strategic planning, student/stakeholder & industry focus, data & information management, staff management, process & system approach, partnership & resource and continuous improvement. The second part of the paper will discuss the performance indicators of R&D activities particularly in the context of public university. The review of International literatures stressed that the performance of R&D activities have to be measured. The current issue related to research performance at university is the level the research output that can be transferred to the stakeholders. Therefore, this study will use technology transfer framework to measure research performance such as publication, patents, royalty and Spin-off Company. Finally, this paper will conceptually develop a model that would show the relationship between the TQM practices in the area of research and the level of technology transfer

Reseña de libro: “El viento sigue soplando. Los orígenes de Madres de Plaza 25 de Mayo de Rosario (1977-1985)” de Marianela Scocco

Como demuestran diversas investigaciones recientes, la organización Madres de Plaza de Mayo tuvo surgimientos y desarrollos específicos en distintas ciudades de la Argentina. El viento sigue soplando. Los orígenes de Madres de Plaza 25 de Mayo de Rosario (1977-1985) de la historiadora Marianela Scocco, se inserta dentro de estas indagaciones al intentar analizar la emergencia y la consolidación de Madres y Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo en esa ciudad santafecina en el contexto de apertura democrática. Para tal objetivo, la autora indaga la participación previa de sus integrantes en los organismos de la ciudad y las relaciones que se entablan entre los mismos. Así, da cuenta de una multiplicidad de actores, vínculos, intereses y modos de acción.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

Additional file 3 of Transcriptome analysis reveals differentially expressed genes associated with germ cell and gonad development in the Southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii)

Gene ontology (GO) terms enrichment in Southern bluefin tuna crude testis vs. Percoll-enriched testis cells transcriptome. Enriched GO terms in crude testis vs. Percoll-enriched testis cells, along with the corresponding ontology, term description, number of genes associated (total count and differentially expressed) and the p-value and p-value (false discovery rate adjusted p-value) statistics as determined by goseq. (XLSX 71.6 kb

Additional file 4 of Transcriptome analysis reveals differentially expressed genes associated with germ cell and gonad development in the Southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii)

Differentially expressed gonad development and germ cell-related genes in crude vs. Percoll-enriched testis cells. ORF – Open reading frame. Blast hit species, e-value, Bit Score – Blast best hit details. Log2FC – Fold change values (log2 transformed) as determined by edgeR, positive values represent over-expression in testis cells, negative values are over-expressed in the ovary cells. p-value, FDR (false discovery rate adjusted p-value) – edgeR differential expression analysis statistics. KEGG – Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes function. (XLSX 26.5 kb

Additional file 2: of Characterization of G-protein coupled receptors from the blackback land crab Gecarcinus lateralis Y organ transcriptome over the molt cycle

Table S2. Statistical analysis of defined GPCRs using empirical analysis of DGE and false discovery rate method. (XLSX 80 kb

Additional file 1: of Characterization of G-protein coupled receptors from the blackback land crab Gecarcinus lateralis Y organ transcriptome over the molt cycle

Table S1. List of curated GPCRs using phylogenetic study and Blast search analysis. GPCRs subgroup clasification was defined using Pfam database and reference list. (XLSX 159 kb

Additional file 1: of Molecular analysis of the Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) CO2 stress response

Detailed methods of experimental exposure trials and previous sequencing. (DOCX 23 kb

Additional file 3: Figure S1. of Molecular analysis of the Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) CO2 stress response

Variance versus mean plot for each Ng group (C1). This plot shows the mean-variance relationship (using polynomial regression) for each isoform (Ng) group of condition 1 (control samples). Mapping ambiguity clusters were produced with RSEM (rsem-generate-ngvector), while the plot was visualised in R using EBSeq’s PolyFitPlot function. (PDF 260 kb

Additional file 2: Table S1. of Molecular analysis of the Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) CO2 stress response

Bowtie alignment statistics. Table shows the number of raw reads and reads surviving the processing, with the total alignment percentage based on the post-processed reads aligning to the S. glomerata reference transcriptome, using Bowtie. (DOCX 12 kb

Additional file 7: Table S2. of Molecular analysis of the Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) CO2 stress response

S. glomerata DE transcripts. List of 1626 DE transcripts determined with Bowtie-RSEM-EBSeq, using a FDR threshold of 0.05. Sequence descriptions are based on blast homology searches against the NCBI nr database (e-value cut-off: 10-5, hit number threshold: 25), and on InterProScan domain/family information. Posterior fold change (FC) was based on the normalised data, whereas real FC was based on the raw data. C1 stands for control, C2 for treatment condition. (XLSX 124 kb