Environmental management activities of an infrastructure development project: the case of Beris Dam, Malaysia

Development projects need to integrate environmental dimensions into project management functions to ensure successful implementation of environmental management and control practices throughout the development process. The management functions include the scope of work for environmental control, the quality of work or performance to be delivered, the scheduling for environmental works, and the most important one is the budget for environmental control. The aim of this paper is to examine and discuss about the environmental dimensions of Beris Dam during its construction and development process. The environmental dimension criteria and elements of the project were examined by means of reviewing environmental control documents used in the project’s construction and development, and site visits. The review reveals that in general the Beris Dam EIA and EMP reports scored between ‘unsatisfactory’ to ‘good’ for the criteria and elements of good environmental practice. These findings indicate the need to increase both effort and implementation of environmental dimensions in project management to help improve the success of implementing environmental management activities in the construction and development of a projec

The degree of cooperation in international strategic alliances and value creation outcomes: Empirical study on service firms in Yemen

International strategic alliances (ISAs) are one of the partnership options that may be used by firms in achieving their goals.It is an inter-firm cooperation where firms commit some of their resources and capabilities towards the alliance to create a competitive advantage.Yemeni services industry need to improve its competitiveness and the quality of services it provides to the people and therefore, forming a strategic alliances with foreign partners is considered as one of the best strategies.Although the involvement of Yemeni’s service firms in ISAs are evidence, but there is no previous study conducted to determine whether these alliances do create value to the firms or not.Therefore, this study is conducted with the objectives of determining whether Yemeni’s service firms’ involvement in ISAs do create value to the firms or not, and what kind of value creation outcomes are created by this ISAs. Alliances may also come in various forms with different degree of cooperation.This study will also look at the influence of the degree of cooperation in ISAs on the value creation outcomes.Survey of 214 service firms’ managers revealed that ISAs do create value to the organization with financial value top the list.Improvement in customer service and better return on investment (ROI) are among the most important advantage gain by these service firms from their involvement in ISAs.This study also posits a significant positive relationship between the degree of cooperation in ISAs and the value creation outcome

Kelewatan Dalam Kelulusan Pelan Pembangunan Dari Perspektif Pihak Berkuasa: Kajlan Kes: Negeri Kelantan Dan Pulau Pinang

Kelewatan dalam memberikan kelulusan pelan pembangunan adalah isu lama yang dihangatkan semula ekoran kenyataan Perdana Menteri, Yang Amat Berhormat Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. Delay in approval of development plans is an ollt-dated issue that came intn picture again after a press statement made by the Prime Minister, Y.A.B. Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohama

Prediction for cardiovascular disease by using artificial neural network system / Nik Anis Nik Ab Rahman

Prediction for Cardiovascular Disease by Using Artificial Neural Network System (PCVDANNS) is design to help paramedic and end user to learn and use this system easily. This research is to develop a PCVDANNS using cased based reasoning technique using main distance measure equation. The cased based reasoning is one of Artificial Intelligent technique that can be implement in many area. The input of this system wil be age,body mass index (BMI), blood pressure,body fat,boold sugar, smoking habit and family history.Then this system will diagnose by using the input to predict the value to make the ouput result.This reseach methodology consist of four phases which are theoretical study, architecture design, prototype development and documentation.Besides, to complete this reseach, more than 100 data patients get from Dungun Health Department to satisfy the advantage of this system.This system is a web-based system and developed using JAVA as programming language.In the future, it is recommended that the prototype can learn from experience.The accuracy of this prototype is about 60 percent

Thermal Analysis of VLSI System: A Simulation Study

Smaller size of Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) System nowadays increases the on chip power densities causing the rise of temperature in the system. The high temperature produced will eventually affects the clock frequency of the system and changes the timing setup of the component. These lead to lowering the performance and reliability of the system. Due to the negative effects of the high temperature, designers have to determine the thermal profile of the systems in order to understand the temperature distribution, the leakage reduction and estimate the power distribution of the system. This research focuses on analyzing the thermal profile of a VLSI system under steady state condition using numerical techniques and simulation. For the numerical techniques, the governing heat equation for a two-dimensional (2D) model was solved using Finite Difference Method (FDM), Gauss-Seidel (GS) and Successive Over Relaxation (SOR) methods. Simulation based on ANSYS simulator has been conducted for validation purpose. Most commonly material used in VLSI system which is Silicon (Si) is tested under adiabatic condition. The results for numerical techniques and the simulation are compared. SOR method shows better results in terms of number of iterations and the computational time compared to GS method in solving the governing heat equation. Both methods have the same maximum temperature and these temperatures are comparable with the result obtained by using ANSYS

A study on International Safety Management (ISM) at Alam Maritim (M) Sdn. Bhd. / Nik Nur Amalina Nik Ab Rahman

This case study exploring the International Safety Management (ISM) that implement by Alam Maritim (M) Sdn Bhd (AMSB) and the theories. Safety management objectives of the Company should provide the safe practices in ship operation and a safe working environment. Another objective of the safety management of the Company is to establish safeguards against all identified risk. Next, the Company should continuously improve safety management skill management skill of personal ashore and abroad ship including preparing for emergencies related both to safety and environmental protection. The main issue of this study is to explore the extent of the security measures taken by AMSB in order to prevent further accident and incident from happening in the future. This issue deeply explained in the report in order to be more clarifying for understanding of safety management. Some of the suggestions have been explained in enhancing the safety management that are practiced in AMSB

Therapeutic Learning Software for Down Syndrome

Nowadays, children with Down Syndrome are not left behind in terms of education. One significant finding is that to utilize 'early intervention principle', which sated that learning process for Down Syndrome children will be more effective if it is conducted when the children are still young. Older children who have passed the age for 'early intervention principle' program or those who did not have the opportunity to join the program earlier will be enrolled into 'kelas pendidikan khas' at government school. However, one of the entry requirements is the children must know how to take care of themselves without help from others. In order to help these children, the 'Therapeutic Learning Software for Down Syndrome' is developed. The term therapeutic means the results of medical treatment that is beneficial and desirable. The main objective of this project is to design a software that focuses on occupational therapy and language therapy for older Down Syndrome children. The software will be designed to be in an interactive mauner, as the studies proved that using visual aids and sounds will make the learning process more effective. The methodology used for this project is Prototyping methodology. As for the data gathering methodology, the technique chosen are interviews and questionnaires. Overall, the system is aimed to address the learning process of Down Syndrome children, through therapeutic learning, and to take advantage of the information technology which is to use visual aids and sounds in order to make the learning process more interactive and effective

Knowledge Sharing between Multinational Corporation’s Headquarters and Subsidiaries: the Impact of Manager’s Role, Compensation System and Cultural Differences

Knowledge sharing is a systematic process for creating, acquiring, synthesizing, learning, sharing and using knowledge to achieve organizational goals. It is also a source of competitive advantage especially for multinational companies. The objective of this paper is to discuss the impact of subsidiary manager’s role in knowledge sharing, manager’s compensation system, and the level of cultural differences between home and host country on the level of knowledge sharing between the headquarters and subsidiaries of multinational companies. A study has been conducted at a subsidiary of a large manufacturing company in Malaysia. Data were collected via self-administered survey questionnaire. The respondents consist of 100 executives and managers of the company, and all the questionnaires distributed were filled and returned back for data analysis. Findings indicate that all three factors significantly influence the level of knowledge sharing with the manager’s compensation system has the strongest impact. MNC therefore should clearly define the manager’s role in knowledge sharing and provide attractive rewards and remunerations to encourage knowledge sharing. At the same time, cultural differences should not be considered as a barrier to knowledge sharing as this study indicates that it can be a driver for effective knowledge sharing between headquarters and subsidiaries

Technology Readiness and Users Satisfaction towards Self-Service Technology at Malaysian Airport

This study examines the relationship between four dimensions of Technology Readiness Index (TR) namely optimism, innovativeness, insecurity, discomfort, and the level of customer’s satisfaction towards the use of self-service technology (SSTs) at the airport. SSTs used by the airport operators or airlines at the terminal for check-in or when performing other transactions includes booking airline ticket online, kiosk check-in and mobile check-in. At the same time, this study also tries to look at whether there is any difference in technology readiness between different demographic groups of Malaysians. Survey questionnaires were distributed to passengers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia. The result of the analysis shows that innovativeness and optimism have a positive relationship with customer satisfaction. There are also differences in technology readiness among different gender for innovativeness and insecurity index. The implication of the study suggests that Malaysia’s airport or airline providers should increase customer satisfaction especially by introducing new innovative technology at their premises. The findings may also help firms develop their strategy to further increase the customer’s satisfaction when using the selfservice technology (SST) at airports in Malaysia

An ontological model of experience-based knowledge management in agile software development environment

Agile software development (ASD) involves more in discussion and communication between team members compared to documentation; it is difficult for team members to share knowledge among them. In this matter, knowledge management (KM) plays critical role in managing and capturing the knowledge especially experience-based knowledge. This research main purpose is to create ontology to represent the knowledge that has been stored in knowledge repository after capturing the experience knowledge from the development team in ASD. This ontology model will help by describing a relationship that will later on help in sharing the experience knowledge easily among Community of Practice (CoP). A literature review of the common things in the ASD been conducted, we then creating ontology model by using a tools called Protégé. This ontology called as Experience-Based Knowledge Management (EBKM) Ontology Model. The model is deployed to apply to the reality as a prototype to demonstrate its real value