Penggunaan Beberapa Jenis Sumber Asap Cair Dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Aroma Serta Cita Rasa Daging Sei (Proses Produksi Alternatif Daging Sei Untuk Keamanan Pangan)

Application of Various Liquid Smokes and Their Effects on Aroma and Flavour of The Sei Meat (An Alternative Production Process of The Sei Meat for Food Safety). The sei meat were treated with 3 kinds of liquid smoke (kesambi, coconut shell, and palmyra shell) to resemble the aroma and flavour of the traditional sei meat. Liquid smokes were diluted to 2% then employed to marinate samples for 15 minutes before the sample were cooked in the conventional oven (heated by kerosene stove). 22 panelists examined the aroma and flavours of sampels which were disigned by using Difference from Control Test. Resulted data were analysed by using ANOVA and Least Significant Difference by employing SPPS for windows version 16 software.The results of statistical analysis showed that there were significant differences existed in both the aroma and flavour of the treatments (α=0,001). Similarly, post test analysis results showed that there were significant differences between the control (and blind control) samples and all liquid smoke treated samples but no difference among the latters. Furthermore, the control (and blind control) samples were able to be distingushed from all liquid smoked treated samples. Therefore, in general, the sei meats produced by using 3 different kinds of liquid smoke have not resemble the aroma and flavour characters of the traditional sei meat yet

ERP System as an Enabler for Bottom up Innovations

This research adopts a resource-based approach to develop and test a new framework related to improvement in bottom up innovations by means of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The framework consists of five primary resources: attitude, organisational characteristics, skills, ERP human resources, and ERP technological resources. Responses from 210 organisations that have adopted ERP were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Regarding organisational resources, the research results did not support the premise that an organisation’s characteristics (i.e., agility, or the innovation sponsorship) and attitude to technology have direct effects on organisational innovativeness. Rather, it was found that these relationships are fully mediated by the employees’ quantitative skills. Regarding technical resources, ERP Human resources, i.e., the ability to create business partnerships, and ERP technical resources, i.e., the customisability of reports, have significant impacts on organisational innovativeness. The main implication of this research is that ERP is not only a planning technology but also a driver of innovation when supported by the necessary organisational and technical resource

Experiences of barriers and facilitators to establishing and sustaining radiotherapy services in low- and middle-income countries: A qualitative study

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd Aims: The factors contributing to the establishment of high-quality radiotherapy services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are poorly understood. The aim was to identify and describe barriers and facilitators to establishing and sustaining high-quality and accessible radiotherapy services in LMICs based on the experience of successful and unsuccessful attempts. Methods: An exploratory-descriptive qualitative study using semistructured telephone interviews was undertaken. Purposive and snowball sampling techniques were used to recruit participants. The World Health Organization Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions Framework informed the interview guide. A constant comparative data analysis approach was adopted. Findings: Seventeen participants were interviewed. Ten were working permanently in nine LMICs and seven were permanently employed in four high-income countries. Three themes were developed: committing to a vision of improving cancer care; making it happen and sustaining a safe service; and leveraging off radiotherapy to strengthen integrated cancer care. Identified barriers included lack of political leadership continuity, lack of a coordinated advocacy effort, non-Member State of the IAEA, lack of reliable epidemiological data, lack of a comprehensive budget and lack of local expertise. Facilitators identified included strong political support, vision champion, availability of a regulator, costed cancer control plan, diversified sources of funding, responsible project manager, adoption of evidence-based practice, strategic partnerships, motivation to provide patient-centered care, and availability of supportive technology. Conclusions: Assessing the level of readiness to establish and sustain a radiotherapy service is highly recommended. Future research is recommended to develop a readiness assessment tool for radiotherapy services implementation at LMICs

The impact of Project Management (PM) and Benefits Management (BM) practices on project success: Towards developing a project benefits governance framework

Benefits management (BM) and project management (PM) are two interrelated approaches to the success of projects. The literature, however, still lacks empirical evidence of the value of applying BM practices. Hence, it is aimed to test the impact of BM practices on the success of investments in projects, taking into consideration the impact of PM practices on that success. Since the results, based on 200 valid responses, suggest that a significant proportion of organisations adopt PM and BM concurrently, SEM was used. PM practices were not only found to influence project management success but also to affect project investment success. However, BM is found to be less significant and to have less impact on project investment success. Nevertheless, the probability of project success is enhanced significantly when PM and BM practices are combined together. Therefore, a governance based framework is developed to uncover the interweaving relationship between the two practices

A snap-shot of user support services in Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF): A use case of climate cyber-infrastructures

Cyber-infrastructures have changed the process of research. Researchers can now access distributed data from all parts of the world with the help of cyber-infrastructures. User support services play an important role to facilitate researchers to accomplish their research goals with the help of cyber-infrastructures. However, the current user-support practices in cyber-infrastructures are being followed on intuitive basis (at least in climate e-infrastructures) thus over-burdening cyber-infrastructure employees. The main contribution of this paper is to present the snap-shot of the current user support practices in a cyber-infrastructure of a climate science known as Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF). ESGF is a leading distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) data-grid system in Earth System Modelling (ESM) having around 2700 users distributed worldwide. The questionnaire conducted with the climate cyber-infrastructure projects’ employees presents the picture of the current user support situation by highlighting their profile, utilization of various communication media, user-request service time, attributes of incoming user problems and information requests. The respondents of the questionnaire were 26 support staffs of cyber-infrastructure projects, from different parts of the world. The paper then presents the critique of the current user support process in ESGF and finally emphasizes on the need to streamline user-support in cyber-infrastructures

COST, BENEFIT, AND FINANCIAL RISK (COBEFR) OF ERP IMPLEMENTATION

The purpose of this research is to develop Benefits, Costs, and Financial Risks (CoBeFR) model to show and measure the impact of ERP related decisions, such as degree of business process re-engineering and the level of hardware investment, on the organisational financial value (OFV). OFV is based on current time value of money (i.e. interest rate), financial risk, and net cash flows emerged from ERP system. Financial risk, the sensitivity of the organisation net profit to changes in market conditions, is affected by organisational adoption of ERP system. The main conclusion is that there are interrelated impacts of ERP implementation decisions to the organisational financial value. Therefore, decision maker should look at the implementation decision from a new perspective which is Organisational Financial Value (OFV) perspectiv