Personal, social and organizational factors in usage of collaboration systems for research

This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between personal, social and organizational factors with the usage of collaborative systems for research.The target population for this study is the academic staffs of Malaysia research universities. The personal related factors are personal innovativeness and task-technology-fitwhereas the social factors are subjective norm and peer acceptance.The organizational factors are training and management support.The relationship of these three perspectives (i.e. personal, social and organizational) in relation with usage of collaborative systems is studied using a model adapted from Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) model and incorporating it with the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).Data analysis presents the descriptive statistics of the respondents, the reliability and validity of the instruments used and correlational analysis of the factors.In conclusion, this paper proposes a framework incorporating these factors that are important in influencing usage of collaboration systems for academic research

The Effects of Banana Blossom (Musa Acuminate Colla) Consumption on Increased Breast Milk Production in the Work Area of Talaga Jaya

Breast Milk (ASI) is the best food for babies, in increasing milk production, breastfeeding mothers are advised to consume banana bud because it contains lactagogum compounds that can increase milk production, especially in mothers who experience milk production problems. This research aims to determine the effect of Banana Blossom  consumption on increasing milk production in the work area of ​​Talaga Jaya Health Center. The design was Quasi Experimental with Pre-post Nonequivalent Control Group Design. The population in this study were all breastfeeding mothers in the working area of ​​Talaga Jaya Health Center totaling 122 people. The sample in this research used purposive non-probability sampling with purposive sampling technique with an observation sheet as data collection technique. The data were analyzed using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test to see differences in the frequency of breast milk production before and after consumption of the Banana Blossom  while the Chi Square test is there to see the effect of Banana Blossom  consumption on breast milk production with a P value <0.05. The results showed there was a significant effect on increasing milk production in nursing mothers with a p-value of 0.002 <0.05

Quadrotor Swarm Arena

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm control platforms have many applications in rescue, commercial, and government fields. The goal of this ongoing project is to construct a space solely dedicated to investigating this important discipline through the control of quadrotor clusters (groups of quadrotor UAVs). This space is equipped with a motion capture system, test control station, and numerous quadrotor UAVs. The test control station utilizes MATLAB-Simulink for data management and control law development. A significant benefit to this construction is its seamless ability to test researchers\u27 control law in a \u27plug and play\u27 manner, as Simulink is widely used in the controls community. To date, the testbed includes a vehicle enclosure, multiple quadrotor agents, the motion capture system, and a ground station. Current and future work includes the final integration of these components and experimental data collection

Visitors-wildlife interactive activities towards sustainability of wildlife tourism in National Elephants Conservation Centre, Pahang.

Experiencing human-wildlife interactive activities is becoming popular in wildlife tourism. The activities involve both social and environmental dimensions. Issues have cropped up to understand the human-wildlife relationships that have occurred among visitors that involving interactive activities. The relationships that have occurred in wildlife tourism need to be explored through identifying the visitors' preferences in visiting the site, the level of interaction and factors that have contributed to the relationship. A survey was conducted using questionnaire to 400 visitors in Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre (KGNECC) in Pahang, a wildlife tourism site in Malaysia. The findings showed that respondents' highly preferred the interactive activity when compared with other activities, suggesting that there was interaction experience occurred between visitors and elephants during the activities, such as bathing, feeding and riding with the elephants. The level of interaction was identified as high when compared to observation activities such as video show, taking pictures and watching elephants. The study also showed that four factors that have contributed to human-wildlife interactive activities: the nature-based attraction (Eigenvalue: 7.89), conservation-led activities (Eigenvalue: 5.032), environmentally educative (Eigenvalue: 3.830) and human-wildlife encounter (Eigenvalue: 2.803). Further analysis using Mann-Whitney Test and Kruskal-Wallis Test found that respondents' demographic background have also influenced the generated factors of visiting KGNECC. Socio-demographic background such as origin (types of visitor), age, marital status and education level have significant relationships with factors of visiting KGNECC while gender, occupation and average monthly income have no relationship at 0.05 level of significant. The generated factors illustrate several similarities between wildlife tourism and ecotourism, that the former comprised immersing oneself and in direct contact with the environmental elements

Morphometric analysis of Malaysian Oxudercine goby, Boleophthalmus boddarti (Pallas, 1770)

The Oxudercine gobies or mudskippers are locally known as belacak or "tembakul". These euryhaline fish are amongst the air breathing gobies found in Malaysia. Boleophthalmus boddarti is one of the common mudskippers inhabiting tidal flats, mangrove swamps, estuarines and coastal areas. Conventional and truss morphometrics as well as meristic data from 85 samples in five populations (Pulau Pinang, Kuala Selangor, Banting, Port Dickson and Melaka) of B. boddartiwere analyzed using one-way ANOVA and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Fifteen morphometric, 28 truss morphometric and 9 meristic data were analyzed to examine the degree of similarity among the five populations. All morphometric characters within and between the populations were significantly different (P< 0.05). Using the conventional morphometric data analysed by PCA, the populations of B. boddarti are clustered into 3 groups, where Banting andMelaka populations form the first group, Pulau Pinang and Kuala Selangor populations the second group and Port Dickson population the third group. In contrast, 3 groups were also clustered based on the truss morphometric data but the grouping was different. The three groups from the truss morphometric data consist of Kuala Selangor and Banting populations in the first group, Melaka and Port Dickson populations the second group and the Pulau Pinang populationthe third group which is distantly separated from the other two groups. The results indicate that the shape of mudskippers in the northern part is distinct from the middle and southern parts of Peninsular Malaysia. Based on meristic data, all populations were centric and no grouping was identified. The length-weight relationship for B. boddarti in this study was described as log W=log 0.754 + 1.029 log TL

Lingkungan Keluarga Anak-Anak Berprestasi Tinggi Dan Anak-Anak Berprestasi Rendah Di SMA Negeri Kabupaten Pidie Sigli

This study describes the contribution of family environment to the achievement of students. Data were collected from the high achievers and low achievers of SMAN grade II student at Kabupaten Pidie Sigli. The result reveals that 5 sub-variables of family environment do not show significant contribution to the student's achievement, while 6 of them give significant contributions though they are not applicable, and 8 of them are significant and applicable

Overview of Multiobjective Optimization Methods in in Silico Metabolic Engineering

Multiobjective optimization requires of finding a trade-off between multiple objectives. However, most of the objectives are contradict towards each other, thus makes it difficult for the traditional approaches to find a solution that satisfies all objectives. Fortunately, the problems are able to solve by the aid of Pareto methods. Meanwhile, in in silico Metabolic Engineering, the identification of reaction knockout strategies that produce mutant strains with a permissible growth rate and product rate of desired metabolites is still hindered. Previously, Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) has been successfully used in determining the reaction knockout strategies. Nevertheless, most methods work by optimizing one objective function, which is growth rate or production rate. Furthermore, in bioprocesses, it involves multiple and conflicting objectives. In this review, we aim to show the different multiobjective evolutionary optimization methods developed for tackling the multiple and conflicting objectives in in silico metabolic engineering, as well as the approaches in multiobjective optimization

Elevator‘s External Button Recognition and Detection for Vision-based System

Recently, autonomous transporter offers the assistance and delivery for user but they are only focusing on single floor environment. To widen up fields of robotic, they teach robot to use an elevator because elevator provides an essential means of faster movement across level. However, most of the mobile service robot failed to detect elevator’s position due to the complex background and reflection on the elevator door and button panel itself. This paper presents a new strategy for recognition method to detect elevator by detecting their external button efficiently. Sobel is use as edge detection operator to find the estimated absolute gradient magnitude at each point in an input grayscale image. Then, but we enhanced the technique by combining it with wiener filter to reduce the amount of noise present in a signal by comparing the signal with an estimation of the desired noiseless signal. This filter helps to eliminate the reflection image on elevator’s button panel before it can be converted to black and white image (binarization). The process followed by some morphological and structuring elements process. Tests have been done and the results shown that elevator’s external button can be recognized and detected by those entire framework

PENGARUH BAURAN PROMOSI TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN MOBIL TOYOTA AVANZA PADA AUTO 2000 CABANG PALEMBANG

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the promotion mix on the purchasedecision of Toyota Avanza cars at AUTO 2000 Palembang Branch. Data in this study werecollected through distributing questionnaires to respondents. The number of samples used inthis study were 100 respondents. The technique used in this study sample was purposivesampling. The results of the analysis in this study indicate simultaneously (F test) theindependent variables, namely personal sales, sales promotion, advertising and publicrelations significantly influence the dependent variable, namely the purchase decision of theToyota Avanza at AUTO 2000 Palembang Branch. Partially (t test), the variables of personalsales, sales promotion and advertising have a significant effect on purchasing decisions. Asfor the public relations variable does not significantly influence the purchase decision. Themost dominant variable influencing purchase decisions is the advertising variable

Delivery System & Techniques of Product Packing for Online Business

Consumer behavior changes from offline to online, raise several problems that need to be faced by business actors in Kerinjing Village. These problems including complaints that occur in online sales which cause customer dissatisfaction, and the lack of knowledge of business actors in Kerinjing Village, specially in digital technology because of the level of education. Based on the survey, it is known that the most complaints that occur in online sales related to the delivery of goods. The purpose of this training is that online business actors can improve the service quality by providing knowledge about the delivery system, how to choose the right delivery service and knowing how to pack goods appropriately so that they are not damaged during shipping. The training stages start from explaining the importance of managing the delivery system, how to choose the right shipping service, managing the delivery system in e-commerce applications and practicing proper packing techniques and according to product characteristic