Survey instrument for measuring level of preparedness amongst healthcare personnel in radiation emergency

Drills and exercises are globally practiced to investigate the level of preparedness towards disaster events. However, these activities are rarely conducted because they require substantial investment, specifically to budget and time. A self-reported survey may serve as an alternative approach, although it may not be as effective as drills and exercises. As part of the survey development process, this article discusses preliminary validation of a survey instrument to measure the level of preparedness towards radiation emergency amongst healthcare personnel. Prior to this validation process, extensive literature reviews pointed out that the instrument consists of three constructs of preparedness, namely readiness, willingness, and ability. A total of seven subject matter experts were invited to judge the contents for verification purposes. Randolph Kappa analysis was then conducted to analyse their judgment to allow irrelevant items to be filtered from the rest prior to any improvements. Initially, the survey instrument consisted of 69 items; however, the analysis omitted 16 of them. The following values for each preparedness construct were: Readiness (0.77), Willingness (0.70), and Ability (0.73). These findings indicate that contents of the instrument are valid. Further analysis should be fulfilled to complete validation process to ensure its practicality prior to using it as an evaluation tool

Fundamental of collective bargaining in industrial relation

Bargaining plays a vital role in the economic process and it has received large attention in the economic literature. Industrial relation is a field that studies about the employment relationship which it’s an interrelation between the employer and employee or the organization and the trade union. Collective bargaining is defined as the dispute between the employer and employee where this dispute can be settled through discussion and negotiation where both parties can come to a mutual agreement and also as one decision (Edmund Heery, Nicholas Bacon, Paul Blyton & Jack Fiorito, 2010). Usually the trade union represent the employee’s interests towards the employer which the employee belongs to the trade union as well. The collective bargaining is usually about the wages scales, working hours, healthcare and safety and also training. Collective bargaining is adapt more easily when the employees demand meets the employers flexibility and easier when the firms boundary is changed accordingly. In collective bargaining wages is a topic that’s regularly being discussed or negotiated between the employer and employee (Arun, 2000; Sinha, 2000)

The relationship between perception of quality and length of service on integrity among Penang civil servant

Malaysia in its effort to become a fully developed nation by 2020 has undertaken a monumental task in instilling noble values into its society including its civil sector. The integrity of the civil servants needs to be greatly improved in order to turn this vision into a reality. This project attempted to examine the level of awareness, knowledge and understanding on noble values particularly integrity among selected civil servants in selected State Government agencies in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. The respondents were selected based on a purposive sampling technique. The research used a quantitative approach where self-administered structured questions were distributed. Descriptive and inference analysis were carried out to meet the research objectives outlined. The research findings showed that there were civil servants groups who were unclear and uncertain about the meaning of integrity in public sector. Those with shorter length of services were found to be less knowledgeable on the rule and procedure which led to them being unsure about integrity. Length of service was found to be inversely related to the perception on the knowledge of integrity, corruption and quality of service delivery

Review of the Process of Producing the Motion of the Youth MPs Conference through Creative Thinking Skills

Creative thinking skills are the main foundation that needs to be applied among Youth MPs. These thinking skills will help APBM formulate the proposals for debate before being appointed as a youth development policy. In accordance with PBM which serves as a medium for youth leaders to get involved in the process of forming youth development policy. This study uses an in-depth interview method involving 9 informants representing 9 PBM Committees. APBM's creative thinking skills process consists of nine themes namely; knowledge, understanding issues, framework building, information gathering, spirituality, information enlightenment, understanding/clarity of issues, production of proposals, and review of motions. As a result, APBM is able to formulate proposals to be debated in the PBM conference

The effectiveness of organisation disciplinary actions at workplace

Discipline is a presence of laws and actions that are introduce to establish and monitor a matter accordingly. Idris & Alegbeleye (2015) noted that some academics view discipline as good behaviour and adhere to laws and regulations while others view discipline as a form of punishment that brings fear also disgrace when wrongly engaged in wrongdoing

Properties of Natural Rubber/Recycled Chloroprene Rubber Blend: Effects of Blend Ratio and Matrix

AbstractThe present study investigated the effects of two types of natural rubber and different blend ratios on the cure, tensile properties and morphology of natural rubber/recycled chloroprene rubber blends. The blends of natural rubber/recycled chloroprene rubber were prepared by using laboratory two-roll mill. The result showed that the cure time prolonged with the addition of recycled chloroprene rubber (rCR). Comparability, natural rubber/recycled chloroprene rubber (SMR L/rCR) blendcured rapidly than epoxidized natural rubber/recycled chloroprene rubber (ENR 50/rCR) blend. The addition of rCRalso caused a decrement in the tensile strength and elongation at break for both rubber blends. The SMR L/rCR blendsshowed higher tensile strength and elongation at break compared to those of ENR 50/rCR blends at any blend ratios

Homeownership Affordability: An Analysis of Socioeconomic Factors

Homeownership affordability is frequently debated widely at the global stage. It is human survival needs to make homeownership affordability is the issue that are given a special focus of many countries. The basics need of the homeownership is the affordability because without the affordability, how a person will be able to own a home. This showed that when there is no affordability there is no homeownership.  Homeownership affordability is determined by various factors that vary for each individual. In fact, household is not only affects by one factor in determining the affordability. Socioeconomic factors are among the most important factors in determining the affordability of homeownership. Between the socioeconomic factors is the household income, household expenditures, types of employment, level of education, and financial savings. The scrutiny of the socioeconomic factors is important because rationally, the development of the homeownership affordability issues impact the improvement in quality of life of mankind. Keywords: homeownership, affordability, socioeconomic factor, quality of lif

Separation of CO2/CH4 through Carbon Tubular Membranes: Effect of Carbonization Temperature

Carbon membranes have received much attention as advance materials in the gas separation technology due to their superior gas permeation performance and thermal and chemical stability. In order to increase the mechanical strength of the membrane, supported carbon membrane were produced using ceramic tube as support layer. Carbon tubular membranes were produced by carbonizing polymeric tubular membrane under different process parameter. In this study, carbon tubular membranes originating from Matrimid were prepared and characterized n term of its gas permeation properties. The preparation method involved dip-coating of the ceramic tubes with a Matrimid-based solution. The carbon tubular membranes were obtained by carbonization of the resultant polymeric tubular membrane under Argon gas flow in the horizontal tube furnace. The effects of the carbonization temperature on the gas permeation performance were investigated. Pure gas permeation tests were performed using CO2 and CH4 at room temperature with pressure 8 bars. The permeance and selectivity data indicate that the highest CO2/CH4 selectivity of 87.30 was obtained for carbon tubular membrane prepared at carbonization temperature of 850 ºC

MENDEPANI COVID-19: MUHASABAH DAN MUJAHADAH DIRI

Dunia digemparkan dengan munculnya novel coronavirus atau dikenali secara ringkasnya Covid-19 pada akhir 2019 di Wuhan, Negara China. Hari demi hari, angka mereka yang disahkan menghidapi novel coronavirus meningkat. Ia telah merebak pantas ke ratusan buah negara di dunia, bahkan melibatkan jutaan pesakit dan menyebabkan ribuan kematian. Dalam mendepani wabak tersebut, sesungguhnya ramai Muslim secara khususnya dan manusia secara amnya agak keliru dan panik sehingga menimbulkan sedikit kegusaran, kebimbangan dan pelbagai kesan negatif yang menggugat keharmonian diri dan masyarakat. Justeru, artikel ini cuba menerokai dan menyelidik salah satu alternatif terbaik dalam mendepani Covid-19 melalui muhasabah dan mujahadah diri. Sebagai seorang Muslim, wajib diyakini bahawa setiap penyakit mahupun wabak datang daripada Allah s.w.t. Tiada satu pun dalam kehidupan dunia ini yang keluar daripada kerangka ciptaan, takdir, qada’ dan qadar Allah s.wt. Kemudian, artikel ini hanya menggunakan kaedah kajian kepustakaan dengan merujuk kepada buku, artikel jurnal, suratkhabar dan bahan-bahan yang berkaitan dengan tajuk. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa kaedah muhasabah diri yang  diamalkan oleh Muslim mampu melahirkan sifat tenang, damai,sabar dan redha dengan ujian yang melanda. Begitu juga dengan mujahadah diri mampu membentuk seseorang Muslim itu menjadi kuat, tidak mudah berputus asa, tawakkal pada Allah dan lain-lain lagi. Ini bermakna bahawa kedua-dua kaedah ini merupakan salah satu alternatif terbaik dalam membina ketahanan jiwa dan fizikal Muslim bagi mendepani dan menghadapi pelbagai cabaran Covid-19 ini

Issue of hiring a criminal

Hiring a criminal. Criminal refers to a person who has committed to the crime. In some other words, there is a crime that called as felony. Felony is a crime that classified as the most serious type of offenses such as fraud, physical harm or large scale of theft. Thus, hiring a criminal is defined as company wanted to hire a person who has criminal records background as an employee. Nowadays, criminal history is quite common in the country like USA, which has over 6.6 million people been under correctional supervision such as jail, prison and parole. According to Kurlychek, Bushway, & Denver (2019), employers were asked questions regarding to the criminal history and use various methods and sources to collect the criminal background information. In contrast, some companies would prefer to hire people who are nominated and found that prison record of felony convictions reduced the employer’s motivation to hire an employee (Griffith & Young, 2017). Thus, employers are making decision based on the criminal history and checks for the record to make the hiring decisions (Young & Ryan, 2019) even though the connection between the criminal records and the employment is still at the infancy stage (Griffith, Rade, & Anazodo, 2019). In recent years, the policy attention is focus on the employment for the people who has criminal background (Agan & Starr, 2017). Consequently, “Ban the Box” policies has created to revise when and how the criminal histories were disclosed to move forward to the fair chance of employment selection process (Griffith & Young, 2017) to prevent the inequalities of economics and racial problems (Agan & Starr, 2017)