Factors affecting employees performance in CTRM Aero Composites Sdn. Bhd. / Muhamad Syafiq Baharudin and Muhammad Amirul Ashraf Kamarudin

The employee performance is important to company to achieve their goals and target, so our research is focus on the current staff whether they aware of employee performance or not. The primary aim of this study is to explore the main factors that can contribute to the employee performance in CTRM Aero Composites. The data collected through questionnaire from 92 respondents was used to test the proposed hypothesis. The survey questions designed to determine five elements of factor that affecting employee performance which is financial rewards, recognition, working environment and job design. The result reveals the positive relationship of rewards and working environment towards employee performance. Factors and determinants that can help staff in CTRM Aero Composites aware about factors that can affect their performance. There are many other factors which may affect the level of employee performance in CTRM Aero Composites but due to time constraint others are not taken for research. Moreover, the sample was also limited as the only focus was in CTRM Aero Composites staff. The accuracy of the results may be influenced by biases. The results of this study have clearly shown that the independent variables which are education, religion, and subjective norms have a direct and positive impact on the dependent variable that is awareness of employee performance which means the enhancement of one independent variable causes the enhancement in the awareness which is the dependent variable

Game Application as Teaching Tool to Assist Mastering Installation of Three-Phase Motor Control Topic: Expert Perception

The learning and teaching process using conventional methods might cause students to be unable to highlight their true potential. Besides, it can be more difficult for teachers to choose the types of games that suit the curriculum and students' needs. Hence, this study aims to develop a game application as a teaching assistant tool for a three-phase direct online starter topic in Electrical Technology Malaysian Vocational Certificate subject for Vocational College students using the Android platform. Learning materials and games are developed using multimedia and interactive elements to attract students to be active in using the learning medium based on game applications as 21st-century learning tools. The development purpose of the game application is to give early exposure to students to the installation of three-phase motor control before going through the laboratory session. The behaviorism learning theory and Game development Life Cycle (GDLC) model, were implemented in the game application development in this research. The researcher used Unity 3D software is online software such as Canva and Microsoft PowerPoint design tools interactively to make a game-based learning application for the three-phase motor control installation subject. Based on the analysis of the findings, the experts agreed that the functionality of this three-phase Motor Control game application can be used well and is suitable to be used as a teaching aid. In addition, these research results can be used by teachers to increase students' interest and further make the learning process more interesting to improve student understanding

Nutritious - Based Product Idea Blueprint / Amirul Fareez Amir Khan...[et.al]

Our plan is to create new source of food to livestock while maintaining Good Agricultural Practices (GAP). Before the creating of agro-waste livestock food, we use corn and soybean as pellet to livestock. But after considering that in oil palm industry, waste from oil palm frond and kernel is let to be burned or decomposed, we come to new resolution; to reuse the waste as food product. To promote sustain agricultural environment, we carne out with our product the Palm Kernel Cake Pellet. From past research done by MPOB, kernel waste contain high protein that is good to livestock. In addition, for milk producing livestock such as cow and sheep, protein contain in kernel can also enhance protein in their milk. Another benefit of our product is Effective Organism (EM) that can enhance good digestion of livestock. EM acts as good bacteria to make livestock intestine circulate well. After our long discussion and research, we have come out to open our Agrowaste Enterprise to compete with other livestock producer. Although there are a lot of the competitors, we very sure that our product can make hit in the market as we provide additional benefit to our product; the EM and kernel waste. In order to achieve this, we work as a team to achieve our goal while applying GAP. So as the General Manager of the company, I Amirul Fareez Bin Amir Khan would like to encourage my executive member and staff to join me to strive in order to achieve our mission

Lakuan berbahasa dalam perbualan generasi Y

Setiap ujaran yang telah dihasilkan oleh seseorang semasa berkomunikasi mempunyai bentuk lakuan bahasa tertentu. Lakuan bahasa terdiri daripada ujaran performatif yang melibatkan tujuan yang tersendiri, keinginan atau perjanjian. Namun kajian tentang lakuan bahasa yang melibatkan Generasi Y dalam perbualan secara lisan di institusi awam masih terhad dijalankan oleh pengkaji bahasa di negara ini. Bidang analisis perbualan telah dipilih sebagai fokus kajian untuk menganalisis bentuk lakuan bahasa yang digunakan oleh penutur bahasa. Justeru kajian ini dijalankan berdasarkan dua objektif kajian, iaitu untuk mengenal pasti bentuk lakuan bahasa lisan dalam kalangan pelajar Generasi Y di institusi awam dan menganalisis bentuk lakuan bahasa lisan dalam kalangan pelajar Generasi Y di institusi awam menggunakan Teori Lakuan Bahasa Bach dan Harnish (1979). Setiap lakuan bahasa yang terhasil melalui ujaran terdiri daripada pelbagai jenis dan fungsi mengikut situasi penggunaannya. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah pemerhatian. Alat rakaman suara digunakan untuk merakam perbualan pelajar Generasi Y di institusi awam terpilih. Pemilihan 30 orang pelajar Generasi Y sebagai sampel kajian di institusi awam terpilih dilakukan menggunakan kaedah pensampelan bertujuan. Sebanyak lapan buah rakaman perbualan dijadikan data kajian. Data kajian daripada setiap rakaman perbualan telah ditranskripsi dan kemudian telah dianalisis secara kualitatif menggunakan Teori Lakuan Bahasa Bach dan Harnish (1979). Hasil kajian mendapati keempat-empat bentuk lakuan bahasa Bach dan Harnish telah digunakan oleh Generasi Y di institusi awam. Hasil kajian juga mendapati bahawa sebanyak 46.8% lakuan bahasa pengumuman dan sebanyak 32.3% lakuan bahasa arahan yang telah digunakan adalah merupakan bentuk lakuan bahasa yang paling kerap digunakan oleh Generasi Y di institusi awam, diikuti oleh sebanyak 16.7% lakuan bahasa pengakuan dan sebanyak 4.2% lakuan bahasa perjanjian. Sebagai kesimpulan, kajian ini telah menunjukkan bahawa Generasi Y di institusi awam turut menggunakan bentuk lakuan bahasa dalam perbualan seharian mereka. Setiap lakuan bahasa yang digunakan oleh Generasi Y tersebut mempunyai fungsi atau tujuan yang tertentu

Speech act among generation Y students at Universiti Putra Malaysia

Speech acts can be categorized as a forms of utterance which is have aspects of actions that have been produced by a language speaker. Typically, speech act exists in a communication situation that involves a conversation between two parties, that are the speaker and the listener. It can be said that every conversation that has been produced by a language speaker involves an aspect of speech act. Therefore, the conversational analysis has been chosen as the focus of the study to analyze aspects of speech act used by language speakers. Accordingly, this study was conducted to identify the aspects of speech act involved in the conversation of Generation Y students and analyze the use of aspects of speech act based on selected theories. In this study, the researcher has used the research method by making observations and voice recordings involving the conversations of Generation Y students at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Furthermore, the selection of the sample study was done by using purposive sampling method and this study involved eight recordings of conversations. Each recording of the conversation was transcribed and each data of the study was analyzed qualitatively using the Speech Act Bach and Harnish Theory (1979). The categorization of Speech Act by Bach and Harnish (1979) consists of four act namely constatives, directives, commisives and acknowledgements speech act. However, in this study, the researcher only focused on the constative speech act only. The results of the study showed that each conversation data that was analyzed based on the eight recordings of the conversation involved aspects of the constative speech act. Therefore, this study shows that Generation Y students also used the aspects of speech act in their daily conversations. Each speech act used by the Generation Y students has a specific function or purpose

Thrombotic and hemorrhagic complications of COVID-19 in adults hospitalized in high-income countries compared with those in adults hospitalized in low- and middle-income countries in an international registry

Background: COVID-19 has been associated with a broad range of thromboembolic, ischemic, and hemorrhagic complications (coagulopathy complications). Most studies have focused on patients with severe disease from high-income countries (HICs). Objectives: The main aims were to compare the frequency of coagulopathy complications in developing countries (low- and middle-income countries [LMICs]) with those in HICs, delineate the frequency across a range of treatment levels, and determine associations with in-hospital mortality. Methods: Adult patients enrolled in an observational, multinational registry, the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections COVID-19 study, between January 1, 2020, and September 15, 2021, met inclusion criteria, including admission to a hospital for laboratory-confirmed, acute COVID-19 and data on complications and survival. The advanced-treatment cohort received care, such as admission to the intensive care unit, mechanical ventilation, or inotropes or vasopressors; the basic-treatment cohort did not receive any of these interventions. Results: The study population included 495,682 patients from 52 countries, with 63% from LMICs and 85% in the basic treatment cohort. The frequency of coagulopathy complications was higher in HICs (0.76%-3.4%) than in LMICs (0.09%-1.22%). Complications were more frequent in the advanced-treatment cohort than in the basic-treatment cohort. Coagulopathy complications were associated with increased in-hospital mortality (odds ratio, 1.58; 95% CI, 1.52-1.64). The increased mortality associated with these complications was higher in LMICs (58.5%) than in HICs (35.4%). After controlling for coagulopathy complications, treatment intensity, and multiple other factors, the mortality was higher among patients in LMICs than among patients in HICs (odds ratio, 1.45; 95% CI, 1.39-1.51). Conclusion: In a large, international registry of patients hospitalized for COVID-19, coagulopathy complications were more frequent in HICs than in LMICs (developing countries). Increased mortality associated with coagulopathy complications was of a greater magnitude among patients in LMICs. Additional research is needed regarding timely diagnosis of and intervention for coagulation derangements associated with COVID-19, particularly for limited-resource settings.</p

Neurological manifestations of COVID-19 in adults and children

Different neurological manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adults and children and their impact have not been well characterized. We aimed to determine the prevalence of neurological manifestations and in-hospital complications among hospitalized COVID-19 patients and ascertain differences between adults and children. We conducted a prospective multicentre observational study using the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) cohort across 1507 sites worldwide from 30 January 2020 to 25 May 2021. Analyses of neurological manifestations and neurological complications considered unadjusted prevalence estimates for predefined patient subgroups, and adjusted estimates as a function of patient age and time of hospitalization using generalized linear models. Overall, 161 239 patients (158 267 adults; 2972 children) hospitalized with COVID-19 and assessed for neurological manifestations and complications were included. In adults and children, the most frequent neurological manifestations at admission were fatigue (adults: 37.4%; children: 20.4%), altered consciousness (20.9%; 6.8%), myalgia (16.9%; 7.6%), dysgeusia (7.4%; 1.9%), anosmia (6.0%; 2.2%) and seizure (1.1%; 5.2%). In adults, the most frequent in-hospital neurological complications were stroke (1.5%), seizure (1%) and CNS infection (0.2%). Each occurred more frequently in intensive care unit (ICU) than in non-ICU patients. In children, seizure was the only neurological complication to occur more frequently in ICU versus non-ICU (7.1% versus 2.3%, P < 0.001). Stroke prevalence increased with increasing age, while CNS infection and seizure steadily decreased with age. There was a dramatic decrease in stroke over time during the pandemic. Hypertension, chronic neurological disease and the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation were associated with increased risk of stroke. Altered consciousness was associated with CNS infection, seizure and stroke. All in-hospital neurological complications were associated with increased odds of death. The likelihood of death rose with increasing age, especially after 25 years of age. In conclusion, adults and children have different neurological manifestations and in-hospital complications associated with COVID-19. Stroke risk increased with increasing age, while CNS infection and seizure risk decreased with age.</p

Paediatric COVID-19 mortality: a database analysis of the impact of health resource disparity

Background The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric populations varied between high-income countries (HICs) versus low-income to middle-income countries (LMICs). We sought to investigate differences in paediatric clinical outcomes and identify factors contributing to disparity between countries.Methods The International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) COVID-19 database was queried to include children under 19 years of age admitted to hospital from January 2020 to April 2021 with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis. Univariate and multivariable analysis of contributing factors for mortality were assessed by country group (HICs vs LMICs) as defined by the World Bank criteria.Results A total of 12 860 children (3819 from 21 HICs and 9041 from 15 LMICs) participated in this study. Of these, 8961 were laboratory-confirmed and 3899 suspected COVID-19 cases. About 52% of LMICs children were black, and more than 40% were infants and adolescent. Overall in-hospital mortality rate (95% CI) was 3.3% [=(3.0% to 3.6%), higher in LMICs than HICs (4.0% (3.6% to 4.4%) and 1.7% (1.3% to 2.1%), respectively). There were significant differences between country income groups in intervention profile, with higher use of antibiotics, antivirals, corticosteroids, prone positioning, high flow nasal cannula, non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation in HICs. Out of the 439 mechanically ventilated children, mortality occurred in 106 (24.1%) subjects, which was higher in LMICs than HICs (89 (43.6%) vs 17 (7.2%) respectively). Pre-existing infectious comorbidities (tuberculosis and HIV) and some complications (bacterial pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome and myocarditis) were significantly higher in LMICs compared with HICs. On multivariable analysis, LMIC as country income group was associated with increased risk of mortality (adjusted HR 4.73 (3.16 to 7.10)).Conclusion Mortality and morbidities were higher in LMICs than HICs, and it may be attributable to differences in patient demographics, complications and access to supportive and treatment modalities

Association of Country Income Level With the Characteristics and Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients Hospitalized With Acute Kidney Injury and COVID-19

Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been identified as one of the most common and significant problems in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. However, studies examining the relationship between COVID-19 and AKI in low- and low-middle income countries (LLMIC) are lacking. Given that AKI is known to carry a higher mortality rate in these countries, it is important to understand differences in this population. Methods: This prospective, observational study examines the AKI incidence and characteristics of 32,210 patients with COVID-19 from 49 countries across all income levels who were admitted to an intensive care unit during their hospital stay. Results: Among patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit, AKI incidence was highest in patients in LLMIC, followed by patients in upper-middle income countries (UMIC) and high-income countries (HIC) (53%, 38%, and 30%, respectively), whereas dialysis rates were lowest among patients with AKI from LLMIC and highest among those from HIC (27% vs. 45%). Patients with AKI in LLMIC had the largest proportion of community-acquired AKI (CA-AKI) and highest rate of in-hospital death (79% vs. 54% in HIC and 66% in UMIC). The association between AKI, being from LLMIC and in-hospital death persisted even after adjusting for disease severity. Conclusions: AKI is a particularly devastating complication of COVID-19 among patients from poorer nations where the gaps in accessibility and quality of healthcare delivery have a major impact on patient outcomes

Characteristics and outcomes of an international cohort of 600 000 hospitalized patients with COVID-19

Background: We describe demographic features, treatments and clinical outcomes in the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) COVID-19 cohort, one of the world's largest international, standardized data sets concerning hospitalized patients. Methods: The data set analysed includes COVID-19 patients hospitalized between January 2020 and January 2022 in 52 countries. We investigated how symptoms on admission, co-morbidities, risk factors and treatments varied by age, sex and other characteristics. We used Cox regression models to investigate associations between demographics, symptoms, co-morbidities and other factors with risk of death, admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). Results: Data were available for 689 572 patients with laboratory-confirmed (91.1%) or clinically diagnosed (8.9%) SARS-CoV-2 infection from 52 countries. Age [adjusted hazard ratio per 10 years 1.49 (95% CI 1.48, 1.49)] and male sex [1.23 (1.21, 1.24)] were associated with a higher risk of death. Rates of admission to an ICU and use of IMV increased with age up to age 60&nbsp;years then dropped. Symptoms, co-morbidities and treatments varied by age and had varied associations with clinical outcomes. The case-fatality ratio varied by country partly due to differences in the clinical characteristics of recruited patients and was on average 21.5%. Conclusions: Age was the strongest determinant of risk of death, with a ∼30-fold difference between the oldest and youngest groups; each of the co-morbidities included was associated with up to an almost 2-fold increase in risk. Smoking and obesity were also associated with a higher risk of death.&nbsp;The size of our international database and the standardized data collection method make this study a comprehensive international description of COVID-19 clinical features. Our findings may inform strategies that involve prioritization of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who have a higher risk of death