Determining Program Study Using AHP with Dynamic Criterias and Weights Based on GIS-Mobile

This research aim to develop a decision support system based on GIS-Mobile Apps using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Algorithm and softmax function for dynamic weight. The stages of AHP dynamic criteria in this system is the preparation of a hierarchy, prioritization, consistency, and the weight of priority. ). The use of AHP in this system involves four criteria which keywords, department accreditation, accreditation of colleges and colleges location distance that can be set by the user dynamically. Experience Programming (XP) is model development that choosed by author for process development system. The step begin with planning, design, coding, and testing. The result of this research is a GIS-Mobile Apps to determine a list of recommended program study with the greatest weight from user input criteria

Of land use mix, location and travel carbon emission: state of the relationship in neighbourhoods of Iskandar Malaysia

Climate has been changing due to increasing level of greenhouse (GHG) emission from human activities and land use has been identified as one of the major factors. The increasing rate of urbanisation with its sprawl consequences has long been a concern in terms of major source of CO2 emission. Land uses in terms of types, amount and location do have direct and indirect effects on CO2 emission. Aim of this research is to identify the optimal mix and siting of land uses in neighborhoods in Iskandar Malaysia based on the physical layouts of existing neighborhoods. In line with the goal of Iskandar Malaysia to be the first Low Carbon City in Malaysia, this research might help by providing the information needed in order to achieve it. Iskandar Malaysia is chosen for this research because in Iskandar Malaysia it already have three types of mixed uses category but yet no one have measure the level of this mixed use development. This research have selected for about ten neighborhoods developed from 1980s to 2000s ranging from 100-1000 acres as it sample. Assessment and analysis are carried out on several metrics to investigate the relationship between land use mixing, location of land uses and travel carbon emission. CommunityViz an ArcGIS based on scenario planning softwares, is used to compare the impact of various real and hypothetical land use mix scenarios on internal travel and eventually travel carbon emission. The findings seem to indicate that the mixing as well as the location of land uses do affect travel carbon emission greatly. Travel carbon emission is worse in exclusive neighborhoods that cater only for residential uses

Land use diversity indices and change of mixed land uses in Iskandar Malaysia from 1980s to 2000s

Diversity in the context of land use planning refers to as the variety of uses in land use and in land use planning, the success of diversity can be achieved through mixed use development. Although mixed land uses are popularly practised in mixed use development for the past decades, current land use practices have moved towards the separation of residential and non-residential type of land uses. Thus, this paper discusses the changes in mixed land use from 1980s to 2000s in Iskandar Malaysia, Johor. The study is aimed at identifying the level of land use diversity and its trend during the past few decades by using diversity indices, Simpsons Diversity Index (SDI) and Shannons Diversity Index (ShaDI). The results show that diversity indices have been on the decrease steadily but quicken beyond 2005

Chemical speciation of heavy metals in bioaugmented and non- bioaugmented soils from Taman Beringin landfill

Heavy metal pollution has led to serious consequences since the dawn of industrialization. The aim of this study is to compare the speciation of heavy metals in bioaugmented and non-bioaugmented soils from Taman Beringin landfill, Malaysia. This is to allow the proper understanding of the specific forms of heavy metals and their mobility in the environment. Sequential extraction process based on Tessier et al. (1979), Tsang et al (2007) and standard ISO 11466 (1995) was performed for the determination of eight heavy metals (Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb) in soils samples. The results revealed that the percentage reduction of the mobile and non mobile forms (F1, F2, F3, F4 and F5) of heavy metals varied for all metals in non- bioaugmented and bioaugmented soils. Additionally, the distribution of the specific form of the metals ( for Mn, Co, Ni, Cu and Pb) changed after bioaugmentation at Day 100

The role of culture in acceptance of technology evolution among administrative support personnel in Maran, Pahang Darul Makmur / Hazlin Hasan...[et. al.]

The development of various technologies has affected the environment, human societies and science. Technology evolution has become a big challenge and may change at many levels in the organization either government or private sectors. This acceptance of technology is much influenced by the dimensions of culture; uncertainty avoidance, power distance, individualism-collectivism and masculinity-femininity, defined by everything from language and religion to cuisine, social habits, music and arts. Thus, this study focuses on the role of culture in the acceptance of technology among administrative support personnel employed in the government office, as the organizations depend heavily on them in running their daily operations. It is hoped that the findings of this study will provide useful information in improving the acceptance level of technology evolution at many levels in the organization. 75 respondents were selected and the relationship between dimensions of culture and acceptance of technology evolution was found to be moderate and positive. Future research can be conducted to examine other factors that may have a significant effect towards acceptance of technology evolution so that job performance can be increased

Use of complementary and alternative medicine in management of chemotherapy related side effects among cancer patients / Sharifah Nadia Syed Mohammad Salleh

Introduction: Cancer management reduces cancer patient’s quality of life. Managing the side effects of cancer treatment is also challenging. Local data on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) used for management of chemotherapy related side effects (CRSE) is lacking, hence leaving the cancer patients taking CAM at high risk of adverse drugs reactions due to drug- CAM interactions. Objective: The primary goal for this study is to determine the choice of CAM used as CRSE management in cancer patients and its prevalence. In addition, patient’s disclosure to their prescribers and monthly expenditure for CAM purchase were also observed. Method: This study was questionnaire based, interviewer assisted cross sectional analysis. Data were collected from cancer patients attending three departments; surgical, medical and gynecology. Results: 273 patients were recruited. 166 were CAM users for CRSE management. Prevalence of CAM use for CRSE among patients was 60.8%. High percentage of CAM users include female patients (86.7%), educated (39.8%), employed (79.1%) and married (74.1%). Breast cancer patients are the highest users of CAM for CRSE (97.4%). The three highest type of CAM used for CRSE were nutritional supplements (n=166) herbal preparations (n=154) and traditional Malay therapy (n=147). 51% (n=85) patients were introduced to CAM treatment by family members or close friends, however started using CAM after listening to testimonials by other cancer survivors. 82.5% (n=137%) patients admitted to their prescribers on their CAM use. 21.1% (n=29) doctors agree or encourage use of CAM, 65% (n=89) disagree to CAM and suggest to discontinue CAM treatments or use while 13.9% (n=19) are unbiased. Conclusion: The prevalence of CAM use in management of CRSE is increasing. The high use of CAM for CRSE management is associated to gender, employment, marriage status and education level. Three common choice of CAM used for CRSE relief are dietary supplements, herbal medicine and traditional Malay therapy. Advertisement and support groups play a significant role in giving influence on cancer patients’ treatment decisions. There are still prescribers who disagree with combining chemotherapy with complementary medicine, which inhibit the patients to share their use of CAM, hence making patients to use the treatments or products discretely without fully knowing or understanding the danger that might occur due to drug-CAM interactions

Tiny datablock in saving Hadoop distributed file system wasted memory

Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) is the file system whereby Hadoop is use it to store all the upcoming data inside it. Since it been declared, HDFS is consuming a huge memory amount in order to serve a normal dataset. Nonetheless, the current file saving mechanism in HDFS save only one file in one datablock. Thus, a file with just 5 Mb in size will take up the whole datablock capacity causing the rest of the memory unavailable for other upcoming files, and this is considered a huge waste of memory in serving a normal size dataset. This paper proposed a method called tiny datablock-HDFS (TD-HDFS) to increase the usability of HDFS memory and increase the file hosting capabilities by reducing the datablock size to the minimum capacity, and then merging all the related datablocks into one master datablock. This master datablock consists of tiny virtual datablocks that contain the related small files together; will exploit the full memory of the master datablock. The result of this study is a running HDFS with a minimum amount of wasted memory with the same read/write data performance. The results were examined through a comparison between the standard HDFS file hosting and the proposed solution of this study.TRANSLATE with x EnglishArabicHebrewPolishBulgarianHindiPortugueseCatalanHmong DawRomanianChinese SimplifiedHungarianRussianChinese TraditionalIndonesianSlovakCzechItalianSlovenianDanishJapaneseSpanishDutchKlingonSwedishEnglishKoreanThaiEstonianLatvianTurkishFinnishLithuanianUkrainianFrenchMalayUrduGermanMalteseVietnameseGreekNorwegianWelshHaitian CreolePersian //  TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster PortalBack/

Evaluation of the functional properties of mung bean protein isolate for development of textured vegetable protein

Mung bean is considered a ‘green pearl’ for its relatively high protein content; however, it has limited application as a raw material for industrial food products. As the potential use of mung beans relies on its protein behavior, this study characterized the functional properties of mung bean protein isolates and the results were compared with soy protein isolates. The protein isolates were prepared from mung bean and soy bean flours via extraction with 1 N NaOH, precipitated at pH 4, and subsequently freeze-dried. The amino acid profile as well as the hydrophilic and hydrophobic ratio of mung bean protein isolate, had been comparable with soy protein isolate. The water and oil absorption capacities as well as the denaturation temperature of mung bean protein isolate, were found to be similar with those of soy bean protein isolate. However, foaming capacity (89.66%) of mung bean protein isolate was higher than that of soy protein isolate (68.66%). Besides, least gelation concentration (LGC) of mung bean protein isolate (12%) was also close to LGC of soy protein isolate (14%), while the protein solubility was comparable between both the isolated proteins. The physical features of the textured mung bean were close to the commercial textured soy protein, which showed a heterogeneous and porous network like matrix when the mung bean flour was extruded to measure its potentiality to produce textured vegetable protein all seaweed extracts. Results showed that extraction parameters had significant effect (p < 0.05) on the antioxidant compounds and antioxidant capacities of seaweed. Sargassum polycystum portrayed the most antioxidant compounds (37.41 ± 0.01 mg GAE/g DW and 4.54 ± 0.02 mg CE/g DW) and capacities (2.00 ± 0.01 μmol TEAC/g DW and 0.84 ± 0.01 μmol TEAC/g DW) amongst four species of seaweed

Identifying Pertinent Elements of Critical Thinking and Mathematical Thinking Used in Civil Engineering Practice in Relation to Engineering Education

Engaging critical thinking and mathematical thinking in solving engineering problems is a way of approaching the engineering criteria of Engineering Accreditation Council, Board of Engineers Malaysia. Thus, it is timely and crucial to inculcate the critical thinking and mathematical thinking into the current engineering education. Unfortunately, information about these two modes of thinking in real-world engineering practice is found lacking in the literature. Therefore, this paper focuses on explaining an analytic process in identifying pertinent elements of critical thinking and mathematical thinking used in real-world civil engineering practice. The analytic process, namely open coding is a part of coding process in modified grounded theory analysis. Data consist of semi-structured interviews with eight practicing civil engineers from two different consultancy firms. A total of fifty three pertinent elements emerged during the analytic process. The selection of these pertinent elements was based on the predominant pattern and frequency of the informants and open codes. The pertinent elements were eventually integrated to develop a substantive theory. The substantive theory provides useful information for the engineering education

Halal Food Culture in Kuala Terengganu: Shariah Perspective (Istitābat Al-‘Arab)

Different cultures possess particular uniqueness in their culinary styles. Members in a society connect with each other through similar food patterns. People from different cultural backgrounds consume different foods with different culinary styles including ingredients used, preparation methods and consumption habits. Variations in food culture are basically due to different situations faced which vary according to different societies. Religion is perceived to play a part in shaping Kuala Terengganu’s food culture along with availability of food sources, geographical background, and historical background as well as migration. Considering that Kuala Terengganu is a predominantly Muslim district, its local food culture is by any means manifested by the prescription of Shariah Law, which is to consume halalan tayyiban and to bypass haram. This study attempts to review the concept of Istitābat Al-‘Arab pertaining to halal food rulings through various references found in different Quranic verses, hadith and principles. Also in this study, the different interpretations from major denominations in Islam (i.e. Hanafi, Maliki, Shafie and Hanbali) regarding the concept of Istitābat Al-‘Arab are discussed. Hence, this particular paper explains the concept of Istitābat Al-‘Arab in Shariah perspective in shaping Kuala Terengganu’s halal food culture with reference to local food rulings