Foods ingredients management: inbound and outbound halal management best practice

Foods and ingredients management in the inbound and outbound of warehouse has become significant priority to ensure the quality of halal products. This study will benefit the society among the Muslims and Non-Muslims communities. Manufacturers can interconnect the information to improve and identify factors affecting the consumers who are doubtful of choosing halal products. The objective of the study focus to examine the inbound and outbound efficiency of food ingredients management for halal management best practice in the warehouse. The researchers chose Saudi Cold Storage Sdn. Bhd as the model and respondents of the study. Questionnaires consisted of 26 questions are applied and distributed to the company’s employees. Inbound and outbound efficiency of food ingredients management are the independent variables for halal management best practice who acted as dependent variable. Theoretically, this research contributed the study on the inbound and outbound efficiencies of food ingredients management affected the halal management best practice. Practically, the study is applicable for managers in the halal food industries in their operational decisions making. The outcome of this research is positively reacted and explored for future studies related to halal warehousing and its operations

Food ingredients management - inbound and outbound halal management best practice

Foods and ingredients management in the inbound and outbound of warehouse has become significant priority to ensure the quality of halal products. This study will benefit to society especially among the Muslims and Non-Muslims communities. Manufacturers can interconnect to get information from research studies to improve where they can identify factors that affect consumers who are doubt of choosing halal products and increase their efficiencies in producing halal food. Poor inspection in ensuring the halal status of ingredients and foods in the warehouse may cause the quality problem.The objective of the study is to examine the inbound and outbound efficiency of food ingredients management for halal management best practice.The study focuses on the activity of warehousing which are inbound and outbound with a halal food manufacturing company that practices halal management-Saudi Cold Storage Sdn. Bhd is the respondents to this research. Questionnaires consist of 26 questions and categorized into 4 sections which are demographic, inbound, outbound and halal management best practice. The questionnaires were distributed to the employees working in the company.Inbound and outbound efficiency of food ingredients management are the independent variables for halal management best practice. Theoretically, this research contributes a study on how inbound efficiency of food ingredients management and outbound efficiency of food ingredients management will affect the halal management best practice. Practically, the study is applicable for managers in the halal food industries in their operational decisions making.Based on this research, the outcome is positively reacted and explored for future studies related to halal warehousing and its operations

Fabrication and characterisation of superhydrophobic bio-ceramic hollow fibre membranes prepared from cow bone waste

Superhydrophobic membranes have great potential towards various application, especially for thermal-based membrane system such as membrane distillation. In this study, bioceramic hollow fibre membranes derived from cow bone waste were prepared by phase inversion/sintering method, followed by surface modification via immersion grafting with fluoroalkylsilane (FAS) agent. Interestingly, the grafting process led to the formation of hydroxyapatite nanorods, mimicking the unique structure of electrospun nanofiber membranes. The hydrophobicity of the modified membranes was assessed by measuring the water contact angle and showed excellent improvement from hydrophilic property to superhydrophobic with the highest value of 174° After the modification, the water entry pressure also improved from 0 to 1 bar. In addition, the presence of FAS agent on the membrane surface was observed using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). A correlation between pore size, porosity, and mechanical strength of the modified membrane was discussed; the increment of membrane pore size after grafting process is synonym to the dental erosion mechanism. The result indicates that the superhydrophobic bioceramic hollow fibre membranes derived from cow bone waste have significant potential to be developed for membrane distillation application in treating water and wastewater

Novel ceramic hollow fibre membranes contactor derived from kaolin and zirconia for ammonia removal and recovery from synthetic ammonia

The adverse effects of ammonia found in wastewater streams lead to the development of advanced water treatment technology, i.e. membrane contactor (MC). In this study, single layer hollow fibre membrane (SLZK) and dual layer hollow fibre membrane (DLZK) were prepared from zirconia and kaolin and modified into hydrophobic membrane through simple grafting process via fluoroalkylsilane (FAS) agent. The properties of membranes such as morphology, surface roughness, mechanical strength, wettability and liquid entry pressure were analysed through scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), 3-point bending strength, contact angle and LEPw setup. Finally, the performance of the membranes was also investigated towards ammonia removal via membrane contactor system. Our findings showed that hydrophobicity properties significantly improved for both SLZK and DLZK membranes after grafting modification process as indicated by the increase of contact angle value from 5° and 1° to 132.7° and ~180.0° respectively. Based on the morphological analysis, the surface of DLZK showed more porous structure as compared to the SLZK. In addition, DLZK also displayed the highest mechanical strength and contact angle reading of 125 MPa and ~180° respectively. This suggests that the DLZK showed an excellent membrane contactor performance with highest value of mass transfer coefficient (3.77 x 10-5 ms-1) and almost complete removal of ammonia removal (91%). Overall, these results implied that dual layer ceramic membrane developed from kaolin and zirconia could provide the basis for the development of alternative ceramic membrane with excellent properties for membrane contactor system

Convalescent plasma in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised controlled, open-label, platform trial

SummaryBackground Azithromycin has been proposed as a treatment for COVID-19 on the basis of its immunomodulatoryactions. We aimed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of azithromycin in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19.Methods In this randomised, controlled, open-label, adaptive platform trial (Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19Therapy [RECOVERY]), several possible treatments were compared with usual care in patients admitted to hospitalwith COVID-19 in the UK. The trial is underway at 176 hospitals in the UK. Eligible and consenting patients wererandomly allocated to either usual standard of care alone or usual standard of care plus azithromycin 500 mg once perday by mouth or intravenously for 10 days or until discharge (or allocation to one of the other RECOVERY treatmentgroups). Patients were assigned via web-based simple (unstratified) randomisation with allocation concealment andwere twice as likely to be randomly assigned to usual care than to any of the active treatment groups. Participants andlocal study staff were not masked to the allocated treatment, but all others involved in the trial were masked to theoutcome data during the trial. The primary outcome was 28-day all-cause mortality, assessed in the intention-to-treatpopulation. The trial is registered with ISRCTN, 50189673, and ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04381936.Findings Between April 7 and Nov 27, 2020, of 16 442 patients enrolled in the RECOVERY trial, 9433 (57%) wereeligible and 7763 were included in the assessment of azithromycin. The mean age of these study participants was65·3 years (SD 15·7) and approximately a third were women (2944 [38%] of 7763). 2582 patients were randomlyallocated to receive azithromycin and 5181 patients were randomly allocated to usual care alone. Overall,561 (22%) patients allocated to azithromycin and 1162 (22%) patients allocated to usual care died within 28 days(rate ratio 0·97, 95% CI 0·87–1·07; p=0·50). No significant difference was seen in duration of hospital stay (median10 days [IQR 5 to >28] vs 11 days [5 to >28]) or the proportion of patients discharged from hospital alive within 28 days(rate ratio 1·04, 95% CI 0·98–1·10; p=0·19). Among those not on invasive mechanical ventilation at baseline, nosignificant difference was seen in the proportion meeting the composite endpoint of invasive mechanical ventilationor death (risk ratio 0·95, 95% CI 0·87–1·03; p=0·24).Interpretation In patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, azithromycin did not improve survival or otherprespecified clinical outcomes. Azithromycin use in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 should be restrictedto patients in whom there is a clear antimicrobial indication

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Smart home security with dual modes

The internet of Things (IoT) is a technology that has shown impact to revolutionize individual live. In the Integration Era in year 2005-2018, the researcher and experts have started to combine the security system with the IoT technology. One of the main reasons is, the IoT being used as the source of data storage. Same as Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV), as one of the main component in security system; the data storage is being upgraded from a digital video recorder (DVR) which is a kind of memory card to an endless network video recorder (NVR), which is internet cloud data storage. The NVR camera system is widely known as Internet Protocol Camera (IP Camera). This project is mainly focusing on the security system which could be implemented by community, either in-house or workplace, as the system has dual modes of operation (security mode and calibration mode). The improvement in term of notification, user friendly system is further discussed in this paper. From the notification, the users shall be aware with the location of the burglar. This study shall provide the development of new Smart Home Security, focusing on CCTV system technology