Solutions of the heat-conduction equation with phase change and moving boundaries

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Green building toward construction sustainability: energy efficiency with material and design aspects

In this globalization era, sustainable constructions have taken on some new steps to stimulate green building practice.Green building criteria basis are energy efficiency, material and resource conservation and sustainable design of the building itself.Energy efficiency still has a long way to go, due to some barriers that prevail in the practice of energy efficiency.Similarly, materials and design that are originally used have created various issues related to the environment and human health.In Malaysia, people’s level of awareness about green building is still low and they have minimum understanding and lack of familiarity about green materials and sustainable design.According to Klufallah, Nuruddin, Khamidi and Jamaludin (2014), 24% of total of carbon dioxide (CO2) comes from the construction sector in the Malaysia.Therefore, this study aims to look into building energy efficiency and materials and design employed in green buildings to achieve constructive sustainability and to establish the benefits of utilizing energy efficiency, green materials and sustainable design.This study will be done using a case of the construction sector in Malaysia. The data will be collected through an interview with several Property Development Companies or projects that apply the green building criteria. The recommendation is that more property development companies should be interviewed so that more comprehensive results can be gathered

Perception of university students on Facebook

The research is to study the perception of students on Facebook. The objective of this study is to identify the influence of usefulness, ease of use, social influence, facilitating conditions and community identity on Facebook adoption. Identify the influence of social relations, work-related purpose, and daily activities influence on the purpose of Facebook usage. Identify the influence of communication, collaboration and resources and material sharing on the educational usage of Facebook. Identify the relationship between Facebook adoption with the purpose of Facebook usage. Identify the relationship between the purpose of Facebook usage with the educational usage of Facebook and identify the relationship between Facebook adoption mediated by the purpose of Facebook usage with the educational usage of Facebook. Quantitative approach is using to get the results from students of STML. The result show that the relationship is positive between the adoption, purpose and educational usage of Facebook

THE MODERATING ROLE OF JOB EMBEDDEDNESS ON THE EFFECT OF ORGANISATIONAL JUSTICE AND ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING CULTURE ON TURNOVER INTENTION: A CONCEPTUAL REVIEW

Purpose: Employee’s turnover has been investigated by many researchers as an organisations’ negative outcome. The organizations that facing high rates of turnover should examine the fundamental reasons that cause employees’ turnover in order to reach real solutions to this problem. For that, they should ask a dynamic question, why some employees stay and some leave? Methodology: The reasons may seem difficult and consistent to the preferences and necessities of the employees. From another aspect, the majority of research in the context of turnover intention have been conducted in the western contexts, therefore it is worthwhile to encourage more studies in non-western settings to discover new understandings related to the problem. Results: Malaysia is considered as one of the developing countries that is having high turnover of employees in many sectors. Consequently, this study proposed a research framework to examine the relationship between organisational justice (OJ)’s three dimensions (Distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice), organisational learning culture (OLC) and turnover intention (TI). Furthermore this study recommended the moderating role of Job embeddedness (JE) in this relationship. Hence, the suggested research framework will contribute to the body of knowledge through providing new insights

Materials and design in green building for sustainable constructions

In this globalization era, sustainable constructions turn into the key to stimulate green building practice.One of the notable ways in practicing green building is through conservation of materials and resources and sustainable design of the building itself. Building materials and methods that are originally used have given rise to problems related to the environment and human’s health.In Malaysia, people are less aware about green building and they have minimum understanding and know-how about green materials and sustainable design.Therefore, this study aims to explore building materials and design employed in green buildings to achieve sustainability and to identify the benefits of utilizing green materials and sustainable design. This study was carried out using a case of construction sector in Malaysia.The data were collected via an interview with Eco World Development Sdn Bhd. The company utilizes materials like polyvinyl chloride (PVC) for water and cable work installations, laminated timber and porcelain or ceramic tiles as flooring, creeper plants as the insulation material, and bricks and reinforced concrete for interior wall construction.The company also involves in recycle practice by reusing the form work in constructing the buildings.In addition, Eco World Development Sdn Bhd focuses on passive design such as cross ventilation and solar shading to reduce energy consumption.Due to time constraint, there is only one company that has been interviewed.It is recommended that more property development companies should be interviewed in order to obtain more comprehensive results

Energy efficiency in green building to achieve company sustainability

Energy efficiency is the key to achieve sustainability in green building.Lowering the energy consumption in construction is starting to become a significant improvement chance for many organizations.This research will identify the benefits of energy efficiency, explore the methods to apply efficient energy usage in green building, and explore the obstacles in attaining energy efficiency in green building.Even though green buildings use a lesser amount of energy compare with usual building, energy efficiency still hard to achieve, due to some barriers to put into practice energy efficiency.This study will interview a property development company in Malaysia.After analysis, energy efficiency contributed two main benefits in the company such as reduced greenhouse gases emission and lower the air pollution problem, and energy saving.The company implemented electrical feeding and sensor system in lighting system, passive design, and cross ventilation to achieve energy efficiency in their development projects.However, cost barrier, information barrier, and outdoor condition and climate barrier are the obstacles in attaining energy efficiency practices. Due to the time constrain, this research only able to interview one company.With the aim of getting more accurate result, should be interview more companies in the future research because of the energy efficiency cover a wide area in the construction field

The effectiveness of ERP implementation in manufacturing industry

The purpose of this study is to discuss the effectiveness of ERP implementation in the manufacturing industry.The manufacturing industry has discovered the effectiveness of the ERP system but also facing some challenges in the adoption of ERP.In Malaysia, there are lacks of ERP implementation in the manufacturing industry due to its complexity, cost and time-consuming. This study covers the benefits, challenges, and the implementation across the organization.The data collections were collected from primary data and secondary data.In the primary data, an interview with a manufacturing company is conducted in order to gain more knowledge regarding the topic. Meanwhile,the secondary data is obtained from the literature review from journals, books, articles and the internet.This study identifies the effectiveness of ERP implementation.The identified factors provide a foundation for identifying the effectiveness of ERP implementation and give a direction for further improvement.Besides that, the analysis conducted shows that ERP implementation has the effectiveness in automating the entire business processes and the improvement in productivity and performance in the manufacturing industry

Barriers of Supply Chain Management Practices in Manufacturing Companies in Republic of Yemen: Pre-War Perspective

Supply chain management (SCM) is a backbone of manufacturing firms, it enable them to manage all tasks throughout business process. Therefore, investigating the barriers for supply chain management has become significant to assist them for better practicing for SCM. However, the main aim of this paper is to describe the current technology, relationship, and alignment barriers within manufacturing companies in Yemen. A quantitative method was adopted using a questionnaire and a sample of 65 Yemenis respondents who belong to the medium management level of the manufacturing companies in Yemen. Data was analyzed using the SPSS Generally, the findings revealed that Suppliers and customer geographical distance from own facilities represent the most barriers to manufacturing companies in adopting SCM in Yemen. Discussions of the findings, implication and limitation of the study were also included

Occupational safety and health practices in manufacturing industry

In today’s world, the economic growth rapidly in industrialization has been given a significant impact of distributions of income and quality of life it is also led in enhance the number of workplace accident in manufacturing industry.In Malaysia, people are still not much aware about the safety and health for the worker on manufacturing industry.Therefore, this study aims to examining the Safety and Health Practices that can be apply in manufacturing industry and identify the benefit of Occupational Safety and Health Practices. Besides that, this study also identified types of hazards, injury and accidents happen in the workplace.This study was carried out in a case of manufacturing sector in Malaysia.The data were collected via an interview with Ong Chuan Hin Rice Mill Sdn Bhd.Qualitative method was employed to achieve all the objectives. Therefore, the data referred in this study consist of the primary and secondary data.Besides, it was found that the selected industry was involved the Safety and Health Practices to reduce the accident happen in workplace.The significant from this study is to improve the knowledge about the Safety and Health Practices to the workers and employees to reduce the accidents in the workplace

The role of supply chain management toward performance of manufacturing companies in Yemen

Supply chain management plays a major role in industrial companies, with strengthen collaboration among their suppliers and customers. The main aims of his paper, is to examine the role of Supply Chain Management Capabilities- SCMC toward industrial companies performance in Yemen. Top and middle managers were asked to answer the questionnaire, which drawn from a geographical clustered sample. Thirty nine manufacturing were surveyed in five governorates. To examine the role of SCMC towards industrial companies hypothesis testing employed correlation. The findings showed a significant positive relationship at statistical significant level (α ≤0.05) between outside-in capabilities and inside-out capabilities, inside-out capabilities and companies’ market performance only, and spanning capabilities with both outside-in capabilities and company’s performance