Pembudayaan keusahawanan ke arah mempengaruhi kecenderungan menceburi bidang keusahawanan dalam kalangan bakal graduan di UTHM

Kajian ini mengkaji kesan pembudayaan keusahawanan ke arah mempengaruhi kecenderungan pelajar untuk menceburi bidang keusahawanan di kalangan bakal graduan di Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). Kajian ini dijalankan menggunakan kaedah kuantitatif. Untuk kaedah kuantitatif penyelidik memilih untuk menggunakan borang soal selidik untuk mendapatkan data. Sampel kajian kuantitatif terdiri daripada 120 orang bakal graduan dari dua buah fakulti di UTHM iaitu Fakulti Kejuruteraan Awam dan Alam Sekitar (FKAAS) dan Fakulti Pengurusan Teknologi dan Perniagaan (FPTP). Data Kuantitatif dianalisis menggunakan perisian SPSS 17.0 (Statistical Package for Social Science). Dapatan kajian ini mendapati bahawa kebudayaan keusahawanan di UTHM masih diperingkat awal. Akan tetapi telah wujudnya ekosistem keusahawanan secara kecil-kecilan dalam usaha menggalakkan pelajar menceburi bidang keusahawanan. Selain itu, kajian ini juga mendapati tidak wujud perbezaan kecenderungan menjadi usahawan dalam kalangan bakal graduan di FKAAS dan FPTP

Role ambiguity and job performance of employees in the service sector SMEs in Malaysia

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in the economic development of Malaysia, of which the majority are in the service sector.Employees of the service sector SMEs have often been associated with low level of job performance and past research has shown that there are many factors that can contribute to employee poor performance such as role ambiguity.Thus the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between role ambiguity and job performance of employees in the service sector SMEs in Malaysia.1500 questionnaires were distributed and 300 were returned resulting in a 20% response rate.The result revealed that there was a significant relationship between role ambiguity and job performance of employees

Dormancy and cardinal temperatures during seed germination of five weedy rice (Oryza spp.) strains

Temperature during seed imbibition has been found to influence germination rate and final percent germination. Seeds of one cultivated variety and five weedy rice strains, collected from different localities in Peninsular Malaysia, were used to determine their degree of dormancy and cardinal temperatures. Meanwhile, standard germination and tetrazolium chloride (TTC) tests were used to evaluate the percentage of seed viability and degree of dormancy. Seed germination test at six different constant temperatures (between 10 and 35oC) was applied to determine the cardinal temperatures estimated by linear regression models, base temperature, Tb, optimum temperature, To, and maximum temperature, Tc. The TTC test was found to be a simple and quick test to determine the degree of seed dormancy among different weedy rice strains, when used together with a standard germination test. Germination rate was found to be related to the degree of dormancy but it had no influence on the range of cardinal temperatures. The Tb among the five weedy rice strains was in the range of 2-7.3oC. The To varied between 28.1 and 37.5oC, with an average of 32.5oC. This temperature (To) was higher than that of the cultivated MR73 variety (24.3oC), whereas the range of Tc was 42.2-43.3oC. The study indicated that the non-dormant cultivated rice seed had lower Tb and To values than the dormant seed of weedy rice

Kesedaran kognitif dalam aplikasi reka bentuk antara muka bagi pemantauan penyelenggaraan

Kesedaran Situasi adalah keupayaan manusia untuk mengenal pasti, memproses, dan memahami maklumat berkenaan bagaimana untuk bertahan dalam keadaan kecemasan. Lebih mudah, ia untuk mengetahui apa yang sedang berlaku di sekeliling anda. Ia dinamik, sukar dikekalkan, dan mudah hilang. Kajian ini dijalankan adalah untuk meneroka kesedaran situasi yang di aplikasikan pada aplikasi reka bentuk antara muka Android. Kajian ini dijalankan dengan menggunakan kaedah kualitatif. Kajian melibatkan tiga orang responden kajian mempunyai pengalaman bekerja lebih 20 tahun dalam bidang penyelenggaraan. Kajian ini menggunakan protokol temu bual sebagai instrumen kajian. Data-data yang telah diperoleh melalui temu bual telah dianalisis dengan kaedah analisis kandungan dan sebanyak enam (6) tema telah dijana. Hasil dapatan kajian menunjukkan kriteria-kriteria yang ada dalam kesedaran situasi membantu pengguna untuk lebih mudah menggunakan aplikasi reka bentuk antara muka yang menggunakan kriteria yang terlibat. Diharapkan hasil kajian ini dapat diaplikasikan oleh pihak-pihak yang terlibat dalam usaha untuk memaksimumkan kriteria-kriteria kesedaran situasi dalam antara muka aplikasi

Indicators of university-industry knowledge transfer performance and their implications for universities: evidence from the UK’s HE-BCI survey

Focusing on the measurement of universities’ performance in knowledge transfer, we outline some critical issues connected with the choice of appropriate indicators: in particular, we argue that, in order to allow universities to correctly represent their knowledge transfer performance, indicators should include a variety of knowledge transfer activities, reflect a variety of impacts, allow comparability between institutions, and avoid the creation of perverse behavioural incentives. To illustrate these issues empirically, we discuss the case of the United Kingdom’s Higher Education –Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) survey. We show that the indicators used to measure and reward universities’ engagement in knowledge transfer are not fully comprehensive, they are better suited to capture the impact of certain types of activities than others and they are influenced by institutional strategies and characteristics rather than simply reflecting different performances. The conclusions explore some promising directions to address some of these problems

Overview of the sensitivity of Ge- and Al-doped silicon dioxide optical fibres to ionizing radiation

This paper reviews the thermoluminescence sensitivity of Ge- and Al- doped SiO2 optical fibre subjected to various ionizing radiations. It is found that the Ge- doped SiO2 optical fiber has the thermoluminescence response superior to Al-doped SiO2 optical fibre at certain energy and dose range in alpha, beta, photon and electron irradiation. High thermoluminescence intensity per unit dose goes to photon and electron irradiation than alpha and beta irradiation of lower energy. This probably due to the linear energy transfer that influence the dose deposition in the material as incident ionizing radiation striking the surface of Ge- and Al- doped SiO2 optical fibre. However, both doped SiO2 optical fibres show good linearity at studied dose range. It has been proven by researchers providing great potential as a dose absorbed measuring devices especially in radiotherapy energy and dose rang

Effects of ultrasonic waves on enhancement of relative volatilities in methanol-water mixtures

The application of ultrasonic wave in various fields including separation process has increased predominantly. This paper reports the practicability of using ultrasonic wave to enhance separation of binary mixtures by distillation. The binary mixture utilized was methanol-water. The effect of different ultrasonic intensity at 50, 100, 200 and 250 W/A.cm2 with frequency of 40 kHz to vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) of methanol-water was investigated to obtain the most suitable operating intensity. Experimental studies were also carried out to investigate the frequency effect (25 and 68 kHz) to VLE data. It was found that the use of ultrasonic wave enhanced the separation process by increasing the relative volatility of components. The highest average relative volatility of methanol-water at 29.413 was obtained from experimental study using intensity 200 W/A.cm2 and frequency of 25 kHz. The changes in relative volatility and VLE were caused by cavitational activities and vacuum effect that occur during transmission of ultrasonic wave in liquid medium. The results from this study proved the practical feasibility of using ultrasonic wave to enhance separation of binary mixtures in distillation column

Human Resource Management And The Performance Of Selected Small And Medium Manufacturing Enterprises

Despite many studies on human resource management can be found in the literature, until recently, studies on the moderating effects of this factor on the relationship between innovation and firm performance are hardly existent. In filling the literature gap, this study attempts to address the questions of how HRM practices and its interactions with innovation affect the performance of SMEs. Two hundred eighty-four samples were obtained from the food and beverage, textile and clothing and wood-based small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Malaysia. Using the multiple regression analysis, this study found that human resource management practices in terms of employee and employer’s trainings interacted with innovation and significantly affected the performance of SMEs. Keywords: Human Resource Management, Innovation, Firm Performance, Malaysi