Factors Influencing Safety Behavior in the Malaysian Army

Much attention has been focused on workers’ perception of workplace safety. However, relatively limited studies focus on Malaysian Armed Forces particularly the Malaysia Army. This organization experiences a significant accident rates which are not reported publicly or contributed into the SOCSO statistics. Improving occupational health and safety in the Army organization is not an easy task despite adequate safety legislation and regulative institutions. It is because the Armed Forces are not obliged to the OSHA 1994 (Act 514). This framework is a replication of Shang et.al (2009) which examined the effects of safety climate on container operation terminal employees’ perceptions of safety performance. However, the technique used to determine the perception and compliance with safety behavior among army personnel in the Malaysian Army organization is by using the Work Safety Scale (WSS) of Hayes et al.(1988). The purpose of this study is to examine whether the five critical factors of safety culture dimensions related to the safety behavior of the Malaysian Army personnel. The WSS measures five factorially distinct constructs: (a) job safety, (b) coworker safety, (c) supervisor safety, (d) management safety practices, and (e) satisfaction with the safety program. All those independent variables were measured on the perception of workplace safety towards the compliance of safety behavior as the determinants among 217 army personnel in one army unit based in Kem Terendak, Melaka. Based on the analysis there was a positive relationship between these five facets and safety behavior. It was found that satisfaction with safety programs, co-worker safety and management safety practices each made significant contributions to compliance with safety behavior, whilst job safety and supervisor safety made least contributions in the study. Results also suggest that management can enhance and refine the Army units’ safety culture by focusing especially on the variables mentioned thereby increasing and strengthening safety culture and soldiers’ safety behavior thereby reducing injuries and accident

APPLICATION OF MOLECULAR SALT FORMATION REACTIONS OF PICRIC ACID AND CITRIC ACID -ACETIC ANHYDRATE SYSTEM WITH CINITAPRIDE TARTRATE FOR ESTIMATION OF THE DRUG IN BULK AND PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATIONS

Objective: The present investigation was aimed at developing and validating two novel highly sensitive, selective, accurate and simple spectrophotometric methods for the determination of Cinitapride tartrate (CNP) in bulk and its dosage forms Methods: Method A was based on molecular salt formation reaction of Cinitapride tartrate with Picric Acid to form a yellow coloured chromogen having absorption maxima of 410 nm*. Method B was based on the formation of an internal salt between Cinitapride tartrate and citric acid –acetic anhydrate system that was measured at 565 nm*. The factors affecting the reaction in both the methods were carefully studied and optimized. The kinetics of the reaction was investigated, and the reaction mechanism was postulated. Results: Under the optimized conditions, linear relationship with good correlation coefficient of was found between the absorbance and Cinitapride tartrate concentration in the range of 8-40 μg / mL and 4-20μg / mL for method A and B respectively. The precision of the method was satisfactory; the values of relative standard deviations did not exceed 1.4%. The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of Cinitapride tartrate in its bulk form and pharmaceutical formulations with good accuracy. Conclusion: The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of Cinitapride tartrate in its bulk form and pharmaceutical formulations with good accuracy. Hence, these methods can be used for the routine quality control of CNP in its dosage forms

6 Minute Walk Test (6MWT) for Healthy Adult Volunteers

Objectives: To determine the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) for healthy volunteers in our population and find out the factors affecting 6MWT. Furthermore, comparing our results with published National and International data. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: This study was carried in the physiology department of Rawalpindi Medical College, from 1st July 2019 to 31st December 2019. Materials and Methods: A total of 129 adult healthy volunteers between 18 and 60 years of age were included in this study after the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria. A 6-minute walk test (6MWT) was carried out in a standardized procedure. The height, weight, and BMI were recorded on predesigned Performa. Distance covered in 6-minute, heart rate, systolic BP, Diastolic BP, SPO2, Borg Scale Dyspnea score, Borg Scale Fatigue score were recorded before and after the 6-minute walk test. Correlation and its significance were calculated among anthropometric and physiological variables. Results: Seventy (54%) men and Fifty-nine (46%) women participated in the study. The mean distance covered for all subjects was 430.412±63.0150. The distance covered by the female subject was 388.720±30.104 and 439.533±68.355 by male subjects. The mean age of the subjects was 31.64 ±12.36, while the mean BMI was 22.06 ±4.15. The mean heart rate value before the test is 77.72±1.48 and after the test is 92.84±1.12. The mean systolic BP value before the walk was 122.65±11.75 and after the walk, it was 106.5±9.83. Mean diastolic BP before the walk was 80.55±12.61 and after the walk, it was 76.5±9.83. SPO2 mean value before the walk was 96.23±1.4 and after the walk is 98.2±1.17. Borg scale dyspnea score mean value before the test is 0 ± 0 and after the test it was 0.67±0.76 and Borg scale fatigue score mean value before the walk is 1.32±0.73 and after the walk is 1.62±0.92. A positive correlation was noted with height, while a negative correlation was noted with age and BMI. Gender also showed a significant relationship with the 6MWD. Conclusion: The distance covered in 6-minute is shorter than the studies carried out in different parts of the world. Age, gender, height, and BMI showed a significant relationship with 6MWD. Those reference values for the 6MWD should not be used in our population, as it overestimates the distance and may interfere with the significance of the test

STOCK RETURNS PREDICTION BY USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL FOR PAKISTAN STOCK EXCHANGE

Artificial neural networks are extensively used to predict the financial time series. This study implements the neural network model for predicting the daily returns of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE). Such an application for PSE is very rare. A multi-layer perception network is used for the model used in this study, while the network is trained using the Error Back Propagation algorithm. The results showed that the predictive power of the network was performed by the return of the previous day rather than the input of the first three days. Therefore, this study showed satisfactory results for PSE. In short, artificial intelligence can be used to give a better picture of stock market operators and can be used as an alternative or additional to predict financial variables

A review and survey of Problem-Based Learning application in Engineering Education

This paper gives a review of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) applied in engineering courses worldwide, and a survey of academic staff who have implemented PBL in engineering classes in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The review of PBL application illustrates the extent of acceptance and success of PBL in schools of engineering in the international arena. The survey, on the other hand, illustrates the acceptance of PBL among engineering lecturers and the possibility of applying PBL in Malaysia. The main purpose of the survey is to obtain feedback on PBL regarding the impressions, set-backs and constraints faced, as well as innovations and tips for successful implementation from the faculty members involved

Issues and trends in expatriation management: evidence from Malaysia

Because companies grow to be globalized, there is an increasing have to use expatriates pertaining to international assignments. Investigate the difficulties inside expatriation practice coming from unique perspectives are usually regarding extreme important to enrich realizing and improve performance in the businesses within international planet. This specific research had utilized the qualitative strategy with all the intent to look into the particular opinions coming from four Malaysian People Resource Managerial Personnel regarding the concerns within expatriate management inside International Companies’ subsidiaries. Your information uncovered in which some of the difficulties along with developments in which organizations encounter add the higher expenses connected with expatriation; expatriation is often a needed choice; non-returning connected with expatriates to help house country; coping with targets; issues within holding onto worldwide careerists; issues to realize work-life harmony; the actual utilization of your home trip portion to visit other nations around the world; increasing diversity connected with expatriates, increasing women of all ages along with intra-Asia exchange; along with regional employees must adjust themselves whenever there is improvements connected with expatriates within organization. It truly is expected which the information of the study might be employed seeing that main recommendations for just about any agencies to raise their expatriation routines by means of thinking about the related difficulties regarding expatriation management

Infusion of thinking skills in English language instructional development at tertiary level

The inclusion of thinking skills in a subject is considered necessary to ensure that students develop their thinking and possess greater control of their learning. To determine if the infusion of thinking skills is present in a subject, an evaluation of the subject from the planning to the assessment stage needs to be carried out. This study aims to evaluate the level of emphasis in the infusion of thinking skills in English language instruction in a Diploma Science program in a higher institution in Malaysia. A comprehensive study was carried out on the major stages of the instructional development based on Chen’s Taxonomy of Program Evaluation (2005). Specific data from documents was collected and analyzed, after the data was categorized according to the level of thinking skills listed in the Cognitive-Affective Taxonomy (Ghazali Mustapha, 1998) and the Mental Operation Questions (Moore, 1995). The three stages of the instructional development were then tied up to determine if they complement each other in the infusion of thinking skills. The quality of instruction provided will contribute to the success of the whole program, enabling students to possess equal opportunity to explore knowledge in depth and allowing them to apply it more effectively in the real world