Assessing the Adoption of M-commerce in SMEs in the Service Industry of Malaysia

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between performance expectancy, and government support for m-commerce adoption among Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the service industry. The study was quantitative, and a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect primary data from 396 SMEs in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, Malaysia. The data was analyzed using PLS-SEM, and findings discovered that the proposed model explained 58.4% of the variance in the dependent variable which is considered at a strong level. The findings show that there is a positive significant relationship between performance expectancy, and government support for m-commerce adoption

CSR activities in SMEs: The impact of TPB’s factors to firm’s performance and firm size as moderator

This study employed the TPB to examine factors, intention, behaviour, firm performance and sample size in SMEs to engage in CSR. PLS-SEM was used to analyse the respondents. The findings confirmed to have a significant impact for every factor and the intention, intention and the owner's or manager's behaviour which reflected in the firm's performance. While for CSR activities and corporate performance has been found to be moderate by firm size. The result of this study is one of the few to empirically examine each of the TPB variables in CSR participation, supporting the paradigm proposed by Azjen

Teori Berkaitan Gaya Pembelajaran Dan Kaedah Pengajaran

Gaya pembelajaran terdiri daripada empat lapis iaitu model sahsiah, model pemprosesan maklumat, model interaksi sosial dan model medium pembelajaran yang disukai. Kaedah pengajaran ialah satu siri tindakan guru yang sistematik untuk mencapai objektif pengajaran dalam jangka pendek. Sesuatu kaedah pengajaran yang diaplikasikan oleh guru dalam pengajaran adalah berkaitan dengan pendekatan dan teori tertentu

Hubungan Antara Gaya Pembelajaran Dan Kaedah Pengajaran Pencapaian Mata Pelajaran Pengajian Kejuruteraan Awam Di Sekolah Menengah Teknik Negeri Sembilan

ABSTRAK: Kajian deskriptif ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara gaya pembelajaran pelajar dan kaedah pengajaran guru yang diamalkan terhadap pencapaian mata pelajaran PKA di tiga buah Sekolah Menengah Teknik di Negeri Sembilan. Responden kajian melibatkan 180 orang pelajar dan borang soal selidik telah digunakan sebagai instrumen kajian. Soal selidik ini mengandungi dua bahagian iaitu Bahagian A tujuh soalan berkaitan dengan Latar Belakang Responden dan Bahagian B mengandungi 36 item berkaitan dengan tiga jenis gaya pembelajaran dan dua jenis kaedah pengajaran. Nilai Alpha keseluruhan bagi soalan di dalam soal selidik ialah 0.844 dan menunjukkan kebolehpercayaan soalan yang tinggi. Data dianalisis menggunakan perisisian SPSS 15 iaitu Statistical Package for the Social Science yang digunakan bagi mendapatkan frekuensi, peratus, dan min yang kemudian akan ditunjukkan dalam bentuk jadual. Dapatan kajian yang diperolehi menunjukkan gaya pembelajaran auditori adalah gaya pembelajaran yang paling dominan yang diamalkan oleh responden manakala kaedah demonstrasi merupakan kaedah pengajaran yang paling dominan diamalkan oleh guru. Dalam kajian ini, didapati tidak terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara gaya pembelajaran visual dan kinestetik dengan pencapaian mata pelajaran PKA manakala terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara gaya pembelajaran auditori dengan pencapaian mata pelajaran PKA. Bagi analisis hubungan antara kaedah pengajaran dan gaya pembelajaran pula wujud hubungan yang signifikan di antara kedua-duanya. Kajian ini mencadangkan kajian lanjutan bagi melihat keberkesanan kaedah pengajaran guru yang perlu dilakukan untuk mendapatkan maklumat yang lebih tepat bagi mengatasi masalah pencapaian pelajar.

Employee Perception of Information Sharing on Supply Chain Performance

The telecommunication industry holds an immense share in Malaysian economic activities. This study aimed to determine the relationship between information sharing and supply chain performance, as well as whether this relationship is mediated by logistics integration. The study was conducted among 361 respondents from 21 Malaysian telecommunication firms in Malaysia by applying a structural equation modelling with SmartPLS. Findings revealed information sharing associated with supply chain performance. Logistics integration mediated the relationship between information sharing and supply chain performance. The study has implications for practitioners in the decision-making process of supply chain procedures in the telecommunications industry

Simple and sensitive electrokinetic supercharging in capillary electrophoresis for online preconcentration and separation of secbumeton in water samples

This study describes an electrokinetic supercharging for online preconcentration capillary electrophoresis (CE) technique of secbumeton in water samples. Important CE separation and preconcentration conditions, such as concentration and pH of the background electrolyte, applied voltage and ultraviolet wavelength, type and injection time of the terminating electrolyte, and injection time of the leading electrolyte and sample were investigated and optimized. The optimum conditions involved hydrodynamic injection of leading electrolyte (100 mM sodium chloride, 30 s, 50 mbar), electrokinetic injection of the sample as high as 250 s (at +7 kV voltage), and hydrodynamic injection of terminating electrol7te (100 mM Tris buffer, 40 s, 50 mbar). This strategy enhanced secbumeton detection sensitivity up to 3847-fold and 226-fold when compared with hydrodynamic and electrokinetic injection, respectively, providing a limit of detection as low as 0.03 μg L-1with good repeatability (relative standard deviation < 4%, n = 5). Wide linear range (0.1-500 μg L-1) with good linearity (R2= 0.9997) was obtained. The limit of detection was adequate for the analysis of secbumeton in water samples with concentrations lower than its maximum residual limit (0.1 μg L-1). The developed method was applied to environmental water samples, and recoveries were between 85.7 and 105.6%

Field-amplified sample injection-capillary zone electrophoresis method for the analysis of 5-fluorouracil anticancer drug

Field-amplified sample injection-capillary zone electrophoresis (FASI-CZE) method was developed to enhance the detection sensitivity of anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). The analyte was introduced electrokinetically for 5 s into a capillary loaded with highly conductive background electrolyte (BGE). The injected analyte migrated in negative polarity, reducing separation time to 5 minutes as compared to positive polarity in hydrodynamic injection-CZE (18 minutes). FASI-CZE was optimized based on three parameters: Sample injection time (5 s, 10 s, and 40 s), BGE concentration in sample (3 mM, 5 mM, and 10 mM) and BGE concentration (15 mM and 25 mM). Optimization of FASI-CZE was conducted to achieve optimal conditions as followed: 15 mM borate BGE containing 0.1% w/v hexadimethrine bromide (HDMB), 5-FU and 5-BrU (IS) prepared in 5 mM diluted BGE, 20% v/v organic modifier in mixture sample was injected at-5 kV for 5 s. The separation was conducted using-25 kV and detected at the wavelength of 234 nm in diode array detection (DAD). The precision was reasonable; %RSD 4.43% at low concentration levels (5 mg/L). The LOD value was 0.24 mg/L when applied with FASI as compared to 0.58 mg/L using HDI-CZE. The sensitivity enhancement factor (SEF) was almost 3 times higher than HDI-CZE at positive polarity, showing that the proposed of FASI-CZE approach is appropriate for the study of 5-FU at trace level

Induced sample via transient isotachophoresis mediated with sweeping in micellar electrokinetic chromatography for the dual-stacking strategy of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in environmental water samples

Realising the need to devise a simple, sensitive, and reliable detection method, this study investigated the development of a dual-stacking transient isotachophoresis (t-ITP) and sweeping in micellar electrokinetic chromatography with diode array detector (t-ITP/sweeping-MEKC-DAD) for the determination of selected non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs); ketoprofen, diclofenac and naproxen from aqueous matrices. Prior to the system setup, various parameters were optimised to assess the potential use of the t-ITP paired with the sweeping stacking technique in micellar background electrolyte for dual preconcentration and separation of trace amounts of NSAIDs. Once the optimum conditions have been established, the method performance was validated and applied to 17 environmental water samples. Based on the results, the combined t-ITP and sweeping approach significantly improved the stacking and separation sensitivity. A large volume of samples could also be introduced and subsequently separated by MEKC with greater focusing effects due to the sweeping. Under optimised conditions, the developed method exhibited excellent linearity at a high range (0.1–500 ng/mL, r2 ≥ 0.998), low limits of detection (LODs) of 0.01–0.07 ng/mL, and a remarkable relative recovery (RR) of 99.6–101.9% with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of 1.4–8.6% (n = 9). Ultimately, the sensitivity enhancement factors improved up to 666-fold using the optimised method. Therefore, the proposed method presents a simplified yet effective and suitable for the determination of NSAIDs from aqueous matrices