Collaborative knowledge management system model in facilitating knowledge sharing among halal practitioners

Knowledge Management (KM) system is recognized as a tool for helping community of practice (CoP) such as the enforcement parties, the related producers or manufacturers, as well as the customers or users in capturing, storing, disseminating, and applying knowledge for their benefits in a collaborative environment. While, halal is an object or an action of the industry which is identified by applying Islamic knowledge in ensuring the goods as a product and the services are working based on the Islamic rules and according to sharia practice in the CoP daily life. In this context, there is a lack of the existing of Collaborative KM (CKM) as a system model of the CoP to facilitate halal practitioners as a standard mechanism to share knowledge especially that is related to promote the best practice or lesson learnt for the CoP’s purposes. Therefore, there is a need of a special mechanism in terms of CKM system (CKMS)model on how to manage halal knowledge as a system called CKMS application towards quality of services (QoS) based on its KM processes which are starting from knowledge acquisition, knowledge storage, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge application. Besides that, the system model of CKMS has been translated into a system prototype by using groupware software (i.e: Lotus Notes) which is evaluated based on its usability, accessibility, reliability, and security in supporting the CoP to work collaboratively anywhere, anytime and at any platform whether through desktop or mobile computing environment

Usability measurement of Malaysia online news websites.

The online newspapers entered the internet in the mid- nineties and since then it has become more and more common to read news online. There is a long tradition of designing newspaper in print but today there is a demand from both academics and practitioners for more knowledge about how to design a usability news sites. Usability is one of the major factors that determine the successfulness of a website. It is important therefore to have a comprehensive measurement method to assess the usability of websites. This research focuses on website usability issues and evaluating four Malaysia's online news: The Star, The New Straits Times, Berita Harian and Utusan Malaysia. Based on literature research, a 24 questions evaluation questionnaire has been formulated, which break into four parts in order to evaluate the usability of their online news websites. A non-probability sampling of 80 frequent online news readers were selected as respondents for this study purposes. The results of analysis show the good and bad usability aspects of their website. Result also shows that New Straits Time news website obtained the highest satisfaction from the participants. Respective website designers and developers can improve their websites based on these results

Delayed versus early appendicectomy in adult patients with acute appendicitis: a retrospective study in Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Terengganu

Introduction: One of the commonest intraabdominal diseases is acute appendicitis and requiring emergency surgery. Delaying appendectomy and treated medically did not show any increasing morbidity. Aim: This study compared the association and outcomes adult patients with acute appendicitis between delayed appendicectomy and early appendicectomy Method: This is a retrospective study of adult patients with acute appendicitis who underwent appendicectomy between 1st January 2012 and 31st December 2012 in Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Kuala Terengganu. The patients were divided into two groups according to the time of surgery after admission. The early group underwent appendicectomy done within 24 hours of admission and delayed group appendicectomy after 24 hours. These data included demographic, operative characteristic, clinical presentation, laboratory results, Alvarado score, histopathology result, days of meal, length hospital stay, duration of intravenous antibiotic, duration of the operation and postoperative complications were evaluated and compared. Results: A total of 536 patients in this study but only 436 patients were included in the study. There were 290 patients in the early group and 146 in the delayed group. There were no significant differences in clinical presentation except in rebound tenderness and guarding with highly significant in early group 31.7% (p=0.002) and 19% (p=0.02), respectively. The laboratory result, leukocytosis was highly significant in the early group 79% compared to 67.8% in the delayed group but there was no significant difference in graph shift to the left. The Alvarado score was significantly different between groups which were 48.6% and 37%, respectively in score more than 7. There were no significant differences in histopathology results between two groups. There were significant differences in days started meal, length of hospital stay, duration of intravenous antibiotic and duration of the operation with mean 1.18 days, 2.92 days, 1.97 days and 47.65 minutes, respectively in delayed group (p<0.05). Compared to early group mean 1.07, 2.26, 1.30 and 42.29, respectively. There were no significant differences in postoperative complications. Conclusion: Performing delayed appendicectomy after 24 hours from admission does not increase the complications rate and increase progression of the disease. However, delayed appendicectomy increases the days started meal, length of hospital stay, duration of intravenous antibiotic and duration of the operation

Kepuasan Kerja Pensyarah Diploma Perguruan Malaysia di Maktab Perguruan Islam Bangi

Kajian ini bertujuan mengetahui kepuasan kerja pensyarah Diploma Perguruan Malaysia (DPM) di Maktab Perguruan Islam (MPI) yang terlibat mengajar secara langsung dalam lima jabatan. Tiga jabatan adalah dari bidang agama atau major satu dan dua jabatan dari bidang bukan agama atau major kedua. Responden adalah satu populasi 62 orang pensyarah. Kajian ini dijalankan melalui soal selidik The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionare (MSQ). Soal selidik tersebut dibahagikan kepada latar belakang dan aspek-aspek kerja yang mempunyai kaitan dengan profesion mereka. Aspek-aspek kerj a dibahagikan kepada 14 dimensi dengan tiap-tiap dimensi mengandungi 5 soalan. Data kaj ian dianalisis melalui program SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) untuk mendapatkan kekerapan, peratus, min, sisihan piawai dan ujian t. Keputusan kajian menunj ukkan pensyarah DPM MPI kurang berpuas hati dengan pekerj aan mereka. Mereka kurang puas hati dalam keseluruhan 14 dimensi yang dikaji. Mereka hanya puas hati dalam 4 aspek kerja iaitu 2 dari dimensi pencapaian dan masing-masing satu dari dimensi pekerj aan itu sendiri dan hubungan antara individu. Pensyarah bidang agama lebih berpuas hati berbanding dengan pensyarah bukan bidang agama dalam semua empat belas dimensi. Sungguhpun begitu, terdapat dua dimensi, iaitu dimensi keadaan kerj a dan jaminan kerja mereka sarna-sarna tidak puas hati. Terdapat h ubungan yang signifikan tetapi negatif antara latarbelakang pendidikan dengan dimensi keadaan kerja dan jaminan kerja. Manakala aspek umur dengan keadaan kerja mempunyai perkaitan signifikan yang positif. Antara dimensi faktor Pendorong yang mendapat min tertinggi ialah dimensi pencapaian dan yang terendah ialah dimensi peningkatan kerja. Antara dimensi faktor Higien pula kehidupan peribadi mendapat min tertinggi, manakala dasar organisasi dan pentadbiran mendapat min terendah. Kajian ini juga tidak menyokong pendapat Herzberg yang mengatakan kepuasan kerja dipengaruhi oleh faktor Pendorong, sementara ketidakpuasan kerja dipengaruhi oleh faktor Higien. Kajian ini mendapati kedua-dua faktor tersebut tidak mempengaruhi kepuasan kerja mereka

Analysis of the Transformational Leadership of the Head of the Inpatient Room and its Relationship with Nurse Compliance in Implementing Nursing Care Standards at Labuang Baji Regional Hospital Makassar

The aim is to determine the relationship between the Transformational Leadership of the Head of the Inpatient Room and Nurse Compliance in Implementing Nursing Service Standards at Labuang Baji Regional Hospital, Makassar. &nbsp;This type of research is analytical descriptive and correlational with a quantitative approach. From the results of this research, it was found that there was a significant but weak relationship between the transformational leadership of the head of the inpatient room and nurses' compliance in implementing SAK

Web-based knowledge management model for managing and sharing green knowledge of software development in community of practice

Emerging awareness of sustainability matters urge the people go for green computing as solution to the environmental problems. There were a lot of previous researches studied about hardware solution, and only few papers that focused on green software area. However, there is lacking of research that discusses about how to implement knowledge management method to manage the green knowledge of software development. As we know that software development is an important role in supporting the IT community, hence the unmanaged green knowledge of software development will lead to the problem of unable to meet both the environmental and business demands to the community. Therefore, this research will focus on proposing a model that applies web-based knowledge management system to manage and share the green knowledge of software development among the members of community of practice in software development environment

Knowledge Management best practice in higher learning institution: a systematic literature review

This systematic literature review (SLR) aims to identify the Knowledge Management (KM) Best Practice components in the KM Model proposal for Higher Learning Institutions (HLI) environment. The KM Best Practice components identified from this paper will be referring in the future study to verify the effectiveness of the components to be the best practice for KM. A SLR of KM Best Practice to identify and define the components of Best Practice from the KM models was conducted recently. 179 articles included in the literature review were extracted based on the exclusion criteria and only retained 71 related reviews. The review of published papers of conference and journals’ articles shows the components of Best Practice in KM are basically divided into two aspects which is the soft aspect and the hard aspect. The literature evidence the lacks of combination of these two aspects into an integrated model decelerate KM Best Practice to fully throttle in the organization. The scenario leads to the immaturity of the HLI towards the implementation of KM System. The first steps of identifying the attributes to measure the components from the models in the literature will led to the definition of the KM Best Practice component for the higher learning environment as concluded in this Systematic Literature Review

The Effectiveness of the Water Tepid Sponge to Decrease the Body Temperature in Children With Febrile Seizure

Abstract Background: Fever belongs to one of the triggers that resulted in febrile seizures. One of the actions of the non-pharmacological can be given to lower the body temperature in children with febrile seizure is the act of water tepid sponge. Purpose: this literature Review aims to analyze the effect of the adoption of the act water tepid sponge to decrease the body temperature in children who experienced febrile seizures. Methods: this Study explores quantitative evidence, published in electronic database such as Pubmed, Google Scholar, and Science Direct. With the use of search strategies, the researcher identified 39 articles that are potentially relevant to the purpose of the research, and 1 article included in the final analysis. Results: We can see a significant effect of decrease in body temperature in the group given the intervention water tepid sponge than a group of warm compresses. Conclusion: this Study shows that the actions of the water tepid sponge effective in lowering body temperature in children with febrile seizure. Keyword : Body temperature; Febrile seizures; Water tepid sponge

Developing knowledge factory system as a best practice platform in software process environment

Knowledge’ is one of the main outcomes systematic approaches of software engineering. It is considered as a crucial resource of each organization and, therefore, needs to be managed carefully especially for the software development process and the roles involved in each phase. The effectiveness application of software engineering relies on experiences, and organizations need to capitalize on their experiences by capturing and reusing them. In all approaches of experience reuse, repositories play a central role in enhancing the knowledge in experience transfer of process knowledge between projects. Like in a factory beside the production there are the people who produce. Experiences should not be stored on a dusty shelf, but engineered into best practices and processes that could be guidance to all roles in the software project especially for the developer. This paper presents the approach to the implementation of the project knowledge based on software development life cycle.It also describe on how the knowledge factory solution can be used as a decision support system for software project managers in day-to-day development activities. The paper concludes with an evaluation of our approach to date and a description of future research directions

Utilizing usability evaluating model in applying CMM to improve.

Maintenance plays an important role in the life cycle of a software product. It is estimated that there are more than 100 billion lines of code in production in the world. As much as 80% of it is unstructured, patched and not well documented. Maintenance can alleviate these problems. The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to improve the quality of software maintenance process (SMP). The architecture of the CMM model has been retained almost as is while its content, which was specific to the development process, has been either modified or extende d to take into account the characteristics specified to the maintenance function, these characteristics were th en organized into key process areas (KPAs) of CMM model. This paper applied the definition of (ISO 9241-1 1, 1998) that examines effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction. The emphasis will be given to the SMP activitie