The Confidence Level of Purchasing Product With Halal Logo Among Consumers

This study is about the discoveries on the confidence intention on food product with the Halal logo in Malaysia especially toward teacher in the area Changlon, Kedah. In today's modern world, consumer's lifestyle has emerged especially in attitude and subjective norm of consuming food product with Halal certification and Halal logo. This situation has occurred because people are beginning to be aware of the importance of consuming and purchasing healthy and food safety in their daily life. A naturally clean, food safety and good healthy food is important as there are a lot of the ordinary foods that are mostly prepared with the use of unsafe additives, preservatives, flavor, and coloring. The study aims to identify factor such as religious, safety food, health consciousness, knowledge, perceived value, and its impact towards the customer confidence intention. The study uses correlation and regression frequency of analysis. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed and just 148 questioners returned.The finding of the study indicated that out of five factors (religiousness, health consciousness,perceived value, food safety and, knowledge), three factors food safety, religiousness, and health consciousness) influenced the customer confidence intention. While the factors of knowledge and perceived value does not have a strong relationship to influence the purchase of food products with the halal logo

Factors influencing worker preference toward employment in private sector a case study at Pengkalan Chepa Industrial Area / Omar Farruqi Che Harun

This study is aimed to identify the best factor that influencing worker preference toward employment in private sector. The study was conducted among worker at Pengkalan Chepa Industrial Area, Kelantan. The main objectives of this study are to identify the factors influencing worker preference toward employment in private sector and to determine the relationship between the worker preference with the wages of the job, employee benefits, and level of education. The sample of the study was workers in companies at Pengkalan Chepa Industrial Area, Kelantan. The questionnaires consisted five sections which are question of worker preference, question of wages, question of employee benefit and question of level of education. The researcher distributed 100 sets of questionnaires to the respondents and only 80 sets that the researcher gets back. From the analysis by using SPSS, the researcher can conclude that the objectives of the research which are to identify the factors influencing worker preference toward employment in private sector and to determine the relationship between the worker preferences with the wages, employee benefits and level of education were accomplished. From the data finding also, the researcher was answered the research question which are what are the factors influencing worker preference toward employment in private sector and Is there any relationship between worker preference with the wages, employee benefit and level of education. Lastly, the factor influencing worker preference toward employment in private are wages, employee benefits, and level of education at Pengkalan Chepa Industrial Are

Website service quality, perceived value, trust, convenience and customer loyalty of online shopping

As the Internet has matured, there has been a huge growth in the volume and value of online transaction. Furthermore, it becomes a common channel for delivering and trading of information, products and services at global marketplace. Even though this method of business exchange or transaction has started to win the hearts of Malaysian users, the main elements influencing the willingness and retentions to purchase online are still unknown. Thus the objectives of this study is to identify the relationship between customer loyalty with other independent variables such as website service quality, perceived value, trust and convenience in online shopping transactions A total of 200 academic lecturers in Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah were responding to this study Further, Statistical Package software for Social Science (SPSS) Version 20.0 was used to analyze the collected data. Descriptive statistic, factor analysis and correlation were applied to this study The results of this study were clearly shown that the independent variables (website service quality, perceived value, trust and convenience) had positive impact on dependent variable (customer loyalty in online shopping). It is suggested for future research to conduct this type of research and to be extended to any other countries in order to determine consumer pattern in online shopping behavior. Moreover, future research also should focus on differentiation of consumer's behavior in term of products, websites also the industrie

Mimicking the human olfactory system: a portable e-­mucosa

The study of electronic noses has been an active area of research for over 25 years. Commercial instruments have been successfully deployed within niche application areas, for example, the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. However, these instruments are still inferior to their human counterparts and have not achieved mainstream success. Humans can distinguish and identify many thousands of different aromas, even at very low concentration levels, with relative ease. The human olfactory system is extremely sophisticated, which allows it to out-­perform artificial instruments. Though limited, artificial instruments can provide a lower cost option to specific problems and can be an alternative to the use of organoleptic panels. Most existing commercial electronic nose (e-­nose) instruments are expensive, bulky, desktop units, requiring a PC to operate. In addition, these instruments usually require a trained operator to gather and analyse the data. Motivated to improve the performance, size and cost of e-­nose instruments, this research aims to extract biological principles from the mammalian olfactory system to aid the implementation of a portable e-­nose instrument. This study has focused on several features of the biological system that may provide the key to its superior performance. Specifically, the large number of different olfactory receptors and the diversity of these receptors; the nasal chromatograph effect; stereo olfaction; sniff rate and odour conditioning. Based on these features, a novel, portable, cost effective instrument, called the Portable e-­Mucosa (PeM), has been designed, implemented and tested. The main components of the PeM are three sensor arrays each containing 200 carbon black composite chemoresistive sensors (totalling 600 sensors with 24 different tunings) mimicking the large number of olfactory receptors and two gas chromatographic columns (coated with non-­polar and polar compounds to maximise the discrimination) emulating the “nasal chromatograph” effect of the human mucus. A preconcentrator based on thermal desorption is also included as an odour collection system to further improve the instrument. The PeM provides USB and Multimedia Memory Card support for easy communication with a PC. The instrument weighs 700g and, with dimensions of 110 x 210 x 110 mm, is slightly larger than the commercial Cyranose 320 (produced by Smiths Detection). This novel instrument generates ‘spatio-­temporal’ data and when coupled with an appropriate pattern recognition algorithm, has shown an enhanced ability to discriminate between odours. The instrument successfully discriminates between simple odours (ethanol, ethyl acetate and acetone) and more complex odours (lavender, ylang ylang, cinnamon and lemon grass essential oils). This system can perhaps be seen as a foundation for a new generation of e-noses

Modeling and Simulation of Temperature Generated on Workpiece and Chip Formation in Orthogonal Machining

Experimental investigation in machining operation for the temperature generated on workpiece, chip formation and cutting tool are difficult, time consuming and costly to carry out. Machining simulation using FEM software is an alternative. This paper presents a simulation study of temperature generated on workpiece and chip formation for various combinations of tool geometries (rake angle and clearance angle). Ductile cast iron FCD500 grade was used as material workpiece, and uncoated carbide tools with code number DNMA432 were used as cutting tool. Twelve designs of carbide cutting tools with various combination of rake angle (15, 20, and 30 deg) and clearance angle (5, 7, 8 and 9 deg) were designed. The nose radius of the cutting tool was kept constant at 0.4 mm. Machining parameters of cutting speed, feed rate and dept of cut (DOC) were kept constant at 200 m/min, 0.35 mm/rev and 3 mm respectively. Using a commercial software package Deform-3D, twelve orthogonal machining simulations were carried out to analyze the effect of tool geometries on temperature generated and chip formation. The results show that by increasing the rake angle, the machining performance is improved due to the low temperature generated on the machined surface, as well as low cutting force, stress, and strain. On the other hand, increasing/decreasing the clearance angle, does not significantly affected the cutting force, stress, and strain, consequently it does not affected the temperature generated. For the chip formation, the highest temperature occurred in the sliding region due to the work piece material adheres to the cutting tool and shear occurs within the chip, the frictional force is very high; consequently heat is generated from this sticking regio

Prediction of Turning Performance in Various Machining Parameter Using FEM

In recent years, the applications of finite element method (FEM) in metal cutting operations have proved to be effective in studying the cutting process and manufacturing process. The simulation result is useful for both researchers and tool makers to optimize the cutting process by designing new tools. Simulation and modelling were performed in two-dimensional and threedimensional for designing the new component prior to fabricating. These are very useful for reducing time and cost consumption in designing automotive parts. The FEM simulation just only requires computational tool and FEM simulation package. The present work aims to predict of performance three-dimensional orthogonal of cutting operations using FEM software (Deform-3D). Some important information such as cutting force, stress, strain and generated temperature during machining process were studied and analysed. Orthogonal cutting simulations were conducted to study the effect of cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut on the cutting force, the effective-stress, strain and generated temperature in turning process. FCD 500 (ductile cast iron) was used as the work material and cutting tool was DNMA 432 (uncoated carbide tool, SCEA = 0; BR = -5; SR = -5 and radius angle 55o). The cutting parameters varied were cutting speed (100 m/min, 150 m/min and 200 m/min), feed rate (0.1, 0.25 and 0.4 mm/rev), and depth of cut (DOC) (0.3, 0.6 and 0.9 mm). The performance was showed by the simulation results that show by increasing the cutting speed, it causes decreasing in cutting force, effective stress and strain, but the generated temperature during the chip formation process increases. High value of feed rate resulted in bigger cutting force, stress, strain and generated temperature. In addition, bigger cutting force and high generated temperature occurred at high depth of cut

Machining Simulation of AISI 1045 and Carbide Tool Using FEM

In recent years, the applications of finite element method (FEM) in metal cutting operations have proved to be effective in studying the cutting process and chip formation. In particular, the simulation results can be used for both researchers and machine tool makers to optimize the cutting process and designing new tools. Many researches were done on two-dimensional simulation of cutting process because the three-dimensional versions of FEM software required more computational time. The present work aims to simulate three-dimensional orthogonal cutting operations using FEM software of Deform-3D. Orthogonal cutting finite element model simulations were conducted to study the effect of cutting speed on effective-stress, strain and temperature in turning process. AISI 1045 was used as work material and cutting tool was TNMA 332 (uncoated carbide tool, SCEA = 0; BR = -5; SR = -5 and radius angle 60o). The emphasis on the designed geometries are limited to the changes in the cutting speed between 100 m/min and 450 m/min. The machining parameters of feed rate and depth of cut were kept constant at 0.35 mm/rev and 0.3 mm respectively. The simulation results show that by increasing the cutting speed causes a decrease in cutting force and effective-strain. On the other hand, increasing in cutting speed will increase effective -strain and temperature of the chip formed

Study on machinability effect of surface roughness in milling kenaf fiber reinforced plastic composite (unidirectional) using response surface methodology

The surface roughness factor (Ra) of a milled kenaf reinforced plastic are depending on the milling parameters (spindle speed, feed rate and depth of cut). Therefore, a study was carried out to investigate the relationship between the milling parameters and their effects on a kenaf reinforced plastic. The composite panels were fabricated using vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) method. A full factorial design of experiments was used as an initial step to screen the significance of the parameters on the defects using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). If the curvature of the collected data shows significant, Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is then applied for obtaining a quadratic modelling equation which has more reliable in expressing the optimization. Thus, the objective of this research is obtaining an optimum setting of milling parameters and modelling equations to minimize the surface roughness factor (Ra) of milled kenaf reinforced plastic. The spindle speed and feed rate contributed the most in affecting the surface roughness factor (Ra) of the kenaf composite

Application of FEM in Investigating Machining Performance

The two biggest problems that often experienced in machining cast iron are poor machinability and high hardness. Up to now, many researchers have investigated machining performance and how to find optimum condition in machining ductile cast iron. This study aims to investigate the machining performance of ductile cast iron and carbide cutting tool using FEM. Performances were evaluated by changing the cutting tool geometries on the machining responses of cutting force, stress, strain, and generated temperature on the workpiece. Deform-3D commercial finite element software was used in this study. Ductile cast iron FCD 500 grade was used as the work piece material and carbide insert DNMA432 type with WC (Tungsten) was used for the cutting tool. The effects of rake and clearance angles were investigated by designing various tool geometries. Various combination of carbide insert geometries were designed using Solid Work to produce +15, +20 and +30 deg for rake angle and 5, 7, 8 and 9 deg for clearance angle. Machining condition for the simulations were remained constant at cutting speed of 200 m/min, feed rate of 0.35 mm/rev, and depth of cut of 0.3 mm. The results of effective-stress, strain and generated temperature on both chip and material surface were analysed. The results show that by increasing the rake angle (α), it will improves the machining performance by reducing the cutting force, stress, strain and generated temperature on surface of workpiece. But, by increasing the clearance angle (γ), it will not affect much to the cutting force, stress, strain and generated temperature on chip

Roles of zakat to eradicate poverty: A case study among poor and needy asnaf in Kuala Lipis / Che Haiqal Farhan Che Harun

The purpose of this research is to identify the role of the zakat to eradicate poverty among the zakat récipients from the needy and poor in Kuala Lipis, Pahang. Although the zakat collection statistic in increasing in each year and eradicate poverty programs carried out yet the poverty phenomena still in existence. The Islamic Council of Pahang (MUIP) which is responsible in superintending the welfare of the muslim and in preparing various subsidiary schemes to ensure that the poor are aided seemly. The main concern is whether the effective steps taken in decreasing poverty is totally eradicated. Therefore this research is to try to analyze whether aid of zakat can accommodate in asnaf expenses. The population of this research among zakat receipents under the poor and needy asnaf. 60% of the total population has been selected as research sample through purposive sampling technique (Gay,1992). 30 samples which include the village of Kg.Dusun, Kg.Kuala Kechau, Kg.Kuala Lanar and Taman Muhibah Batu 4. To understand poverty the respondent profile are analyze by using the Descriptive Statistic method to explain the criteria of group that are enticed in poverty. The fînding shows four group that need attention with the intention of reducing poverty among the poor and needy asnaf. Resuit show that, the majority of respondents agree with the fact that the role of zakat on asnaf expenses can cover their monthly expenses, help them increase the cost of living or income and meet their basic needs. Then, from the findings show that service quality management zakat distribution unit MUIP is still not satisfactory. Hence, it is suggested that MUIP hâve to improve the distribution method, more visit and investigation asnaf and upholding institution of zakat in global field