Preferences for Halalan Toyyiban Retail Supply Chain Certification: A Case of Hypermarket

AbstractOne of the aspects that the grocery retailer needs to take into considerations while be able to serve its customers efficiently is by looking at the effectiveness of their store operations that deal with the issue of halalal toyyiban fulfilment. Issues such as whether the store offer halal products according to syariah; offer products that are imported from various different countries and obtained halal status as well as transit handling and authenticity of halal status of the products offered in the store are well documented; are all vulnerable and crucial for grocery retailer in order to keep their customers confidence at all time. As such, grocery retailer should consider a depth look at their retail supply chain activities. Grocery store operation that wants to be successful needs to have a leading operating model which complements with the need and wants of its customers. The study therefore concentrates in the utilization of MS2400 standards of retail halalan-toyyiban supply chain certification in the overall retail grocery store operations. It was observed that, the halalan-toyyiban concept is no longer confined to food only, but also covers the process of handling, packaging, storage, transporting and delivery. Helping grocery retailers specifically, hypermarket management to meet with their consumer's requirements and expectations will expand their marketplace and increase their sales and revenue. The current study therefore, seeks to explore the preferences of halalan-toyyiban retail supply chain certification among the hypermarket. Using purposively sampling technique, four hypermarkets were interviewed in the selective hypermarket in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. The results revealed that most selective hypermarket were somehow, not ready to embarking on the halalan toyyiban retail supply chain certification. Difficulties in getting information and supports from the hypermarket were among the main drawback of the study. This study is significant for both industry professionals and academician in order to gain information related to the issues of halalan toyyiban retail supply chain certification, thus helping the management in planning their halalan toyyiban retail supply chain certification as well as act as an added value to the hypermarket concern thus able to remain competitive in the market

An Evaluation of Cots-Based Radar for Very Small Drone Sense and Avoid Application

The use of very small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly common these days but its applications are limited to the pilot line-of-sight view. To extend its use beyond the pilot view, UAVs need to be equipped sense and avoid (SAA) system to avoid potential collisions. However, the development of SAA for very small drones is still in the infancy stage mainly due to the high cost of design and development for reliable range sensors. Recent developments of very small size and lightweight commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based radar systems may become a crucial element in very small drone applications. These types of radars are primarily developed for industrial sensing but can be adapted for applications such SAA. Thus, this paper contributes to the survey of a miniature and lightweight radar sensor to assist the SAA development. The focus of this paper is to analyse the eligibility of a COTS-based radar in detecting very small drones. For this purpose, we used a frequency-modulated continuous radar (FMCW) developed by Infineon Technologies.  Field test results show the real-time capability of the radar sensor to detect the very small drones within ± 0.5 meters in static and dynamic conditions. &nbsp

Enhancing classroom engagement through padlet as a learning tool: a case study

Activities conducted in classrooms are important to acquire students’ understanding and participation in a learning environment. Some of perceived barriers that prevent students to participate in classroom activities include difficulty to speak, shy, fear to interact or provide comments. This paper focuses on using Padlet for e-learning and presents the activities of engaging and stimulating students in active learning. This is one way of how instructors can obtain information from each student by encouraging participation. The research employs quantitative approach. A semi-structured questionnaire was distributed among 39 postgraduate students who enrolled in the Business Statistics for Data Science course. Factors such as motivation, active learning, collaboration, learning opportunity, usefulness, ease of use, and satisfaction were used to measure their engagement. The findings show that active learning through Padlet has a significant effect on improving students’ engagement in classroom activities

A study of vehicle routing problem via trade-off ranking method

Vehicle routing defines selecting the minimum cost, distance, and/or time path from a depot to several alternatives for a goods or service to reach its destination. The objective of most routing problem is to minimize the total cost of providing the service. But other objectives also may come into play, particularly in the public sector. For emergency services, such as ambulance, police, and fire engine, minimizing the response time to an incident is of primary importance. A few routing algorithms do not use a deterministic algorithm to find the "best" route for a goods to get from its original source to its destination. Instead, to avoid congestion, a few algorithms use a randomized algorithm that routes a path to a randomly picked intermediate destination, and from there to its true destination. In this paper, the trade-off ranking method is used to solve for the vehicle routing treated as a conflicting multi-criteria problem. The integration of the trade-off ranking method into the vehicle routing problem gives another perspective on how to solve the problem, hence broadened the decision support system for the vehicle routing problem

Proposed model of students acceptance of massive open online courses

The importance of using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a source of learning can be clearly seen from the increase of the number of universities that have chosen to use them to offer courses to their students. While many efforts have been made in the studies of MOOCs, the understanding of people's behaviour and intent is a key issue in MOOCs. This study aims to identify the factors that will influence the students and learners behavioural intention to accept MOOCs. This research will compare the existing UTAUT2 model as the theoretical framework which is used to investigate the factors that influence user acceptance. Finally, this article proposed a model to support the behavioural intention of using MOOCs by integrating the educational value construct. Using the proposed model, we can investigate which of the factors that affect the behavioural intention of using MOOCs have a significant influence on the student’s acceptance of MOOCs. The results can be helpful for universities and schools introducing MOOCs to their students in taking into consideration the factors for ensuring students are interested to participate and can benefit from the technology

User experience factors that influence users’ satisfaction of using digital library

Digital library is one of the services that is provided by academic institutions. In any product, service or application, user experience (UX) is an important indicator of the service quality which relates to user satisfaction. The aim of this paper is to propose the UX factors that influence users’ satisfaction of using digital library. Literature review has been used to identify the factors and the research model had been developed. For this study, factors that has been identified through literature review were selected as the factors that influence users’ experience of using digital library which are attractiveness, efficiency, dependability, stimulation, and novelty

The driven factors on new electronic commerce adoption by Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in Klang Valley / Nur Atiqah Zainuddin...[et.al]

In transforming into digitalization economy, the electronic commerce or e-commerce had embarked to the new business methods. It is the most important tool in business market especially in digital online marketing. It’s create more competitive in marketing strategies among the business player around the world and this study focusing on Small Medium Enterprise formerly SME. Currently, SME industry players was recorded in increasing trends and the largest business participation to the country’s performance including Malaysia. E-commerce is among the best and easy tool by SME with the role to expand their business, and meet the invisible customer across how far the customer’s location, time and place. It is very convenient also to customers do shopping through online. The intention of this study are to determine the driven factors on e-commerce adoption by SME in Klang Valley and to identify the most influential factor on e-commerce adoption. A conceptual framework comprises of five factors that are relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, top management support and knowledge and resources constraint is being taken from variables for research. Multiple regression analysis generated is being carried out to test hypothesis and to establish the causal effect of relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, top management support and knowledge and resources constraint towards adoption of e-commerce. The result shows that relative advantage, compatibility, and top management support and knowledge have significant and positive impact on adoption of e-commerce. Therefore, this study concluded that the relative advantage, compatibility, top management support and knowledge has significant strong relationship with adoption of e-commerce. Meanwhile, complexity and resources constraint are found not statistically significant in affecting the adoption of e-commerce. Compatibility factor is found to be the most significant factor in affecting e-commerce adoption of SMEs. Therefore, the government should take initiatives and pay more attention to promote e-commerce among SME because SME has potential market growth and high contribution for economic development in Malaysia

An evaluation of cots-based radar for very small drone sense and avoid application

The use of very small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly common these days but its applications are limited to the pilot line-of-sight view. To extend its use beyond the pilot view, UAVs need to be equipped sense and avoid (SAA) system to avoid potential collisions. However, the development of SAA for very small drones is still in the infancy stage mainly due to the high cost of design and development for reliable range sensors. Recent developments of very small size and lightweight commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based radar systems may become a crucial element in very small drone applications. These types of radars are primarily developed for industrial sensing but can be adapted for applications such SAA. Thus, this paper contributes to the survey of a miniature and lightweight radar sensor to assist the SAA development. The focus of this paper is to analyse the eligibility of a COTS-based radar in detecting very small drones. For this purpose, we used a frequency-modulated continuous radar (FMCW) developed by Infineon Technologies. Field test results show the real-time capability of the radar sensor to detect the very small drones within ± 0.5 meters in static and dynamic conditions

Sequence Variation in Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) Inferred Using Partial Sequences of the Cytochrome b Segment of the Mitochondrial DNA

Comparison of 321 bp long mtDNA cytochrome b sequences of wild and captive Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)revealed low variation among the individuals investigated. Phylogenetic analyses using distance (neighbor-joining) analysis supported the monophyletic status of the Malayan tapir. Two haplotypes were identified out of 13 Malayan tapir analyzed

The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Using a teaching model framework, we systematically review empirical evidence on the impact of entrepreneurship education (EE) in higher education on a range of entrepreneurial outcomes, analyzing 159 published articles from 2004 to 2016. The teaching model framework allows us for the first time to start rigorously examining relationships between pedagogical methods and specific outcomes. Reconfirming past reviews and meta-analyses, we find that EE impact research still predominantly focuses on short-term and subjective outcome measures and tends to severely underdescribe the actual pedagogies being tested. Moreover, we use our review to provide an up-to-date and empirically rooted call for less obvious, yet greatly promising, new or underemphasized directions for future research on the impact of university-based entrepreneurship education. This includes, for example, the use of novel impact indicators related to emotion and mind-set, focus on the impact indicators related to the intention-to-behavior transition, and exploring the reasons for some contradictory findings in impact studies including person-, context-, and pedagogical model-specific moderator