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Sustainable Development Concepts as a Response to Expectations of Modern Business Management
Authors: Filatova D.V. , Fedorenko R.V.
Published: November 2019

The interactions among individual economic agents require some regulations to hedge the risk of business activity. This paper examines the general equilibrium theory, backgrounds of system analysis and optimal control to show that these regulations present the mechanism of balanced management of economic processes at various economic level (enterprise, region, country). The study shows that sustainable development is self-regulatory and adaptive effort to remain on the market under the condition of reliable cooperation. Furthermore, by investigating the hierarchy of the business management systems, the conceptual and mathematical models of the mechanism for sustainable development are built and illustrated.
Social and Economic Factors of Sports Activity in Russian Regions
Authors: Kramin T.V. , Miftahov M.R. , Andreff W. , Eroshkina S.B.
Published: November 2019

In this study, the key factors of sports activity in the Russian regions were identified and substantiated. The regional panel data for the period 2007–2017 was used as data for the study. It is shown that traditional material factors are highly significant in models for assessing the level of sports activity in the Russian regions. These include, in particular, the following indicators: the one-time carrying capacity of sports facilities, the per capita expenditures for physical culture and sports development, the number of sports facilities per 100 thousand people, the number of full-time physical culture and sports personnel per capita. Consequently, forecasting based on them will give a stable and reliable result.

Along with the evidence of the significance of the material factors of sports activity, a justification of the influence of a number of intangible, institutional factors is given. Such factors include the awareness about the benefits of systematic physical education and sports, institutions of public encouragement and support for those involved in sports and physical culture, etc.
Corporate Governance Modernization: Legal Trends and Challenges
Authors: Tokmakov M.A.
Published: November 2019

Development of digital technology opens up new opportunities for corporate governance. At the same time, modern law faces a difficult task – to find a balance between creating conditions for development of technologies including by means of non-interference, and providing the stakeholders in corporate governance with proper legal guarantees. This paper considers the impact of some of the most significant digital technologies on corporate governance, such as distributed ledger technology, smart contracts and artificial intelligence. There are certain legal trends and challenges arising from such innovations including the pursuance of sociability, peer-to-peer and decentralization of corporate governance which in many cases is associated with abolishing of bodies (of a part of bodies) for a corporation management, or transferring their powers (a part of powers) to the corporation members and/or to a computer program (artificial intelligence, algorithm, smart contract). Besides, the paper considers occurrences of new subject of corporate relations – crypto-assets (tokens) holders as well as the possibility for recognition of the legal personality of computer programs, in particular, decentralized autonomous organizations and artificial intelligence.
Developing Student’s Key Competencies through Cooperation with Enterprises
Authors: Dušek R.
Published: November 2019

The aim of this paper is to describe proposal of the two semester course inspired by project-based learning methods that could be applied to develop students‘ key competencies. Proposed method should be considered especially by university for business and economics, because its purpose is to integrate and develop competencies of final-year university students through working on specific projects in the areas of trade, marketing, economics or tourism. Project topics should be specified by various enterprises that are interested in cooperation with universities, so the course topics will be connected to business practice.
Current Trends in Innovative Development of Higher Education
Authors: Suraeva M.O. , Andreev O.S.
Published: November 2019

The relevance of the studied problem is due to questions of improving the trends in the innovative development of higher education, since the methodological level of its development does not fully reveal their essence. The analysis of conceptual views on this issue points to many arguments, which indicates a divergence of theoretical positions. The purpose of the article is to study the trends in the innovative development of higher education, the influence of higher education factors and other factors of innovative development in terms of economic growth.
Language Education in the Age of Globalization and Innovation
Authors: Dobrova V. , Labzina P. , Ageenko N. , Menshenina S.
Published: November 2019

Globalization and innovation have recently resulted in the extensive use of the latest technological products practically everywhere, and in education especially. Various technologies are now employed in different spheres of education. Virtual Reality (VR) is a global innovative technology with great potentials and enormous pedagogical possibilities that offers new methods and techniques for education. The main features of it are visibility, security, involvement, presence and focusing. It enables to combine the computer-generated virtual information and the real environment in real time. The presented VR language program is based on the concept of 3D modeling and semantic frame method.
Transforming with partner patients a program of preparation for bariatric surgery
Authors: Somers Florence , Correia Jorge , Blyweert Valérie , Jung Minoa , Pataky Zoltan , Golay Alain
Published: November 2019

Introduction: The current collective preparation program for obesity surgery is performed by an interdisciplinary team over four non-consecutive days. In order to optimize the delays of the program and to improve the educational offer a temporal condensation of this service in the proximity of the intervention was decided. The objective of this study is to describe the creation process of the new obesity surgery preparation program based on the needs of partner patients. Materials and methods: We conducted semi-structured focus groups with 50 patients over 3 successive stages of the surgical journey: at the beginning and end of the collective preparation and then 2 to 14 months after the surgery. The analysis crosses by theme the needs identified. Results and discussion: Our study allowed to authenticate a central need of sharing with witnesses, a need for information (medical, dietary, behavioral), and a need for longer-term projection (transformations, investment axes to support weight loss). Conclusion: The preparatory needs identified by the partner patients served as a guide for the transformation of the existing program. This experiment paves the way for a partnership with patients established and recognized by the institution of care in the evaluation process of this program.
Long-term follow-up in patients with gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) after treatment with endoscopic band ligation (EBL)
Authors: Eccles John , Falk Vanessa , Montano-Loza Aldo J. , Zepeda-Gómez Sergio
Published: November 2019

Background and study aims Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) is a capillary-type vascular malformation of the gastric antrum, usually diagnosed endoscopically in patients presenting with iron deficiency anemia or gastrointestinal bleeding. While there is established evidence for treatment with thermal modalities, such as argon plasma coagulation (APC) therapy, more recent studies have shown endoscopic band ligation (EBL) to be safe and effective in achieving remission. Our study aimed to evaluate long-term outcomes of patients with GAVE who underwent EBL at our institution.

Patients and methods We retrospectively reviewed data from 33 patients with GAVE who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy and EBL between September 2012 and July 2017 within our institution, looking primarily at clinical response, recurrence, and blood transfusion requirements.

Results Clinical response was achieved in 27 patients (81.8%). Among responders, recurrence-free survival decreased with time from 88 % at 1 year to 44 % at 2 years. Thirteen patients (48.1 %) had recurrence of GAVE at a mean time of 18.2 months (range 4.7 – 51.8). The only predictor of recurrence was greater number of pre-procedure blood transfusions.

Conclusion This is the first study to evaluate long-term response and recurrence in patients with GAVE after treatment with EBL and predictors of clinical response after initial endoscopic therapy have been identified. While we were able to demonstrate excellent remission achievement rates in our GAVE patients who had undergone EBL, close clinical follow-up is clearly required as almost 50 % will have recurrence at around 18 months.
Wir sind ratlos, wir wissen nicht weiter
Authors: Runge Laura Rebecca
Published: November 2019

Im 4. Teil unserer Serie geht es um einen älteren, erblindeten und depressiven Patienten, der sich gegenüber jeglichen Behandlungsansätzen verschließt. Außerdem neigt er aufgrund einer beginnenden Demenz zu aggressivem Verhalten – wegen seiner abnehmenden Selbstwirksamkeit, dem Gefühl des Alleinseins und einer Sprachbarriere kann er seine Angst nicht anders ausdrücken. Lesen Sie, wie das Pflegeteam es schafft, mithilfe der systemischen Fallbesprechung neue Perspektiven für sich und den Patienten zu entwickeln.
Psoriasisarthritis oder die Angst vor dem Bankencrash
Authors: Grunow Karl
Published: November 2019

Monatelang persistierende überwärmte Schwellungen der Fingergelenke als Lokalsymptom in Kombination mit bestehenden finanziellen Existenzängsten führten zur Findung des richtigen Arzneimittels. Die Schwellungen waren Ausdruck der Gelenkbeteiligung einer Psoriasis im Sinne einer Psoriasisarthritis. Das gegebene Arzneimittel Bryonia alba ist bekannt für seine Nähe zu den Synovialhäuten.
Six-Membered Cyclic Amidines as Efficient Catalysts for the Synthesis of Cyclic Dithiocarbonates from Carbon Disulfide and Epoxides under Mild Conditions
Authors: Aoyagi Naoto , Endo Takeshi
Published: November 2019

Six-membered cyclic amidines effectively catalyzed the reaction of carbon disulfide with epoxides under mild conditions, such as atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature, to give the corresponding cyclic dithiocarbonates (1,3-oxathiolane-2-thiones) in high yields.
Temperature- and pulse-dependent negative differential resistances in ZnO/Nb:SrTiO3 heterojunctions
Authors: Jia Caihong , Ren Yong , Yin Yanfeng , Zhang Weifeng
Published: November 2019

Temperature- and pulse amplitude/width dependent current-voltage characteristics were performed to study the variance of negative differential resistance (NDR) features accompanying bipolar resistive switching. Interestingly, the absolute value of the NDR peak intensity is enhanced at first and then weakened, while the NDR peak position gradually shifts toward the lower absolute bias value with an increase in temperature from 140 to 300 K, and shifts toward the larger absolute bias value with an increase in temperature from 300 to 400 K. Furthermore, the NDR peak is absent after applying a small and narrow positive pulse, while it gradually increases with increasing the applied pulse amplitude or width. These temperature- and pulse-dependent NDR behaviors can be fully understood based on a model of generation and drift of ionized oxygen vacancies coupled with trapping/detrapping electrons. The clarification of the mechanism will pave the way for practical applications.
Features of superexchange nonresonant tunneling conductance in anchored molecular wires
Authors: Petrov Elmar G. , Shevchenko Yevgen V. , Snitsarev Vladislav , Gorbach Victor V. , Ragulya Andrey V. , Lyubchik Svetlana
Published: November 2019

A modified superexchange model is used to clarify the physical mechanisms for the formation of nonresonant tunneling conductance in terminated molecular wires. Due to the specific relationship between its key parameters, this model has wider areas of applicability compared to the flat-barrier model and the standard superexchange model, which are widely involved for the physical interpretation of experimental results. Moreover, the results obtained in the two latest models appear in the modified model as characteristic limiting cases. Our estimates show that the exponential decay of conductance, characterized by an attenuation factor β (per repeating unit), is limited by the conditions β ≤ 1.2 and β ≥ 3.7 for the flat-barrier and standard models, respectively. At the same time, the modified superexchange model yields β > 0, which, thus, allows us to analyze the tunneling conductance in molecular wires containing both saturated and conjugated bonds. We also show that for a small number of N repeating wire units (about 3–6 depending on the value of β), the exponential dependence of conductance on N is violated and, accordingly, contact conductance is not identical to conductance at N = 0. Formulas are found which, on the basis of experimental data, make it possible to establish the values of superexchange parameters as well as indicate the conditions of possible hybridization between the orbitals of the anchor groups and the adjacent end units belonging to the interior wire region. One example is the establishment of features in the tunneling conductance of terminated alkane chains caused by the nature of their anchor groups.
Role of trapped water on electroresponsive characteristic of silica-graphene oxide composite microspheres
Authors: Bahadur Jitendra , Das Avik , Prakash Jyoti , Singh Pankaj , Khan Arshad , Sen Debasis
Published: November 2019

Electroresponsive microspheres containing nanosilica and graphene oxide (GO) sheets have been achieved by the one-step evaporation induced assembly of mixed colloids using spray drying. The interlocking of the nanostructured constituents by the attractive capillary force during drying of dispersion droplets results in the formation of powder grains with correlated nanoparticles and nanosheets. The presence of GO sheets arrests the buckling of the drying droplets during evaporative assembly and results in well-defined spherical shaped grains. Interestingly, this approach of random jamming in colloidal droplets is capable of preventing the spontaneous stacking of the GO sheets and, therefore, facilitates a way to confine the atomic-thick GO sheet in the solid matrix. A plausible mechanism for the formation of silica-GO binary composite microspheres is elucidated. Microspheres dispersed in insulating oil show interesting electroresponsive characteristics where the microspheres form a chainlike percolation path under the applied electric field. It has been established that the adsorbed water in the microspheres plays a profound role as far its electroresponsive behavior is concerned. GO sheets in the microspheres allow for tuning of electroresponse strength owing to the increased interaction of water molecules to the oxygen-containing functional groups anchored on the GO sheets.
Key dielectric properties and performance evaluation of high-density pressboard for electrical purposes
Authors: Gao Chunjia , Qi Bo , Li Chengrong , Lu Licheng , Zhang Shuqi
Published: November 2019

A high-density electrical pressboard plays a significant role in maintaining the safe and stable operation of power equipment. In response to concerns about finding an evaluation method based on the dielectric performance of the pressboard, this study set up a measurement platform to capture data for three key dielectric properties, namely, relative permittivity, volume resistivity, and surface resistivity. Five kinds of pressboards obtained from representative insulating materials manufacturers were chosen as test samples, and the effects of temperature and moisture content of the pressboards on their dielectric properties were quantitatively investigated. The results indicated that (1) with increasing temperature and moisture content of the pressboards, there was an increase in the relative permittivity, with a maximum increase of 55.85%; (2) the higher the temperature and moisture content of the pressboards, the lower the volume and surface resistivity, and the maximum reduction was as much as 98.25%; (3) significant differences exist in the dielectric properties of different batches of pressboards from the same manufacturer; and (4) the results of tests of conventional physical and chemical properties of pressboards could help explain the differences in dielectric properties between different types of pressboards. Finally, based on the variation in dielectric properties for different test conditions, a method for evaluating the performance of pressboards is proposed. Using this method, the dielectric properties of different insulating pressboard products can be compared horizontally, which will provide data support and technical reference for the design of insulation structures and the selection of insulating materials for different applications.
Children’s and adults’ initial phonological acquisition of a foreign language
Authors: Kopečková Romana , Dimroth Christine , Gut Ulrike
Published: November 2019

This study compared children’s and adults’ L2 perception and production in the first hours of exposure to a foreign language. A total of 10 German children and 19 German adults performed a phoneme discrimination task and a sentence imitation task in Polish at two testing times. Exposed to a comparable input, the adult learners were found to perceive Polish sibilant contrasts more accurately than their child counterparts and to maintain this advantage over a two-week-long instruction. However, the two groups did not differ in their developing ability to produce the tested sibilants. A great deal of inter- and intra-individual differences in both learner groups was also attested. Our findings suggest that young L2 instructed learners are not necessarily better and/or faster perceivers and producers of novel language sounds than adult L2 instructed learners, who are able to discriminate a range of novel sibilant pairs even after very limited L2 exposure.
Studying characterization in Arthur Miller’sThe Crucible
Authors: Sheikh-Farshi Shirin , Ghorban-Sabbagh Mahmoud Reza , Sharifi Shahla
Published: November 2019

Apart from the stylistic and cognitive studies which have already been done separately on Miller’sThe Crucible, this paper provides a new insight into the play and its system of characterization by integrating these approaches. To this end, the paper draws on Jonathan Culpeper’s cognitive stylistic theory of top-down and bottom-up processes in literary text comprehension and characterization. Based on this holistic framework, the paper takes advantage of such stylistic tools as speech acts, the Cooperative Principle and politeness theory to examine features of the language used by the characters Proctor and Danforth. In this regard, the article assimilates those linguistic elements with the embedded schemata within the play. Consequently, the study reveals that Proctor’s complex characterization does not coincide with the readers’ schema and thus they form their impression of his character based on piecemeal integration. On the other hand, Danforth’s character reinforces the readers’ schema about a representative of the church discourse and thus they comprehend his character on the basis of confirmatory categorization. The paper concludes that while Proctor and Danforth have a passive existence in the text or in people’s minds, it is only in the interaction between their language and the readers’ minds that they come into existence.
Is up always good and down always bad?
Authors: Taha Mohamed Mohamed
Published: November 2019

The current study investigates Arabic orientational metaphors in Modern Standard Arabic. Specifically, it is a corpus-based study that tries to retrieve conceptual orientational metaphors ofup-down, front-back, right-left, andcentral-peripheralspatial orientation. The study assumes that every orientation can be described using a set of different lexemes, and these lexemes express different linguistic orientational metaphors with different levels of usage frequency. It is hypothesized that studying the relationships between these lexemes, their etymologies, and frequency can provide a detailed, integrative account of metaphorical aspects and conceptual systems related to each spatial orientation. A bottom-up methodology to identify metaphorical usages of spatial lexemes was applied to theStanford Arabic Corpus. The results list the spatial linguistic metaphors comprising conceptual metaphors and show for each orientation that mapping orientations onto conceptual metaphors is a complicated process, which integrates linguistic and cognitive levels. The cognitive-perceptual and cultural implications of these findings are discussed.
A GdBCO bulk staggered array undulator
Authors: Calvi M , Ainslie M D , Dennis A , Durrell J H , Hellmann S , Kittel C , Moseley D A , Schmidt T , Shi Y , Zhang K
Published: November 2019

The Insertion Device group of the Paul Scherrer Institute has started an R&D program on a high temperature superconducting undulator to reduce the period length and increase the undulator's magnetic field well beyond the present capability. Simulation results for a 10 mm period and 4 mm magnetic gap staggered array of GdBCO bulks predict peak magnetic field above 2 T. Building on the existing working principle of undulator design and simulated performance, the first experimental results of a 5 period 6.0 mm gap short undulator measured in the new test facility available at the University of Cambridge will be presented together with details of the experimental setup and sample preparation.
Numerical analysis of out-of-plane deformation of shear wall
Authors: Al-Gabri B.N.A. , Nabilah A.B. , Abdul Aziz F.N.A. , Karim I.A.
Published: November 2019

An important factor in slender reinforced concrete shear wall design is the out-of-plane instability, identified as one of the main failure modes. Previous experimental researches had observed this failure in T-shape slender walls as well as rectangular walls. This paper describes the development of out-of-plane instability of slender shear walls with different end configuration which subjected to in-plane quasi-static lateral loading. Experimental results of a T-shape thin wall specimen which failed in out-of-plane mode were used for verification of the modelling, using finite element nonlinear static analysis. The numerical analysis results were in good agreement with the experimental results and the overall global response of shear wall can be predicted using finite element analysis. Series of models were developed to scrutinize the major sources governing the out-of-plane instability. Based on the investigation, shear to span ratio, axial load ratio, wall thickness, and different end configurations of the boundary element are identified as the main parameters governing the wall instability.
Response modification factor - Review paper
Authors: Abdi Heshmatollah , Hejazi Farzad , Jaafar Mohd S.
Published: November 2019

Response modification factor (R) has a main function in the seismic design of new construction materials and is a seismic design parameter in equivalent static analysis. It determines the nonlinear performance of building structures during strong earthquakes. R is based on experimental test and engineering judgment, and no uniform technique exists to determine such a value for different conditions. The development in the reliability of modern earthquake-resistant buildings requires systematic assessment of building response characteristics that mainly affect the rates allocated to R, which is formulated based on three aspects, namely, strength, ductility, and redundancy factors. Response modification is affected by the height of structures. This review paper aims to summarize relevant information from different experimental and analytical studies on overstrength, ductility, and R.
Review on pultruded FRP structural design for building construction
Authors: Haw Shin Y , Yee Yoong Y , Hejazi F , Raizal Saifulnaz M R
Published: November 2019

Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) have been used in civil engineering for past few years. Researches often argue that available design standard practice are lack of practical design details to be used in structure design. This paper reviews the recent researches of pultruded FRP structural design in civil engineering focusing these fours aspects of area. The design consideration in these areas are relatively important for structural designer to focus. These consist of environments impact, dynamics responses, issue of connection, and buckling design. For environment impact, review focus on the severity of artificial ageing and natural ageing to material mechanical properties, as pultruded FRP structures are now used by industries which require serviceability for harsh environment. Due to the low weight stiffness ratio of FRPs structure, vibration effect is in large degree of extent. Unlike steel structures, pultruded FRP structures are using only the bolting connection. Hence, it is crucial to understand the bolting in detail. For buckling issue, studies of interaction of local and global buckling is often suggested by researches.
Comparison of different waste materials used as cement replacement in concrete
Authors: Talib Khalid W T , Qazi Obaidullah , Abdirizak A M , Rashid Raizal S. M.
Published: November 2019

Among all the construction materials used in construction industry concrete is the most used one. With its main cementing ingredient being OPC But production of OPC comes at a cost both financial and environment that is why if OPC can be replaced to some extend by another material that is cheaper to produce than financial and environmental cost of concrete can be reduced significantly. Some industrial waste materials have cementing and pozzolanic properties thus they can used to replace cement in some proportion that will reduce the pollution as well as the cost that is caused by dumping of such materials. when used correctly such materials have positive impact on both fresh and hardened concrete such as increased strength, increased durability, higher workability, reduced permeability, higher resistance to acid attack and reduction of plastic shrinkage cracking therefore in this paper three industrial waste materials I.e. Fly ash, Silica fume and Ground Granulated Blast furnace slag are considered for their use as cement replacement materials. The mechanical properties were evaluated from the compressive Strength, while the durability was inspected in terms of chloride diffusion, permeability and at the same time Workability of concrete was also compared Use of such materials is both cost and environment friendly and these two words are seldom used together thus more public awareness and better standards are required for wide use of such waste materials in this regard
Waste plastic as partial replacement for aggregates- a review
Authors: Edmund T.S.J. , Jun Hon C. , Hejazi F , Jaafar M. S.
Published: November 2019

By replacing coarse aggregate as well as fine aggregate with waste plastic known as green innovation. As the years go by, waste plastic increases day by day, since most of the plastic used by human is non-bio-degradable. The idea behind this review is to identify research done by the researchers who uses recyclable material such as plastic obtained mostly from waste plastic that the people had generated around the world by utilisation of waste plastic in becoming of construction materials in order to overcome the environment problem that the society are facing. This paper aim to review the using of waste plastic to replace fine and coarse aggregate and stated the mechanical properties of the concrete. With different percentage replacement of aggregates will affect the different properties such as slump, compressive strength and ultimate strength of the concrete and compare with the control sample in order to find the suitable percentage of the waste plastic to replacement of aggregates for the concrete used. It was found that plastic as replacement for fine and coarse aggregate both have has lower compressive quality of the concrete, almost the same or lower slump test value for ordinary concrete and waste plastic concrete and lower density for the waste plastic concrete compare to the ordinary concrete.
A review of application of risk management in Malaysia construction industry
Authors: Mohammad Adam B M Y , Redzuan Zukhairi B M , Muhammad Fikri B K , Haron Nuzul Azam
Published: November 2019

Risk management is project management tools that provide a very significant information about risk and uncertain event during perform the construction project. This management tool must be applying to all project life cycles stages in order to get high performance of achievement in completing project objective. However, in Malaysia construction industry this project management tools were very new in implementation among construction players. In construction industry, project risk and uncertain event are very unique activity to manage because of the project itself have a different type agreement, project environment and stakeholder. In this review paper, information on how the process in risk management in Malaysia is obtained from various writings and what is the methodologies that are actively being used in Malaysia construction industry. Furthermore, effectiveness of implementation of risk management in Malaysia construction are discussed thoroughly in this paper. From that the main aim is to review whether this risk management is a successful tool applied in Malaysia construction industry or not. For that purpose, one method are primarily use in conducting this review is by obtaining data and information from literature review, books and standards. The major risk is differed between each type of performing the construction project. The result show most of research work are relating to agreement of contract, partner selection, financial problem, economic condition and variation order in execution of project. Therefore, conducting risk management starting in early of performing project and continue in every project life cycle will give very low negative impact to accomplish the objective and scope of project.
Flash flood area mapping using sentinel-1 SAR data: a case study of eight upazilas in Sunamganj district, Bangladesh
Authors: Aldhshan Shaban R. S. , Zubair Mohammed Omar , Mohd. Shafri H Z
Published: November 2019

Extraction of information from Remote sensing satellites is significant and effective tools for hazard activities such as flooding. essentially, if the field was under disaster conditions it will be so difficult to do surveying in that region. flash floods are sudden natural disaster events, which impact an extensive variety of ecological elements and applications associated with natural resources, agriculture, human activities and natural phenomena and economies. The utilization of SAR information gives much more information to control and monitor the flash floods, and additionally the information used for the damage assessment after the disasters. To recognize the region that has been flooded; a few procedures were trailed by Snap and Arc Map software. The fundamental step was flooded area in image its determined during extraction process by sets threshold estimation of radar backscatter which is taken from the calculation binary algorithm (the equitation of band math) to decide if a specified raster pixel is overflowed or not. The outcomes are indicated extend out of flash floods amid to time. On 26th of Mar Flood area was about 4.5%, however, it became around 45% in about month from the disaster beginning. This is evidence of the speed of the flood on the grounds that the nearness of high statures with Heavy rains around there and its foundation, on first of May agriculture damages, was around 1037 km2 as result appeared of this flash flood. Therefore, these outcomes are extremely helpful to make an evaluation of situations to save the people lives, property and nature from this natural disaster in the future.
Landuse/Landcover mapping and monitoring using Remote sensing and GIS with environmental integration
Authors: Mohammed Hamud Ahmed , Mobarak Prince Husni , Zulhaidi Shafri Helmi
Published: November 2019

Details regarding land cover and land usage is an essential component of the organizing method as it could play a role in the controversy about the present plans, as well as patterns and also the, have to alter land use included in a regional plan. A resource improvement or even managing task, an environmental organizing exercising, or perhaps as baseline research of a region. Planners might try to find to recommend changes to land-use patterns to achieve a few social or economic effects, and as part of an environmental preservation and durability task, or to prevent a few forecasted long-term undesirable effects. Access to specific land-use maps can assist planners and the venture associated with planning. Within the paper review, land use/land cover (LULC) modelling strategies and focus on the way land use/land cover models may get over some essential limits of current techniques. We briefly review ongoing land use/land cover modeling efforts in four research parts. We discuss Remote Sensing (RS) and GIS in Environment Influence Assessment Accuracy assessment for LULC related with environmental research using GIS and RS, beside that we discuss Integration spatial analysis for environmental research using RS and GIS. We also discuss Analyse LULC change impact on environmental and socio-economic condition using RS and GIS. in the last we outline the Analyse LULC change impact on environmental and socioeconomic condition using RS and GIS. It can be this particular context that remote sensing can lead. This paper as well applies forth various prospects for the long-term improvement: the whole trend is functionality, the environmental impact and also the social economics through land use/land cover is the research hotspots, and also the functionality of scales and also the establishment of types could be the research difficulties.
Relationship of Accident Rates and Road Geometric Design
Authors: Islam Md Hasibul , Teik Hua Law , Hamid H. , Azarkerdar Arash
Published: November 2019

Road safety issue has become a major concern worldwide due to the serious consequences of road accidents on countries socio-economics and human lives. The main aim of this paper is to discuss and review the effects of geometric design elements on road accidents including statistical models used over the years and to compare the outcomes of the studies conducted in several countries. A way to improve road safety is improving road geometric design to mitigate accidents occurrence and severity on roadways. In order to improve the road design, it is crucial to evaluate and define the relationship between road geometric design elements and road accidents. Studies have tried to relate road geometric design elements such as lane number, sight distance, super-elevation, median width and type, lane and shoulder width, curve radius, gradient, and horizontal and vertical alignments to accident rates. Due to the interrelations between geometric design elements with each other and with other road accident factors, and also lack of reliable methodology of relationship estimation between road geometric design and safety. Ongoing enhancement of statistical methods has resulted in many road design-accidents analysis models which have been developed using a variety of statistical modelling approaches such as linear regression models, multiple linear regression models, Poisson regression models, Poisson-Gamma models, negative binomial models, bivariate and multivariate models, generalized estimation regression models, random parameters models, etc. However, some limitations have been encountered using the mentioned statistical models, thereby there are opportunities for road safety researchers to overcome the limitation challenges.
Investigation on the Performance of Construction Companies in Malaysia with Entropy-TOPSIS Model
Authors: Lam W S , Liew K F , Lam W H
Published: November 2019

Construction industry plays an important role to a nation due to its contribution to the economic growth. The objective of this paper is to propose an Entropy-TOPSIS model in evaluating and comparing the financial performance of the construction companies in Malaysia. In this study, the listed construction companies in Malaysia are investigated using Entropy-TOPSIS model. The results of this study show that ZECON, DKLS, GADANG, ECONBHD and MELATI are ranked as top five construction companies based on the proposed model. This study is significant because it helps to determine the financial performance of the construction company as well as identify the importance of the decision criteria in the evaluation on the financial performance of the construction companies in Malaysia with the proposed conceptual framework based of entropy-TOPSIS model.
Modelling landscape aesthetic of planting composition influencing visual quality and well-being: PLS-SEM approach
Authors: Akhir N Mt , Sakip S R Md , Abbas M Y , Othman N
Published: November 2019

Planting composition (PC) is designed to be aesthetically pleasing, functional utilizing and ecologically sustaining. In landscape research, a plant is a powerful element in assessing visual quality. Visual quality for each landscape depends on the visual composition of plants. The study on landscape assessment in a campus is commonly correlated with green space. However, the composition and design of planting in the green spaces on campus grounds have not been considered yet. Therefore, this study aims to explore the influence of PC towards visual quality and its relationships with the well-being of students. The conceptual model is composed of endogenous latent variables (LVs) according to the pattern of visual composition namely coherence, complexity, legibility and mystery. The exogenous LVs is PC and well-being. Positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment (PERMA) are the items used to test the relationship with the pattern of PC. This study applied confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with pilot data to measure the relationship between LVs. The result validates that PC should consider 5 pillars of well-being which is PERMA to serve students with better visual access to landscape on campus.
Mapping Informal Settlements Using Geospatial Method
Authors: Maula F K , Choerunnisa D N , Akbar R
Published: November 2019

As one of the largest city in Indonesia, Bandung faces informal settlement, or “Permukiman Kumuh” problems. Based on the criteria of informal settlements used in KOTAKU Program, Bandung contains 8,7 percent of slums within it. During its development, these informal settlements experiences phase based on the development of the city, which are infancy, consolidation and saturation. Each developmental phase needs differing solutions. This study formulates the spatial development phases from the informal settlements in Bandung through Geospatial methods to give new perspective in settling informal settlement problems.
Preserving the School Landscape and its Relationship with the Learning Process of Secondary School Students
Authors: Ali Salina Mohamed , Awang Abd Hair , Abdul Latif Faridatul Akma , Othman Noriah , Yaman Rostam
Published: November 2019

A peaceful and tranquil environment can influence the school landscape by assisting the learning process either directly or indirectly, through various methods, such as providing an area or place for a variety of activities, to socialize, to interact and to do revisions outside the classroom. The purpose of this research is to determine the role or function of the school’s landscape in preserving the environment at the school level. For this reason, primary data were collected from the surrounding schools located in Klang Valley, Malaysia that were chosen randomly. Secondary data were obtained from various relevant agencies. Structured interviews were conducted with the higher management of the schools concerned with regards to the development, management of landscape and the contribution of soft and hard landscapes in the learning process. The outcome of the research indicates that the landscape functions in assisting the learning process and nourishes the awareness of the students for their affection towards natural environment. This study has proven that landscape plays an important role in the learning process and nourishes the students’ awareness in appreciating the environment beginning at the school level. Thus, the school has to take the necessary initiatives by way of increasing soft landscapes such as planting more shaded trees; hard landscapes such as gazebos, garden chairs and tables as well as man-made landscapes such as fish ponds, waterfalls and fountains which could be used by the students and teachers in the learning process and to encourage them to appreciate the environment.
Reliability of Terrestrial Laser Scanner Measurement in Slope Monitoring
Authors: Abbas M A , Fuad N A , Idris K M , Opaluwa Y D , Hashim N M , Majid Z , Sulaiman S A
Published: November 2019

Dense 3D point clouds provided by terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) has demonstrated significant reliability of TLS in landslide monitoring. However, existence of errors in measurement is inevitable which eventually has decreased the quality of TLS data. To concretely measure the capability of TLS in landslide monitoring, this study has performed two epoch measurements using tacheometry (for benchmarking) and TLS (Topcon GLS-2000) at Kulim Techno City, Kedah, Malaysia. Sixteen (16) artificial targets were well-distributed on the slope to determine the accuracy of the employed TLS. Results obtained revealed that Topcon GLS-2000 provides 0.006m of accuracy. However, the presence of high incidence angles in TLS measurement has limited the capability to identify the significant displacement of the targets.
Scale Factor Effect in Terrestrial Laser Scanner Datum Transformation
Authors: Abbas M A , Majid Z , Azmi M A A M , Chong A K , Luh L C , Idris K M , Mustafar M A
Published: November 2019

Datum transformation is an inevitable procedure in terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) pre-processing. By taking into account the uncertainties in multi distances measurement, neglecting the scale factor in registration and georeferencing phases should be reconsidered especially when involved with applications that demand high accuracy data. With the motivation to robustly examine the effect of scale factor in the issue raised, this study has designed experiment which consider the element of multi distances. Two types of TLSs utilised in this study, which are Faro Focus 3D and Leica ScanStation C10 to represent phase and pulse based scanners, respectively. Exploiting robust statistical analysis, all seven (7) parameters were computed from both experiments and scale factors were extracted for the further assessment. Significant analysis was performed by comparing the ideal value of scale factor (i.e. 1.000 or no scale effect) and values obtained from the experiments. The results show that, the null hypotheses for the experiment is accepted with a 95% confidence level. This result also indicates that scale factor can be neglected in datum transformation process for both type of terrestrial laser scanners.
Effect of reflective building façade on pedestrian visual comfort
Authors: Ishak N M , Hien W N , Jenatabadi H S , Mustafa N A , Zawawi E M A
Published: November 2019

Building materials have become increasingly diverse and flexible regarding their shapes, colours and texture. These include the use of highly reflective materials for facade (e.g. glass or metal claddings) which becomes a popular concept for high-rise buildings. However, these reflective materials contribute to an increasing number of feedbacks on discomfort associated with reflected glare at the pedestrian’s level and the surrounding environment. This study aims to evaluate the impact of reflected glare from the reflective building facade on pedestrians’ visual comfort in Kuala Lumpur city area. The relationship between pedestrians and reflected glare issues is determined by applying Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) between male and female. Total of 500 questionnaires is distributed at four different locations. The six-modelled fitting test was tested and within an acceptable range. For both male and female models shows that age significantly affects sensitiveness toward reflected glare.
The impacts of FOREX fluctuations on international construction projects
Authors: Bin Mohamed Mohd Amizan , Ahmad Ayuniza Binti , Mohamad Daud Bin
Published: November 2019

The international construction project is a highly valuable market project and many of the contractors would like to be participate. This is because they are misled with the exchange rate (money) and instantly attracted with the profit they assumed will be gained after the project is completed. In fact, without noticing that they will be affected with the FOREX’s fluctuations which might complicate the project further. In addition, many new vendors nowadays will try their luck in construction business without making a good judgement on the risks. So, the objective of this study is to identify the impacts of FOREX fluctuations on those perspectives at international level. This study also uses quantitative method through questionnaire survey that were distributed randomly, and the result obtained were from top management and non-top management in construction hierarchy with different level of experiences. The collected data were analysed by using two methods which are Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and Microsoft Excel. The SPSS software is used to process the regression analysis for the impacts of FOREX data of the questionnaire. The Relative Importance Index then is applied to run the data for capability and mitigation actions in determining the ranking of priorities. Overall, the impacts of FOREX fluctuation on international construction projects have been identified with regards to three mechanisms which are business management, technical and financial. These outputs are useful as a guideline for international construction project companies when they are venturing into this challenging market especially in terms of managing/expediting quality, completion period, and optimising cost of the projects.
Factors lead to overhang in affordable housing: A content analysis in qualitative approach
Authors: Rahim N Ab , Adzhar S M , Basrah N , Majid R Ab , Mustafar S
Published: November 2019

Housing issue is one of the key challenges and has its social repercussions if not well managed. The numerous affordable housing programs have been introduced and intended to increase the supply of affordable housing. The programs are meant to alleviate the affordable housing issue in the country. Although the lacking units of affordable housing persists, the slow market trends have also led to an increase in overhang units. The number of property overhang partly in affordable housing units were reported increased continuously year over year and does not attract the target market nor able to cater the housing needs of the targeted house buyers. Industry players were of the opinion that the perceived slow demand in low cost housing units are mainly due to difficulty in securing financing, unsuitable location as well as a shift in demand towards better quality projects and other factors. The purpose of this study is to identify the current overhang scenario in affordable housing and factors that lead to the issues. There is a need to have an in-depth study in addressing the issues. Otherwise, the overhang will exert pressure on prices and rental in the market and gives impact in near future.