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Employment Protection Through the Perspective of Fulfilling Citizens’ Rights in Indonesia
Authors: SH MH Nuridin , SH MH Sanusi , SH MH Tiyas Vika Widyastuti
Published: April 2019

Outsourcing system is a prevalent form of employee recruitment in Indonesia. The Employment Relationship of Outsourcing System under the provisions of Law Number 23 of 2003 concerning Employment so far has not been able to deliver welfare for workers/ labors, in return for their contribution to the companies’ productivity improvement. Labors do not obtain their rights which have been warranted in the Law. Additionally, outsourcing system has created uncertainty in employment relationship. This research uses the paradigm of constructivism and selected macro and micro theories to analyze the problems surrounding employment protection. We also employ qualitative method with a socio-legal approach. Our contention is that a change is critically needed to be made to the regulations of law which govern employment relationship or partial transfer of job to a third party. The change should reflect what the workers/ labors wish. It should also bear values such as justice and welfare for workers/ labors. This is all meant to achieve a harmonious and just employment relationship based on Pancasila (The Five Pillars of Indonesian State Ideology) and the Indonesian 1945 Constitutionn.
Hardware realization of DVR with 27 level multi carrier PWM based MLI
Authors: Maheswari M , Thangavel S
Published: April 2019

The quality of the electrical power delivered to consumers is heavily affected by the power electronics based controllers, introduced in both domestic and industrial sectors, which in turn results in malfunctioning of equipment or eventual damage. Series compensators, Shunt compensators and series-shunt compensators are some of the strategies applied to address the power quality issues effectively. In this work a series compensating device, viz. 27 level-cascaded multilevel inverter based Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) with multicarrier SPWM technique is proposed to mitigate voltage swells and voltage sags. The PWM technique used in this work is Alternate Phase Opposition PWM (APODPWM), which is one of the vertical arrangement multicarrier sinusoidal pulse width modulation techniques, to control the cascaded H-bridge inverter. The single-phase version of the proposed system is simulated to verify the effectiveness in addressing voltage issues and it is found that the obtained simulation results are satisfactory. The THD is found to be 3.40%, which is well below IEEE standards apart from considerable improvement in response time. The prototype of the proposed model is developed and the pic-microcontroller PIC16F887 is employed to implement the APODPWM. The experimental results obtained from the prototype are compared with the respective simulation results and they match with reasonable accuracy.
Experimental studies on reactive distillation of propionic acid using n-butanol as entrained
Authors: Kalakuntala Raju. , Navya R , Sisira T , V. Basava Rao V , Surnani Srinath.
Published: April 2019

Reactive distillation is a cost effective chemical engineering process intensification method which involves the reaction and separation simultaneously in a single unit. In the present work the system selected was Propionic acid and n-butanol which undergoes esterification reaction to form butyl propionate. Propionic acid is an important raw material from a biodegradable polymer. The experiments were done in both conventional batch distillation and reactive distillation. In conventional batch distillation no catalyst were used were as in reactive distillation amberlite catalyst used with various weight percentage. several experiments performed by varying the initial concentration(i.e. 0.1,0.2,0.4,0.6,0.8,0.99) of Propionic acid, mole ratios of Propionic acid & n-butanol(that is 1:1 ,1:1.5 ,1:2 And amberlite catalyst weight percent (i.e. 1,2 and 3).the conventional batch distillation and reactive distillation were compared. it is found that maximum conversion obtained in conventional distillation process is 81% and in reactive distillation is 95.1% at the optimum conditions are at initial concentration 0.6 ,mole ratio 1:2 And amberlite catalyst weight percentage 3 .And the recovery of water is more in reactive distillation as compared with the conventional batch distillation .So reactive distillation process is better than conventional distillation.
Nullpest: a mobile application of agricultural pest locator using sonar sensor set-up
Authors: Dan Michael A Cortez , Charito M Molina , Marmelo V. Abante , Myra S Santos
Published: April 2019

Philippines have already achieved its highest peak when it comes to substantive agricultural activities. The country has been one of the most leading distributors of agricultural crops most especially the rice commodity all throughout the world. With this, it can be concluded that agriculture is one important factor that affects the Philippines’ economy, thus, it must be given thorough attention and importance not only by the country’s government but also its constituents. There are inevitable factors that affects agricultural yield which results to rapid decrease of crop activities resulting to a devastating loss to the Philippine farmers, one of which is the existence of agricultural pest. These destructive pest gives fatal damage to agricultural crops by thriving its nutrients resulting to agricultural loss. Considering this, the aim of the study is to aid and help farmers locate such agricultural pest particularly on the rice commodity, give pesticide monitoring in order to limit pesticide usage that gives possible health risk to consumers, and lastly give pest information to its user particularly on farmers. With the combination of a Mobile Application and Arduino device all of this will become possible.
Rainfall-runoff modelling calibration on the watershed with minimum stream gage network data
Authors: Anggraheni Evi , Sutjiningsih Dwita , Widyoko Jarot
Published: April 2019

The hydrological model has an important role to present the accurate and reliable information for water resources management. In this research, combination of HEC-GeoHMS and HEC-HMS that adopt the SCS-CN model have been chosen to analyse the hydrological characteristic at Upper Ciliwung Watershed. Ciliwung Watershed is one of 13 watersheds that has big influence to flood management in Jakarta. Flooding is the natural hazard that occurs every year at Jakarta. One of important part of flood early warning system at Jakarta is Katulampa Weir that located at Upper Ciliwung watershed. The area of it watershed is about 150 km2 that only has one stream gauge station at Katulampa. Accurate representation of rainfall runoff modelling at this location is important in order to predict the discharge and water infrastructure design. The objective of this paper is to obtain the parameter combination of Upper Ciliwung Watershed which can produce the discharge close to the discharge observation using HEC-HMS.  The comparison between HEC-HMS and observation gage at Upper Ciliwung Watershed was calculated by Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) method. Nash value of discharge simulation at Upper Ciliwung Watershed compare with the discharge observation at Katumpa Weir reach up until 0,9.
A novel approach to identify the best practices of quality management in SMES based on critical success factors using interpretive structural modeling (ISM)
Authors: Aich Satyabrata , Muduli Kamalakanta , Mehedi Hassan Onik Md , Cheol Kim Hee
Published: April 2019

In recent years, most small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) worldwide looking for improvement in their business practices in order to gain competitive advantage and total quality management(TQM) as a means by which SMEs could achieve the desired result. The objective of this study is to discover the critical success factors that are affecting the quality management practices in SMEs. In this work eight factors were identified through the literature review and experts from academic as well as industries. The factors are commitment to quality, employee involvement, customer focus, information technology, improved production planning and control, recognition system, supplier quality management, and management vision and mission. Interpretive structural modeling(ISM) is used to understand the complex relationships among the factors and classify the factors into various categories as per the driving and the dependence capacity. The result shows that information technology (IT) is a key success factor for implementing TQM in SMEs. It is observed that SMEs have to increase the use of IT to improve the quality of the product and productivity.
Segmenting and classifying MRI images for brain tumors using CNN
Authors: Sharma Niharika , Mishra Prakhar , Sadhana K , Nithyakani P
Published: April 2019

Gliomas are one of the most prevalent and aggressive form of brain tumours in the world. Patient's usually go on to live a very short life after the initial diagnosis. Therefore, it is crucial to successfully and quickly outline a method for diagnosing the same in it's very earliest stages.Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI as it is more frequently called is a noninvasive method of imaging parts of human anatomy. MRI's utilise robust fields of magnetism, along with waves that have frequencies corresponding to the radio waves in the spectrum to develop precise pictures to get a sense of the happenings inside the human body. The current, most widely used method of diagnosis for brain gliomas involves an oncologist or radiologist reading the MRI image and using his knowledge and experience regarding the same to reach a diagnosis. However, this manual method of diagnosis is very tedious and has been prone to errors in the past. Therefore, it essential to develop an automatic method for the same.Most of the techniques used currently for segmenting brain tumours were initially developed for other diseases, the most common use among them being the separation of white matter lesions. Most of the current methodologies can be broadly categorised into two families- 1.General Probabilistic Methods- Probabilistic methods are a remarkable method to establish the validity of combinatorial entities with distinct characteristics. Although the basis of their existence lies in probability, they are not bounded by it and can be used to solve and evaluate theorems across different branches of Mathematics.2.Discriminative Approaches- They are also sometimes referred to as Conditional Models. We utilise CNN's for faster and accurate processing of the data.
Mitigating risk of revenue leakages on the customer and vendor side in ecommerce sector
Authors: Sujata Joshi , Menachem Domb , Rageshree Modi
Published: April 2019

E-commerce is one of the rapidly booming sectors in India today, thanks to the rising internet user base and faster mobile penetration. The E-commerce industry is a complex ecosystem as it involves huge transaction volumes, complex procurement and logistics systems and reliance on new technologies for customer access and payment transactions. This complexity has given rise to frauds and revenue leakages, which is impacting the revenue for the ecommerce companies. Hence the major concern facing the Ecommerce sector today is how to mitigate the revenue loss. Very few studies have been done in academic literature in this area hence the objective of this study is to understand the sources of revenue leakage in the ecommerce sector and propose solutions for mitigating these revenue leakages. The study focusses on [2] major areas of revenue leakage viz. Customer side, Vendor side. The proposed revenue assurance model will be helpful to Ecommerce companies for detecting the sources of revenue leakages in the abovementioned areas and plugging the same thereby reducing losses. The study can also be helpful for consulting companies who are in the business of revenue assurance and fraud management for the ecommerce companies.
Survey on multi-channel schemes in wireless body area network
Authors: Raj Kumar Naik M , Samundiswary P
Published: April 2019

The evolution and empowerment of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is achieved through the rapid advancement in the wireless communication technologies. The use of different kinds of sensors which are utilized in the health care applications for patient monitoring are helped for diagnosis of life threatening disease which can be improved by using WBAN. These wearable systems help in controlling the life of patient is as they play essential role to save patient’s life. In recent past, the system architecture is constructed for WBAN for monitoring of health care application and enhancing the technical requirements in a WBAN network. Although, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is one of the emanate technology which utilizes the patient health condition for monitoring in real time, several issues that are faced by WBAN are Quality of Service (QoS), security, data loss, authentication, channel issues and energy efficiency. Most of the WBANs utilizes wireless channel for process of communication in which these typical sensors with single transceiver device transmits the information with low power by utilizing a single channel using Medium Access Control (MAC) layer in WBAN. However, the degradation in performance of these devices is high when the sensors density is increased. The solution to overcome this performance degradation is carried out by making use of multiple channels, due to which the channels are optimally utilized and the cooperation among the sensor nodes is achieved. In this paper, the survey of different protocols used for WBAN under different channel conditions is discussed in WBANs with its merits.
Jananee janmabhoomischa: ICT solutions for pronational digital society
Authors: Srihari Rao N , Chandra Sekharaiah K , Ananda Rao A
Published: April 2019

Personality Development’, ‘Social Development’, ‘National Development’, ‘National Spirit’, ‘National Amity’, ‘Nation Building Character’, ‘National Consciousness’, ‘National Solidarity’, ‘National Awareness’, ‘National Integration’, ‘National Sovereignty’, ‘National Integrity’, and ‘National Unity’ are the diminishing ideas among the citizens of a country now-a-days. Opportunities for cybercrimes worsen this situation further by luring the people with bad motivations, some who justify the cybercrimes somehow and some to perpetrate the cybercrimes. As the public authorities are not capable enough to handle cybercrime cases well as of now or due to lacunae in cyber laws, cyber criminals are evading and sweeping under the carpet. The societal status, may it be progressive or perishable depends on the kind of information that is provided to the people of society. If society is input with right information, the society will progress, develop positively and on the other hand the society will perish with the wrong or garbage information. In this context, Right-To-Information (RTI) Act 2005 plays a vital role by providing ‘Right Information’ through ‘Information Transparency’. We found out an organization named JNTUHJAC (offline) with its website with URL- www.jntuhjac.com (online) running from so many years, committed three or more cybercrimes against the Union of India. We considered this online and offline organization for our case study and for discussions of our solutions for these cybercrimes. In this paper, we proposed a research methodology based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) approaches to prevent the conversion of Cybercrime or Ill-Informed Society into Perishable Society and hence hope to succeed in transforming Cybercrime or Ill-Informed Society into Well-Informed Society and hence into a “Progressive Society/Knowledge Society/Digital Society.
Assessment of different turbulence models in simulating axisymmetric flow in suddenly expanded nozzles
Authors: Afghan Khan Sher , Owais Ali Mir , Mohammed Riyadh Miah , Hossen Zahid , Mahdi Arefin Nafis
Published: April 2019

A numerical simulation was carried out to compare various turbulence models simulating axisymmetric nozzle flow past suddenly expanded ducts. The simulations were done for L/D = 10. The convergent-divergent nozzle has been modeled and simulated using the turbulence models: The Standard k-ε model, The Standard k-ω model and The SST k-ω model. Numerical simulations were done for Mach numbers 1.87, 2.2, and 2.58 and the nozzles were operated for NPRs in the range from 3 to 11. From the numerical analysis it is apparent that for a given Mach number and effect of NPR will result in maximum gain or loss of pressure. Numerical results are in good agreement with the experimental results.
Usage of Online Learning Resources among Academic Staff at a Malaysian University
Authors: Radin Salim Kamilah , Abdullah Morina , Liza Ali Nor , Ali Rosmah
Published: April 2019

This paper reports on the awareness and usage of online learning resources in teaching and learning among the academic staff at a public university in Malaysia. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of online learning resources are also presented. Online learning resources recommended by the management of the university include e-learning modules, Open Courseware (OCW), Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), BLOSSOMS, Edutainment and Video of Exemplary Professionals. Data were collected using a survey questionnaire with Likert scale items and open-ended questions. The questionnaires were distributed to 160 academic staff of the university. The results show that the most attended training was e-learning and most respondents are currently implementing it in their courses. However, less than 10% of the respondents implemented the OCW, MOOC, BLOSSOMS and Edutainment. About 23.1% of the respondents implemented Video of Exemplary Professionals in their teaching and learning. Some respondents also reported lack of student participation in using e-learning and other resources due to system instability. The practical implication of this study is that more training on new online learning resources should be provided to the academic staff to increase their skills in using the online learning resources in their teaching. Better internet connection is also necessary to boost the use of these resources.
Health Risks Assessment of Rainwater Pollutants in Jengka, Pahang, Malaysia
Authors: Nadzifah Ghazali Siti , Razman Fazrul , Zahari Abdullah Mohd
Published: April 2019

Rainwater samples were collected in Jengka, Pahang Malaysia. Temperature, pH, TDS, EC, Al, Cu, Mn, and Zn were measured. The concentrations of heavy metals (Al, Cu, Mn and Zn) in thirty-eight samples were analysed using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Statistical analysis results indicate that pH, TDS, and EC showed significant differences between wet and dry seasons. However, no significant difference was observed seasonally for heavy metals (HMs). All parameters, except pH, were below the Malaysian Drinking Water Guidelines (MDWG) value and the health risk assessment for HMs indicates the safe levels. Principal component analysis (PCA) suggests that HMs in rainwater in Jengka, Pahang were originated from natural and anthropogenic sources.
Malaysian Public Private Partnership Projects: Project Success Definition
Authors: Ahamd Usman , Bt Ibrahim Yusnidah , Bt Abu Bakar Arpah
Published: April 2019

In last few decades, many governments have been using Public Private Partnership (PPP) as a tool to provide infrastructure and public services. Most of PPP projects achieved the objectives whereas, a few are underachieved. Besides, prior literature does not provide robust definition of success for PPP projects. Although, project management literature defines the general definition of project success and explains success as variable. However, due to the distinct nature of PPP projects there is a need to redefine the PPP project success. Therefore, this study aims to provide robust definition of the success of PPP project based on distinct nature of PPP project. To achieve the objective, this study has adopted phenomenological research method and conducted semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis has been carried out by using ATLAS-ti 8.0 to arrange interviews’ data. Based on interviews, arrangements of two types of PPP projects, Build Lease Maintain and Transfer (BLMT) and Lease Maintain and Transfer (LMT) have been explained that leads to the development of the success criteria for PPP projects. The results reveal that one of the dimensions of success i.e. preparing for future is not valid to measure success for PPP projects.
Bad Friday, Monday Effect and Political Issue: Application of ARCH-GARCH Model to Analyze Seasonal Pattern of Stock Return
Authors: Rio Rita Maria , Wahyudi Sugeng , Muharam Harjum
Published: April 2019

At the end of 2016, Indonesia was shaken by a demonstration of the election of the Governor of Jakarta Capital Special Region and political issues related to religious defamation. Does this condition have an impact on stock prices and returns? The aim of this study is to test the week day pattern in IDX using LQ-45 stocks during selected observation period of August 2016-January 2017. Then a GARCH model is used to investigate the presence of week day pattern in the stock market. Therefore, the GARCH model is able to describe observed statistical characteristics of many time series of financial assets return. The test results show that there is a difference in average stock return during the trading day. The lowest and the highest return are observed on Monday and Wednesday, respectively. Meanwhile, the average negative return on Friday is not proven to significantly drive the occurrence of Monday effect. Return on Monday is influenced by the frequency of trading, not by trading volume. Is there anything to do with the psychological aspect of investors solely in assessing risk acceptance to stocks? Research agenda related to this is very relevant to do in the future.
Determination of Brand Loyalty in Telecommunication Industry: a Literatur Review
Authors: . Ikramuddin , Adam Muhammad , Sofyan Hizir , . Faisal
Published: April 2019

This study focuses on the concept of "brand loyalty". The concept of brand loyalty is an important issue in the telecommunication industry and is one of the strategies in relationship marketing. This paper reevaluates the comprehensive determinants of brand loyalty, by testing the model proposed in previous research as a determinant of brand loyalty. The determinants of brand loyalty are service quality, customer satisfaction and brand trust. Several previous studies have addressed the relationship between service quality, customer satisfaction, and brand trust with brand loyalty and the study also presents various current research shortcomings and trends for future studies in the telecommunications industry.
A Systematic Literature Review of the Barriers to Job Placement for Person with Disabilities
Authors: Farah Anuaruddin Nurfarhani , Husna Abdull Rahman Rabeatul , Abdul Patah Salwa , Ayue Abd Rahman Azra
Published: April 2019

People often fail to realize that the disabled population is an important but largely untapped human resource. Prejudices and misconceptions about person with disabilities’ ability to perform and compete in the open market are likely to be the cause. This research endeavor provides an overview of some of the factors that contributes for low ratio of job placements for persons with disabilities. Study about such factors is imperative so as to improve understanding regarding this phenomenon and increase employment opportunities for person with disabilities. Review of literature is carried out to highlight the barriers to job placement for persons with disabilities. Some of the barriers highlighted in this study are the attitude of the employers towards the hiring of persons with disabilities, job demand, and attitude of disabled persons. This paper concludes that more training and awareness programs should be conducted to educate employers about human resource policies, practices and strategies for persons with disabilities to improve their participation in the mainstream workforce. This research will have useful implications for the policy makers for incorporating untapped human resource in the form of persons with disabilities.
Construction of Optimal Portfolio and Selection of Stock using Fuzzy Approach
Authors: Patni Ity , Gupta Nishu
Published: April 2019

Stock selection methods and strategies have been the prominent area of research since long. Portfolio theory is a connotation how an intelligent bias free investor should make an optimal portfolio. The line of the work is first inclined towards construction of optimal portfolio using Sharpe-Single Index model, CAPM, Jenson’s Measure, Treynor & Sharpe Ratio. These measures consider total risk i.e. systematic and unsystematic risk and suggests a rational investor in what proportion an investment can be made to a particular stock. Further, the purpose of the work is to combine the fuzzy approach for closer representation with reference to stock selection problem in a non-linear and uncertain environment. For demonstration, data set is taken from National Stock Exchange (NSE) for a period of 6 years (1st April, 2011 to 31st March, 2017). The proposed model will serve both ranking and assigning weight procedures to the selected stocks.
Review of the Issues and Governance of Genetically Modified Organism in Malaysia
Authors: Hafis Aliaziz Mohamad , Ab Rahma Suhaimi
Published: April 2019

This paper discusses the issues of modern practice of biotechnology in Malaysia. As a developing country, Malaysia is putting a lot of effort on the development of biotechnology which is targeted to be a new economic engine for the country. Although the modern biotechnology with the focus in producing genetically modified products seems to give many benefits, but it has raised concerns on several issues arising out of the use of the modified organisms.  Thus, a good governance of GMO is required to control the issues so that it can reduce the concerns over safety and halal issues. It is suggested that although the government has introduced laws that govern the practice of biotechnology, it still requires improvement so it can provide overall control to the practice of modern biotechnology in Malaysia.
Competencies of Indonesian Architects with Sosio Cultural Ecology: Anatomy based on Architect Background
Authors: Wijaksono Sigit , . Sasmoko , Indrianti Yasinta , Anindyo Wid Samuel
Published: April 2019

The architect's background becomes a key factor determining its success which is reflected through the competence of the architect itself. And the diversity of architectural backgrounds provided the basis for this research. The study aims to see if there are differences in the competence of Indonesian architects if distinguished based on demographic background and architectural work, and what architect's background is the most powerful in determining its competence. A neuroresearch method is a method applied in this research. The results showed that there are differences in the competence of Indonesian architects if differentiated based on demographic background and architectural works. The second research result is the number of projects handled by Architects is a very decisive variable to realize the Indonesian architects become more competent.
Data Mining: a Three-Step of Real-Time Audit Paradigm
Authors: Anindyo Widhoyoko Samuel , . Sasmoko , Biantara Dheny , Sugiarto Bambang
Published: April 2019

One problem in business is the aspect of reporting through the process of financial audit. The problem with conventional audit is highlighted in this research through literature review of Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS) regarding to the issues of (1) risk assessment, (2) sampling methods, and (3) going concern analysis. This research further describes all these issues in the light of efficient audit process. The method used is exploratory, engaging comprehensive literature review from the perspectives of forensic accounting and information system. The output is to build a three-step financial audit paradigm embedding (1) exploratory data analysis and descriptive modelling in risk assessment, (2) predictive and association analysis in sampling, and (3) grounded professional judgement in going concern analysis.
The Role of Emotional Intelligence in the Performance of an Organisation with 2 Mediating Variables: a Case Study Approach
Authors: Tee Suan .Chin Susan , Dr. Rosman Prof
Published: April 2019

As organisations enter the 21st century, the dynamism of the business environment has certainly increased its pace. The external environment especially the technological element has accelerated the changes in the business platform. Many organisations who are unable to keep up with these changes has to wrap up. Those in the business needs to look for a strong strategic asset which can be used not only for sustainability but to propel the business into higher realms. In the 1980s-1990s, a few studies have highlighted the usage of emotional intelligence as a source of performance among their employees. The purpose of this study is to study the role of emotional intelligence in the performance of an organisation with 2 mediating variables. A case study approach has been used in this study. It was found that with the mediating variables in play, the role of emotional intelligence has certainly enhanced.
The Influence of Socially Responsible-HRM Practices on Retaining Talents
Authors: Ali Rawshdeh Zainab , Zain Zaher , Rosnita Ismail Ida
Published: April 2019

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Talent Management (TM) are at pivotal point in their development. However, the absence of rigorous studies that explore the relationship between Talent Retention and dimensions of CSR in the literature is surprising. Thus, the attempt of current research is to address this gap in the literature, by studying the effect of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on talent retention. And to contribute to the body of the literature by providing further insights about the importance of CSR to TM. Also, by adopting Socially Responsible HRM practices as different CSR practices that can affect organizational retention through different processes and impact stakeholders in different way. Furthermore, it answers recent calls for additional research about the impact of CSR on retaining talents, and on how integrating CSR into the culture of the organization could provide the organization with valuable conception in the talent retention.
Service Quality, Satisfaction and Trust: a Study of Public Hospitals in Bandung, Indonesia
Authors: Susan Marcellia , . .
Published: April 2019

Research on service quality has been performed by researchers on various research objects. In many previous studies, service quality provided by service providers became the factor that affects customer satisfaction and other various research variables. The study was conducted at public hospitals that offer healthcare services with a focus on service quality. The purpose of this study was to analyze the service quality provided by public hospitals, and to test their effect on the satisfaction and trust of patients or attendants. The objects of this research are the public hospitals in Bandung with the patients or attendants as the unit of analysis. Primary data were obtained through the dissemination of questionnaires on patients or attendants to obtain data on their evaluation of service quality of public hospitals, and their satisfaction and trust towards public hospitals. Obtained data was processed using structural equation modeling to confirm causality of related research variable. The results depict the service quality provided by public hospitals in Bandung covering infrastructure, personnel quality, clinical care process, administrative procedures, safety indicators, and social responsibility. Moreover, the results of hypothesis testing show that service quality has an influence on patient satisfaction, and ultimately affects their trust in the hospital.
Influence of Ethical Leadership Practices in Developing Trust in Leaders: a Pilot Study on Malaysian Secondary Schools
Authors: Siva Vikaraman Sharmini , Norhaini Mansor Azlin , Izham Mohd Hamzah Mohd
Published: April 2019

Significant school leadership involves the ability to influence, motivate and; change teacher work behavior patterns towards achieving positive work place attitude and organizational goals. This quantitative correlational case study, aims at identifying the level of ethical leadership and trust in leader practiced by leaders, presenting facts and figures that determines the influence of ethical leadership practices in developing trust in leader that is presumed to lead to better work place behaviours. This cross-sectional study is a pilot survey which collected 31 national secondary school teachers’ perception on their school principal’s ethical leadership practices and their trust on their leaders through an on-line survey. The Ethical Leadership at Work and Trust in Leader questionnaire used in this study were strongly reliable with Cronbach Alpha values of 0.965 and 0.981 respectively.  Results showed level of ethical leadership practiced among secondary school principals and trust in their principal are both at high level. Findings also shows that ethical leadership correlated positively in the development of trust in leaders. The two practices of ethical leadership that showed very strong significant impact on developing trust in leaders were integrity and people orientation. The results encourage other researchers to explore the practice of ethical leadership with a larger sample, different variables and aims with the goal of improving leadership roles and teacher work performance.
Principals’ Instructional Leadership towards Teachers' Self-Efficacy
Authors: Isa Medina Machmudi Isa Nitce , Norhaini Mansor Azlin , Lail Abdul Wahab Jamalul , Salwana Alias Bity
Published: April 2019

Principals’ instructional leadership practices have proved to be an imperative predictor to teachers’ self-efficacy. Yet, educators are concerned about the ability to adapt to new instructional leaderships due to unspoken principal-teacher expectations. This paper discusses the extent of instructional leadership practices by two newly transferred principals at two different schools. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine how their instructional leadership practices affected the self-efficacy of the teachers. Through the use of a cross-sectional survey, responses made by 64 teachers employed in one public school and one privately-run school, were compared. The Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) Teacher Short Form and the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) were used for data collection. The findings showed a high level of instructional leadership practices and self-efficacy in both schools. The test results indicated a strong and positive relationship between the principals’ perceived instructional leadership practices and the teachers’ self-efficacy. Some of the details even suggested that newly transferred principals enforce specific school goals as their main agenda. Nevertheless, the areas of significance identified by this study may help district school superintendents develop the right knowledge to support newly transferred principals in their instructional leadership, thus enhancing teachers’ self-efficacy at the school level.
The Relationship between Professional Competence and Productivity and its Impacts on Teachers’ Job Satisfaction at Junior High School Rawajitu Timur Lampung
Authors: Made Wahyu Sudrajad I , Yusoff Mohd Nor Mohamed , . Karwono , Suliman Ashairi , Ihsan Dacholfany M , Norhaini Mansor Azlin , Hanim A. Hamid Aida , Dewi Setyowati Ratna , . Lismayanti
Published: April 2019

Teachers’ job satisfaction is an interesting and imperative issue for both teachers and educational institutions. Job satisfaction enhances the quality of teacher's life. As for the educational institutions, the stability of job satisfaction level will establish a balance between and smoothness of productivity and professional teachers’ competence. This study identifies the relationship between professional competence and teachers’ productivity and its impacts on teachers’ job satisfaction. Using questionnaires as the research instrument, this quantitative study revolves around the context of Rawajitu Timur Lampung. For this study, 44 teachers from three different high schools were selected as the respondents. A descriptive analysis generated revealed high levels of professional competence, teachers’ productivity, and teachers’ job satisfaction. Using Pearson correlation, the result showed that there was a significant positive relationship between professional competence and teachers’ productivity towards teachers’ job satisfaction, respectively. In addition, multiple regression analysis revealed that the combination of professional competence and teachers’ productivity increased teachers’ job satisfaction. The finding demonstrated the area of teachers’ job satisfaction and related factors to fathom greater the relationship between teachers' professional competence and productivity. Taking into account the results of the study, educational institutions may boost teachers’ professional competence and productivity to nurture job satisfaction.
Service Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from Malaysia
Authors: Le Salleh Hudin Norlai , Osman Juliana , Mohd Shokory Suzyanty , Ab Wahid Hariyati
Published: April 2019

The conventional lecture teaching style designed by our education system is becoming less relevant in meeting the millennial students’ learning necessities. Common lecture seems no longer adequate in developing an engaging and effective lesson for the graduates. For that reason, Malaysian Ministry of Education suggests SERVICE-LEARNING (SL) to be conducted to supplement student learning. Nevertheless, prior studies on SL effectiveness showed mixed results. Therefore, this study is conducted to understand and provide a detailed account of students’ learning development in a higher education institution in Malaysia. By employing the qualitative methodology, 39 students participated in SL project were interviewed to understand students’ learning development. The responses were transcribed verbatim and analyzed by using thematic analysis. The results revealed that knowledge and skills developed meaningfully through SL unlike in typical classroom setting where knowledge is expected to flow effectively from lecturers to students without real world experience or lasting impact. However, some students were found to understand the lesson slightly different from their peers. This research provides guidelines for course instructors to design SL in academic courses and improve student learning for the purpose of realizing Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025.
The Influence of Land Use Change and Spatial Discretization of Middle - Lower Ciliwung Sub-Watershed on Flood Hydrograph at Manggarai Weir : a Preliminary Study
Authors: Eko Wahyuning Tiyas Nonik , Sutjiningsih Dwita
Published: April 2019

Jakarta is a lowland area with 40% of its territory at an elevation below the sea level so it is very vulnerable to flooding. One of out many causes floods in Jakarta is by the overflow of the Ciliwung River. The Ciliwung Watershed has a very strategic value in Indonesia because the Ciliwung River is one of thirteen rivers crossing the nation's capital. The rapid urbanization and population growth led to an increasing impervious area in the Ciliwung Watershed which resulted in a flood hydrograph change. This research aims to determine the influence of land use change, which is taking into account the spatial discretization and the riparian characteristic of Middle - Lower Ciliwung Sub-Watershed on flood hydrograph at Manggarai Weir. This research reviews the related literature on the implementation of HEC-GeoHMS version 10.1 developed by US Army Corps of Engineers (2013) to estimate the effect of land use change on flood hydrographs by taking into account the characteristics of the riparian described descriptively and present arguments to claim that the discretization spatial method can provide significantly more flood hydrographs results with existing conditions.
Factors Influencing the Success of Teaching of Universitas Pgri Semarang Students in International PPL Program in Malaysia
Authors: . Muhdi , Widodo Suwarno , Buchori Achmad , Ambarini Ririn , Fadhila Nur
Published: April 2019

The rapid development of science and technology requires universities to prepare competent human resources in their fields, one of which is the ability in teaching practice in schools. To improve the students’ ability in teaching practice in both  Indonesia and overseas schools, it requires a strategic effort, such as exchange student program. Therefore, Universitas PGRI Semarang conducts MOU with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia. Through this program, the students are  expected to be able to adapt the character learning and  become a professional teacher in the future.Factors influencing the success of the students in joining the exchange program can be seen from the internal and external aspects. Therefore the purpose of this study is to determine what factors influence the success of teacher students of Universitas PGRI Semarang in Malaysia. The population of all students who joined the international PPL program in Malaysia is 18 students with random sampling for students teaching in grade 4 and 5. The data  were obtained from questionnaire and interview.Based on the questionnaire, it is found that 95% of Universitas PGRI Semarang students are very pleased to join the International PPL program in Malaysia, as the cultural environment similar to the Indonesian nation give the easier adaptation process. Based on the interview with the students, the benefits of this program are as follows: 1) 90 % of students claim to gain new life and social experiences; 2) 87 % of students get additional knowledge about education in Malaysia; 3) 92% of students get strong fraternity from other apprentice students of other state / private universities, and 4) only 30%  of students are constrained by the language difficulties, 30% of students have difficulties in learning time, and 20% of students have difficulties in funding.
Halal Logo, Beauty Blogger & Halal Marketing Package : Which One is the Most Influencing Factors that Lead into Purchase Decision on Halal Cosmetic
Authors: Utami Putri Telisiah
Published: April 2019

Halal cosmetic becomes more popular today, and soon or later shall be perceived as a necessity. Halal products themselves are identical with the presence of halal logo on the product or packaging, however does halal logo enough to stimulate consumer to choose a certain halal cosmetic brand?.Consumer nowadays are exposed with more options of communication from many brands, both digital and non-digital media are presented to today’s consumer, in response to current situation manufacturer has to understand kind of media that might significantly affect their consumer behavior. In digital media the presence of beauty bloggers are started to get consumer’s attention and suddenly become a new reference for seeking information of a new product, however the presence of convential halal marketing package is still undeniable, kind of models with hijab and Islamic message on the communication of is also considered  play significant role in building consumer perceptions.This study aims to find out whether halal logo, beauty blogger or conventional halal marketing package is the most significant factor to create consumer positive perception that will ultimately determine purchase decision to buy halal cosmetic products.The study is conducted in Jakarta and Surabaya via on-line survey through WhatsApp mobile application to those active users of social media ages 20-50 y.o and using mass-market cosmetic. Mobile application  is chosen in order to get spesific target respondents who are members of social media. Using structural questionnaire, up loaded digitally by using Google forms, that been delivered by using smartphone through WhatsApp mobile application within 1 week of field study.Findings reveals if conventional halal marketing package is still more significant to create positive perception, followed with Halal logo and beauty blogger.
IOT Based Vehicle Speed Control Automatically in Restricted Areas using RFID
Authors: N. V. Satyanarayana K , Yaswanthini G , L. Kartheeka P , Rajkumar N
Published: April 2019

Now-a-days road accidents are occurring frequently, due to rash driving of people.  The most unfortunate thing is that by making small mistakes during driving, we lost our valuable future. If we observe, most of the accidents will occur at school zones, parks, hospitals, hill areas and highways. Even a police also can’t monitor all such kind of accidents. So in order to reduce the number of accidents and to control the vehicle speed the highway department has placed the signboards. But it is difficult to observe such kind of signboards and hence accidents will occur. This paper will provide a new way for controlling the speed of the vehicle without harming others. In this paper, we are using RFID module to limit vehicle speed. The RF transmitter will be placed at first and last of the restricted areas and RFID receiver should be placed inside the vehicle. The vehicle speed was obtained by speedometer which is available in vehicle. And that speed is compared and monitored by the controller. If the vehicle speed exceeds the limited speed, It automatically controls the speed of the vehicle according to that particular zone. Hence, automatically the speed reduced. If there is any emergency, a switch will be available in the vehicle. When the switch is ON, the speed is not controlled automatically. The vehicle which is switched ON, that vehicle number was stored in cloud. Here the main purpose of cloud is it loads the route map of the vehicle.
Stability Analysis of Networked Control System Using LMI Approach
Authors: Sharma Richa , Nagaria Deepak
Published: April 2019

Networked control system is a closed loop system in which information or data travel through the communication network. The presence of communication network will increase time delay and information losses. Due to these losses and delay the performance of the system decreases. This paper represents an analysis to find the stability of the networked control system with the varying time hindrances present in the network. In this research, it has been assumed that the delay in time is less than the sampling period. The stability conditions for NCS have been procured with the use of the Lyapunov function approach and has been described in terms of LMI(Linear Matrix Inequality).This examination confirm the adequate state of stability through MATLAB simulation and the numerical case demonstrates the outcome.