bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Review on the Methods to Solve Combinatorial Optimization Problems Particularly: Quadratic Assignment Model
Authors: Shakir Hameed Asaad , Mohd Aboobaider Burhanuddin , Hea Choon Ngo , Lafta Mutar Modhi , Habib Bilal Wassim 
Published: April 2019

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is one of the fundamental combinatorial optimization problem (COPs) in the branch of optimization or operation research in mathematics, from the category of the Facilities Location Problems (FLPs). The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) be appropriate to the group of NP-hard issues and is measured as a challenging problem of the combinatorial optimization. QAP in Location Theory considers one of the problems of facilities tracing which the rate of locating a facility be determined by the spaces between facilities as well as the communication among the further facilities. QAP was presented in 1957 by Beckman and Koopmans as they were attempting to model a problem of facilities location. To survey the researcher’s works for QAP and applied, the mapped research landscape outlines literature into a logical classification and discovers this field basic characteristics represented on the motivation to use the quadratic assignment problem applied in hospital layout and campus planning. This survey achieved a concentrated each QAP article search in three key databases: Web of Science, Science Direct, and IEEE Xplore. Those databases are regarded extensive adequate in covering QAP and the methods utilized in solving QAP.
A Systematic Literature Review on Risk Factors in Software Development Outsourcing
Authors: Abd Wahab Alawiyah , Piak San Teh 
Published: April 2019

Software development outsourcing has become a prevalent practice in the software industry. Organizations in both public and private sectors are adopting software development outsourcing in order to achieve lower cost and to access to skilled labour. However, it is widely recognized that outsourced software development projects involve risks and sometimes leads to undesirable consequences. Existing research in the software engineering and related areas have identified several risks in the software development outsourcing projects such as lack of communication and technical skills. The aim of this paper is to examine the literature on outsourced software development in order to identify some risks that could occur during the pre-contract, contract and post-contract phases of the outsourcing life cycle. It is anticipated that by understanding these risks, project managers could better manage them and subsequently increase the possibility of the success of outsourcing project. A systematic literature review of studies on software development outsourcing published in year 2005 to year 2015 was conducted. Of 41 studies consulted, 18 were concerned with outsourcing software development risk factors. The top three risk factors identified are lack of required technical skills and competencies (61%), lack of communication (44%) and poorly articulated requirements (44%).Â Â
Green Human Resource Management Bundle Practices and Manufacturing Organizations for Performance Optimization: a Conceptual Model
Authors: A. Zaid Ahmed , Talib Bon Talib , A.M. Jaaron Ayham 
Published: April 2019

As growing amount of studies have focused on green human resources management (GHRM) practices that incorporate ecological thinking, these practices are expected to affect environmental impact of organizations. GHRM can help them achieve green corporate culture and enhance their performance. In this paper, GHRM practices as a bundle is taken into account instead of individual, which give numerous benefits to the organizations. This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between GHRM bundle practices and four dimensions of organization performance. This paper also proposes a conceptual model to exhibit the relationship between GHRM bundle practices and organization performance. Hence, manufacturing firms can identify an effective approach for applying GHRM practices that contribute to organizational performance.Â Â
Polyvinyl Alcohol-Alginate Adsorbent Beads for Chromium (VI) Removal
Authors: Te Chuan Lee , Manap Norpadzlihatun , Zuhudi Abdullah Hasan , Izwana Idris Maizlinda 
Published: April 2019

Chromium pollution has been an increasing concern worldwide because of its high toxicity and carcinogenic properties, and it requires an efficient purification technique. In this study, adsorbent beads containing polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and sodium alginate were prepared by crosslinking with boric acid and calcium chloride for adsorbent of the hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)]. Batch adsorption studies were conducted to evaluate Cr (VI) adsorption rates of PVA-alginate beads from aqueous solution under ultraviolet (UV) light illumination. The surface morphology and elemental composition of beads were examined using field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS), respectively. This study revealed that the Cr (VI) adsorption rates increased remarkably with dosages of PVA and sodium alginate. This occurred mainly due to the increasing number of the active sites for adsorption. The results revealed that adsorbent beads with 12 g of PVA and 2.5 g sodium alginate beads exhibited superior Cr (VI) adsorption efficiency at which it is completely removed after 1.5 hours. The findings of this study indicate that PVA-sodium alginate beads are a viable option for Cr (VI) removal from industrial wastewater.Â Â
Exploring the Dynamic Organizational Culture on Ethics and Compliance: Engineering Perspective
Authors: Khalid Khalizani , E. Eldakak Sam 
Published: April 2019

To evaluate engineering ethics and the practical compliance practices, the practitioners must understand the dimensions affect ethics and compliance in the engineering community. This study attempts to explore the dimensions of dynamic organization culture, and it affects ethics and compliance in the engineering community. This framework will contribute to the literature of engineering ethics in the context applied ethics since a handful of studies conducted in this domain. Thus, there is a need for a comprehensive model to connect the elements of dynamic organizational culture on engineering ethics and compliance due to the scarcity of literature on engineering ethics and compliance. Since no single method to measure this context in every industry, the transcendental phenomenological approach allows for the cognitive understanding the extent of multiple domains of dynamic organizational culture in engineering ethics and compliance. Dimensions important to engineering ethics and compliance from the perspective of dynamic organizational culture are identified and defined to construct the framework. Â Â Â
Integrated Dynamical Model for Malaysian Solid Waste Management Using System Dynamics
Authors: Zulkipli Faridah , Mohd Nopiah Zulkifli , Ezlin Ahamad Basri Noor , Jack Kie Cheng , Zulkepli Jafri , Irwan Khalid Khairul 
Published: April 2019

Solid waste management is considered as one of the complex and dynamics problems worldwide due to rapid population, changing life style, urbanization process towards sustainable development and uncontrollable increment in solid waste generation. An efficient performance of solid waste management is depending on systematic strategic planning. The aim of this paper is to develop an integrated dynamical model to simulate the complexity of solid waste management in Malaysia. System dynamics as one of optimization methodology is applied in order to illustrate the continuous process in solid waste management Malaysia. As a result, an increasing trend of solid waste generation over time. By 2025, it is forecasted that total waste will be more than 15 million tonnes. Based on developed proposed model, the main factor to solid waste generation is population. However, in order to reduce the total solid waste, we cannot simply reduce the population Therefore; further actions are needed in order to reduce the total solid waste generation. The proposed model is capable of assisting the decision maker to determine the effectiveness of solid waste management practices especially in strategies planning and system design improvement.Â Â
Geometric-Gamma Collective Modified Value-at-Risk Model in Life Insurance Risk
Authors: Iqbal Al-Banna Ismail Muhammad , . Sukono , Talib BIN Bon Abdul , Hidayat Yuyun , Lesmana Eman , Supian Sudradjat 
Published: April 2019

Claim risk is a payment made by the insurance company to the policyholder. Actuaries in insurance companies should be able to measure and control the risk of claims, in order to avoid losses to insurance companies. In this paper we analyze the Geometric-Gamma Collective Modified Value-at-Risk model in life insurance risk. In this research, there is a development of claim risk measure called Collective Modified Value-at-Risk, which is an extension of Collective Risk model. This Collective Modified Value-at-Risk model requires estimation of the mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis parameters. The result of this research, is that the extent of this model can be applied to the risk of claims amount of non-normal distributed. Thus, the Collective Modified Value-at-Risk model can serve as one of the statistical alternatives for measuring the risk of claims on life insurance.Â Â
Reserve Potential Sandy Clay as a Raw Materials Cement Village Hambalang, County Citeureup District Bogor Province Jawabarat â€“ Indonesia
Authors: Syahrulyati Teti , Irianto Singgih , Suhendi Yusup 
Published: April 2019

Administratively the research area is in Hambalang Village Kec. Citeureup Kab. Bogor West Java, travel time to the location of the city of Bogor for 60 minutes by motor vehicle, the area of research around 1732 ha. The existence of sedimentary rocks in the form of limestones and batulempung is utilized by one cement factory in Indonesia as raw material of cement. Measurement and sampling is done to know the amount of measured reserves. Analysis of the content of oxide compounds is done by AAS method to determine the levels of the compounds they contain. The results of the calculations of SiO2 and Al2O3 are abbreviated as (AI = alumina Index) and the pattern of distribution is made with the aim that the mining process becomes effective, efficient and directed. The method use to principle of the concept of three-point method is used as the basis for making contours of the distribution of compounds contained. Drilling data, chemical analysis, DTM (Digital Terain Modeling) data and Isoline data generated were obtained using Autoclan 3D map 2015 and Autoplan Geomo. The calculation of reserves (AI / Alumina Indek 3.21 - 3.70%) with the highest reserves 1,643,814 Tones. The smallest reserve (AI quality 5.00 - 6.01%) is 199,980 Tones. This research resulted in a map of the distribution of Alumina index, so as to facilitate the extraction and very helpful in executing the area / block that must be mined.Â Â
Knowledge of Five-Tier Fish Farming
Authors: Punya Lertgrai Dr. , . . , . . 
Published: April 2019

A study about the knowledge of five-tier fish farming was conducted in order to study:1) the learning process and Â knowledge about the five-tier fish farming, andÂ 2) the process of developing a five-tier fish farming model using qualitative research. By analysing and synthesising, the researcher tried to develop knowledge and lessons on how to solve farmersâ€™ problems. Using knowledge about the nature of the fish, the aim was to develop a fish farming model in the target area. The research found that five-tier fish farming is well suited to lowland conditions when there is a canal nearby and family members can be used. Knowledge about the right management style will enable farmers to live well in their community. By learning, observing, monitoring and investigating phenomena happen and using the obtained knowledge to develop continuously and with academic and government support, farmers can obtain their goals. Educational field trips, listening to new ideas and analysis of talks with knowledgeable people will also be useful. The model obtained in this way will have to be tried out and periodically evaluated with input from the grassroots. Knowledge obtained through small-scale experiments can then be used on a bigger scale in order to expand the results. Small experiments in five-tier fish culture can be used as the learning base for the process of naturally raising fish. The learning process must be self-directed through development and evaluation of knowledge and wisdom. This has to be done by observation, analysis and self-management of various models. The results of any evaluation should be discussed with knowledgeable experts. Then turn back to the development stage and to further trials. Development should be analysed using the Spiral Model to achieve better results and to finally arrive at a form of five-tier fish farming that is suitable to the environment of each area.Â Â
GFRecog: a Generic Framework with Significant Feature Selection Approach for Face Recognition
Authors: Rahef Nuiaa Riyadh , Ali Abdulhussein Seif , Kareem Mohammed Bahaa 
Published: April 2019

Identification of Humans uniquely is given paramount importance in the contemporary world. It is evident in applications of all fields so as to ensure secure and accurate transactions. Out of many approaches biometric approach became a dependable mechanism for this purpose. Face is one of the biometrics that plays vital role in recognizing humans across the globe. Many approaches came into existence for face recognition. In this paper we proposed a generic framework known as GFRecog that is extendable to support future methods of face recognition as well. We propose a methodology for face recognition using Gabor wavelets by extracting significant features from training dataset and perform matching operation with the given input image. Projection of face images onto a feature space that reflects diversity of face images is considered an efficient approach. Our approach works with faces that are captured under different lighting conditions, expression and pose. We built a prototype application using MATLAB with a benchmark dataset to demonstrate the proof of concept. The empirical results revealed that the accuracy of the proposed face recognition method is significantly high.Â Â
Factors Affecting Bankruptcy in Malaysian Listed Companies
Authors: Patricia Zoe , R Suganthi , R Devinaga , Yeen Yen Yuen , . Shalini 
Published: April 2019

In a number of studies bankruptcy has been known to bring about the downfall and embarrassment of firms as well as destroying a lot of careers. On the other hand for bankruptcy of corporate institutions, factors such as accounting aspects that include, profitability, leverage as well as liquidity are mainly the core of this issue as mentioned by Boettcher, Cavanagh, and Xu (1). Nowadays corporate governance has been added into the mix. In order to support both affected and smoothly running firms, it is crucial for researchers to investigate all the aspects of the management of the firm as expressed in their annual reports. The methods focused on in this research includes the models such as, multicollinearity, polled least square model and finally the fixed effect model. The annual reports and indexes were used to get values in the measurements. This study found that corporate governance, firm size and profitability were not significant to the bankruptcy of the firm. However, Liquidity and leverage contributed to firm bankruptcy. In conclusion, this study is generally meant to explore the impact of different factors that probably contributed to bankruptcy among Malaysian firms.
Redevelopment of buildings in Mumbai city: risks and challenges
Authors: Vanvari Vinod , Sumedh Mhaske Dr 
Published: April 2019

In most cities of developing countries, old buildings always tend to undergo redevelopment. There are one or more than one reasons for this. Such as buildings which are in dilapidated condition or uneconomic to repair or tenants are in a need of more usable floor area. This activity of building redevelopment is much visible in Mumbai city for past decade and half. Because of various constraints and considerations, this process of projects of building redevelopment is quite complex. It takes considerable efforts and time to accomplish the projects. If a proper and time bound process is not followed, or if the risks, uncertainties and challenges are not handled properly, even a seemingly simple project can fail, thereby causing great anguish and hardship to the stakeholders. Sometimes this may lead to prolonged litigation. There is a need to identify risks and challenges involved in the process of building redevelopment projects. The aim of researchers is to interact with all the stakeholders of building development projects of housing societies and identify various risks and challenges visa-a-vis gains. The study has also revealed various pitfalls and uncertainties related to these projects. This will enable concerned stakeholders to prepare to address these.
Model Implementation of Quality Management System ISO 9001: 2008 Study on Motives, Benefits, Obstacles, and Success Factors
Authors: . Adman , . Rasto , Sarino Alit , Yatimah Durotul 
Published: April 2019

The problems are formulated as follows: ISO 9001: 2008 certification focuses more on proving compliance with standards and has not accommodated the needs of the education world to meet the expectations of stakeholders as well as continuous improvement of organizational performance. The need for implementation of Quality Management System in education sector becomes important. The focus of this research is to describe the condition of motives, benefits, obstacles and success factors of ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Management System. The research method used is explanatory survey method with descriptive analysis technique. The population of research states vocational school in Bandung and the sample is the manager of Quality Management System. The results describe the condition of motives, benefits, obstacles and success factors of implementation of ISO 9001: 2008 quality management. The motives categorical are high, high benefit, medium barriers and factors of high category success. This means that the impetus of the school to apply ISO is very good, the benefits of good ISO implementation and success factors in the application of ISO is very good, while in its application there are still barriers in the medium category. Implementation of ISO 9001: 2008 quality management becomes a very important thing to improve the competitiveness of state vocational school in Bandung. A serious effort is required in implementing the ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Management system..
Moral Disengagement in Middle School Students: Survey in Religious Education
Authors: . Yufiarti , Nuraini Sri , Solihin Muhammad , Rachmadtullah Reza 
Published: April 2019

Indonesian culture has many schools which based on religion. The main objective of the Islamic school is to make their students have moral or wonderful behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate moral disengagement of students at religious education. This survey on 171 students included female and male. Data analysis used descriptive as graph and percentage. Children can enroll to the religious schools. Profile shows that many children varieties such as gender, age. Student’s at moral disengagement was multiple diverse.
Professional Learning Community in Malaysia
Authors: Hassan Roslizam , Ahmad Jamilah , Boon Yusof 
Published: April 2019

The professional learning community (PLC) is a platform for teachers to share their opinions and experiences especially with respect to the quality of teaching and learning processes (PdP). This partnership gives teachers more added value because they have the opportunity to improve their self-esteem and to keep in pace with the developments in the education world. This concept paper will discuss a number of issues related to PLCs such as PLC's background and development, PLC definitions, the development of PLC concept, PLC models and the issues and challenges that exist in implementing PLC. The analysis was done in the context of Malaysia and abroad. The paper is written based on extensive secondary data analysis. After examining all matters related to PLC, it can be concluded that PLC is a form of partnership that every school teacher needs to practice either in the context of education in Malaysia or anywhere in order to drive excellence in a school. With a lot of challenges nowadays regarding the implementation of PLC, this issue needs to be addressed so that the quality of teachers can be enhanced and will further influence the students' academic achievement.
Gender as a Moderator of the Influence Entrepreneurial Education and Entrepreneurial Characteristics on Entrepreneurial Intention
Authors: Kusmintarti Anik , Ismanu Sidik , Indah Riwajanti Nur 
Published: April 2019

The Indonesian government continuously strives to increase the number of entrepreneurs, and universities are expected to play an active role in fostering entrepreneurial spirit among students. This study was aimed to analyze the role of gender as a moderator of entrepreneurial education influence and entrepreneurial characteristics on entrepreneurial intention. Population of the study was the students of the State Polytechnic of Malang who have involved in the Student Entrepreneurial Program in 2015 and 2016. The study used judgment sampling technique to select the respondent and the data collected through questionnaires distribution. Data analysis used descriptive statistics and moderation regression analysis. The results of study show that gender does not moderate the influence of entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial characteristics on entrepreneurial intention. The result can be interpreted as nothing difference in the intention of opening new business in the future for male and female students who have followed entrepreneurship lecture, entrepreneurship seminar, entrepreneurship expo, and business practices. Furthermore, there is not difference in the motivation of opening new business in the future for male and female students who have characteristics : self-efficacy, need for achievement and social networking. Self-efficacy contributed the highest in supporting the entrepreneurial characteristics.
Learners’ Perspective on Critical Factors to Cloud VLE Success: an Empirical Investigation
Authors: K Rahimah , H Nor Aziati A , H.B Adnan , N Latipah , A Maizurah 
Published: April 2019

The use of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in academic institutions is becoming an imperative for many institutions. The growth of the advanced education system now is depending on the increased of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) technology utilization. Education institution communities are encouraged to adopt a variety of VLE technology to support the process of teaching and learning. The objective of this research is to measure perspective of VLE acceptance among lecturers in the context of Moodle application by using data from 541 lecturers at selected Higher Education Institutions. A framework of research constructed based on a comprehensive study on the theory of service quality and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Eight factors hypothesized which consist of five independent variables; organization support, knowledge support, technical assistance, system characteristics and lecturer style and innovation, two belief variables; perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use and one dependent variable; behavioral intention to use the VLE. All the factors were tested to determine whether they are important in influencing future use of the VLE and statistical analysis methods determined the key driving factors. Results of regression analysis showed that university lecturers have an above average level of VLE acceptance with the very high level of significant value.