Che wan Jasimah

University of Malaya | UM · Department of Science and Technology Studies(STS

Two of the essential IT investment options that managers resort are supply chain management and enterpriseresource planning. These options are known in the relevant literature as factors contributing to the enhancementof organizational performance. The objective of this study is to investigate the enterprise resource planningadoption and its influe...

Background: Combination trend treatment use herbal and conventional medicines, respectively gradually move going to approach integrative. Use herbal medicine is considered correlated more near with attitudes and beliefs public because can increase immunity body and eliminate worries effect side to drug pharmacy. This is also proven with various typ...

Malaysian manufacturing firms play an important role in the country’s social and economic development. However, the industry faces challenges in productivity and competitiveness due to rapid globalization and economic instabilities affecting countries worldwide. To address these challenges, technological capability has become an essential requireme...

The increasing urbanization of the world has created new issues and challenges for the modern food industry to meet customers’ changing demands. To address these issues, these firms need to invest in technological capability development. This study examines factors that affect the technological capability of food manufacturing firms. A large-scale...

Background: Concern on cosmetic safety has been a subject of interest in recent years, and is commonly associated with the exposure of the consumers to chemicals and impurities such as mercury contamination. Moreover, cancellations of notified cosmetic products were recurrently being reported by the Malaysia authority, namely the National Pharmace...

The ingredients of cosmetic products are the mixture of chemical substances derived from natural or synthetic sources. The substances are used as either active (functional) or excipient (additional) ingredients. The source of origin of the ingredients is a critical point for the determination of halal status. Halal is an Arabic word that means thin...

The ingredients of cosmetic products are the mixture of chemical substances derived from natural or synthetic sources. The substances are used as either active (functional) or excipient (additional) ingredients. The source of origin of the ingredients is a critical point for the determination of halal status. Halal is an Arabic word that means thin...

Background Since the last decade, postpartum depression (PPD) has been recognized as a significant public health problem, and several factors have been linked to PPD. Mothers at risk are rarely undetected and underdiagnosed. Our study aims to determine the factors leading to symptoms of depression using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis....

Background Skin whitening products are in the high trend of demand for skin beautifying and lightening. Sources of ingredients for cosmetics could be natural, semi‐synthetic, and synthetic that may affect the halal status of a product. The lack of scientific evidence on the safety and risks of such ingredients is a major concern to many consumers....

As postpartum obesity is becoming a global public health challenge, there is a need to apply postpartum obesity modeling to determine the indicators of postpartum obesity using an appropriate statistical technique. This research comprised two phases, namely: i) development of a previously created postpartum obesity modeling; ii) construction of a s...

Background: Pregnancy has become the main constituent for women to become overweight or obese during the postpartum phase. This could lead women to suffer from postpartum depression as well. Information technology (IT) has become more prevalent in the healthcare industry. It offers patients the opportunity to manage their health conditions via the...

Campylobacter jejuni is a major foodborne pathogen causing acute bacterial enteritis worldwide. Screening of novel bacteriophages as biocontrol tools to eliminate C. jejuni in food during pre‐ and postharvest is an emerging research field. In this study, we partially characterized C. jejuni bacteriophage CJ01 for potential use as biocontrol agent....

Quantifiable levels of 3-chloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD) and 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol (1,3-DCP) were found in domestically manufactured soy-based sauces. Selected commercial foods in the Malaysian market (n = 43) were analyzed for their 3-MCPD and 1,3-DCP contents using a validated gas chromatography-mass spectrometry technique. The 3-MCPD and 1,3-D...

In obesity modelling studies, researchers have been seeking to identify the effective indicators of obesity by using appropriate statistical or mathematical techniques. The main objective of the present study is addressed in three stages. First, a new framework for modelling obesity in university students is introduced. The second stage involves da...

Kitchen mishandling practices contribute to a large number of foodborne illnesses. In this study, the transfer and cross-contamination potential of Vibrio parahaemolyticus from bloody clams to ready-to-eat food (lettuce) was assessed. Three scenarios were investigated: 1) direct cross-contamination, the transfer of V. parahaemolyticus from bloody c...

Through public health studies, specifically on child obesity modeling, research scholars have been attempting to identify the factors affecting obesity using suitable statistical techniques. In recent years, regression, structural equation modeling (SEM) and partial least squares (PLS) regression have been the most widely employed statistical model...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of Salmonella spp., Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium in retail beef from different retail markets of Selangor area, as well as, to assess their pathogenic potential and antimicrobial resistance. A total of 240 retail beef meat samples (chuck = 60; rib = 60; round = 60;...

Learning is an intentional activity, with several factors affecting students’ intention to use new learning technology. Researchers have investigated technology acceptance in different contexts by developing various theories/models and testing them by a number of means. Although most theories/models developed have been examined through regression o...

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This research aims to empirically compare the multidimensionality of total quality management and its impact firm sustainability in the halal and non-halal food manufacturing in Malaysia. Based on existing studies, we consider six scopes total quality management include strategic planning, leadership, customer focus, human resource management, proc...

The productions of halal food from farm to table are very challenging in our new modern world. Furthermore manufacturing in world halal food industry are also extremely competitive. Thailand has been listed as one of top rank in the world tourist destination, top medical hub for foreign patients and relative and it also has been listed as top tenth...

Salmonellosis is an important public health problem and causes large economic losses in the poultry industry. The emergence of molecular technology has opened various possibilities for constructing tailor-made proteins, particularly protein E from bacteriophage PhiX174 for the production of bacterial ghosts (BGs) applied in vaccines purposes. In th...

Given the remarkable increase of public interest in organic food products, it is indeed critical to evaluate the microbiological risk associated with consumption of fresh organic produce. Organic farming practices including the use of animal manures may increase the risk of microbiological contamination as manure can act as a vehicle for transmissi...

Epidemiological data indicates that a large number of foodborne illnesses are attributed to cross-contamination during food preparation in the domestic kitchen. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the efficiency of household washing practices in removing Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella Enteritidis on artif...

The main purpose of the current article is to introduce a framework of the complexity of childhood obesity based on the family environment. A conceptual model that quantifies the relationships and interactions among parental socioeconomic status, family food security level, child's food intake and certain aspects of parental feeding behaviour is pr...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the prepackaged foods in Malaysia are able to provide credible nutrition labels for consumers and how many prepackaged foods do not comply with the tolerance limits, regardless of whether the products are sold in Malaysia or exported to overseas even though there are no standardization of...

Several factors may influence children's lifestyle. The main purpose of this study is to introduce a children's lifestyle index framework and model it based on structural equation modeling (SEM) with Maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian predictors. This framework includes parental socioeconomic status, household food security, parental lifestyle, a...

A preliminary risk assessment model of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in bloody clams in Malaysia was developed. The study framework was established based on the currently available experimental and survey data, in combination with the @RISK software to simulate based on Monte Carlo simulation. The model framework was categorized into two stages, the 1) e...

The purpose of this approach is to establish the twin impacts of organizational innovation (OI) with organizational learning (OL) in the relation between knowledge management (KM) and organizational performance (OP). 168 companies of manufacturing Food Company were chosen from Malaysia, Taiwan, China and path analysis is used to analyse the underly...

The main purpose of this paper in to find out the relationship among family food security with children's health and children's BMI. With structural equation modeling we hypothesized direct and indirect relationship among the latent and measurement variables. Moreover, this paper attempts to recommend a new model that contains dependent, independen...

The main objective of this work is to present an innovative methodology with structural equation modeling (SEM) as a parametric statistical methodology and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) as a non-parametric technique, to forecast the manufacturing performance index based on knowledge management with both firm innovation and organizat...

Recently, the ever expanding market of the halal food industry worldwide signals that the competition in the market is increasing and getting stiffer. Therefore, in order for the halal food manufacturing industry players to stay relevant, there is a pressing need for them to respond to the economic and social changes and increase their performance....

Following the current 'Globesity' trend, there is an increasing demand for alternative natural therapies for weight management. Numerous phytoconstituents reduce body weight through suppressing appetite and reducing food intake. Caraway (Carum carvi L.) is one of the medicinal plants that is traditionally used for weight loss. In this study, the ap...

The main objective of this paper is to bring a model for firm sustainability performance index by applying both classical and Bayesian structural equation modeling (parametric and semi-parametric modeling). Both techniques are considered to the research data collected based on a survey directed to the China, Taiwan, and Malaysia food manufacturing...

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a halophilic bacterium that commonly inhabits the marine and estuarine environments. This organism is also one of the leading causative pathogen of gastroenteritis often related to consumption of raw or undercooked seafood. In this study, molluscan shellfish (bloody clams and surf clams) and crustaceans (shrimps) were mon...

The main purpose of this research is to illustrate that school size a moderator can effect on the relationship among principal's leadership style (PLS), principal's decision making style (PDMS), and teacher job satisfaction (TJS). Moreover, in this article, some hypotheses have been proposed to verify the existing relations among TJS, PLS, and PDMS...

This research examines the precision of an adaptive neuro-fuzzy computing technique in estimating the anti-obesity property of a potent medicinal plant in a clinical dietary intervention. Even though a number of mathematical functions such as SPSS analysis have been proposed for modeling the anti-obesity properties estimation in terms of reduction...

Obesity is emerging globally as a leading, underlying contributor to a variety of different diseases, some of which are fatal. This study aims to provide a brief review of the botanical sources which are available to serve as an alternative to modern, synthetic anti-obesity drugs, and to provide a brief discussion of their mechanism of action, and...

For patients with end-stage heart failure, heart transplantation is the only treatment which is proven successful in saving life. Immunosuppressant, a crucial drug to dampen the natural immune response in order to reduce the rejection risk of transplanted organs, has been reported to be neurotoxic. However, a heart transplant (HT) recipient will st...

Carum carvi L. (Apiaceae) is known as caraway, and its derivatives find wide medicinal use for health purposes, including for gastrointestinal problems and obesity. Since there is inconsistency among the reports on the safety of this plant in humans, this research was aimed at assessing the safety of a characterized caraway aqueous extract (CAE) in...

The impact of Organizational innovation (OL) and Organizational learning (OI) on organizational performance (OP) are examined. By integrating congruence and organizational lifecycle literature, the authors hypothesized that the impacts of both values are moderated by organizational age and size, such that collectivism exerts stronger beneficial eff...

This article is to verify the relationship among teacher job satisfaction, principal's leadership style, and principal's decision making style. Based on samples randomly chosen from among primary, secondary and high schools in Chinese educational systems in China, the required data were gathered through a mail survey.The results confirmed that the...

The worldwide sugar consumption has been increasing from year to year, from 11 million tons in 1900 to 145 million tons in 2009. High sources of sugar can be found in different types of food and drinks. It is aimed through this study to identify the trend of canned drink intake among adolescents in selected places in Malaysia, and to identify facto...

The main objective of this paper is to find out the impact of organizational learning (OL) and organizational innovation (OI) on organizational performance (OP) in Asia manufacturing food industries. This study explores those linkages using structural equation modelling (SEM) with data from 172 companies in food manufacturing companies was selected...

This paper is about to examine the relationship of organisational learning (OL) with knowledge management (KM) and their effect on organisational performance (OP) in food industries. The conceptual framework proposed in this research is a creative model that contributes to relevant theories of KM, OL, and OP literature. 168 companies in food indust...

The main purpose of the study is to establish the relationshipsbetweenknowledge management (KM) and organisational learning (OL), and their impact on three different dimensions of organisational performance (OP)in manufacturing food industries. 172 companies in food industry were selected in China, Taiwan and Malaysia, and structural equation model...

The main purpose of this study to find out the relationship among transformational leadership (TL), organizational learning (OL), and organizational innovation (OI) in manufacturing food industry in east of Asia countries include China, Taiwan, and Malaysia. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the research hypotheses from168 manufac...

Caraway (Carum carvi L.), a potent medicinal plant, is traditionally used for treating obesity. This study investigates the weight-lowering effects of caraway extract (CE) on physically active, overweight and obese women through a randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Seventy overweight and obese, healthy, aerobic-trained, ad...

Food security and food safety (FSFS) concerns are perennial issues plaguing many developing and newly burgeoning economies worldwide, including Malaysia. With the annual import food bills in excess of US$8 billion, the FSFS issues are high on the National Key Result Areas (NKRA) and National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) within the framework of the Nat...

Obesity is a global health concern associated with high morbidity and mortality. Therapeutic strategies include synthetic drugs and surgery, which may entail high costs and serious complications. Plant-based medicinal agents offer an alternative approach. A review of the studies on accessible botanical sources for the treatment of obesity is provid...

This study aims to screen the antibacterial activity of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from home-made fermented vegetables against common food borne pathogens. The antagonistic properties of these isolates against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Yersinia enterocolitica and Bacillus cereus were examined using agar well diffusion method...

Obesity is an important global health concern, and is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Modern methods of treatment, such as synthetic drugs and surgery, still have to be improved to show safety and efficacy. The main concerns with such treatments are the high costs and serious complications. As a result, there is great interest i...

Basically, this article focuses on the theory of istihalah from both Islamic and modern science perspectives. It involves discussions on the application of istihalah in several food products, whether it is classified as istihalah sahihah (acceptable change) or istihalah fasidah (unacceptable change). In order to achieve the objective, samples of an...