Disability and the Muslim Perspective: An Introduction for Rehabilitation and Health Care Providers

[Excerpt] This monograph offers an introduction to and overview of a broad spectrum and diversity of Muslims with disabilities and chronic health conditions who come from a variety of backgrounds and circumstances. The perspective provided here also highlights larger issues of human rights. Given the current immigration trends in the United States, it is critical that service providers work across cultures and systems to help Muslims access disability and health care services and resources in their communities. Over the years, service professionals and researchers have come to recognize that individuals with disabilities and health conditions do not always hold the same health beliefs, understandings, objectives, and priorities as the service providers they encounter. The result is an intercultural gap in understanding between clients and providers that may result in a poor treatment or rehabilitative outcome. This monograph will use the terms client, consumer, and patient interchangeably to denote those seeking disability services, medical services, or both. We emphasize that to bridge the gap between Muslim service users and mainstream U.S. service systems, service providers in disability and rehabilitation systems need to increase their sensitivity and ability to accommodate differences between their services and the needs of their clients

Online ordering book system: A case study in Malaysia higher institute

This paper aims to present an e-service project findings conducted in one of the Malaysia Higher Education Institute.The objective of the project is to create a prototype showing the functionalities of Online Ordering Book System. The methodology used was Object Oriented approach where it involved three main phases, which are defining requirements, analyzing requirement and validating functionalities.There are several diagrams involved to show the functionalities of the system which are: use case diagram, use case specification, class diagram, sequence diagram, collaboration diagram, activity diagram and the list of requirement.This prototype provides a guideline in developing a real system of Online Ordering Book based on user’s perspective, particularly in the perspective of academic staff of University Teknologi Mara, Melaka

Implementasi Pendidikan Karakter Siswa Perguruan Islam An-nizam Medan

Purpose of Research Singer is to know the Process of Character Education, to know Values Character, to know identify factors inhibiting hearts Implementation Support And Character Education in Private Islamic schools in the city of Medan. The singer is a qualitative research operates. Population Research is a college student Islamic An-Nizam Medan (total sampling), an instrument which was used Form questionnaire. Research shows that teachers and students Already Implementing Character Education Under with draft which is dictated by Islamic An-Nizam college Medan. And have a significant influence Which Character Against Students. Character-value value lead with Diversified approach to character education, which in the mix on different Learning and extracurricular activities

Gagasan Dan Manifestasi Neo-Sufisme Dalam Muhammadiyah: Sebuah Analisis Teoretik

This article evaluates the concept of neo-sufism manifested in the Muhammadiyah movement. The main objective of this article is to diagnose whether Muhammadiyah intellectuals accept the concept of neo-sufism. Using philosophical study as an ap- proach, the writer argues that the religious and social concepts growing within Muhammadiyah, such as social tauhid, prophetic social sciences, and transforma- tive theology have resembled the concept of neo-sufis

Corporate communication and internal supply chain management in manufacturing industry

Internal supply chain management can be defined as a set of activities or functions within the firm, which provides products to customers and more attention given to services in manufacturing firms. This process involves a variety of functions in firms such as production, distribution and sales.Internal supply chain management referring as similar to the definition of service in manufacturing.The government aims to promote manufacturing-related services such as product design, research and development (R&D) and central utility supply.This initiative will help to extend the value chain and increase the country's demand for Malaysian goods and services. Therefore, the supply chain plays an important role in directing and controlling the direction of economic development, this process will make it more efficient and effective.In Malaysia, corporate communication plays significant function in ensuring the efficiency of the service operations which subsequently leads to the excellence performance of the manufacturing. Due to the importance of corporate communication in the manufacturing sector, this paper aims to explore the contribution of corporate communication towards the business development in manufacturing industries

The mediating effect of absorptive capacity on the relationship between social capital and technology transfer performance

Social capital and absorptive capacity were highlighted as crucial to ensure the realization of the success of technology transfer.The study presented in this article investigate the effect of social capital and absorptive capacity on technology transfers performance by focusing on the technology advantages as the output of the transfer activities.Hypotheses were developed and tested by using data gathered through a survey on high technology companies operating in Malaysia technology parks.Correlation and regression analysis were executed by using SPSS 19.Based on the results of the study, social capital appears to be a prerequisite for the realization of technology transfer as it is the unique inter connectivity of human capital which will provide some technology players with an advantage over those who are not so well connected.It was found that both social capital and absorptive capacity have significant effect on the performance of technology transfer. The findings also indicated that the elements of absorptive capacity mediate the effects of social capital on technology advantages in terms of relational and cognitive dimension.This study possibly will contribute in enhancing the performance of technology transfer especially in terms of the firm’s human resource capability and management capability

Dynamic supply chain management: Applying the qualitative data analysis software

Analysis of data has been known as one of the most significant stages in a qualitative research process.The purpose of this article is to share elements for understanding during the process of preparing an analysis using the qualitative data analysis (QDA) software. ATLAS.ti version 7.1.7, the QDA software, provides some very valuable tools in academic research, especially for social science fields.This paper offers a review of dynamic capabilities in dynamic supply chain management by utilizing QDA software package. Moreover, steps how to use ATLAS.ti and figures are provided to describe the research presented with examples.This will serve as a guideline for beginner's researchers in qualitative research who are applying the QDA software, particularly ATLAS.ti. As such, use of the analysis outlined in this article should help to support the rigor in qualitative research

Development and application of competency model in manufacturing operations: An overview

A knowledgeable and technically competent workforce is one of the main operations components that influence the positioning of an organisation in global market competition.Competencies can offer workers an opportunity to define excellence in job performance.However, since job task do not remain fixed and to be aligned with rapid advancement in global market competition, it needs to be re-visited from time to time.Organizations need to build its strategies to continuously establish and enhance different competencies of different purposes in order to stay competitive. In manufacturing operations management, workforce is said to be the resources besides machines where skills are managed through a very simple model which is far from expressing the requirements of competence over the process management. Nevertheless, no generic framework is suggested and there is a huge gap between a very simple off-the-shelf description of basic skills or competencies and the possibility to define its own framework.Therefore, it requires an important development effort to develop and establish one. This paper aims to review the past studies on competencies and competency model while exploring the development and application process of establishing one in manufacturing operations environment.The review highlights the importance of competencies development which not only benefited to the individual worker and the organization but also can gives great impact to country as part of the initiative to scale up workforce productivity to achieve next stage of economic competitiveness