ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Analysis of Layout Production Facilities and Work Supervision Effect on Mawar Bakery Production Employee Productivity
Darmilisani, A. Rahim Matondang, Elisabet Siahaan
Page no 377-392 |
10.21276/sjhss.2018.3.3.7
Every company always wants quality human resources as a valuable
asset that is consistently sought and maintained. A company must be able to
optimize supporting factor from employee productivity itself to get the optimal
result of work. One factor that can improve productivity includes the layout of
production facilities and supervision of work that exist in a company. This study
aims to determine and analyze the effect of the layout of production facilities and
supervision of existing work on production employees of Mawar Bakery. It
involves the addition of motivation as a moderating variable to produce good
productivity from existing production employees. This research is quantitative
descriptive research, and the nature of the research is explanatory. Population
includes production employees located at Mawar Pinang Baris, Mawar Setia Budi
and Mawar Gatot Subroto involving 132 employees with a sample of 100
employees taken by simple random sampling. Data collection techniques were
conducted by documentation studies and distributing questionnaires. The technique
of data analysis by using regression analysis of Moderating Regression Analysis
(MRA). The result of the test without the effect of moderation indicates that layout
of the production facility and work supervision respectively have the positive and
significant effect to work productivity of production employees. Work supervision
becomes the dominant factor in increasing productivity compared to the layout of
production facilities. Test results with moderation effects indicate that motivation
is not as a variable that can moderate the influence of job control variables on work
productivity of production employees. Thus productivity of production employees
will increase if the layout of available facilities and work supervision applied to
Mawar Bakery has been following the needs so that production employees can
work efficiently.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Clinical Profile of Acute Viral Gastroenteritis in Adults: 1-Year Cross-Sectional Study
Prakash Babaliche, Pallavi Goswami
Page no 107-111 |
10.36348/sjm.2018.v03i03.010
Viral gastroenteritis is one of the most frequently occurring medical illnesses all over the world, especially in developing countries. Although, clinical features of viral gastroenteritis are generally limited to the intestine, they may also extend beyond the gastrointestinal tract, which could be life threatening and fatal. The etiology of viral gastroenteritis in adults usually remains unclear. The aim was to investigate the etiology and clinical profile among adult patients with acute viral gastroenteritis. Patients (100) underwent investigations including, hemoglobin test, urine examination, fasting blood sugar, liver function test, renal function test, and serum electrolytes. Stool specimens were tested for rotavirus and adenovirus using the rapid kit test. The categorical and continuous data were compared using chi-square test and student t-test, respectively. At 95% confidence interval, p ≤ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Of the 100 gastroenteritis patients, 26 patients were diagnosed positive for viral gastroenteritis. The leading cause of viral gastroenteritis was rotavirus (22) followed by adenovirus (4) and rotavirus-adenovirus co-infection (2). Diarrhea (100) was the major clinical feature. Incidence of gastroenteritis was mainly observed in patients (41) below 30 years of age. Acute viral gastroenteritis was significantly associated with the clinical features including vomiting, fever, dehydration, and reduced urine output; and biochemical parameters including renal and hepatic function abnormalities (p < 0.001). The study concluded that rotavirus, followed by adenovirus, can cause severe gastroenteritis and is an important etiologic agent in hospitalized adult cases of gastroenteritis.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
The Influence of Employee Length of Service on Attitudes towards Job-related Factors: The Case of Human Resource for Health in Kigoma Region, Tanzania
Richard Jaffu
Page no 357-364 |
10.21276/sjhss.2018.3.3.5
Attitudes towards job-related factors stand as one of the most influential
determinants of retention of Human Resource for Health (HRH) in rural areas.
Thus, the factors which underlie the attitudes of HRH towards job-related factors
of rural job posts are equally important. Thus, this study assesses the inclination of
attitudes of HRH towards job-related factors of rural job posts on a sample of 60
HRH who have short period of service and 61 HRH who have long period of
service using Mann Whitney U test for independent samples. We tested the jobrelated factors which are commonly referred in HRH researches, namely,
opportunity to practice a variety of skills, opportunity of career advancement,
support from other staff, autonomy at work place and the extent to which the job is
enjoyable due to its relative difficulty. The findings show that HRH who have short
period of service have more favorable attitudes towards opportunity to practice a
variety of skills and the degree of enjoyment in their jobs than do their
counterparts. As a means to retain HRH in rural health facilities in Tanzania,
particularly those who have short period of service, the study recommends on
fostering favorable attitudes towards job-related factors of rural job posts by
focusing on factors of rural job posts to which they have more favorable attitudes.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Adult Patient Satisfaction with Nursing Care, In Government Hospital Lahore Pakistan
Rabia Abdul Ghafoor, Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Prof Dr. Sayed Amir Gillani
Page no 364-370 |
10.36348/sjmps.2018.v04i03.011
It is important for any health system to provide Nursing care with great quality and respond the client’s necessities. There are three dimension of nursing care which is used to assess patient’s satisfaction that are Nursing skill, Attention and Somatic Care. Purpose of study is assessing satisfaction of patient’s related quality of nursing care dimension in the government center of Lahore Pakistan. Quantitative descriptive cross sectional study design was used. Simple convenient sampling was used to collect the data from two different government hospitals. Sample size was 200 patients from selected hospital. The results of the study revealed that vast no of respondents (69.9%) were gratified with nursing care provided to them, while others out of 194 respondent, 44 participants are 60.9 % positively remarks that nurses are always cheerful towards the patient .They are mostly kind or soft hearted. 16.5% of 32 respondents are neutral about this question. And 22.7 % respondents 128/194 were having negative response for this statement.69.6% are satisfied and agree with the statement of this question because they thought that nursing is a noble profession and the nurses who works day and night for the well beings of the patient are admire able. Study results showed that mostly participants remained satisfied with care of nursing; consequently they recommended some development particularly with respect to the interpersonal relation. Additional research will be needed to study comprehensive socio cultural and environmental factor related to client gratification regarding nursing quality care
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Qualitative Analysis: Evaluation of Bureaucracy Reform Program (Case Study at the State Personnel Agency)
Ramli Effendi Idris Naibaho
Page no 341-356 |
10.21276/sjhss.2018.3.3.4
This research is to evaluate the bureaucracy reform program at State
Personnel Agency. The evaluation focused on five stages, namely design,
installation, process, product and benefit. Qualitative approach used in this research
with using discrepansy evaluation model design. Data collecting with in-depth
interview, observation and documentation study. Interview conducted with
administrator and official of State Personnel Agency as a key informant. Data
analyzed quantitatively through data reduction, data display, and conclussion
drawing. The evaluation results toward the bureaucratic reform program at State
Personnel Agency shows: (1) the program has been well defined which is indicated
by an explanation of the urgency aspect, has clear goals and objectives, and
equipped with key success indicator for measures program success, (2) the program
has been well designed including the formulation of implementation guidelines,
resource preparation, work programs, and evaluation and monitoring, (3)
implementation of eight areas of changes which cover organizational structuring,
structuring of governance management system, structuring of human resources
management system, harmonization of legislation, strengthening of supervision,
strengthening of performance accountability, public services, mindset and work
culture is good. Although generally good, but has not shown the ideal conditions if
associated with position of State Personnel Agency as a pioneer and role model for
the ministries or other institutions in the implementation of bureaucratic reform
program, (4) the implementation of the bureaucratic reform program has given
positive results in the improvement of the quality of clean bureaucracy and free of
corruption, collusion and nepotism, the quality of public services, and the capacity
and performance accountability, and (5) the implementation of bureaucratic reform
programs can provide positive benefits in improving bureaucratic governance,
enhance the positive image and improve the apparatus job performance. Therefore,
State Personnel Agency needed to improve the implementation of bureaucracy
reform program continuously in order to achieve the optimal results.
REVIEW ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Gamification Tool for Customer Engagement – An Empirical Study
Dr. T. Suchitra Rani
Page no 261-266 |
10.21276/sjbms.2018.3.3.8
The study presents gamification as a tool for customer engagement. The
study empirically attempts to find wards (Story Theme, Feedback, Rewards, Progress,
Challenge, Points, Leader Boards, Badges, Levels and Clear Goals) that are mostly
preferred by the users and their further interest in continuing with the same
website/app/game. With the changing needs of consumers the marketers are finding
better ways of engaging customers. As a known fact if an adult is asked his preference
of work and games, the answer many times would be games. Now in this digital era an
increasing number and variety of business applications are integrating game
mechanics, or gamification, to improve user engagement, engage new customers,
incent employees, build loyalty, and more. Now, users are competing against each
other for points, or badges or to be known as a leader. The study, also attempts to find
if the type of motivation (extrinsic and intrinsic) will have any influence on the choice
of the awards. This study also focuses on the influence of the demographic variables
on the choice of awards.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
The Analysis of Organizational Diagnosis of Tax Office of Pratama Palembang Ulu
Hardiyansyah, Hutamol Fitri, Koesharijadi, Emi Suwarni, Mukran, Heriyanto, Trisninawati
Page no 393-401 |
10.21276/sjhss.2018.3.3.8
In the state budget of revenues and expenditure (Anggaran Pendapatan
dan Belanja Negara - APBN) 2016, tax revenue is targeted to reach 85% of the
total state budget. It is a very high target; therefore the workload of the Directorate
General of Tax (DGT) is getting higher and larger. In response to this, it is
necessary to have changes and to develop the DGT's organization along with other
work units, both the changing of the administrative systems and its human
resources. One of the changes is the modernization of the tax administration system
that has begun in 2002. The Tax Office (TO) is an integrated part of the DGT’s
organizational changing. Based on organizational diagnosis result of the tax office
of Palembang Seberang Ulu using 6 variables of Weisbord model obtained mean
score for all variables were 4,051. Overall, the organizing of the Tax office of
Palembang Seberang Ulu could be considered as good or no problematic issues.
For the goal variable, relationship variable, leadership and organizational structure
variable, reward and working mechanism have been good or not in problem
classification. However, the organization of the Tax office of Palembang Seberang
Ulu needs to improve the understanding of the objectives/goals, relationship,
leadership, organizational structure, reward and working mechanism by finding
solutions to all obstacles that hinder the performance of the tax office organization
of Palembang Seberang Ulu.
REVIEW ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Conversions to Other Religions Vis-A-Vis Conflict of Matrimonial Laws in India: A Socio-Legal Study
Meena Ketan Sahu
Page no 21-27 |
10.36348/sijlcj.2018.v01i01.004
It has been stated in the Constitution of India that freedom of religion is one of the fundamental rights of the people. According to secularism, every citizen of the country has a fundamental right to practice his or her religion. Though practicing a particular religion or changing to other religion is a right but it is matter of great concern that people are converting to other religion due to personal interest on other religion or to get some favour or facilities. So, religious conversion has become the subject of passionate debate in contemporary India. From the early 20th century onwards, it has surfaced again and again in the political realm, in the media and in the courts. During the last few decades the dispute has attained a new climax in the plethora of newspapers, journals, and books whose pages have been devoted to the question of conversion. The most debatable question is if a person exercises the right to conversion and changes his religion then what conflict of law situations it can create under the matrimonial law? In the present paper the author has made an attempt to focus on how the people are lured to convert to other religion especially in the District of Kandhamal of Odisha and the author has tried to justify with the help of a case study. In addition to this, the author has made an attempt to define the concept of religion, religious conversion and its impact. The author has also concentrated on the religious conversion vis-a-vis conflict of matrimonial laws in the light of decided cases. At last, suggestions are made for preventing anti-conversion and to enact a comprehensive law in this regard in India
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Stability of Micronutrients (Vitamin A, Iron And Iodine) Content in Fortified Rice
Wisnu C, Ikrawan Y, Yuliani S, Diki N
Page no 183-187 |
10.21276/sjeat.2018.3.3.11
More than 2 billion people in the world today suffer from micronutrient
deficiencies caused largely by a dietary efficiency of vitamins and minerals. The
public health importance of these deficiencies lies upon their magnitude and their
health consequences, especially in pregnant women and young children, as they
affect fetal and child growth, cognitive development and resistance to infection.
Although people in all population groups in all regions of the world may be affected,
the most widespread and severe problems are usually found amongst resource poor,
food insecure and vulnerable households in developing country. Some efforts that
have been done to solve the problem such as micronutrient fortification in rice,
because it is the staple food consumed by more than 90% Indonesia’s population. The
objectives of this research were determined and evaluated the stability of
micronutrient level during rice fortification and cooking. The results showed that
micronutrients decreased during rice fortification and cooking. The raw-fortified rice
contained 38.52 - 59.91mg/L of iodine, 0.92-1.79mg/L of vitamin A and15.64 -
48.39 mg/L of iron depending on the concentration of the coating material used.
After cooking, the fortified rice contained 3.00- 3.93mg/L of iodine,0.43 - 1.0 mg/L
of vitamin A and 12.92-19.66 mg/lof iron. The levels of micronutrients,
although experienced significant losses, still meet the daily needs according to the
Regulation of World Health Organization.
REVIEW ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Combating Cyber Squatters in the Internet Trade Arena
Krushna Chandra Dalai & Alaka Mishra
Page no 17-20 |
10.36348/sijlcj.2018.v01i01.003
With the march of civilization, "living law" has been in continuous search for answers to the upcoming challenges. In the digital age, we are a witness to yet another technological unfurling-the technology of the Internet. The Web is a territory where caveat emptor is the rule and, as a result, consumers increasingly rely upon strong brand awareness and brand and brand performance for the confidence to engage in e-commerce. While trademarks are of greater importance in this virtual environment, they are also more vulnerable to infringement, dilution and anti-competitive practices. Trademark owners expend vast resources, engaging automated "web crawling" software and cyber surveillance firms, to monitor the billions of web pages and protect their intellectual property rights. Identity on the Internet also goes beyond the trademark system, because of the role played by the internet domain name system, which facilitates users' ability to navigate on the network. Domain names are user friendly addresses that correspond to the unique Internet Protocol numbers that connect our computers to the Internet and enable the network routing system to direct data requests to the correct addressee. Domain names were originally intended to perform a purely technical function in a user friendly way, but because they intuitive and easy to remember they now perform a function as business or personal identifiers. Most businesses, whether e-commercial or not, advertise their domain name to signal a Web presence. In this way, although, as such, not a form of intellectual property, domain names now perform an identifying functions similar to that of a trademark. Because of the way in which people and search engines operate, most businesses use their trademark or trade name as their domain name and this has caused conflict with the advent of predatory practices, known as 'cyber squatting. In this paper best effort made to limelight the trade mark issues in the cyber space and reforms yet to be in inquest.
CASE REPORT | March 30, 2018
Acute Megacaryoblastic Leukemia in Infants (About a Case)
Mahha Mariam, Tlemçani Imane, Hendi Rajae, Bouramdane Sanae, Benmiloud Sara, Hida Moustapha, Amrani Hassani Moncef
Page no 73-75 |
10.21276/sjpm.2018.3.3.1
Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia, or type 7 (AML 7), is a rare entity
defined by a proliferation of blasts of which at least 50% are megakaryoblasts. It
represents 0.5 to 2% of acute leukemias (LA) in children and 3 to 10% of acute
myeloid leukemias (AML). Patients may have nonspecific symptoms. His diagnosis is
based on the presence in the blood or in the marrow of blasts with typical morphology
and expressing specific platelet antigens. This observation describes the clinical case
of a 19-month-old infant with pancytopenia. The diagnosis of AML7 was made based
on explorations of peripheral blood, myelogram, and immunophenotypic analysis.
Chemotherapy has been started, with a poor therapeutic response. The patient died in
a state of septic shock. We recall through a literature review the clinical, histological
and immunophenotypic features of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia.
REVIEW ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Support Services to the Victims of Crime in India: An Appraisal
Samraggi Chakraborty & Nirmal Kanti Chakrabarti
Page no 10-16 |
10.36348/sijlcj.2018.v01i01.002
In the contemporary victimological research, there has been a substantial growth in the study of the aftereffects of crime on the victims and how to assist them. Apart from physical and financial loss, victims of crime suffer from emotional losses. Such emotional losses may be in the form of depression, lowering of self-esteem, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The traditional criminal justice administration is bed rocked on the concept that the victims of crime get justice when the accused is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment. In recent times experiences in many countries across the globe have shown that one of the effective way of addressing the needs of the crime victims is by establishing within the criminal justice system programs that will provide victims of crime social, financial, emotional and psychological support.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Design and Analysis of an Intelligent Car Based on Multiple Platforms
Menghua Xie, Yujuan Li
Page no 180-182 |
10.21276/sjeat.2018.3.3.10
This design applies a STC89C52RC single chip microcomputer (SCM) as
a main control chip, and uses the information of road surface transmitted from
sensing modules like cameras, infrared sensors and ultrasonic sensors to monitor and
identify obstacles and adjust the driving directions of an intelligent car, thereby
realizing the functions of velocity measurement and obstacle avoidance. The
preliminary experiment of exploring the intelligent car shows that this designing
scheme is valuable to refer and apply to some extent.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
A Validated Reversed Phase HPLC Assay for the Determination of Dexamethasone in Human Plasma
Nada H Binhashim, Syed N Alvi, Muhammad M. Hammami
Page no 325-329 |
10.36348/sjmps.2018.v04i03.003
A simple and precise reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assay for the determination of dexamethasone in human plasma was developed and validated. 1.0 ml plasma samples containing dexamethasone and lansoprazole as internal standard (IS) were deproteinized with 2 ml dichloromethane and 3 ml methyl tert-butyl ether. Separation was achieved on Atlantis dC-18 column with a mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile and water (40:60, v:v), and delivered at a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min. The eluent was monitored spectrophotometrically at 240 nm. No interference in blank plasma or of commonly used drugs was observed. The relationship between the concentration of dexamethasone in plasma and peak height ratio of dexamethasone to the IS was linear over the range of 0.15-8.0 μg/ml. Intra-day and inter-day coefficient of variation (CV) and bias were ≤11.1% and ≤9.5% and ≤9.3% and ≤5.6%, respectively. Mean extraction recovery of dexamethasone and IS was 100% and 97%, respectively. The method was applied to assess dexamethasone stability under various conditions encountered in the clinical laboratory. Dexamethasone stability in processed (24hrs at room temperature, 48hrs at -20°C) and unprocessed (24hrs at room temperature, 8 weeks at -20°C, or after 3 cycles of freeze and thaw) samples was ≥ 90% and ≥ 83%, respectively
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | March 30, 2018
Comparative Studies on the Physicochemical Properties and Elemental Composition of Oil Obtained from Three Species of Groundnut Arachis hypogae L
Abuabakar Ahmed Hamidu, Zodo Yohanna Malgwi
Page no 277-283 |
10.21276/haya.2018.3.3.9
Comparative analysis as well as the elemental composition were carried
out on oil samples obtained from three groundnut species namely; Earthnut, pygmy
and pignut. .The extraction process was carriedout using soxhlet apparatus with
hexane as the extraction solvent. The physicochemical characterization was carried
out using standard methods in terms of Iodine value (IV), Free Fatty Acids (FFA),
Saponification value and Acid Value (AV).The selected element of Na, Mg. Zn. Fe.
Ca. K and p were determined by the use of atomic absorption spectrophotometer
model buck VGP connected to a computer. The phosphorus content was determined
using the calorimetric method. Proximate Analysis was also carriedout on the three
species of ground. From the results of the analysis, Earthnut has 43.7% oil, Pygmy
45.8% and pignut 45.8%.The result of the physicochemical characterization of the oil
sample showed that for earthnut the values of 43.72±0.21 IV.