Research on benchmarking in higher education: An overview by Pulatkhon, Lutfullayev

“…Benchmarking has proved to be an effective method for identifying the best practices and improving the quality and processes in an organization. …”
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Results from the IAEA benchmark of spallation models by Khandaker, M.M., Michel, R., Leray, S., David, J.C., Konobeyev, A., Mank, G., Mengoni, A., Otsuka, N., Filges, D., Gallmeier, F.

“…The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has recently organised a benchmark of the spoliation models used or that could be used in the future into high-energy transport codes. …”

Mining dense data: Association rule discovery on benchmark case study by Bakar, W.A.W.A., Saman, M.D.M., Abdullah, Z., Jalil, M.A., Herawan, T.

“…In this article, we present comparison result between Apriori and FP-Growth algorithm in generating association rules based on a benchmark data from frequent itemset mining data repository. …”

Benchmarking developed property portfolio markets in Malaysian-listed property companies by Azmi, Nurul Afiqah, Razali, Muhammad Najib, Said, Rosli

“…This paper aims to benchmark the level of performance and volatility of Malaysian-Listed Property Companies (MLPCs) within developed countries over the period January 1994 to December 2014. …”

Benchmarking working conditions for health and safety in the frontline healthcare industry: Perspectives from Australia and Malaysia by McLinton, Sarven Savia, Loh, May Young, Dollard, Maureen Frances, Tuckey, Michelle M.R., Idris, Mohd Awang, Morton, Sharon

“…Aim: To present benchmarks for working conditions in healthcare industries as an initial effort into international surveillance. …”

The challenges of designing a benchmark strategy for bioinformatics pipelines in the identification of antimicrobial resistance determinants using next generation sequencing technologies by Angers-Loustau, Alexandre, Petrillo, Mauro, Bengtsson-Palme, Johan, Berendonk, Thomas, Blais, Burton, Chan, Kok Gan, Coque, Teresa M., Hammer, Paul, Heß, Stefanie, Kagkli, Dafni M., Krumbiegel, Carsten, Lanza, Val F., Madec, Jean-Yves, Naas, Thierry, O'Grady, Justin, Paracchini, Valentina, Rossen, John W.A., Ruppé, Etienne, Vamathevan, Jessica, Venturi, Vittorio, Van den Eede, Guy

“…Challenges involved in the development of such a benchmark resource, with a specific focus on identifying the molecular determinants of AMR, were identified. …”

Calculation of costs of pregnancy-and puerperium-related care: Experience from a hospital in a low-income country by Sarowar, M.G., Medin, E., Gazi, R., Koehlmoos, T.P., Rehnberg, C., Saifi, R., Bhuiya, A., Khan, J.

“…Despite the overall improvement in the public and private healthcare sectors in Bangladesh, lack of price benchmarking leads to patients facing unexplained price discrimination when receiving healthcare services. …”

A paradigm for developing tqm-role stressors model and index by Teh, P.L., Yong, C.C., Arumugam, V.

“…Drawing from the extant TQM and role stressors literature, this paper examines the relationship between TQM and role stressors by addressing three critical gaps: (1) conceptualizing the multidimensionality of TQM practices as a preventive approach to role stressors; (2) formulating TQM-Role Stressors index for the use of industrial benchmarking; and (3) constructing a model for assessing the nonlinear influences of TQM on role stressors. …”
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Hots: Evidence from TIMSS 2011 & its implication towards stem by Jayarajah, K., Mohd Saat, R., Abdul Rauf, R.A.

“…The study found out that Malaysia performed lower than the international average benchmarking in all the cognitive domains except for reasoning in Biology. …”
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Malaysian qualification framework: A need to revisit by Balasingam, U.

“…The purpose of this paper is to attempt to measure the quality of our human potential by evaluating the benchmarks set by the Malaysian Qualification Framework against benchmarks of like qualifications of jurisdiction like England Wales and Ireland and Australia for higher level qualifications of degree and masters just as indicators of our standing when benchmarked internationally. …”
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Knowledge modelling for contract disputes and change control by Wang, Chen, Yap, Jeffrey Boon Hui, Wood, Lincoln Christopher, Abdul-Rahman, Hamzah

“…A construction contract management process framework, a 19-step benchmarking model for contract management and a construction planning checklist for contractors are proposed. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.…”

The Anglerfish algorithm: a derivation of randomized incremental construction technique for solving the traveling salesman problem by Pook, Mei Foong, Ramlan, Effirul Ikhwan

“…The algorithm is more generic and adaptable to any optimization problems. Benchmarking is conducted using the traveling salesman problem. …”

Predicting determinants of hotel success and development using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)-ANFIS method by Yadegaridehkordi, Elaheh, Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh, Md Nasir, Mohd Hairul Nizam, Ibrahim, Othman

“…SEM analysis showed that the use of IT, financial performance, benchmarking, service standardization, top management support, customer satisfaction, service quality, hotel interior and exterior design/look, location, employee training and empowerment were significant factors influencing hotel success and development. …”

A survey on skin detection in colored images by Naji, Sinan, Jalab, Hamid Abdullah, Kareem, Sameem Abdul

“…We also discuss relevant issues such as color spaces, cost and risks, databases, testing, and benchmarking. After investigating these methods and identifying their strengths and limitations, we conclude with several implications for future direction. © 2018, Springer Nature B.V.…”

Accuracy evaluation of methods and techniques in Web-based question answering systems: a survey by Shah, Asad Ali, Ravana, Sri Devi, Hamid, Suraya, Ismail, Maizatul Akmar

“…The results can be used to select methods and techniques optimal for producing highly accurate scores without spending time on benchmarking. © 2018, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.…”

RMCC: A RESTful mobile cloud computing framework for exploiting adjacent service-based mobile cloudlets by Abolfazli, S., Sanaei, Z., Gani, Abdullah, Xia, F., Lin, Wei-Ming

“…RMCC is a RESTful cross-platform architecture functional on major mobile OSs (e.g., Android and iOS) and realizes utilization of the computing resources of off-the-shelve outdated or damaged-yet-functioning mobile devices towards green MCC. Results of benchmarking advocate significant mean time- and energy-saving of 87% and 71.45%, respectively when intensive tasks are executed in ASMobiCs.…”
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Energy consumption vs. users' perceptions: A quantitative study of energy and comfort in university campus by Syed Yahya, S.N.N., Mohd Ariffin, A.R., Ismail, M.A.

“…An energy logger was installed on three study buildings while an occupant survey was distributed to users of the same buildings. Benchmarking was used to compare energy indices of the study buildings. …”
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Excessive speculation and its regulation on house prices: A Malaysia experience by Mohd Razif, N.F., Samsul Kamal, N.S., Mohamad, S., Hashim, M.A.

“…However, speculation also creates an artificial market price trends that leads to the benchmarking of housing price. In fact, although housing is a key driver of business cycle but excessive speculation in property market were also the causes of financial crisis in 2008. …”
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A dual fast and slow feature interaction in biologically inspired visual recognition of human action by Yousefi, Bardia, Loo, Chu Kiong

“…The two human action datasets for benchmarking (KTH and Weizmann) and the results highlight the promising performance of this approach in model modification.…”

Developing Facilities Management (FM) competencies for Malaysia: reference from international practice by Kamaruzzaman, Syahrul Nizam, Myeda, Nik Elyna, Zawawi, Emma, Ramli, Rozita Mohamed, Pitt, Michael

“…Findings: The findings indicate that among the significant factors for the respective strategic, tactical and operational practice of FM are strategic: managing change, benchmarking and strategic facilities planning; tactical: risk management, emergency preparedness, FM technology, service-level agreement and supply management; and operational: space planning and management. …”