Halal certification plays a key role in food and beverages industry in Malaysia. This certification indicates that the food product is assured in terms of religious compliance, safety and hygiene. There is limited study conducted from the viewpoint of business owners and what benefit it can do in terms of their business development. This research was conducted to associate the role of Halal certification and business performance in four selected Kopitiams around Selangor from various categories; Muslim Halal certified, Muslim not Halal certified, non Muslim Halal certified and non Muslim not Halal certified. Business operators and consumers of the said Kopitiams were interviewed and all case studies were analyzed using descriptive and interpretive analysis. The findings are in line with theories used which are Resource Based View, Theory of Reasoned Action and Theory of Perceived Behavior. The outcome of the study concluded that Halal certificate does bring benefit in their business performance in terms of Islamic view, social contribution, financial capital and human capital. Halal certification is a motivation to gain religious benefit, customer satisfaction, provide more job opportunities and avoid social problems. In financial capital, it serves as an internal resource to boost sales and influence customers’ purchasing decision. For human capital, Halal certificate can increase skill and development of the companies’ human resources.
The challenge facing the world in recent times is the deadly infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), now referred to as COVID-19. The disease does affect not only human health but also disrupt economic activities due to partial lockdown and social distancing measures taken to curb the spread of the disease. Hence, the research goal for this paper is to study the impact of COVID-19 on the Malaysian economy concerning consumer product manufacturing firms. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire distributed to the marketing managers, distributors, wholesale managers, and retailers of consumer products. The data collected were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Respondents strongly agree with the following: COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the Malaysian economy; substantial production disruptions emerged as a result of forced business closures and workers' inability to get to work; COVID-19 lockdown drastically reduced the consumption pattern in Malaysia; panic among consumers and firms distorted usual consumption patterns and created market anomalies. In short, Malaysia's economy has been badly affected by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The policymakers, via legislation, may create a robust economic recovery welfare safety net for all citizens, particularly for citizens who lost their jobs, especially those from poor households and build appropriate digital infrastructure. A future study is suggested to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on Malaysia's economy based on aggregate data.
Light Emitting Diode (LED) is widely used in garden landscape decoration because of its small size, low power, concentrated light, and the capability of showing more vivid colors. While designing the LED lighting system, considering that a single Advanced RISC Machine (ARM)-based control system cannot achieve large-scale LED display, and a single Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based control system cannot control the lighting system well, an LED system with the combination of ARM processor-FPGA is proposed. In this system, the ARM processor is used as the major control component. The Linux system realizes remote monitoring and intelligent management of image data. In addition, FPGA is used for LED data output. The lighting system consists of a major control node and a lighting node. The nodes are connected in parallel through a chain network. The major control node uses an ARM Cortex processor and is equipped with a Linux operating system. The lighting node uses ARM + FPGA hardware architecture. During the experiments, the LED lighting system is tested first. The results show that the reading and writing speed is fast. The LED display screen meets the lighting requirements. This LED lighting system is used for night lighting of garden landscapes. During the brightness test, the brightness of lighting objects and the background is used as research objects. Experiments have proved that the ratio of the lighting object brightness to the background brightness between (Yu, M. and Li, X., 2012. A little current k-factor method for measuring junction temperature of aviation lighting power led. Guangxue Jishu/Optical Technique, 38(3), pp.371–375; Monas, A., Verma, A., Gawari, A. and Paswan, R. S., 2016. Portable network monitor using arm processor. Procedia Computer Science, 92, pp.493–497.) is suitable for night lighting of garden landscape decoration, which will not bring discomfort to people who enjoy night scenery.
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