Qualitative assessment of groundwater for livestock and poultry watering: A case study of water wells in Hamdaniya district, Nineveh governorate, Iraq

This study aims to determine the iron content of water wells in Dulalowo and Heledulaa, Gorontalo City. Ten well water samples were taken randomly from five different wells in each district. Water samples at each well consist of top, middle, and bottom water. Determination of iron level using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) at a wavelength of 248.33 nm. The results showed that the iron concentration of well water in Dulalowo was 0.030 (D1), 0.265 (D2), 0.224 (D3), 0.158 (D4), 0.149 ppm (D5). Meanwhile, iron levels in Heledulaa were 0.100 (H1), 0.039 (H2), 0.159 (H3), 0.198 (H4), and 0.235 ppm (H5). These results prove that the Fe content in the well water in the two districts is still fulfil the drinking water standard which is a maximum of 0.3 mg/L iron.

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Qualitative Assessment of Entrepreneurial Activities of Malaysian Private Tahfiz Institutions (PTIs)

Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal ◽

10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.3056 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (18) ◽

Author(s):

Norazmi Anas ◽

Muhammad Hafiz Saleh ◽

Zuriani Yaacob ◽

Mohd Aariffin Mohd Taharin ◽

Wahibur Rokhman

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Case Study ◽

Publishing House ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Operating Costs ◽

Qualitative Assessment ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

International Publishing ◽

Entrepreneurial Activities ◽

Open Access Article

PTIs are encouraged to participate in entrepreneurial activities that are appropriate for their area and ability. Thus, this qualitative case study where a semi-structured interview with the selected Malaysian Private Tahfiz Institutions (PTIs) was conducted to identify entrepreneurial activities to pay operational and management costs, to analyze the obstacles, limitations, problems faced and to assess the balance of entrepreneurial activities in educational governance of these religious, educational institutions. The findings demonstrated that involving PTIs in entrepreneurship can cover ranging from 40 to 50 percent of total operating costs. Keywords: Qualitative Assessment; Entrepreneurial Activities; Malaysian Private Tahfiz Institutions (PTIs); Malaysia eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.3056

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Zoning of Nitrite and Nitrate Concentration in Groundwater Using Geografic Information System (GIS), Case Study: Drinking Water Wells in Yazd City

Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection ◽

10.4236/gep.2016.43008 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 04 (03) ◽

pp. 91-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Reza Ali Fallahzadeh ◽

Seyed Ali Almodaresi ◽

Mohamad Mehdi Dashti ◽

Ahmad Fattahi ◽

Mojtaba Sadeghnia ◽

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Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Drinking Water ◽

Nitrate Concentration ◽

Water Wells ◽

Yazd City

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HOW DOES THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF AN EMERGING ECONOMY SHAPE THE INNOVATION TRAJECTORY OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMPANIES? A CASE STUDY OF INDIA

Ekonomicko-manazerske spektrum ◽

10.26552/ems.2020.2.36-51 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 36-51

Author(s):

Harini Mittal

Keyword(s):

Multinational Corporations ◽

Institutional Context ◽

Emerging Economy ◽

Qualitative Assessment ◽

Primary Data ◽

Institutional Voids ◽

Innovation Strategies ◽

Start Ups ◽

The Impact

Institutional voids faced by emerging economies have received a lot of attention in recent literature. However, the impact of institutional voids in an emerging economy on the level of company innovation strategies and output is a less researched topic. Using India as a case study, this paper presents a qualitative assessment of the impact of the institutional context of this emerging economy on innovation strategies and consequent outputs of private Indian companies of various sizes and ages. Primary data for the study were collected by means of surveys, in-depth interviews, and secondary data sources including government reports, World Bank and United Nations reports, research articles, and in-depth industry surveys. The paper concludes that in India, large companies and start-ups are more innovative. Most innovations are imitative in nature, and/or driven by customer requirements, and/or international quality norms. “New-to-the-world” innovations are scarce and are mostly driven by multinational corporations (MNCs), government institutions, and to some extent large Indian companies. The paper concludes that in a rapidly emerging economy like India, large companies are more innovative because of their resilience, internal systems, and capabilities that can overcome voids, and exploit opportunities. The fast-paced transitions have created more opportunities for start-ups than small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), thereby creating unequal innovation opportunities for companies of different sizes and ages, as distinct coping strategies are required for innovation to occur.

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Valuation of Industrial Heritage in Terms of Sustainability: Some Cases of Tourist Reference in Spain

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12219216 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (21) ◽

pp. 9216 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Carlos J. Pardo Abad

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Assessment ◽

Industrial Heritage ◽

Tourist Resource ◽

New Perspective

This research is a contribution to the sustainable assessment of industrial heritage. The study analyzes the sustainability of some industrial elements after the cessation of activity as well as their tourist definition. The research includes a bibliographic review, a study of different sustainability thematic groups, and establishes certain analysis criteria in each group, adjusted to the characteristics of each selected case study. The results obtained permit a qualitative assessment of industrial heritage in terms of sustainability and its interpretation as a tourist resource in an increasingly diversified cultural offer. Special emphasis is placed on territory, landscape, environment, architecture, and tourism-related issues as the main interpretative keys that provide a new perspective on industrial heritage through an easy-to-apply analysis that contrasts operationally with other heritage environments.

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A practical integrated solution into enterprise application: a large-scale quality control system development case study

International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management ◽

10.1108/ijqrm-07-2020-0232 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Vahid Hajipour ◽

Hamidreza Amouzegar ◽

Sajjad Jalali

Keyword(s):

Quality Control ◽

Enterprise Resource Planning ◽

Large Scale ◽

Resource Planning ◽

Qualitative Assessment ◽

Primary Concern ◽

Content Type ◽

Business Units ◽

Functional Units

PurposeEnterprise resource planning (ERP) offers a streamlined system architecture to feed businesses with beneficial information in the current intense global competition. The primary concern of ERP is how to integrate different functional units to facilitate a unified flow of information. This paper aims at providing a non-trivial practice of integrating the quality control (QC) system into the core ERP processes of a real large-scaled case study.Design/methodology/approachTo satisfy the purpose of the current study, a large-scale steel making holding, inclusive of 27 business units being dispersed over a wide area, has been targeted. In our research methodology, a sample of four business units is selected as the pilot cases to be investigated at first. The output results of such investigations are further extended to the other units. In light of the investigation, the existing QC working conditions of the pilot cases are assessed through the As-Is model. The To-Be models are derived based on the best practices and the integration scope is then bordered.FindingsThe findings show that the integrated QC solution has enabled the following features: the smooth interconnection between QC and other functional units like purchase and manufacturing, the ease of generating real-time performance report of QC unit, the sack of tracing the quality of any available item in the system and the root-cause of defects, and the straightforwardness of the qualitative assessment of the suppliers.Research limitations/implicationsThere is almost no similar practice for designing a large-sized integrated system from scratch in the target region associated with our case study while the off-the-shelf products are prohibitively expensive.Practical implicationsThis paper includes implications for providing a standard practice on integrating a substantial module of ERP down to the smallest detail.Originality/valueThe value of the current paper is associated with fulfilling a critical research gap in the context of studying the QC integration into an enterprise solution. In fact, despite the importance of the QC module and its plethora of interconnection with other functional units, the literature review shows a centric lack of considering such integration in a real case study, particularly the large-scale one. Further, this paper works as a valuable study in the literature owing to not only focusing on the design and development of an integrated QC solution but also considering the deployment facet of such a practice.

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