The openness declared in Malaysia aims to strengthen the economic interlinkages with other economies and enhancing the role of the liberalization itself as a key enabler and mechanism of economic growth.The main concern of this study is to examine the correlation between financial openness towards economy and the total output growth. Primary attention has been given, for not just focusing on country level but also going in depth into manufacturing industry level to look at this relationship based on Malaysia experience. By using de facto financial openness, the result shows that financial openness is significant for both in country and industry level and support that the volume of country_s assets and liabilities did impact on economy and output growth. However, in Granger causality test the significant level only shows on a country level. Keywords Financial openness, output growth, economic growth, manufacturing...

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Healthcare industry itself is moving forward toward preparing lower cost of material, cheaper price, JIT deliveries, and elimination of waste and defects in many aspects of the activity or operation, and strengthening relationships with vendors, and ultimately producing high quality products and customers services better than competitors. A survey through questionnaire was conducted to determine the level of lean healthcare practices. 128 sets of questionnaire were successfully collected that brought to 40.4% response rate. Structural equation modeling technique was adopted to analyze the data gathered from the survey. Hence, this study produces implications on theory and management and provides a practical guide for healthcare practitioners to enhance their organizational performance through the implementation of lean healthcare practices. This paper presents finding of Exploratory Factor Analyses (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and reliability analysis empirically verified.....

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Discovering the best model that is able to predict equity values that most closely approximate the actual equity values observed in the market place has always been an area of concern for financial analysts and other stakeholders. This paper tackles this issue by comparing various stock valuation models in terms of their relative forecast accuracy in the Malaysia context. The findings reveal that PE (Price-to-Earnings) model produced the lowest mean absolute forecast error for the overall sample companies as well as in the perspective of large firm size. The results indicate that PE model generally outperforms DGM (Dividend Growth) model and OCF (Operating Cash Flow) model and hence conclude that PE model is the most robust model among stock pricing models. As such, all stakeholders should focus more on information conveyed by earnings in order to enhance their forecast of stock prices. Keywords Forecast accuracy, Stock pricing models...

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The residents need a shelter or known as residential unit for them to do their daily activities and for mean of security and privacy. The professional construction members for instance interior designers, architects, planners and others should be well-thought-out of the residents_ preferences on interior finishes as they are very important to guide the residents to become accustomed with their living environment. The consideration of the residents_ preferences on interior floor finishes may increase their satisfaction degree. Interior floor finishes give more impact to interior living environment as they are the elements that the residents step on every day instead of wall or ceiling. The aim is to identify the most chosen selection criteria of beauty of interior floor finishes. Beauty is one of the selection criteria on interior floor finishes that should be specified more as it is the first thing visually seen by human beings. The selection criteria of beauty are colour, texture, pat.....

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The Malaysian government's Film Censorship Board, known as Lembaga Penapis Filem, has been in charge of film censorship for the past few years (LPF). Therefore, this research aims to examine the impact of local and foreign film censorship on young adult_s behaviour in Malaysia. This study is based on qualitative data obtained through a narrative literature review, drawing from fifteen journal articles about the research topic identified using Google Scholar from 2019 to 2023. According to the survey, there is a worrying trend among Malaysian young adults. They are becoming more likely to access sensitive information against the LPF's restrictions, especially in areas like politics, religion, and homosexuality. This conduct not only highlights a violation of censorship standards but also acts as an influence in influencing the opinions, convictions, and cultural awareness of the young adult population. According to the study, these encounters have a big impact on how people understand a.....

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This past five years has seen a drastic reform takes over in English Language Education. The reform prompts a significant change in the field of teaching, learning and the assessment system. To note, the recent implementation of CEFR-aligned Classroom-Based Assessment (CEFR CBA) demands teachers to be a comprehensive implementer in assessing students within their teaching and learning practices. As this enactment is concerned, teachers_ professional development (TPD) program plays the crucial roles to ensure teachers are well equipped with the content and pedagogical knowledge in the new policy. TPD has become an important professional learning medium for teachers in the aim of increasing their professionalism to enact educational change. Hence, this study was conducted to explore the enactment of teachers_ professional development program within two main contexts which are at the meso (school) and macro (education department) level. This study revealed that the enactment of TPD progra.....

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