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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Art education at Shandong Museum has struggled to sustain engagement among primary-level learners. This study designed, implemented, and validated a Fun Learning Model (FLM) to advance creative pedagogy in a museum context. By adopting a qualitative single-case study, the research drew on semistructured interviews with museum educators and primary school art teachers, pupil focus groups, participant observations of programme sessions, document analysis, and expert assessments. Data were coded and thematically analysed in NVivo, with cross-source triangulation to enhance credibility. Findings indicate that the FLM_s five elements: Situation, Participation, Exploration, Interaction, and Collaboration, and its three strategies: Gamification, Multimedia Interaction, and Hands-on Experience, supported sustained attention, active participation, and creative expression, thereby strengthening perceived learning outcomes. Gamified and experiential tasks elicited higher engagement than passive v.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan membangunkan kerangka pedagogi terbeza berasaskan pengetahuan dan kemahiran abad ke-21 dalam pengajaran Matematik di Sekolah Kurang Murid (SKM). Kajian Reka Bentuk dan Pembangunan (Design and Development Research, DDR) digunakan dan melibatkan tiga fasa, iaitu Fasa Analisis Keperluan (Fasa I), Fasa Reka Bentuk dan Pembangunan (Fasa II), serta Fasa Penilaian (Fasa III). Fasa I melibatkan 76 orang guru Matematik serta tinjauan literatur bagi mengenal pasti keperluan pembangunan kerangka berdasarkan model Dick dan Carey. Instrumen soal selidik yang digunakan mengandungi empat bahagian dengan lapan item bagi setiap bahagian. Dapatan analisis deskriptif menunjukkan keperluan yang tinggi untuk membangunkan kerangka tersebut (min = 4.02). Fasa II melibatkan 11 orang panel pakar dalam bidang Matematik sekolah rendah dan pedagogi berdasarkan pendekatan Richey dan Klein. Instrumen kajian merangkumi lima bahagian yang meliputi maklumat demografi dan elemen pedagogi terbeza. S.....

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This study explored children_s perceptions of sleep and sleep habits, as well as mothers_ perceptions of their children_s sleep, sleep habits, and the practices that help their children to sleep. This qualitative study used a phenomenological approach with purposive sampling. The participants were 12 preschool-aged children, aged five to six years, who were generally healthy and typically developing and 12 mothers who were non-shift workers (M = 37.4 years old, SD = 2.68). Data were collected using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was performed on interview transcripts from 12 children and 12 mothers. Children_s understanding of their sleep elicited five themes (sleep behaviour, dreams, feelings upon waking, daytime functioning, facial appearance), while their perceptions of sleep habits elicited three themes (sleeping environment, bedtime routine, sleep resistance and midnight awakening). Mothers_ perceptions of their children_s sleep elicited three themes (type .....

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This study aimed to examine the direct effect of psychological capital, specifically selfefficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience, on employee adaptive performance within ecommerce enterprises in Shaanxi Province, China, and the mediating effect of innovative work behaviour. The formulation of the research framework was guided by Hobfoll's Conservation of Resources theory. To conduct the research, a quantitative research design with a deductive approach was adopted. Data were collected using an online questionnaire from a sample of 500 employees, who were selected using stratified random sampling. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). At the significance level of 0.05, the findings demonstrated that psychological capital, specifically the dimensions of optimism (_=0.189, p-value=0.000), hope (_=0.197, p-value=0.000), and resilience (_=0.173, p-value=0.002), have a significant positive effect on adaptive performance, but not self-efficacy (_=0.087, p-value=0.112)......

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