The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed existing vulnerabilities across various sectors of the economy and society. Disruptions to food chain have been common during pandemic, resulting in empty shelves at grocery stores modifications consumer culture. Within this study, we examined resilience (characterized by flexibility, diversity, redundancy, adaptability, innovation, self-reliance infrastructure...

Salmonellosis is one of the major food-borne diseases in many countries. This study was carried out to determine the occurrence of Salmonella spp., Salmonella Enteritidis, and Salmonella Typhimurium in raw chicken meat from wet markets and hypermarkets in Selangor, as well as to determine the antibiotic susceptibility profile of S. Enteritidis and S. Typhimurium. The most probable number (MPN) ...

Campylobacter is a major foodborne pathogen frequently associated with human bacterial gastroenteritis in the world. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and antibiotic resistance of Campylobacter spp. in the beef food system in Malaysia. A total of 340 samples consisting of cattle feces (n = 100), beef (n = 120) from wet markets and beef (n = 120) from hypermarkets were analyze...

Purchase of dietary supplement products is increasing despite the lack of clinical evidence to support health needs for consumption. The purpose of this crosssectional study is to examine the factors influencing consumer purchase intention of dietary supplement products in Penang based on Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). 367 consumers were recruited from chain pharmacies and hypermarkets in P...

Objectives: To propose a reliable Block-chain based Biometric Authentication Solution (BBAS) for the Aadhar biometric authentication system. Methods: We have used Sokoto Coventry Fingerprint Dataset (SOCOFing) data set biometrics. The presented model was implemented using Ethereum network Geth (v.1.9.25) and Solidity (v.0.6.0). Python 3.8 Web3py were at client side. Findings: From proposed solu...

The rapid proliferation of the Internet has allowed many firms to use this new technology to run Web-based electronic stores to expand their markets and to enhance the operational performance. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate why electronic commerce benefits some industries more than others, and what factors affect the impact of using e-Stores on performance in different industries. ...

Distribution network design as a strategic decision has long-term effect on tactical and operational supply chain management. In this research, a supply chain design problem based on a two level capacity location allocation problem (TLCLAP) is presented. A product must be transported from a set of seaport to meet stores demands, passing out by intermediate warehouses. The objective is to locate...

Object-oriented software development is rapidly becoming the leading approach for building flexible, scalable software systems in client/server environments. Additionally, over the past decade, relational technology has matured and has been widely adopted for managing corporate data. Relational databases have now become the standard data stores for on-line transaction processing ( OLTP ) applic...