Perkembangan Sosioekonomi Dan Politik Dalam Kalangan Orang Cina Di Daerah Bau Dan Bandar Kuching Sejak 1840 Hingga 1947

Tesis ini mengkaji tentang sejarah sosioekonomi dan politik orang Cina di Bahagian Kuching yang memberi tumpuan kepada peranan orang Cina dalam pembangunan Daerah Bau sejak zaman pemerintahan Kesultanan Brunei hingga Dinasti Brooke. This thesis is a study on the socio-economic and political history of Kuching Division. The focus is on the role of the Chinese in the development of the Bau District from the Brunei Sultanate era until the Brooke Dynasty

The application of traditional design principles to contemporary housing in Malaysia

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-163).Malaysia is now undergoing rapid economic development, bringing swift and often drastic changes to the built environment. Major cultural changes, the effects of which may not be fully appreciated for a number of years, have also accompanied development. As "modern" construction techniques displace traditional methods, aspects of an intrinsically Malaysian way of life may be lost forever, for vernacular construction has evolved to provide a setting for the intimate and delicate intertwining of social environment with built environment. This thesis examines the traditional Malay settlement, the kampong, and presents an application of observed principles in a design for a contemporary musing development. Descriptions are drawn largely from personal observation, and are given in terms of the cultural-physical interrelationship whenever applicable. Attention is given to the transformations which have occurred as the kampong (a traditionally rural form) has been introduced to the urban context. A hypothetical housing development in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia' s largest city, illustrates the adaptation of traditional ideas and methodologies to the modern urban setting. For the sake of economics, as well as for the betterment of the environment, the role of the architect is confined to providing an infrastructure, leaving infill to the residents. Typical units are designed however, to serve as suggestions to the occupants and builders. It is intended that the thesis itself will offer further ideas.by Teck Neo Choo.M.Arch

Efficient SmallSat Operation Using SciBox

Planning and commanding a space operation is inherently a very complex task requiring highly skilled operators from various disciplines coordinating in a timely manner to ensure both smooth and successful operation. This process can be performed manually, however, resolving conflicts quickly becomes an intensive iterative process that underuses a space system’s resources and renders it less responsive to sudden schedule changes. Increasingly complex space missions combined with the desire to maximize efficiency require a different approach. Responding to these challenges is SciBox, an autonomous planning and commanding system and a technology enabler for space operations, developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). Since its development in 2001, SciBox has automated the processes of translating user requests into a series of satellite operations, searching for observation and data collection opportunities, scheduling required resources and contact with ground stations, generating command sequences to drive payloads and spacecraft, and validating the generated command sequences against operational health and safety constraints. Continual improvements to SciBox and to the SciBox development process through its application on a number of APL small sat missions will be discussed in this paper. The initial use of SciBox for small sat operations was on the ORS Tech 1 and ORS Tech 2 Multi-mission Bus Demonstration (MBD) program. This program required an easy-to-use, operational management system for use by a non-APL operations team. This instantiation of the SciBox was named S2Ops. With a user-friendly, graphics interface built, this version of SciBox was an ideal solution for the government operations team. For the CubeSat Signal Preprocessor Assessment and Test (CAT) mission, APL operates two 3U satellites, each hosting an industry-provided RF instrument, in low Earth orbit (LEO). APL operates the satellites using SciBox, which provides key features to autonomously manage satellite constellations. Given the limited operational resources and the desire to maximize the number of experiments performed, SciBox is an ideal solution for the CAT mission. SciBox reduces the lead time for operations planning by shortening the time-consuming coordination process, reduces cost by automating the labor-intensive processes of human-in-the-loop adjudication of operational priorities, reduces operations risk by systematically checking mission constraints, and maximizes data return by fully evaluating the trade space of experimental opportunities versus spacecraft recorder, downlink, scheduling, and orbital-geometry constraints. SciBox is also used on CAT to generate a command schedule that executes the following operations: South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) constraints, experiment configuration schedule, ground station contacts, delta-differential drag maneuvers, and flight safety constraints. Finally, the latest application of SciBox is to the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission, which studies the electric currents that play a crucial role in the interactions between Earth and the surrounding magnetosphere. EZIE consists of three 6U CubeSats flying in a pearls-on-a-string orbit configuration, each carrying a Microwave Electrojet Magnetogram (MEM) instrument. This mission will utilize the SciBox capabilities demonstrated on CAT, but also include enhanced features such as early spacecraft recovery by using the observed carrier frequency (or Doppler shift), and support the systems integration phase prior to launch

The ‘Voices’ of Beginning Teachers in Malaysia About Their Conceptions of Competency: A Phenomenographic Investigation

This study gave ‘voice’ to 18 beginning teachers in Malaysia about their own teaching competences within their teaching profession through a phenomenographic investigation. The aim of the study was to discover what beginning teachers themselves conceive as competence in relation to what they did everyday as teachers. These beginning teachers were interviewed and the transcripts analysed to reveal how they conceived the phenomenon of competence. The results showed that beginning teachers’ conceptions of competence fell into five qualitatively different categories: (i) classroom and behaviour management, (ii) knowing subject matter, (iii) reaching out for assistance and support, (iv) understanding students and (v) possessing values of professionalism. This study could serve as a platform to further extend beginning teachers’ understandings of the teacher profession, and to provide them more possibilities to extend their competences to enable them to continuously develop and create opportunities for their own students

The Approaches to Teaching Inventory: A Preliminary Validation of the Malaysian Translation

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a Malaysian translation of the 22-item Approaches to Teaching Inventory for application in higher education. The Approaches to Teaching Inventory was a quantitative measure used by teachers of higher education to gauge their own teaching approaches that had been psychometrically assessed and widely used in western universities. Data in the present study came from 172 teachers in two institutions of higher learning. Principal factor analyses with varimax rotation and confirmatory factor analyses support a model with 17 items categorized into five sub-factors that were subsumed within two main factors. The alpha values of both the sub-factors and main factors were good. While broadly supporting the use of the Malaysian version in providing insights into the teaching approaches, the findings of the present study suggested the need to examine other factors that may contribute towards the inventory’s future improvement for application in the Malaysian higher education context

Evaluating the impact of the reconfiguration of gynaecology services at a University Hospital NHS trust in the United Kingdom

Background: The project aim was to investigate the impact of reconfiguring gynaecology services on the keyperformance indicators of a University Hospital NHS Trust in the UK. The reconfiguration involved the centralisationof elective gynaecology on one hospital site and emergency gynaecology on the other.Methods: Data measuring outcomes of the Trust’s performance indicators (clinical outcomes, patient experience,staff satisfaction, teaching/training, research/development and value for money) were collected. Two time periods,12 months before and after the reconfiguration in March 2011, were compared for all outcome measures exceptpatient experience. Retrospective data from the hospitals audit department on clinical activity/outcomes andemergency gynaecology patient’s feedback questionnaires were analysed. Staff satisfaction, teaching/training andresearch/development were measured through an online survey of gynaecology consultants.Results: Post reconfiguration, the total number of admissions reduced by 6% (6,867 vs 6,446). There was a 14%increase in elective theatre sessions available (902.29 vs 1030.57) and an 84% increase in elective theatre sessionscancelled (44.43 vs 81.71). However, the average number of elective operations performed during each theatresession remained similar (2.63 vs 2.5). There was a significant increase in medical devices related clinical incidents(2 vs 11). With patient experience, there was a significant reduction in patient’s overall length of stay on theemergency gynaecology ward and waiting times for investigations. For staff satisfaction, Consultants weresignificantly more dissatisfied with workload (3.45 vs 2.85) and standards of care (3.75 vs 2.93). With research anddevelopment, consultants remained dissatisfied with time/funding/opportunities for research. No significantimpact on undergraduate/postgraduate teaching was found. No financial data on gynaecology was provided forthe assessment of value for money.Conclusions: Reconfiguration of gynaecology services at this Trust may have resulted in a reduction ingynaecological activity and increased cancellation of elective operations but did not significantly reduce thenumber of elective operations performed. Although consultants expressed increased dissatisfaction withstandards of clinical care, clinical incident reports did not significantly increase apart from medical devicesincidents. Patient experience of emergency gynaecology services was improved. This manuscript provides aframework for similar exercises evaluating the impact of service redesign in the NHS

Effect of varying dietary zinc levels and environmental temperature on the growth performance, feathering score and feather mineral concentration in commercial broilers

This study aimed to investigate the effects of dietary zinc (Zn), environmental temperatures and Zn× temperature interaction on growth, feathering score and mineral composition of broilers. A total of 256 d-old Avian male broiler chicks were randomly allocated to a 4×2 factorial arrangement with four corn-soybean meal basal diets (containing 44 mg Zn/kg) supplemented with 0, 40, 60 mg/kg Zn (Diets 1, 2 and 3, respectively; 0.8% Ca for these three diets) and non-Zn supplementation, 1.6% Ca (Diet 4)and two temperature conditions (low: 26, 24, 22°C vs. high: 30, 28, 26°C). All birds were given feathering coverage scores for back, breast, wing, under-wing and tail. The wing and tail were further evaluated for the occurrence and severity of defect feathers. Feathers were then pooled for mineral composition analysis. The results showed that in high temp erature conditions, broilers fed Zn-unsupplemented, 0.8% Ca ration (Diet 1) had significantly(p<0.05) lower ADFI and ADG (wk 1-6) than birds under low temperature conditions. However, when the birds were fed 40 and 60 mg/kg Zn supplementation (Diets 2 and 3), the ADFI and ADG in both temperature conditions were not significantly different. In low temperature conditions, the ADFI, ADG (p<0.05), all feather coverage (p<0.01) and tail defect scores (p<0.001) of birds fed Diet 4 (excess Ca) were significantly poorer than those fed Diet 1. More Ca (p<0.05) was retained in the feathers of broilers fed Diet 4 under high temperature conditions. Broilers fed the Zn-unsupplemented ration (D iet 1) had significantly higher feather phosphorus (p<0. 01) and potassium (p<0.05) concentrations than those fed the 60 mg/kg Zn-supplemented ration (Diet 3). A reduction of feather phosphorus (p<0.01) and potassium (p<0.05) and higher manganese (p<0.05) concentrations were observed in Diet 4 broilers as compared to those fed Diet 1.Under high temperature conditions, broilers had lower iron (p<0.05) and higher manganese (p<0.05) concentrations in feathers. Broilers kept in high temperature conditions had a higher Zn requirement and 40 mg/kg Zn supplementation was sufficient for the birds to achieve optimum growth. Suppl emental Zn ameliorated the adverse effect of high temperature on growth and occurrence of tail feather defects. Excess Ca disrupted Zn metabolism to exert a detrimental effect on growth performance and normal feathering and this was elucidated in the birds kept in low temperature conditions

Prácticas pedagógicas de aprendizaje mixto para mejorar la autonomía de aprendizaje de los alumnos y los resultados académicos en el aprendizaje

This study investigated whether blended learning was more effective in inculcating learner autonomy and improving academic results among students when compared to conventional learning practices.&nbsp; The study used a quasi-experimental design. The participants of the study consisted of 78 lower secondary students. The study carried out two different teaching methods; a blended learning classroom for the treatment group, meanwhile a conventional learning classroom for the control group. There were 40 pupils in the treatment group and 38 pupils in the control group.&nbsp; Post-test analysis was carried out to understand the effectiveness of blended learning towards students’ academic achievement.&nbsp; A set of questionnaire was developed to identify learner autonomy after the treatment.&nbsp; The results indicated that there was a significant increase in academic achievement based on the pre and post-test analyses. The study also found that blended learning pedagogical practices could improve students’ learning autonomy in learning.Este estudio investigó si el aprendizaje combinado era más efectivo para inculcar la autonomía del alumno y mejorar los resultados académicos entre los estudiantes en comparación con las prácticas de aprendizaje convencionales. El estudio utilizó un diseño cuasi-experimental. Los participantes del estudio fueron 78 estudiantes de secundaria inferior. El estudio llevó a cabo dos métodos de enseñanza diferentes; un aula de aprendizaje mixto para el grupo de tratamiento, mientras que un aula de aprendizaje convencional para el grupo de control. Había 40 alumnos en el grupo de tratamiento y 38 alumnos en el grupo de control. Se llevó a cabo un análisis posterior a la prueba para comprender la efectividad del aprendizaje combinado hacia el logro académico de los estudiantes. Se desarrolló un conjunto de cuestionarios para identificar la autonomía del alumno después del tratamiento. Los resultados indicaron que hubo un aumento significativo en el rendimiento académico basado en los análisis pre y post-test. El estudio también encontró que las prácticas pedagógicas de aprendizaje mixto podrían mejorar la autonomía de aprendizaje de los estudiantes en el aprendizaj

The quantitative proteomes of human-induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells

An in-depth proteomic comparison of human-induced pluripotent stem cells, and their parent fibroblast cells, with embryonic stem cells shows that the reprogramming process comprehensively remodels protein expression levels, creating cells that closely resemble natural stem cells