Educational Policies for the 21st Century in Southeast Asian Developing Countries

Makalah ini membincangkan dasar pendidikan dan keperluannya bagi menghadapi masalah dan isu pendidikan di negara-negara membangun di Asia Tenggara sebagai persediaan untuk menghadapi abad ke 21. Hal-hal dasar yang berkaitan dengan kualiti pendidikan, persamaan pendidikan dan pengurusan dan model dasar pendidikan disentuh. Soalan-soalan mengenai kepentingan dan jenis pengetahuan dan kemahiran bidang pengajian dan kurikulum pendidikan satu perkembangan teknologi dalam pendidikan bagi keperluan kemajuan negara dan antara negara dibincangkan

The Development Of A National Integrated Data System For Malaysia: A Proposal For A Pilot Study

After two decades of development experience that can be regarded by most standards to be extremely successful, and now entering another five-year phase with the inception of the Third Malaysia Plan, planners, policy-makers and administrators have found themselves faced with an even greater array of problems of managing the economic and social progress of the country

Research At Universiti Sains Malaysia Volume 1 Policy Studies And Consultancy Services

This volume is one of four published in conjunction with University Sains Malaysia's thirty-fifth anniversary (the other three being devoted to Biotechnology, Environmental Management and Engineering and The Natural Habitat) and its primary focus is on policy and developmental issues and on the University's contribution to the outside community through consultancy and other services. This would cover research work carried out in Schools such as the School of Social Sciences, the School of Humanities, the School of Education and the School of Management, while not neglecting research centres such as the Centre for Policy Research, the Women's Development Research Centre, the Centre for Drug Research and others. The selection of works presented in this volume which is by no means exhaustive, is representative of USM's contributions on policy and related matters during its thirty-five year history

Urban Land Ownership Study - Urban Land Ownership In Peninsular Malaysia: A Proposed Study

There has been a common tendency, among academicians and administrators alike, to assume that problems of land tenure are of special significance only in rural areas and therefore worthy of inquiry only in that context

Whole-genome sequencing reveals host factors underlying critical COVID-19

Critical COVID-19 is caused by immune-mediated inflammatory lung injury. Host genetic variation influences the development of illness requiring critical care1 or hospitalization2,3,4 after infection with SARS-CoV-2. The GenOMICC (Genetics of Mortality in Critical Care) study enables the comparison of genomes from individuals who are critically ill with those of population controls to find underlying disease mechanisms. Here we use whole-genome sequencing in 7,491 critically ill individuals compared with 48,400 controls to discover and replicate 23 independent variants that significantly predispose to critical COVID-19. We identify 16 new independent associations, including variants within genes that are involved in interferon signalling (IL10RB and PLSCR1), leucocyte differentiation (BCL11A) and blood-type antigen secretor status (FUT2). Using transcriptome-wide association and colocalization to infer the effect of gene expression on disease severity, we find evidence that implicates multiple genes—including reduced expression of a membrane flippase (ATP11A), and increased expression of a mucin (MUC1)—in critical disease. Mendelian randomization provides evidence in support of causal roles for myeloid cell adhesion molecules (SELE, ICAM5 and CD209) and the coagulation factor F8, all of which are potentially druggable targets. Our results are broadly consistent with a multi-component model of COVID-19 pathophysiology, in which at least two distinct mechanisms can predispose to life-threatening disease: failure to control viral replication; or an enhanced tendency towards pulmonary inflammation and intravascular coagulation. We show that comparison between cases of critical illness and population controls is highly efficient for the detection of therapeutically relevant mechanisms of disease

Politics and finance in Malaya

Article on the financing of Malaysian elections - examines (1) variations in political party expenditures (e.g. election costs) (2) sources of party finance during the election period (3) financial aspects of party centralization

Malaysia: new states in a new nation; political development of Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysia.

IDRC governor. Monograph on the political development and modernization of the Sarawak and Sabah states of Malaysia - discusses the development of Sabah and Sarawak from the time of their union with Malaysia in 1963, examining such aspects as the impact of central government from Malaysia on the two states, the formation and functioning of political partys, the political system, the elections of 1967 and 1969-70, public administration, and styles and strategies in politics. Bibliography