495 research outputs found
Mapping the disaster : global prediction and the medium of ‘digital earth’
No full textThis paper explores the mapping of disaster in digital prediction models. Concentrating on the imminent disaster of climate change, the author asks how global digital models can be expanded to incorporate a wild nature and wild data. This theme is considered through an examination of the ‘nature’ of disaster and its reportage, GISs and their extension into physical space, the language of climate change, and the role of digital machines in these experiments with climate. The author concludes with an examination of expanded forms of mapping to suggest possible reconfigurations of the terms of the disaster
Medical Education – Reflections for the Future / Khalid Yusoff
No full textThe practice of medicine, and the training of it, is of course steep in history and tradition. Names such as Hippocrates, Galen and Ibnu Sina come to mind easily. The Islamic civilization substantially contributed to and advanced the medical corpus of the Greek civilization. There was of course the practice of medicine in the Indian and Chinese Civilisation which seemed to have taken their own trajectories. The Age of Reformation and Enlightenment in Europe brought scientific basis into the understanding and treatment of diseases – anatomy, physiology, pharmacology flourished. However, it was Abraham Flexner who revolutionized the medical training and medical education - its methods and purpose - with his 1910 Report [1]. Flexner, a school teacher and not a physician, was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation to review the then medical schools in America and Canada. He was chosen perhaps for his idea that education should be distinguished by small classes, personal attention and hands-on teaching. He was also persuaded by the ideas propagated by John Dewey – a philosopher and educationist - that learning should be by doing, by solving problems, rather than by rote learning [2]. In the course of his study, he became convinced of the essentiality of science in the training of doctors, incorporating biomedical sciences into the medical curriculum, embracing scientific breakthroughs and its advancement. Hence the curriculum was re-designed, giving greater emphasis to science; very much in line with the German system where Medicine was considered a scientific discipline, where physicians had a thorough training in laboratory investigations before they embarked on clinical training. Through this effort, excellence in medical training was redefined and reaffirmed, leading to the closure of many for-profit proprietary medical schools in America
An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz: Geopower, Inhumanism and the Biopolitical
No full text© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. This article is an interview with Elizabeth Grosz by Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark. It primarily addresses Grosz’s approaches to ‘geopower’, and the discussion encompasses an exploration of her ideas on biopolitics, inhuman forces and material experimentation. Grosz describes geopower as a force that subtends the possibility of politics. The interview is accompanied by a brief contextualizing introduction examining the themes of geophilosophy and the inhumanities in Grosz’s work
An Interview with Elizabeth Povinelli: Geontopower, Biopolitics and the Anthropocene
No full text© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. This article is an interview with Elizabeth Povinelli, by Mathew Coleman and Kathryn Yusoff. It addresses Povinelli’s approaches to ‘geontologies’ and ‘geontopower’, and the discussion encompasses an exploration of her ideas on biopolitics, her retheorization of power in the current conditions of late liberalism, and the situation of the inhuman within philosophical and anthropological economies. Povinelli describes a mode of power that she calls geontopower, which operates through the governance of Life and Nonlife. The interview is accompanied by a brief contextualizing introduction
Gas treatment (air scrubber) / Mohamad Fadli Mohd. Yusoff, Muhd. Syarif Khalid and Rosita Baslan
No full textProjek ini adalah mengenai Proses Rawatan Sisa Gas menggunakan alat "Air Scrubber" .la berkisar kepada masalah yang disebabkan oleh pencemaran udara. Kesan-kesan pencemaran udara memang jelas dan boleh menyebabkan masalah jerebu dan juga hujan asid . Kesannya kepada manusia pula ialah gangguan pernafasan, sakit kerongkong, sakit kulit, sakit mata dan sakit paru-paru. Selain daripada itu, tumbuhan turut sama mengalami perubahan iaitu keruntuhan tisu-tisu yang akan menyebabkan tumbuhan akan mati dan kehilangan warna hijau . Sementara itu kesan kepada harta benda pula ialah kakisan bahan-bahan binaan dan mengotorkan permukaan bangunan terutamanya pada dinding
Understanding the role of copy number (CNV) in the development of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertension / Khalid Yusoff and Hoh Boon Peng
No full textLeft ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent risk factor for the development of heart failure, coronary heart disease and stroke. It develops as a result of hemodynamic overload, for instance, hypertension. Blood pressure is an important determinant of LVH, and a significant proportion of patients with essential hypertension develops this complication. However, this condition varies in a wide range of phenotypes, and studies had shown that patients with LVH may have near-normal blood pressure, suggesting that development of LVH may be due to an independent genetic factor from hypertension. LVH can be reversed with anti-hypertensive (anti-HT) agents. Angiotensinogen receptor blocker like losartan has been shown to improve the reversal effect. However, it is unknown whether using this anti-HT agent alone would be useful in preventing LVH. Hence, identifying HT patients with the risk of LVH may allow this hypothesis to be tested, and if successful, would lead to the prevention, treatment and improvement of prognosis of LVH. We recently carried out a genome-wide scan of copy number variation (CNV) on a group of hyptertensive LVH patients and observed a gain of copy number in AGTRII gene in a group of patients. We attempted to further investigate the role of CNV of this gene in the pathogenesis of LVH. However, we observed no significant contribution of this CNV in the disease complication. Therefore in this study, we attempted to investigate the contributions of rare CNV in the susceptibility of hypertensive LVH, and subsequently to predict the putative molecular pathways in the pathogenesis of LVH
Program DECOTA / Marina Mokhtar and Siti Hajar Khalid
No full textPada 3 Jun 2021 dan 10 Jun 2021, Ts. Dr. Mohd Zaki bin Yusoff telah dipelawa untuk menyampaikan kuliah melalui Program DECOTA, Universitas Air Langgar, Indonesia. Program DECOTA (Video Conferencing with Universitas Airlangga) merupakan salah satu program inbound dengan institusi luar negara untuk memberikan kursus online, kuliah jemputan online, atau klinik menulis dalam kelas seminar kepada para mahasiswa Universitas Air Langgar. Jabatan Sains Gunaan amat berbangga di atas sumbangan kepakaran Ts. Dr. Mohd Zaki apabila telah diberi peluang untuk berkongsi ilmu menerusi dua sesi kuliah yang bertajuk " Magnetism- NMR- Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR- MRI)" pada 3 Jun 2021 dan "Superconductor" pada 10 Jun 2021 kepada mahasiswa yang mengikuti kursus Solid State Physics
Genetic association study of KCNB1 gene with the susceptibility of hypertension related Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH) patients in Malaysia / Hoh Boon Peng and Khalid Yusoff
No full textLeft ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent risk factor for the development of heart failure, coronary heart disease and stroke. It develops as a result of hemodynamic overload, for instance, hypertension (Gary et al., 2007). Blood pressure is an important determinant of LVH, and significant proportion of patients with essential hypertension develops their complication. However, this disease varies in a wide range of phenotype, and studies had shown that patients with LVH may have near-normal blood pressure, suggesting that development of LVH may be an
independent genetic factor from hypertension. This proposed study hence, attempts to verify the study by replicating the finding in our
population, ie studying the SNPs of the KCNB1 gene among the hypertensive patients with LVH. We have genotyped earlier 100 subjects on the SNP rs6063397. We noted that this SNP is in full linkage disequilibrium with rs756529 (D’ = 1: r2 =1). Therefore in this study, we attempted to
genotype rs6063397 in additional 100 subjects with hypertension and/or with left ventricular hypertrophy. Of the total 200 hypertensive subjects, 61 were LVH and 139 were non LVH. These subjects were genotyped using sequencing. No association was observed between both alleles
and genotypes of rs6063397 LVH susceptibility suggesting that KCNB1 may not play role in LVH
susceptibility in hypertensive patients in Southeast Asian populations
Combustion and Society: A Fire-Centred History of Energy Use
No full textFire is a force that links everyday human activities to some of the most powerful energetic movements of the Earth. Drawing together the energy-centred social theory of Georges Bataille, the fire-centred environmental history of Stephen Pyne, and the work of a number of ‘pyrotechnology’ scholars, the paper proposes that the generalized study of combustion is a key to contextualizing human energetic practices within a broader ‘economy’ of terrestrial and cosmic energy flows. We examine the relatively recent turn towards fossil-fuelled ‘internal combustion’ in the light of a much longer human history of ‘broadcast’ burning of vegetation and of artisanal pyrotechnologies – the use of heat to transform diverse materials. A combustion-centred analysis, it is argued, brings human collective life into closer contact with the geochemical and geologic conditions of earthly existence, while also pointing to the significance of explorative, experimental and even playful dispositions towards energy and matter. © 2014, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved
Financial ratio as a predictor of corporate financial distress: evidence of Malaysia / Mohd Fariz Abu Khalid, Mohd Sharil Zainal Abidin & Mohd Kamal Yusoff
No full textWe would like to express our sole gratitude to Allah s.w.t for bringing us the patience, the joy and the guidance throughout the program. We thank Allah; we managed to
complete the dissertation within the time given.
We wish to express sincere appreciation to our supervisor, Associate Professor Dr Norashikin Ismail for her guidance and assistance leading to the conclusion of this research project. Fruitful discussion with her during the developing stage on the research proposal has led us to successful completion of the project and for that we are grateful to her.
Few of our friends and colleagues have been of great assistance in this research study and we gratefully thank them for their help: Dr. Noraini for her opinion upon the
presentation, PM Kamel Taufiq during preparing the proposal, Dr. Effendi and Husnizam Hussin for sharing knowledge on how to develop research data and make us familiar with SPSS when we had our difficulty during final stage to extract the data
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