226 research outputs found
(A-LIEP 2011)Exploring the Skills and Competencies of Information Professionals for Knowledge Management in the Information Institutions of Bangladesh / Md. Abul Kalam Siddike and Md Shiful Islam
No full textThe aim of the study is to explore the views of information professionals for knowledge management (KM) in the libraries/information institutions of Bangladesh. Research Questions-This paper seeks to address the following research questions: How the information professionals of Bangladesh perceive the views of KM? What are likely to be the skills required by the information professionals of Bangladesh for KM in the libraries of Bangladesh? and what are likely to be the critical success factors for encouraging KM in the information institutions of Bangladesh? The methodology includes a quantitative approach. The study has been conducted through a survey using a pre-structured questionnaire. A short and structured questionnaire was sent to 50 information professionals who had been working in different libraries of Bangladesh through email and/or by post. The respondents were selected from 6 divisions of Bangladesh (25 respondents from Dhaka division, 5 each in Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barishal and Sylhet division). We received 30 responses, for a response rate 60%. The results of the study show that that 93.24% of the respondents first read about KM in the literature, but none had taken any courses on KM. Only 6.76% of the respondents had attended a workshop on KM. Findings also yield that most of the professionals believe that communication skills, facilitation skills, coaching skills, mentoring skills, networking skills, negotiating skills, consensus building skills and team working skills are inevitable for KM in the libraries of Bangladesh. This paper also suggests some critical success factors for encouraging the information professionals to KM in the libraries of Bangladesh. It investigates the original views of the library and information professionals of Bangladesh regarding the skills and competences of information professionals for KM in the libraries of Bangladesh. The department of Information Science and Library Management of Dhaka University and Rajshahi University should introduce KM course(s) either in the graduate level or in the post-graduate leve
What Makes a System Smart? Wise?
No full textThe human-side of service engineering community has an opportunity to par-ticipate in an emerging trend to connect sociotechnical system research and engineering with the DIKIW (data-information-knowledge-intelligence-wisdom) hierarchy. The digital economy is grounded in big data and infor-mation systems. The knowledge economy is being redefined in the cognitive era by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language pro-cessing capabilities, and as a result our systems are getting more intelligent or smarter. However, beyond smarter, what are wiser systems? Can these terms be made more rigorous and operational? The goal of this paper is to provide a jumping off point for the AHFE HSSE community on this topic, and to ex-plore the concept of smart versus wise from three related socio-technical sys-tems perspectives: polycentric systems, viable systems, and service systems
Perubahan habitat manusia dan persekitaran serta implikasinya terhadap penyakit dan kesihatan serta pengurusannya
No full textPerubahan habitat manusia dan persekitaran, terutamanya dalam proses pembandaran mampu mengundang kewujudan penyakit yang semestinya mengganggu kesihatan manusia. Perubahan pada persekitaran atmosfera umpamanya, dapat dikesan melalui kewujudan jerebu yang menyebabkan penyakit bronkitis dan pelbagai penyakit berkaitan sistem pernafasan. Kewujudan pulau haba bandar dalam keadaan atmosfera yang stabil dan kejadian olak suhu mampu membendung bahan pencemar udara daripada diserakkan dan kekal hampir permukaan dan menyebabkan manusia terdedah kepada bahan pencemar yang mampu mengganggu kesihatan, malahan kematian. Persekitaran litosfera yang melibatkan tanih juga boleh mengalami perubahan terutamanya melalui penggunaan baja sintetik. Perubahan persekitaran hidrosfera biasanya dapat dikesan melalui pencemaran air sama ada dalam sistem sungai, marin ataupun dalam bekalan air domestik. Masalah pencemaran air biasanya dikaitkan dengan beberapa jenis penyakit bawaan air seperti disentri, tifoid dan taun. Perubahan yang berlaku pada persekitaran biosfera pula biasanya dikaitkan dengan masalah pencemaran akibat penggunaan bahan tosik seperti racun serangga, racun makhlok perosak dan herbisid. Bagaimanapun, salah satu daripada masalah yang paling ketara berkaitan perubahan habitat dan persekitaran pada masa ini adalah penyakit bawaan vektor nyamuk aedes yang menyebabkan penyakit demam denggi. Makalah ini adalah tentang persekitaran fizikal, perubahan yang dialami akibat proses pembangunan habitat manusia serta implikasinya terhadap penyakit dan kesihatan. Terdapat banyak undang-undang, peraturan serta cara bukan perundangan yang digunakan di negara ini untuk mengatasi masalah penyakit dan kesihatan berkaitan dengan perubahan habitat manusia dan persekitaran. Perkara ini juga dikupas dalam artikel ini
Konsep dan realiti dalam pekembangan habitat manusia dan perubahan iklim
No full textApakah benar perkembangan habitat manusia telah menyebabkan berlakunya perubahan iklim? Ataupun, apakah benar perubahan iklim sememangnya berlaku dan perkembangan habitat manusia hanya menjadi penggalak kepada suatu keadaan yang sememangnya sedang berlaku. Kajian-kajian yang telah dilakukan sehingga kini jelas menunjukkan bahawa perubahan iklim merupakan suatu kejadian yang telah wujud sejak ribuan juta tahun yang lalu dan masih berlaku sehingga ke hari ini. Dalam jangka masa yang begitu panjang kejadian yang berlaku pada masa lampau tidak mungkin disebabkan oleh pembangunan dan perkembangan habitat manusia kerana kewujudan manusia dikatakan tidak melebihi 2.5 juta tahun yang lalu. Namun begitu, sejak lima juta tahun yang lampau bumi masih mengalami perubahan iklim berdasarkan banyak bukti-bukti yang telah ditemui terutamanya berkaitan dengan kenaikan dan penurunan aras laut yang dikaitkan dengan episod-episod pencairan ais benua dan litupan ais benua. Bagaimanapun, sejak beberapa ratus tahun kebelakangan ini dengan pertumbuhan dan perkembangan habitat manusia akibat pertambahan penduduk yang pesat serta aktiviti-aktiviti yang dijalankan, perubahan iklim yang sememangnya berlaku telah dipergiatkan lagi. Makalah ini membicarakan tentang konsep dan realiti perkembangan habitat manusia dan perubahan iklim
An evolving scholarly service system: a new horizon of people and machine interaction
No full textAn evolving scholarly service system is the ultimate future of e-readers for the
academics and research communities. We conceptualize an evolving scholarly service
system as socio-technical systems in which people use human assistive technologies to
automatically generate summarization of their required information. In this paper, first
of all, we showed the global trends of e-readers, human assistive technologies and
finally, we proposed an evolving scholarly service system. In this evolving scholarly
service system, academics and researchers automatically receive the reading and
summarizing services by the scholarly advisory assistants. This paper concludes with
practical implications and future research directions
The Williams-Hunt collection aerial photographs and cultural landscapes in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
No full textCultural and academic links between SOAS and the Institute of the Malay World and Civilization (ATMA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) include academic and cultural exchange. The Williams-Hunt Collection (SOAS) of aerial photographs adds an archival dimension stemming from the life and work of Peter Williams-Hunt (1919-1953). Williams-Hunt is best known for his role as Advisor to the Aborigines in Malaysia shortly after World War II. During this period, he wrote several seminal articles on the Orang Asli. He was also a trained aerial photographic interpreter and collected more than 5000 aerial photographs of Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and miscellaneous areas of Vietnam during his postings to Southeast Asia during the war. The author had new copies made of the old photographs and compiled them into a database as part of her doctoral work in the 1980s. At present, thanks to collaboration with Surat Lertlum in Thailand, many parts of the aerial archive are now available online. The article summarizes aspects of the Williams- Hunt Collection and discusses the unique contribution made by Williams-Hunt to archaeology, anthropology and museum collections. His work on ancient settlements pioneered the analysis of the archaeological landscape and his anthropological study was the first to document the changing pattern of the landscape of the many different groups cultivating the forested regions of peninsular Malaysia
Perception of voicing in English word-final obstruents by Malay speakers of English: examining the perceptual assimilation model
No full textThis paper presents the findings of a perception experiment that was conducted to examine the relative difficulty encountered by Malay speakers of English in contrasting voicing in word-final obstruents. The pairs of obstruents examined in the paper were /t/- /d/, /s/-/z/ and /f/-/v/. Results from the experiment are discussed in relation to the Perceptual Assimilation Model developed by Best (1994, 1995). The theory essentially claims that non-native listeners would classify foreign/ second language sounds into different categories. The relative difficulty faced by foreign or second language learners in discriminating a pair of sounds can then be predicted based on how the second language sounds are categorized. The pairs of sounds under study can be categorized as a Two Category contrast (/t/-/d/ and /f/-/v/) and a Category Goodness contrast (/s/-/z/). Because /t/-/d/ and /f/-/v/ are Two Category contrasts, it is predicted that /t/-/d/ and /f/-/v/ would be well discriminated for voicing. As a Category Goodness contrast, /s/-/z/ is predicted to be difficult to discriminate. In fact, it would be the most difficult pair to distinguish for voicing among the pairs of obstruents investigated. This paper examines whether or not the findings from the experiment fulfill the above predictions. The paper then discusses some of the implications of the findings on the model
The state of teaching and learning English pronunciation in Malaysia: a preliminary study
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Code switching in the teaching of English as a second language to secondary school students
No full textIt is widely acknowledged that the use of two or more languages in the same conversation or utterance occurs in many bilingual or multilingual communities. The term used to define such occurrences is code switching. Linguists around the world (Gardner-Chloros, 1997Wardhaugh, 1998Holmes, 2001Ayeomoni, 2006) regard code switching as a common and non-isolated phenomenon. In Malaysia, code switching is not an exception as the diversity of languages spoken by the various races of people contributes to the linguistic practice. Previous studies (Kow, 2003Then & Ting, 2009) show that code switching occurs in formal classroom settings. Relating code switching to present practices in the Malaysian school system, this study investigates the attitudes of teachers and the types and functions of code switching employed by English language teachers in secondary schools. It also reports on how code switching affects the delivery of the English language curriculum. A total of 42 English language teachers were selected as respondents for this study. Respondents were required to complete a survey questionnaire by indicating their attitude, usage and opinion of code switching in the classroom. The findings indicate that the majority of teachers have positive attitudes towards code switching. They only code switch in times of need. Teachers also believe that code switching has a role to play in facilitating second language learning
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