
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Transformation of Higher Education: Harvard is number ONE university in the world and its established long time ago since 1910. Its 114 years experience being at the top, for sure we can learn. BUT why we are still crawling giving philosophical ideas and cannot be implemented at our university. Harvard too have plan. they review every 10-30 years depending on field and interest. Why we cannot plan. all about leadership.
Harvard Extension School was established 113 years ago in 1910.
What we need are employable and marketable graduates. What we should do?
1. look at what public want? may be values, interests, personality, and skills.
2. we provide those needed in our curriculum and programmes. look attractive, interesting and fulfill needs with quality, confidence and recognition. recruiting or educating academic staff to high levels of education, knowledge and skills.
3. attract good students, results, interviews and entry test. open to adults from all sectors to increase the market.
4. Since cost is another concern, special funding scheme needed to avoid rising of tuition fees, increasing student debt, and cost of living on campus.
What we need are employable and marketable graduates. What we should do?
1. look at what public want? may be values, interests, personality, and skills.
2. we provide those needed in our curriculum and programmes. look attractive, interesting and fulfill needs with quality, confidence and recognition. recruiting or educating academic staff to high levels of education, knowledge and skills.
3. attract good students, results, interviews and entry test. open to adults from all sectors to increase the market.
4. Since cost is another concern, special funding scheme needed to avoid rising of tuition fees, increasing student debt, and cost of living on campus.

How strong research on virus and monitoring of viruses that causes diseases not just in Malaysia but all over the world. unlimited people movement in the world demand for aggressive studies on transmitted disease.
The Ebola virus that's causing the current outbreak is a known quantity. And there's no expectation that it will change significantly. Ebola was first discovered in 1976 and has stayed pretty much the same ever since.
Some other kinds of microbes can change drastically from year to year, including certain flu viruses and SARS-related viruses. In these cases, public health experts are always watching to see what new strain has popped up that could have new tricks. This isn't really the case with Ebola.
"The Ebola virus today is acting the same way Ebola viruses have always acted," Michael Osterholm told me. He's a biosecurity expert and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. This means that the severity of the current Ebola outbreak is not because the virus itself has gotten any worse, but because the situation that the virus is in is so bad.
Friday, August 1, 2014
Analysing LANDSAT images, we estimate that 75.7% (558,060 km2) of Borneo's area (737,188 km2) was forested around 1973. Based upon a forest cover map for 2010 derived using ALOS-PALSAR and visually reviewing LANDSAT images, we estimate that the 1973 forest area had declined by 168,493 km2 (30.2%) in 2010. The highest losses were recorded in Sabah and Kalimantan with 39.5% and 30.7% of their total forest area in 1973 becoming non-forest in 2010, and the lowest in Brunei and Sarawak (8.4%, and 23.1%). We estimate that the combined area planted in industrial oil palm and timber plantations in 2010 was 75,480 km2, representing 10% of Borneo. We mapped 271,819 km of primary logging roads that were created between 1973 and 2010. The greatest density of logging roads was found in Sarawak, at 0.89 km km−2, and the lowest density in Brunei, at 0.18 km km−2. Analyzing MODIS-based tree cover maps, we estimate that logging operated within 700 m of primary logging roads. Using this distance, we estimate that 266,257 km2 of 1973 forest cover has been logged. With 389,566 km2 (52.8%) of the island remaining forested, of which 209,649 km2 remains intact. There is still hope for biodiversity conservation in Borneo.
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