Reengineering Local Knowledge: Life, Science and Technology (Penerbit USM) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reengineering Local Knowledge: Life, Science and Technology (Penerbit USM) write by Norizan Esa. This book was released on . Reengineering Local Knowledge: Life, Science and Technology (Penerbit USM) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents local knowledge about issues on life, science and technology. It presents the related science and technology knowledge, new applications or developments that have taken place based on local knowledge. It consists of papers that illustrate the contribution of local knowledge to scientific investigation, unearth unknown or little known significance of local plant and animal resources, as well as their management and conservation. The argument for the importance of modern techniques to increase the supply of natural resources through scientific manipulations is clear. However, traditional methods that ensure better quality and resilience is recommended. Integration of the traditional with the modern is explored, using disaster management strategies and integrative health care system as examples. Another aspect explored in this book is the changing food culture among the three main ethnics groups in Malaysia due to their interactions within a multicultural society. This book also highlights the contribution of local knowledge in developing animation technology. Experimentation with GIS technology in the performing arts to map a dance performance is an example of trans-disciplinary collaboration between technology and the arts. This book serves to expand knowledge in science and technology that deals with local knowledge, and make it accessible to a wider, global audience beyond the Malay world.
Rengineering Local Knowledge : Current Issues and Practices (Penerbit USM)
Rengineering Local Knowledge : Current Issues and Practices (Penerbit USM) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rengineering Local Knowledge : Current Issues and Practices (Penerbit USM) write by Mohamad Rashidi Pakri. This book was released on . Rengineering Local Knowledge : Current Issues and Practices (Penerbit USM) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with local knowledge as a valuable source of practical solutions to enhance the sustainability of modern life. It is an eclectic collection of papers written in English that explores various aspects of indigenous, local knowledge in the Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing the gamut of human sciences: performance, dance, literature, arts and craft, architecture, local traditions, religious knowledge, teaching and learning, traditional conservation and healing practices. This book will add on to publication to make local knowledge, especially from the Malay world, accessible to a global non-specialist (read non-anthropologist) readership. The editors have intentionally chosen to classify the topics to embody the transdisciplinary nature of knowledge in this region.
New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education
New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education write by Yin Cheong Cheng. This book was released on 2006-01-17. New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In response to the challenges of globalization and local development, educational reforms are inevitably becoming one of the major trends in the Asia-Pacific Region or other parts of the world. Based on the most recent research and international observations, this book aims to present a new paradigm including various new concepts, frameworks and theories for reengineering education. This book has 21 chapters in three sections. Section I "New Paradigm of Educational Reform" containing eight chapters, illustrates the new paradigm and frameworks of reengineering education, fostering human development and analysing reform policies and also discusses the trends and challenges of educational reforms in the Asia-Pacific Region. Section II "New Paradigm of Educational Leadership" with five chapters aims to elaborate how the nature, role and practice of school leadership can be transformed towards a new paradigm and respond to the three waves of education reforms. Section III "Reengineering School Management for Effectiveness" with eight chapters aims to provide various practical frameworks for reengineering school management processes and implementing changes in school practices.
Strengthening Local Knowledge Towards Globalization Issues And Practices (Penerbit USM)
Strengthening Local Knowledge Towards Globalization Issues And Practices (Penerbit USM) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strengthening Local Knowledge Towards Globalization Issues And Practices (Penerbit USM) write by Mohamad Rashidi Pakri. This book was released on 2015-12-30. Strengthening Local Knowledge Towards Globalization Issues And Practices (Penerbit USM) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the series of Local Knowledge publication, this book particularly deals with empowering local knowledge further, towards a more globalized vision. It is an anthology of copious articles that delves deeper into stabilizing the establishment of local knowledge and preservation of archaic knowledge, literature, traditions and culture in the Asia-Pacific region. This book pushes the boundaries of mediocrity by going to great lengths and course in its research to interpret and preserve certain dying knowledge of local cultures and literature. Mostly, the methods used in compiling these local wisdoms and memories is by immortalizing the knowledge though oral account where the gist of the research is transcribed and discussed in the articles presented in this book. This book also highlights the different perspectives of looking at local knowledge that it has subscribed to. This compilation presents how local knowledge of various disciplines is considered in different fields such as local art, political science, business and tourism and traditional folklore. The cosmic approach to looking at local knowledge through these various fields provides a holistic review of local knowledge.
Re-engineering for Sustainable Industrial Production
Re-engineering for Sustainable Industrial Production - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-engineering for Sustainable Industrial Production write by Luis M. Camarinha-Matos. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Re-engineering for Sustainable Industrial Production available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In today's changing world, enterprises need to survive in an ever volatile competitive market environment. Their success will depend on the strategies they practice and adopt. Every year, new ideas and concepts are emerging in order for companies to become successful enterprises. Cross Border Enterprises is the new 'hot' topic arising in the business process world at present. Many terms have been coined together and are being driven in the popular business press to describe this new strategy of conducting business, ie. Extended Enterprise (Browne et al. , 1995; O'Neill and Sacket, 1994; Busby and Fan, 1993; Caskey, 1995), Virtual Enterprise (Goldmann and Preiss, 1991; Parunak, 1994; Goranson, 1995; Doumeingts et al. , 1995), Seamless Enterprise (Harrington, 1995), Inter-Enterprise Networking (Browne et al. , 1993), Dynamic Enterprise (Weston, 1996) and so on. Many people have argued that they mean the same thing, just using different words. Others feel they are different. But how different are they? In this paper the authors will present some basic lines required from this new strategy for conducting and coordinating distributed business processes (DBP), as well as trying to clarify the particularities of two of the widest spread terms related to it: Virtual and Extended Enterprise. 2 CLUSTERS OF PRESSURES The business world currently faces an increased trend towards globalisation, environmentally benign production and customisation of products and processes, forcing individual enterprises to work together across the value chain in order to cope with market influences.
