Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - UNIMAS

Vice Chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Mohamad Kadim Su aidi paid a courtesy visit to Jabatan Bekalan Air Luar Bandar (JBALB) Sarawak at ST3 Simpang Tiga on Wednesday. He was accompanied by Professor Dr Wan Hashim Wan Ibrahim (Deputy Vice Chancellor Reseach and Innovation, UNIMAS), Professor Dr Lo May Chiun (Senior Director Research, Innovation and Enterprise Centre, UNIMAS) and consultant team from the Faculty of Computer Science and IT, UNIMAS.

During the visit, they were briefed on the progress report of JBALB Command Centre and Digitalization Project located at the JBALB HQ ST3 building. The objective of the project is part of the digitalization exercise by JBALB to leverage on technology such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) monitoring, Internet of Things, Smart Monitoring System, Hydraulic Modelling, and various sensors technology to increase the efficiency and productivity of JBALB operations, monitoring and planning which include aspect of water production, distribution and consumption. The first phase of this project covers monitoring of 13 water treatment plants, 100 high level tank, booster stations, and sensor points throughout Sarawak. The consultant team from FCSIT, UNIMAS has been appointed as the consultant ...

KUALA LUMPUR (March 17): Serba Dinamik Group Bhd is collaborating with seven institutions of higher learning as its strategic partners in Malaysia to establish a New Space Economy Nexus (NSEN) to explore the areas in space technology.

A memorandum of collaboration was finalised today in a virtual event with the institutions, namely Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), University Malaysia of Computer Science & Engineering (UniMy) and International College of Advanced Technology Sarawak (i-CATS).

Serba Dinamik group managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Dr Mohd Abdul Karim Abdullah said the group will be involved in research and development efforts to catalyse the industry's growth.

All the local universities and college involved, meanwhile, would focus and commit on the development of talents and future workforce to support the space industry.

"This collaboration has increasingly been perceived as a vehicle to enhance innovation through knowledge exchange.

"We are taking the initiative to create an opportunity for industry players to form collaborations with universities to venture into the new space economy revolution to implement space launch and broadband services," he said ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Serba Dinamik Group Bhd (SDGB) bekerjasama dengan tujuh institusi pengajian tinggi sebagai rakan strategik di Malaysia bagi menubuhkan Nexus Ekonomi Angkasa Baharu (NSEN) untuk meneroka bidang teknologi angkasa.

Memorandum kerjasama itu diadakan secara maya dengan institusi berkenaan hari ini iaitu Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), University Malaysia of Computer Science & Engineering (UniMy) dan International College of Advanced Technology Sarawak (i-CATS).

Pengarah Urusan dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Kumpulan SDGB, Datuk Dr Mohd Abdul Karim Abdullah, berkata kumpulan itu akan terbabit dalam usaha penyelidikan dan pembangunan (R&D) untuk memangkin pertumbuhan industri itu.

Semua universiti dan kolej tempatan yang terbabit pula akan memberi fokus dan komitmen terhadap perkembangan bakat dan tenaga kerja masa depan untuk menyokong industri angkasa.

"Kerjasama ini kian dilihat sebagai medium untuk meningkatkan inovasi menerusi pertukaran pengetahuan.

"Kami mengambil inisiatif ini untuk mewujudkan peluang kepada pemain industri bagi mewujudkan kerjasama dengan universiti untuk meneroka revolusi ekonomi angkasa baharu bagi melaksanakan pelancaran ruang angkasa dan perkhidmatan jalur lebar," katanya.

Mohd Abdul Karim berkata, dalam fasa transformasi ekonomi angkasa, kumpulan itu akan mewujudkan norma ...

Trypanophobia in the Era of COVID-19 Vaccinations

Dr Amanda Albert

After such an unprecedented pandemic, the world at large breathed a collective sigh of relief when
hailing the advent of the COVID-19 vaccine this year. For those who fear getting a needle in the arm,
this relief is usually mixed with some anxiety regarding the process.

Fear or phobia?

Fear of needles is not uncommon – needles pierce the skin and cause pain, and some postulate that
avoidance of this pain is an evolutionary instinct. The human race survived by avoiding pain and
injury with a fear instinct, creating a human predisposition to this fear of needles. However, it is
when this fear reaches the extreme level of phobia, affecting one’s ability to obtain the vaccine or
undergo any other medical procedure involving needles, that a problem arises. A fear and a phobia
are not the same.

There exists several different medical terms for phobia of various kinds of needles, but the specific
phobia of medical procedures involving needles is called trypanophobia. It is one of the specific
phobias listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V),
one of the ...

Feng Kasih adalah satu program anjuran Feng Club yang diadakan untuk mengeratkan kasih silaturrahim di kalangan staf Fakulti Kejuruteraan, UNIMAS.

Feng Kasih mengetengahkan tema “Menyemarakkan Cinta Feng Kasih Melalui Tauladan Islam” di mana pelbagai aktiviti akan dianjurkan bagi menyemarakkan cinta Feng Kasih ini.

Aktiviti pertama Feng Kasih adalah ceramah bersempena Isra’ Mikraj 2021 / 1442H dengan tajuk Ibrah Isra’ Mikraj: Satu Perjalanan Penyucian Hati Menuju Ilahi. Tajuk ini dipilih untuk menjelaskan ibrah di sebalik peristiwa isra’ mikraj Rasullullah SAW. Suatu peristiwa agung yang perlu diambil iktibar bagi mendidik hati untuk menjadi insan yang lebih baik melalui tauladan utama agung Islam, Baginda Rasullullah SAW di samping menjelajahi isi utama dari peristiwa isra’ mikraj ini.

Ceramah ini diadakan pada:

Tarikh: 11 Mac 2021 bersamaan 27 Rejab 1442H

Masa: 1030am – 1200pm

Platform: Atas Talian (Webex)

Ceramah dimulakan dengan bacaan doa oleh Dr Mohd Faizrizwan bin Mohd Sabri yang merupakan staf akademik Jabatan Kejuruteraan Elektrik dan Elektronik (JKEE), Fakulti Kejuruteraan. Seterusnya sesi ceramah dimulakan dan disampaikan oleh Ustaz Mohammad Wan Mujahid bin Wan Alwi yang merupakan Penolong Pegawai Hal Ehwal Islam di Pusat Islam Tun Abang Salahudin, UNIMAS.

Seramai 120 orang staf UNIMAS yang ...

Samarahan App Challenge 3.0 is a three-month online program that started from October 2020 until December 2020. The program is organized by Applied Entrepreneurship in Technology and Innovation Centre (APPRENTICE) and Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, UNIMAS. The aim of the program is to promote computation thinking and android training among novice. This program covers hands on, mentoring and prototyping Android Application by using Kotlin programming language. They are 13 STPM upper six students from SMK Wira Penrissen and 6 students from University Malaysia Sarawak joined in this program. At the end of the training, the students from SMK Wira Penrissen came out with interesting projects like diary app, quiz for economics, to-do application, collection of Form 6 syllabus and chatting application.

Figure: Awarding the cert and cheque on the completion of Samarahan App Challenge 3.0 among students from SMK Wira Penrissen

The downloadable document can be found in the link below.

Downloadable documents can be found in the link below.

Downloadable documents can be found in the link below.

KUCHING: There is no reason to think that the vaccine will not protect pregnant and breastfeeding women from Covid-19, said associate professor Dr Helmy Hazmi.

The Public Health Physician of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) also pointed out there was no reason to think that the vaccine will have severe side effects on pregnant and breastfeeding women.  

“To think that the vaccine will have severe side effects on pregnant and breastfeeding women is not accurate because the mRNA will break down quickly and cleared away after injection, and will not be passed on to the foetus or breast milk.

“So, it is relatively safe for use in pregnant women and in mothers who are breastfeeding. Pregnant mothers or mothers who breastfeed are advised to discuss the matter with their health care provider. This is especially for those mothers who fall in the high risk group.

“At the same time, please keep to the key points in reducing the chance of infection – wear mask, practise social distancing, avoid crowded places, practise hand hygiene,” he said when contacted by New Sarawak Tribune on Wednesday.

Asked whether pregnant women should take the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, he said at ...