The health MDGs in Zanfara state with emphasis on maternal mortality 2010-2015: perspectives and challenges by Mohammed Maiwada, Abdullahi, A. Rahman, Nor Azlina, Abdul Rahman, Suzanah, Mamat, Nik Mazlan, A-Baba, Tukur

“…Maternal mortality is still unacceptably high with Nigeria contributing to about more than 10% of the global burden of maternal deaths at 576/100.000 live births. …”
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Household decision-making in Malaysia: the ethnic dimension by Abdullah Yusof, Selamah

“…Thus, any substantive and policy inferences in relations to women’s empowerment must take into account the socio-cultural aspects, rather than based on overall national level analyses. The finding that education plays a significant role in empowering women is a positive outcome. …”
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Decision support of facilities management practice in high rise buildings by Yahya, Mohamad Ridzuan, Abdul Rahim, Asiah, Ibrahim, Md Najib

“…In addition, operation and maintenance activities more concentrated on corrective maintenance rather than preventive maintenance. However, in technology system aspect, most high rise buildings is able to utilize advance building technology such as building automation system (BAS) in order to provide a better service. …”
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Social responsibility dimension in Islamic investment: a survey of investors' perspective in Malaysia by Barom, Mohd Nizam

“…Despite being overpowered by the economic aspect, the findings suggest that social responsibility criteria in investment are perceived as important by a majority of the investors, and substantial proportion of the respondents consider the dimension to be as equally or more important than the economic dimension. Further analysis reveals that the level of importance investors attached to the social responsibility dimension is determined by ethnicity, religion, level of commitment to Shariah principles in investment, income, age, level of SRI awareness, as well as gender, marital status and participation in pro-social activities. …”
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Rapid detection of porcine and bovine gelatins in dental prophylaxis pastes using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy by Dewi Ardini, Yunita, Lestari, Widya, Tajudin, Noor Ashikin, Abdul Azis, Nur Fatin

“…The extracts were then placed in the FTIR Perkin Elmer spectrometer for less than 5 minutes. All spectra were recorded within 4000 - 400 cm-I wavenumber with 4 cm-I resolution under 40 scans. …”
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A critical comparison on the origin of cosmos in Islam, Christianity and modern science by Amafua, Mahfuth Khamis

“…But this cannot of course negate the role of religion which has been around for much longer than that and is still flourishing to date despite a sustained complain to stamp it out of human orbit. …”
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Assessing the urban and rural stage bus services disparities in peninsula Malaysia by Ponrahono, Zakiah, Bachok, Syahriah, Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Ibrahim, Mansor, Abdullah, Muhammad Faris, Abdullah, Alias

“…Methods of on-board face to face intercept survey and adoption of Geographical Information System (GIS) /Global Positioning System (GPS) were deployed in the collection of primary data. More than 1600 survey forms were distributed, but after collection and data cleaning, only a total of 1130 were analysed. …”
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Shariah risk management process for Islamic financial institutions in the context of Shariah Governance Framework 2010 by Hassan, Rusni, Othman, Ahmad Azam, Omar, Muhammad Naim, Mohd Napiah, Mohammad Deen, Abdullah, Muhamad Asmadi, Arifin, Mahamad, Yusoff, Adnan, Mohd Karim, Muhammad Syahmi

“…The hypotheses that the paper seeks to establish are that there are differences between the concept of Shariah risk and shariah non-compliant risk; and that the shariah risk management process adopted by the IFIs are different than the conventional risk management process due to the unique features and requirements of the IFIs.…”
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Perception and practices of folk medicines among youth in Pakistan by Rani, Samina, Rehman, Adeela, Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura

“…Pakistani youth mostly prefer specialized doctors for their treatment rather than applying home-based treatment due to rapid cure and they perceived folk treatment to be slow in curing illnesses. …”
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Edward Snowden disclosures turn the fears of surveillance into reality: the impact and transformation in information security by Mohamed Mahmoud, Fatimetou Zahra, Zeki, Akram M.

“…More than two years passed since the biggest event on information security and privacy which is the disclosure of very sensitive documents on the National Security Agency in United States. …”
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The literature component in Malaysian secondary English language syllabus: aiding or impeding language learning? a participatory action research project by Idrus, Faizah, Che Haron, Sabrina

“…Similarly, teachers are more skeptical of students’ improvement in all skills (RWLS) but agree that some students seem to enjoy the literature component more than the other components in the English language subject. …”
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Control of suddenly expanded flow for area ratio 3.61 by Syed, Syed Ashfaq, Khan, Sher Afghan, E., Rathakrishnan

“…Airflow from convergent axisymmetric nozzle expanded suddenly into circular duct of larger cross-sectional area than that of nozzle exit area were studied experimentally, focusing attention on the base pressure and the flow development in the duct. …”
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Experimental investigation of flow through convergent nozzle and the influence of micro jets on the enlarged duct flow field by Ashfaq, Syed, Khan, Sher Afghan

“…Airflow from convergent axi-symmetric nozzle expanded suddenly into circular duct of larger cross-sectional area than that of nozzle exit area were studied experimentally, focusing attention on the wall pressure and the flow development in the enlarged duct. …”
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Thermal comfort investigation in traditional and modern urban canyons in Bandar Abbas, Iran by Dalman, Masoud, Salleh, Elias, Sapian, Abdul Razak, Saadatian, Omidreza

“…In addition, the results also indicated that the traditional urban fabric is more thermally comfortable than the new residential urban fabric. According to field measurements, thermal comfort calculation and wind simulations, the canyons with the north-south direction present a better orientation for air circulation benefiting from the sea breezes as compared to the other canyon orientations. …”
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Utilising key climate element variability for the prediction of future climate change using a support vector machine model by Abubakar, Adamu, Haruna, Chiroma, Zeki, Akram M., Uddin, Mueen

“…The SVM was found to perform significantly better than the MLPNN in terms of mean square error and root mean square error, although computational times for the two models are statistically equal. …”
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Solid state bioconversion (SSB): an effective process for safe disposal and recycling of domestic wastewater sludge as compost by Molla, A. H., Ahmadun, Fakhru'l-Razi, Alam, Md. Zahangir

“…However, the adopted biological process might be considered as the most useful and convenient way of sludge management and disposal than any other conventional techniques. The SSB process, a noble natural biological and effective technique might address a sound direction for bioremediation, safe disposal and recycling of contaminated wastes.…”
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A study to investigate state of ethical Development in E-learning by Muhammad, AbdulHafeez, MD. Ghalib, Mohd. Feham, Ahmad, Farooq, Naveed, Quadri N, Shah, Asadullah

“…Different researchers evidenced that e-learning has provided more opportunities to behave unethically than in traditional learning. A descriptive quantitative enquiry-based study is performed to explore same issue in e-learning environment. …”
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A study on illegal occupation and operation of landuse categories in Perak: a case of state land by Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Shuid, Syafiee, Bachok, Syahriah, Abdullah, Muhammad Faris, Ibrahim, Mansor, Hj. Mohd. Noor, Norzailawati

“…This study concerns on illegal occupation and operation of state land in Perak. In 2014, more than 17,000 hectares of land in Perak have been illegally cleared, resulting in the state government losing hundreds of millions of ringgit in revenue. …”
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Evaluation of workload and its impact on satisfaction among pharmacy academicians in Southern India by Akram, Ahmad, Khan, Muhammad Umair, Srikanth, Akshaya B., Patel, Isha, Nagappa, Anantha Naik, Jamshed, Shazia Qasim

“…Private sector academicians had more load of teaching (p=0.046) and they appeared to be less involved in research activities (p=0.046) as compared to public sector academicians. More than half of the respondents (57.9%) were satisfied with their workload with Assistant Professors were least satisfied as compared to Professors (p=0.01). …”
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Radiographic study of developmental alteration in tooth number among children in IIUM Dental Clinic by Sukmasari, Susi, Ismail, Nabilahuda, Azaldin, Nurul H., Ardini, Yunita Dewi

“…Conclusions: This study showed that hyperdontia was considerably lower than hypodontia. There was association between alteration in tooth number with location, but no association with gender and delayed eruption.…”
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