Philosophical aspects of 'Murabbi': a contextual analysis with special reference to globalization of education by Paramboor, Jafar, Ibrahim, Mohd Burhan

“…The focus of this paper would be more on how the ‘Murabbi’ has to be philosophically interpreted within the situation of worldwide globalization of education, rather than pointing out the theory and usual application to the present situation. …”
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Effect of Micro-EDM Parameters on Material Removal Rate of Nonconductive ZrO2 Ceramic by Maleque, Md. Abdul, Sabur, Abdus, Moudood, Abdul, Ali, Mohammad Yeakub

“…The results showed that in micro-EDM of ZrO2 MRR increases with the increase of voltage and capacitance initially, but decreases at higher values and no significant materials are removed at capacitances higher than 1nF.…”
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Cultural and religious festivals: the Malaysian experience by Ishak, Mohd. Shuhaimi

“…For the Hindus, apart from the Deepavali celebration, the festival of light, the Thaipusam is a celebration where more than one million people flock to Batu Caves. While in East Malaysia, the grandest celebration is Tadau Keamatan in Sabah, and Gawai Dayak in Sarawak. …”
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Removal of emulsion droplets by immobilization in calcium alginate gel by Hayashi, Natsuko, Tanaka, Takanori, Yamada, Ryuhei, Jami, Mohammed Saedi, Iwata, Masashi

“…O/W emulsions are effectively treated by this method; i.e. leakages of oil into a supernatant of gel suspension and into a squeezed liquid were less than 6% and 3% of oil, respectively, both in kerosene-alginate mixture and cyclohexane-alginate mixture. …”
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Diagnosing and treating cortisol insufficiency in ICU by Mat Nor, Mohd Basri

“…Absolute adrenal insufficiency is rare in critical care and the incidence is less than 3%. Assessing adrenal insufficiency or relative adrenal insufficiency (RAI) is challenging in the ICU. …”
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Dynamics of unimolecular dissociation of silylene by Ibrahim Ali , Noorbatcha, L.M., Raff, D.L, Thompson, R., Viswanathan

“…Using the RRK model, the high‐pressure limiting rate coefficient is found to be k(T,∞)=3.38×101 2 exp[−61.6 kcal mol− 1/RT] s− 1, which is less than the dissociation rate for SiH4. This has been attributed to the higher activation energy for SiH2 and to a statistical factor.…”
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Modelling the surface roughness behaviour of an EDMed workpiece with different tool electrodes using DoE by Mohammed Baba, Ndaliman, Khan, Ahsan Ali, Mohammad , Yeakub Ali, M A, Mohammad Hambiyah

“…The lowest roughness obtained with Cu-TaC electrode is over 100% higher than that of Cu-electrode.…”
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Cutting force impact to tool life of CT5015 in high speed machining by applying negative rake angles by Adesta, Erry Yulian Triblas, Riza, Muhammad, Ali, Mohammad Yeakub

“…Several improvements have been made to increase their performance in machining process such as higher resistance to thermal deformation and lower conductivity than carbide tools that wear rapidly. This study is to investigate cutting force and tool wear under different rake angles in high speed machining process. …”
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Internationalizing the higher education in Malaysia: Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by Kayadibi, Saim

“…Every era has its own sine qua: if any institution is not updating and renewing itself according to the requirements and needs of the era, it would lag behind of the time and would just repeat and consume the old knowledge rather than invent and innovate. Success is an art of thinking and knowing one step ahead of the time. …”
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Energy compensation in enterally fed children by Kane, Laura, Wright, Charlotte, Wan Mahmood, Wan Fathin Fariza, Hetherington, Marion

“…The 8 boys tended to compensate more (median 99%) than the 3 girls (30%; P Mann–Whitney = 0.1), but there was no clear association of compensation with age. …”
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Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits by Uddin, Md. Jasim, Nordin, Anis Nurashikin, Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn, Reaz, Mamun Ibn, Zulkifli, Tun Zainal Azni, Hasan, Muhammad Asfarul

“…Simulation results indicate that inductors core diameters must be adequately large (more than 100 mum) to ensure high quality factor characteristics and its conductor spacing should be minimal to obtain larger per unit area inductive value. …”
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Sexual desire and sexual arousal in Malaysian women: are they of the same entity? by Nik Jaafar, Nik Ruzyanei, Midin, Marhani, Wan Puteh, Sharifah Ezat, Musa, Ramli, Sidi, Hatta

“…Their sociodemographic, marital profiles and correlation between low sexual desire and lack of sexual arousal were examined. Results: More than 60% respondents with low sexual desire have co-exist low sexual arousal and 94.4% respondents with high sexual desire do have high sexual arousal ( χ²= 79.6, p <0.001 ), with correlation of r = 0.852. …”
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A theoretical approach in evaluating the potential impact of women telecommuters on travel demand by Mustafa, Mootaz Munjid, Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez

“…The trend of congestion, frequent traffic accidents and air pollution is no where more prevalent than in the Kuala Lumpur metropolitan area. Telecommuting is increasingly being perceived as a viable travel demand management strategy. …”
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Comparison of family environmental scale (FES) subscales between Malaysian setting with the original dimension of FES by Bujang, Adam, Musa, Ramli, Haniff, Jamaiyah, Muhammad, Noor Azimah, Omar, Khairani

“…Exploratory factor analyses was done across two groups of analysis set on the subscales with Cronbach’s alpha more than 0.50 and 0.53 respectively. Results: Two distinct factors were extracted across the four subscales consisted of Cohesion, Conflict and Organization in factor 1 and only Control in factor 2. …”
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Vibration control of two-mass rotary system using improved NCTF controller for positioning systems by Mohd. Yakub, Mohd. Fitri, Martono, Wahyudi, Akmeliawati, Rini

“…It is shown that improved NCTF controller is better than conventional PID controller.…”
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Mechanism in the clot formation of horseshoe crab blood during bacterial endotoxin invasion by John, Akbar, Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal, Yunus, Kamaruzzaman, Kasim, Zaleha

“…The LAL tests in general were 3 to 300 times more sensitive than the United States Pharmacopeial (USP) rabbit pyrogen test method. …”
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Applications of Maqasid al-Shari’ah and Maslahah in Islamic Banking practices: an analysis by Al-Mubarak, Tawfique, Osmani, Noor Mohammad

“…Islamic Banking system has developed more than thirty years ago. Throughout its history, beside its successes, it assumed much controversies and criticism in its run to win the hearts of the Muslim clients. …”
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Cytotoxicity of Vibrio cholerae of Madin Darby bovine kidney cells by Haque, Quazi Manjurul, Mohammad, Najmiyatul Fadilah, Helal Uddin, A.B.M., Saeed, Mohammad

“…The cytotoxicity of AKI-grown V. cholerae O139 to MDBK cells was greater than that of V. cholerae O1 grown in the same medium. …”
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TP53 mutations are infrequent in newly diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukimia by Zainuddin, Norafiza, Murray, Fiona, Kanduri, Meena, Gunnarsson, Rebeqa, E. Smedby, Karin, Enblad, Gunilla, Jurlander, Jesper, Juliusson, Gunnar, Rosenquist, Richard

“…Only 3 (1.1%) of the newly diagnosed patients in our cohort thereby carried TP53 mutations without 17p-deletion, a frequency that is much lower than previous reports on referral cohorts (3–6%). …”
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Disinfection kinetics of Nahar (Mesua ferrea) Seed Kernel’s oil using pour plate method of the heterotrophic plate count by Adewale, Ahmed Idris, Mirghani, Mohamed Elwathig Saeed, Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu, Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim, Mikail, Maryam Abimbola

“…As a result of disinfection byproducts (DBP) concerns from chlorine, EPA, as well as the water treatment industry, placed more emphasis on the use of disinfectants other than chlorine. Disinfection also plays a key role in the reclamation and reuse of wastewater for eliminating infectious diseases, and to augments domestic water supply and decrease the impact of human activities on the environment. …”
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