Islam and anthropology: opposition or harmony? by Md Yassin, Khairil Azhar

“…The basic issues, among others, include the relationship between Islam and anthropology, the foundation, and the sources in integrating Islamic principles in Western anthropology. Since the nature of this paper is introductory, it will attempt to delineate these three basic issues as simple as possible in order to present the approaches that Muslim anthropologists could adopt in their endeavor to inject Islamic values into the discipline. …”
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HRM practices in micro enterprises focusing on employees’ satisfaction and commitment by Hashim, Junaidah, Ismail, Yusof

“…The results of the study are meaningful to the SME literature since not much research has been conducted in the area of human resource management of micro enterprises as compared to the research about small or large companies. …”
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A review on safety practices at construction site by Abdul Razak, Nadeera, Tan, Chin Keng

“…Over the years, the scenario of the construction industry has become more challenging since the development of the rapid growth of this sector. …”
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Ossifying fibromyxoid tumour in a child by Che Ahmad, Aminudin, Ibrahim, Sharaf, AH, Hamzaini, Abdullah, Salmi, Mohd Ali, Siti Aishah

“…The mass was excised and has not recurred since. To the best of our knowledge, this patient is the youngest case of OFMT reported in the English literature…”
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Political parties and party system

“…In democracies, parties offer "an excellent preliminary training for parliamentary candidature and eventual entry into parliament."l Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has experienced many general elections mostly contested by political parties and a small number of independent non-party affiliated candidates. …”
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Evolution of Chinese Islamic architecture -A case of "Great Mosque of Hohot (Qingzhen Dasi), Inner Mongolia, peoples Republic of China" by Soomro, Ali Raza, Ibrahim, Mansor, Mohd Nawawi, Norwina

“…The Chinese civilizations are known for its years of prosperity and have since generated competitive minds and stimulated the growth and development in other parts of the world. …”
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Muslim responses to the challenges of modernity by Abdul Rahim, Adibah

“…Modernity has been posing serious challenges to the Muslim world and its society since the eighteenth century. However, these challenges took on more definite shape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …”
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Islamic finance in Singapore: legal and regulatory challenges by Zul Kepli, Mohd Yazid

“…Islamic finance has grown tremendously since its first revival in the 1970s. Strong support from Muslims and non-Muslims resulted in a market estimated to be around USD1.6 trillion. …”
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Low income housing provision in Malaysia : the role of state and market by Shuid, Syafiee

“…Situation in Malaysia is rather different since the state still actively involved in housing provision and allocation of low income housing. …”
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Comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia in an adolescent by Md. Rosli, Ahmad Nabil, Wan Ismail, Wan Salwina

“…She never attained remission since the outset. Initially she seemed to be resistant to most antipsychotics, namely, risperidone, haloperidol, paliperidone, quetiapine, and clozapine. …”
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IIUM: The premier global Islamic university

“…The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in thirty years, since its inception in 1983, has emerged as a leading institution of higher learning producing graduates, delivering education, new knowledge and innovation for the needs of the Ummah and world at large. …”
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Reviewing the concept of sustainability from the Islamic perspectives by Ahmad Sarkawi, Azila, Abdullah, Alias, Md. Dali, Norimah

“…Indeed their performance will be queried in the Day of Resurrection. Since the 80s when the concept of ‘sustainability’ was first introduced, this term had been persistently centred on the context of renewable resources and ecological capabilities to support human life. …”
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On p-adic generalized logistics dynamical systems by Mukhamedov, Farrukh, Wan Rozali, Wan Nur Fairuz Alwani

“…Moreover, we also describe the Siegel discs of the system, since the structure of the orbits of the system is related to the geometry of the p-adic Siegel discs.…”
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Novel polylactic acid obtained by chemical and biochemical hydrolysis of kenaf fibre by Anuar, Hazleen

“…Kenaf fibre is found to be naturally resistant to breakdown due to its structural sugars since it is a lignocellulosic material. Hence, it is difficult for microorganisms to use it directly as fermentation carbon source. …”
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Ancient Palestine and the creation of an Israelite state by Yaacob, Solehah@Nik Najah Fadilah

“…Whitelam, “It`s concern with the broad themes of history, settlement, demography and economy was conceived to be an antidote to the standard histories of ancient Israel based upon the biblical traditions which have dominated biblical studies since the nineteenth century. Biblical studies never gave chance to ancient Palestinians (= Arabs) as the original settlers of the land”. …”
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Evaluation of radio propagation techniques for hierarchical sensor networks by Bello-Salau, H, Salami, A. F., Anwar, Farhat, Aibinu, Abiodun Musa

“…Researchers in the field of wireless sensor networks are currently concentrating on the challenge of designing an optimum routing protocol, since they might differ depending on the application and network architecture used in their design. …”

The Islamic criminal laws: hudood, qisas and ta'zir laws

“…Some peole say that Islamic criminal law in such form irrelevant since the reality of life is now different. Is it true? …”
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Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm by El-Mesawi, Mohamed El-Tahir, Khriji, Tesnim

“…Since the end of the Cold War, the West has mounted a campaign against Islam as the essential source of terrorism and the Muslims as necessarily terrorists. …”
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Using assessment criteria to support student learning by Harrington, Kathy, Elander, James

“…Since 1998, a skills module for level 1 BSc Psychology students at City campus (formerly London Guildhall University) has been an important part of the department’s strategy to improve students’ baseline and study skills. …”
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Fractional cointegration in US term spreads by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…This note examines the stochastic properties of US term spreads with parametric and semiparametric fractional integration techniques. Since the observed data (rather than the estimated residuals from a cointegrating regression) are used for the analysis, standard methods can be applied. …”
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