Protea / Extraction by Arkomanis, Ektoras, Shummo, Mae, Medina Uriarte, Lucia

“…Central to the installation is a trophy-like bronze relief of the outline of Protea Village, an area adjacent to Kirstenbosch, the National Botanical Garden of South Africa, located in Western Cape. …”
Get full text

Tumorigenic role of podoplanin in esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma by ., Nur Rahadiani, Ikeda, Jun-ichiro, Makino, Tomoki, Tian, Tian, Qiu, Ying, Mamat, Suhana, Wang, Yi, Doki, Yuichiro, Aozasa, Katsuyuki, Morii, Eiichi

“…The effects of podoplanin on the behavior of cancer cells were evaluated in ESCC cell lines in which podoplanin expression was knocked down. …”
Get full text

Diminishing partnership: bankers strategic response to Shariah compliance home financing by Abdul Razak, Dzuljastri, Ismail, Yusof

“…Under DP home financing, customer and bank share profit based on the rental value of the house instead of predetermined interest rate where bank gains profit upfront .As such DP is claimed to be fairer and more flexible than debt financing which result in more justice, equality and cater for societal well being that is in line with the Maqasid al Shariah. This research adopted a mixed method by obtaining the perceptions of three stakeholders namely consumers, Shariah scholars and bankers. …”
Get full text

Design of a compact printed band-notched antenna for ultrawideband communications by Mohd Sobli, Nuurul Hudaa, Abdel-Raouf, Hany Essam Eldin

“…The proposed antenna is fed by microstrip line, and it consists of square radiating patch on the top layer with a slotted-parasitic patch on the bottom layer of the antenna. …”
Get full text

Fiber break location technique utilizing stimulated Brillouin scattering effects in optical fiber by Bakar, A.A.A., Al-Mansoori, M.H., Mahdi, Mohd Adzir, Zainal Abidin, Mohd Shahnan, Mohd Azau, M.A.

“…This technique enables the utilization of a less-sensitive photodetector to detect the Brillouin Stokes line since its intensity increases with the fiber length in the detectable region. …”
Get full text

Testing a model of Islamic corporate financial reports: some experimental evidence by Sulaiman, Maliah

“…Given the fact that religion stands at the core of some cultures, and that Islam is a significant force influencing the manner in which Muslims conduct their public and private lives, the influence of Islam on accounting may be significant. In line with this, Baydoun and Willett (1994 and 2000) suggested that the current value balance sheet and the value added statement would meet Islam’s objectives of socio-economic justice and accountability, thus satisfying the needs of Muslim users to a greater extent than would the traditional historical cost balance sheet and the profit and loss statement. …”
Get full text

Critical success factors of the nine challenges in Malaysia's Vision 2020 by Islam, Rafikul

“…The present paper seeks to identify and rank the critical success factors of these nine challenges by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process. A number of ‘front-line’ critical success factors are discussed at length. …”
Get full text

Religion and politics in America : the rise of Christian Evangelists and their impact by Zakaullah, Muhammad Arif

“…The Muslim world has to learn to appreciate that in Western societies the bottom line is the public opinion and not the wishes of the President/Prime Minister and his cabinet." …”
Get full text

Bank Rakyat Malaysia: vision remains while mission is revisited by Khaliq, Ahmad, Kazmi, Azhar

“…The consistency had to be maintained as it was in line with the founding fathers’ idea of serving its members. …”
Get full text

Low income housing allocation system in Malaysia: managing housing need for the poor by Shuid, Syafiee

“…Since early 1990s, Malaysia experienced rapid urbanization in line with continuous economic growth. Despite various housing programmes implemented by the Malaysian government together with private sector to provide housing for the low income people but the number of squatter settlements continue to grow. …”
Get full text

Does trade among ASEAN members promote efficiency? sectoral evidence from the gravity model by Mohd Amin, Ruzita, Hamid, Zarinah, Md Saad, Norma

“…Thus, this study finds that only „good‟, i.e., efficient intra-regional trade is taking place within ASEAN, which is in line with the objective of establishing the ASEAN Economic Community. …”
Get full text

Cash waqaf and Islamic microfinance - untapped economic opportunities by Md Saad, Norma, Anuar, Azizah

“…Given these shortcomings, the paper explores the possibility of using cash waqaf as a new source of fund for Islamic microfinance and proposes new concept and application of Islamic microfinance so that it is truly in line with the Islamic spirit of microfinance. It is hoped that with this new concept and application of Islamic microfinance, the use of microfinance is genuinely to cater for the needs of the poor and the needy and as a means to combat poverty as well as generating socio-economic growth of the Muslim Ummah.…”
Get full text

Formation of desired values: the role of parents by Yusof, Selamah, Mohd Amin, Ruzita, Haneef, Mohamed Aslam, Md. Noon, Hazizan

“…Different from previous works on values, the measurement of both these values is based on al-Ghazali's works in line with Islamic ethics. In addition, this study also determines the "oughtness" of both categories of values. …”
Get full text

Parents’ attitudes towards inclusion of sexuality education in Malaysian schools by Makol-Abdul, Pute Rahimah, Nurullah, Abu Sadat, Imam, Syed Sohail, Abd Rahman, Saodah

“…The majority of them (73%) supported the inclusion of various sexual health topics in school curriculum provided the contents were in line with religious teachings. The study has generated important empirical findings regarding local community’s response to school-based sexuality education. …”
Get full text

Monoclonal antibody production: media optimization for enhancement the cell viability of hybridoma cell by Mel, Maizirwan, Mat Saad, Maizura, Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun, Mohamed Salleh, Moharnad Ramlan

Get full text

Evaluating municipal solid waste disposal options by AHP-based linguistic variable weight by Tarmudi, Zamali, Abdullah, Mohd Lazim, Md. Tap, Abu Osman

“…Finally, the method also considers the human rethinking-model in line with human nature that uses linguistic expressions to track subjectivity.…”
Get full text

On the development of an intelligent blender for household and commercial food processing by Mujibur Rahman, Kazi, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Eyiomika, Martono, Wahyudi, Albagul, Abdulgani, Zainudin, Fadzilah, Khan, Md. Raisuddin

“…The starting current is excessively high over a prolonged period causing voltage dip and injecting low order harmonics in the power line, thereby degrading the power quality of neighboring users. …”
Get full text

Enhancing and embedding work-related learning: innovative practice in an Interiors programme by Newman, Kaye

“…Plus all modules were realigned to build a comprehensive series of learning that fed into and out off each module to show the relevance of differing briefs, methods of working and therefore demonstrating that all aspects were in line with a professional approach and understanding of both the syllabus and the professional aspects required by the Interiors Design Industry.…”
Get full text

Circularly polarized slot antenna array with sequentially rotated feed network for broadband application by Karamzadeh, Saeid, Virdee, Bal Singh, Rafii, Vahid, Kartal, Mesut

“…Because the lower losses in transmission line occur in presence of lower impedance, the 3 dB axial-ratio bandwidth of the CPSSAA extends to ∼1.3 GHz. …”
Get full text

Where Russians go for news by Sloane, Wendy

“…Some Russians are swallowing the official party line, believing that Putin is embroiled in a battle that began against Nazis and nationalists and now incorporates “terrorists” too, after the Kerch bridge attack. …”
Get full text