Fiscal policy in an Islamic economy and the role of Zakat by Yusoff, Mohammed

“…Likewise the Zakat expenditure could be increased, by using the Zakat surplus accumulated during the boom periods, when the economy is in the down-swing to spur aggregate spending and economic activities. …”
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Islam and the legal system of Malaysia by Shuaib, Farid Sufian, Bari, Abdul Aziz

“…All these mean that one has to see the issue beyond the days when English law principles began to be applied in this land. …”
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Mareva injunction as a preventive relief: the Malaysian experience by Ali, Zuraidah

“…Century Hotel Sdn Bhd, that such an application was granted when Raja Azlan CJ held that Mareva injunction shoud be available in Malaysia to fulfill modern commercial need. …”
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Environmental benefits and implicatons on nature by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…Man subsequently manages, uses and manipulates the environmenr for good or bad motives according to his conscious. Obviously when man develops this bounty he directly or indirectly opts to maltreatmenr on the natural conservation by being profligate and rapacious. …”
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Intelligent diagnostic feedback for online multiple-choice questions by Guo, Ruisheng, Palmer-Brown, Dominic, Lee, S. W., Cai, Fang Fang

“…When students attempt multiple-choice questions (MCQs) they generate invaluable information which can form the basis for understanding their learning behaviours. …”
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“Time out”: a strategy for reducing men’s violence against women in relationships? by Wistow, Richard, Kelly, Liz, Westmarland, Nicole

“…Policy and practice lessons are drawn from the findings through connecting broader and deeper measurements of what success means when working with domestic violence perpetrators to the ways in which the time-out technique was used.…”
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The use of statement banks as a means of assessing large groups in accounting by Sandhu, Sucha

“…The question is how as lecturers can we give timely formative feedback to students when we are dealing with so many scripts? One possible strategy is considered in this paper, which reports on an evaluation of the effectiveness of statement banks as a means of assessing large groups of students.…”
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Promoting the Individual Learning Styles of Masters Students Studying Marketing-related Modules through the Use of YouTube Video-Clips by Lance, Justin

“…It is often hard for academics to find resource material, particularly visual material for new and emerging disciplines; particularly when Universities are developing courses faster than teaching materials are made generally available. …”
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Channel 4 and Celebrity Big Brother 2007: multiculturalist or segregationist? by Fazal, Shehina

“…The paper suggests that the contemporary understandings of multiculturalism and social segregation have to be foreground, when analysing entertainment programmes such as CBB 2007.…”
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Misplaced talent by Bartlett, Dean

“…There are many more commonalities than differences when we look at how psychology has been applied to the world of work in different regions across the globe, but practitioners can sometimes struggle in their attempts to translate and apply to their own practice the very rich body of scientific research and theory upon which the profession is based. …”
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Costantini, Mauro, Paradiso, Antonio

“…In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. …”
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Legitimacy of death: national appropriation of the fallen by Uzelac, Gordana

“…It will argue first, that in an internal dispute, when all sides share a normative ideology, nationalism cannot offer an effective basis for legitimacy. …”
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Russia's Cosmo girls (selling sex to the Russians) by Sloane, Wendy

“…It’s a profitable entity unto itself – with a strong Western influence - and has managed to survive several owners, even when the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service rejected a proposal to acquire it from Hearst.While it's still (partly) about sex, times have changed. …”
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Recent Article 3 judgments regarding extradition to CIS countries by Tseytlina, Olga

“…These factors were all taken into consideration by the ECtHR when judging the cases that are reviewed in this article of extradition to countries in the former Soviet Union.…”
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Charisma and communities of feeling by Uzelac, Gordana

“…Theories of nations and nationalism have serious problems when dealing with the concept of charisma. Besides frequent conceptual confusion, the concept of charisma is predominantly observed from either the structuralist position or the perspective of psychological reductionism. …”
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Service design for artificial intelligence by Oropallo, Gabriele, Gasparini, Andrea, Mohammed, Ahmed Abdi

“…The paper identifies a series of factors that need to be taken into account when designing prototypes in which AI features centrally. …”
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Functional models of procedural programs by Harman, Mark

“…The thesis shows that these techniques break down when the state of computation for a procedural language Is not an environment mapping from identifiers to denotable values. …”
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Ownership, technology and patterns of coalmining activity in Northumberland between 1600 and 1850 by Telford, Stephen James

“…It begins in the early seventeenth century when mining was confined to a few manors on the banks of the Tyne and traces chronologically the great changes in the nature, scale and location of the industry which occurred during the ensuing two-and-a-half centuries. …”
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Work-based learning in higher education: approaches and application to promote social justice by Phillips, Olaide

“…However, what is clear from research is that the focus on skills and attributes within WBL is successful when students take control of their learning by evaluation and reflection (viz Education for Social Justice Framework [ESJF] 2019).…”
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Object- and view-specificity in agreement: the case of embodied perspective by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane

“…It is demonstrated that when perspective is embodied in the spatial model itself, and object-and view-specificity are in agreement, visual awareness is not required in order to be able to draw in perspective. …”