The Usage of Islamic Financial Services in Zanzibar: The Influence of Accessibility, Relevancy and Expected Benefits by Moh’d Khamis, Fauz, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Yusuff, Noraini

“…A multistage sampling process was used to obtain questionnaire responses across all five regions of Zanzibar. A total of 400 questionnaires were used for the analysis. …”
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Implementation Of Authoritative Statement Of The Shafiite Madhhab In The Economic Legal Ruling In The State Of Kedah And State Of Penang by Dato' Dahaman @ Dahlan, Mohd Akram, Abdul Hamid, Solahuddin, Mohd Noor, Mohd Murshidi, Ahmad, Kamarudin

“…The findings show that economic fatwas set based on the authoritative statement of the Shafi‘ite madhhab are very small. …”
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The Cognitive Underpinnings of Legal Complexity by Martínez, Eric

“…From a legal perspective, these findings call into question the coherence and legitimacy of legal theories and principles whose validity rests on the notion of law being comprehensible to laypeople, such as ordinary meaning, fair notice, and modern variants of textualism. …”
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Foot care behaviours and associated factors among patients with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study by Ang, Chin-Siang, Goh, Kelley Fann Ing, Lodh, Nandika, Qin, Vicky Mengqi, Liew, Huiling, Sidhu, Harvinder Raj Singh, Ng, Jun Jie, Subramaniam, Tavintharan, Tan, Elaine, Koh, Gerald Choon Huat, Best, James, Wong, Julian, Car, Josip, Ho, Andy Hau Yan, Venkataraman, Kavita

“…Additionally, more FC knowledge increased the likelihood by 20% (OR=1.21; 95% CI=1.10–1.33), and higher diabetes-related stress increased it by 1.03 times (OR=1.03; 95% CI=1.02–1.05). Conclusions: Our findings underscore the interplay of various factors influencing FC behaviours among individuals with diabetes and call for targeted interventions and tailored strategies to improve FC practices in this vulnerable population.…”
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Mortgage loan tenure preferences and impact of property cooling measures. by Nur Atiqah Ngaiman., Phua, Stephanie Jia Ying., Muhammad Syukri Ismail.

“…Our survey results from a target sample size of 500 show that all the above factors influence the choice of loan tenure. …”
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上古汉语的名物化现象再探 = The study on nominalization of archaic Chinese by 沈源源 Shen, Yuan Yuan

“…Verbs and nouns are the two most basic forms of words in any language. Almost all languages in the world posses both these word classes. …”
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Are we apathetic? surveying Singaporeans' political attitudes, participation, and knowledge. by Chan, Boon Wee., Wong, Teck Zhung.

“…However, political participation, internal efficacy, external efficacy and political interest all had low means.…”
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Particle reduction of novellus PEP3510 photo resist stripper by Chai, Koh Chin

“…The engineers will be able to use the resolution of the findings and implement across all Novellus Photo Resist Strippers. …”
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China and the “Singapore Model” : perspectives from mid-level cadres and implications for transnational knowledge transfer by Liu, Hong, Wang, Tingyan

“…This finding challenges conventional wisdom that the most plausible rationale of China’s learning from Singapore is political. …”
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Data artivism and feminicide by Suárez Val, Helena, D'Ignazio, Catherine, Acosta Romero, Jimena, Teng, Melissa Q, Fumega, Silvana

“…Data has become a key format for activists to visibilizar (make visible/call attention to) and denounce social issues. Drawing on the concept of “artivism,” we name as data artivism those works that visually intervene in the contestation around an issue by mobilizing art and craft as a form of resistance and as a method to visualize data. …”
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Production protocols in the current practice of instilling traditional values in Malay kuih by Kamaruzaman, Mohd Yusof, Ab. Karim, Shahrim, Che Ishak, Farah Adibah, Arshad, Mohd Mursyid

“…All the interview sessions were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim to extract themes for the research question “How can the traditional quality of Malay kuih be reproduced in current practice?” …”
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Writing in Creole contexts: a study of Jamaican primary school students by Tucker, S-K, Chalmers, H, Murphy, VA

“…In the Caribbean in particular, the poor writing outcomes of Creole speakers across all levels of education has been a subject of lament for educators and policymakers for several years. …”

Exploring the influence of Continuous Professional Education in fostering leadership development in universities by Ibrahim, Asmawi, Md Rami, Ahmad Aizuddin, Mohd Yaakob, Mohd Faiz, Olaitan, Ahmed Ahmed

“…Continuing Professional Education (CPE) program has been in the forefront of Malaysia's government-supported professional development initiative, which aims to encourage all civil servants to make headway in their studies. …”
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The role of translation in Singapore's economy : a study on Singapore's language policy by Wui, Swee Qin

“…Based on the choice of simplified Chinese, its target audience is believed to be China, the current rising power in the world. Based on all the findings, analysis is done and the results proved that the importance and economic value of translation are indeed abundant. …”
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Life cycle assessment of vertical axis wind turbine by Neo, Jin Rong

“…Each material has its pros and cons and thus an eco-audit of the turbine is done to use environmental impact as a benchmark to determine the most suitable material for replacement. All the findings are demonstrated and presented in this project. …”
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Adverse events of common psychiatric medications: an umbrella review by Bartellas, K

“…A systematic and comprehensive search was conducted to retrieve all published and unpublished systematic reviews with meta-analyses to assess adverse events of individual psychiatric medications (this process of collecting secondary publications and not primary studies is called "umbrella review"). …”

Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices by Reiss-Woolever, VJ, Wakhid, W, Ikhsan, M, Caliman, J, Naim, M, Azmi, EN, Shufiyan, S, Howes, J, Azmi, R, Ying Lim, Y, Abdul Jan, SZ, Barrock, I, Azhar, B, Drewer, J, Ward, C, Jones, JA, Luke, SH, Turner, EC, Hidayat, P, Buchori, D

“…In Malaysia, farmers partnered with an NGO also had higher yield and fertilizer application than independent farmers, however they used significantly more herbicide and had lower total household income. Our findings demonstrate the wide variety of smallholder farmers in both regions, directly opposing a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to sustainability. …”

Efficacy of inactivated pasteurella multocida against the bacterial infections in broiler chickens by Koh, Sien Ling

“…P. multocida was not isolated from all the other chickens scarified at day 8 post challenge. …”
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The relationship between leisure time physical activity patterns, Alzheimer’s disease markers and cognition by James, S, Sudre, CH, Barnes, J, Cash, DM, Chiou, Y, Coath, W, Keshavan, A, Lu, K, Malone, I, Murray-Smith, H, Nicholas, JM, Orini, M, Parker, T, Almeida-Meza, P, Fox, NC, Richards, M, Schott, JM

“…There was little evidence that leisure time physical activity had direct effects on other brain health measures (all P > 0.05). However, leisure time physical activity patterns modified and attenuated the association between poorer cognitive functioning at age 70 and a range of Alzheimer’s disease-related neurodegenerative markers (Aβ status; hippocampal and whole-brain volume; cortical thickness in Alzheimer’s disease regions) (all P < 0.05). …”

Evaluating the ecotoxicity of agropesticides and environmental water contaminants using cell-line and zebrafish embryonic assays by Tan, Roy Zi Hao

“…The results showed that the pesticides tested exhibited acute lethality and sublethal effects on the model organisms tested, albeit some to a lesser extent than previously reported findings on single active compounds. Our findings also revealed challenges in using a single broad-spectrum solid-phase extraction method to retain pesticide analytes due to their chemical complexity. …”
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