Religions in progress or regress: inner strength matters, from the buddhist perspective by Poey, Tiang Peow

“…Man becomes helpless in extreme difficulties and it is quite natural that religions play significant roles in human lives. It is mainly because the complexities in life are being increased day by day and to encounter this people take refuge in spirituality. …”
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Isolation of bacteria from acidic peat swamp forest soil and their lignin degradation potential by Mohamad Roslan, Muhamad Aidilfitri, Amirudin, Nur Azam, Zainal Abidin, Zaima Azira, Mohd Omar, Suhaila

“…In comparison to M1 minimal medium, the use of peat agar has resulted with higher number of isolates with different morphologies. The peat agar mainly contains the acidic peat water that was collected from the sampling location. …”
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The enlightenment from Malaysian consumers' perspective towards cosmetic products by Ayob, Ain, Awadh, Ammar Ihsan Jawad, Md. Jaffri, Juliana, Jamshed, Shazia Qasim, Ahmad, Hawa Mas Azmar, Ab. Hadi, Hazrina

“…Lastly, adverse reactions from the use of cosmetic products were commonly experienced by the participants, which contributed mainly by the ingredients. Thus, they hoped for serious approached to be enacted to solve this problem. …”
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A conceptual framework of university of the future-domestic and international students’ perspective by Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman, Parvin, Sultana, Al Khudair, Rawan

“…That is why they need to shape themselves the way of delivering methods as well as whole model of conducting their services because of that we propose a model for the university of the future based on Business Model Canvas. This is mainly a conceptual paper where literature reviews were conducted and initial model of University-of-the-Future (UotF) was established; and surveys based on structured questionnaire were conducted involving 30 participants on their preference of future universities. …”
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Safety assessment of a new developed fruit juice product - mixed fruit Juice in experimental rats by Hassan, Hadijah, Hazali, Norazlanshah, Ibrahim, Muhammad, Suri, Roowi

“…The interest in dietary antioxidants which are mainly found in fruits, has prompted research in the field of commercial high antioxidant juice for healthy purposes. …”
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A preliminary study on internal filtration mechanism by using nonwoven filter medium by Kadooka, Hiroto, Manabe, Masaki, Tanaka, Takanori, Jami, Mohammed Saedi, Iwata, Masashi

“…Overall filtration resistance mainly depends on the cumulative mass of captured particles, and is slightly affected by both feed solid concentration and filtration rate.…”
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Efficiency of Qatari banking industry: an empirical investigation by Abdul-Hamid, Abdul Wahab, Haron, Razali

“…In terms of productivity progress, all the Qatari banks were experiencing a decline in productivity mainly attributed to less technological innovation in the banking sector of Qatar. …”
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Gender categorization between Islam and science: the problem of integration from Islamic jurisprudence perspective by Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah, Zahir, Ali Ahmed

“…This binary juridical classification of humans into male (dhakar) and female (untha) concords mainly with the conclusions of science. Nevertheless, hermaphrodite`s (khuntha) configuration in Islamic jurisprudence presents a problem where some discordance can be observed between science and Islamic law. …”
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Prevalence of gastrointestinal nematodiasis and coccidiosis in goats from three selected farms in Terengganu, Malaysia by Mat Yusof, Afzan, Md Isa, Muhammad Lokman

“…Objective To reveal the prevalence of gastrointestinal nematodiasis, Trichostrogylus, Haemonchus, Strongyloides and Trichuris and coccidiosis, mainly Eimeria in kids, yearlings and adult goats. …”
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Influence of moisture absorption on impact strength and failure behavior of Hybrid Jute-Carbon/Epoxy composite by Lenda, T.A., Mridha, Shahjahan

“…The 47 vol% fiber specimen was least affected by water immersion and impact strength reduction was only 17% after immersion till saturation. Failure occurred by mainly by delamination and it was evident in all fractured specimens. …”
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Cellulosic bioethanol production from empty fruit bunches by locally produced cellulases by Zainan, Nur Hidayah, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid

“…Its current production mainly involves fermentation of grains rich in sugar or starch and sugarcane. …”
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Muslims and Buddhist interaction in Pasir Mas, Kelantan by Mohd Amin, Wan Mohd Adam, Mohd Rashid, Zuriati

“…Therefore, the significance of the study lies mainly in showing the level of interaction between Muslims and Buddhists in Pasir Mas. …”
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Characterization of pineapple leaf fibers from selected Malaysian cultivars by Abd. Rahman, Mohamed, Mohd Salit, Sapuan, Mridha, Shahjahan, Abdan, Khalina

“…In Malaysia the focus of the pineapple industry is the fruits leaving the leaves mainly composted or burned thus wasting good potential source of fibers. …”
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Buddhists minority in Malay Muslims majority of Pasir Mas, Kelantan by Mohd Rashid, Zuriati, Mohd. Amin, Wan Mohd. Azam

“…Therefore, the significance of the study lies mainly in showing the level of interaction between Muslims and Buddhists in Pasir Mas. …”
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Establishment of research methods and protocols in cytogenetic laboratory of the Kulliyah of Medicine, IIUM by Muhammad, Siti Aeshah @ Naznin

“…Some of the cultures were infected, mainly due to the prolonged incubation period. The harvesting technique was generally satisfactory though intermittently cytoplasmic problem and cell clumps were encountered. …”
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The adoption of mobile commerce in the Klang Valley of Malaysia: an empirical study by Sadi, A.H.M. Saifullah, Noordin, Mohamad Fauzan

“…Prior studies have been conducted using traditional adoption models and theories (such as TAM) that mainly focus on technology aspects. This study aims to identify some factors that affect the adoption of M-commerce in the Klang Valley of Malaysia by developing M-commerce adoption Model based on traditional technology model such as Theory of Reason Action (TRA), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB),Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Diffusion Innovation theory (DOI). …”
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The adoption of mobile commerce in Malaysia: an exploratory study on the extension of theory of planned behavior by Noordin, Mohamad Fauzan, Sadi, A.H.M. Saifullah

“…Prior studies have been conducted using traditional adoption models and theories (such as TAM) that mainly focus on technology aspects. This study aims to identify some factors that affect the adoption of M-commerce in Malaysia by developing M-commerce adoption Model based on traditional technology model such as Theory of Reason Action (TRA), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB),Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Diffusion Innovation theory (DOI). …”
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ViSim: a user-friendly graphical simulation tool for performance analysis of MANET routing protocols by Saquib, Nazmus, Sakib, Md. Sabbir Rahman, Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan

“…ViSim is not a simulation engine, rather it calls ns-2 simulations in the background and makes the task easy for the users to visualize the simulation in a Windows environment. Though ViSim is mainly a simulation demonstration tool, any user with knowledge of ns-2 and Tcl scripting also has the provision to make the necessary modifications and rapid configuration for any other MANET routing scenario. …”
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Comprehensive ICT framework for educational institutes of Kuwait: an empirical study by Aldaihani, Adel Rashed, Shah, Asadullah

“…In this regard Ministry of Education (MOE) Kuwait has launched many plans and invested a lot in the implementation of technology in EIs. EIs mainly consists of Universities. While there is no comprehensive study in order to assess the adoption of ICT in the universities by all instructors and students of Kuwait as well as no empirical study have been conducted on the overall effectiveness of ICT in the EI (s). …”
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Association between pesticide exposure and childhood leukaemia: a systematic literature review of epidemiological studies by Sidek Ahmad, Zulkhairul Naim, Che Hasan, Muhammad Kamil

“…Introduction: Cancer is the leading cause of death for children and adolescents globally with 300,000 children aged 0-19 are diagnosed with cancer every year, mainly leukaemia, lymphomas and brain cancers. Like other causes of cancer, the difficulty arises because of multi-factorial aetiologies involving the interaction between genetic factors as well as environmental exposures. …”
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