Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective by Jan, Muhammad Tahir, Abdullah, Kalthom, Momen, Abdul

“…It will justify the social, educational, technological and other factors behind the adoption of social networking sites like Facebook, twitter and MySpace. The paper is conceptual in nature and proposes that a future research can be conducted with the Structural Equation modeling approach to sort out the significance and the relative importance of these factors behind the Muslim users’ adoption of social networking sites in Malaysia.…”
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Learning strategies for teacher education in the era of globalization by Hashim, Rosnani

“…They seem to hold the repertoire of knowledge, values and skills to be handed down to the younger generation. In a sense they are like little repositories of knowledge for the civilization. …”
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Canadian Muslims and Canada’s domestic and foreign policy issues: an analysis by Islam, Syed Serajul, Hossain, Ishtiaq

“…It also shows that like other Canadians, the Muslim citizens of Canada express their opinion freely on matters, which are of importance to the country. …”
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Experimental observation of Jute/Epoxy composite plate subjected to impact loading by Omar, Nurihan, Syed Mohd, Sharifah Najwa, Aminanda, Yulfian, Syed Mohamed Ali, Jaffar, Kashif, Syed Muhammad

“…A comparative study with typical synthetic fibers like carbon or glass is also conducted. The characterization tests on jute-epoxy show that the tensile behavior is non linear as found for carbonepoxy or glass-epoxy plate.…”
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Teaching and learning history: national and international perspectives by Ahsan, Abdullahil

“…Like all academic programs, teaching history at the university level has its own challenges. …”
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Report on Environmental Management System (EMS) Workshop, 1st Regional Conference on Campus Sustainability (1RCCS) 2014 by Mohd. Din, Shamzani Affendy

“…However, there are always options in getting the certification application on a small scale for example focusing in one particular scope like solid waste management, air pollution, energy conservation, etc. or it can be as the whole package as one.…”
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Mental health: a contrastive analysis between western and Islamic psychologies by Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas, Abdul Razak, Abdul Latif, Mohamed Ali Zaroum, Abdulhamid

“…In the light of this situation, this small scale research would like to explore the concept of mental health held by some selected schools in the Western mainstream psychology and Islamic psychology. …”
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Protection of migrant workers in Malaysia by Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali, Sardar Baig, Farheen Baig, Eishan Jan, Mohammad Naqib

“…Unfortunately, Malaysia has its fair share of ‘hell on earth’ cases involving migrant workers like the recent case involving an Indian couple. …”
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Third sector socio economic models: how waqf fits in? by Mohd Arshad, Mohd Nahar, Mohamed Haneef, Mohamed Aslam

“…Waqf is considered to be one of the most important institutions of third sector that exists in the Islamic heritage. Waqf, like many other third sector organisations (TSOs), needs to be recognised formally in efforts to build contemporary economic development frameworks. …”
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In search of model for evaluating the quality of e-commerce websites by Balfagih, Zain, Mohamed, Norshidah, Mahmud, Murni

“…Researchers have also shown that there are several perspectives about evaluation on quality for e-commerce websites, that is, one may take an approach or combination of approaches like product quality, systems as product quality, service quality of provider, quality of service offered and quality of the Human Computer Interface (HCI) design. …”
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Determination of total phenolic, flavonoid content and free radical scavenging activities of common herbs and spices. by Shirazi, Ovais Ullah, Khattak, Muhammad Muzaffar Ali Khan, Mohd Shukri, Nor Azwani, A., Mohd Nur Nasyriq

“…Antioxidants present in herbs and spices could be an effective tool to prevent the non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and myocardial infarction as they have the capacity to stabilize the free radicals which are one of the causative factors of these diseases. …”
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Do Indonesian firms practice target capital structure? A dynamic approach by Haron, Razali

“…This study finds that Indonesian firms do practice target capital structure and the capital structure decision is influenced by firm specific factors like profitability, business risk, firm size, liquidity and share price performance due to time varying factors. …”
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An approach to improve the robustness of substitution techniques of audio steganography by Zamani, Mazdak, Abdul Manaf, Azizah, Ahmad, Rabiah, Zeki, Akram M.

“…The robustness specially would be increased against those intentional attacks which try to reveal the hidden message and also some unintentional attacks like noise addition as well.…”
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Sustainable development: Islamic dimension with special reference to conservation of the environment by Ansari, Abdul Haseeb, Jamal, Parveen, Oseni, Umar Aimhanosi

“…Disturbing them is considered as a misdeed (fasad), and Allah (s.w.t.) does not like it. The idea of sustainable development is already there in Islam, in the concepts of vicegerency (khalifah) (Islamic brotherhood (ukhuwwah), trust (amanah), public interest (maslahah mursalah), prevention from bad (sadd al-dhari‘ah). …”
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A framework for providing e-services to the rural areas using wireless ad hoc and sensor networks by Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan, Islam, Humayun Kadir, Sayeed, Sabit Anjum, Ahmed, Farruk, Hong, Choong Seon

“…This has led to the rapid growth of several wireless systems like wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks etc. …”
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Judicial review of the Tribunal for Consumer Claims' awards: a justice for whom? by Amin, Naemah

“…Nevertheless, in the course of offering an informal, faster and cheaper procedure to consumers, the TCC has to face with few challenges and one of the major challenges is judicial review. Just like other inferior courts or quasi-judicial bodies, the awards of the TCC may be subject to judicial review on questions of law. …”
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Analysis of multicomponent transient signals using music superresolution technique by Jibia, Abdussamad Umar, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Emiyoka, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…Such signals arise in many problems in Science and Engineering like nuclear magnetic resonance for medical diagnosis, deep-level transient spectroscopy, fluorescence decay analysis, etc. …”
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Control of pallets in automatic storage and retrieval system by Kafayat Oluwatoyin, Shobowale, Khan, Md. Raisuddin, Muhida, Riza

“…The controller and algorithm developed will be used for executing a puzzle like x and y motion to store and retrieve specific pallets. …”
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Hardware implementation of intelligent braking system by Sidek, Shahrul Na'im, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Emiyoka

“…The system when integrated with other subsystems like automatic traction control system, intelligent throttle system, and auto cruise system, etc will result in smart vehicle maneuver. …”
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Beyond behaviour: changing foods as well as changing people by Winkler, Jack

“…Like many specialists in public health, Clarke focuses on “ways to change and sustain our individual behaviour.” …”