From ‘diaspora by design’ to transnational political exile: the Gülen movement in transition by Watmough, Simon P., Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…In the wake of the July 2016 putsch and the subsequent purge of followers of the outlawed Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen in every sphere of Turkish life under the ruling AKP government’s state of emergency, the Gülen movement (GM) is in disarray and crisis. A fruitful way to bring some analytical order to this issue is through the frame of diaspora, which we contend provides some useful analytical purchase on understanding the movement historically and in transition. …”
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The COVID-19 impact on humanitarian operations: lessons for future disrupting events by Shah, Bhavin, Frederico, Guilherme, Kumar, Vikas, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo, Kumar, Anil

“…Furthermore, it is necessary to bring out clarity on how the way of managing humanitarian operations services differ during pandemics, man-made, and nature-inspired disasters. …”
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The third way: the British Labour Party and the German SPD by Meyer, Henning

“…It was a place for international networking that did however not bring about a substantial policy cross-fertilisation or convergence. …”
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The efficiency removal of oil in water (OIW) by application of milliscale air bubbles by Yusof, H A M, Razi, M A M, Yusof, M F M, Zulkifli, N F M, Setiawan, M I

“…The existing technology for separating oil in water (OIW) can bring harm to the environment, particularly to marine life. …”
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Rice husk : carbon dioxide reducer by Azmi, Ariff, Mohd Zarak, Muhamad Firdaus, Che Teh, Ahmad Azamuddin, Mohd Adnan, Raudah, Mohd Ghazali, Jamilah, Abu Bakar Sidik, Dilaeleyana

“…Carbon dioxide can bring a major effect to the environment and lead us to the global warming and Green House effect. …”
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Attribution styles as correlates of technical drawing task-persistence and technical college students’ performance by Oviawe, Jane Itohan, Azman, Mohamed Nor Azhari, Tee, Tze Kiong, Abilmazhinova, Oryngul S.

“…Technical drawing is a means of communicating between the designer and the manufacturers to bring ideas into reality by means of drafting. This study investigated attribution styles as collates of students’ technical drawing task-persistence and academic performance using correlational research design. …”
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حكم السفتجة في الفقه الإسلامي وتطبيقاتها المعاصرة = The rule of the bill of exchange in Islamic jurisprudence and contemporary applications = Sumbangan para ulama jawa terhadap pen... by Arif, Arif Ali, Dirsyawi, Khalid Zainal Abidin, Nuruddin, Muwafiq Abdul Aziz

“…Without it, the debtor is forced to transfer money owed to the creditor to his/her country. This is an additional cost that should be removed. …”
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Regeneration of the historic waterfront of world heritage sites in Malaysia – the case of Penang and Melaka by Shamsuddin, Shuhana, Sulaiman, Ahmad Bashri, Alias, Nor Syahida Alfath, Abdul Latip, Nurul Syala, Ujang, Norsidah, Chelliapan, Shreesivadan, Azlan, Nurul Azreen

“…Waterfront regeneration is gaining momentum in urban regeneration that many cities around the world needed to bring back the abandoned or underutilised inner city harbours as a place to work, live and play. …”
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The role of Irfan 'Abd al-Hamid Fattah in presenting a balanced picture of 'Ilm al-Kalam for the 21st century audience by Awang Abd. Rahman @ Jusoh, Amilah

“…An observation of available literatures will easily bring to the conclusion that kalam is about irreconcilable conflicts among its schools on fundamental problems. …”
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Educational excellence in the Islamic world : enhancing global quality and strategy planning by Berghout, Abdul Aziz

“…Hence, what is required at this stage of development of our institutions of higher education is clear and integrated framework that outlines the various aspects of global quality as an activity and process which aspires towards transforming institutions so as to attain the capabilities and strengths needed to bring home global quality as reality, culture, system and practices. …”
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Preliminary study on the agrotourism approach to sustain the local cultural landscape. A case study at Taman Warisan Pertanian Putrajaya by Mat Som, Mohd Shafiq, Mohd. Yaman, Maheran

“…This creates a new tourism activity called agrotourism in which the cultural landscape attracts people with agricultural-based operation or activities, i.e: that bring visitors to the farm and experience buying products from the farm stand, navigating a corn maze, picking fruits, feeding animals, or staying at a barn.…”
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Adsorption of lead from aqueous solution by a novel carbon based adsorbent by Al-Mamun, Abdullah, Onundi, Yusuf Bamidele, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid

“…The novel composite material has the potential to remove toxic materials from water and bring benefit to the society.…”
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Cognitive selection mechanism performance in IEEE 802.11 WLAN by Hashim, Wahidah, Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil, Ghafar, Nadratul, Dzulkifly, Sumayyah

“…The enhancement reaped from the developed selection algorithm is expected to bring benefit to different user at various places…”
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Classical forms of investment of awqaf: a juristic analysis by Osmani, Noor Mohammad, Rahman, Md. Habibur

“…Thus, taking an attempt to revitalize the role of awqaf is actually trying to bring back a gigantic voluntary institutional role to serve for the advancement of society and civilization. …”
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Contemporary trends in mediation & arbitration in Asia Pacific by Rashid, Syed Khalid

“…Conferences and seminars are organized to bring together scholars and professionals who have the ability to perceive problems in a given field with the aim of searching possible solutions. …”
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Harmonisation of Shari'ah and Civil Law: a special reference to the concept of punishment by Awang, Abd. Rahman, Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail

“…It is hoped that this paper will bring a new legal dimension towards eliminating the differences between CCL and ICL so that it can be implemented, in some areas, throughout the Muslim countries as a pilot study for the application of ICL as required by Islamic teachings. …”
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LMOs/GMOs, the environment and the people: a critical exposition by Ansari, Abdul Haseeb, Jamal, Parveen

“…On the contrary, they will become counterproductive, i.e. instead of saving lives and enriching the biodiversity of the environment they might bring miseries to the people and erode the biodiversity. …”
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Debating Africa : BBC's documentary "Heart & soul - return to Zanzibar" by Hickman, Katy, Sheriff, Abdul, Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin

“…All these provide a look behind the scene on debates that take place before programmes are made and bring out the key role that historians, researchers and academicians can, and need to play, in social communications. …”
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Migration aspirations and experiences of female Polish migrant workers in the UK by Aziz, Karima

“…Constructions of return decisions or the lack of return motivations, as well as experiences after return, bring forth the relevance of expectations resulting in the question: ‘return to what?’ …”
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The shipwrecked shore and other metaphors : what we can learn from occupation of, and representations in, virtual worlds by Burns, Tom, Sinfield, Sandra, Holley, Debbie

“…With educational paradigms shifting to include 'online learning, hybrid learning and collaborative learning' (NMC2012:5); the NMC report points out that institutions that support their learners by offering affordances other than physical campuses leverage the online skills that learners bring with them to academia. Second Life is a 'virtual world', an electronic environment that visually mimics complex physical spaces, where people can interact with each other and with virtual objects, and where people are represented by animated characters called avatars (Bainbridge, 2007). …”
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