Islamic guidelines for healthful living by Rahman, Mohammad Tariqur, Abdul Karim, Jesmin Banu

“…Discussions are made linking published scientific evidence and recent discoveries in the field of immunology and related sciences with the related Islamic guidelines on various aspects of life. …”
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True community: connecting the Millennium Development Goals to public library services in the United States by Maret, Susan

“…Similarly, scorecards and quality of life reports compiled by municipalities and nonprofit groups, while they might investigate community social problems are not linked to socially responsive library services or the wider MDGs. …”
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Global stability of discrete-time competitive population models by Baigent, Stephen, Hou, Zhanyuan

“…We introduce the concept of a principal reproductive mode, which is linked to a normal at the interior fixed point of a hypersurface of vanishing weighted-average growth. …”
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The implications of neurological models of memory for learning and teaching by Scott-Taylor, Timothy H.

“…The slow process of unraveling neurological links between brain areas involved in cognition has delayed an understanding of how learning actually takes place which goes beyond the working models of memory we use to optimize teaching. …”
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Hydromagnetic mixed convection flow in an inclined cavity by Zainuddin, Najahulfazliah, Sufahani, Suliadi Firdaus, Karimipour, A., Ali, Mahazani, Roslan, Rozaini

“…The finite volume method with semi-implicit for pressure linked equations (SIMPLE) algorithm is employed to solve the dimensionless governing equations. …”
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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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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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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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After COVID-19: time to agree a biosecurity code of conduct under the biological and toxin weapons convention (book chapter) by Whitby, Simon, Tang, Cheng, Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

“…As part of that rethink, it should be possible now, 45 years after the Convention entered into force, to bring the protracted discussions on a Code of Conduct under the Convention to a successful conclusion at the 2021 9th Five-Year Review Conference of the BTWC. …”

Complement-mediated extracellular vesicle release as a measure of endothelial dysfunction and prognostic marker for COVID-19 in peripheral blood - letter to the Editor by Inal, Jameel

“…Microcirc. by Jung et al. [1–3], elegantly highlighted the thrombotic complications that arise in severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and discussed the role vascular injury and associated hyper inflammation play in bringing about multi-organ failure in severe disease. …”
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Causality in Islamic philosophy : the arguments of Ibn Sina by Ariff, Syamsuddin

“…Few ideas in the history of philosophy in Islam have been so much debated, attacked, and defended as has the thesis that a necessary connection exists between cause and effect, that cause and effect are so inextricably linked that the existence of one necessitates and implies that of the other, and that if the cause has occurred, the effect cannot fail to occur. …”
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Compression using Wavelet Transform by Khalifa, Othman Omran, Harding, Sering Habib, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha

“…Further reduction in bit rate is an attractive proposition in applications like remote broadcast lines, studio links, satellite transmission of high quality audio and voice over internet.…”
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