Religious-cultural psychotherapy in the management of anxiety patients by Mohd Razali, Salleh, Kassim, Aminah, Khan, Umeed Ali

“…This study investigated the effectiveness of incorporating sociocultural and religious aspects in the management of anxiety among Muslim patients of ethnic Malay origin. Eighty-five religious and 80 non-religious patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) were randomly assigned to the study or control group. …”
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The maqasid filter in takaful audit by Yussof, Sheila Ainon, Soualhi, Younes

“…The maqasid of the Shari'ah concerning all kinds of economic wealth can be summarised under five parameters/criteria: 'adl (justice) in handling it; wuduh (transparency); hifz (preservation); thabat (durability); and rawaj (marketability) or a fair circulation of wealth in the hands of as many people as possible. …”
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Optimization of extraction process parameters for anti-cancer agent from Solanum Lycopersicum by Amid, Azura, Ahmad, Abdul Aziz, Ahmad Raus, Raha

“…The design variables were the extraction time (min), extraction agitation speed (rpm) and solvent composition (%, v/v water/methanol). The optimum extraction was found to be 82% methanol, 24 hours and 110 rpm.…”
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Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk by Salleh, Norsaremah, Hussein, Ramlah, Mohamed, Norshidah, Abdul Karim, Nor Shahriza, Ahlan, Abdul Rahman, Aditiawarman, Umar

“…Using self-administered questionnaire, 486 undergraduate students from five different universities in Malaysia were involved in this study.…”
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Real-time signal processing for fetal heart rate monitoring by Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn, Ahmed, Firoz, Mohd Ali, M. A., Zahedi, Admond

“…A Doppler ultrasound fetal monitor was used for statistical comparison on five volunteers with low risk pregnancies, between 35 and 40 weeks of gestation. …”
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Transbronchial needle aspiration of mediastinal lymph node by How, Soon Hin, Kuan, Yeh Chunn, Ng, Teck Han, Harun, Norra, H, Hasmah, Kalavathy, Ramachandram, Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi

“…Data was retrieved from endoscopy databases and patients' records, CT thorax images and all cytological and histological slides were reviewed. Twenty-five patients had TBNA performed. TBNA was positive in 15 patients (60%). …”
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Analysis of Islamic website design by Badi, Maimona J., Zeki, Akram M.

“…The data collected is based on five selected Islamic websites, namely islamway.com, islamweb.net, islamonline.net, islam-qa.com, and islamtoday.net.…”
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Land use conflicts in Jelutong area of Georgetown, Malaysia: issues for sustainable urban development by Mohit, Mohammad Abdul, Raja Mohd Firdaus, Raja Mohd. Harun

“…The study then developed five alternative approaches, with a recommendation to adopt concensus building as a policy approach to deal with the phenomena. …”
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Practice of social entrepreneurship among the Muslim entrepreneurs in Malaysia by Mhd. Sarif, Suhaimi, Sarwar, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Ismail, Yusof

“…This study has conducted total five in-depth interviews of various Muslim social entrepreneurs to reveal the entrepreneurial dimension that is prevailing in the non-profit organizations. …”
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Artifacts classification in EEG signals based on temporal average statistics by Abdul, Qayoom, Abdul Rahman, Abdul Wahab, Kamaruddin, Norhaslinda, Zahid, Zahid

“…This study aims to classify three different types of artifacts in EEG signal, namely; ocular, facial muscle and hand movement using statistical features coupled with neural networks as classifier. Temporal averages of five features are used as the feature vector for MLP classification. …”
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Clozapine re-challenge with lithium supplementation following clozapine-induced neutropenia by Md Rosli, Ahmad Nabil, Subbiah, Rakesh, Maniam, T

“…Methods: The patient was treated with clozapine for treatmentresistant schizophrenia. After five weeks he showed much improvement but developed neutropenia. …”
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Twenty-two new Asian short stories

“…An excerpt from the introduction ... twenty-two stories in the volume, and this is how the tally stands country-wise: one each from Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal and Pakistan; four from the Philippines, five from Singapore and eight from India. In this count, I have considered only the country of origin of the authors, because some of them have moved either to another country within Asia or to the West ... if we leave out the internal migrations within the continent, there are only three writers in this volume, who are based in the West, compared to ten in the previous volume which prompted one reviewer, renowned Bangladeshi poet Kaiser Haq, to ask half-humorously if the whole of Asia was in exile. …”
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Swelling index, gel fraction, thermal and rheological properties of Centella asiatica hydrogel by Ahmed, Afnan Sh., Bakhtiar, M. Taher, Mandal, Uttam Kumar, Md. Jaffri, Juliana

“…Gel fraction, swelling behavior, thermal and rheological properties were investigated. Five consecutive cycles of freezing and thawing formed an insoluble and entangled hydrogel. …”
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BBQE: multi-language string search approach for blackberry environment by Mantoro, Teddy, Ayu, Media Anugerah, Mercic, Merdin

“…This paper discussed on how wireless networks affect the performance of a multi-language string search client-server based application for a Blackberry device in comparison to a standalone application. As a case study, five Al-Quran translations are used as proof of concept that string-search can be implemented in an efficient and fast search manner in several databases. …”
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Designing a rubric to assess student engineering projects by Shafie, Amir Akramin

“…The rubric assesses student five general areas, Fundamental (F), Analysis (A), Design (D), Ethics, Safety, Society and Environment (ESSE) and Work skill (WS). …”
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Compact Quad-Band Bandpass Filter Based on Stub-Loaded Resonators by Virdee, Bal Singh, Farhat, Mohamad, Riaz, Muhammad

“…The proposed technique provides sufficient degree of freedom to control the center frequency and bandwidth of the four passbands. In addition, the five transmission zeros created around the passbands results in a quad-band filter with high selectivity, sharp 3 dB cut-off frequency, high isolation, and low passband insertion-loss. …”
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Introducing computer-assisted assessment : considerations for the new practitioner by Lingard, Matt

“…These issues have been explored under five main headings: assessment purpose, time, pedagogic, operational and technological and students. …”
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The neoliberal convergence of European industrial relations: economic inevitability or result of European political choices? by Jefferys, Steve

“…The central argument of Lucio Baccaro and Chris Howell’s analysis of European industrial relations over the past four decades (with a statistical analysis of fifteen countries and detailed chapters on five) is that ‘employer discretion’ has increased everywhere, although this is evidenced more in some countries than in others. …”

How do counselling psychologists talk about doing therapy with working class clients in an IAPT setting?: a Foucauldian discourse analysis by Gallo, Delia

“…Method: Semi structured interviews were conducted with five counselling psychologists with experience in, or currently working in, IAPT settings. …”
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Impact of national culture on performance measurement systems in manufacturing firms by Jwijati, Ihssan, Bititci, Umit S., Caldwell, Nigel, Garengo, Patrizia, Dan, Wang

“…This study adopts an analytical framework based on social and technical controls, PMS lifecycle and Hofstede’s six dimensions of national culture to explore the complex impact of national culture on PMS using 10 case studies from five culturally diverse regions. Findings clarify previously inconclusive research results by explaining how various dimensions of national culture influence the technical and social dimensions of PMS. …”