Malaysian Islamic bankers' perceptions of al-Qard al-Hasan by Mohd Ariffin, Noraini, Adnan, Muhammad Akhyar

“…The paper concludes that Islamic banks need to diversify the products and services they offer so as to balance their orientation to profit with a stronger commitment to products and services, like al-qard al-hasan that will demonstrate their status as Islamic entities and improve their public image through good corporate social responsibility. …”
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Key factors influencing target capital structure of property firms in Malaysia by Haron, Razali

“…This study found that these property firms do practice target capital structure which is influenced by certain firm characteristics like tax shield, asset structure, profitability, firm size, growth opportunity and liquidity in their capital structure and they also time their security issuance. …”
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Appreciating beauty in Islam by Spahic, Omer

“…The paper shows that beauty in Islam and the utter formation of Islamic aesthetics - just like any other segment of Islamic culture and civilization - cannot be disengaged from the body of Islamic teachings and values and be treated in isolation. …”
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Pharmacological relevance of primitive leafy Cactuses Pereskia by M., Sharif K., Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Sarker, Md. Zaidul Islam, Azmir, Jannatul, Akanda, Jahurul Haque, A., Mohamed, S. H., Shamsudin, Samsudin, Siti Hadijah

“…Although Pereskia genus originates in Latin American countries but it is also widespread in tropical areas like Malaysia, Indonesia. Some species of Pereskia have been used by traditional practitioners for the treatment of many diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, gastric pain and ulcer. …”
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Geographical information system (GIS) in Malaysian planning education by Ibrahim, Mansor, Abdullah, Muhammad Faris, Abdul Samad, Dazilah

“…In most developed countries, the major users of GIS are not restricted to planning authorities at local, regional, and central government agencies, but covered across other non-planning agencies like engineering firms, resource management firms, and increasingly, financial, real estate and marketing firms. …”
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Hierarchical structural driven model for integrative information management architecture by Mohd Tamrin, Mohd Izzuddin, Tengku Sembok, Tengku Mohd, Kartiwi, Mira

“…Support models are used and they are made from tree-like structure in XML documents. The recommendations are stored in the leaf nodes whereas the intermediary nodes are filled with characteristics of the deviation. …”
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Online brand awareness: determining the relative importance of Facebook and other strategies among the Malaysian consumers by Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Momen, Abdul, Sultana, Seyama, Yasmin, Farzana

“…The purpose of this study is to determine the relative importance of Facebook with other strategies like affiliate marketing and word of mouth in creating online brand awareness. …”
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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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