Religious and spiritual beliefs and practices in medicine: an evaluation in a tertiary care hospital in Malaysia by Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi, Akter, Seikh Farid Uddin, SMS, Azarisman, Omar, Ahmad Marzuki

“…Concomitantly, we aim to assess the beliefs of our patients and whether they like to address such issues. Questionnaire was based on a cross sectional survey among hospitalized patients and their treating physicians. …”
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Production of autologous platelet-rich plasma from an animal model by Buyong, Zunariah, A.Talib, Norlelawati, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Khalid, Kamarul Ariffin, Zakaria@Mohamad, Zamzuri, Zulkifly, Ahmad Hafiz, Abdel Wahab, Emad Mohamad Nafie

“…Inactivated platelets contain various growth hormones that involve in tissue healing such as platelet-derived growth hormone (PDGF), vascular ndothelial growth hormone (VEGF), transforming growth factor-ß (TGF-ß), epidermal growth factor (EGF) and insulin-like growth factor (IGF). Upon activation, platelets release these hormones from its α-granule. …”
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Morphological studies on the cupulae of free neuromasts along with the growth of larvae in cyprinid fish by Mukai, Yukinori, Kobayashi, Hiroshi

“…On the other hand, in G. elongatus caerulescens that lives in lakes, the cupulae were long and did not change in length until the 72nd day after hatching in the juvenile stage, but it changed in shape from a stick to a flat type like marine algae (laminaria). The surface area of these cupulae is larger than that of Z. platypus, and therefore the cupulae of G. elongatus caerulescens will be more receptive to mechanical stimulus by water flow. …”
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Teachers’ attitudes towards code-switching in the English as a foreign language classroom by Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza

“…Teachers of English as a foreign language too frequently claim that they do not like to code-switch in the language classroom for various reasons – many are of the opinion that only the target language should be used in the classroom. …”
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Social problems and HIV/AIDS risk behaviours in a fishing community by Samsuddin, Niza, Ali, Aishah, Md Aris, Mohd Aznan, Draman, Samsul, Akter, Seikh Farid Uddin

“…Further research needs to be done among more specific target groups in villages like youths, parents and school children, in order to identify the causal chains of deeper structure of HIV/AIDS risk for proximal and distal risk factors intervention. …”
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A Proanthocyanidin From Cinnamomum Zeylanicum Stimulates Phosphorylation Of Insulin Receptor In 3T3–L1 Adipocytes by Bakhtiar, M. Taher, Fadzilah Adibah, Abdul Majid, Mohamad Roji, Sarmidi

“…Cinnamtannin B1 (0.11 mM) activates the phosphorylation of insulin receptor β-subunit on 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Like insulin, cinnamtannin B1-stimulated phosphorylation of insulin receptor was inhibited by wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) and cytochalasin B, an inhibitor of the glucose transporter (GLUT4); otherwise the phosphorylation was enhanced by vanadate, a tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor. …”
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Prediction model of cutting force by cutting parameters using response surface methodology in end milling of steel AISI 1020 by Patwari, Muhammed Anayet Ullah, Amin, A. K. M. Nurul, Faris, Waleed Fekry, Alam, S.

“…The mathematical model for the cutting force has been developed, in terms of cutting parameters like cutting speed, feed rate, and axial depth of cut using design of experiments and the response surface methodology (RSM). …”
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Misyar marriage between Shari'ah texts, realities and scholars' fatawa: an analysis by Osmani, Noor Mohammad

“…Some ofthem supported it vehemently, as it could reduce the number of ladies without husbands; while yet others strongly oppose it, as it sounds like part-time wives, which has no roots in Islamic heritage. …”
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Feature extraction: hand shape, hand position and hand trajectory path by Bilal, Sara Mohammed Osman Saleh, Akmeliawati, Rini

“…Features should be chosen so that they are intensive to noise-like variation in pattern and keep the number of feature small for easy computation [5]. …”
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Islam and modernity: a case of Muslim female engineers in Malaysia by Abd. Rokis, Rohaiza

“…Such a blending situation depended on very careful management as being women with a clear expectation towards traditional feminine roles and responsibilities, while at the same time they have to present themselves in a business-like, modern manner in terms of competence, commitment and ambitious targets to claim a rightful place in the engineering world. …”
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Autonomous reconnaissance mission: development of an algorithm for collaborative multi robot communication by Ahmed, Mohiuddin, Khan, Md. Raisuddin, Billah, Md. Masum

“…Wireless communication under mobile ad-hoc networks are communication networks that do not rely on fixed, preinstalled communication devices like base stations or predefined communication cells. …”
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Principles of comparative religious education in the Qur’an by Hashi, Abdurezak Abdulahi

“…European Orientalists like Weitbrecht Stanton commented on the Qur’anic explanation of religious faiths and religious communities and concluded that: “No Scripture in the world teaches such a ‘comparative religion as the Qur’Én.”. …”
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Design and development of gripping assistive device for post — Stroke rehabilitation by Ramlee, Mohd Rais Hakim, Md. Yusof, Hazlina

“…The exoskeleton is still being tested on using linear-like actuator mechanisms to perform grasping and extension. © 2017 IEEE.…”
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Muda irrigation program : assessing its performances in poverty alleviation in rural Malaysia by Karim, A.H.M Zehadul, Uddin, Md. Sayed

“…More specifically, we want to reveal the poverty situation at the village level in present time, and would like to analyze it from cultural context, by generating empirical data from a village in Alor Setar. …”
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Collaborative open bibliographic network for Malaysian school libraries by Mansor, Yushiana, Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham

“…The awareness, benefits and issues like interoperability will also be discussed. This paper will discover the potential of setting up a collaborative bibliographic network among SRC in Malaysia by deploying open source ILS. …”
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Alleles of apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) as genetic determinants of dementia by Akter, Seikh Farid Uddin, Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Sulong, Sarina, Md Aris, Mohd Aznan, Phang, Ing Chia, Khattak, Muhammad Muzaffar Ali Khan, Bakhtiar, M. Taher

“…Dementia is emerging as a silent epidemic for rapidly developing countries like Malaysia. Its prevalence and a generic determinant assessment were the focused objectives of this study. …”
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Hermeneutics and the Qur’anic Texts in the intellectual linguistic Context by Mohd Noor, Ahmad Yunus, Sahrir, Muhammad Sabri

“…In this sense, there are threefold meaning might be used to display hermeneutics like ‘Hermeneutic as saying’, ‘Hermeneutic as explanation’ and ‘Hermeneutic as translation’ that describe the intellectual linguistic context of Qur’anic hermeneutics.…”
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Shaping values in knowledge sharing technology: investigating the Islamic concept of niyyah (intention) in developing knowledge-based systems in Malaysian political organization by Saidin, Aznan Zuhid

“…For a widely applicable technology like this, the effects would be far reaching. These effects may originate from misuse of the user; however the technology would also be a contributing factor. …”
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Teachers in Malaysia - Are they evolving or dissolving? by Mansor, Azlin Norhaini, Fisher, Lorna, Rasul, Mohamad Sattar, Ibrahim, Mohd Burhan, Yusoff, Nurhayati

“…MOE’s emphasis on qualifications, higher salary and better career path does not seem to translate into quality educators, more like working around the edges of the issue rather than finding the answer. …”
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Effects of web accessibility on search engines and webometrics ranking by Ayu, Media Anugerah, Elgharabawy, Mohamed Ahmed

“…For higher learning institutions there is an online ranking that they like to be in the top list, i.e. Webometrics. This paper attempts to address those two issues of web accessibility and being at the top list. …”
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