Is religious education possible: a philosophical investigation (Review of the book by Michael Hand, London & New York, Continuum, 158 pp.(2006) ISBN: 0826491502) by Hussien, Suhailah

“…Hand begins his book by outlining the main arguments in the introduction chapter, particularly focusing on the possibility of imparting religious understanding without imparting religious belief. …”
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Aerodynamics of airfoil sections and their influence on wind turbine design and performance by Abdelrahman, Mohammad, Hassanein, Atef

“…A sensitivity analysis has been established through the selection of airfoil sections with different aerodynamic characteristics at the main stations along the blade (tip, mid, and root) in addition to the replacement of the whole blade with another one having different airfoil sections. …”
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The effect of organisational structure on quality management in public hospitals in a developing nation: a comparative study between district, state and national level hospitals in... by Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah

“…Self-administered questionnaire was the main method of data collection. Twenty-three public hospitals throughout Peninsular Malaysia participated in the survey. …”
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Awareness of Islamic English among Muslim students in Malaysia by Adam, Zalika, Parveen Lallmamode , Sheila

“…This study attempts to investigate the awareness of Islamic English among Muslim students studying in Muslim countries. Three main problems that occur when Muslims are encouraged to mimic L1 non-Muslim native speakers, and discourse in the English language, are investigated: (1) distortion in transliteration; (2) distortion in translation; (3) use of islamically inappropriate vocabulary and etiquettes in one’s discourse. …”
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Money from Islamic perspective: its purpose and time value by Abdul Aziz, Akhtarzaitie

“…Next the paper will also examine one of very important issues in current Islamic transaction which is the issue of the time value of money. The main issue is whether in Islam, where money is not a commodity which can be traded freely at any price, necessarily means that there is no weight or value to be given to time factor in economic and financial transactions. …”
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The roles of land use planning in sustaining natural resources by Asmawi, M. Zainora, Ahmad Azam, Nur Nabila, Yahya, Nurul Hidayah, Myint, Khin Cho

“…Land use planning, among others, is challenged to play an active role in obtaining sustainable natural resources. The main focus of this paper is to study the roles played by land use planning in sustaining the natural resources. …”
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Dealing with environmental issues: preparing a framework for environmental education, policy and laws in Malaysia by Mohamad, Nor Asiah

“…Yet, all seem to agree that mankind is the main cause of the destruction and losses. Man comes and goes. …”
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Possible solution to smoothen the nature of the torque curve of the CAMPRO engine by Mohiuddin, A. K. M., Rahman, Mohammed Ataur, Arfah, A, Farraen, M.A.

“…The CAMPRO engine experiences performance downfall when it reaches 2,500 to 3,500 rpm. The main objective of this work is to perform an extensive study on the causes of the dip in CAMPRO engine and subsequently to provide the best solution. …”
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Conceptual framework on risk-based supervision of Islamic Banks: a proposed risk-based supervisory framework by Suleiman Sani, Dalhatu, Sharofiddin, Ashurov

“…The main objective of this conceptual study is to propose an ideal risk-based supervisory framework for Islamic banks that recognises the specificities of Islamic banks. …”
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Strategic and operational factors influence on building maintenance management operation process in office high rise buildings by Yahya, Mohamad Ridzuan, Ibrahim, Md. Najib

“…The main objective of this paper is to examine strategic and operational factors influencing building maintenance management operation processes in office high rise buildings. …”
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Quality of service over heterogeneous network with MPLS back bone by Mahmoud, Omer, Anwar, Farhat, Ali, Sellami, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha

“…The QoS challenge is emanating from the diversity of these applications, in term of bandwidth requirements and high sensitivity to delay and delay variation. Three main architectures were proposed by IETF in an effort to make the IP QoS a reality. …”
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Global financial crises: an exploratory conceptual survey of selected literatures from an Islamic perspective by Abdul Razak, Dzuljastri, Mohammed, Mustafa Omar

“…Recently, especially after the 2008 global financial crisis , the focus is shifting to ethics.There is increasing awareness that the unethical behaviors of companies and investors are the main culprit to the crises.There is quite a volume of literature that has discussed this ethical subject from both conventional and Islamic perspectives. …”
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An investigation of factors influencing communities decision to reside in gated development in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor by Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Rabe, Noor Suzilawati, Bachok, Syahriah

“…This research investigates the underlying factors influencing the development of gated and guarded communities in Malaysia. The main objectives of the research is to ascertain whether the increasing demand over the neighbourhood concept was merely due to the needs to exert better control and security over their living environment or due to other factors such as privacy and affluent lifestyle. …”
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The development Of Islamic engineering Sciences: a prelude by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…The Umayyad dynasty however, upon assuming rulership they engaged themselves with some civil engineering activities by building Damascus, their main administrative capital. The Abbasid Caliphate took over from the Umayyad and moved their administrative activity to Baghdad. …”
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Hybrid runge-kutta method for solving linear fuzzy delay differential equations with unknown state-delays by Lim, Rui Sih

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Improvement of gain and elevation tilt angle using metamaterial loading for millimeter-wave applications by Dadgarpour, Abdolmehdi, Zarghooni, Behnam, Virdee, Bal Singh, Denidni, Tayeb A.

“…Integration of the 3x4 array in the H-plane of a dipole antenna is shown to deflect the main beam by +30 degrees with respect to the endfire direction over 57–64 GHz. …”
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Miniature planar antenna design for ultra-wideband systems by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Hence, over the recent years the research and development of UWB antennas has been widely reported in literature. The main performance requirements sought from such antennas include: (1) low VSWR of <2; (2) operation over 7.6 GHz from 3 to 10.6 GHz; and (3) good overall radiation characteristics. …”
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Controlling female cancer in Argentina. Divergent initiatives and the road to fragmentation by Eraso, Yolanda

“…It identifies and examines the main factors in the process of elaborating a national policy to control the disease drawing on a series of actors and instruments such as the state, medical professionals, institutions and services, and the use of technology (notably diagnostic tools) for the detection of the disease. …”
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Integration in European retail banking: evidence from savings and lending rates to non-financial corporations by Rughoo, Aarti, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…The aim of this paper is to investigate the integration process in the European Union retail banking sector during the period 1995-2008, by analysing deposit and lending rates to nonfinancial corporations which represent one of the main constituents of retail banking. An important contribution of the paper is the application of the recently developed Phillips and Sul (2007a) panel convergence methodology which has not hitherto been employed in this area. …”
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UK apartment construction impact on carbon life cycle calculations by Din, Asif, Brotas, Luisa

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