Innovation in Islamic finance the way forward by Hasan, Aznan

“…It argues that although the practice of replication is working well as far as the Islamic finance industry is concerned, the long term practice will harm the industry. Hence the paper proposes that a paradigm shift is needed in the innovation process, to ensure not only Shariah compliant of the products to be innovated, but also its viability and resilient in facing the challenging world of finance…”
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The monetary model of exchange rate: evidence from The Philippines by Chin, Lee, Azali, Mohamed, Yusop, Zulkornain, Yusoff, Mohammed

“…It is found that the monetary model is a valid framework for the long-run exchange rate between Philippines peso-US Dollar exchange rate. …”
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Ethical dimensions in robot creation industry by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…Being one of the salient fields, it has for long intrigued engineers as to how to invent the adjacent human-like machine that could emulate human emotions, styles and patterns in precisely identical mode. …”
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Throw Away the Spoon! Making Life Difficult for Students by Hardman, David

“…In addition, several other ways of fostering long-term learning are discussed.…”
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Zinc’s time in the sun? Tracing the reopening of the Riso and Parina Valleys’ mines from precarious optimism to affective indeterminacy by West, Robin, Crowhurst, Isabel

“…This chapter addresses a peripheral feature of global extractivism and of the exclusionary practices discussed in this volume: the revitalization of European mining via renewed extraction activities in long-closed mines.…”
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Development of paediatric dosage forms of furosemide using the problem structuring method of morphological analysis by Baghdadi, Hani

“…The lack of age-appropriate (paediatric) authorised medicines is a long-standing problem amongst regulatory authorities, patients, parents and prescribers. …”
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Anti-diabetic and pharmacological activities, of phytoestrogens by Roostaei, Davoud, Rezazadeh, S., Sharafi, S., White, Kenneth

“…Incubation of cells (104/ml, in 24 well plate at 37 °C in 5% CO2 / air) with three phytoestrogens at concentration of 10-4 M to 10-9M in two studies mood, short term treatment (one hour) and long term treatment (24 hours) revealed, daidzein stimulates uptake of glucose, with a greater effect after a short treatment of one hour compared with treatment 24 hours. …”
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Nicotinamide Nucleotide Transhydrogenase as a novel treatment target in adrenocortical carcinoma by Chortis, Vasileios, Taylor, Angela E., Doig, Craig L., Walsh, Mark D., Meimaridou, Eirini, Jenkinson, Carl, Rodriguez-Blanco, Giovanny, Ronchi, Cristina L., Jafri, Alisha, Metherell, Louise A., Hebenstreit, Daniel, Dunn, Warwick B., Arlt, Wiebke, Foster, Paul A.

“…This study provides preclinical evidence of the therapeutic merit of antioxidant targeting in ACC as well as illuminating the long-term adaptive response of cells to oxidative stress.…”
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Effects of a protein-rich, low-glycaemic meal replacement on changes in dietary intake and body weight following a weight-management intervention—the ACOORH trial by Röhling, Martin, Stensitzky, Andrea, Oliveira, Camila L. P., Beck, Andrea, Braumann, Klaus-Michael, Halle, Martin, Führer-Sakel, Dagmar, Kempf, Kerstin, McCarthy, H. David, Predel, Hans-Georg, Schenkenberger, Isabelle, Toplak, Hermann, Berg, Aloys

“…The results indicate that a protein-rich dietary strategy with a meal replacement can improve long-term nutritional intake, and was associated with weight loss.…”
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MODELLING OF CO-AXIAL AND TRI-AXIAL MILLIFLUIDIC DEVICES FOR CO-EXTRUSION OF SEMI-SOLID SOLIDS by Abdo Ali Al-Sharai, Abdo Ali Al-Sharai, Chin Fhong Soon, Chin Fhong Soon, Chan Hwang See, Chan Hwang See, See Khee Yee, See Khee Yee, Kian Sek Tee, Kian Sek Tee, Mohammed Abdul Wahab, Mohammed Abdul Wahab

“…The tri-axial milli-fluidics is 46 mm long and 11.31 mm wide, while, the coaxial milli-fluidic is 64.73 mm long and 9.2 mm wide. …”
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MODELLING OF CO-AXIAL AND TRI-AXIAL MILLIFLUIDIC DEVICES FOR CO-EXTRUSION OF SEMI-SOLID SOLIDS by Abdo Ali Al-Sharai, Abdo Ali Al-Sharai, Chin Fhong Soon, Chin Fhong Soon, Chan Hwang See, Chan Hwang See, See Khee Yee, See Khee Yee, Kian Sek Tee, Kian Sek Tee, Mohammed Abdul Wahab, Mohammed Abdul Wahab

“…The tri-axial milli-fluidics is 46 mm long and 11.31 mm wide, while, the coaxial milli-fluidic is 64.73 mm long and 9.2 mm wide. …”
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Controversy surrounding the grand qadi of the Sudan, 1899 - 1956: a historical analysis by Abdul Hamid, Besah, Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan

“…But the British drive to de-Egyptianise the Sudan administration, and the steady rise of Sudanese nationalism led the British government, after a long acrimonious debate, to appoint a Sudanese to be the Grand Qāḍī. …”
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A programmable dirham coin based Hajj saving electronic device by Wan Nordin, Mimi Aminah, Aibinu, Abiodun Musa, Arai, Saima

“…Hajj, one of the five pillars of religion of Islam requires long-term saving. As most of the Muslim majority countries are developing countries and also facing financial instabilities, savings tend to loose value due to depreciation of the national currencies, political and economic conditions of the countries. …”
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Phonetic accompaniment and its semantic reflections on the Holy Qur’an: A computational phonological study by Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb

“…The research also tries to highlight this relationship through a systematic analysis of the Arabic short-and long- movements, and how to determine the extent of time via computer, then monitoring the phonological effects that lead to an increase/decrease of this range, then devise dimensions results of these movements. …”
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Real exchange rates and the J-Curve : evidence from Malaysia by Yusoff, Mohammed

“…The results suggest that the bilateral trade balance, real exchange rate, domestic and foreign incomes are cointegrated. In the long-run, Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance is found to be responsive to the changes of bilateral exchange rates in the cases of the USA and Singapore but irresponsive for Japan. …”
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Increasing the hiding capacity of low-bit encoding audio steganography using a novel embedding technique by Olanweraju, Rashidah Funke, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Abdul Rahman @ Suliman, Husna

“…It was shown that length of the embedded message (secret message) does not affect the stego signal audibility as long as it does not exceed the length of the original signal.…”
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Interaction of two pulses in defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation by Hassan, Torla, Tadjimuratov, Sadulla, Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza, Regaa, Nassima, Umarov, Bakhram A.

“…By exact solution of the direct scattering problem associated with the defocusing NLSE, we have obtained the expressions for long time behavior of the solution. Obtained results interpreted as a nonlinear interference of two pulses.…”
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Acquisition of Australian English vocabulary via newspapers by Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen

“…The data was collected from three newspapers during a week long period. …”
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Experimental analysis of human lumbar vertebrae during prolonged distance driving by Amir, Muhammad Azrai, Toha, Siti Fauziah, Aris, Ishak, Md. Yusof, Hazlina

“…Back pain is commonly associated with a heavy driving or a person driving for a very long period. Inexpensive vehicles have a low system of absorbers such that the person behind the wheel and the passenger will experience pain in their back. …”
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Pretreatment of sludge palm oil by ultrasonic energy for biodiesel production by Hayyan, Adeeb, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Mirghani, Mohamed Elwathig Saeed, Kabbashi, Nassereldeen Ahmed

“…It is reasonable to indicate that the pretreatment of SPO by applying ultrasonic energy is related to long sonication time. The results showed that the FFA content of SPO reduced from 24.5% to less than 3 % using molar ratio 10:1, reaction temperature 50o C and 2% wt /wt sulfuric acid to SPO in 300 minutes sonication time.…”
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