Muslim Bengal writes back: A study of Rokeya’s representation of Europe by Hasan, Md. Mahmudul

“…So her representation of Europe was mainly imaginary. In this study, I will discuss Rokeya’s imagined Europe and how she establishes a commonality between women of Muslim Bengal and those from England in order to dispel the widely-held perception that, unlike Muslim women, European women are fully empowered. …”
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Investigating the english language learning styles and learning strategies among IIUM students by Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail, Esa, Zaleha, Ismail, Yusof

“…These instruments have been validated in a number of studies. The study was mainly motivated by concerns about the standards of English among graduates who have been observed to be passive and reticent in the language classrooms. …”
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Understanding and use of food package nutrition label among educated young adults by Hazali, Norazlanshah

“…More than half (53.6%) of the subjects do not use the nutrition label mainly because they do not understand the terms on the label (32.4%). …”
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Variability of plasma methadone concentration in opiate dependents receiving methadone: a personalised approach towards optimizing dose by Mohamad, Nasir, Ismail, Rusli, Mohamed Nazar, Nor Ilyani, Tan, Soo Choon, Sim, Hann Liang, Idrus, Ilya Irinaz, Abu Bakar, Nor Hidayah

“…In Malaysia, addiction has solely been under the charge of “Agensi Anti Dadah Kebangsaan” (AADK), an agency that has mainly adopted a criminal approach to addiction. …”
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Distribution of the population of Tongkat Ali (Eurycoma spp.) in Malaysia based on data taken from herbarium records by Nordin, Mohd Shukor

“…Specimens of Eurycoma longifolia and E. apiculata kept in the herbariums were mainly collected from zone 1, 2 and 3. The climatical descriptions of each zone is presented thus giving some indications of its preferred habitat and the locations where the diversity of the species are at the highest. …”
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Admissibility and jurisdiction before the international criminal court regarding the Boko Haram situation in Nigeria by Quadri, Kafayat Motilewa, Eishan Jan, Mohammad Naqib, Abdul Wahab, Mohd. Iqbal, Ahamat, Haniff

“…Boko Haram, a terrorist group based mainly in Nigeria started its first attack in 2004, and it has since been responsible for thousands of deaths of both Muslims and Christians in the country. …”
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Public and private enforcement strategies in regulating market misconduct and continuous disclosure- an overview of issues and challenges in Malaysia by Mohd. Sulaiman, Aiman @ Nariman

“…Malaysia’s reputation as a reputable and reliable capital market suffers mainly from (perception of) lack of effective enforcement. …”
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The social significance of Mr. Nazeer Khan’s architecture by Spahic, Omer

“…The content of this study is based, mainly, on the author’s lengthy interviews with Mr. …”
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In silico study of the ErbB4 interactions with curcumin analogs by Azman, Putri Arsyadian, Abd Halim, Khairul Bariyyah

“…Molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation studies showed that curcumin could be embedded into the hydrophobic pocket of ErbB4 and form stable hydrogen bonding interactions mainly with residue LYS-59. In conclusion, we have explored the binding mechanism of curcumin binding to ErbB4. …”
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Jurisdiction of courts over Islamic banking in Nigeria and Malaysia by Bello, Shafi‘i Abdul Azeez, Mohd Yasin, Norhashimah

“…In Nigeria, Islamic banking and finance (IBF) has proved to be the most developed system of profit and loss sharing banking based on non‐interest principles mainly due to its international recognition. On the other hand, Malaysia is one of the few exceptional jurisdictions where Islamic banking cases have been published in various law reports such as the Malayan Law Journal and the Current Law Journal. …”
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Reproductive tract infection and treatment seeking behaviour of the married women of reproductive age in a slum of Dhaka City by Sarkar, Mekhala, Akter, Seikh Farid Uddin, Rahman, Md Zillur

“…Conclusion: Although a considerable number of the married women of reproductive age living in the slum suffered from various types of RTIs, only one fourth of them received any sort of treatment, and that also mainly from the traditional healers. Bangladesh being a signatory to the MDG, maternal health is a priority area. …”
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The housing provision system in Malaysia by Shuid, Syafiee

“…To address housing need for growing middle income group and changing people lifestyle another 1 million of affordable housing units are planned to be built in the next 5 years until 2020 mainly through the state affordable housing programs. …”
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Depression, anxiety and stress with possible sources of stressors among undergraduate medical students in Malaysia by Al-Ani, Ali Sabri Radeef, Faisal, Ghasak Ghazi

“…Regarding the source of stressors, the top ten stressors decided by the students were mainly academic and personal factors. Emotional disturbances in the form of depression, anxiety and stress are existing in medical students which require early intervention. …”
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Formulation development and systematic optimization of production fish gelatine nanoparticles as new resource for drug delivery by Subara, Deni, Jaswir, Irwandi, Noorbatcha, Ibrahim Ali, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid

“…Mostly the commercial gelatines are derived from mammalian sources, mainly porcine and bovine. Recently, fish gelatine has provided alternative resources for religious, safety and economic reason. …”
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Does foreign presence foster Islamic banks’ performance? Empirical evidence from Malaysia by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…Furthermore, studies on Islamic bank performance have focused on theoretical issues and the empirical works have relied mainly on the analysis of descriptive statistics rather than rigorous statistical estimation. …”
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Reactions of medical students to the dissecting room by Myint, Yi Yi, Tun, Ye

“…However, the majority rated anatomy room stress from 0 (no stress) to 2 (moderate stress) on a scale from 0 to 4. The symptoms were mainly attributed to the smell of formalin. With respect to learning methods, more than 70% students stated that they used practical classes in gross anatomy and histology as a learning method.…”
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Natural speaker-independent Arabic speech recognition system based on Hidden Markov Models using Sphinx tools by Abushariah, Mohammad A. M., Ainon, Raja N., Zainuddin, Roziati, Elshafei, Moustafa, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…The developed Arabic AS R mainly used the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Sphinx tools together with the Cambridge HTK tools. …”
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Cross border marriage (CBM): a comparative study on the profiles and factors of CBM among Malays in Malaysia by Md Hashim, Noraini

“…This polemic issue has occurred among the Malays (mainly among the followers of Shafie Mazhab) since a long time ago and still continues. …”
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Sewage sludge composting simulation as carbon/nitrogen concentration change by Kabbashi, Nassereldeen Ahmed

“…Difficulty in modeling composting processes is attributed mainly to the unpredicted change in process rate caused by change in activation energy value (E). …”
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Perceptions of the 7p marketing mix of Islamic banks in Indonesia: what do twitter users say about it? by Cahyono, Eko Fajar, Rani, Lina Nugraha, Kassim, Salina

“…Findings: Results indicate that the ‘people’ factor gained the most responses from social media users, who were mainly customers of the Islamic banks, obtaining both positive and negative sentiments. …”
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