INTRODUCTION: Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is included in the ten leading cancers worldwide, accounting for an estimated more than 63 thousand new cases and over 19 thousands deaths per year. The study on survival rate and prognostic factors may be useful in building a better intervention program as well as improving survival rate. OBJECTIVES: Th

This paper investigates the institution of neutrality from the perspective of Siyar, “Islamic International Law.” It analyses relevant views of contemporary Muslim scholars, particularly with reference to the division between the “abodes of Islam” (dar al-islam) and the “abode of disbelief”(dar al-kufr), and their discussion on a third

المستخلص تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى بحث دواعي تأليف كتاب الرسالة للإمام محمد بن إدريس الشافعي. وقد وضعت الباحثة مجموعة فرضيات للبحث منها أن تأليف الرسالة كان بسبب طلب عبد الرحمن بن مهدي ومنها والرد �

Malaysian Takaful industry is progressively taking innovative steps to improvise their marketing efforts via the introduction of Wakala system (agency system). Agents as one of the distribution channel for the industry play a prominent role in educating the society about the objectives and concept of Takaful. This effort may increase the awareness

Letter of credit (LC) is a payment mechanism in international trade which is claimed to provide utmost security to the contracting parties compared to other methods of payment. The security provided by this device however does not extend to fraud risk. The nature of LC transactions and rampant development in technology has opened a pathway for frau

A Mondor’s disease is a rare, benign and self-limiting condition. It is due to thrombophlebitis of the superficial veins of the breast and chest wall. It usually occurs in middle-aged women who present with a palpable cordlike structure, often painful in the acute phase. The aetiology is unknown, and may be related to trauma, surgery, infection o

This study investigated the relationship of affective and cognitive based trust among peers as a social characteristic of job design, with two work-related variables; internal work motivation as an attitudinal outcome of job design; and job performance as a behavioural outcome of job design. The participants were selected by employing systematic ra

Computed Tomography Colonography (CTC), also referred to as virtual colonoscopy is a new diagnostic technique that uses special software to simulate conventional endoscopy. CTC uses data from Computed Tomography (CT) to generate two- and fly-through endoluminal three-dimensional images of the colon and rectum. CTC is an alternative to colonoscopy f

Mammography offers the best chance of detecting early breast cancer. Subsidised mammography programmes are available in our country in the absence of national level population screening. The IIUM Breast Centre is an accredited mammogram provider under the College of Radiology Subsidised Mammography Programme (CMP) from 2004. Screening for breast ca

The automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) is one of the successful screening tools used in Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) but often hindered by unacceptably long test times. This present study has developed and used a new non linear Maximum Length Sequence (MLS) reconstruction algorithm which aims to account for the non linearity