The counselling profession has an affirmative stance towards LGBT clients. It is contradicting to the religious beliefs upheld by majority counsellors in the Muslim society. The difference between the stance of the counselling profession and religious beliefs create value conflicts among Muslim counsellors from the mainstream group. A grounded theo

Uang panai is the core requirement in a marriage in South Sulawesi. It is commonly used to organize a wedding ceremony. The objective of this paper is to examine the attitudes and perceptions of South Sulawesi youth towards uang panai and its impacts on them. For this study, a self-administered survey questionnaire was distributed to 154 South Sula

Mainly there were two purposes of this study. One was to examine the extent of Facebook use in distance learning, constituted meaningful and interpretable dimensions of the affective learning construct, and to test the adequacy of the construct in terms of its reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and measurement invariance to th

Jacalin is the major protein contained in the crude extract of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) seed that specifically recognizes and binds reversibly to galactose. Conventionally, purification of jacalin is carried out using the tedious and costly chromatographic techniques. In this study, extraction of jacalin from jackfruit seed crude extrac

Purpose – The Islamic finance and Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Industries have grown significantly in recent times with growth rates exceeding the conventional markets. Both industries arguably share similarities in terms of their objectives. Following this, there are ongoing contentions that Islamic finance instruments simply replicate c

The COVID-19 pandemic has called for actions to “flatten” both the health and economic curves. In financial terms, this entails efforts to recover the economy from a downturn or recession, usually through fiscal or monetary stimulus. To fund this stimulus, governments typically resort to issuing bonds or sukuk in the capital market. This paper

Data incompleteness becomes a frequent phenomenon in a large number of contemporary database applications such as web autonomous databases, big data, and crowd-sourced databases. Processing skyline queries over incomplete databases impose a number of challenges that negatively influence processing the skyline queries. Most importantly, the skylines

Paying zakat is the implementation of Islamic teachings and obligations for Muslims. Zakat institutions have a strategic role in planning, implementing, and coordinating activities in collecting, distributing and utilizing zakat for the poor and those who are entitled to receive them. In Indonesia, the special role performed by zakat institutions a

This world has been witnessing a catastrophic event since the dawn of the year 2020, called COVID 19. This deadly virus not only spread disease throughout the world, but also ignite an extreme level of stress to the human kind. Pharmacists across the globe has been immensely pressurizing to find the best solution with a very brief time. Not only th

Western dietary habits, coupled with a sedentary lifestyle, are potential contributors to the prevalence and rapid increase in the incidence of obesity in Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to investigate the association between students’ weight status and their eating behaviors and practices. Another aim was to assess students’ awareness of the he