The Micronesian island of Guam has been an important site for the study of tropical holothuroid taxonomy for almost 200 years. Despite such substantial attention by both expeditions and resident taxonomists, new records are being regularly added to the fauna demonstrating the challenge of documenting the biota of even a small hyper-diverse area. Gu

The family is a very important milieu in a person’s development. It provides not only material and financial support but also the social and emotional support that is imperative to a person’s growth. Bronfenbrenner’s (1993) ecological systems theory placed the family as one of the elements in the microsystem. The microsystem is a very importa

The first objective of this study is to determine the main characteristics of new regionalism. The second objective of this book it to apply those characteristics on the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)to determine whether APEC conforms to new regionalism. The study adopts the New Regionalism Theory (NRT) as the framework of analysis. The d

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This research investigates the mode of decreasing partnership (musharakah mutanaqisah) as proposed by contemporary scholars for application by Islamic banks in financing procurement of assets, as an alternative to financing based on murabahah. The research analyses different issues pertaining to this mode that are relevant to its application in ass

A new method to quantify the eavesdropper’s accessible information on continuous variable quantum key distribution for protocols implementing homodyne and heterodyne detections is introduced.We have derived upper bounds for the eavesdropping collective attacks on general continuous variable quantum key distribution protocols. Our focus is especia

This paper explores the influence of Tawhidic paradigm in the mindset of managers in managing business environment with global perspectives to sustain competitiveness and betterment of the Muslim Ummah. Tawhidic paradigm embraces global perspective from Oneness of God perspective that emphasizes on the sole submission, obedience and compliance to t

Social entrepreneurship has been the key discussed issue for the last few decades. This paper examines relative availability of materials related to social entreprenureship for sustainable wealth creation in order to develop hands-on, professional, ethical, which is promoted by the various organizations around the world. The main objective of this

This paper investigates factors that influence lifelong learning experience at workplace of Thai and Malaysian companies. The informants of this study are human resource (HR) managers of Thai and Malaysian companies. The study used personal interview with Thai and Malaysian HR managers. Informants were asked to provide important factors for lifelon

The study was carried out to evaluate the implementation of the Early Literacy Through English (ELiTE) pilot programme, which aimed at increasing Year One pupils’ literacy in English. It was an intervention programme designed by the Ministry of Education (MoE) to get the pupils ready to learn Science and Mathematics in English. The study focused