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ICRIIM is an International Class Joint Conference held in order to advance relation between University of Darussalam (UNIDA) Gontor and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) which had been established since 2015 especially between Faculty of Ushuluddin UNIDA Gontor (Fakultas Ushuluddin UNIDA Gontor) and Department Usul al-Din and Compara

When it comes to issues affecting life, mental health with the threat of increasing suicidal tendencies is becoming prevalent worldwide.This was the message that was zeroed in by the organisers of the World Suicide Prevention Day when they launched the “40 seconds of action” campaign “to raise awareness of the scale of suicide around the worl

QATAR University held its Annual Research Forum and Exhibition in Doha last week. It was aimed at sharing with the larger community what has been going on in the campus covering live research demonstrations, poster presentations, sharing of graduate experiences as well as international seminars and panel discussions. The two-day event themed Resear

WE should have been jubilantly welcoming a “2020 Malaysia” based on Wawasan 2020 that was launched in 1991. It was a powerful rallying point in the drive to push Malaysia out of the middle-income trap and to be a “developed” country. But the timeline has now been extended to 2030 and another strategy adopted – the “Shared Prosperity Vis

Given a paucity of research and apparent lack of coherence in information system research, it seems that there is no consensus in the information system field as to how security fits into the information system acceptance, usage, success, utilization, and/or performance impact (effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction). This study designed as a

In recent years, the use of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (BMSC) implantation has provided an alternative treatment for osteoarthritis. The objective of this study is to determine whether or not an intraarticular injection of a single dose of autologous chondrogenic induced BMSC could retard the progressive destruction of cartilage in a surgica

In this paper, we have used the differential evolution to optimize the design of a Micro Air Launch Vehicle and its launch trajectory. Since trajectory design of a launch vehicle requires prior knowledge of the masses and propulsion performance parameters of the Micro Air Launch Vehicle, whereas the vehicle design requires prior knowledge of the re