Kingdom of Bahrain is considered one of the leading countries in the Middle East where Islamic banking is growing enormously adopting various legal changes necessary to provide a level playing field to the Islamic banking industry. In order to pave the road to smooth running of the industry, innovative and legislative arrangements are introduced fr

The Islamization of the Malaysian media industry has created a debate on whether Islam has been truly adopted for its religious significance or simply manipulated for commercial gains. While Islamic content is abundant, it seems to grow in size but not in value. This paper offers a political-economic look into this problem by 1) contextualizing the

With the introduction of Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs in 2015, the notion of sustainability and impactful services give an inspiration to the dual financial services industries in Malaysia. The approaches that are taken by both of Islamic financial services industry (IFSI) and its counterpart conventional financial services industry (CFSI)

This study is about examining and understanding the relationship between media and citizenship through the experiences the Malaysian vloggers. The theoretical ideas of Citizen’s Media is used to delineate and make sense of this relationship. The areas of focus are: (1) characteristics of the vloggers (2) the types of vlog, and (3) representation

Acinetobacter baumannii is rapidly emerging as a multidrug-resistant pathogen responsible for nosocomial infections including pneumonia, bacteremia, wound infections, urinary tract infections, and meningitis. Metabolomics provides a powerful tool to gain a system-wide snapshot of cellular biochemical networks under defined conditions and has been i

In an increasingly globalised world, agricultural trade and food security inevitably goes hand in hand. On paper, the idea of free agricultural trade continues to be a contentious one as opinions remain divided whether it can lead to greater access and variability of food to a larger number of people or whether it ends up exacerbating hunger and en

The Islamic concept of halalan-toyyiban encompasses medicines and pharmaceuticals. Halal pharmaceuticals mean the products are free from any unlawful (haram) constituents while in another aspect, toyyib pharmaceuticals particularly concern on the products’ wholesomeness, quality and safety. Polymyxins, an ‘old’ class antibiotic have been empl

A closer look on scientific research and professional practice concerning on the planning and management of historic towns significantly reveals the absence of integrated approaches for urban morphological analysis as a diagnostic tool to interpret the evolutionary process of its physical form. Such circumstances have influenced the transformation

The complexity of bioprocess data generated from the manufacture of recombinant monoclonal antibodies cell line sparks the chemometrics study of the datasets. The ultimate goal is to form a link between the data and its underlying biological patterns. A concatenated protocol, specifically discrete wavelet transform and multiway principal component

Introduction: Lacking of knowledge regarding infants’ care especially the importance of polyamines in human milk may lead to high choice in infant formula milk which lead to reducing of breastfeeding rate. A reduction in breastfeeding practice among mothers may one of the factors that lead to high mortality rate in infants. This worrying trend le