The world has been experiencing increasingly frequent financial crises. Several reasons have been attributed to the causes of these crises. Most of them are claimed to be technical in nature such as the use of financial engineering, absence of sophisticated, reliable an innovative hedging and risk management instruments. Recently, especially after

History indicates that before the coming of modern globalization, the Muslims had their own version of globalization. During the Muslim era of globalization which coincides with the Golden Age of the Muslims, the West benefited immensely from the scholastic works produced by Muslim scientists and scholars. Modern globalization which started during

The modern state’s concept as an institution with specific boundaries has been recently introduced in the Middle East region. As a result, without referring to modern regional history and development, there will be no appropriate explanation of the nature and features of present countries in the Middle East, starting with transforming the Islamic

The Islamic world has witnessed the emergence of great number of Muslim scholars that come and go with the passing of time. The names of those who made positive contributions are mentioned till to these days. The poet-philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal is one of those great scholars who have left a legacy behind to be followed by other scholars part

In the history of Islam, the fall of Baghdad in 1258 indicates the decline of the Islamic empires. The fall of the empires also marked the fall of the Islamic civilization and intellectualism. As the Islamic empires fell one after another, starting with Baghdad, this left the Muslims in a pathetic condition, hardly able to regain the prestigious po

This Malaysian Standard specifies relative movement between articulating components, the pattern of the applied force, speed and duration of testing, sample configuration and test environment to be used for the wear testing of total knee-joint prostheses in wear-testing machines having axial load control, flexion/extension angular motion control, A

ISO 14243-2:2009 specifies a method of assessment of wear of the tibial component of total knee-joint prostheses using the gravimetric technique for components tested in accordance with ISO 14243-1.

The Pre-congress workshop on simulator for 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting, Malaysian Society of Anesthesiologists/ College of Anesthesiologists was successfully organized at the Advance Clinical Skill Laboratory, IIUM, Indera Mahkota Campus, Pahang. The workshop registration was opened to all doctors and paramedics from all over Malaysia. We receiv

Introduction: Our objectives are to identify the incidence of hypophosphatemia and the associated risk factors. We also want to establish intravenous replacement therapy that is effective for ICU patients. Methods: A prospective observational study assessing adults admitted to ICU in between March and May 2009. All patients without baseline phospha

The practice of pharmacy differs in different countries. Similarly pharmacy education differs in addressing the needs of the practice. In some countries there is a clear separation of dispensing and prescribing between pharmacists and the physician, in others this separation is not that clear cut. In certain countries pharmacists are not allowed at