Background and Objective: Data on whether periodontal therapy affects serum CRP levels are inconclusive. The aim of this study was to determine if nonsurgical periodontal therapy has any effect on CRP and serum lipid levels in patients with advanced periodontitis. Material and Methods: Thirty-six systemically healthy patients, ‡ 40 years of age a

This study sought to explore Indonesian secondary school EFL teachers’ understanding of the School Based Curriculum Development policy, and examine their practices in developing school-based EFL syllabus. Seven secondary school EFL teachers participated in this study. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews and were analysed using T

Although the concept of spirituality in the workplace has received enormous attention from contemporary researchers, very little or not sufficient research has been attempted from the religious perspective. This conceptual paper attempts to enrich the understanding of the spirituality in the workplace phenomenon from an Islamic Management perspecti

Bangladesh faces a daunting challenge to feed its 150 million people of whom at least half of them are living in below food-based poverty-level and another one quarter of them live in extreme poverty. The economy of the country is mostly dependent on agriculture which directly or indirectly has to subsist a huge number of its population, keeping th

A two degree of freedom (DOF) light tracking system is presented in this paper. It uses a web camera as a vision sensor, PC sound cards as output signal controllers, and two DC motors as a pan-tilt driver mechanism. The sound card is expected to produce a higher output signal in a PWM form to drive the motors. The motors will react accordingly when

Reformation of Islamic thought has been the major objective of the contemporary Muslim scholarship. It aims at reviving fundamentals of Islamic thought and renewing the basic concepts of the Islamic worldview. Although the major problem of the Ummah has defined as “epistemological”, i.e., related to knowledge and intellectual stagnation, howeve

For a meaningful life human needs three types of knowledge: 1. Knowledge of the metaphysical world to answer the fundamental questions and form the worldview, to give meaning to life, to build philosophy / framework for his acts. 2. Knowledge of the physical world: to interpret the natural events correctly, to deal with things proper (relating betw

Implications of the Worldview on Thought and Life Implications of the word view on thought (at individual level) It gives meaning and purpose to our life. Provides the systematic answers to the ultimate / cosmic questions; Interprets the being as whole and identifies between means and goals; Gives meaning to human life and establishes ethical commi

Background: As the phenomenon of ‘Globalization’ is increasingly becoming dominant, we need to learn how to live with others. In this context, the holy Qur`an reminds the entire mankind about the unity of their origin, either as originated from clay (Qur`an, 23:12, 32:7, 37:11) or from a single person (Adam) (Qur`an, 4:1) or from a single pare

Study on the chemical constituents of the dichloromethane (DCM) crude extract of Platymitra siamensis Craib has led to the isolation of four oxoaporphine alkaloids. The compounds were identified as liriodenine (1), Omethylmoschatoline (2), lysicamine (3) and cepharadione-A (4) which were isolated first time from this species. The structures of the