In his closed-door lecture at the Malaysian Securities Commission, renowned senior German economist Professor Volker Nienhaus highlighted the problems in using the efficiency model as a point of reference to measure the performance of the Islamic financial industry globally. This was due to critics perceiving it to be too capitalist or conventional

more than 31 trillion spams have been sent in 2009. These spam or “junk mails” can involve various kinds of messages such as commercial advertising, pornography, viruses, doubtful product, get rich quick scheme or quasi legal services. In this paper, a direct attention has been paid to the text spam, and in particular, the process of text spam

Background There has been no effective treatment or agent that is available for corneal injury in promoting corneal wound healing. Previous studies on edible bird's nest extract (EBN) had reported the presence of hormone-like substance; avian epidermal growth factor that could stimulate cell division and enhance regeneration. This study aimed t

Qardhul Hasan is a zero-return financing that Al-Quran urges Muslims to make available to those who need it. In addition, Qardhul Hasan is an example of a unique instrument offered by Islamic Financial Institutions (“IFIs”) due to non involvement of interest. The objective of this paper is to study the implementation of Qardhul Hasan concept, a

Electric discharge machining (EDM) is an effective manufacturing technique that enables the production of parts made of hard materials with complicated geometry that are difficult to produce by conventional machining processes. EDM is a process of eroding material by transient action of electric sparks on electrically conductive materials, one bein

Over the last few decades businesses have witness a shift from transaction to a closer relationship management orientation. Marketing scholars have reported a shift of business orientations from products, to sales and finally to marketing. Thus, an extant of literature has reported that marketing orientation was to replace sales orientation. Howeve

يدور هذا البحث حول "قصص الأنبياء" في الأدبين الملايوي والعربي، والمقارنة بينهما، من حيث: أولاً: كيفية تناول "قصص الأنبياء" في كلا الأدبين ومتابعة التطور فيهما. ثانياً: بيان أوجه التشابه

This paper examines from agency perspective how internal audit experience, audit committee attributes, risk management and control systems influence internal audit contribution to strategic management. The study analysed data collected from 117 head of internal audit function in public listed companies on Bursa Malaysia. Internal audit experience,

This study was conducted to investigate the potential of marine actinomycetes isolated from Malaysian waters as producers of biologically active compounds. Streptomyces sp. UKMCC_PT7 was isolated from seawater collected in Pulau Tinggi, Johor. This bacterium was found to produce yellow diffusible pigment when growing on ISP3 medium. Preliminary scr

The global shortage of fossil fuels and environmental concerns to reduce pollution has resuscitated the interest in bioethanol production. Bioethanol is a promising alternative energy source that can be produced from renewable resources through hydrolysis and sugar fermentation processes. Its current production mainly involves fermentation of grain