Respiratory diseases are among the highest ranked diseases with the elderly and children the most vulnerable to air pollution in Malaysia. Land transportation contributes most to air pollution in Malaysia. To address this, the study focuses on assessing households’ knowledge, attitude and behaviour and their welfare changes for improved air quali

The study is intended to evaluate the comfort level of learning environment in three naturally ventilated colonial schools in Malaysia through the voice of students aged between 13 and 17. This study focuses on the influence of the colonial school classrooms physical environment towards the students’ comfort and behaviour. The research has two ob

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The idea of revisiting currency and the gold dinar from an Islamic standpoint is an interesting topic of discussion in the context of the current monetary system. This chapter examines the historical aspects and supremacy of a gold currency and the weakness of fiat money using a maslahah-mafsadah approach. It considers some possible alternative for

Purpose – This paper aims to explore people’s beliefs towards Islamic advertising. Design/methodology/approach – Being exploratory in nature, this paper applies qualitative method of research by adapting thought elicitation technique of data collection. This method rests in the projective techniques of data collection and is also known as “

The aim of this review is to evaluate and report the current potential and future scope of nanoemulgel formulation for becoming an effective delivery system for poorly water soluble drugs. In this review, we have summarized and discussed the outcome of different studies on permeability, pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and safety profile of the dru

The relevance of critical information infrastructure is crucial to every nation. The National Critical Information Infrastructure (NCII) of Nigeria consists of critical national resources requiring the protection of the law, and the national security services. Any attack on the information resources of a nation would definitely damage the wider nat

This study investigates how gender inequality in higher education is produced by the attitudes of parents in rural Bangladesh. To this end we examine (i) parental traditional gender role attitude, (ii) parental attitude toward girls’ capability and (iii) parental gender biased investment attitude as three types of parental attitudes based on the

Image-Guided Surgery (IGS) uses computer tech-nology with graphical display for pre-surgical planning and for guiding or performing surgical intervention. Medical navigation system in IGS can provide two functionalities; visualization and guidance of the surgical tool’s motion. Tool tracking in visualization is very important for accuracy and pre

Formulae for the Stiffness and Damping derivatives are obtained in a closed form in the present context with the assumptions that the gas is non-viscous and perfect, the motion is quasi-steady and quasi-axisymmetric, and the nose semi angle of the cone is such that the Mach number M2 behind the shock 2 M < 2.5 . Results are presented for cone f