A phenomenological method of inquiry was used to understand the conflicts experienced by Muslim counsellors in counselling LGBT clients. In-depth interviews were conducted with six Muslim counsellors at Public Institutions of Higher Education (PIHE) in Peninsular Malaysia. Due to lack of knowledge, clinical experiences and training in counselling L

The aim of this study is to discuss the genesis of the phenomenon of Hallyu and the impacts of this phenomenon from various perspectives. The researchers also emphasize on the impact that the Korean Wave exerts on the Muslim youth of Malaysia from an Islamic perspectives. This research applies qualitative methodology, in which the researchers use n

The present study aimed to determine if an SRT program is effective in reducing loneliness, anxiety and depression for older people living in a residential aged care facility in Malaysia. A randomized controlled trial design was used. The primary outcome measures were the UCLA Loneliness Scale, the Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS) and the Malay versio

The counselling profession has an affirmative stance towards LGBT clients. It is contradicting to the religious beliefs upheld by majority counsellors in the Muslim society. The difference between the stance of the counselling profession and religious beliefs create value conflicts among Muslim counsellors from the mainstream group. A grounded theo

Uang panai is the core requirement in a marriage in South Sulawesi. It is commonly used to organize a wedding ceremony. The objective of this paper is to examine the attitudes and perceptions of South Sulawesi youth towards uang panai and its impacts on them. For this study, a self-administered survey questionnaire was distributed to 154 South Sula

Mainly there were two purposes of this study. One was to examine the extent of Facebook use in distance learning, constituted meaningful and interpretable dimensions of the affective learning construct, and to test the adequacy of the construct in terms of its reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and measurement invariance to th

Jacalin is the major protein contained in the crude extract of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) seed that specifically recognizes and binds reversibly to galactose. Conventionally, purification of jacalin is carried out using the tedious and costly chromatographic techniques. In this study, extraction of jacalin from jackfruit seed crude extrac

Purpose – The Islamic finance and Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Industries have grown significantly in recent times with growth rates exceeding the conventional markets. Both industries arguably share similarities in terms of their objectives. Following this, there are ongoing contentions that Islamic finance instruments simply replicate c

The COVID-19 pandemic has called for actions to “flatten” both the health and economic curves. In financial terms, this entails efforts to recover the economy from a downturn or recession, usually through fiscal or monetary stimulus. To fund this stimulus, governments typically resort to issuing bonds or sukuk in the capital market. This paper

Data incompleteness becomes a frequent phenomenon in a large number of contemporary database applications such as web autonomous databases, big data, and crowd-sourced databases. Processing skyline queries over incomplete databases impose a number of challenges that negatively influence processing the skyline queries. Most importantly, the skylines