Asset ownership is an important aspect of ṣukūk structuring and issuance. However, a recurring and contentious issue regarding the underlying ṣukūk asset is the actual nature of its ownership and the corresponding legal implications for ṣukūk holders and other parties in the ṣukūk transaction. Many ṣukūk are based solely on beneficia

Metalloproteases represent the largest fraction of the global enzyme market. For biotechnological purposes 31 the accumulation of product (i.e. productivity) provides the best measure of assessing enzyme performance 32 because it takes into account the interplay between activity, stability, activation and inhibition. Studies 33 assessing the produc

The recent ground breaking reforms in the legal and regulatory framework for Islamic banking and finance in Malaysia usher in a new phase in the modern history of this hitherto niche market. As part of these latest reforms, a major paradigm shift in the process of dispute resolution is the introduction of the financial ombudsman scheme (FOS) that t

This paper demonstrates a novel approach in which the digital image correlation technique is used as a nondestructive testing tool for the inspection of welded joints. In this approach, the joint is loaded with the maximum load that it is expected to encounter during actual operation (i.e., the design load) and two images are recorded, one before a

A field study on dust storm effect on Microwave links in arid area covering a wide range of radio frequency was conducted for seven months in Khartoum, Sudan. The study involves computerized monitoring of Transmitted and Received signal levels of (TRSL) of six Microwave links operating at Ku (14GHz) and Ka (21GHz) bands as well as an automatic weat

Conservation in Civil Engineering Construction is a familiar phenomenon, so most of the Civil Engineers prefer to reduce the unnecessary cost whenever possible without affecting the system. To achieve this, value engineering is the most economical and penetrating tool. Value engineering is a philosophy implemented by the use of a specific set of te

Today, when people think of the environmental impacts of ELTs (end-of-life tyres), they mostly focus on the management of tyres at the end of their useful lives. Globally, an estimated one billion tyres reach the end of their useful lives every year. It is observed from literature that about 4 billion ELTs are currently in landfills and stockpiles

It is generally agreed that many factors contribute to one’s reading comprehension and there is consensus that vocabulary size one of the main factors. This study explores the relationship between second language learners’ vocabulary size and their reading comprehension scores. 130 Malay pre-university students of a public university participat

Clinching is one of the important new joining techniques, in which two plate metal parts are locally plastically deformed by mechanical interlock. Clinching is a mechanical joining method by using simple tools that consist of a punch, a die, and a blank-holder. The shapes of these tools are the most important parameters that control the final geome

This study aims to propose a renewed concept of Holistic Integrated Curriculum (HIC) which will be helpful to avoid superficial and artificial integration of the curriculum. It will define the true concept of integrated curriculum from a holistic worldview, then to elucidate its theoretical framework and finally to discuss some implications of this