As one might be aware, the articles in the previous Issue were all country-specific which allowed the reader to gain deeper insights into the religious/civilisational issues that took place in the respective geo-political confines. Partly based on the same principle, we selected four main articles and one Viewpoint to form the contents of the curre

A composite pavement known as semi rigid wearing course is made by incorporating high workability fluid grout into a high porosity of porous asphalt skeleton. This fluid grout is particularly designed to have the consistency workability of water with high early and 28 – day strength. It is critical to maintain its high fluidity so it can flow thr

This issue blends the ideas and thoughts of a group of authors with diverse interests and specialisations presented in five articles, one Viewpoint and one Book Review. Each material relates directly or indirectly to the two vocations of the Journal namely 'religion' and 'civilisation'.

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the factors that influence small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) intentions to use the investment account platform (IAP) based on technology acceptance model (TAM). The central hypothesis for this chapter was that SMEs’ intentions to use IAP were a result of perceived usefulness and perceived ease

The development of the halal food industry today is based on the Halalan Tayyiban food quality management (HTFQM) framework. The HTFQM framework is universally adopted based on the product’s superior quality in hygiene, safety and purity. The external characteristics of the product are more emphasized than its internal characteristics. This is a

In a cross-border marriage (CBM), failure of the Muslim parties to register their CBM will have direct impact to their future born child. Their action will contravene with Articles 3, 5, 7 and 28 of United Nation Convention on Rights of Child that spell out that parents must do what is the best for their children, protect their rights, legally regi

The tremendous increase in papermaking and cellulose production, both of which are sourced from wood pulp, has resulted in the severe exploitation of trees, thereby leading to environmental problems, including deforestation. Besides, the reduction of paper usage is not on the horizon. Thus, when it comes to the environmental issue, the extraction o

Introduction—Endothelial cells cover the surface of the capillary wall and literature review has cemented its angiogenic roles in wound healing and tissue regeneration. However, the angiogenic in vitro models available are inadequate to understand the endothelial differentiation process. Methods—A construct was made using human amniotic membran

Postoperative residual astigmatism is one of the unsatisfying visual outcomes of phacoemulsification resulting from surgically induced astigmatism (SIA). Various SIA calculators have been introduced to assist surgeons in calculating SIA for toric intraocular lens (IOL) determination. The aim of this study was to compare SIA values calculated using

This paper aims to address the influence of perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU) on the intention (INT) to use crowdfunding platforms among small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). Data were collected from 163 SMEs in Selangor, Malaysia, using a purposive sampling approach. The hypotheses were tested by applying structural equation