the issues of privacy and security in online social networking sites have been the dual themes of utmost concern amongst many communities and IIUM community in particular. This article highlights the importance of online social networking sites such as: Face book, Google+, and Twitter and the issues of privacy and security in online interactions. T

Objectives: To study the effect of pethidine on the intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) pattern and to assess the neonatal outcome with regards to the interval between pethidine administration to delivery of the fetus. Materials: 73 healthy women intrapartum from labour suite hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan, Kuantan, Malaysia. Methods: This is a prospe

Objective: To investigate whether premenopausal hysterectomy has an effect on bone mass in women in their fifties . Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 25 healthy women who had premenopausal hysterectomy before the age of 45 and at least 2 years before the study with 40 healthy natural postmenopausal women 45–60 years old. Evalua

Objectives: To study the effect of pethidine on the intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) pattern and to assess the neonatal outcome with regards to the interval between pethidine administration to delivery of the fetus. Materials: 73 healthy women intrapartum from labour suite hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan, Kuantan, Malaysia Methods: This is a prospec

Good management is very essential for any business organization. Management is a difficult science as it deals with the planning and organizations of the various factors of production including the human behaviors. It is also not easy to set up and institutionalized good management system in the big organizations. The purpose of this paper is to de

This paper is motivated by the present facts, that women play significant and extensive roles that are not confined to their traditional household duties. This is partly due to increasing financial demands as the definition of families’ essential needs has expanded. The rising cost of living has made surviving and building a family on a single in

Industrial psychologists have continuously devised theories and executives and managers have tirelessly formulated various programmes related to employee motivation. A set of committed, motivated employees is an asset for any organisation – public or private. A well-known fact is that an organisation can emulate almost anything of another organis

The development of good character in Islam is mostly a process of dealing with one’s emotions. It helps to build and support good emotions like mercy, love, generosity and courage and to fight and suppress negative emotions such as jealousy, anger, selfishness and cowardice. Character building would therefore, have much to do with patience and pe

About 80 percent of the world's Muslim populations are non-native speakers of ‎Arabic language. ‎Since ‎it ‎is ‎‎obligatory for all Muslims to recite the Qur'an in ‎Arabic ‎during regular prayers, ‎an ‎‎extraordinary ‎‎social phenomenon has taken ‎place ‎in some parts of the ‎Muslim ‎world: in schools, ‎c

Effectiveness of policies is very much dependent upon the quality of the measures used to guide the formulation of those policies. Thus, methodological and practical issues surrounding poverty and inequality indices are of paramount importance in poverty alleviation efforts. This paper attempts to propose a Zakat Effectiveness Index (ZEIN) to addre