Natural products have great importance in various medical applications worldwide. Safety and efficacy issues are vital for insuring public health and long-term success of such products. The existence of potentially toxic metals such as arsenic (As), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) in some natural medicinal products are often reported. Thus

One of the passive cooling strategies is the earth-air pipe heat exchanger (EAPHE). It is the cooling of outdoor air through underground pipes, using the soil as a heat sink to cool the passing air into the building. The EAPHE systems worked well in hot and dry climates. However, in the hot humid climate this passive cooling technology is relativel

The topic of female leadership has yet to be sufficiently and impartially investigated, especially from the Islamic perspective. It seems that Muslim societies do not favour appointing women as leaders of their nations, yet Muslims are in need of authentic patterns of female leadership to be imitated in the 21st century. The current study bridges t

The Constitution of Zanzibar 1984, the Land Tenure Act 1992 and the Land Acquisition Decree 1909 introduces conflicting concepts of ‘acquisition’ and ‘termination’. As there is a law on acquisition and another for termination, the land acquisition officers are faced with difficulties in selecting the right approach, not to mention that the

Shariah compliance is the backbone of Islamic banks. As an institution established within the ambit of Shariah, Islamic banks are expected to ensure that their aims, activities, operations and managements adhere to the Shariah principles and values. Failure to comply with Shariah, will expose Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs) to Shariah non-com

Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL/TAL) assay is the only standard test approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to quantify bacterial endotoxin in injectable drugs and implantable medical devices. At present, horseshoe crabs are the sole source of LAL/TAL. Biomedical companies harvest and bleed horseshoe crabs which lead to ≤30% post bleedi

Using big data in a university is ‘the thing’ today since almost all information today is digitalized. Big data ensures better data processing, analysis and sharing, thus increasing productivity and researchers would have a great time doing their researches. A smart university is a university which uses technologies which could increase the pro

The purpose of this study is to identify the various types of tajweed errors made by readers during Quran recitation, which errors are the most common mistakes, and which are the infrequent ones. This study was carried out on a number of students from a Malaysian government higher education institution. Error analysis was carried out on recordings

Generic formulation of pharmaceutical dosage forms are emerging since the regulation of generic production of out of patent drug was implemented worldwide. Malaysian drug control authority has implemented policies to promote generic production in local pharmaceutical industries to reduce the burden of government expenditure due to importing patente

Knowledge Sharing (KS) has been posited by many researchers to play an important role in organisation life cycles. Hence, the researcher is interested to discover what might be the mediating factors that would lead to KS practices within organisations. However, the existing literature focus on materialism and secularism on the KS notion and have no