It seems that the contemporary world is suffering from an acute intellectual crisis and lack of clear perception of science and scientific thinking. This is visible everywhere in political, economic, technological, social and educational domains of life. Since the beginning of the third millennium, we have been witnessing protests, unrest, unrestri

This study aims to review a number of studies on stock market returns and macroeconomic variables. The reviewed literature are categorised into three groups: literature related to developed countries, literature related to developing countries, and literature related to group countries. Moreover, the various empirical studies reviewed show mixed re

Issue on ‘welfare of the child’ has been highlighted in many international conventions, charters and others. Thus, shared parenting has also been agreed to be the best method in protecting welfare of the child. Whereas, in Islamic law, though there is no specific provision on shared parenting, it is well understood that both parents should have

Purpose – This paper aims to measure the level of zakat disbursement efficiency (ZDE) in Brunei Darussalam from the year 2000 to 2012 and identifies the governance factor(s) that influence efficiency. Design/ methodology/ approach - This research conducts a study on all four districts in Brunei Darussalam, which are Brunei Muara, Belait, Tutong a

This paper presents a novel approach, Smartcrowd, utilizing the mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) as a platform to find a solution to manage a large human crowd. The proposed solution caters to big crowd management on important Islamic pilgrimages of Hajj and Umrah in the cities of Makkah and Madinah in Saudi Arabia during a fixed time every year. In re

Article 145(3) of the Federal Constitution and s 376(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code conferred on the attorney general, the public prosecutor, the power, exercisable at his discretion, to institute, conduct or discontinue any proceedings for any offence. The prosecutorial discretion includes the decision on whether to commence prosecution against

The Whistleblower Protection Act 2010, was enacted by the Malaysian Parliament in June 2010 in an attempt to supress corruption and to protect individuals in an organisation who attempts to expose an alleged dishonesty or illegal activity that violates the existing laws, among others. The Act encourages and facilitates the anonymous whistleblowing

Baccaurea angulata is an underutilised tropical fruit of Borneo Island of Malaysia. The effect of solvents was examined on yield, total phenolic (TPC), total flavonoids (TFC), total carotene content (TCC), free radical scavenging activities and lipid peroxidation inhibition activities. The results indicated that the pulp (edible portion) had the hi

Phosphate glasses are novel amorphous biomaterials due to their fully resorbable characteristics, with controllable degradation profiles. In this study, phosphate glasses containing titanium and/or iron were identified to exhibit sufficiently matched thermal properties (glass transition temperature, thermal expansion coefficient and viscosity) whic

Numerical and experimental investigation is carried out to study the laminar heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in an equilateral triangular duct using combined vortex generator and nanofluids. Two different types of nanoparticles "namely Al2O3 and SiO2" suspended in distilled water with two particles concentrations are successful