The question of women‘s rights in Islam generates huge interest among Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Scholars of feminism are sharply divided on the question of women‘s status in Islam. One group associates Islam with misogyny and gender oppression, while the other celebrates the religion as a liberatory force for women. Remarkably, despite a s

This paper discusses the practice of short selling and its application in Islamic capital markets. Short selling has always been a subject of debate and criticism not only in the sphere of Islamic finance but also the conventional. Though short selling may serve as a tool for providing liquidity and better price discovery to the traders, it is argu

This paper explores diversity of open space as one of the salient parameters for good public place making in the built environment. Two open spaces in colonial towns of Taiping and Georgetown were selected as study sites. This paper is exploratory in nature, which applied descriptive and affective analysis on the users' experiences of the two o

This research studies diversity as a parameter in the built environment in two types of open spaces in colonial towns of Taiping and Georgetown. The richness of natural landscape elements, scales of spaces, distribution of activity patterns, and variety of visual stimulants in the open spaces were among the dimensions of diversity explored in this

The brain is the greatest gift from God. It has marveled thousands of brain experts worldwide but it has to be noted that the brain needs proper stimulation in order for it to perform to its maximum capacity. IQMA Training Sdn Bhd was established with this aim in mind, that is, to enhance human development through training to give the brain maximum

Data compression is very necessary in business data processing, because of the cost savings that it offers and the large volume of data manipulated in many business applications. It is a method or system for transmitting a digital image (i.e., an array of pixels) from a digital data source to a digital data receiver. More the size of the data be sm

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the exchange rate misalignments for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand before the currency crisis. By employing the sticky-price monetary exchange rate model in the environment of vector error-correction, the results indicate that the Indonesia rupiah, Malaysian ringgit, Philippines pes

Hepatitis C is a viral disease caused by hepatitis C virus. Patients infected with the virus may develop chronic hepatitis, who were remain asymptomatic. Our objective is to established a sensitive and reliable assay for the detection of HCV-RNA in serum. Sera were collected from 39 chronic HCV patients and 53 from patients with negative anti-HCV.

Privatization of higher education is a global trend. There is an increasing demand for higher education due to the nature of work and economy today and public universities and colleges could not meet the demand with its limited financial resources from the government. Private higher education institutions (PHEI) seem to be the most attractive alter

Waste management issues are encountered in almost every nation. Reports and discussion papers retrieved in developed and developing countries alike show that wastes and their management solutions are a common concern and challenge. One of the solutions is implementing the Waste Management Hierarchy. The aim of a Waste Management Hierarchy is to min