Civil structures experience vibrations due to natural dynamic forces such as earthquakes and wind loads. Often, mass-spring system is used to reduce such vibrations. The mass-spring system can either serve as absorbers or dampers. Usually, such system is tuned to absorb or damp a single frequency of excitation or resonance frequency respectively. H

The Holocaust of Muslims ofAI-Andalus is one of the darkest pages of history of thc Christian Europe and simultaneously one of the most tragic periods in the history of the Islamic West. This era of the planned, sustained and systematically executed policy of total eradication of Islam from the southwestern Europe was authorized by the "Renaiss

This paper discusses on an initiative of developing a repository on multilingual language resources for minority languages of a campus community. The choice of language is based on a survey amongst IIUM international students about the status of their mother language’s resources and usages in the digital world. As a starting point, multilingual d

This paper provides a detailed analysis of the local community response to a newly installed rare earth (RE) refinery facility and the factors underlying its acceptance. House-to-house interviews, using structured questionnaire, were conducted in 2013 (N = 370). Results show that the community was divided into deciding whether they agreed with the

Magnetic field detection has been widely accepted in many applications such as military systems, outer space exploration and even in medical diagnosis and treatment. Low magnetic field detection is particularly important in tracking of magnetic markers in digestive tracks or blood vessels. The presence of magnetic fields’ strength and direction c

Personality and religion relationship has long been studied by Western and Muslim researchers in order to find any association between religious factors and a person's behavior and thought. The present study sought to expand research by investigating the differences in the latent factors, namely Tawhid (Belief in God), Nubuwwa (Awareness of Pro

Nowadays, having access to authentic material for language learning, such as documentary film programs is very easy for all students and teachers around the world. The importance of this comprehensive input was emphasized by Krashen. At the same time, many studies have highlighted the linguistic, informational, and pedagogical purpose of documentar

All these while, the concept of a book is that it is printed on paper, bound and portable. With the advent of computer technology and internet, a new form of book has developed, known as e-book. This is a trendy on the perception usage of e-book among selected group students in Malaysia and overseas.CONTEMPORARY ISSUESIN LIBRARY ANDINFORMATION SCIE

Personality in Islam is understood as an all encompassing way of life, resulting in an approach that is able to connect every aspect of behavior, attitude, and feeling for Muslims. The existing gap in instrumentation capable of capturing the major elements of the Islamic personality can only be filled by beginning with an organic definition and con

Microscopic bubbles with diameter <50 μm are generally called fine-bubbles and have different behaviors from ordinary bubbles. For example, very long stagnation time and having pressurized interior gas due to surface tension are characteristics of fine-bubbles. In this study, to evaluate the effects of fine-bubble-bodyfeeding on filtration pro