Simple, user-friendly, economical and rapid sensing devices are in urgent demand for diagnostics purposes especially in resource-limited countries. Diagnostics devices fabricated from patterning paper into hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions called paper-based microfluidic analytical devices (μPADs) have been introduced. In this work, straight lin

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease. In the knee OA, several joint changes were observed and among these include articular cartilage (AC) degeneration, and subchondral bone (Sb) remodeling. Despite of extensive experimental and clinical studies, the role of bone remodeling in the two sub-regions of Sb, i.e. the subchondral bone plat

Background: Reviews have shown that depression is a major problem among type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. However, there is limited evidence for specific stressors to be associated with stress among T2D patients. Objectives: This study aimed to identify the main stressors among the T2DM and to investigate the perceptions of the patients tow

Abstract: Islam encourages parties in conflict to resolve their disputes through amicable settlement and it also introduces Sulḥ as an amiable way to settle matrimonial disputes. This paper deals with the dissolution of marriage among the Muslim community in Malaysia by examining the causes of high rate of divorce and solutions to the social ende

This paper aims at studying the extent to which a man has the right to beat his disobedient wife in Islamic jurisprudence. The word Al-Ḍarb in Arabic language has different literal meanings according to the context in which it is used. In this case, this paper is attempts to study the perspectives of Abu Sulayman on the meaning of beating (Al-Ḍ

This study aims to investigate the legality of rahn contracts in Malaysian Islamic Financial Institutions. Specifically, it attempts to examine how rahn is used in these institutions as well as the Shariah issues related to it so as to ascertain the extent to which it has achieved the objectives for which it was legislated by the Shariah. To achiev

This article attempts to present new contributions and looks at modern perspectives, in addition to the previous studies on those disabled people in regard to their cases and its legal rulings, with provision of the appropriate rules for their behaviours and financial conditions in the current era, through a jurisprudential base "hardship beget

Married female students face different learning experiences in higher education compared to unmarried female students. This research was conducted to determine the experiences of Indonesian married female students. The aims of this study are to identify the various factors which encourage Indonesian married female students to continue their studies

We examine how social contacts and feelings of solidarity shape experiences of loneliness during the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020. From the PsyCorona database, we obtained longitudinal data from 23 countries, collected between March and May 2020. The results demonstrated that although online contacts help to reduce feelings of loneliness, people

Malaysia has been experienced with many natural disasters such as flood, landslide, earthquake and drought, which resulted in damaging the properties and causing casualties especially during the biggest flooding affected over 36,128 families was in 2014 at East Coast of Malaysia mainly in Kelantan. Public buildings such as schools, religious buildi