Among Muslim-majority countries in the world today, only a handful can be said to be democracies. This puzzling fact has been investigated and written about by countless scholars in the past decades such as Olivier Roy, John Esposito, Asef Bayat and Daniel Brumberg, just to name a few. Following the tragic end of the 2010 Arab Uprisings (tragic for

Introduction: Radix entomolaris (RE) referred to supernumerary root located at distolingual side, while radix paramolaris (RP) is mesiobucally located. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of RE and RP among KOD IIUM patients and to record the differences in genders, races and sides by using Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT). Mat

Political scandal has become very common in a democratic country as political rivals bid to discredit one another. An open and free media allows politicians from different sides to publicize alleged wrongdoings by their opponents. There are different scandals ranging from financial, political to moral scandals. Using dignity as a framework, this pa

In the era of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the infection control becomes of utmost importance at individual and global levels to control the crisis. There is scarce data on the extent of consistency between the Islamic regulations and the medical recommendation. These include travel bans and quarantine, social distancing, isolation, personal resp

Malaysia’s 13th general election (henceforth, GE13) in 2013 was the final election where the longest-serving elected government in the world, Barisan Nasional (BN), regained power, before it was ousted after over six decades of authoritarian rule in 2018. In a country that practises parliamentary democracy but simultaneously observed close cooper

Ta'widh and gharamah are the Shariah compliant late payment charges for Islamic financial contracts. Seven identified themes were used to qualitatively compare and contrast between the Guidelines on Late Payment Charges for Islamic Banking Institutions (2012) against the provisions of interest for late interim payment from four Malaysian constr

Ta'widh and gharamah are the Shariah compliant late payment charges primarily used for Islamic financial contracts. Seven identified themes were used to qualitatively compare and contrast between the Guidelines on Late Payment Charges for Islamic Banking Institutions (2012) against the provisions of interest for late interim payment from four M

This study aims to validate the factor that perhaps influences the health status of an elderly at receiving home care. This research paper, we developed the R syntax for Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (MLPNN) which considering the logistic based selection. At first, the related factors will be determined through multiple logistics regression

Sex education program among youth with disabilities is pertinent to their overall physical, emotional, health and well-being. However, due to its sensitivity and taboo, the topic is rarely addressed in the Malaysian context. The aim of this study is to explore the understanding about sex among disabled youth and how teaching sex education among dis

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the best strategy for the variable selection, using the developed Ordered Logistic Regression (OLR) and Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (MLP). At the first stage, all the selected variables will be a screen for their important relationship point of view through ordered logistics regression and bootst