Many advocate that a mastery of idioms is a reflection of native speakers’ proficiency. While idioms are an important part of language, language reflects culture. The aim of the study was to investigate Muslim students’ perspective of English idioms, as to whether there are English idioms which are not in line with the students’ value system.

Debate is a common co-curricular activity involving most Malaysian schools at the district level. Every year, each school would send three students to represent its team. In this study, forty (40) second language learners, aged 16 years old, were involved in a two hour debate activity carried out three days per week for three consecutive weeks. Thi

Carbon emissions is expected to continue to increase unless major changes are made in the way carbon is managed. Managing hotel carbon emissions has emerged as a critical research matter and has become public and national interest since the last century. For instance daily appliances carbon emission from tourism accommodation premises is one of the

The onset of having a place for women to rejuvenate and refresh their body, mind and soul after a hectic day at work is amazing. Muslim women nowadays are more open to the idea of operating and visiting spa to get the benefits and advantages offered. However, as the awareness of implementing Islamic teaching as a way of life is increasing, spa oper

Sandwich structure composites produced by epoxy core and aluminium skin were developed as potential building materials. Interface bonding between core and skin was controlled by varying kenaf content. Five different weight percentage of kenaf loading ranging from 10 wt% to 50 wt% were employed in the core manufacturing in order to study the mechani

In this study, the abundant availability of clamshell, as the potential of the biomass resources for the production of the inorganic filler such as calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and calcium oxide (CaO) is fully utilized. In addition, the effect of filler loadings toward mechanical properties of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) biopolymer was studied using var

A totally green biocomposite was prepared via melt blending technique by using polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) as a matrix, clamshells powder (CaCO3) as a reinforcing filler and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as a binder. PHB/CaCO3 was fixed at 70:30 ratio and PVP weight content varied at 3, 5, 7 and 9 wt%. The properties of the biocomposite have been studie

The awareness towards Shariah compliant concept to be implementing in Hotel sector has been discussed since 1982. An extensive literature and research described variety of approaches and methods to improve the understanding of the concept. Specifically in many of the hotel operations, one of the prior parts is to provide comfortable and affordable

Midwifery is the practice of assisting a woman through childbirth using natural procedures.In Malay midwifery practices, traditional bath is one of the most important treatments during the confinement periods. However, today in Malay community, midwifery traditional knowledge of herbal medicine is disappearing and extinct. The facts are Malay midwi

The increasing importance of the Islamic unit trust industry requires a more detailed and efficient analysis on the various aspects of the industry. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to investigate the relationship between the NAV of the Islamic equity unit trust funds and microeconomic variables, namely fund dividends, fund Risk, fund histo