Objectives: Escalating healthcare costs and pharmaceutical spending continue to evolve rapidly. With the aim of curtailing the cost of treatment, there is an increased demand of understanding and applying the pharmacoeconomics principles. In the backdrop of this we developed and implement a 2-credit hour pharmacoeconomics module which constitutes d

This study examines the pass-through of crude oil prices into economic activities of Malaysia including industrial production index (IP), consumer price index (CPI), real effective exchange rate (REER), interest rate (IR) and stock price index (SPI) within the framework of hidden cointegration technique over the quarterly data ranging from 1987 to

Disagreement without standard norms and values has become a dangerous trend as a slogan and motto in the contemporary history of human society, particularly in Muslim society. While it has been used by Islamic scholars as a means of developing Islamic thought and bringing positive socio-cultural and economic-political changes, it has been leveled a

Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) is one of the most influential Islamic scholars in the 20th century who has written many books and articles on Islamic thought in order to relate the Qur’Én and Sunnah with integrated approach to modern life. He started a revolutionary mission at a time when Western civilization was at the height of its intellectual, tech

It seems that the contemporary world, Western and Eastern, is suffering from and acute intellectual crisis and lack of clear perception of science and scientific thinking.This is visible everywhere in the current empirical realities in political, economic, technological, social and educational domains of life.It is, therefore, conducted here that t

The paper analysed the dynamic interactions between two macroeconomic variables and stock market returns in Nigeria from 1970-2013, using F-Bound Cointegration and Todayamamoto Causality tests that are robust to structural breaks. The result of Zivot Andrew unit root test indicated that all the variables were non stationary at level but stationary

After presenting the Sharīʿah objectives of both tabarruʿāt and hibah briefly, this paper looks at the applications of hibah as a “supporting Sharīʿah concept” in four contracts proposed to the Shariah Advisory Council of Bank Negara Malaysia (SAC). The four contracts are (1) Interbank Mudarabah Investment Contract, (2) al-Ijarah thumma-l

Poor indoor hygrothermal performance increases the risk of indoor moisture problems and deterioration due to mould growth, corrosion and damage to archival materials. Hence, proper control of indoor thermohygric intensity abates indoor moisture and its associated problems. This paper presents the results of envelopes hygrothermal performance assess

Air Handling Units in mechanical ventilation system possess a high degree of potential to circulate contaminants within occupied spaces of a building which often results in sick building syndrome (SBS), building related illness (BRI) and other indoor air quality (IAQ) related issues. This happens despite the expected role of ventilation systems to

Abstract. This study reports the findings of an experimental investigation for bamboo fibre (BF) reinforced concrete board. In this research, all specimens were prepared at 0.4 water/binder ratio. There were two series of specimens namely A series and B series. The A group utilizes only ordinary portland cement (OPC) as binder. Meanwhile, series B