Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a significant water contaminating agent which cause infection and release shiga toxin into host intestine. Shiga toxin can cause hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and even death. Peninsular Malaysia’s eastern coast is normally affected flood almost every year. The presence of three pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia

We studied the effects of cultivating E. coli with nanomaterials involved in biosensor development. E. coli were cultured separately with each of these nanomaterials in Luria-Bertani broth medium. Bacterial growth curves were plotted by measuring optical density over a period of 12 hours, after which time bacterial cell dry weight was measured. Aft

This Malaysian Standard was developed by the Working Group on Architecture and Passive Design Strategy under the authority of the Industry Standards Commitee on Building, Construction and Civil Engineering.

The best described pharmacological property of flavonoids is their capacity to act as potent antioxidant that has been reported to play an important role in the alleviation of diabetes mellitus. Flavonoids biochemical properties are structure dependent; however, they are yet to be thoroughly understood. Hence, the main aim of this work was to inves

Objective: To investigate the antioxidant and radical scavenging activities of some selected flavonoids with respect to identify key positions responsible for antioxidant effects as well as the effect of derivatisation on the antioxidative effects. Design and method: Antioxidant potential was evaluated using different sets of assays viz., rapid tes

This study seeks to reach the most appropriate understanding of the ḥadīth "whoever changes his religion, kill him". Having surveyed the views of traditional and contemporary scholars vis-a-vis their interpretation of this ÍadÊth and other similar Prophetic traditions, it is evident that there are various concerns and interpretations,

The idea of revisiting currency and the gold dinar from an Islamic standpoint is an interesting topic of discussion in the context of the current monetary system. This chapter examines the historical aspects and supremacy of a gold currency and the weakness of fiat money using a maslahah-mafsadah approach. It considers some possible alternative for

إن الإمامة العظمى في الإسلام ليس بتشريف بقدر ما هو تكليف، ولذلك قال رسول الله : «كلكم راع وكلكم مسؤول عن رعيته، الإمام راع ومسؤول عن رعيته، ...» ، لذا يجب أن يُنظر في الرجل الذي يختار إماما الأه�

فإن الأمثال صورة صادقة يعبر بها القوم عن تجاربهم بأيّ لغةٍ كانت، وعن تصورهم للحياة، ومنها يتجلى تراثهم العلمي والأدبي والشعبي، والأمثال عند العرب جزء لا يتجزأ من حياتهم الأخلاقية والأدبية، ك�

As the agent to the government in collecting and disbursing zakat money, zakat institutions are accountable to inform the public on how they managed the money i.e. via disclosure of zakat information in the annual report. Nevertheless, zakat institutions that supposed to disclose their activities have been argued to have low disclosure levels, it i