This paper addresses culturally based factors within user interface design. There are challenges and dilemmas in recognizing values and ideals in culture on an interface design. As value added in the interface design related to culture, elements of culture values should play an important root so that users are encouraged to feel the beauty of meani

Ever since Allah has used metaphor to send His messages to mankind through Al Quran. Inspired from it, this study is to examine how metaphor could be integrated in the interface design. The phenomena nowadays, numbers of metaphor worlds and their participants that growing rapidly, primarily is a Western Culture dominated environment. Attention paid

Abstract. The present study was aimed at fabricating porous ceramic scaffolds via polymeric sponge method for biomedical applications using as synthesized Zinc doped Hydroxyapatite (ZnHA) powders. Zn doped HA powders were prepared via sol-gel method using diammonia hydrogen phosphate [(NH4)2HPO4] and calcium nitrate tetrahydrate [Ca(NO3)2.4H2O] as

The healing efficiency of cutaneous wound increases when Se2+ is added to the unripe papaya phosphate buffered saline (PBS) extract. This study investigated protection against oxidative damage in cutaneous wound by using Se2+ or Zn2+ added unripe papaya PBS extract; Induced cutaneous wound on rat were topically treated twice/day with 20 μL of extr

Cardiac metastases are among the topics with limited systematic review. Theoretically, the heart can be infiltrated by any malignancy with the ability to spread to distant to have a predilection for the heart, but some do metastasize more often than others, for example, melanoma and primary mediastinal tumors. We report a case od cardiac metastasis

Of late, there is growing acceptance of ar-rahnu as a viable and competitive mode of financial instrument in the Islamic finance industry. Amid the increasing interest, research efforts have been focused on reviewing and examining ar-rahnu particularly on the acceptance factors of ar-rahnu, but scanty exertion has been given on acceptance factors f

The establishment of next-generation technology sequencing has deepened our knowledge of marine sponge-associated microbiota with the identification of at least 32 phyla of Bacteria and Archaea from a large number of sponge species. In this study, we assessed the diversity of the microbial communities hosted by three sympatric sponges living in a s

This study presented what Nigerian newspapers on the Web beamed to Nigerian foreign resident citizens during the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Premised on the importance of diaspora to homeland political development and the centrality of the web media to the migrants in today's globalized world, the paper explored how homeland online new

This study argues that the components of excellent work culture (EWC) since its emergence in the 1980s in the Malaysian public sector were not empirically validated. Therefore, the purpose of this empirical study is to validate instrument and the factor structure of the underlying dimensions of EWC in higher education institutions (HEIs) in West Ma

The current research examines the moderating effect of organizational capacity on the association between corporate governance and corporate performance. This research employs questionnaire survey in obtaining the data and contributes to the methodology by demonstrating the interaction terms in assessing the effect of moderators on corporate perfor