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Islamic Social Finance: a Tool for Development and Economic Inclusion
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The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are assertive statements of intent to achieve the long term well-being of people and planet. Beyond its religious foundation, Islamic social finance provides potential solutions in achieving SDGs. While, the seventeen (17) SDGs are interconnected to each other, the main focus can be found

Compact Uwb Slotted Pentagonal Patch Antenna for Radar and Communication
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This paper presents a microstrip patch antenna that have an ultra-wideband (UWB) characteristics. The proposed antenna design is a slotted non-uniform pentagonal microstrip patch antenna with 1.6mm thickness of FR-4 as the substrate. Its small size of 30mm × 33mm achieved the miniaturization characteristics to fit on the surface of CubeSat. The an

Unattended Sensors in Marine Environments: Oxybuoy for Hypoxia Study
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This chapter discusses the use of unattended sensors and its use in marine environment. The authors present challenges of designing a marine sensor in harsh environments and a case study in implementing a marine sensor to study hypoxia. Hypoxia is a world-wide anthropogenic phenomenon related to pollution. The authors describe the construction of a

Fifty Years of Communicative Language Teaching; a Synthesis of Critical Implementation Issues
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The last few decades have witnessed the widespread adoption of the communicative approach to teaching English to students of other languages with a view of helping them achieve communicative competence. However, in terms of implementation, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has encountered various problems in the EFL and ESL contexts. Drawing on

Heritage Reclamation: Focusing on Negeri Sembilan’s Minangkabau Cultural Landscape
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The focus of this paper is to examine the importance of cultural landscape reclamation, as well as historical values with which historical occurrences and incidences are associated. The study strives to gain insights from traditional cultural values and the importance of their reclamation in society. Indeed, most of the historical occurrences emerg

Factors Affecting Willingness in Using Islamic Microfinance Products in Mauritania
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This study aims to identify factors affecting willingness in using Islamic microfinance products in Mauritania. Based on the experience of the Islamic microfinance institution PROCAPEC-Nouakchott, the study tests the effect of social barriers, religiosity, debt-phobia in affecting usage among the respondents. As well as testing the moderator effect

Community Perception and Participation of Urban Farming Activities
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Dynamic of urban farming brings a significance which contributed by the fast growth of urban population. In some developed countries like Japan and Singapore, the approaches of urban farming inside of the buildings of residential, offices or workplaces, commercial and industrial lots at the city center were already begin to pop-up and embedded. Far

Impact of Using Islamic Microfinance Products on Mauritanian’ Income: Evidence from Procapec- Nouakchott
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This study attempts to examine the impact of using Islamic microfinance products on the Mauritanian microentrepreneurs’ income level. The study is purely quantitative, and it uses cross-sectional design data which was gathered through a questionnaire from a sample of 381 beneficiaries of an Islamic microfinance institution (PROCAPEC). It uses Str

Inhalable and Respirable Dust Mass Concentration on Soiled Inorganic Artefacts at the National Museum Malaysia
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Particulate matter (PM) plays a crucial role in altering the air quality, human health and materials. PM does not only affect human health but damages the museum's artefacts in many ways such as paint and materials deterioration, metal corrosion, fading of dyes and soiling of stone rubber, and textile. The main aim of this research is to quanti

Relationship Between life-Time Noise Exposure and Experience of Tinnitus Among Young Adults in IIUM Kuantan
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Introduction: Since the clinical studies have shown that people suffering from tinnitus are at a high risk of developing serious psychological disturbances or serious psychological distress (Hiller and Goebel, 1998), the purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between lifetime noise exposure and tinnitus experience among young adults

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