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Learning a Tragic News: a Diffusion Study of the Malaysian Plane Shot Over Ukraine
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This study examined how news about the Malaysian plane that was shot down in Ukraine, was diffused nationwide. The tragic incident is regarded as one of the unexpected significant events of the year. This study investigated how Malaysians received and subsequently spread the news on the downing of the plane, resulting in the deaths of 283 passenger

Combined Effect of Relief and Level of Expansion in a Suddenly Expanded Flow
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This paper presents the experimental results on the flow characteristics of a suddenly expanded flow from the convergent nozzle for subsonic, sonic and sonic under expanded flow. In the present study micro jets were used to investigate the effect of micro jets on base pressure flow field in the enlarged duct. Accordingly an active control in the fo

Difficult to Quit Smoking Beyond "nicotine Dependence": a Preliminary Survey Among Adult Male Smokers in Felda Bukit Goh, Kuantan Pahang, Malaysia
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Background: The vast majority of smokers want to quit and most make repeated attempts to do so. Although, effective treatment for nicotine dependence (ND) is present now, repeatedly fail to quit is still a common issue among smokers because of beyond nicotine addiction. Objective: To measure nicotine dependence (ND) level among adult male smokers a

Cryptographic Hash Function: a High Level View
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Cryptographic hash function verifies data integrity and sender identity or source of information. The task is accomplished by taking a variable bit patterns as an input then produces a fixed bit patterns of output. This chapter provides a detailed overview to include classification, properties, constructions, attacks, applications and an overview o

An Exploratory Factor Analysis (Efa) in Determining Dimensions of Integrated and Holistic Islamic Education Among Kuliyyah of Education
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The recent studies have shown that the Islamic education system is stagnant among Muslim students because it lacks critical thinking skills (Hashim and Hussien, 2003). The First World Conference on Muslim Education held in Makkah in 1977 recommended integrated and holistic Islamic education as an alternative education paradigm among Muslims in orde

An Empirical Assessment of Students’ Perceptions on Integrated Educational Factors in Islamiyyah Madrasah in north-Central Nigeria
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As a response to the problem of dualism, the First World Conference on Muslim Education (Makkah, 1977) proposed the establishment of integrated education in the Muslim world. There is a gap in the literature regarding the implementation of integrated education in the Nigerian context despite an emphasis on the vitality of integrated education parad

Effects of Water Temperature on Survival, Growth, Digestive Enzyme Activities, and Body Composition of the Leopard Coral Grouper Plectropomus Leopardus
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The effects of water temperature (15, 20, 25,30, and 35 °C) on survival, growth performance, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of Plectropomus leopardus were studied for a period of 6 weeks. One hundred eighty fish with initial body weights of 26.5 ± 1.5 g were randomly arranged into 15 glass aquaria in equal numbers in five recir

In Vitro Recellularization of Aorta Scaffolds Prepared by Sonication Treatment
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Sonication treatment is used in the preparation of bioscaffolds that was able to support repopulation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) upon cell-seeding. The aim of this study is to investigate the ability of sonicatedly decellularized tissue to repopulate VSMCs after 6 days of cell-seeding. In this study, sample of aorta tissues are decellu

Nicotine Dependence and Quit Smoking: a Preliminary Survey Among Adult Males in Kuantan, Malaysia
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Introduction: Most of the smokers remain as active smokers and unrecognized their nicotine dependence (ND) level. ND was an important reason to addict smoking. The study determined the prevalence of smoking and ND among adult males and their difficulties to quit smoking. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 296 males aged 18 years a

real-Time Personalized Stress Detection from Physiological Signals
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This is the era of modern life. The era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter, careers Crisis news coming from everywhere at any time. We (human) are assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour all posing as information. We text while we’re walking across the street, catch up on email while standing in a queue. When peop

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