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The Experience of Traditional Massage Practitioners in Supporting Breastfeeding Practice
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Strategies that have been successful in promoting breastfeeding practice and to increase breastfeeding education include mother-to-mother support and close contact with breastfeeding support members through home visits. The objective of this study is to explore the experience of traditional massage practitioners in promoting and supporting breastfe

Clinical Performance of Restorative Materials in Primary Molar Teeth
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The aim of this study is to determine the clinical performance of primary molar restorations placed among paediatric patients at the Polyclinic, Kulliyyah of Dentistry, IIUM. A total of 99 primary molar restorations were evaluated clinically using the modified United States Public Health Service criteria. Amalgam restorations (104 weeks) showed the

African and Islamic: Lessing’s Theory of Literature in “the Small Personal Voice”
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In “The Small Personal Voice” (1957), Doris Lessing celebrates novels that are based on nineteenth-century realism and writerly committedness and laments its absence in literary production. She adheres to a theory of literature that emanates from an understanding of good and evil and has an instructive function. In this respect, she admires nin

Critical Reception: a Comparison Between Rokeya and Woolf
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It is true that the volume of Woolf's writing is larger than that of Rokeya's. However, it is also true that the worth of a writer does not solely depend on the volume of their oeuvre. Material context, artistic ability and the forcefulness of arguments, among other things, are also considered when determining a writer's literary value

Ban Smoking During Ramadan
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

REMEMBER once, as I was about to enter a mosque in Penang, I saw the imam smoking hurriedly before he walked in to lead the Zohor prayer. At a masjid in Kuala Lumpur, as I stood in a saf (prayer row) to perform the solat, a smoker stood beside me. I suspected that, like the imam in Penang, this man also had a few puffs before entering the masjid as

Julian, First Published Woman Writer in English
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Even though Julian is not widely discussed, her influence on literary successors is remarkable. Two lines in T. S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton” (1936) – “Except for the point, the still point, / There would be no dance and there is only the dance” (ll.20-21) – are a clear allusion to Julian’s statement: “I saw God in a point by which vi

Estimation of middle-East Oil Consumption Using Hybrid meta-Heuristic Algorithms
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

The consumption of energy has significantly increased in theworld during the preceding decade. Two-third of energy requirements are produced by oil and gas. Estimation of oil consumption can give clues on the future energy consumption. In this study, the effectiveness of three hybrid metaheuristic algorithms, namely, Cuckoo Search Neural Network (C

The Application of Maqasid al-Shari'ah in Medicine: an Overview
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Maasid al-shari’ah or the objectives of the Islamic law and medicine share inherent intersections, and sometimes work as integral subjects, the ultimate aim of which is “harm reduction” and “promotion of wellbeing” in life. The maqasid al-shari’ah does this by providing values and principles of good conducts, while medicine achieves thi

bio-Inspired Algorithm Optimization of Neural Network for the Prediction of Dubai Crude Oil Price
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Previous studies proposed several bio-inspired algorithms for the optimization of Neural Network (NN) to avoid local minima and to improve accuracy and convergence speed. To advance the performance of NN, a new bio-inspired algorithm called Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) is used to optimize the weights and bias of NN due to its ability to explo

Intimate Revelations: Conversations Among “evil” Women in Rokeya’s Padmarag
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Rokeya creatively demonstrates in Padmarag (1924) the socially embedded association of women with evil. She brings together a group of women on the premises of Tarini Bhaban in order to explore their psychological terrain, as they share with each other previously untold memories and document their experiences of patriarchal oppression and domestic

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