The various regions of the Indian subcontinent came into contact with the Islamic cultural tradition in the seventh century CE. Indian scholars were able to leave a mark on the world of Islamic scholarship especially in the fields of ḥadīth…

An extensive field surveys were arranged in Imampur Ghat areas to document the ethno-medicinal information regarding the use of wild and endemic ethno-flora against cough and cold. The information presented here, is being collected from the local inhabitants through verbal…

Abstract: An extensive field surveys were arranged in Ahmednagar tahasil areas to document ethno-medicinal uses of the native ethno-flora against cut and wounds. The information is collected during the period from pre-monsoon of 2009 to the post-monsoon of 2011, from…

Purpose: This study explores the perceptions, knowledge and attitudes of LHWs towards children with disabilities in Pakistan. It considers the feasibility of utilising the LHWs for prevention, early identification and management of disabilities for these children in the community.Methods: Two…

This paper addresses some lexical issues in the development of XUNL - a knowledge representation language descendent from and alternative to the Universal Networking Language (UNL). We present the current structure and the role of Universal Words (UW) in UNL…

Concurrent Engineering (CE) Design relies heavily on the use of integrated computational software systems to reduce the overheads involved with information retrieval, presentation and transformation and the provision of decision support to improve product quality and performance.  This paper discusses…

"Oral Health for Healthy life" the theme for World Health Day by WHO for 1998 (1).No one can be truly healthy unless he or she is free from the burden of oral and craniofacial diseases and conditions (2). Oral health…

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic is a relatively recent development challenge and human tragedy that faces global society particularly developing countries. This disease has no effective method for cure or treatment thus, the need to intensify preventive behavior in both…

In Malaysia, the interest of Knowledge Management (KM) practices is still growing especially among Malaysian universities library. The truth is big multinational companies still lead the way, but a number of large corporations in the country are beginning to take…

Discourse has been pointed as a site of struggle for power. However, when analyzing the teachers’ discourse of resistance to educationalreforms has been privileged an orientation that prescribes discourse-power relations to mere relations of protest and opposition. This paperexplores the…