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Effect of Ramadan environment on Fagerstrom Test For Nicotine Dependence (FTND) among smokers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background: Measurement of the nicotine dependence of the smokers can become valuable information in understanding the smoker’s level of addiction. One of the methods in measuring the nicotine dependence is by using the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine ...
A. F., Ahmad Farhan   +3 more
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Ramadan Fasting and its Health Benefits: What’s New?

open access: yesOpen Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022
Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. Fasting entails more than abstaining from food and drink, fasting improves impulse control and aids in the development of good behavior.
Shahrul Rahman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Religion and Regulatory Variance: Halal Regimes as Islamic Public Administration

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One quarter of humanity are Muslims, for whom halal food is an everyday consideration. The global food system has made assessing food products nearly impossible for consumers, requiring elaborate regulatory regimes. This article analyzes halal regulation as a notable example of Islamic public administration (IPA), as an application of ...
Logan Cochrane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ramadan

open access: yes, 2018
Ramadan is an Islamic [um] holiday celebration in which we fast for thirty days. We then have a feast or a festival kind of thing at the end of the thirty days for three full days. Every year Ramadan moves eleven calendar days backwards [uh…um…] because we follow the moon calendar.
openaire   +3 more sources

Ramadan favors first blood donation, but not frequent donation: Results of 10,145 blood donors from Algeria

open access: yesAsian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2022
CONTEXT: Frequent blood donors contribute to an important share of blood donations in many countries. In Algeria, frequent donation and its determinants, notably the place of the month of Ramadan, which plays an important role in blood donation in Muslim
Mounir Ould Setti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global Research Trends of Health-Related Publications on Ramadan Fasting from 1999 to 2021: A Bibliometric Analysis

open access: yesJournal of religion and health, 2022
Ramadan fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. The current study aims to examine, analyze, and identify trends of health-related publications on Ramadan fasting. In total, 1468 documents retrieved from Scopus were analyzed.
Reema A. Karasneh   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi‐ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Unsustainable hunting practices can alter population dynamics, driving biodiversity declines, which leads to ‘empty forests’. Understanding hunting behaviour, including motivations for hunting and relationships with market drivers, and access to hunting grounds are important to develop affirmative policies to stem biodiversity loss.
Natasha L. M. Mannion   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance [PDF]

open access: yes
We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and ...
Bhashkar Mazumder   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Ramadan Fasting in Relation to Salivary Uric Acid and Selective Physical Parameters

open access: yesDiyala Journal of Medicine
Background: Ramadan is the holy month in which all Muslims abstain from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset. The impact of Ramadan fasting on the oral cavity and saliva needs more attention because of the important function of saliva in the ...
Ryam Abdul Kareem Hussein ,   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ramadan, the month of fasting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Socially, fasting is an expression of unity with the poor, the family, and the whole society. This is a period in which the rich have first-hand experience of what it is to be poor, the pains the needy suffers in normal living conditions.
Sahar, Nadima
core   +1 more source

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