The role of Jabatan Agama Islam Negeri Johor (JAINJ) is seen as very important in maintaining the faith and belief Muslims Johor. have an obligation to preserve creed avoid chaos, division, fighting among simply because differences beliefs beliefs. In fact, JAINJ's efforts ideology Muslim community began 1862 continues until now. Accordingly, governance structure will always change based on sui...

The world’s largest known population of dugongs in Torres Strait, Australia, supports an important subsistence fishery by the traditional inhabitants, Torres Strait Islanders, in the region. I obtained updated information on the life history and reproductive ecology of dugongs based on collecting specimens and data from dugongs harvested for food by Islanders. Information on life history parame...

Otolith shape analysis is one way to identify stocks of different fish species in the marine environment. Length, width, area, perimeter, form factor, aspect ratio, roundness, circularity, ellipticity and rectangularity analyses of otoliths were undertaken to assess patterns of spatial and temporal stock structure of a wide-ranging fish, the Arabian yellow fin sea bream Acanthopagrus arabicus. ...

Background Acute respiratory illnesses with cough (ARIwC) are predominant causes of morbidity in Australian Indigenous children; however, data on disease burden in urban communities are scarce. This study aimed to determine the incidence of ARIwC, the predictors of recurrent (≥4 episodes) ARIwC, and development of chronic cough following an ARIwC in urban, predominantly Indigenous, children age...

BACKGROUND In Australia, mental health services are undergoing major systemic reform with eMental Health (eMH) embedded in proposed service models for all but those with severe mental illness. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service providers have been targeted as a national priority for training and implementation of eMH into service delivery. Implementation studies on technology uptake ...

Citation: Redman-MacLaren ML, Klieve H, Mccalman J, Russo S, Rutherford K, Wenitong M and Bainbridge RG (2017) Measuring Resilience and Risk Factors for the Psychosocial Well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Boarding School Students: Pilot Baseline Study Results. Front. Educ. 2:5. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00005 Measuring resilience and risk Factors for the Psychosocial Well-being o...

j 2 1 N o ve m b e r 2 0 16 T cancer data forAboriginal andTorres Strait Islander people resulting from poor recording of Indigenous Australian status in source databases. To improve the evidence base, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has limited analyses of cancer incidence amongAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to four Australian states and territories — the Nort...