Over the past few decades, there has been a growing interest in passive design strategies in the built environment, such as daylight. Using sunlight as the source, passive daylighting aims to provide effective natural lighting into the building while retaining maximum visual comfort without using mechanical equipment. Various research has shown the benefits of the natural environment to aid in human recovery, including daylighting. The majority of the biophilic design studies focused on workplace and healthcare environments such as hospital design. While biophilic architecture brings the meaning of nature to the internal environment, the positive effects of this biophilia are particularly concerned on healthcare facilities as it puts an element of extreme pressure on the space. This paper aims to understand the relationship between the patients and staffs’ experiences of their physical environment, specifically addressing the use of daylighting as aiding the recovery of patients and restorative impact for the users. This paper investigates the effects of daylighting in the inpatient ward at Seri Manjung Hospital through a set of questionnaires distributed to the 50 respondents of male and female users aged18 and above. This inpatient ward space is built with windows and utilising natural lighting during the day.The participants were asked to share their experience on the lighting conditions in the ward space and the impact on their health and recovery. The outcome of this study has shown that passive daylighting technique and biophilic design in inpatient wards help to increase users' connectivity with nature, improve physical and psychological well-being and accelerate the recovery process. Consequently, incorporating passive daylighting and biophilic design in a healthcare setting will shift the hospital's design to be more sustainable and responsive to the environment

The interpretation of Surah al-Kafirun today is found to be a little disturbing for religious people, both among religions and between religious communities. Especially after the largest Islamic organization in Indonesia, namely Nahdatul 'Ulama which issued bahtsul masail results about non-Muslims who are not infidels. Netizens are busy blaspheming and identifying non-Muslims as not even infidels to the point of stating that the meaning of the letter al-Kafirun today is no longer relevant. To answer this question, the author compiles Roland Barthes' theory of semiotics into this letter of al-Kafirun. The author interprets this letter of al-Kafirun using two levels of semiotics. The first level of semiotics analyzes linguistics or language. Meanwhile, the second level semiotics analyzes the connotative meaning in the text by revealing the mythical characteristics of the verse as stated in Roland Barthes' semiotic theory.

Associated to Birkhoff orthogonality, we study Birkhoff angles in a normed space and present some of their basic properties. We also discuss how to decide whether an angle is more acute or more obtuse than another. In addition, given two vectors x and y in a normed space, we study the formula for Birkhoff 'cosine' of the angle from x to y from which we can, in principal, compute the angle. Some examples will be presented.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 46B20.

The therapy is known from the time of extreme antiquity, dating back more than 2,500 years ago and still being practiced nowadays. This fact testifies to its efficiency in various health problems. In some cases, traditional medical practitioners use leeches for therapeutic healing treatment which is known as 'cupping'. Such remedial method is quickly gaining acceptance amongst the local folks which is now becoming a thriving business. Some have made this treatment as their main business even though the therapy is quite recent for people in this country. This article discusses the process of cupping by using leech in the Islamic perspective and also the uniqueness of the hirudin protein in leeches respectively.