Month-of-the-year and symmetrical effects in the Nikkei 225 by Chia, Ricky Chee Jiun, Venus Khim-Sen Liew

“…In addition, the estimated Threshold generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (TGARCH) model reveals no significant asymmetrical effect on good and bad news. The existence of month-of-the-year effect in TSE suggests that by means of properly timed investment strategies, financial managers, financial counselors and investors could take advantage of the patterns and gain profit.…”
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Composition and Monthly Changes of the Volatile Constituents in the Sour Hetsuka-daidai Citrus Peel by Toshiyuki Hamada, Kanako Harano, Rino Niihara, Hiromi Kitahara, Masashi Yamamoto, Charles Santhanaraju Vairappan, Fumito Tani, Satoaki Onitsuka, Hiroaki Okamura

“…Peel oil contents were analyzed for the duration of four months during harvest season to investigate the differences in peel oil/ fragrance during ripening. …”
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Evaluation of artificial neural networks with satellite data inputs for daily, monthly, and yearly solar irradiation prediction for Pakistan by Faisal Nawab, Ag Sufiyan Abd Hamid, Ali Alwaeli, Muhammad Arif, Mohd Faizal Fauzan, Adnan Ibrahim

“…The EMNN performed best for monthly and annual prediction, reducing monthly MAPE, RMSE, and MBE by 50.62%, 0.13 kWh/m2/d, and 0.13 kWh/m2/d, while the reduction for yearly was 91.6%, 0.11 kWh/m2/d, 0.2 kWh/m2/d. …”
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Identifying the Early Visible Symptoms of the Ganoderma-Infected Oil Palms: A Case Study on the Infected Palms Which Collapsed Within Twelve Months after Disease Census by Assis Kamu, Ho, Chong Mun, Chong, Khim Phin, Idris Abu Seman

“…The objective of this study is to identify the important early visible symptoms which can give early signal that the palms infected by Ganoderma BSR disease will collapse within 12 months after the disease census conducted. The visible external symptoms of the disease considered were presence of bunch, presence of rotting trunk, presence of more than three unopened spears, and the number of active fruiting bodies Ganoderma species. …”
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Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among children aged 6–24 months under poverty alleviation policy in Shanxi province, China: A cross-sectional study by Minli Zhang, Nelbon Giloi, Yang Shen, M. Y. Aza Sherin, Mei, Ching Lim

“…The prevalence of stunting was highest among IYC between 12 and 18 months (3.9%). Prevalence of underweight (0.5%) and wasting (1.5%) were highest among IYC aged 18–24 months while the prevalence of overweight was highest among IYC aged 6–12months (9.0%). …”
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The potential of priming as a method to improve the quality of aerobic rice seed by Lee, Shirley Ya Ling

“…The remaining seed was stored in refrigerator at 2°c and 40% relative humidity for one month. After one month, the unprimed and primed aerobic rice seeds were once again subjected to germination test. …”
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Nurse-Led intervention on knowledge, attitude and beliefs of Acute Coronary Syndrome by Sukhbeer K Darsin Singh, Ahmad Aldrie Amir, Rahmat Nasrah, Nant Thin Thin Hmwe

“…The knowledge, attitude and beliefs towards acute coronary syndrome (ACS) were evaluated at baseline and after 1 month of giving education intervention. Results Knowledge, attitude and beliefs about ACS increased significantly from baseline to 1 month after intervention. …”
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Effects of technology-supported brain breaks videos on exercise self-efficacy among type 2 diabetes mellitus Malaysians by Aizuddin Hidrus, Yee, Cheng Kueh, Bachok Norsa’adah, Chang, Yu‑Kai, Garry Kuan

“…Both groups completed the ESE-M at pre-intervention, the end of the first month, the second month, the third month, and post-intervention. …”
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Purification & characterization of Glycans of Uromodulin from anemia pregnant women by Lim, Lai Suan

“…It found that the percentage of protein content of fifth month pregnancy is highest in anemia pregnant, while third month pregnancy contamt the highest amount of protein in normal pregnant. …”
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Effects of brain breaks video intervention of decisional balance among Malaysians with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomised controlled trial by Aizuddin Hidrus, Yee, Cheng Kueh, Bachok Norsa’adah, Chang, Yu-Kai, Kuan, Garry

“…The intervention group received Brain Breaks videos for a period of four months. The intervention and control groups completed the validated Malay version of DB questionnaire for five times, at pre-intervention, the first month, the second month, the third month, and post-intervention. …”
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Calendar anomalies in selected Asian stock returns by Chia, Ricky Chee Jiun

“…The study uses the daily stock returns to examine the day-of-the-week effect; while monthly stock returns to examine the month-of-the-year effect. …”
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Human wildlife conflict in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Lahad Datu, Sabah by Kertijah Abdul Kadir

“…The average crop damage, mainly from elephant was about RM3403 per month for elephant in the estate, while the villagers estimated around RM100 per month mainly caused by wildboar and other smaller pests. …”
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The Effects of Open-top Chamber-simulated Global Warming on Microbial Diversity and Abundance in Tropical Soils by Lau, Grace Xin Hui, Fan, Hui Yin, Clemente Michael Wong Vui Ling

“…Relative abundance of the soil bacteria showed changes after the first six-month simulation, but there were no significant effects of the treatment on bacterial diversity between the control and treatment plots. …”
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Hydrological and suspended sediment dynamics in catchments of differing land-use history in the tropics - an experiment in Sabah (North Borneo) by Anand Nainar

“…However, it was found that the regression relationships were unsuitable and hence three-month yields were presented instead. Three-month water yield was found to be highest in the LF3 and lowest in the OP. …”
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Relative age effect in U-16 Asian Championship Soccer Tournament by Pathmanathan K. Suppiah, Jeffrey Low Fook Lee, Abdul Muiz Nor Azmi, Hasnol Noordin, 671124105267, Rabiu Muazu Musa

“…Chi-square for goodness fit is used to determine the existence of the RAE across the players’ month of birth while logistic regression is applied to analyze the differences of the quartiles’ distribution with respect to the quartile, qualification status (qualifier or non-qualifier) as well as the playing position of the players. …”
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The relative age effect on physical fitness of school children by Siti Musliha Mat Rasid, Mohamad Razali Abdullah, Hafizan Juahir, Agus Rusdiana, Ahmad Bisyri Husin Musawi Maliki, Rabiu Muazu Musa, Norlaila Azura Kosni, Abdul Muiz Nor Azmi

“…This information is useful for researchers, teachers, and education policymakers to consider the month of birth, both in terms of practicality and the impact of physical fitness assessment.…”
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Asymmetric effect of energy price on commodity price: new evidence from NARDL and time frequency wavelet approaches by Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury, Muhammad Saeed Meo, Ajim Uddin, Md. Mahmudul Haque

“…The relationship is rather long-run than the short-run, as we find the most dominant frequency is the 16th month and remains positive until the 64th month. …”
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A multidimensional study of weak-form efficiency for finance stocks in Malaysia by Kok, Sook Ching

“…The specific objectives of this study are: to examine the random walk properties for finance stock prices in Malaysia based on a random walk model that incorporates cross-sectional dependence (CD) and structural breaks; to examine nonlinearity and threshold effect of finance stock prices in Malaysia through a two-regime threshold autoregressive (TAR) approach, allowing for evaluating the random walk properties in separate regimes; to investigate the existence of calendar anomalies in the market of finance stocks in Malaysia by focusing on the day-of-the-week effect, month-of-the-year effect, turn-of-the-month (TOM) effect, and holiday effect; and to investigate the presence of short-term momentum effect and return reversal in the market of finance stocks in Malaysia. …”
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Enhancing Final-Year Medical Students’ Clinical Examinations Performance via a Transdiagnostic ACT-Based Intervention by Pang, Nicholas Tze Ping, Eugene Koh, Mohd Amiruddin Mohd Kassim, Shoesmith, Wendy Diana, Assis Kamu, Ho, Chong Mun, Jun, Rong Ng, Walton Wider

“…A one-day ACT-based intervention was delivered to an intervention group, with the control group crossing over one month post intervention. Both groups filled in sociodemographic questionnaires and questionnaires measuring psychological flexibility, cognitive fusion, mindfulness, depression, anxiety, and stress at three time points: T1 (before intervention), T2 (immediately after intervention), and T3 (one month post intervention). …”
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Seasonal return and firm size effect in the Malaysian Stock Market by Mohd Rahimie Abd Karim

“…The reverse August effect is reflected by the negative return in August which is due to the significantly lower trading activities during the month.…”
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