Parallel querying of distributed ontologies with shared vocabulary / Index-based concurrent SPARQL query processing by Aslam, Sharjeel, Vassilev, Vassil, Ouazzane, Karim

“…However, although SPARQL is well-established standard for querying semantic repositories in RDF and OWL format and there are commonly used APIs which supports it, like Jena for Java, its parallel option is not incorporated in them. …”
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Komplexität und semantische Transparenz im Deutschen und Englischen by Fischer, Klaus

“…Hawkins's contrastive typology of German and English that - like D. L. Everett's analysis - attempts explanation from one unifying principle. …”
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The plastic bag: forever and ever by Oropallo, Gabriele

“…After it has taken its first breath by the cashier of a grocery store, when left to its own devices, the plastic bag will contain the currents of the wind or those of the water, its membrane-like body continuing to behave according to its original design programme, even when no human users are employing it. …”
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Right-wing nationalism, populism, and religion: what are the connections and why? by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Although not the same thing, nationalism and populism are said to be closely linked. Nationalists, like populists, may claim that there is but one ‘true religion’ - that is, their own and their followers’ - which helps focus their nationalist vision. …”
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A study on the sustainable financial inclusion in selected SAARC countries: a gender-based perspective by Survase, Madan, Parida, Ratri, Antony, George V.

“…Despite of the penetration of the FI worldwide, inequality and inequity still persists, particularly in lower income countries like South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). …”
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Zones of entrapment and impunity: on the constitution of vague and strange regimes of power by Hallsworth, Simon, Stephenson, Svetlana

“…This article challenges a tendency prominent in critical theory—one that holds that being “vague and strange” constitute qualities of life opposed to the grid-like systems of coercive control intrinsic to the operation of modern power regimes which, by their ascriptive nature, are compelled to suppress all life which exhibits these traits. …”
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Mobile weather station with drones by Mohammad Zaid, Mohamad Nadzirul Ariff, Zohari, Mohd Hakimi

“…In contemporary weather monitoring, the fusion of innovative technologies like mobile weather stations and drones offers unprecedented capabilities for real-time data collection and analysis. …”
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Study on Palm Oil Kernel Shell Coarse Aggregate (PKSCA) as replacement material for coarse aggregate in concrete mix by Ahmad Jeni, Mohamad Luthfi, Zaini, Mohamad Azrul

“…The construction industry is become bigger and bigger each day, but nowadays the price of material are not cheap like the old days. The price is increase drastically by 30% for the past few years. …”
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An overview of out-of-step protection in power systems by Goh, Hui Hwang, Osman, Mohamed Dahir, Mohamed Basaleem, Omer, Qing, Shi Chua, Chin, Wan Ling, Goh, Kai Chen

“…The power system that designed as one of the main requirement is to survive from the larger type of disturbances like faults. The power swing in certain system is the variation in three phase power flow in the power system. …”
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Design of robust Hoo, fuzzy and LQR controller for active suspension of a quarter car model by Mohammed, Kaleemullah, Faris, Waleed Fekry, Faried, Hasbullah

“…Performance of active suspensions like robust Hoo controller, LQR controller and Fuzzy control are compared with existing passive suspension. …”
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Preschool children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in inclusive settings: Challenging but not problematic. by Saad, Supiah

“…An ADHD checklist (ADHDC), specially developed for studying Malaysian preschool children with ADHD, was used in screening children with ADHD-like behaviours. Based on teachers’ rating on the ADHDC, ten children from eight different preschool classrooms were chosen from eight different schools: four schools in the rural areas and four in the urban areas. …”
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Bio-pharmaceuticals : emerging proniosomes in drug delivery by Nanjwade, Basavraj K., Singh, Jeet, Ahmad, Kausar, Manvi, F. V.

“…Vesicular drug delivery system like liposomes and niosomes, sometimes drugs are not delivered in a desired manner because of aggregation, sedimentation, stability problems and tedious method of production. …”
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Iqbal's ideas for the restoration of Muslim dynamism by Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas

“…Islam grew from a humble beginning into a mighty civilizational force. Islamic civilization like all other civilizations, started to decline after reaching its pinnacle of success. …”
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Managerial roles and the training of Malaysian co- operatives' managers by Sarif, Suhaimi Mhd, Ismail, Yusof

“…The results showed that senior managers of co-operatives performed Mintzberg’s managerial roles and sought similar managerial training like their companies counterparts despite operating under different legal frameworks. …”
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Artificial intelligence - A tool for thermal design of cooling towers by Mohiuddin, A. K. M.

“…Artificial intelligence seeks to provide a computational theory of intelligence, besides trying to transform the way we interact with computers, and enlarge the ‘cognitive’ abilities of the computers, thereby opening up many new application areas like Expert Systems, etc. The author has developed an Expert System for the thermal design of wet cooling towers using artificial intelligence as a tool. …”
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Appreciating beauty in Islam by Spahic, Omer

“…The paper shows that beauty in Islam and the utter formation of Islamic aesthetics - just like any other segment of Islamic culture and civilization - cannot be disengaged from the body of Islamic teachings and values and be treated in isolation. …”
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Canadian Muslims and Canada’s domestic and foreign policy issues: an analysis by Islam, Syed Serajul, Hossain, Ishtiaq

“…It also shows that like other Canadians, the Muslim citizens of Canada express their opinion freely on matters, which are of importance to the country. …”
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Experimental observation of Jute/Epoxy composite plate subjected to impact loading by Omar, Nurihan, Syed Mohd, Sharifah Najwa, Aminanda, Yulfian, Syed Mohamed Ali, Jaffar, Kashif, Syed Muhammad

“…A comparative study with typical synthetic fibers like carbon or glass is also conducted. The characterization tests on jute-epoxy show that the tensile behavior is non linear as found for carbonepoxy or glass-epoxy plate.…”
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In search of model for evaluating the quality of e-commerce websites by Balfagih, Zain, Mohamed, Norshidah, Mahmud, Murni

“…Researchers have also shown that there are several perspectives about evaluation on quality for e-commerce websites, that is, one may take an approach or combination of approaches like product quality, systems as product quality, service quality of provider, quality of service offered and quality of the Human Computer Interface (HCI) design. …”
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An approach to improve the robustness of substitution techniques of audio steganography by Zamani, Mazdak, Abdul Manaf, Azizah, Ahmad, Rabiah, Zeki, Akram M.

“…The robustness specially would be increased against those intentional attacks which try to reveal the hidden message and also some unintentional attacks like noise addition as well.…”
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