The problem of the public good and the implications for researching educational policies for social justice by Ross, Alistair

“…Chapter 1 opened a discussion on what is meant by social justice in education, and the issues involved in defining this, and what research directed towards this would look like. We identified different types of potential injustices, and the subsequent chapters examined various of these in turn, in a range of educational contexts, through the prisms of research directed towards finding policy initiatives that might counter the effects of particular inequities. …”
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Heritage land in the United States: continuity and conflict by Roberts, John

“…This thesis sets out to explain the establishment and protection of United States federal heritage land, through some 200 years of conflict and change. It uses concepts like preservation, conservation and exploitation. …”
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'It hurts my heart': Afghan women in London negotiating family relationships and (im)mobility regimes across borders by Ryan, Louise, López, María E., Rasa, Mursal

“…We consider the role of ICTs and the limitations of poor connectivity, especially in countries like Afghanistan, and the gender power dynamics that may limit women's access to technologies.…”
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Investigating fine-tuning of large language models for text summarisation by Khaliq, Usama, Patel, Preeti

“…The limited performance increase from the fine-tuned models was likely due to small datasets and medium-sized LLMs. …”
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Development of IoT-based heatstroke early symptoms monitoring system for students in Malaysia by A Rahim, Nabilah, Othman, Nurmiza

“…As climate change intensifies, the risk of heat-related illnesses becomes a growing concern, especially for vulnerable populations like young adults. This system aims to proactively address this issue by providing real-time monitoring of early symptoms associated with heatstroke. …”
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Photocatalytic degradation of dye wastewater by Hamdan, Mohamad Alif Hakimi, Hairom, Nur Hanis Hayati, Ahmad, Mohd Khairul, Madon, Rais Hanizam, Abu Bakar Sidik, Dilaeleyana, Dzinun, Hazlini

“…Dye wastewater is the major environmental issue of the textile and printing industries besides other minor issues like solid waste, health and safety. The use of synthetic chemical dyes in various manufacturing industrial process has increased considerably over the past decades, resulting in the release of dye-containing industrial effluents into aquatic ecosystem and soil [1]. …”
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On the exploration and exploitation in popular swarm-based metaheuristic algorithms by Hussain, Kashif, Mohd Salleh, Mohd Najib, Cheng, Shi, Shi, Yuhui

“…Among such algorithms are swarm-based methods like particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimization which are increasingly attracting new researchers. …”
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Development of tool life prediction model of TiAlN coated tools during the high speed hard milling of AISI H13 steel by Amin, A. K. M. Nurul, Hafiz, A.M. Khalid, Lajis, M. A.

“…Recently with the advent of new fabrication and coating technology, tool insert like TiAlN coated carbide is receiving increasing attention from both industrial and research communities. …”
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Enzymatic analysis of native and recombinant fibrinolytic enzyme from bacillus cereus 13BN isolated from belacan by Zakaria, Zarita

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The nature and dynamics of human rights violation in Bangladesh: an analysis by Quddus, S. M. Abdul, Hoque, Morshadul

“…Human rights violation in Bangladesh by law enforcing agencies can be understood in different forms and partly as part of the regime’s strategies of controlling political rivals and or lack of interest to protect the rights of poor section of the society like women, children and the poor. …”
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Social and HIV/AIDS risk behaviours in a fishing community by Samsuddin, Niza, Ali, Aishah, Md Aris, Mohd Aznan, Draman, Samsul, Akter, Seikh Farid Uddin

“…Further research needs to be done among more specific target groups in villages like youths, parents and school children, in order to identify the causal chains of deeper structure of HIV/AIDS risk for proximal and distal risk factors intervention.…”
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Potential beta-glucosidase inhibitor from Malaysian medical plants by Ahmad Barkat, Anumsima, Jamal, Parveen, Amid, Azura

“…Therefore an investigation is required in a bionetwork rich and industrially-developed country like Malaysia to use alternative approaches to treat diabetics, such as plant based medicine. …”
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Enhancement of dewatering properties of Kaolin suspension by using Cationic Polyacrylamide (PAM-C) Flocculant and Surfactants by Hussain, Jabir, Jami, Mohammed Saedi, Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu

“…In this study, kaolin synthetic sludge was used as model material as it has similar property of being very difficult to dewater like wastewater treatment plant sludge. Previous study reported that simultaneous addition of PAMC to the surfactants decreased the settling rate and also helped to reduce the moisture content substantially. …”
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Contribution of Lofti Asker Zadeh to fuzzy logic by Ameer Amsa, Mohamad Ghazali, Ismail, Ahmad Faris

“…Fuzzy set theory led to development of various intelligent machines that able to decide the solution in the way more to 'human like manner' which called Intelligent System (IS) to deal with uncertainty and impreciseness of real world problems.…”
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Digital watermarking techniques and methodologies by Khalifa, Othman Omran, Yusof, Yusnita

“…It is strong against attacks like compression where spatial domain is not. Image watermarking techniques can be distinguished according to the way the watermark is revealed from the watermarked image. …”
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Enhancement of voip and video streaming performance over IEEE802.11e WLAN by Hameed, Shihab A., Hour, Bahi J. A.

“…The 802.11 g version applies the same multicarrier modulation technique as 802.11 a, but operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band like 802.11 b. However, due to channel conditions and protocol overhead, the maximum achievable throughput on the MAC layer is less than the data rate available on the wireless medium for the mentioned IEEE 802.11 versions…”
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The liquid phase oxidation of styrene with tungsten modified silica as a catalyst by Adam, Farook, Mohamed Iqbal, Mohammad Anwar

“…The reaction is proposed to be catalyzed by pertungstic acid like intermediate which was formed upon the interaction of tungsten oxo species (WO) with H2O2. …”
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Intelligent robust control of high precision positioning systems using ANFIS by Rafaat, Safanah, Martono, Wahyudi, Akmeliawati, Rini, Legowo, Ari

“…At the same time, precision/accuracy requirement becomes more and more stringent because of factors like the reduced size of components in modern mechanical devices or microelectronics products and high-quality surface-finishing requirements. …”
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Religious and spiritual Beliefs and practices of patients and physicians from a tertiary care hospital in Malaysia by Rathor, Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi, Akter, Seikh Farid Uddin, Mohd Shah, Azarisman Shah, Omar, Ahmad Marzuki

“…Concomitantly, we aim to assess the beliefs of our patients and whether they like to address such issues. Methods: Questionnaire based cross sectional survey among hospitalized patients and their treating physicians. …”
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The impact of sukuk on corporate financing: Malaysia evidence by Haron, Razali, Ibrahim, Khairunisah

“…The distinctive effect of bond market development with sukuk element on Malaysian firms shows the substantial influence of country specific factors like bond market development as well as governance incorporate financing decision. …”
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