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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Practical Islamic input in Orthopaedics Undergraduate Medical Curricula by Zulkifly, Ahmad Hafiz, Mohd Yusof, Nazri, Khalid, Kamarul Ariffin, Che Ahmad, Aminudin, Zakaria@Mohamad, Zamzuri, Aziz, Mohd Yusof, Mohamed Amin, Mohamed Azril, Awang, Mohd Shukrimi, Kasule, Omar Hassan

“…In a non-English speaking country like Malaysia, the burden on the medical students to perform is much bigger due to the language barrier as most teaching medium available are in English. …”
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Multifunctional iron oxide supported alumina/yttria stabilized zirconia hollow fiber adsorptive membrane for water treatment by Paiman, Syafikah Huda

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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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Is professionalization possible within the political culture of Bangladesh? by Quddus, S. M. Abdul

“…Is this paper we have argued that in addition to the above-mentioned actors and factors, the existing political culture and its inherent dynamics of a given society like Bangladesh also has a strong influence in the professionalization process of occupations …”
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From recreation mathematics to pseudo-genes by Noorbatcha, Ibrahim Ali, Shamsudin, Ahmad Faizul

“…An inspiration for life-like recreation could have come from a meta-magical theme proposed by Hofstadter (1986) that reproduces patterns of genies from "Lucas Tower", '"Towers of Hanoi" and "Towers of Brahma". …”
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Energy particle-physics : the efforts of Abdel Nasser Tawfic by Abdulwaheed, Musa, Ismail, Ahmad Faris

“…It is of note that the significance of this chapter is appreciating efforts of Islamic Thinkers and Scientists like Tawfik and his QCD phase diagram contribution to the field of energy particlephysics. …”
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Video coding : MPEG standards by Khalifa, Othman Omran, Issa, Sinzobakwira, Siddiqi, Muhammad Umar

“…A stable behavior, in cases of data loss, as well as allow computation times for encoding and decoding was reached, which is important for symmetric applications, like video telephony…”
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Introduction to fingerprint verification by Hameed, Shihab A., Badurik, Waleed A.

“…Some individuals involved with fingerprint authentication for network access have expressed the feeling that using their fingerprint for authentication makes their feel like criminals. This feeling can lead to fear of the use of fingerprint biometrics. …”
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Design of a high gain & ultra wideband microstrip array antenna for avalanche radar by Mohd. Isa, Farah Nadia, Paul V., Brennan

“…In order to ensure the power is transferred smoothly from the main input port, the feed is design in novel spider like tapered feed network while ensuring the overall antenna function is not compromised. © 2011 IEEE.…”
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