An assessment of performance and efficiency of team-based organizations: empirical evidence of English premier league (EPL) using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and naturalistic a... by Badmus, Shamisudeen Olusesan

“…This thesis addressed the changing focus in football management and many unresolved questions relating to Performance and Efficiency Measurement (PEM) of a team-based organisation like a Football Club (FC). At a certain point, every organisation needs to evaluate its operation in accordance with its specific objectives to assess its performance; measure the efficiency of its operation and determine if there is any need for corrective actions. …”
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CPW-fed printed UWB antenna with open-loop inverted triangular-shaped slot for WLAN band filtering by Shokri, Majid, Rafii, Vahid, Karamzadeh, Saeid, Amiri, Zhaleh, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The antenna possesses a notch band functionality to filter out interfering C-band signals like wireless local-area network (WLAN). The notch band frequency is determined by physical parameters defining the TSS that allows fine control of the notch's location. …”
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The effect of Fractional Fourier transform angle in encryption quality for digital images by Elhoseny, Heba M., Faragallah, Osama S., Ahmed, Hossam E. H., Kazemian, Hassan, El-sayed, Hala S., Abd El-Samie, Fathi E.

“…The security investigation contains statistical tests like histogram and correlation coefficient, the maximum and the irregular deviation metrics, and the processing time. …”
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Exploring lean team development from the Tuckman's model perspective by Zirar, Araz, Muhammad, Noor, Upadhyay, Arvind, Kumar, Anil, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo

“…Lean teams achieve synergy, support, and goal focus in the performing phase, delivering six functions. However, challenges like prioritisation disagreements due to project overload still exist. …”
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Socially assistive robot "sister robot" as a Covid-19 response and its future plans in health care and clinical applications by Malla, Dipawoli, Bhandari, Pawan

“…Furthermore, it also aims to highlight the possibility of the production of Socially Assistive Robots in developing countries like Nepal and their applications in healthcare.…”
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Qualified empathy: the spectator looking/not looking away by Keefe, John

“…As knowing spectators of (mimetic) empathetic moments, we look with a critical distance as well 'feeling in', 'there but for the grace...', or degrees of moral disengagement toward the other as subject-object. This other is an 'I' like me (I am subject-object to them) in reciprocal states of mutual homeostasis and shared affordances. …”
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AI/ML enabled automation system for software defined disaggregated open radio access networks: transforming telecommunication business by Kumar, Sunil

“…This disaggregated architecture is open, automated, software defined, virtual, and supports the latest advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (AI/ML). …”
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Use of Moringa Oleifera Seeds as Coagulant for Groundwater Treatment in Batch Scale Study by Hashim, Nor Haslina, Santharan, Hema Rathi, Awang, Zarizi, Mohd. Arish@Arshad, Nur Aini

“…A full 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water and most mammals, like humans, are made up of 55-75% water [1]. Groundwater is the water that fills cracks and other openings in the bed of rocks and sand where each drop of rain that soaks into the soil moves downward to the water table, which is the water level in the groundwater reservoir. …”
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Power Factor Correction – A Simulation Approach by Che Ros, Ziana, Nordin, Muhammad Faris, Anuar, Muhammad Abdullah, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Hazim

“…Industrial facilities tend to have a "lagging power factor", where the current lags the voltage (like an inductor). Some industrial sites will have large banks of capacitors strictly for the purpose of correcting the power factor back toward one to save on utility company charges. …”
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A robust digital image watermarking using repetition codes against common attacks by Hassan, Abdullahi Mohamud

“…The proposed methods have undergone several simulation attacks tests in order to check up and compare their robustness against various attacks, like salt and pepper, speckle, compress, Gaussian, image contrast, resizing and cropping attack. …”
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Tensile property of melt mixing co-polypropylene with waste polymer at different composition ratios by Sufian, N. A., M. Rus, A. Z., Syah, A. Shahrizan, M. J., Farhana Hazwanee, M., Noraini, I., S. Aida

“…It can be reused via "sink-float" technique and mixed with another binder like co-polypropylene (co-PP) to enhance the mechani-cal properties of the material. …”

Phase-mismatch dependence of the four-wave mixing effect in semiconductor optical amplifiers by Kharraz, O. M., Connelly, M. J., M. Supa’at, A. S., Abas, A. F., Alresheedi, M. T., Mahdi, M. A.

“…The results reveal a sinc-like behavior in the intensity of FWM conjugate as a function of wavelength separation between transverse electric (TE)/transverse magnetic (TM) pumps due to induced confinement factors difference. …”
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Power quality improvement using dynamic voltage restorer in electrical distribution system: an overview by Mohammed, Ali Basim, Mohd Ariff, Mohd Aifaa, Ramli, Sofia Najwa

“…The DVR is one of the economic solutions to overcome the voltage disturbances like voltage sag/swell and harmonics. It is widely used to mitigate the voltage disturbances in the power distribution system, especially in the medium and low distribution networks. …”
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Anti-social behaviour: local perception and reporting behaviour in a small urban location by Venables, Lucie Mary

“…Those with a disability or long term illness were significantly more likely to report anti-social behaviour. …”
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Dose and duration of opioid use in patients with cancer andn non-cancer pain at an outpatient hospital setting in Malaysia: A retrospective cross sectional study by Zin, Che Suraya, Abdul Rahman, Norny Syafinaz, Ismail, Che Rokiah, Leong, Weng Choy

“…Conclusions: The finding from this study showed that 42% of opioid users at an outpatient hospital setting in Malaysia received opioids for non-cancer pain and 21.8% of these users were prescribed opioid for long term. Oxycodone was the highest prescribed and the majority was for non-cancer pain followed by morphine which was used more frequently for cancer pain. …”
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Effect of tapered angle of a conical nose indenter on the energy absorbing variation of a copper pipe subjected to axial crushing by Shah, Qasim Hussain, ., Hanis Naily, ., Nur Syuhada

“…In the present research work a 100 mm long copper pipe segment with a 1 mm wall thickness is subjected to a drop weight impact by a conical shaped steel indenter with varying nose angles but constant mass. …”
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Enhanced four-wave mixing efficiency of BI-EDF in a new ring configuration for determination of nonlinear parameters by Shahi, S., Harun, S. W., Lim, K. S., Naji, Ahmed Wathik, Ahmad, H.

“…By employing this method, the nonlinear parameter of γ and nonlinear index coefficient of n2 for the 215 cm long Bi-EDF are estimated to be 59.16 (W-1 km-1) and 4.40 × 10-19 (m2/W) respectively at 1612 nm. n2 value per effective area Aeff is estimated to be 1.51 × 10-8 (W-1). …”
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The role of bank loans and deposits in the monetary transmission mechanism in Malaysia by Kassim, Salina, Abdul Majid, M. Shabri

“…To achieve this objective, the study relies on two tests: fi rst, the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) model for the long-run relationship among the variables and second, the impulse response functions and variance decomposition analysis for the short-run relationship among the variables. …”
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Perceiving the Demographic Profile and the Perception of the Chinese and Malays Visitors to Pulau Kukup National Park by Mohd. Yaman, Maheran, Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Ismail Azlan

“…The wetland also supports such species as the Flying Fox Pteropus vampyrus, Smooth Otter Lutra perspicillata, Bearded Pig Sus barbatus, Long-tailed Macaque Macaca fascicularis, Pulau Kukup plays a vital role as one of the world’s most important wetland habitats; it is home to many rare and endangered species. …”
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The paradox struggle between the Islamic and conventional banking systems by Muneeza, Aishath, Wisham, Ismail, Hassan, Rusni

“…Today, the Islamic Banking system which emerged in 1983 has levelled up to the conventional banking system which had rooted itself in the society a long time ago. Whether we believe it or not there are challenges and clashes at hand due to the existence of the dual system in the society and they need to be addressed properly, so that the clashes between these two types of banking system can be minimized. …”
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