Legal obstacles facing Islamic banking in Malaysia by Hassan, Rusni, Muneeza, Aishath, Azzam Wajeeh, Ismail

“…The main focus of the paper is to find out the legal obstacles facing Islamic banking in Malaysia.…”
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Navigating the impact of globalization on bank efficiency in China: panacea or Pandora’s Box? by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…Using the data envelopment analysis method, we compute the efficiency of the Chinese banking sector during 2000– 2007. The empirical findings suggest that the inefficiency of the Chinese banking sector stems largely from scale rather than pure technical. …”
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Determinants of banks’ total factor productivity: the post-Asian financial crisis experience of the Philippines by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…The results indicate that both the domestic and foreign banks have exhibited productivity regress due to technological regress rather than efficiency decline. We find that the more diversified Philippines banks tend to be less productive in their intermediation function. …”
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Are rating agencies' assignment opaque? Evidence from international banks by Bellotti, Tony, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…Accounting for country effects substantially improves predictive performance. We find that support vector machines can produce considerably better predictions of international bank ratings than ordered choice models due to the formers ability to estimate a large number of country dummies unrestrictedly.…”
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Microelectrical mechanical systems switch for designing multi-band antenna by Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Khan, Sheroz, Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur

“…Parametric done for Alumina, SiN, GaAs and Teflon as MEMS bridge materials for finding better results in terms of return loss and number of bands. …”
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Conceptualization of medication, life and death: Religio-scientific approach by Ahmed Shogar, Ibrahim Adam

“…Mankind has been trying to find proper answers to these questions by various means. …”
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Two stages hybrid model of fuzzy linear regression with support vector machines for colorectal cancer by Shafi, Muhammad Ammar

“…The comparisons among all the models were carried out to find the best model by using statistical measurements of mean square error (MSE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). …”
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3rd order coupled-resonator bandpass filter assisted by Groove Gap-Waveguide technology for 26-GHz radio link diplexer by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Parand, Peiman, Zidour, Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Longhi, Patrick, See, Chan Hwang, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Its unit-cells consist of a rectangular metal-pin which is connected to a bottom metal plate and its other side is electromagnetically coupled to a top plate with an air-gap of approximately λ/4 that creates a bandgap, preventing unwanted electromagnetic-wave propagation. …”
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An exploration into the home field, global advantage and liability of unfamiliarness hypotheses in multinational banking by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…On the other hand, we do not find evidence on both the liability of unfamiliarness and home field advantage hypotheses.…”
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Conciliation and mediation in civil and Islamic family laws: issues and challenges by Abdul Hak, Nora

“…Mediation enables the parties to retain control of their own affairs rather than have solution imposed on them.…”
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for the error term. In brief, we find evidence that a lower degree of integration is associated with lower data frequencies. …”
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EU banks rating assignments: is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries? by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. …”
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Ordered choice models of international banks' ratings with an indicator variable for country effects by Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…Using data on international banks’ ratings we find that banks with a greater capitalisation, larger assets, and a higher return on assets have higher bank ratings. …”
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Book review : Streetwalking: LGBTQ lives and protest in the Dominican Republic, by Ana-Maurine Lara by López, María E.

“…In a similar vein, Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic gives priority to the narration of the LGBTQ victims of police repression and political violence—those lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer individuals who hang out in parks and streets and find refuge in each other.…”
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An e-learning system in Malaysia based on green computing and energy level by Ullah, Arif, Mohd Nawi, Nazri, Shahzad, Asim, Khan, Sundas Naqeeb, Aamir, Muhammad

“…The simulation results show that more than 30% of energy reduction by using green computing.…”
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Rethinking jewellery for Korea: a practice-led approach to creating high-visibility wearables by Choi, Won Jeong

“…The challenge for the designer-researcher, therefore, is to find a way to neutralize that tension between the two, so that high-visibility wearables can be accepted as socially desirable. …”
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The Impact of Asian Financial Crisis on Bank: Empirical Evidence from Thailand and Malaysia by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…As for the impact of macroeconomic indicators, we find that economic growth is positively related to Thailand banks’ profitability only during the pre-crisis period. …”
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Remote operation of CNC milling through virtual simulation and remote dekstop interface by , Afzeri, Sutjipto, Agus Geter Edy, Muhida, Riza, Konneh, Mohamed, ., Darmawan

“…Capability of remote operation is supported by an auto setup attachment with a reconfigurable pin type setup free technology installed on the table of CNC milling machine to perform unattended machining process. …”
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Aluminium metal matrix composite: improving wear performance through treatment by Maleque, Md. Abdul, Karim, Md. Rezaul, Yassin, N.

“…The wear test was carried out using a pin-on- disc type tribo-test machine under dry sliding condition. …”
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Wear behavior of modified surface layer produced by TIG melting of preplaced Ti powder in nitrogen environment by Mridha, Shahjahan, Dyuti, S., Shaha, S.K.

“…The wear property of the melt track was investigated using pin-on-disk tribometer at room temperature. The modified surface layer gave a low friction value of 0.12 and wear rate of 0.007895 ×10-4 compared to 1.648 × 10-4 mm3/N/m for the uncoated steel surface.…”
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