Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Costantini, Mauro, Paradiso, Antonio

“…In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. …”
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Quality and quantity; policy objectives and outputs: is the Mayor of London delivering on his housing and social justice objectives by Bowie, Duncan

“…This article reviews the role played by the Mayor of London in planning for housing in London since the establishment of the new London governance structure in 2000. …”
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Book review : Capital and ideology by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity.…”

Glocalisation of information services by Tredinnick, Luke, Laybats, Claire

“…Published continually since 1991, the BIR Annual Survey has provided an invaluable insight into changing demands, trends, and resource requirements in the business information sector for over thirty years. …”
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Blended workplaces by Tredinnick, Luke, Laybats, Claire

“…Published continually since 1991, the BIR Annual Survey has provided an invaluable insight into changing demands, trends, and resource requirements in the business information sector for over thirty years. …”
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Turkey and the Balkans: bringing the Europeanisation/de-Europeanisation nexus into question by Alpan, Başak, Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…This article is about the main framework and the rationale of the special issue, which deals with Turkey’s increasing ethno-religious, pragmatic and complicated involvement and activism in the Balkans since 2002, under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi - AKP). …”

Phytochemical and biological investigation of erigeron annus (L.) Pers for antimicrobial activity and potential DNA gyrase inhibitors by Zhang, Yi Fan

“…(fleabane) is one of the most valuable plants in the genus, used in Chinese folk medicine to treat indigestion, malaria, enteritis, hepatitis and hematuria increasingly since the 1970s. However it is not an indigenous species in China and has not been officially recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopeia. …”
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Human nature: why ‘urban rewilding’ is good for us by Moxon, Sian

“…Since our very evolution in the forests, humans have had an innate need for nature. …”
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Investigation on the performance of crushed tires as cement replacement in concrete by Wan Mohammad, Wan Ahmad Soffian, Abas, Nor Haslinda, Shahidan, Shahiron

“…The disposal and reprocessing of tires are difficult since they contain complex mixtures of different materials such as rubber, carbon black, steel cord and other organic and inorganic minor components ..…”
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Measurement of body temperature and heart rate for the development of healthcare system using IOT platform by Mei Ying, Ng, Ibrahim, Nabilah, Fairuz Norsidek, Nur Izza

“…Having a healthy body is the greatest blessing of life, hence healthcare is required to maintain or improve the health since the healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health through the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of injury, disease, illness, and other mental and physical impairments in human beings. …”
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Omega network hash construction by Chuah, Chai Wen

“…The basic Merkle-Damgard construction runs over the input sequentially, which can lead to problems when the input size is large since the computation time increases linearly. Therefore, an alternative architecture which can reduce the computation time is needed, especially in today's world where multi-core processors and multithreaded programming are common. …”
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Artificial intelligence (AI) by Ismail, Fadillah, al Hosaini, Adnan Ali Hassan, Wei, Chan Shiau, Ruslan, Rumaizah, Maulad Bahrol, Khadijah

“…For example, the book “Automata Studies” came out, compiling now famous articles in the field of cybernetics (Shannon & McCarthy, 1956). Since the first appearance of the words “artificial intelligence”, usually associated with John McCarthy’s 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project, interest in the topic and research into the development of intelligent machines has seen several ups and downs.…”
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Optimization study on sewage sludge conditioning using Moringa Oleifera seeds by Tat, W.K., Idris, Azni, Noor, M.J.M.M., Mohamed, T.A., Ghazali, A.H., Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu

“…These values were obtained under the optimum conditions of mixing speed at 100 rpm, mixing duration of 1 min and Moringa oleifera dosage of 4695 mg/L. The desirability index for the optimized solution was 1.000.…”
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Streptomyces sp. UKMCC_PT15: Potential anticancer agent producer by Zainal Abidin, Zaima Azira, Usup, Gires, Ahmad, Asmat, Lu, Chung-Kuang

“…A mobile phase comprising methanol:0.1% acetic acid (95:5) with a flowrate of 1ml/min was the best condition to separate ZAI1-23-2 to 5 fractions (ZAI1-29-1 – ZAI1-29-5). …”
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"سيرة خير البرية في قصيدتي "البردة للبوصيريٌ و"الأمين لعبد الصمد سعيد دراسة مقارنة (Sirah Khairul Bariyyyah fi qasidati " Burdah" lil Bosara wa al-Amin li Abdul Samad Said dirasa... by Ahmad H.Osman, Rahmah, Nasir, Mohd Shahrizal

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Model fitting for biodiesel yield analysis from crude palm oil (CPO) by Kabbashi, Nassereldeen, Alam, Md. Zahangir

“…This was carried by finding the optimal values of reaction time, 60 min, reaction temperature, 60 ºC, agitation speed, 250 rpm, molar ratio of methanol-to-oil, 10:1 (m/m), and dosage of the catalyst, 1.4 (%wt). …”
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Palm tocotrienol-rich fraction reduced plasma homocysteine and heart oxidative stress in rats fed with a high-methionine diet by Ku Zaifah, Norsidah, Asmadi, Ahmad Yusof, Azizi, Ayob, Othman, Faizah, Kamisah, Yusof

“…The high-methionine group had a lower glutathione peroxidase activity (49 ± 3 vs 69 ± 4 pmol/mg protein/min) than the control group. This reduction was reversed by palm TRF at 60 and 150 mg/kg diet (p < 0.05), but not by folate. …”
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Purification, characterization and kinetic properties of alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase from wheat flour (Triticum aestivum) by Jameel, Ahmad Tariq, Soropogui, Keamou M.

“…Using a 16 mM solution of alpha naphthyl acetate as substrate, the maximum activity of the purified enzyme, alpha naphthyl acetate esterase (ANAE) was found to be 0.78 U at the optimum conditions of 40 ◦C and pH 8.0 for 15 min of incubation. The Michaelis–Menten parameters Km and Vmax of the purified enzyme were estimated using Langmuir linear plot as 22.5 mM and 4.71 U mg−1, respectively. …”
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Optimization of supercritical carbon dioxide extraction parameters of cocoa butter analogy fat from mango seed kernel oil using response surface methodology by Akanda, Md. Jahurul Haque, Sarker, Md. Zaidul Islam, Nik Ab Rahman, Nik Norulaini, Ferdosh, Sahena, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Mohd Omar, A.K.

“…The optimized oil yield was predicted to be 11.29 % at 44.2 MPa, 72.2 °C and CO2 flow rate of 3.4 ml/min which was close to the oil yield (11.7 %) of Soxhlet extraction method. …”
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A comparative study of dexmedetomidine and propofol for sedation in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit by Md Ralib, Azrina, Ali, Saedah, Ahmad, Mohd Nikman, Mohd Ghazali, Ziyadi, Nik Mohamad, Nik Abdullah

“…Results: Patients sedated with dexmedetomidine required significantly lower dose of morphine compared to propofol [mean (sd): 12.80 (2.61) versus 15.86 (1.87) mg/kg/min, p=0.00]. Mean heart rate was also significantly lower in dexmedetomidine group compared to propofol group [mean (CI): 74.48 (70.38,78.59) versus 83.85 (79.61,88.09) per minutes, p=0.00]. …”
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