The impact of risk on technical and scale efficiency: empirical evidence from the China banking sector by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…The empirical findings suggest that potential economies of scale to be overestimated in the range of 10% to 22.5% when risk factor is excluded. The inclusion of risk factor has benefited the city commercial banks the most, while the joint stock commercial banks the least. …”
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Separation and purification of cellulase from fermentation broth of sewage sludge by Mukhtaruddin, Muna Tasnim, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah, Rashid , Shah Samiur

“…In this study, crossflow filteration was used for the purification method using microfiltration (0.45 μm) and utrafiltration (10kD, 5 kD and 1 kD). The results revealed that ultrafiltration with membrane size of 1kD gave the best result for purification of cellulase from fermentation broth of sewage sludge which increases the enzyme activity from 22 U/ml after microfiltration to 50 U/ml after 1 kD of ultrafiltration.…”
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Effect of addendum parameters to the formability of aluminum AL 6303 by , Afzeri, M. S., Shahdan, Hussain Shah, Qasim

“…From the result of evaluation obtained that without draw beat, major/minor strain is above FLD while the formability is improved by applying 5 mm draw bead diameter.…”
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Effect of unconventional filters on uniformity, sensitivity and linearity of an imaging system in SPECT by Sayed, Inayatullah Shah, Ahmad, Zakaria, Yee, Fong Shu

“…Standard energy window (20% at 140 keV) was adjusted. Our results show that the improvement in uniformity and linearity over the reduction in system sensitivity. …”
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Compaction of fly ash–aluminum alloy composites and evaluation of their mechanical and acoustic properties by Hrairi, Meftah, Ahmed, Mirghani Ishak, Nimir, Yassin

“…The weight fractions of fly ash in the composites were in the range of 5–30%. The resulting composites were compacted at pressures ranging from 63 MPa to 316 MPa. …”
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Prospects of 3G service: a study on Malaysian customer perspectives by Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Khatibi, Ali, Borucki, Chet, Ab. Yajid, Mohd. Shukri

“…These findings prevailed when age groups view differences in terms of (1) loyalty towards the existing mobile service provider and (2) the perceived greater convenience afthe current 2G/2.5G service. The gender perspective also showed significant differences in terms of the importance to access 30 services and loyalty branding. …”
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The effect of nanoclay on the tensile properties of PLA-kenaf fibre hybrid bionanocomposite by Anuar, Hazleen, Fuad, Faizah, Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul, Ahmad, Zuraida, Abdul Razak, Shamsul Bahri

“…As for PLA nanocomposite, the presence of 5 wt% OMMT showed remarkable improvement in tensile strength. …”
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Processes involved in the design of a segmented rubber tracked vehicle for Sepang peat terrain in Malaysia by Rahman, Mohammed Ataur, Yahya, Azmi, Bardaie, Mohd. Zohadie, Wan Ismail, Wan Ishak

“…The simulation results showed that the nominal ground pressure of the vehicle is 23.5% lower than the bearing capacity of the peat terrain. …”
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Tunable S+/S band Q-switched thulium-doped fluoride fiber laser using tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) by Ahmad, H., Ismail, Nor Najwa, Aidit, S. N., Yusoff, Norazriena, Zulkifli, Mohd Zamani

“…The repetition rate was measured to be 36.5 kHz with a minimum pulse width of 3.7 µs, as well as a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of approximately 42 dB. …”
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Stable multiwavelength semiconductor optical amplifier-based fiber laser using a 2-mode interferometer by Ahmad, Harith, Azmy, Nur Fatini, Aidit, Siti Nabila, Zulkifli, Mohd Zamani

“…The TMI generates in a comb-like spectrum with a 1-nm wavelength spacing and extinction ratio of 5.7 dB. By incorporating a TMI in the laser cavity, stable multiwavelength operation is obtained with 30 output channels from 1570.8 to 1600.8 nm with peak powers of at least 10 dB from the highest peak. …”
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An interference cancellation algorithm for fourier-based and wavelet-based OFDM systems by Abdullah, Khaizuran, Neville, Katrina L., Hussain, Zahir

“…Simulation results performed at a SNR of 5d8 resulted in an error measurement of 0.01812 for wavelet OFDM and an error of approximately 0.03277 for Fourier-OFDM for the ideal case and for the nonideal case an error of 0.01817 was measured for wavelet-based OFDM and 0.03167 for Fourier-based OFDM. …”
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EEG analysis for understanding stress based on affective model basis function by Rahnuma , Kazi Shahzabeen, Abdul Rahman, Abdul Wahab, Kamaruddin, Norhaslinda, Abdul Majid, Hariyati Shahrima

“…Keywords: Electroencephalography (EEG), Kernel Density Estimation (KDE), Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP), Valance (V), Arousal (A)…”
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Beam-deflection using gradient refractive-index media for 60-GHz end-fire antenna by Dadgarpour, Abdolmehdi, Zarghooni, Behnam, Virdee, Bal Singh, Denidni, Tayeb A.

“…The simulation and experimental results show that an antenna with a 5 × 4 array of GRIM unit-cells can steer the main beam in the E-plane by +26° with respect to the end-fire direction over 57-64 GHz. …”
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A compact balanced antipodal bow-tie antenna having double notch-bands by Dadgarpour, Abdolmehdi, Jolani, Farid, Yu, Yiqiang, Chen, Zhizhang, Virdee, Bal Singh, Denidni, Tayeb A.

“…In addition, the antenna provides notch-bands across 3.3–4 and 5–6 GHz to minimize interference from the WiMAX and WLAN networks.…”
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'Spaces to speak' of sour milk : exploring African-Caribbean-British women's activism and agency on childhood sexual abuse from the 1980s to the present day by Wilson, Joanne

“…The thesis presents findings from 5 in-depth interviews with Black British feminists (Experts); a partial content analysis of British feminist periodicals from 1980s onward; 7 in-depth interviews with African-Caribbean British victim-survivors of CSA and a survey examining Black, Asian and Minority, Ethnic service provision (BAME) in 13 Rape Crisis Centre’s in England and Scotland.…”
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EM Isolation Enhancement Based on Metamaterial Concept in Antenna Array System to Support Full-Duplex Application by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Vittori, Marco, Colangeli, Sergio, Virdee, Bal Singh, Andújar, Aurora, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The proposed antenna array has physical dimensions of 65×22.5×1.6 mm3 and an electrical size of 2.16λo×0.75λo×0.053λo, where λo is free space-wavelength at mid-band of 10 GHz.…”
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COVID‐19 comorbidities, associated procoagulant extracellular vesicles and venous thromboembolisms: a possible link with ethnicity? by Inal, Jameel

“…In a meta-analysis of seven studies (1,576 infected patients) the co-morbidities included hypertension (21.1%), diabetes (9.7%), cardiovascular disease (CVD), (8.4%) and respiratory system disease (1.5%). Of the critically ill COVID-19 patients with these co-morbidities and an associated hyperinflammatory state admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), up to 31% suffered thrombotic episodes (even with thromboprophylaxis), in particular, venous thromboembolisms (VTE), one of the important sequelae of COVID-19.…”
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Reducing conflict and containment rates on acute psychiatric wards: the Safewards cluster randomised controlled trial by Bowers, Len, James, Karen, Quirk, Alan, Simpson, Alan, Stewart, Duncan, Hodsoll, John

“…Results For shifts with conflict or containment incidents, the experimental condition reduced the rate of conflict events by 15% (95% CI 5.6–23.7%) relative to the control intervention. …”
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Wide stopband planar Microwave bandpass filter design by Riaz, Muhammad, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…Simulation results reveal that the proposed design enables the upper and lower transmission zeros to be adjustable independently by (±16.5%) prior to fabrication. Moreover, the coupling scheme employed allows the filter’s centre frequency to be adjusted by 8.69% and 3dB fractional bandwidth by 7.1% with insignificant effect on the stopband characteristics. …”
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A roadmap for lean production tools implementation by Zeinalpour Ahrabi, Saeed, Avakh Darestani, Soroush

“…By analysing the obtained results, a suitable roadmap for the implementation of lean manufacturing tools [including personnel (continuous improvement, performance management, organising), Kaizen, value stream map, 5S, standard work, productive maintenance, pull system, Jidoka, single minute exchange of die, Heijunka and continuous flow] has been presented.…”
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