My say : Gold still glitters by Mydin Meera, Ahamed Kameel

“…In recent week,arguments have raged about the fact that gold was ideal money in the past and thatit can no longer be an attractive investment for the long term.Nonetheless,i believe gold is still ideal money althought its role as money was stripped after the collapse of Bretton Woods in 1971…”
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Leaders with many traits but a singular purpose: Lee Kuan Yew and Mahathir Mohamad by Hossain , Ishtiaq

“…During their long tenure as Prime Ministers of Singapore (from 1959 to 1990 for LKY) and Malaysia (from 1981 to 2003 for Dr. …”
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Lacrimal bone cyst : a case report by Che Mohamed, Siti Kamariah, Yunus, Rohaizan, AK, Shamin

“…Bone cyst is a rare benign bone tumour which normally affect the vertebral region or long bones. Despite its benign in nature, this lesion is expansile and may cause local compression and destruction of bones and soft tissues. …”
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The efforts of town planning system in Wetland Management in Peninsular Malaysia by Asmawi, M. Zainora

“…The legislation backup of the town planning system offers a strong support for development plan in ensuring the sustainability of wetland habitats are achievable in the long run. Policy and strategy stated in development plan are the mechanisms of town planning system in relation to contribute to wetland management in Peninsular Malaysia.…”
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An assessment of the arabic language programme for human sciences students at IIUM by Mohammad Lotfie, Maskanah

“…Even though English is the medium of instruction for the majority of IIUM academic programmes, Arabic has long been incorporated into the curricula of Communication, English, History, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology programmes. …”
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Leadership and management skills by Fontaine, Rodrigue Ancelot Harvey

“…First, one must be involved in a semester long project that pushes you outside your comfort zone. …”
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Applied learning - the use of timber in architectural education by Fereday, George

“…The CASS School of Architecture at London Metropolitan University conducts a week long making workshop with its second year undergraduate architecture students on an annual basis. …”
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The relationship between the length of the cupulae of free neuromasts and feeding ability in larvae of the willow shiner Gnathopogon elongatus caerulescens (Teleostei, Cyprinidae by Mukai, Yukinori, Kobayashi, Hiroshi, Yoshikawa, Hiromasa

“…In larval willow shiner, the vane-like cupulae of the free neuromasts protrude from the body surface and the long cupulae are 100-250 microm in length (Mukai and Kobayashi, 1991). …”
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Manual versus powered toothbrushes for oral health; an update by Yaacob, Munirah, Scott A, Deacon, Chris, Deery, Anne-Marie , Gleeny, Michael, Heanue, A Damien , Walmsley, Helen, Worthington, Peter G, Robinson

“…Conclusion: Rotation-oscillation powered toothbrushes remove plaque and reduce gingivitis more than manual brushes in the short and long term. …”
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Performance of floating piled raft with varying lengths in soft compressible subsoil by Tan, Yean Chin

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Effect of curing regime on the immobilization of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash in sustainable cement mortar by Baoju Liu, Baoju Liu, Lei Yang, Lei Yang, Jinyan Shi, Jinyan Shi, Shipeng Zhang, Shipeng Zhang, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif

“…Compared with standard curing, steam curing and carbonation curing made the early-age and long-term performance of MIFAmodified mortar better, which can promote the efficient application of MIFA in OPC products.…”
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A study on the application of discrete curvature feature extraction and optimization algorithms to battery health estimation by Hui Hwang Goh, Hui Hwang Goh, Zhen An, Zhen An, Dongdong Zhang, Dongdong Zhang, Wei Dai, Wei Dai, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Kai Chen Goh, Kai Chen Goh

“…Therefore, to account for the unpredictable and random character of the application circumstances, we employ the U-chord long curvature feature extraction approach to minimise errors resulting from rotation and noise. …”
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Effect of curing regime on the immobilization of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash in sustainable cement mortar by Baoju Liu, Baoju Liu, Lei Yang, Lei Yang, Jinyan Shi, Jinyan Shi, Shipeng Zhang, Shipeng Zhang, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif

“…Compared with standard curing, steam curing and carbonation curing made the early-age and long-term performance of MIFAmodified mortar better, which can promote the efficient application of MIFA in OPC products.…”
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Univariate and multivariate time series blood glucose prediction with LSTM deep learning model by Mohamed Nordin, Muhammad Shahmi, Mahmud, Farhanahani

“…Deep learning, particularly Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, proves its ability to grasp long-term dependencies in sequential data however, creating an accurate model for a time-series blood glucose prediction is a complex challenge that requires further research and exploration in the modeling. …”
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The concept of antagonistic metallic couples: a possible antidote for Alzheimer's by Shahab, Syed Alwi

“…The concept that there are naturally occuring antidotes to combat diverse forms of human physical illness has long enthralled the human imagination. The discovery of the existence of antagonistic (opposite) couples among the chemical elements in the periodic table has opened up a promising avenue for investigation into combating the onslaught of Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses involving toxic imbalance of chemical elements in the human body. …”
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Evolving Malaysia by Ani, Mohd Hanafi

“…Towards the end of the 12th century, while Western Europe was still wavering between a dying Roman influence and a dawning Gothicism, preliminaries to a medieval era which would make possible the development of a worldwide humanism, Asia had already lived through her classical period and, sinking into decay, was preparing to face a long period of political and spiritual unrest.…”
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Multi-pulse residual excitation model (MP-PRE) by Shah, Asadullah, Shaikh, Muniba

“…The design of MP-PRE considers that after short term and long term correlations yet some correlation exist over the onset and sudden transitional regions where the energy of the signal is rising. …”
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Tony Fretton Architects: buildings and their territories by Fretton, Anthony

“…This monograph provides a long-awaited reference work to his oeuvre.…”

The Arab reawakenig: international responses and implicarions by Hossain, Ishtiaq

“…Finally, the paper aims to assess the short-term and long-term implications of the 2011 Arab Reawakening. …”
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Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids as food supplements from marine fishes of Tuba Island, Langkawi, Malaysia by Jaswir, Irwandi, Saeed Mirghaini, Mohamed Elwathig, Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah, Osman, Farida

“…Fish lipids are well known to be rich in long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), especially eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). …”
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