Bioaccumulation of selected metals in fresh water haruan fish (channa striatus) collected from Pahang River Basin, Malaysia by Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal, John, Akbar, Habab, M., Mohd, A.Y., Yunus, Kamaruzzaman

“…Nevertheless, the findings from this study revealed that all the heavy metals concentrations in the tissues were lower than the maximum permissible limit as recommended by The Malaysian Food Regulation and hence safe for human consumption. Long term monitoring study is needed to implement various fishery management plans to safeguard the quality of C. striatus wild stock.…”
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Halal brand awareness influence on consumers’ loyalty towards Islamic banking system by Maulan, Suharni, Omar, Nor Asiah

“…Its significance is not merely for organizational competitiveness, but more importantly is to ensure that in the long run the Islamic banking industry remains resilient. …”
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Meteorological condition and building effects on indoor/outdoor (I/O) air quality in London by Mohd. Aris, Mohd Shukri, Kelly, Frank, Barratt, Benjamin

“…The biologically relevant exposure time is seldom known, especially for mixtures as complex as those found indoors. Long-term continuous monitoring of gaseous pollutants is being carried out at adjacent internal and external sampling points at two diverse sites within London in order investigate the transport and chemical transformation of outdoor pollution indoors in both naturally and mechanically ventilated buildings. …”
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Systematic phonics intervention and its impact on the development of phonics skills and speech perception among children with hearing loss using spoken language by Abdul Rahim, Zurahani, Brown, P. Margaret

“…However, a mixed result was evident for speech perception following the implementation of ten weeks of intervention. Poor long-term retention of the acquired skills at post-intervention suggests a need for a prolonged period of intervention to show any significant change. …”
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Poincare based PPG signal analysis for varying physiological states by Kazmi , Syed Absar, Shah, Mansoor Hussain, Khan, Sheroz, Khalifa, Othman Omran, ., Muhammad Muzammil

“…The outcomes are quite obvious and are indicative of the physical states in terms of short and long term variability. …”
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Upward dead-end filtration of solid/liquid mixture containing fine-bubbles by Tanaka, Takanori, Ubukata, Hikaru, Yoshimoto , Akihiko, Jami, Mohammed Saedi, Iwata, Masashi

“…Microscopic bubbles with diameter <50 μm are generally called fine-bubbles and have different behaviors from ordinary bubbles. For example, very long stagnation time and having pressurized interior gas due to surface tension are characteristics of fine-bubbles. …”
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Impersonate affecting users' attitude toward facebook in Egypt by Hassan El Hoby, Hany Mohamed, Zeki, Akram M.

“…Anyone with an email address can make an account as long as he accepts the terms and conditions of the website regarding privacy. …”
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Three phase UPFC regulator with reduced bus capacitance for solar PV application system by Uddin, Md. Nasir, Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur, Nithe, N. A.

“…The Instantaneous Power balance with negative sequence current allows a hundred-fold reduction in the value of DC bus capacitance which allows long life polypropylene or ceramic capacitors to replace of electrolytic capacitor in this application. …”
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The influence of self-regard on response of belief in God and awareness of prophetic teaching by Teke, Mustafa, Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham, Syed Hassan, Sharifah Sariah, Othman, Nooraini

“…Personality and religion relationship has long been studied by Western and Muslim researchers in order to find any association between religious factors and a person's behavior and thought. …”
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Metastatic neuroendocrine tumor of small cell type in a kidney transplant recipient by Kamil, A. Mohd, Draman, Che Rosle, Seman, Mohd Ramli, R, Kalavathy, Mubarak, M. Y.

“…Malignancy is a significant long-term complication of successful renal transplantation. …”
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Rainfall forecasting models using focused time-delay neural networks by Htike, Kyaw Kyaw, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…Despite its importance, statistical rainfall forecasting, especially for long-term, has been proven to be a great challenge due to the dynamic nature of climate phenomena and random fluctuations involved in the process. …”
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An integrated scheme to improve performance of fast mobile IPv6 handover in IEEE 802.16e network by Seyyedoshohadaei, Seyyed Masoud, Khatun, Sabira, Mohd. Ali, Borhanuddin, Othman, Mohamed, Anwar, Farhat

“…To apply the layer 3 (L3) handover protocol over the existing IEEE 802.16e layer 2 (L2) handover scheme, the fast mobile IPv6 was used by many researches, but long latency is main challenge for real-time applications. …”
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Chemical resistance tests on PP-ternary nanocomposite for its application in bioreactor liner fabrication by Yusof, Faridah, Salawudeen, T. Olalekan, Shah, Qasim Hussain, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid, Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu

“…Specifically, the investigation focused on the changes in the physico-mechanical properties of PPTN following long term of exposure to these chemicals. The results show slight increase in the weight and dimensions of samples in the first few days, followed by constant reading for the period of 4 weeks. …”
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Identification of genes involved in flowering in Stevia rebaudiana using expressed sequence tags (ESTs) by Razali, Amin, Samsulrizal, Nurul Hidayah, Zainuddin, Zarina

“…Exposure of the stevia plant to long-day conditions (increased exposure to light) will delay the flowering process, which led to an increase in glycoside accumulation. …”
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A structural model for cost effective building maintenance through design for maintainability by Ganisen, Shubashini

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Triple-band planar dipole antenna for omnidirectional radiation by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Located under the horizontal rectangular patch are two λ/2 long meander-line stubs symmetrically interfaced to the feedline. …”
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From Macro to Micro-Level Constructions in Course Design and Development in Higher Education: the case of a ‘principled’ framework for a new Masters in Public Health by Musoro, Livingstone

“…This advantage in higher education comes from a long-standing feature of academic life – the ‘freedom’ and ability to design and develop courses. …”
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Erdogan, Burcu, Kuzin, Vladimir

“…As a first step, we use the Stock and Watson (1998) procedure to filter the data in order to extract the long-run component of the series; then, following Phillips and Sul (2007), we estimate the relative transition parameters. …”
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Interest and exchange rate risk and stock returns : a multivariate GARCH-M modelling approach by Beirne, John, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Spagnolo, Nicola

“…The econometric framework is a four-variate GARCH-in-mean model, which incorporates long-and short-term interest rates in turn. We find in most cases a positive effect of stock market returns on mean returns in each sector; by contrast, interest rates and exchange rates have a significant effect only in a few cases, respectively negative and without a clear sign pattern. …”
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A hybrid Verilog-A and equation-defined subcircuit approach to MOS switched current analog cell modeling and simulation in the transient and large signal ac domains by Brinson, Mike, Jahn, Stefan, Nabijou, Hassan

“…However, with the growing complexity of this type of circuit, transient domain simulation times can become prohibitively long, restricting the size of circuit that can be easily investigated. …”
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