Compact lowpass filter with high out-of-band rejection and superwide stopband performance by Mirzaee, Milad, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The new filter topology exhibits less than 0.5-dB passband loss, better than 15-dB return loss, and superwide stopband with rejection better than 40 dB up to 50 GHz.…”
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Commentary: stumbling upon indirect self-enhancement in free will beliefs by Ross, Wendy, Firestein, Stuart

“…The final outcome is far richer than the initial project.…”
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Importance of SME development in Cambodia by Dy, Sovann

“…Three hypotheses are investigated to reveal SMEs' advantages relative to LEs: (1) SMEs are more labour-intensive than LEs and S"MEs provide more jobs for women than LEs; (2) SMEs are as productive as LEs or even more productive than LEs; and (3) srvms are more equitable in distributing the income they generate than LEs. …”
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Design and characterization of single photon APD detector for QKD application by Al-Khateeb, Khalid A. Saeed, Nafi, Nazmus Shaker, Hassan, Khalid

“…The device sensitivity is better than -40 dBm, which is more than an order of magnitude higher than the dark current, corresponding to a detection sensitivity of two photons in pico-second pulses.…”
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Evaluation of nutritional status of recently hospitalized patients by Khattak, Muhammad Muzaffar Ali Khan, Khan, Alam, Begum, Shagufta, Abid, Javeria, Qadir, Syed Saeed

“…In children all the anthropometric parameters were lower than the reference values with the exception for age group 6.1 – 10.0 years, whose weight were more than the reference values. …”
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Schematized meaning of the concept of percent by the 14 year-olds children by Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Suryani

“…Fractional and whole number schemes were used to give meaning to percents less than one hundred and percents greater than one hundred respectively. …”
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Antioxidant study of pulps and peels of dragon fruits: a comparative study by Ruzlan, Nurliyana, Syed Osman Idid, Syed Zahir Idid, Koya, Mustapha Suleiman, Mohamed Rehan, Aisyah, Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim

“…Total phenolic content (TPC) assay demonstrated that peels of both Hylocereus species contained higher phenolic content than the pulps. The phenolic content in peels of H. undatus was higher than H. polyrhizus, but the phenolic content in pulps of H. undatus was much lower than H. polyrhizus. 2, 2, diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay showed that radical scavenging activities of peels for both species were higher than the pulps. …”
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Postural stability in cyclists by Preece, Mia, Grainger, Karl, Starrs, Paul

“…Results: RC had significantly better balance than CN (p <0.001); MTB had significantly better balance than CN (p = 0.004); RC had significantly better balance than MTB (p = 0.046). …”
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Gender and leadership in Greek primary education by Papanastasiou, Efthymia

“…Women constitute more than half of the teaching force in primary schools in Greece but men are more likely than women to achieve headship. …”
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Quality of claims, references and the presentation of risk results in medical journal advertising: a comparative study in Australia, Malaysia and the United States by Othman, Noordin, Vitry, Agnes I., Roughead, Elizabeth E.

“…In Malaysia significantly less unambiguous claims were provided than in Australia and the US (P < 0.001). However, the unambiguous claims were supported by more references than other claims (80%). …”
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Antioxidant study of garlic and red onion: a comparative study by Che Othman, Siti Fairuz, Syed Osman Idid, Syed Zahir Idid, Koya, Mustapha Suleiman, Mohamed Rehan, Aisyah, Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim

“…In addition, EC50 value of garlic is lower than that of the red onion, showing a higher free radical scavenging activity in garlic than in red onion. …”
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Combustion characteristics of a spark ignition engine operating with liquid lpg injection by Mustaffa, Norrizal

“…Since the LPG has lower carbon to hydrogen ratio than gasoline, the reduction of carbon related emissions, CO2 and CO were found lower in LPG operation by 9.15% and 58.55% respectively than gasoline at all testing conditions. …”
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Oil palm leaf fibre and its suitability for paper-based products by Mohd Kassim, Angzzas Sari, Mohd Aripin, Ashuvila, Ishak, Nadiah, Zainulabidin, Muhd Hafeez, Abang Zaidel, Dayang Norul Fairuz

“…Although, this result is lower than wood fibre (53%), OPL has higher hemicellulose content (36.4%) than the wood fibre (27.5%). …”
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Pedestrians walking speed and psychological distance at bus terminal and shopping mall by Mohamad Ali, Mohd Firdaus

“…Male pedestrians walked averagely 5% to 16% faster than female pedestrians. Meanwhile, male adults walked around 7% to 16% faster than male senior adults while female adults walked around 11% to 22% faster than female senior adults at both bus terminal and shopping malls. …”
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Comparison studies on water quality and plankton production between perennial and non-perennial ponds in Bangladesh by Hossain, Md. Yeamin, Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur, Jasmine, Saleha, Md Ibrahim, Abu Hanif, Ahmed, Zoarder Faruque, Ohtomi, Jun, El-Kady, Mohamed A H, Fulanda, Bernerd

“…All water quality parameters in perennial ponds were statistically different (p< 0.05) than that of non-perennial ponds except temperature. …”
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Evaluation of the effective factors of unloading and loading goods in ports and the impact on the environment using the MCDM method by Mombeni, Sahar, Avakh Darestani, Soroush, Shemami, Niloufar Hojat

“…The results of cause-and-effect relationship for sub-criteria of the port environment showed that the impact of sewage, sanitary effluents from the port and ships, and hazardous waste is higher than other sub-criteria and also the impact of petroleum hydrocarbons, sediments, and toxic substances is higher than other sub-criteria.…”

Multi-Way and Poly-Phase Wideband Differential Phase Shifter Based on Metamaterial Technology by Hamidia, A, Honarvar, M. Amin, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…Measured results show that the proposed phase shifter has phase deviation of less than ±4° and return-loss better than 10-dB with an insertion-loss of less than 1 dB across 2.2 to 4.4 GHz.…”
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Transnational entrepreneurship amongst Vietnamese businesses in London by Bagwell, Sue

“…In contrast this study suggests that transnational entrepreneurship today is more fluid than previous studies have suggested and is often characterised by multi-polar (rather than bi-polar) links. …”
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VHF adaptive antenna using a rear defogger by Abdullah, Noorsaliza

“…In the analysis, the VSWR is lower than 3, SCC is lower than 0.5, and the CBP is between -6 dB to -10 dB. …”
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Removal of NO(x) and CO from a burner system by Mohd Jaafar, Mohammad Nazri, Ishak, Mohd Shaiful Ashrul, Saharin, Sanisah

“…A NOx reduction of more than 28% and CO emissions reduction of more than 40% were achieved for blade angle of 60° compared to the 30° blade angle. …”
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