An exploration into the home field, global advantage and liability of unfamiliarness hypotheses in multinational banking by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…On the other hand, we do not find evidence on both the liability of unfamiliarness and home field advantage hypotheses.…”
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Phase diagrams of a Potts Model with competing binary and ternary interactions by Temir, Seyit, Ganikhodjaev, Nasir, Akin, Hasan, Uguz, Selman

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The Impact of Asian Financial Crisis on Bank: Empirical Evidence from Thailand and Malaysia by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…As for the impact of macroeconomic indicators, we find that economic growth is positively related to Thailand banks’ profitability only during the pre-crisis period. …”
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Mediation as a ‘Nothing to Lose’ Mode for Alternative Mode of Dispute Resolution in Construction Works by Kamarudin, Abdul Rani

“…One way or another, the time taken needed to know the outcome of the dispute, often than not, is too long and too slow, and can even be a painful experience even for the winner. …”
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Critical analysis on the choice of Takaful (Islamic insurance) operating models in Malaysia by Htay, Sheila Nu Nu, Zaharin, Hanna Rabittah

“…Takaful and insurance have been compared long ago by many scholars around the world. Prior literatures of Takaful are mainly focusing on the concept and theoretical nature of takaful and its differences from insurance. …”
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Indictment of misogyny on Mary Wollstonecraft and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain by Hasan, Md. Mahmudul

“…They pit their atypical approach against a long masculinist tradition of mesmerising women by applauding their weaknesses. …”
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Comprehensive extraction method integrated with NMR metabolomics : a new bioactivity screening method for plants, adenosine A1 receptor binding compounds in orthosiphon stamineus B... by Yuliana, Nancy Dewi, Khatib, Alfi, Verpoorte, Robert, Choi, Young Hae

“…The initial step conventional extraction method by a single solvent does not make use of all the metabolites contained in plants. Also, it takes a long time to confirm the target activity of a single compound because of tedious separation steps. …”
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An Islamic finance model for the small and medium-sized enterprises in France by Oseni, Umar Aimhanosi, Hassan, M. Kabir, Matri, Dorsaf

“…With over 2.5 million SMEs in France, the recent report of the Institut Nationale de la Statistiqueet des Etudes Economiques [INSEE] reveals that one in every two new business fails in the long run. This paper examines the need to find credible alternatives for French SMEs to the collateral-based debt financing. …”
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Evolution Performance of Symbolic Radial Basis Function Neural Network by Using Evolutionary Algorithms by Alzaeemi, Shehab Abdulhabib, Tay, Kim Gaik, Huong, Audrey, Sathasivam, Saratha, Majahar Ali, Majid Khan

“…Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) ensembles have long suffered from non-efficient training, where incorrect parameter settings can be computationally disastrous. …”
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The influence of socio-enviromental design factors (SEDeF) of crime prevention on residential property values in Nigeria by Sunday Emmanuel, Olajide

“…The results of the analysis find the set hypotheses to be significant. This is shown through the regression weights and p-values of the influence of the social risk factors and environmental design factors on residential neighbourhood crime to be 0.69 (0.000) and 0.14 (0.000) respectively. …”
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Meeting the challenges of chemical and biological weapons: strengthening the chemical and biological disarmament and non-proliferation regimes by Edwards, Brett, Novossiolova, Tatyana, Crowley, Michael, Whitby, Simon, Dando, Malcolm, Shang, Lijun

“…During this century despite the agreement of some positive measures to strengthen these Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Regimes, there is little doubt that both are facing considerable difficulties at present. However, there is a long and diverse tradition of civil society efforts to help strengthen these regimes and there is some hope that, following the dangers from biological agents exposed in the pandemic, States Parties will be able to find ways to improve the protection afforded by the two Conventions. …”
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Remote operation of CNC milling through virtual simulation and remote dekstop interface by , Afzeri, Sutjipto, Agus Geter Edy, Muhida, Riza, Konneh, Mohamed, ., Darmawan

“…Capability of remote operation is supported by an auto setup attachment with a reconfigurable pin type setup free technology installed on the table of CNC milling machine to perform unattended machining process. …”
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Aluminium metal matrix composite: improving wear performance through treatment by Maleque, Md. Abdul, Karim, Md. Rezaul, Yassin, N.

“…The wear test was carried out using a pin-on- disc type tribo-test machine under dry sliding condition. …”
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Wear behavior of modified surface layer produced by TIG melting of preplaced Ti powder in nitrogen environment by Mridha, Shahjahan, Dyuti, S., Shaha, S.K.

“…The wear property of the melt track was investigated using pin-on-disk tribometer at room temperature. The modified surface layer gave a low friction value of 0.12 and wear rate of 0.007895 ×10-4 compared to 1.648 × 10-4 mm3/N/m for the uncoated steel surface.…”
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Recovery of virus producing NDV vaccine by Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) by Mel, Maizirwan, Arifin, Mohd Azmir, M Pauzi, Sazana

“…The results revealed that higher pressure input (Pin), lower pressure output (Pout), and higher virus concentration led to higher virus titer. …”
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Wear properties of Fe-C-Al cast iron and conventional cast iron - a comparative study by Maleque, Md. Abdul

“…In the present study, the wear test was conducted on both conventional cast iron (CI) and Fe-C-Al cast iron using universal pin-on-disk (POD) machine. The wear track profile and damage surface were characterized using optical profilometer and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) respectively. …”
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Smart home control system design using internet of things based energy harvesting technology by Silalahi, Lukman Medriavin, Indrawan, Muhammad Rafi, Budiyanto, Setiyo, Hanafi, Dirman, Abdul Hamid, Abdul Hamid, Ronaldo, Davit

“…The objective of this research is to provide security for homeowners by facilitating fingerprints and PIN (Personal Identification Numbers) in entering the house, then in the event of a power outage, it activates the function of energy harvesting technology. …”
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A nationwide comparative study between private and public university students’ soft skills by Abdul Karim, Abdul Malek, Abdullah, Nabilah, Abdul Rahman, Abdul Malek, Noah, Sidek M, Wan Jaafar, Wan Marzuki, Othman, Joharry, Borhan, Lihanna, Badushah, Jamaluddin, Said, Hamdan

“…Specifically, comparisons were made between graduates of public and private institutions with respect to the seven elements. Findings of the study suggest that, in general, students of public HEIs scored higher in all seven skills. …”
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ProTEK PSB coating as an alternative polymeric protection mask for KOH bulk etching of silicon by Ab Rahim, Rosminazuin, Bais, Badariah, Yeop Majlis, Burhanuddin, Sugandi, Gandi

“…Further investigation was carried out on the effect of the KOH etching concentration on the stability of the ProTEK PSB coating over the long hours of bulk etching process. Three concentrations of KOH etchants, KOH 20 wt%,KOH 45 wt% and KOH with isopropyl alcohol (KOH+IPA) were investigated. …”
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Satisfaction with the free wireless connection among Muslim university students by Imran , Ayub Ilfandy, Wok, Saodah

“…The specific objectives are: (1) to find out the level of Internet and FWC usage among IIUM undergraduate students; (2) to find out the differences in adoption patterns of FWC in terms of gender, nationality, and academic division; (3) and to find out students’ level of satisfaction towards the new technology. …”
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