Firm Entry Modes and Chinese Business Networks: Malaysian Investments in Vietnam by Lim, Guanie

“…This paper also argues that such investments are often embedded in social and intraethnic ties, which connect Malaysian Chinese firms with Vietnam's ethnic Chinese businessmen. To this end, these firms tend to rely on informal ties and nonmarket institutions in the form of the ethnic Chinese business networks. …”
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Savings and Investment Behaviour of the Consumer of Financial Services and Their Service Expectations from Banks (S/O 12349) by Ahmad, Nor Hayati, Saha, Asish, Eam, Lim Hock, Katib, Mohamed Nasser, Musa, Muhammad Muhaizam, Yeok, Siew Goh

“…In terms of future saving behaviour, 25 percent of households are not likely to make any change in their savings profile in various financial and physical assets in which the percentage distribution of the change in savings of households in four types of asset (deposits, other financial assets, real estate and other physical assets) seems to be normally distributed. The results also indicate that the respondents tend to decrease their percentage of saving in financial assets of non-deposit, other physical assets. …”
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Orientational beamforming via a modified RBF neural network for orientational UWB interference rejection by Han, Jiangyan, Ng, Boon Poh, Er, Meng Hwa

“…Although various techniques have been proposed in the literature to suppress multiuser interference in the time-hopping UWB system, there has been no research on interference suppression in the OBF UWB system. …”
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Impostor syndrome and pretense by Levy, N

“…I end with some suggestions for reducing the prevalence or impact of impostor syndrome.…”

Power system modeling and simulation by Luo, Yishi

“…Nowadays, world-wide electrical power systems tend to be more complicated with the penetration of renewable energy as well as the structural diversity resulting more unpredictable contingences for regulators and engineers to analyze and settle. …”
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Performance of photogrammetry-based makeshift 3D scanning system for geometrical object in reverse engineering by Muhammad Nur Farhan, Saniman, Hariz Syahmi, Zulkifli, Muhammad Izhar, Ishak, Khairul Anuar, Abd Wahid, Amzari, Zhahir, Wan Mansor, Wan Muhamad

“…To do so, four types of actual geometrical test pieces with dimension from 5 mm to 175 mm were fabricated using a CNC machine. 3D models of each test pieces had been developed using the photogrammetry method and compared with those developed using an industrial-grade high-end 3D scanner. …”
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The Malay Standard Framework (KSBM) as a measure of Malay writing mastery in third form activity books by Abd. Nasir, Siti Noridayu, Abdul Halim, Hazlina

“…Mastery in writing skills is an important for students who will seat the end of year exams at school. This is because the weighting of the marking in the Malay subject is the writing of reviews and essays. …”
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The servant's betrayal : the oppression of South Asian servant figures and it's potential solutions in the white tiger and the god of small things by Terrina Kaur Sandhu

“…The discussion of servants in literature has largely been limited to European servants. South Asian servants are hardly explored as servant figures, and rather, tend to fall under the category of “subaltern,” thus homogenising their oppression with that of every other subaltern. …”
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Macroscopic self-propelled objects by Zhao, Guanjia, Pumera, Martin

“…We will also discuss the various sources of energy used by these systems, such as the electromagnetic field, electric field, thermal gradient, and chemical energy, and present how these millimeter- and centimeter-sized devices can move at velocities of tens cm s−1 and distances of several tens of meters.…”
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Taylor Swift : In Her Own Words / by Swift, Taylor, 1989-, author 656019, Hunt, Helena, editor 656018, Agate (Online service) 656009

“…This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Swift's numerous public statements—interviews, op-eds, social media posts, and more. …”
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Hermitian symmetric DFT codes : a new class of complex DFT codes by Kumar, A. Anil, Makur, Anamitra

“…For a Gauss-Markov source, on a binary symmetric channel at lower to moderate bit error rates (BERs), HSDFT codes show better performance than RBDFT codes, and on a Gilbert-Elliot channel HSDFT codes consistently perform better than RBDFT codes.…”
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A tymovirus from Calopogonium mucunoides in Malaysia is not clitoria yellow vein tymovirus: brief report by Gibbs, A.J., Mackenzie, A.M., Abdul-Samad, N.

“…A tymovirus isolated from Malaysian crops of Calopogonium mucunoides has been shown to have virions that are serologically indistinguishable from those of clitoria yellow vein tymovirus. …”

Lower diastolic tension may be indicative of higher proarrhythmic propensity in failing human cardiomyocytes by Zhou, X, Levesque, P, Chaudhary, K, Davis, M, Rodriguez, B

“…These results support the inclusion of end-diastolic volume to be potentially beneficial in the risk stratifications of heart failure patients.…”

Optimising high porosity 3D scaffold by wet electrospinning by Ong, Su Ming

“…Recently, there has been a significant increase of bone tissue engineering research for elderly as they are more prone to bone defects and damages. …”
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Market Adoption of Healthy Buildings in the Office Sector: A Global Study from the Owner’s Perspective by Tan, Zhengzhen, Zheng, Siqi, Palacios, Juan, Hooks, Carl

“…In terms of health-focused building certification systems (BCSs), no empirical and quantitative research has been done on the financial performance of healthy buildings, except for theoretical models. …”
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India's quest for multipolarity by Suryanarayana, P. S.

“…The search for multipolarity of this kind seems to be Delhi’s strategy to overcome China’s opposition and become a peer role-player in global politics.…”
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Mathematical sequences behind genetic codes by Goh, Alfred Yuhui

“…The realm of Mathematics and Science have always been that of discovery, renewal and reconciliation. …”
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Fakeheader: a tool to detect deceptive online news based on misleading news headlines and contents by Che Eembi @ Jamil, Normala, Ishak, Iskandar, Sidi, Fatimah, Affendey, Lilly Suriani

“…Online news has been the primary source of news content for newsreaders. …”
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Executive's Cybersecurity Program Handbook : A comprehensive guide to building and operationalizing a complete cybersecurity program / by Brown, Jason, author 656359, Packt Publishing (Online service) 656336

“…By the end of this book, you'll have gained a thorough understanding of how to build your security program from scratch as well as the importance of implementing administrative and technical security controls. …”
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What is to reproduce? On the overlap, development, and persistence account of reproduction by Palacios-González, C

“…Piotrowska's account also seems to increase our understanding of biological individuality and seems to be compatible with the theory of evolution via natural selection. …”