The impact of threat of punishment on tax compliance and non-compliance attitudes in Malaysia by Mohd. Isa, Khadijah, Mohdali, Raihana, Yussof, Salwa Hana

“…They tend to avoid taxes when they are threatened with tax audits and penalties. …”
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Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour: cause of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding. by Ngow, Harris Abdullah, Wan Mohd Nowalid, Wan Khairina

“…It can cause occult gastrointestinal bleeding when conventional investigations fail to detect the bleeding lesions. …”
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New exact series for modal green's function by Hamed, Samier M. Ali, Bashir, Saad Osman

“…This paper presents a new exact series for modal Green's function that arises when solving the problems of electromagnetic scattering from bodies of revolution. …”
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Increasing the speed of convergence of an artificial neural network based ARMA coefficients determination technique by Aibinu, Abiodun Musa, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Emiyoka, Shafie, Amir Akramin, Najeeb, Athaur Rahman

“…The results obtained by introducing sequential and batch method of weight initialization, batch method of weight and coefficient update, adaptive momentum and learning rate technique gives more accurate result and significant reduction in convergence time when compared t the traditional method of back propagation algorithm, thereby making FFBPNN an appropriate technique for online ARMA coefficient determination.…”
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Behavior of indented sandwiches structure with Nomex honeycomb core and metallic skins subjected to compressive loading (CAI) by Aminanda, Yulfian, Castanie, Bruno, Barrau, Jean-Jacques

“…The honeycomb is represented by a grid of non-linear springs which its behavior law is obtained by performing simple transverse uniform compression test on a block of honeycomb alone.The comparisons between computation and test result show that the model can simulate accurately the form of damage geometry during indentation, its residual print when the load is relieved (relaxation) and the residual strength and the evolution of damage geometry during CAI.…”
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Zakat of salary through income tax rebate: understanding its legal bases in Islamic Jurisprudence by Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah

“…This paper presents a synthetic analysis of the contemporary juristic views to thrash out this and other incidental matters as and when it arise. This matter needs to be studied further if we desire to implement Islamic commands in contemporary setting. …”
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Understanding and addressing the 'fit' between user, technology and organization in evaluating user acceptance of healthcare technology by K.-S Mohamadali, Noor Azizah

“…This paper attempts to gain empirical support for the inclusion of ‘fit’ between user, technology and organization when evaluating user acceptance of the healthcare technology.…”
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Transient entropy squeezing of a single-Cooper-pair box placed inside a phase-damped cavity by Abdel-Shafi F., Obada, Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza, Abdel-Aty, Mahmoud

“…This article provides a convenient framework for a quantitative evaluation of the transient entropy squeezing generated when a single-Cooper-pair box irradiated by a classical field taking into account a phase-damped cavity. …”
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Some thoughts on the relationship between law and religion in Malaysia by Ab Aziz, Shamrahayu

“…Religion, in one way or another, is seen as having a special position in Malaysia especially when the Constitution establishes a state religion. …”
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Fiscal policy in an Islamic economy and the role of Zakat by Yusoff, Mohammed

“…Likewise the Zakat expenditure could be increased, by using the Zakat surplus accumulated during the boom periods, when the economy is in the down-swing to spur aggregate spending and economic activities. …”
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Islam and the legal system of Malaysia by Shuaib, Farid Sufian, Bari, Abdul Aziz

“…All these mean that one has to see the issue beyond the days when English law principles began to be applied in this land. …”
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Mareva injunction as a preventive relief: the Malaysian experience by Ali, Zuraidah

“…Century Hotel Sdn Bhd, that such an application was granted when Raja Azlan CJ held that Mareva injunction shoud be available in Malaysia to fulfill modern commercial need. …”
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Environmental benefits and implicatons on nature by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…Man subsequently manages, uses and manipulates the environmenr for good or bad motives according to his conscious. Obviously when man develops this bounty he directly or indirectly opts to maltreatmenr on the natural conservation by being profligate and rapacious. …”
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Intelligent diagnostic feedback for online multiple-choice questions by Guo, Ruisheng, Palmer-Brown, Dominic, Lee, S. W., Cai, Fang Fang

“…When students attempt multiple-choice questions (MCQs) they generate invaluable information which can form the basis for understanding their learning behaviours. …”
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“Time out”: a strategy for reducing men’s violence against women in relationships? by Wistow, Richard, Kelly, Liz, Westmarland, Nicole

“…Policy and practice lessons are drawn from the findings through connecting broader and deeper measurements of what success means when working with domestic violence perpetrators to the ways in which the time-out technique was used.…”
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The use of statement banks as a means of assessing large groups in accounting by Sandhu, Sucha

“…The question is how as lecturers can we give timely formative feedback to students when we are dealing with so many scripts? One possible strategy is considered in this paper, which reports on an evaluation of the effectiveness of statement banks as a means of assessing large groups of students.…”
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Promoting the Individual Learning Styles of Masters Students Studying Marketing-related Modules through the Use of YouTube Video-Clips by Lance, Justin

“…It is often hard for academics to find resource material, particularly visual material for new and emerging disciplines; particularly when Universities are developing courses faster than teaching materials are made generally available. …”
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Channel 4 and Celebrity Big Brother 2007: multiculturalist or segregationist? by Fazal, Shehina

“…The paper suggests that the contemporary understandings of multiculturalism and social segregation have to be foreground, when analysing entertainment programmes such as CBB 2007.…”
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Misplaced talent by Bartlett, Dean

“…There are many more commonalities than differences when we look at how psychology has been applied to the world of work in different regions across the globe, but practitioners can sometimes struggle in their attempts to translate and apply to their own practice the very rich body of scientific research and theory upon which the profession is based. …”
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Costantini, Mauro, Paradiso, Antonio

“…In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. …”
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