Preliminary analysis on the effect of rain attenuation on Free Space Optics (FSO) propagation measured in tropical weather condition by Ahmad Zabidi, Suriza, Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Naji, Ahmed Wathik

“…Non-selective scattering is wavelength independent and exists due to rainfall. In country like Malaysia rain season with heavy rain can reduce the received power of FSO link to below the threshold. …”
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The use of zakat revenue in Islamic financing: jurisprudential debate and practical feasibility by Mahmud , Mek Wok, Shah Haneef, Sayed Sikandar

“…In practice, however, it seems that the arguments by the proponents is favored as some counties like Kuwait and Malaysia, aside from providing handouts, also finance health care and education for the poor and needy. …”
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Efeminasi sebagai pendahuluan kepada pembentukan seorang mak nyah (Effeminacy as a Prelude to being a transsexual) by Md. Noon, Hazizan

“…An effeminate is a male behaving like a woman. The paper discusses the main factors of effeminacy as perceived by the non-transsexuals from among the normal male population as well as the effeminates’ friends. …”
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Square patch feature: faster weak-classifier for robust object detection by Mohd Mustafah, Yasir, Bigdeli, Abbas, Azman, Amelia Wong, Dadgostar, Farhad, Lovell, Brian

“…The computation requires fewer arithmetic operations and fewer accesses to the main memory in comparison to the well known Viola-Jones Haar-like classifier. In addition to the faster computation, the weak classifier can be extended for in-plane rotation, where each square patch can be rotated to detect in-plane rotated objects. …”
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The role of environmental impact assesment in addressing marine environmental issues arising from oil and gas activities: examples from Malaysia by Mustafa, Maizatun

“…This paper argues a strong case for the application of IEA in a developing country like Malaysia as a preventive approach against environmental impact with the aim of striking a balace between development and the conservation of the environment. …”
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Editorial Transitions Part 2 – Hail and Hello by Edwards, Gareth, Schedlitzki, Doris

“…The journal, and conference ally – the International Studying Leadership Conference (ISLC), has felt like our community, somewhere where we belong in a sometimes challenging and turbulent journey. …”
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The experience of psoriatic arthritis patients receiving biological treatment : an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Schepelern, Eva K.

“…It is argued that this research extends the current knowledge base in counselling psychology on the psychological aspects of skin conditions such as psoriasis to what it is like to have both psoriasis and arthritis, whilst also being relevant to counselling psychologists working with psychological aspects of medical conditions, which is proposed to hold a promising future for the field.…”
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A statistical study of ship domains by Goodwin, Elisabeth M.

“…The concept of a ship domain has been considered, which may be defined as the effective area around a ship which a navigator would like to keep free with respect to other ships and stationary objects. …”
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Unrolling the text: using scrolls to facilitate academic reading by Abegglen, Sandra, Burns, Tom, Middlebrook, Dave, Sinfield, Sandra

“…Drawing briefly on a literature review commissioned when part of the LearnHigher Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, we consider reading not just as a semantic or linguistic activity but as a socio-political one especially for those, like our students, who are typically placed as educational outsiders. …”
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Cultural localisation as a strategy to preserve the persuasive function in the translation of tourism websites from French into English by Cowan, Sally Elizabeth

“…Tourist promotional texts function like advertising texts in that they aim to “persuade, lure, woo, and seduce” (Dann 1996). …”

An assessment of performance and efficiency of team-based organizations: empirical evidence of English premier league (EPL) using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and naturalistic a... by Badmus, Shamisudeen Olusesan

“…This thesis addressed the changing focus in football management and many unresolved questions relating to Performance and Efficiency Measurement (PEM) of a team-based organisation like a Football Club (FC). At a certain point, every organisation needs to evaluate its operation in accordance with its specific objectives to assess its performance; measure the efficiency of its operation and determine if there is any need for corrective actions. …”
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CPW-fed printed UWB antenna with open-loop inverted triangular-shaped slot for WLAN band filtering by Shokri, Majid, Rafii, Vahid, Karamzadeh, Saeid, Amiri, Zhaleh, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The antenna possesses a notch band functionality to filter out interfering C-band signals like wireless local-area network (WLAN). The notch band frequency is determined by physical parameters defining the TSS that allows fine control of the notch's location. …”
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The effect of Fractional Fourier transform angle in encryption quality for digital images by Elhoseny, Heba M., Faragallah, Osama S., Ahmed, Hossam E. H., Kazemian, Hassan, El-sayed, Hala S., Abd El-Samie, Fathi E.

“…The security investigation contains statistical tests like histogram and correlation coefficient, the maximum and the irregular deviation metrics, and the processing time. …”
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Socially assistive robot "sister robot" as a Covid-19 response and its future plans in health care and clinical applications by Malla, Dipawoli, Bhandari, Pawan

“…Furthermore, it also aims to highlight the possibility of the production of Socially Assistive Robots in developing countries like Nepal and their applications in healthcare.…”
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A robust digital image watermarking using repetition codes against common attacks by Hassan, Abdullahi Mohamud

“…The proposed methods have undergone several simulation attacks tests in order to check up and compare their robustness against various attacks, like salt and pepper, speckle, compress, Gaussian, image contrast, resizing and cropping attack. …”
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Prototype development of PV powered barrier gate system by Ahmad Shukri, Ahmad Irfan, Salimin, Suriana

“…Non-renewable energy is the energy source that is used for a certain period, depends on its availability and they cannot easily replenished, like fossil fuel such as petroleum product, hydrocarbon gas liquids, natural gases, coal and so on. …”
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Processing of date palm kernel (DPK) for production of edible jam by Mirghani, Mohamed Elwathig Saeed, Al-Mamun, Abdullah, Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim, Mustafa, Simma Mahirah

“…The samples were evaluated based on a five point hedonic scale, where zero (0.0) represented “disliked extremely” and four (4.0) represented “liked extremely”. …”
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After COVID-19: time to agree a biosecurity code of conduct under the biological and toxin weapons convention (book chapter) by Whitby, Simon, Tang, Cheng, Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

“…The devastating COVID-19 disease outbreak in early 2020 is likely to cause a major rethink about the dangers of natural, accidental and deliberate disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants when the outbreak is eventually brought under control. …”

Investigation of effects of different media on CHO cell growth and production of IGFI by Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun

“…Using univariate analysis, RPMI gave higher saturation density (9.13 x 10^5 cells/ml) and IGF-1 (31.56 pg/ml) concentration when compared to Ham's 12 (saturation density: 8.65 x 10^5 cells/ml; IGF-1: 29.87 pg/ml). …”
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Dehydration of Ethanol on Zeolite based media using adsorption process by R. H. Abdeen, Fouad, Mel, Maizirwan, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid, Azmi, Azlin Suhaida

“…In this study, a small adsorber bed apparatus was constructed and used to purify ethanol up to 99.5%. The apparatus consists of fluid delivery system, adsorber bed subsystem, storage and sampling unit and adsorption column where adsorbents like zeolite can be packed. …”
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