The weekly structure of US stock prices by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…The most interesting findings are the differences in the degree of dependence for different days of the week. …”
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Information from pharmaceutical companies and the quality, quantity, and cost of physicians' prescribing: a systematic review by Spurling, Geoffrey K., Mansfield, Peter R., Montgomery, Brett D., Lexchin, Joel, Doust, Jenny, Othman, Noordin, Vitry, Agnes I.

“…The narrative synthesis finding of variable results was supported by a meta-analysis of studies of prescribing frequency that found significant heterogeneity. …”
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Rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves at ungauged locations with uncertainties due to climate change by Muhammad Noor

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A constructivist grounded theory analysis of how counselling psychologists experience anti Muslim prejudice by Bibi, Majida

“…The central aim of this study was to explore accounts of counselling psychologists experience of AMP practices including how and in what forms AMP practices find them and how they process, manage and approach AMP practices. …”
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New composite coagulant from agro-waste (tapioca peel) and polyaluminium chloride for primary landfill leachate treatment by Mohd Salleh, Siti Nor Aishah

“…Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied after using the conventional method of one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) optimisation to find the optimum pH for the leachate sample and dosage of PACTPPg. …”
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The performance of Islamic and conventional unit trust funds in Malaysia by Ahmad, Maslina, Haron, Razali

“…This research reports on the findings of a study that examined the performance of Islamic unit trust funds in comparison with the conventional trust funds in Malaysia. …”
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Oil prices and Malaysian economy by Abd Jalil, Norasibah, Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi, Duasa, Jarita

“…In the asymmetric test, significant result is documented in PD analysis only. The finding signifies the presence of asymmetric relationship between oil price changes and the economy. …”
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Assessing performance of mutual funds in Indonesia by Abd. Majid, M. Shabri, Hartomi, Maulana

“…It is mainly caused by a declining in both efficiency and technical efficiencies, where the efficiency change is largely contributed by the changes in pure efficiency rather than scale efficiency. The findings of the study suggest that the mutual funds' industry in Indonesia has a great opportunity to promote its TFP by constantly optimizing and upgrading the educational and training programs intended to improve managerial ability and to speed up the adoption of new technologies. …”
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Joux multicollisions attack in sponge construction by AlAhmad, Mohammad A., Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri Taha, Nandi, Mridul

“…Our attack is similar to Joux attack but specifically for sponge construction1. We show that finding multicollisions in sponge construction of messages that hash to the same value, is not harder finding ordinary collisions. …”
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A child with airway obstruction secondary to tracheal abnormality with associated pulmonary artery sling by Chan, Yee Jean, Abd. Aziz, Azian, S, Hasri, Abdullah, Ahmad Fadzil

“…Tracheal obstruction can be due to tracheal stenosis or tracheal anomaly rather than from compression by pulmonary artery sling when both are present in a patient. …”
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Comparative studies on fermentation products of cocoa beans by Abd. Samah, Othman, Ibrahim, N., Alimon, H., Karim, M. I. Abdul

“…The unripe beans had a lower pH than the ripe beans after 6 days' fermentation. About 40% of ripe beans achieved a chocolate colour compared with 27% of unripe beans. …”
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Bureaucracy and development: case study of a state directorate by Hassan, Arif

“…It involved too many steps and reflected that officers involved in the decision making process acted more mechanically than sensibly. The paper suggested that several steps in the file movement process were redundant and could be streamlined. …”
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The effects of water vapor on high temperature oxidation of Fe-Cr-Ni alloy at 1073k by Ani, Mohd Hanafi, Othman, Raihan

“…Voids formed in dry environment are different than that of formed in humid environment. With the presence of water vapor in humid environment the formation of void will increase, thus greater number of void compared to that in dry environment…”
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Optimal thermal design of wet cooling towers by Mohiuddin, A. K. M., Kant, K.

“…The efficient use of power is more important today than ever before. Much attention is paid nowadays on cooling towers as it is an important resource of energy conservation. …”
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U-shaped planer UWB antenna with unsymmetrical feed by Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Khan, Sheroz

“…The antenna offers more than 114% bandwidth when printed on a substrate of dielectric constant 4.4.…”
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Energy conservation through optimal design of cooling towers by Mohiuddin, A. K. M.

“…The efficient use of power is more important today than ever before. Much attention is paid nowadays on cooling tower as it is an important resource of energy conservation. …”
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Optimizing teaching and learning through the use of feedback on written assignments in history by Wilkinson, Stephen

“…This paper explores the development of student literacy, which involves more than merely acquiring surface language skills and becoming orientated within the university - but requires the deeper 'academic literacies' approach (Mary Lea and Brian Street (1998)). …”
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Minorities, migrants and citizenship education by Ross, Alistair

“…The term Citizenship Education is generally used to mean teaching and learning about the social and political relationships involved in living together in societies: citizenship is used to refer to both rights and identities, rather than to the formal status of being a citizen of a particular state. …”
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Clear communication in times of crisis by Tredinnick, Luke, Laybats, Claire

“…The United States was gearing-up presidential elections that promised to be more divisive than ever. Those events looming large on the horizon as the new year arrived have now been cast into shadow. …”
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Further investigations of the prevulcanization of natural rubber latex by Loh, Aaron Chun-Pong

“…In latex form, NR was found to vulcanize at a much faster rate than in the dry form. The faster rate of reaction in latex prevulcanizatIon is attributed to the presence of the aqueous phase which acts as a medium for the dissolution of ZDBC and sulphur, and provides a suitable environment for the two vulcanizing ingredients to react to form the active sulphurating agent. …”
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