Watershed and river basin management by Zainudin, Zaki, Koning, Wendell, Weyand, Michael, Kelderman, Peter, Crabtree, Bob

“…For example, 20 European countries depend on neighbouring countries for more than 10% of their water resources and 5% draw 75% of their resources from countries upstream (UNECE 2009). …”
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Fast handover algorithm for hierarchical mobile IPv6 macro-mobility management by Vivaldi, Indra, Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi, Mohd Ali, Borhanuddin, V., Prakash

“…This algorithm will enable the mobile node to receive packet faster than HMIPv6 protocol during handover, seamlessly and transparently. …”
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Measuring students’ perception towards university selection: an empirical investigation on Malaysian postgraduate students by Sarwar, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Ismail, Ahmad Zaki

“…This study has explored that amongst the various races in Malaysia, Malay students prefer the local universities than the other races. To end with, this study has suggested that, on perception, a proper policy may go a long way to increase the quality of teaching with the improvement of other related facilities that will help the university in attracting new students in the future.…”
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Critical factors for developing brand equity: an empirical investigation in Malaysia by Silva, Suranga, Nikhashemi, Seyed Rajab, Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Yasmin, Farzana, Khatibi, Ali

“…The power of branding is most often powerful than the product itself. Renowned brands like Procter and Gamble paid Richardson-Vicks 2.6 times of its book value. …”
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The effect of double impact on hygrothermally aged carbon epoxy laminates by Mokhtar , Hanan, Sicot, Olivier, Rousseau, Jerome, Aminanda, Yulfian, Aivazzadeh, Shahram

“…The difference between the two quasi-isotropic/quasi-homogeneous stratification is that one include fibre orientations of ±45° other than 0° and 90°, whereas the other includes fibre orientaions of ±60°. …”
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Sustainable strategy of health and safety assessment in high rise commercial buildings by Yahya, Mohamad Ridzuan, Ibrahim, Md. Najib

“…After describing the current situation and problems, this paper concludes that most of the variations in building health and safety conditions were attributed to differences in building management systems rather than building designs. It is envisaged that further research can be conducted to investigate the relationship between building performance and extraneous factors, such as building age, management structure, and scale of development.…”
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Prediction of tool life in end milling of hardened steel AISI D2 by Lajis, M. A., Karim, A.N. Mustafizul, Amin, A. K. M. Nurul, Hafiz, A. M. Khalid, Turnad L., Ginta

“…Analysis of variance (ANOVA) has indicated that both models are valid in predicting the tool life of the part machined under specified condition and the prediction of average error is less than 10%.…”
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The importance of interreligious dialogue in modern Nigeria (Christian-Muslim relation by Ashimi, Tijani Ahmad

“…Based on above fact, inter-religious dialogue is perhaps; more important in Nigeria than anywhere else, on the grounds that, Nigeria is considered as the most populous country in African continent, and it is moreover, a pluralistic and multi religious society, which is mainly dominated by Islam and Christianity. …”
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Just world order dream or reality by Farooqui, Jamil

“…In spite of all these efforts and developments, the human world remains unsafe and human life is more fragile than we ever imagined. Our scientific discoveries and sophisticated technologies made the environment highly polluted to the extent that it is difficult to taste the fresh air. …”
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Islamization of the Southeast Asia : the role of Turks by Kayadibi, Saim

“…It’s known that Islamization of the Southeast Asia took more than centuries. Since the religion of Islam is a universal religion, its message conveyed to other part of the world through either Arabs, Turks, Malays or any other Nations who comprehended the inner and outer dimension of the eternal message of the Qur’an which granted them the leadership of the world. …”
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Green and colourful: night market’s roles in sustaining the local culture and the informal economy by Zakariya, Khalilah

“…These ‘green’ roles of night market should be reconsidered in planning and designing of cities for its cultural and economic contribution, rather than seeing it as ‘just another everyday space’.…”
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Optimization of bio-protein production from banana peels by sequential solid state bioconversion by Saheed, Olorunnisola Kola, Jamal, Parveen, Alam, Md. Zahangir

“…Validation of the model gave 143.18 mg/g bio-protein which was about 31.2% more than predicted value.…”
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Controlling computers and electronics waste: toward solving environmental problems by Hameed, Shihab A.

“…Millions of tons of e-waste generated worldwide yearly, which is more toxic and harmful than normal household garbage. E-waste contains toxic heavy metals including arsenic, antimony, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc. …”
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The potential of low energy earth pipe cooling in hot and humid Malaysia by Sanusi, Aliyah Nur Zafirah, Shao, Li, Ibrahim, Md. Najib

“…At 1m underground, the result is most significant, where the soil temperature are 6oC and 9oC lower than the maximum ambient temperature during wet and dry season, respectively. …”
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Effects of Tamarind (Tamarindus indicus Linn) seed extract on Russell's viper (Daboia russelli siamensis) venom by Khin, Maung Maung, Zaw, Lynn Aung

“…If the extract was injected near the site where Russell's viper venom was injected, all the mice survived for more than 24 hours and the survival time prolonged but they all died within 96 hours. …”
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Inter-cluster synchronization scheme for femtocell network by Hasan, M.K., Saeed, Rashid Abdelhaleem, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Islam, Shayla, Nafi, Nazmus Shaker

“…Therefore, achieved synchronization accuracy is 90% higher than the existing MS-assisted schemes.…”
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The influence of premenopausal hystrectomy on bone mineral density by Abdulwahab, Dalia F, Reyad, B, Chabek, M, Awang, Mokhtar, Abd. Wahab, Noraziana, Muna, Q

“…Results: The study showed slight increment of BMD among cases with hysterectomy than the control group by an amount ranging between 1.9% in the femoral shaft to 4.8% in the greater trochanter and ward‘s triangle. …”
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Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation by Shah, Asadullah, Saidin, Aznan Zuhid, Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri, Zeki, Akram M.

“…Furthermore, the results indicate that for Bahasa Melayu characters appearance in text is very close in character frequencies of Bahasa Indonesia, but having different appearance of characters than English language. The investigation also indicate that these two languages, Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia share close phonetic structure but not English, though all three use same character set…”
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Managing congestive heart failure in a general hospital in Malaysia. Are we keeping pace with evidence? by Chin, S P, Sapari, Satwi, How, Soon Hin, Sim, K. H.

“…Data from 80 consecutive patients hospitalized for decompensated heart failure ('acute') between May and July 2003 were analyzed at admission, upon discharge and at 12 weeks follow-up; along with 74 cardiology clinic out-patients with stable congestive heart failure ('chronic'- no decompensation or admission in previous six months). Less than half of study patients with prior left ventricular dysfunction were on ACE-inhibitors (47%), diuretics (39%), ATII antagonists, spironolactone or digoxin (5% each). …”
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Cooperative transition of electronic states of antisite As defects in Be-doped low-temperature-grown GaAs layers by Mohamed, Mohd Ambri, Tien Lam, Pham, Bae, K. W., Otsuka, Nobuo

“…With fast cooling, the magnetization of samples at 1.8 K becomes significantly lower than that expected from Curie-type paramagnetism in the range of the applied field to 7 T, and a transition from low magnetization to the magnetization of paramagnetism occurs upon the heating of samples to 4.5 K. …”
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