The slump in the price of crude oil: a call to review Malaysian revenue law and fiscal policies by Hingun, Mohsin, Olaitan Sarafadeen, Nafiu, Petseteye Christiane, Tedongmo

“…This paper looks at the potential long term solutions in a climate of persisting lower oil prices. …”
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Poincare based PPG signal analysis for varying physiological states by Kazmi , Syed Absar, Shah, Mansoor Hussain, Khan, Sheroz, Khalifa, Othman Omran, ., Muhammad Muzammil

“…The outcomes are quite obvious and are indicative of the physical states in terms of short and long term variability. …”
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Measuring antecedents of customer satisfaction: an empirical analysis of telecom services in Pakistan by Rind, M. M., Qureshi, I. A., Saand, A. S., Memon, S., Shah , Asadullah

“…The effects of the antecedents of service quality on customer satisfaction has been under discussion among researchers since long. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the antecedent of customer satisfaction in the telecommunications industry of Pakistan. …”
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Upward dead-end filtration of solid/liquid mixture containing fine-bubbles by Tanaka, Takanori, Ubukata, Hikaru, Yoshimoto , Akihiko, Jami, Mohammed Saedi, Iwata, Masashi

“…Microscopic bubbles with diameter <50 μm are generally called fine-bubbles and have different behaviors from ordinary bubbles. For example, very long stagnation time and having pressurized interior gas due to surface tension are characteristics of fine-bubbles. …”
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Impersonate affecting users' attitude toward facebook in Egypt by Hassan El Hoby, Hany Mohamed, Zeki, Akram M.

“…Anyone with an email address can make an account as long as he accepts the terms and conditions of the website regarding privacy. …”
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Three phase UPFC regulator with reduced bus capacitance for solar PV application system by Uddin, Md. Nasir, Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur, Nithe, N. A.

“…The Instantaneous Power balance with negative sequence current allows a hundred-fold reduction in the value of DC bus capacitance which allows long life polypropylene or ceramic capacitors to replace of electrolytic capacitor in this application. …”
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The influence of self-regard on response of belief in God and awareness of prophetic teaching by Teke, Mustafa, Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham, Syed Hassan, Sharifah Sariah, Othman, Nooraini

“…Personality and religion relationship has long been studied by Western and Muslim researchers in order to find any association between religious factors and a person's behavior and thought. …”
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Metastatic neuroendocrine tumor of small cell type in a kidney transplant recipient by Kamil, A. Mohd, Draman, Che Rosle, Seman, Mohd Ramli, R, Kalavathy, Mubarak, M. Y.

“…Malignancy is a significant long-term complication of successful renal transplantation. …”
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Rainfall forecasting models using focused time-delay neural networks by Htike, Kyaw Kyaw, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…Despite its importance, statistical rainfall forecasting, especially for long-term, has been proven to be a great challenge due to the dynamic nature of climate phenomena and random fluctuations involved in the process. …”
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An integrated scheme to improve performance of fast mobile IPv6 handover in IEEE 802.16e network by Seyyedoshohadaei, Seyyed Masoud, Khatun, Sabira, Mohd. Ali, Borhanuddin, Othman, Mohamed, Anwar, Farhat

“…To apply the layer 3 (L3) handover protocol over the existing IEEE 802.16e layer 2 (L2) handover scheme, the fast mobile IPv6 was used by many researches, but long latency is main challenge for real-time applications. …”
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Chemical resistance tests on PP-ternary nanocomposite for its application in bioreactor liner fabrication by Yusof, Faridah, Salawudeen, T. Olalekan, Shah, Qasim Hussain, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid, Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu

“…Specifically, the investigation focused on the changes in the physico-mechanical properties of PPTN following long term of exposure to these chemicals. The results show slight increase in the weight and dimensions of samples in the first few days, followed by constant reading for the period of 4 weeks. …”
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Identification of genes involved in flowering in Stevia rebaudiana using expressed sequence tags (ESTs) by Razali, Amin, Samsulrizal, Nurul Hidayah, Zainuddin, Zarina

“…Exposure of the stevia plant to long-day conditions (increased exposure to light) will delay the flowering process, which led to an increase in glycoside accumulation. …”
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A structural model for cost effective building maintenance through design for maintainability by Ganisen, Shubashini

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From Macro to Micro-Level Constructions in Course Design and Development in Higher Education: the case of a ‘principled’ framework for a new Masters in Public Health by Musoro, Livingstone

“…This advantage in higher education comes from a long-standing feature of academic life – the ‘freedom’ and ability to design and develop courses. …”
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Erdogan, Burcu, Kuzin, Vladimir

“…As a first step, we use the Stock and Watson (1998) procedure to filter the data in order to extract the long-run component of the series; then, following Phillips and Sul (2007), we estimate the relative transition parameters. …”
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Interest and exchange rate risk and stock returns : a multivariate GARCH-M modelling approach by Beirne, John, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Spagnolo, Nicola

“…The econometric framework is a four-variate GARCH-in-mean model, which incorporates long-and short-term interest rates in turn. We find in most cases a positive effect of stock market returns on mean returns in each sector; by contrast, interest rates and exchange rates have a significant effect only in a few cases, respectively negative and without a clear sign pattern. …”
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A hybrid Verilog-A and equation-defined subcircuit approach to MOS switched current analog cell modeling and simulation in the transient and large signal ac domains by Brinson, Mike, Jahn, Stefan, Nabijou, Hassan

“…However, with the growing complexity of this type of circuit, transient domain simulation times can become prohibitively long, restricting the size of circuit that can be easily investigated. …”
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Promoting good public governance and environmental support for sustainable economic development by Noja, Gratiela Georgiana, Cristea, Mirela, Sirghi, Nicoleta, Hategan, Camelia-Daniela, D’Anselmi, Paolo

“…Overall, the quality of governance in EU countries requires an additional effort dedicated to leverage good public governance in order to support the long-term economic development.…”
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Land remediation, event spaces and the pursuit of Olympic legacy by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…In particular, it considers ways in which redevelopment of the sizeable spaces prepared for staging the event take their place in broader strategies intended to bring long-term benefits to the host city and society in order to compensate for the costs and inconvenience originally incurred in hosting the Games. …”
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Vestibular receptors contribute to the cortical auditory evoked potentials by Todd, Neil P. M., Paillard, Aurore, Kluk, Karolina, Whittle, Elizabeth, Colebatch, James G.

“…In healthy subjects both auditory mid- and long-latency auditory evoked potentials (AEPs), consisting of Na, Pa, N1 and P2 waves, were observed in the sub-threshold conditions. …”
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