Government and public information in the political system : a study of formation and systemic relationships, with particular reference to the Israeli political system, and appropri... by Cherns, Jack Jacob

“…Media, in symbiotic relationship with government, dominate transfer of political information. Discussion is mainly in terms of competitive political systems; but the influence of political structure is noted. …”
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An exploration of teachers' beliefs about the global spread of English in a Chilean ELT programme by Perez, Gonzalo

“…Traditional constructs in the English Language Teaching (ELT) profession such as the native speaker, standard English, and the culture of English are currently being questioned due to the growing number of users of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) who use English for intercultural communication mainly among non-native speakers. Research on Global Englishes has highlighted the need to abandon the current English as a Foreign Language (EFL) paradigm, which considers standard English and the native speaker as the norm, and adopt a global perspective of English that embraces the linguistic and cultural diversity of English instead. …”
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Faster and more accurate identification of male faces in female care home residents by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Martinez-Claras, Donna S.

“…We hypothesized that this mainly female environment would lead by exposure to a female-gender bias. …”
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Mandatory vs. voluntary exercise on non-financial reporting: does a normative/coercive isomorphism facilitate an increase in quality? by Carungu, Jonida, Di Pietra, Roberto, Molinari, Matteo

“…Design/methodology/approach: The method used to develop the analysis is mainly qualitative. A content analysis of 184 Non-Financial Reports (NFRs) was conducted on a sample of 92 companies that have been previously involved in the process of NFR on a voluntary basis. …”
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A qualitative analysis of how therapists experience the therapeutic relationship with adults who were adopted as infants by Vote, Birgit

“…Few studies concentrate on adult adoptees, and those that do mainly focus on adjustment and the search for / reunion with the birth family rather than on therapy research. …”
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Multiple cross-docks scheduling with multiple doors using fuzzy approach and meta-heuristic algorithms by Movassaghi, Mitra, Avakh Darestani, Soroush

“…Then, these materials are directly loaded into outbound trucks with little or no storage in between to send to customers in the shortest possible time. This paper is mainly aimed at introducing a mixed integer linear programming model to solve scheduling several cross-docking problems. …”
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Weight changes : the meaning of food and eating behaviours amongst women in recovery from substance addiction by Ashter, Suzanne

“…Studies involving substance misuse have mainly focused on weight changes and eating behaviours during active substance addiction, whilst research on how substance misusers experience weight changes and how they describe the functions and meaning of food and eating behaviours in recovery from substance addiction is scarce. …”
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Organising Polish workers : a comparative case study of British (Unison) and Swiss (Unia) trade union strategies by Rogalewski, Adam

“…Additionally, the thesis describes a successful strike of the mainly Polish care workers in Unia. The research analyses whether there were any gaps between the projects’ aims and their implementation and what factors may have caused those gaps. …”
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Algerian immigrants in London (United Kingdom) and Valencia (Spain): towards a new migration and labour model? by Djilali Beloufa, Kouider

“…This led to the comparison of two context-related cases of migration in order to respond mainly four questions, viz, the reasons for Algerian migration to the VK and Spain as relatively different and new host countries, patterns of insertion as well as mobility within the local labour markets, the differences between the UK and Spain in terms of providing opportunities for social mobility versus entrapment, and the role of changing networks in influencing Algerian migration to the UK and Spain. …”
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Variational Bayesian inference for exponentiated Weibull right censored survival data by Jibril Abubakar, Jibril Abubakar, Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah, Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah, Oyebayo Ridwan Olaniran, Oyebayo Ridwan Olaniran

“…The exponential distribution is often applied if the hazard is constant, while the log-logistic and lognormal distributions are mainly used for modelling unimodal hazard functions. …”
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The Mismatch of Present and Required Future Workforce Skills of Manufacturing Industry by Mohd Noor, Noor Nazihah, Rodzalan, Shazaitul Azreen, Mohamed Saat, Maisarah, Abdullah, Nor Hazana, Othman, Aniza, Harcharanjit Singh, Harcharanjit Singh, Mohd Emran, Natrah

“…However, technological advancement has affected the manufacturing sector mainly in terms of skills demanded. Furthermore, studies focusing on skills demanded in the future from the manufacturing industry perspective regarding Industry 4.0 remain scarce. …”
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The effect of sintering temperature on potassium feldspar addition into claytan porcelain by Mohd, Norhayati

“…Porcelain is one of the most complex ceramic materials composed mainly of kaolin, quartz and feldspar. Its diverse applications include tableware, whiteware and insulators. …”
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An improved microarray image analysis architecture using mathematical morphology by Samsudin, Nurnabilah

“…This research have revealed the potential of analysing microarray by mainly using mathematical morphology operation, either applied on microarray or its pixel derivative.…”
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The framework for effective collaboration between public training institutions and private industries in the context of National Dual Training System (NOTS) environment in Malaysia by Rashidi, Ramli

“…The purpose of this study is mainly to identify the key factors that have the strong potential to fonn the effective framework for the desired collaboration between public training institutions and private industries. …”
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Shear resistance improvement of oil-contaminated ballast layer with rubber shred inclusions by Chan, Chee Ming, S.M Johan, Siti Farhanah

“…This paper describes the inclusion of rubber shreds (≤10 mm in length, 1.5 mm thick) derived from the inner tubes of motorcycle tyres in oil-contaminated ballast layer for shear resistance improvement. The tests are mainly carried out in a standard direct shear test setup, i.e. shear box measuring 60 mm x 60 mm. …”
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Preliminary qualitative findings: challenges in large infrastructure projects towards development of innovative performance measurement by Masrom, Md Asrul Nasid, Abd Rahim, Mohd Hilmi Izwan, Mohamed, Sulzakimin, Yunus, Riduan

“…This study may also encourage key stakeholders mainly involved in infrastructure projects to increase their attention on possible challenges to achieve project objectives and requirements in the development of a large project, and helps to the achievement of government transformation programme (GTP).…”
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Experimental study on strength performance of soil reinforced with coconut fibre for PANCHOR–MUAR road by Tuan Ismail, Tuan Noor Hasanah, Yuriz, Yasmin, Hassan, Nurul Azida, Saji, Nurdalila, Wan Jusoh, Wan Amizah, A. Rahman, and Noor Khazanah

“…This research focuses mainly on investigating the compaction parameters and bearing capacity of CF–laterite soil. …”
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Formulating layered adjustable autonomy for unmanned aerial vehicles by A Mostafa, Salama, Ahmad, Mohd Sharifuddin, Mustapha, Aida, Mohammed, Mazin Abed

“…Purpose - In this paper, we propose a Layered Adjustable Autonomy (LAA) as a dynamically adjustable autonomy model for a multi-agent system. It is mainly used to efficiently manage humans and agents share control of autonomous systems and maintain humans’ global control over the agents. …”
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Statistical process control in stamping process using pattern recognition approach by Abdul Rahman, Norasulaini

“…The existing CCPR framework was mainly developed by using raw data-based artificial neural network (ANN) recognisers, whereby the recognisers were trained by using artificially generated statistical process control (SPC) chart patterns. …”
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Specialization of biochemical oxygen demand for surface water and wastewater by Abdullah, Norizan, Zainudin, Zaki, Abdul Rahman, Norazah, Mazlan, Nurul Fadillah

“…Pollution of rivers is attributed to point and non-point sources and marine pollution originates mainly from land-based sources. Therefore in order to control the quality of the water a few parameters have been chosen as the index for determining the water pollution. …”
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