Can online assessment motivate students to engage with the learning process? by Holley, Debbie

“…This may reflect a recent trend in educational research which questions that there is a strong link between assessment and behaviour, arguing instead that the relationship remains complex and poorly understood (e.g. …”
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Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the Euro area by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Onorante, Luca, Paesani, Paolo

“…It also appears that the direction of causality has been reversed, and that in the euro period the Friedman-Ball link is empirically supported, implying that the ECB can achieve lower inflation uncertainty by lowering the inflation rate.…”
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Electronic cigarette users lack intention to quit vaping by Skerry, Alex, Lusher, Joanne, Banbury, Samantha

“…This study aims to determine whether users intend to quit or reduce vaping. An online survey link was posted on social media forums and 259 self-confessed vapers completed an online questionnaire. …”
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Resilient computer system design by Castano, Victor, Schagaev, Igor

Can PECL help with vexing issues of maritime law? Critical reflections from the example of the Rotterdam Rules by Magklasi, Ioanna

“…This paper studies the trajectory, background and objectives of PECL and identifies the link between contract law and maritime laws (namely carriage of goods by sea and international sale of goods).The author will present the intricacies of these laws, in an attempt to justify why, despite extensive codification and standardisation, maritime law is still in need of legal certainty and occasionally of fairer application of the law to the disputes not only by national courts, but also in the wider European context. …”
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The purpose of expatriation: why women undertake international assignments by Shortland, Susan

“…From these, a model is proposed to link stated organizational assignment purpose with women’s participation rationales and recommendations for practice to increase expatriate gender diversity are set out.…”
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Political economy of development and business: towards decolonisation, transformation and alternative perspectives by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar

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Impact of patriarchy and gender stereotypes on working women: exploring its past, present and future by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar, Tabassum, Naznin

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An energy-efficient multi-channel design for distributed wireless sensor networks by Kumar, Sunil

“…This article discusses the importance of designing an efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to optimize energy consumption at the data link layer while transmitting high traffic applications. …”
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The relationship between organizational communication and employees productivity with new dimensions of effective communication flow by Sadia, Aysha, Mohd Salleh, Berhannudin, Abdul Kadir, Zulida, Sanif, Sazuliana

“…This is a distinctive study, as the previous researches focused only on the relationship of organization communication and the productivity of organization, but this study focuses on the link between Organization communication and employees productivity with the help of effective communication. …”
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Populism in foreign policy by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…The same goes for trade: populists (particularly in the United States) are seen usually as ideological protectionists, but most often they do not mind striking trade deals if these favor their interests (see, e.g., Donald Trump’s discourse on this issue). …”
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The land of the telenovela in the age of social media : a study of the Brazilian prime-time soap opera and its online mediations from a social semiotic perspective for the purposes... by Paszkiewicz, George

“…Secondly, by considering the implications of this empirical study in terms of how we learn and improve our abilities to communicate more effectively for a multitude of purposes, this research promotes a wider notion of literacy in practical terms. This is also seen as representing an original contribution towards critical approaches to pedagogy in specific terms.…”
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Gender ratio in undergraduate medical program, Medical Faculty, IIUM by Myint, Yi Yi, Tun, Ye

“…Although a similar trend is seen, there is no documentation found in Malaysia. …”
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Financing coastal land use planning for sustainability by Asmawi, M. Zainora, Md. Din, Azrin, Mahamod, Lukman Hakim

“…In this regards, the framework of development and planning process is seen as one of the available tools to plan and manage coastal areas. …”
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Retrocaval ureter: the importance of intravenous urography by Hassan, Radhiana, Abd. Aziz, Azian, Che Mohamed, Siti Kamariah

“…Differentiation from other causes of urinary tract obstruction, especially the more common urolithiasis, is important for successful surgical management. Current practice has seen multislice computed tomography (MSCT) rapidly replaces intravenous urography (IVU) in the assessment of patients with hydronephrosis due to suspected urolithiasis, especially ureterolithiasis. …”
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An improved wavelet digital watermarking software implementation by Khalifa, Othman Omran, Yusof, Yusnita

“…The improvement could be seen in quality of the watermarked image (imperceptibility) and of extracted watermark (robustness).…”
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Introduction to fingerprint verification by Hameed, Shihab A., Badurik, Waleed A.

“…By doing so, biometrics can be seen as a privacy-enabling technology, not a technology to be feared. …”
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Between the purposefulness of the Shari‘ah and normativity by El-Mesawi, Mohamed El-Tahir

“…His effort culminated in his widely acclaimed theory of the Shari‘ah objectives (maqasid al-Shari‘ah) that consisted in developing a new and comprehensive legal hermeneutics whereby Islamic spiritual, moral and legal teachings are seen to revolve around realizing and promoting five necessary universal objectives. .....…”
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Economic evaluation of a solar water heating system by Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam, Ng, K C, Chandratilleke, T T, SHARMA, D, Koay, K H L

“…When different economic optimization criteria were applied to the CIAS solar system, it was seen that both the life cycle saving and the annualized life cycle cost lead to the prediction of the same optimum collector area of 1200 m 2. …”
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An Improved Wavelet Digital Watermarking Software Implementation by Khalifa, Othman Omran, Yusof, Yusnita, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha, Olanrewaju, Rashidah Funke

“…The improvement could be seen in quality of the watermarked image (imperceptibility) and of extracted watermark (robustness).…”
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