On being in the wrong place: the role of children’s conceptual understanding and ballgame experience when judging a football player’s offside position by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Bosco, Giorgia

“…In the offside position, a player takes advantage of being behind the defence line of the opposing team and just waits for the ball to arrive in order to score a goal. …”
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General methods for analyzing bounded proportion data by Hossain, Abu

“…The generalized Tobit GAMLSS model relaxes the underlying normal distribution assumption of the latent variable in the Tobit model to a very general class of distribution on the real line. The thesis also provides likelihood inference and diagnostic and model selection tools for these classes of models. …”
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Fuzzy logic application to searchable cryptography by Kazemian, Hassan, Ma, Yang

“…Besides, some PEKS schemes are not secure mainly because they are vulnerable to Off-line Keyword Guessing Attack (OKGA). This research paper incorporates with Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System to PEKS for supporting Fuzzy Keyword Search. …”
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Breaking the cycle: media representations of victim-survivors and child abuse by Beddows, Amy

“…Many people look to the media for information on complex social issues - particularly more ‘private’ events such as sexual violence - and too often, onscreen representations fall in line with negative societal stereotypes around abusers and victims. …”
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Wideband circularly polarized square slot antenna with an annular patch by Shirzad, Hamed, Shokri, Majid, Amiri, Zhaleh, Asiaban, Somayeh, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…A semicircular stub is embedded in the feed-line to enhance its impedance bandwidth. The antenna exhibits CP bandwidth of 22.2% across 4.87–6.09 GHz, which incorporates the WLAN band. …”

Feasibility Study of River Bank Filtration (RBF) at Sg. Kampar, Perak Using Numerical Modelling Technology (Visual Modflow) by Tajul Baharuddin, Mohamad Faizal, Yusoff, Nor Azizi, Embong, Zaidi, Lim, Alvin John Meng Siang

“…The facts showed that increased of water demand in line with the increase of population [2].…”
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Potential impacts for monitoring sustainability: case study of hollow fiber membrane by Mahmood, Salwa, Mat Saman, Muhamad Zameri, Hemdi, Abdul Rahman, Zakuan, Norhayati

“…Sustainability should be balanced among Triple Bottom Line (TBL) aspects namely environmental, economic and social elements. …”
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Arrhythmia heart disease classification using deep learning by Abdulkarim Farah, Abdulkhaliq

“…Therefore, we have designed a model using supervised deep learning to classify the heartbeats extracted from an ECG into four (4) heartbeat classes which is normal beat, ventricular ectopic beat (VEB), supraventricular ectopic beat (SVEB) and fusion beat, based only on the line shape (morphology) of the individual heartbeats. …”
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An appraisal of the performance of two (2) Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) in Malaysia by Islam, Mohd Aminul

“…Thus realizing from the scarcity of studies on this component of financial system particularly in the case of Malaysia, we consider the present effort to be worthy addition to the existing literature in this line. To achieve our objectives, we used data and other relevant information collected from the annual reports of individual Development Financial Institutions under consideration. …”
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Tumorigenic role of podoplanin in esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma by ., Nur Rahadiani, Ikeda, Jun-ichiro, Makino, Tomoki, Tian, Tian, Qiu, Ying, Mamat, Suhana, Wang, Yi, Doki, Yuichiro, Aozasa, Katsuyuki, Morii, Eiichi

“…The effects of podoplanin on the behavior of cancer cells were evaluated in ESCC cell lines in which podoplanin expression was knocked down. …”
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Diminishing partnership: bankers strategic response to Shariah compliance home financing by Abdul Razak, Dzuljastri, Ismail, Yusof

“…Under DP home financing, customer and bank share profit based on the rental value of the house instead of predetermined interest rate where bank gains profit upfront .As such DP is claimed to be fairer and more flexible than debt financing which result in more justice, equality and cater for societal well being that is in line with the Maqasid al Shariah. This research adopted a mixed method by obtaining the perceptions of three stakeholders namely consumers, Shariah scholars and bankers. …”
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Design of a compact printed band-notched antenna for ultrawideband communications by Mohd Sobli, Nuurul Hudaa, Abdel-Raouf, Hany Essam Eldin

“…The proposed antenna is fed by microstrip line, and it consists of square radiating patch on the top layer with a slotted-parasitic patch on the bottom layer of the antenna. …”
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Fiber break location technique utilizing stimulated Brillouin scattering effects in optical fiber by Bakar, A.A.A., Al-Mansoori, M.H., Mahdi, Mohd Adzir, Zainal Abidin, Mohd Shahnan, Mohd Azau, M.A.

“…This technique enables the utilization of a less-sensitive photodetector to detect the Brillouin Stokes line since its intensity increases with the fiber length in the detectable region. …”
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Testing a model of Islamic corporate financial reports: some experimental evidence by Sulaiman, Maliah

“…Given the fact that religion stands at the core of some cultures, and that Islam is a significant force influencing the manner in which Muslims conduct their public and private lives, the influence of Islam on accounting may be significant. In line with this, Baydoun and Willett (1994 and 2000) suggested that the current value balance sheet and the value added statement would meet Islam’s objectives of socio-economic justice and accountability, thus satisfying the needs of Muslim users to a greater extent than would the traditional historical cost balance sheet and the profit and loss statement. …”
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Critical success factors of the nine challenges in Malaysia's Vision 2020 by Islam, Rafikul

“…The present paper seeks to identify and rank the critical success factors of these nine challenges by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process. A number of ‘front-line’ critical success factors are discussed at length. …”
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A new automated compact substation for distribution system in Malaysia by Ahmed, Musse Mohamud

“…Microprocessor based Remote Monitoring Devices have been used for customized software to be downloaded to the hardware. Power Line Carrier (PLC) has been used as communication media between the consumer and the substation. …”
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The utilization of information and communication technology among Islamic secondary school teachers in Malaysia by Abdul Rashid, Adnan

“…Since then, the government – through Ministry of Education – has introduced various initiatives to facilitate the adoption and diffusion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In line with the Vision 2020, Ministry of Education has draft ways so as to integrate ICT into education system. …”
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Islamic bioethics of pain medication: an effective response to mercy argument by Malik, Mohammad Manzoor

“…The researcher particularly deliberates on the contemporary Islamic discourse on the issue; by furthering the debate in line with the Islamic legal maxims and general guidance from the primary sources of Islamic law and ethics. …”
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Islamic microfinance as an alternative to conventional financing practices : The need to address the poverty in Pakistan by Abdul Razak, Dzuljastri, Abbas, Kausar

“…Hence, this paper explores the feasibility of Islamic microfinance as an alternative means to help the poor in line with the Shariah principles where the use of riba (usury) is prohibited due to unfairness and injustice. …”
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Religion and politics in America : the rise of Christian Evangelists and their impact by Zakaullah, Muhammad Arif

“…The Muslim world has to learn to appreciate that in Western societies the bottom line is the public opinion and not the wishes of the President/Prime Minister and his cabinet." …”
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