The ‘expat factor’: the influence of working time on women's decisions to undertake international assignments in the oil and gas industry by Shortland, Susan

“…A model is proposed to link working time/patterns to women’s international assignment participation.…”
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The Internationalisation of the Renminbi (Rmb) by Dixon, Chris

“…This seeks to build on China’s advantages in terms of share of world trade, long-term economic growth, credit worthiness and increasing importance as a source of investment and loans. …”
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Exports, education, and growth in Malaysia by Yusoff, Mohammed

“…This paper examines the causal link between exports and education expenditure in Malaysia’s economic development using the cointegration technique, VECM and Granger causality test. …”
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Wear characteristics of Fe-C-Si and Fe-C-Al cast irons by Shaha, Sugrib Kumar, Haque, Md. Mohafizul, Khan, Ahsan Ali

“…In the present study, wear behavior of the Fe-C-Si and Fe-C-Al cast irons were investigated using a pin-on-disk type apparatus at room temperature. …”
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Biomechanical evaluation and new improvement on ankle external fixator by Ramlee, Muhammad Hanif

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Novel opto-electronic and plastic fibre sensors by Ioannides, Nicos

“…Experimental results obtained confirm the long and linear operational range of the sensor (between 15 mm and 90 mm for a mirror target and between 20 mm and 100 mm for a matt white paper target). …”
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Fade margin analysis due to duststorm based on visibility data measured in a desert by Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Elshaikh, Zain Elabdin Omer, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul, Khan, Sheroz

“…Conclusion/Recommendations: It was particularly shown that duststorm have comparable effects on link reliability for typical storms. …”
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The tribological behaviour of Fe-C-Al cast iron – effect of temperature by Maleque, Md. Abdul, Sugrib , S.

“…The wear and friction tests were conducted using universal pin-on-disk machine at 25 0C, 100 0C, 200 0C and 300 0C temperature. …”
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Low-loss paper-substrate triple-band-frequency reconfigurable microstrip antenna for sub-7 GHz applications by Singh, Ajit Kumar, Mahto, Santosh Kumar, Sinha, Rashmi, Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Al-Gburi, Ahmed Jamal Abdullah, Ahmad, Ashfaq, Kouhalvandi, Lida, Virdee, Bal Singh, Dalarsson, Mariana

“…In this paper, a low-cost resin-coated commercial-photo-paper substrate is used to design a printed reconfigurable multiband antenna. The two PIN diodes are used mainly to redistribute the surface current that provides reconfigurable properties to the proposed antenna. …”
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Housing stock study: demand and supply in Perak by Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Bachok, Syahriah, Abdullah, Alias, Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin, Shuid, Syafiee, Abdullah, Muhammad Faris

“…A regular, five-yearly review of the assessment is needed to link the local housing demand and supply with the development plan strategies which will provide an opportunity to ensure the maintenance of an appropriate long term approach. …”
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Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the Euro area by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Onorante, Luca, Paesani, Paolo

“…A sequential dummy procedure provides further evidence of a structural break coinciding with the introduction of the euro and resulting in lower long-run uncertainty. 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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Some applications of generalised linear models by Scallan, Anthony

“…This technique is applied to standard link functions as well as to the family of composite link functions. …”
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Biotar ironmaking using wooden biomass and nanoporous iron ore by Hata, Yuichi, Purwanto, Hadi, Hosokai, Sou, Hayashi, Jun-ichiro, Kashiwaya, Yoshiaki, Akiyama, Tomohiro

“…In our experiments, three types of iron ores containing different amounts of combined water (CW; 1.6, 3.8, and 9.0 mass %) were first dehydrated at 450 °C to make them porous and then heated with pine tree biomass at 500-600 °C for the gasification and the tar vapor generated was decomposed to deposit carbon within/on the porous ores. …”
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Sustainable supply chain management in construction: an exploratory review for future research by Cataldo, Ieva, Banaitis, Audrius, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Banaitienė, Nerija, Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil

“…The study’s findings suggested that due to the significance of long-term relationships between construction companies, suppliers and customers, smart technology could make it simpler to reach every supply chain link. …”
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An analysis of the Dongba arts and culture in the context of tourism by Xie, Zheng

“…The study examines the critical link between Lijiang’s tourism development and the Naxi dongba culture. …”
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The role of bank loans and deposits in the monetary transmission mechanism in Malaysia by Kassim, Salina, Abdul Majid, M. Shabri

“…To achieve this objective, the study relies on two tests: fi rst, the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) model for the long-run relationship among the variables and second, the impulse response functions and variance decomposition analysis for the short-run relationship among the variables. …”
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CSR and marketing : two sides of the same coin by Mohd. Israil, Khaliq Ahmad, Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah, Tahir, Suziwana

“…That denotes building corporate eminence by ensuring superiority products and services, inspiring social accountability by exerting in an overt and lucid fashion, and avail best management practices through profuse and conscientious communication with employees, and proffer congruous training and development. CSR can link the enterprise and brand; therefore in the long run this relationship contributes to the society. …”
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A comparative study on MEMS piezoelectric microgenerators by Md Ralib @ Md Raghib, Aliza 'Aini, Nordin, Anis Nurashikin, Salleh, Hanim

“…The growing demand of wireless sensor networks has created the necessity of miniature, portable, long lasting and easily recharged sources of power. …”
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Effects of frequency on fade slope based on measured rain attenuation data in Malaysia by Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Chebil, Jalel, Dao, Hassan, M., Al-Hareth

“…There is an ever increasing demand for radio-frequency (RF) spectrum by the nations of the world, in order to satisfy the growing demand for long-distance communications. As C-band (4/6 GHz) is already congested, and Ku-band (12/14 GHz) is filling up rapidly, currently interest focus on the utilization of higher bands. …”
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