Acid blue 25 adsorption on base treated Shorea dasyphylla sawdust: kinetic, isotherm, thermodynamic and spectroscopic analysis by Megat Hanafiah, Megat Ahmad Kamal, Wan Ngah, Wan Saime, Zolkafly, Shahira Hilwani, Lee, Ching Teong, Abdul Majid, Zafri Azran

“…The optimum conditions for AB 25 adsorption were pH 2, stirring rate 500 r/min, adsorbent dosage 0.10 g and contact time 60 min. …”
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Treatment of biotreated palm oil mill effluent using powdered activated carbon produced from palm empty fruit bunch by Amosa, Mutiu K., Jami, Mohammed Saedi, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid, Jimat, Dzun Noraini, Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu

“…Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC) was produced from empty fruit bunch (EFB) precursors by CO2 activation at 800¬0C, N2 (2.5 L/min) for 30 mins and CO2 (0.1L/min) for 15 mins. …”
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Capabilities of cermets tools for high speed machining of austenitic stainless steel by Khan, Ahsan Ali, Salama Hajjaj, Sami

“…In the present work cermet tools coated with titanium nitride were used to turn austenitic stainless steel at speeds between 300 and 700 m min-1. Feed rates were varied between 0.05 to 0.4 mm rev-1. …”
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Pembangunan video dokumentari pendidikan bagi mata pelajaran teknologi konkrit by Zakaria, Mohd Zaim

“…The data was analyzed using statistic method from Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 11.0 which include percentages, min score and standard devition. Research result are positif that is the min score for each item from section B exceeding 3.8. …”
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Dry machining of brass using titanium carbonitride (TiCN) coated tool by Mohamed Ariff, Tasnim Firdaus, Kamarudin, Mohd Syahidan, Haron, Mohd Amiruddin

“…Wear rates, tool wear intensities and material removal rates (MRR) of TiCN coated tools using both dry and traditional wet machining on brass were studied with the aim in finding the optimum cutting condition from four different cutting speeds (207, 279, 372 and 498 m/min) with two sets of cutting parameters; depth of cut and feed rate (d = 0.1 mm, f = 0.2 mm/rev and d = 0.2 mm, f = 0.4 mm/rev). …”
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Personal control related to childbirth satisfaction among postpartum mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA) by Mohd Arifin, Siti Roshaidai, Addenan, Nor Ashikin

“…Correlation test and t-test were used to test the relationship of socio demographic data with personal control and chidlbirth satisfaction. Findings: The mean score for personal control among postnatal mother was 52.56 [SD = 10.693, min max (29, 70)] with the mean childbirth satisfaction score of 140.06 [SD = 17.109, min max (89, 170)]. …”
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Rare presentation of burholderia psedomallei infection by Kamaraj, S., How, Soon Hin, Sathananthar, KS, Rasan, Maria Ithaya, P., Puraviappan

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Lead time management in the garment sector of Bangladesh: an avenues for survival and growth by Nuruzzaman, Md., Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul

“…In this study attempts have been made to find out the ways to face the competitive business environment by the efficient management process towards the lead time reduction. …”
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The impact of corporate governance on the restrictiveness of covenants in private debt contract by Abu Bakar, Intan Suryani, Mather, Paul, Tanewski, George

“…Our cross-sectional analysis on a sample of new syndicated loans in the U.S private debt market indicates that both a corporate governance score and board independence are positively and significantly associated with covenant slack. Similarly, we find that independent directors’ financial expertise and covenants slack are positively related, but we find no evidence that slack is associated with ‘busy’ directors or CEO duality. …”
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Journalism cupcakes: Same cakes, different icing or vice-versa by Ismail, Awan, Aripin, Norizah, Yusof, Norhafezah, Mohamad, Noraihan, Ismail, Rizalawati

“…After three to four years of study, journalism graduates from these universities would have to share the same pie to find jobs in media or communication related organizations. …”
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The effect of material property gradient on the fracture toughness of a PMMA/PC bimaterial with a crack normal to the interface by Shah, Qasim Hussain, Homma, H., Iliyas, M. H., Ismail, Ahmad Faris

“…Finite element analysis was used to find out the stresses IC in the specimens. Subsequently the stress values were used to find out the fracture toughness of each specimen. …”
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Rural transformation and productivity in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…This paper carries out for the first time an econometric investigation of the contribution of rural transformation to total factor productivity in China. We find that the efficiency gains resulting from rural transformation make a significant and nontrivial contribution to factor productivity in China. …”
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The production of carbon nanotubes using two-stage chemical vapor deposition and their potential use in protein purification by Mubarak, N. M., Yusof, Faridah, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid

“…The statistical analysis reveals that the optimum conditions for the CNT production were reaction temperature of 850 ◦C, reaction time of 60 min and gases flow rates of 40 and 150 ml/min for C2H2 and H2, respectively. …”
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Inhalable and respirable dust from coal-fired power plant by Mohd. Din, Shamzani Affendy, Othman, Rashidi, Nik Yahya, Nik Nurul Hidayah, Hanapi, Norsyamimi

“…Coal-fired power plant emission had been recognized as one of the manmade sources of particulate matter. 8-hours personal particulate matter sampling had been done at a coal-fired power plant with 7-hole sampler at 2 L/min air flow and cyclone sampler at 2.2 L/min air flow. …”
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Cloning and expression of a novel phytase gene (phyMS) from Mycobacterium smegmatis by Nuge, Tamrin, Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun, Farouk, Abd-El Alziem, Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah

“…The purified enzyme retains almost 30% of the initial activity after incubation at 90˚C for 60 min. The enzyme showed broad substrate specificity with Km and Vmax of the recombinant enzyme for sodium phytate substrate of 0.105 ± 0.016 mM and 26.93 ± 1.21 mM min−1, respectively.…”
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Enhanced settleability and dewaterability of fungal treated domestic wastewater sludge by liquid state bioconversion process by Alam, Md. Zahangir, Fakhru’l-Razi, Ahmadun

“…The settling rate (measured as total suspended solids (TSS) concentration, 130 mg/l) was faster in treated sludge than untreated sludge (TSS concentration, 440 mg/l) after 1 min of settling time. In 1 min of settling operation, 86.45% of TSS was settled in treated sludge while 4.35% of TSS settled in raw sludge. …”
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Kinetic performance of cross-linked enzyme aggregates (clea)-amylase from Zophobas morio by Easa, Muhammad Noor, Yusof, Faridah, Abd Halim, Amanatuzzakiah

“…For CLEA-amylase, Hanes-Woolf plot had showed the best fitted model based on R2 with Vmax= 1.068 mM/min and KM= 0.182 mM. Lineweaver-Burk plot was used to obtain the kinetic parameters for free amylase, with Vmax and KM of 17.230 mM/min and 2.470 mM, respectively. …”
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Investigation of bioflocculant as renewable dewatering aid in sludge treatment by Jami, Mohammed Saedi, Mohd Arif, Aysha Ralliya, Abdulazeez, Qabas Marwan

“…Results showed that salt extraction by NaCl gave the best results of 0.41 cm/min of settling velocity and 63.39 mg/L of SVI. …”
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The effect of incorporating lithium fluoride on the compressive strength and diametric tensile strength of glass ionomer cement by Mustafa, Ammar A., Al-Khateeb, Khalid A. Saeed, Ismail, Ahmad Faris

“…The specimens were tested in a Universal Testing Machine (Instron 1122, Instron corp., High Wycombe, U.K.) at a crosshead speed of 1.0mm/min for CS and 0.5mm/min for the DTS test until failure occurred. …”
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Adsorption of copper, nickel and lead ions from synthetic semiconductor industrial wastewater by palm shell activated carbon by Onundi, Yusuf Bamidele, Al-Mamun, Abdullah, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid, Ahmed, Yehya M.

“…The percentage metal removal approached equilibrium within 30 min for lead, 75 min for copper and nickel, with lead recording 100 %, copper 97 % and nickel 55 % removal, having a trend of Pb2+ > Cu2+ > Ni2+ . …”
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