Institutional quality in the finance-growth nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa by Adu-Darko, Eunice Adwoa

“…Total factor productivity is decomposed into two items: 1) pure technical progress; and 2) institutional quality linked efficiency gain, which captures financial development and institutional quality. …”
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The impact of poorly controlled hypertension on ambulatory care resources in Malaysia by Abdul Razak, Tariq

“…The monthly direct and indirect costs and the differences in costs were determined. Main outcome measure: Data analysis using the Mann-Whitney test was performed to compare the direct costswhich were associated with controlled and uncontrolled blood pressure. …”
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Impact of coastal development on mangrove cover in Kilim river, Langkawi Island, Malaysia by Saad, Shahbudin, Ahmad, Zuhairi, Yunus, Kamaruzzaman

“…Langkawi is one of the main tourism islands in Malaysia. Tthe pace of coastal development throughout the entire island including Kilim River had suppressed the mangroves propagation over the years. …”
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Growth kinetics study and process optimization of lactic acid fermentation in laboratory scale fermenter by Mel, Maizirwan, Abdul Karim, Mohamed Ismail, Jamal, Parveen, Mohamed Salleh, Mohamad Ramlan, Zakaria, Ruzi Aini

“…Three parameters have been chosen to be main parameters that effect significantly to L. rhamnosus growth that were agitation speed of the impeller, dissolve oxygen level (pO2) and pH. …”
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Social housing programme of Selangor Zakat Board of Malaysia and housing satisfaction by Mohit, Mohammad Abdul, Nazyddah, Nurul

“…This paper evaluates these programmes by adopting the housing satisfaction model which is currently used as a customer satisfaction tool for public/private housing in many local governments in the UK and USA. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the types of housing programmes adopted by SZB and examine beneficiaries’ housing satisfaction in each programme on a comparative plane. …”
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Judicial pluralism in the Malaysian legal system by Kayadibi, Saim

“…In contrast, the Ottomans’ Majallah al-Ahkam al-‘Adliyyah, the Hanafi legal code of Qadri Pasha (later called the Majallah Ahkam Johor), and the Undang-undang Sivil Islam were all used as the main source of judicial matters in the courts. In this paper, the historical development of the Malay legal system is analyzed and the following themes are elaborated upon: Malaysia’s constitutional law, customary law, and tribal legal systems; Shari‘ah and civil court procedures; the first contacts with Islamic law; the influence of Portuguese, Dutch, and English law; and the Turk-Malay connection and strong relationships.…”
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Cost of treating hypertension in Malaysia by Al-Efan, Qais Muhammad Ahmad

“…Direct costs of hypertension are mainly dependant on the costs of antihypertensive agents. …”
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The Non-party Caretaker Government (NCG) for conducting elections: Bangladesh as a case study by Quddus, S. M. Abdul, Quddusi, Kazi S. M. K. Alam

“…This paper is based on empirical data collected mainly from published secondary sources, personal observation of national election as well as information from the EC website and print and electronic media about election and democracy in Bangladesh. …”
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Mammographic findings of Breast Cancer: review of 43 cases in IIUM Breast Centre (2008-2010) by Hassan, Radhiana, Che Mohamed, Siti Kamariah, Abdul Rashid, Mohd Amran, Yahaya, Azura Sharena, Muhammed Nordin, Ellyda, Zaini, Izwan Zanni

“…A total of 43 cases were included. The main mammographic finding was documented. Majority of patients had mass lesion (46.5%) on the mammogram. …”
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A Fuzzy-based mobility prediction in the IEEE 802.16e by Al-khateeb, Mohammed K., Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha

“…Intersystem mobility having no awkward transitions or indications of disparity, roaming across wireless access networks is one of the main features of Mobile WiMAX. In this paper, we propose a mobility prediction method based on fuzzy logic control and an algorithm similar to the fuzzy c- mean partitioning to predict the movement patterns and handover times by measuring mobile users’ velocity and monitoring the received signal strength of the serving base stations and target base stations simultaneously. …”
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Cell rupture of recombinant escherichia coli using high pressure homogenizer by Ahmad Raus, Raha, Mel, Maizirwan, Mohd Abdullah, S. N., Yusoff, K.

“…Through the means plot analysis of Minitab Software (Version 14.12), pressure was recognized as the main factor for achieving the highest cell rupture and the release of NP protein. …”
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Collaborative system: higher education search engine by Abdul Wahid, Al- Abrar, Aboubakar Idriss, Hissein, Adam Labab Ali, Muhanad, Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman

“…Malaysian universities or colleges has been one of the main attractive educational destinations to foreigners for the last decade. …”
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Tractive efficiency analysis for an intelligent air-cushion tracked vehicle by Mohiuddin, A. K. M., Hossain, Altab, Rahman, Mohammed Ataur, Aminanda, Yulfian

“…Based on the total power consumption and optimum load distribution for IACTV, two main issues are studied in this paper. First, a theoretical model is developed for optimizing total power consumption of the vehicle and tractive efficiency has been investigated with the effects of load distribution on the vehicle performance. …”
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Visual plumes coastal dispersion modeling in southwest Sabah by Zainudin, Zaki

“…The travel distance (l t) is a main function of ambient current velocity (m/s) and direction. …”
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Study the campus weather observation for environmental monitoring by Abu Eusuf, Muhammad, Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen, Mohd Latiff, Nur Hanie

“…Regular inspection of the weather forecasts is serving as a medium for further improvements in the numerical model and is stimulating the development of techniques for evaluation of forecast skill and/or utilization of this guidance in an operational setting. The main focus of this paper is to discuss about the data acquisition of climate control parameters and their effective utilization in microclimate research and development.…”
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Development of Powder Metallurgy (PM) compacted Cu-TaC electrodes for EDM by Ndaliman, Mohammed Baba, Khan, Ahsan Ali

“…The main aim of this paper is to investigate the properties of Cu-TaC electrodes produced by Powder Metallurgy (PM) method. …”
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Perception of young employees on communicating and sharing working relationships with older employees in higher learning institutions in Malaysia by Wok, Saodah, Hashim, Junaidah

“…This study investigates the perception of young employees (less than 40 years old) on their older counterparts (56-58 years old) pertaining to communicating and sharing working relationships. The main objective of the study is to analyze the perception of young employees on working relationships satisfaction with communicative teamwork, mutual learning, participative decision making, and communicating feedback of the older employees in higher learning institutions. …”
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Integrated Medical Emergency Model: an interactive web-based database by Hameed, Shihab A., Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul, Chek Nuh, Nur Hafizah, Salim, Nur Huda

“…IMEM is being divided into three main parts: The web based database, the intelligent agent, and the mobility. …”
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Vehicle fuel consumption and emission modelling: an in-depth literature review by Faris, Waleed Fekry, Rakha, Hesham, Kafafy, Raed Ismail, Mohammed Idres, Moumen, Elmoselhy, Salah

“…This review categorises vehicle fuel consumption and emissions models into five classifications. The relevant main models to each of these classifications are presented. …”
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Effect of Nanoclay on Thermal Properties of Polylacticacid-Kenaf Hybrid Bio-composite by Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul, Anuar, Hazleen

“…The availability of natural fiber (such as kenaf fiber) makes the hybrid bio-composite competetively lower cost and feasible to be produced industrially for wide range of applications. The main objectives of this paper are to fabricate and the effect of nanoclay on thermal properties of hybrid bio-composite. …”
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