Zakat, school enrolment, and economic growth in Malaysia: a panel data analysis by Yusoff, Mohammed

“…The main objective of this study is to determine the impact of zakat spending and school enrollment on economic growth using panel data represented by the fourteen states of Malaysia. …”
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Conciliation and mediation in civil and Islamic family laws: issues and challenges by Abdul Hak, Nora

“…The same also happen in Malaysia however, there has been no changes have taken place. Mediation has two main objects that are to define the matters on which the parties are in dispute and to encourage them to come to an agreed solution. …”
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Reducing variability, increasing reliability: exploring the psychology of intra- and inter-rater reliability by Aslett, Helen J.

“…However, the reliability of the assessment process should never be assumed. There are two main forms of reliability: intra- and inter- rater reliability. …”
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Aspects of problem-based learning : implications for library collaboration in learning and teaching by Foley, Anne

“…PBL and IL appear, in the main, to make easy bedfellows. It is the evidence for this mutually beneficial relationship, from the point of view of the learner, academic staff, and academic/subject librarian in HE that is examined in this paper.…”
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FOSS as an efficient tool for extraction of MOSFET compact model parameters by Tomaszewski, Daniel, Gluszko, Grzegorz, Brinson, Mike, Kuznetsov, Vadim, Grabinski, Wladek

“…A GNU Octave - based application for device-level compact model evaluation and parameter extraction has been developed. The applications main features are as follows: experimental I-V data importing, generating input data for different circuit simulation programs, running the simulation program to calculate I-V characteristics of the specified models, calculating model misfit and its sensitivity to selected parameter variation, and the comparison of experimental and simulated characteristics. …”
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Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…This paper proposes new metrics for the process of price discovery on the main electronic trading platform for euro-denominated government securities. …”
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Bridging the gap between gender (studies) and (audiovisual) translation by De Marco, Marcella

“…For this purpose, I will give an overview of the theoretical background on which this new approach is based and summarise the main aspects that the analysis of gender issues in AVT encompasses.…”
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An innovative custom cyber security solution for protecting enterprises and corporates’ assets by Ouazzane, Karim, Aigbodi, Markson, Mitchell, Daniel, Vassilev, Vassil, Li, Jun

“…Anti-virus software has been the main defense against malicious application and will remain so in the future. …”
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Tales of the Olympic city: memory, narrative and the built environment by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…After a contextual introduction, it employs a case study of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP), the main event space for the London 2012 Summer Games, to supply insight into how to read the urban traces of Olympic memory. …”
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Blind drawing: investigation into screen location tracking for computer aided interactive drawing by Fernando, Sandra

“…One of the main problems faced by blind learners is lack of drawing technologies that support images and diagram drawing without the help of a sighted support worker. …”
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What’s in store for Georgia at the European Court? An analysis of recently communicated cases by Koroteev, Kirill

“…An analysis of recently communicated cases against Georgia allows us to highlight the main areas of concern for the country, which which ought to be addressed even before judgments at the ECtHR are passed down.…”
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The role of discourse in family policy reform - the case of Finland by Nyby, Josefine, Nygard, Mikael, Autto, Janne, Kuisma, Mikko, Blum, Sonja

“…Not only did it draw on ideas from an austerity discourse advocating financial sustainability, fiscal prudency and debt reduction, it was also impregnated by ideas from a neoliberal worldview questioning some of the main principles of the ‘Nordic’ family policy model.…”
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Principal component regression in GAMLSS applied to Greek-German government bond yield spreads by Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, Rigby, Robert A., Georgikopoulos, Nikolaos, De Bastiani, Fernanda

“…Fitting a model, using principal components regression of both main and first order interaction terms, for all the parameters of the assumed distribution of the response variable seems to produce promising results.…”
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Let's just see what happens: a qualitative case study of risk and uncertainty in the creative process by Ross, Wendy, Groves, Mike

“…This paper uses focused cognitive ethnography to explore how creativity is manifest in a complex environment. We report four main findings: that creativity involves a form of “knowing through doing”, that creativity requires risk on different levels, that an embodied material sensitivity is required to make ideas appear in the world and that the form of the creative product is often unstable. …”
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Initiation, marketing and branding of smart city projects: a study of decision processes by Vijaygopal, Rohini, Bennett, Roger, Savani, Sharmila

“…Interviewees were asked to relate stories of how decisions had been reached, which stakeholders had been prioritised, the extent of citizen co-creation in project initiation and branding, and the main difficulties involved. An argumentative narrative discourse methodology was employed to analyse the interview transcripts, which revealed a number of disparities between the suggestions of extant place branding literature and current practice where smart city projects were concerned.…”
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Perceptions of parental substance misuse among social workers working with children and families by Grant, Alastair, Banbury, Samantha, Lusher, Joanne

“…This research used a qualitative design of semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis to explore five Social Workers viewpoints on working with parental substance use. Four main narratives emerged and these included: Challenges of working with parental substance use, informed decision making, developing self-efficacy and professional values. …”
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Take care: art and medicine by Bradley, Rachal

“…A large spectrum of media, from drawing, painting and sculpture to video, spatial installation and performance, is on display in this asynchronous and associative sequence. The main focus of the artworks is on physical infirmities. …”

The possibilities of disruption: serendipity, accidents and impasse driven search by Ross, Wendy

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Rethinking biosecurity in the 21st century: an enhanced role for civil society by Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

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The strategic business value of internet usage in small to medium-sized enterprises by Lawrence, Japhet Eke

“…The choice of SMEs as the main context of this paper is not arbitrary. It is chosen because of SMEs make significant contribution to most economies of the World. …”
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