Boards’ and Firms’ Characteristics: The case for Fraudulent Financial Reporting in Malaysia by Puat Nelson, Sherliza

“…The objective of the study is to examine signals or red flags that exist among fraud firms such as their audit committee size, audit committee independence, board’s size, independent directors, block holders, cash flows and long term debts. Companies of fraud firms were identified from the Securities Commission enforcement actions from year 2000 until 2008. …”
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A hybrid controller with Chedoke-McMaster stroke assessment for robot-assisted rehabilitation by Sidek, Shahrul Na'im, Shamsudin, Abu Ubaidah, Ismail, Elliana

“…Amongst the major challenges in post-stroke rehabilitation are the repetitiveness nature of rehabilitation procedure, and the accessibility of therapists for long-term treatment. In manual rehabilitation procedure, the patient is subjected to repetitive mechanical movement of the affected limb by the therapist. …”
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Utilizing ultrasonic energy for reduction of free fatty acids in crude palm oil by Hayyan, Adeeb, Mjalli, Farouq Sabri, Hayyan, Maan, Alnashef, Inas Muen, Mirghani, Mohamed Elwathig Saeed

“…From this work, it is reasonable to conclude that there is significant enhancement in the pre-treatment of oils by applying ultrasonic energy using long sonication time. …”
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Routing scheme for macro mobility handover in hierarchical mobile IPv6 network by Vivaldi, Indra, Mohd Ali, Borhanuddin, Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi, Prakash, V., Sali, A.

“…Significant problems in basic mobile IPv6 occur due to its inability to support micro-mobility because of long delay and high packet loss during handover. …”
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Economic performance of bio-gas plant in the context of Bangladesh by Paul, Dilip Kumar, Karim, A.N. Mustafizul

“…The conventional paradigm of development characterized by commercial energy supply oriented policies may not come true in the foreseeable future. Long term sustainable development of the country should, therefore, require a gradual shift towards renewable sources of energy as they are more evenly distributed and environmentally less destructive. …”
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Effect of tapered angle of a conical nose indenter on the energy absorbing variation of a copper pipe subjected to axial crushing by Shah, Qasim Hussain, Naily, Hanis, Ramly, Nur Syuhada

“…In the present research work, a 100 mm long copper pipe segment with a 1 mm wall thickness is subjected to a drop weight impact by a conical shaped steel indenter with varying nose angles but constant mass. …”
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Vaginismus and subfertility: Case reports on the association observed in clinical practice by Musa, Ramli, Ramli, Roszaman, Sidi, Hatta

“…All the cases had never been attended to medically and there were long delays in seeking intervention. There was no history of traumatic sexual experience or any major psychiatric illness in these patients. …”
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Co-movement of output and price in Malaysia: Empirical evidence and macroeconomic policy implications by Abdul Manap, Turkhan Ali, Kassim, Salina

“…We analyze the short- and long-run co-movements between real activity and prices using several tests in efforts to arrive at conclusive findings. …”
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Complete derivation of 2D shallow-water model from the primitive equations governing geophysical flows by Abdul Hadi, Muhammad Salihi, Mustapa, Mohd Zaini, Saad, Shahbudin

“…The fact that the 2D shallow-water model has been used for decades is such a long time that a complete reference on how to derive it from the primitive equations either has likely to become a very rare article or written in a way that is very complicated for the newcomers. …”
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A matlab-based low-cost autopilot for autonomous helicopter development by Ismaila B., Tijani, Akmeliawati, Rini, Legowo, Ari, Tun Muzamil, L. A.

“…The resulting effect is for example, a long time delay in autopilot system design, testing and deployment coupled with the fact that several other autonomous helicopter development tasks depend largely on availability of the autopilot system. …”
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Codebook excited linear predictive coding by Shah, Asadullah, Shaikh, Muniba

“…This simplified block diagram mainly consists ofthree blocks, Short-Term Prediction, Long-Term Prediction and a random code-book. The parameters of these predictors SIP, LIP and the codebook are optimised and estimated in many ways. …”
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Change management and its contribution to the success of IT project implementation by Munassar, Fatima, Ghanim, Alyaa, Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman

“…Additionally, time gets change from day-to-day rapidly and creating a dynamic organization becomes very challenging. Projects are long-term process where project management is short-term process. …”
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Propagation of guided waves in a fluid layer bounded by two viscoelastic transversely isotropic solids by Ashour, Ahmed S

“…Also, it is important for many geophysics considerations, e.g. for tremor and long-period events observed in volcanoes and geothermal areas. …”
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Timbuktu civilization and its significance in Islamic history by Shuriye, Abdi Omar, Sh. Ibrahim, Dauda

“…The significant of this paper is to reveal the fact that Africa has a long Islamic civilization. The paper provides evidences from reliable sources of the symbolic representation of the impact and influence of the early schools and universities between 11th and 15th century that existed in West Africa. …”
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The Qur’an as a main source of scientific knowledge by Ashimi, Tijani Ahmad

“…While some worldviews highly depend on human experience to have solution for scientific knowledge, and while some religious traditions only rely on scientific method(observation, experiment, skepticism, hypothesis and theory)to obtain the knowledge of natural phenomenon, the scripture of Islam (Qur’an) which is also a book of knowledge and science seems to have already proven these scientific fact for long centuries. Thus, this humble paper by adopting textual approach will examine the scientific knowledge vis-à-vis in the Qur’an, with particular reference to embryology and astronomy.…”
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Investigation of three dimensional empirical indoor path loss models for femtocell networks by Zyoud, Al-Hareth, Chebil, Jalel, Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi, Islam, Md Rafiqul, Lwas, A K

“…Most of the available models are for long range communication like macro and micro cellular networks. …”
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Dynamics of Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Pakistan by Ali, S. S., Tahir, Sayyid

“… (3) Unlike most other studies that combine time series and cross section data, it makes an analysis of the relationship between poverty and growth, between inequality and growth, and interaction between these three variables in the context of a single developing country. (4) It provides long-run elasticities of poverty with respect to growth and inequality which are useful for policy purposes. …”
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Negative media effects and Islamic remedies by Ishak, Mohd. Shuhaimi

“…The effects of media are many and diverse, which can either be short or long term depending on the news and information. …”
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Zakat In Malaysian rural development: issues and potentials by Mahamod, Lukman Hakim, Jaafar, Samsuddin, A. Rahman, Muhammad Ali

“…Zakat is a different system based on existing funding to provide sustenance and non-sustenance to the poorest, who are eligible to receive zakat as long as they are classified as faqir or miskin. …”
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Reproductive medical technology: legal implications for "third gender" from Western and Islamic perspectives by Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah

“…On positive side, it goes a long way in saving children born with abnormal sexual reproductive system from many legal interdictions which they experienced during pre-sex corrective surgery. …”
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