Do Indonesian firms practice target capital structure? A dynamic approach by Haron, Razali

“…This study finds that Indonesian firms do practice target capital structure and the capital structure decision is influenced by firm specific factors like profitability, business risk, firm size, liquidity and share price performance due to time varying factors. …”
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An approach to improve the robustness of substitution techniques of audio steganography by Zamani, Mazdak, Abdul Manaf, Azizah, Ahmad, Rabiah, Zeki, Akram M.

“…The robustness specially would be increased against those intentional attacks which try to reveal the hidden message and also some unintentional attacks like noise addition as well.…”
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Sustainable development: Islamic dimension with special reference to conservation of the environment by Ansari, Abdul Haseeb, Jamal, Parveen, Oseni, Umar Aimhanosi

“…Disturbing them is considered as a misdeed (fasad), and Allah (s.w.t.) does not like it. The idea of sustainable development is already there in Islam, in the concepts of vicegerency (khalifah) (Islamic brotherhood (ukhuwwah), trust (amanah), public interest (maslahah mursalah), prevention from bad (sadd al-dhari‘ah). …”
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A framework for providing e-services to the rural areas using wireless ad hoc and sensor networks by Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan, Islam, Humayun Kadir, Sayeed, Sabit Anjum, Ahmed, Farruk, Hong, Choong Seon

“…This has led to the rapid growth of several wireless systems like wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks etc. …”
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Judicial review of the Tribunal for Consumer Claims' awards: a justice for whom? by Amin, Naemah

“…Nevertheless, in the course of offering an informal, faster and cheaper procedure to consumers, the TCC has to face with few challenges and one of the major challenges is judicial review. Just like other inferior courts or quasi-judicial bodies, the awards of the TCC may be subject to judicial review on questions of law. …”
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Analysis of multicomponent transient signals using music superresolution technique by Jibia, Abdussamad Umar, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Emiyoka, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…Such signals arise in many problems in Science and Engineering like nuclear magnetic resonance for medical diagnosis, deep-level transient spectroscopy, fluorescence decay analysis, etc. …”
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Control of pallets in automatic storage and retrieval system by Kafayat Oluwatoyin, Shobowale, Khan, Md. Raisuddin, Muhida, Riza

“…The controller and algorithm developed will be used for executing a puzzle like x and y motion to store and retrieve specific pallets. …”
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Hardware implementation of intelligent braking system by Sidek, Shahrul Na'im, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Emiyoka

“…The system when integrated with other subsystems like automatic traction control system, intelligent throttle system, and auto cruise system, etc will result in smart vehicle maneuver. …”
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On being in the wrong place: the role of children’s conceptual understanding and ballgame experience when judging a football player’s offside position by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Bosco, Giorgia

“…Thereafter, children judged whether a designated player was in an offside position in a computerized task. Like adults, also children found it easier to judge when a player was in a wrong rather than a right place. …”
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Beyond behaviour: changing foods as well as changing people by Winkler, Jack

“…Like many specialists in public health, Clarke focuses on “ways to change and sustain our individual behaviour.” …”

Preventing and designing out plagiarism : making the most of VLEs and CAA tools by Baños-Piñero, Rocío

“…The role of new technologies is such that new terms like "cyber plagiarism" or "digital plagiarism" (Park, 2003: 481) and "cyber cheating" or "e-cheating" (Jones et al., 2008) have been coined to refer to the use of new technologies for dishonest purposes. …”
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Your password is music to my ears: cloud-based authentication using sound by Phipps, Anthony, Ouazzane, Karim, Vassilev, Vassil

“…Whilst this removes barriers to use for those with accessibility challenges like visual impairment or motor skills issues and opens up a much more convenient user experience, a number of cyber security threats remain unanswered. …”
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Miniaturized planar ultra-wideband slot antenna with an interference suppressing capability by Masoumi, Masoume, Amiri, Zhaleh, Ghaedi, Farshad, Sahraban, Amene, Hayati, Soghra, Shokry, Majed, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…In this article analysis of antenna parameters like radiation characteristics, survey of surface currents and antenna gain will be presented.…”
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Effect of Pre-treatment on The Impregnation of Osmotically Dehydrated Fruits: A Review by RAJA, SHALINI, ASMAN, SALIZA

“…Additional data showed that pre-treatments like blanching, freezing, drying, and ultrasound negatively affect calcium salt impregnation on fruit samples. …”
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Effect of Pre-treatment on The Impregnation of Osmotically Dehydrated Fruits: A Review by RAJA, SHALINI, ASMAN, SALIZA

“…Additional data showed that pre-treatments like blanching, freezing, drying, and ultrasound negatively affect calcium salt impregnation on fruit samples. …”
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Numerical Solution for Arbitrary Domain of Fractional Integro-differential Equation via the General Shifted Genocchi Polynomials by Loh, Jian Rong, Phang, Chang, Isah, Abdulnasir

“…The Genocchi polynomial has been increasingly used as a convenient tool to solve some fractional calculus problems, due to their nice properties. However, like some other members in the Appell polynomials, the nice properties are always limited to the interval defined in ½0, 1�. …”
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Numerical Solution for Arbitrary Domain of Fractional Integro-differential Equation via the General Shifted Genocchi Polynomials by Loh, Jian Rong, Phang, Chang, Isah, Abdulnasir

“…The Genocchi polynomial has been increasingly used as a convenient tool to solve some fractional calculus problems, due to their nice properties. However, like some other members in the Appell polynomials, the nice properties are always limited to the interval defined in ½0, 1�. …”
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Analysis of wireless power transfer using resonant inductive coupling method by Mohamad, Khairul Anuar, Zulkefli, Ain Nazatul Nadia, Mohamad Nasir, Nor Atiqah, Alias, Afishah

“…Nowadays, the wireless power transfer technology receives intense attention among the people, especially the people who like to travel or always use gadget. It is a technology that exploits electromagnetic, magnetic and electric field to transmit electric power without conductor which eliminates the use of current carrying wires. …”

Speckle filtering techniques for different quality level of healthy kidney ultrasound images by Wan Kairuddin, Wan Nur Hafsh, Wan Mahmud, Wan Mahani Hafizah, Nazari, Ain

“…But on the downside, ultrasound imaging has a poor resolution of image compared with other medical imaging instrument like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). US has wide spread application as a primary diagnostic aid of obstetrics and gynecology, due to the lack of ionizing radiation or strong magnetic fields. …”
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Indium tin oxide thin films: an ideal transparent and conductive oxides contact for solar cells application by Aliyu, Kabiru Isiyaku, Ali, Ahmad Hadi, Nayan, Nafarizal

“…Furthermore, the integration of different materials like metals, semiconductors, ceramics, plastics molecular and polymer organics into these devices have called for the provision of an improve TCO materials with required functional morphology, high performance and new processibility [5].…”
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