Bandwidth extension of planar antennas using embedded slits for reliable multiband RF communications by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…This is accomplished by embedding capacitive slits in the rectangular patch with a truncated ground-plane, and exciting the antenna through a meandered strip-line feed. The proposed antenna was fabricated on standard FR-4 substrate with permittivity of 4.6, thickness of 0.8 mm and loss-tangent of 0.001. …”
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Towards a broader approach to the community interpreter’s role: on correspondence between role perceptions and interactional goals by Kaczmarek, Lukasz

“…The various respondents seemed to differ in their perceptions of the interpreter’s role, ostensibly reflecting their own conversational goals, but not necessarily in line with their status as service provider, service recipient or interpreter.…”
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Power Factor Correction – A Simulation Approach by Che Ros, Ziana, Nordin, Muhammad Faris, Anuar, Muhammad Abdullah, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Hazim

“…In so doing, they incur more line losses. They also must have larger capacity equipment in place than would be otherwise necessary. …”
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Teaching similarities and differences between non directive teaching and enhancing self esteem of special education students by Senin, M. S., Nordin, Mohd Norazmi, Abd Mutalib, Norathirah Nabila, Abd Rashid, Intan Maizura, Mustafa, Mohamad Zaid, Abdul Razzaq, Abdul Rasid, Ibrahim, Badarudin

“…Teaching strategies are not fixed, they can be modified as needed. This statement is in line with the existing needs in special education. …”
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A foresight study on nanotechnology in cosmetics industries in Malaysia by Ramasamy, Chandrashekar, Hsin, Chan Yuet, Shamsuddin, Alina

“…Need an efficient waste management system and usage of biocompatible and biodegradable compounds in nanocosmetics was voted as the most influential drivers for the nanocosmetics industries in Malaysia. In line with this regard, a scenario development was done and a number of solution were suggested in order to move towards sustainable development of nanocosmetics industry. …”
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Dynamic modeling of a stand - alone pem fuel cell connected to adjustable speed drive by Zambri, Nor Aira

“…Results also show that ASD generates harmonics to the line voltage and current. A method to reduce harmonics distortion in a network of ASD is proposed in this project. …”
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Mathematical evaluation of a context transfer-based approach to improve handover in mobile multicast environment by Mohd Aman, Azana Hafizah, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha, Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Hameed, Shihab A.

“…Mobile networking environments have been developing very rapidly in line with the increase demand of users. Multicast is defined as the delivery of data to a set of selected receivers. …”
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Malaysia’s palm oil exports: does exchange rate overvaluation and undervaluation matter? by Mohd Sidek, Noor Zahirah, Duasa, Jarita, Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi, Yusoff, Mohammed

“…Hence, it is imperative that policy-makers avoid both overvaluation and undervaluation and keep the real exchange rate in line with the economic fundamentals.…”
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Accounting treatment for corporate zakat: a critical review by Adnan, Muhammad Akhyar, Abu Bakar, Nur Barizah

“…These inaccuracies, in one way or another, have not been in line with the true spirit of zakat in Islam. More worryingly, some unfavorable consequences may and in fact have already been implicated on the larger Muslim community as a result. …”
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A state-of-practice on teaching software verification and validation by Zakaria, Zulfa

“…Given this importance of software testing, educators face a significant challenge when teaching and equipping students with the testing methodologies, skills, and knowledge that are in line with industry needs. The aim of this paper is to examine the current state-of-practice with respect to teaching Software Verification and Validation (V&V) in the accredited Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) programs offered in Australian universities. …”
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The Malaysia IT Outsourcing industry skill-sets requirements of future IT graduates by Ahlan, Abdul Rahman, Arshad, Yusri, Suhaimi, Mohd Adam, Hussin, Husnayati

“…The four-member research team found that technical, soft and problem-solving skills are the main concerns raised by the key informants. This is in line with the literature review and also the present higher education policy concerns by the Malaysia government. …”
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Dilated intercellular spaces of esophageal epithelium in non- erosive reflux disease: Transmission electron microscopic (TEM) study by Myint, Yi Yi, Tun, Ye, Mohammad Amjad, Nasser, Mat Hassan, Mohd. Zailani, Abdul Rashid, Nor Linda

“…Specimens were taken 5 cm above the Z line during endoscopy. The biopsies were routinely processed for transmission electron microscopy (TEM). …”
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Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi’s views on ijtihad and their relevance to the contemporary Muslim society by Haque, Munawar

“…For Mawdudi, ijtihad is the concept, the process, as well as the mechanism by which the Shariah, as elaborated in the Qur’an and the Sunnah is to be interpreted, developed and kept alive in line with the intellectual, political, economic, legal, technological and moral development of society. …”
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A low-complexity, hardware architecture for a parametric, real-time LSF speech decoder by Mabrouk, Ahmed Hassan, Hassim, Norhidayah

“…The LP filter coefficients are calculated based on the Line Spectral Frequencies (LSF) parameters due to their excellent quantization characteristics. …”
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Are perceptions of organizational justice universal? an exploration of measurement invariance across thirteen cultures by Fischer, Ronald, Ferreira, Maria Cristina, Yu Jiang, Ding, Cheng, Bor-Shiuan, Achoui, Mustapha M., Wong, Corbin C., Baris, Gulfidan, Mendoza, Socorro, Meurs, Nathalie van, Hassan, Arif, Achmadi , Donna, Hassan, Arif, Zeytinoglu, Gunes, Dalyan, Figen, Harb, Charles, Darwish, Dania D., Assmar, Eveline M.

“…Perceptions of justice are more highly intercorrelated in power distant and collectivistic samples, in line with extensions of the relational model of authority. …”
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Bioconversion process for microbial treatment of palm oil mill effluent to produce citric acid by Jamal, Parveen, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Mohd Salleh, Mohammad Ramlan, Nadzir, Masrina M.

“…Fermentation media for citric acid biosynthesis should consist of substrates necessary for the growth of microorganism, primarily the carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus sources. In this line, POME is introduced as a cheaper raw material for citric acid production by microbial treatment with developed bioconversion process.…”
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H∞ robust controller for autonomous helicopter hovering control by Tijani, Ismaeel, Akmeliawati, Rini, Legowo, Ari, Budiyono, Agus, Asan Gani, Abdul Muthalif

“…Simulation study was conducted to evaluate the performance of the designed controller for robust stability to uncertainty, disturbance rejection, and time-domain response in line with ADS-33E level1 requirements. The results obtained show the effectiveness of the designed controller.…”
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Future direction of language education in Malaysia by Mat Daud, Nuraihan

“…The study was an investigation of how tertiary level language education evolved in Malaysian universities since 1966. In line with the National Higher Education Strategic Plan (2007), the study seeks to profile the range of languages, linguistics, and literature courses and their strengths and unique features across all language departments of different universities in Malaysia. …”
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A 1-Gbps IR-UWB pulse generator for 802.11a and WiMAX interference avoidance by Al-Khateeb, Khalid A. Saeed, Mohammed, Ahmed R.

“…The pulse generator uses a single two ports parallel coupled microstrip line as a bandpass filter (BPF). The same pulse generator can be used for Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) or On-Off Keying (OOK). …”
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Core crush criterion to determine the strength of sandwich composite structures subjected to compression after impact by Castanie, Bruno, Aminanda, Yulfian, bouvet, christophe, barrau, jean-jacques

“…The mechanism of failure of this kind of structure under post-impact compressive loading is due to interaction between three mechanical behaviors: geometrical nonlinearity due to the skin’s neutral line off-set in the dent area, nonlinear response of the core and damages to the skins. …”
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