Legal and institutional framework for pollution prevention in Malaysian rivers by Syed Abdul Kader, Sharifah Zubaidah, Mustafa, Maizatun

“…After examining relevant legal provisions, this paper looks at several existing models of river management and points out that other than the existing legal and institutional framework at macro level, effective pollution control of rivers depends very much on local 'on th ground' factors such as the type of rivers, its functions, the interest of local stakeholders and political will. …”
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Untreated sullage from residential areas - a challenge against inland water policy in Malaysia by Al-Mamun, Abdullah, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Idris, Azni, Sulaiman, Wan Nor Azmin

“…Generally, the pollutant concentrations in sullage were higher than the limits stated in the Environmental Quality Act (EQA) of Malaysia. …”
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Dynamic communication performance of a Hierarchical 3D-Torus network by Rahman, M.M. Hafizur, Sato, Yukinori, Miura, Yasuyuki, Inoguchi, Yasushi

“…Also, we found that non-uniform traffic patterns have higher throughput than uniform traffic patterns in the H3DT network. …”
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Dynamic communication performance of a modified hierarchical 3D-Torus network under non-uniform traffic patterns by Rahman, M.M. Hafizur, Sato, Yukinori, Inoguchi, Yasushi

“…Also, we found that non-uniform traffic patterns have higher throughput than uniform traffic patterns in the MH3DT network.…”
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A feasibility study on low temperature thermochemical treatments of Austenitic Stainless Steel in Fluidized Bed Furnace by Haruman, Esa, Yong, Sun, Triwiyanto, Askar, Manurung, Yupiter H. P., Adesta, Erry Yulian Triblas

“…Such hybrid treatment produces a thicker and harder layer than the other three processes investigated.…”
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Improvement in mechanical properties of reinforced thermoplastic elastomer composite with kenaf bast fibre by Anuar, Hazleen, Ahmad, Zuraida

“…It was found that the tensile strength for TPNR is about 12% higher than the PP/EPDM matrix. The present of kenaf fibre (KF) and MAPP however has significantly increased the tensile strength of the PP/EPDM composite by approximately 81% while only 55% increment attained in TPNR–KF–MAPP as compared to unreinforced TPNR. …”
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A novel associative memory approach to speech enhancement in a vehicular environment by Abdul Rahman, Abdul Wahab, Quek, Chai

“…Experimental results show the potential of these novel soft computing architectures in generating and adapting the required Weiner filters to cancel perturbation even at signal to noise ratio (SNR) of less than -13 dB. …”
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Comparative evaluation of grain refinement in AISI 430 FSS welds by elemental metal powder addition and cryogenic cooling by Amuda, Muhammed Olawale Hakeem ., Mridha, Shahjahan

“…Such phases are absent in the welds processed with cryogenic cooling, and thus the welds produced with this method provide a better combination of mechanical properties than those treated with metal powder addition. Cryogenic cooling improved the ductility of the welds to 80% of the base metal whereas metal powder addition gave 20–65% of the base metal’s ductility depending on the type of metal powder introduced into the melt pool.…”
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The teaching of thinking in Malaysia by Hashim, Rosnani, Hussien, Suhailah

“…This important landmark of an educated person is again raised today as a major issue in education, after many studies have begun to reveal symptoms of a decline in students' ability to think wisely, especially when schools began to focus on the mastery of facts, probably in the preparation for examinations rather than on the processes of arriving at those facts. …”
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A study on the ameliorative effects of goldenseal, goat's rue extracts, and berberine on glucose uptake compared to metformin in a cellular model by Kandunuri, Kiran Kumar, White, Kenneth

“…The results indicate that berberine is more effective than goldenseal in improving glucose uptake, suggesting both may lower blood glucose levels in insulin resistance, and present potential therapeutic alternatives for Type 2 Diabetes.…”
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2,7-Di-tert-butylnaphtho[1,8-cd][1,2]dithiole 1,2-dioxides: thermally stable, photochemically activevic-disulfoxides by Grainger, Richard S., Patel, Bhaven, Kariuki, Benson M.

“…Herein, we report two novel diastereomeric vic-disulfoxides that have a significantly higher barrier to thermal rearrangement than 1–7. Also, the first example of a photomediated epimerization reaction for this bonding motif is reported.…”
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The flow metacognitions questionnaire (FMQ): a two factor model of flow metacognitions by Wilson, Edith E., Moneta, Giovanni B.

“…Confidence in Ability to Self-Regulate Flow predicted the intensity of flow in work better than measures of maladaptive and adaptive metacognitions. …”
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A new planar broadband antenna based on meandered line loops for portable wireless communication devices by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The antenna radiates omnidirectionally in the E plane across its operational bandwidth (550 MHz to 3.85 GHz) with peak gain and efficiency of 5.5 dBi and 90.1%, respectively, at 2.35 GHz and reflection coefficient better than −10 dB. These characteristics make the antenna suitable for numerous applications, in particular, JCDMA, UHF RFID, GSM 900, GPS, KPCS, DCS, IMT-2000, WiMAX, WiFi, and Bluetooth.…”
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Beam-deflection using gradient refractive-index media for 60-GHz end-fire antenna by Dadgarpour, Abdolmehdi, Zarghooni, Behnam, Virdee, Bal Singh, Denidni, Tayeb A.

“…The antenna exhibits 4-dB gain enhancement and S11 better than -10 dB from 57-64 GHz. It is also shown that a quad-feed dipole antenna with GRIM arrays can deflect the beam by ±56°.…”
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Behaviour based anomaly detection system for smartphones using machine learning algorithm by Majeed, Khurram

“…In this test, 8 out 10 user profiles were more than 95% accurate. The second test, utilised the entire dataset and achieved average accuracy of 44.50% to 95.48%. …”
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Miniaturized planar-patch antenna based on metamaterial L-shaped unit-cells for broadband portable microwave devices and multiband wireless communication systems by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Ali, Abdul, Limiti, Ernesto

“…This corresponds to a fractional bandwidth of 172.49%, which is higher than multiband planar antennas reported to date. …”
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Deterioration and Recovery in Verbal Recall: Repetition Helps against Pro-Active Interference by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Markowska, Monika, Ridhi, Kochhar

“…We also tested whether bilinguals would be better shielded against memory deterioration than monolinguals because they constantly need to enrich their vocabulary to compensate for their smaller lexica in either language. …”
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Assessing professional practice : a focus on dietetics by Rees, Gail

“…Over the last decade, reviews of medical and nursing education have led to the emphasis of attainment of key skills rather than just knowledge (GMC, 1997; Epstein and Hundert, 2002; DH, 1999) Dietetics is a much smaller profession allied to medicine, but some academics and practitioners have recognised the need for the robust assessment of clinical skills. …”
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K-Nearest Neighbours Based Classifiers for Moving Object Trajectories Reconstruction by Afzal, Muhammad Majid, Ouazzane, Karim, Vassilev, Vassil

“…This paper proposes a model-driven approach for trajectory reconstruction based on machine learning algorithms which is more efficient than other approaches for dynamic tracking, such as RGB-D (Red, Green and Red Color model with Depth) images or scale or rotation approaches. …”
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Disappearance of biased visual attention in young infants: remediation of tonic neck reflex or maturation of visual asymmetry? by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane

“…Typically, infants younger than four months fail to attend to the left side of their spatial field, most likely because of an innate asymmetrical tonic neck reflex (ATNR). …”
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