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Cultural landscape: a new paradigm for landscape architecture
Published 2011“…It is crucial to understand the concept of cultural landscape as it offers main contribution in sustaining the heritage value and protecting local identity and original culture of a group of people or place. …”
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Ant colony optimization for controller and sensor-actuator location in active vibration control
Published 2013“…Mathematical model of the simply supported plate with piezoelectric patches is derived using Euler-Bernoulli model. The main focus is to find the optimal location of the collocated sensor-actuatorand controller gains using a swarm intelligent algorithm called Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) which later verified with Genetic Algorithm (GA). …”
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Feature extraction techniques of online handwriting arabic text recognition
Published 2013“…Most of the online text recognition systems consist of three main phases which are preprocessing, feature extraction, and recognition phase. …”
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1804
Some issues on murabahah practices in Iran and Malaysian Islamic banks
Published 2011“…Findings – Although the main principle of Islamic financial institutions is prohibition of usury, it is surprised to see that Islamic financial institutions are still practicing usury in their transaction as evidenced in Iran. …”
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Corporate governance theories from unconventional perspective
Published 2013“…Therefore, these governance failures motivate the researchers to revisit and evaluate corporate governance theories from the ethical point of view. The main aim of this study is to propose “The Universal Corporate Governance Theory” which is developed based on the ethical teachings of Christians, Judaism, Islam, Sikh, Hinduism and Buddhism. …”
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1806
Design and development of an intelligent net-zero energy building for remote, harsh weather locations
Published 2012“…The intelligent cooling and lighting systems can be controlled via selected sensors such as temperature sensor and infrared motion sensor that are integrated with the main controller. Fuzzy logic (FL) control technique has also been implemented in this work .The parameters involved are light intensity, the number of occupants and the room temperature. …”
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1807
MOIM: a novel design of cryptographic hash function
Published 2013“…A hash function usually has two main components: a compression function or permutation function and mode of operation. …”
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A framework to estimate the willingness to pay of household for air quality improvement : a case study in Klang Valley, Malaysia.
Published 2012“…The main objective of this study is to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of the household for improving the air quality in Klang Valley, Malaysia as a result of implementation of two types of transport hypothetical policy options. …”
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A judicial review of political questions under Islamic law
Published 2014“…It finds that the power of judicial review and its main institution existed in early Islamic periods after the demise of the Prophet (SAW). …”
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1810
Leading beyond sustainability in Nigerian higher education institutions: imperatives for quality management and technology acceptance
Published 2013“…Leadership is a protruding aspect that needs enquiry based on the extent to which administration practices in higher education institutions (HEI) to achieve quality. The main argument of this paper emanates from the understanding that “quality management in HEI” is a highly challenged aspect that requires “strategies” and should follow basic approach of quality assurance, quality control, strategic planning and technology acceptance in managing educational institutions for quality achievement and sustainability of HEI. …”
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Efficiency of life insurance companies in Malaysia and Brunei: a comparative analysis
Published 2011“…It is found that, on average, the TFP of the life insurance industry is mainly due to both efficiency and technical changes where the main source of the efficiency change is scale efficiency rather than pure efficiency.…”
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Volatile compounds of roasted and steamed Malaysian tropical almond nut (Terminalia catappa L.)
Published 2012“…Roasting and steaming data revealed all of the main classes of compounds commonly listed as thermally generated flavors in oily seeds. …”
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The advent of industry fit RFID readers
Published 2009“…Radio frequency identification (RFID) is the latest technology for automatic identification which allows the transmission of a unique serial number wirelessly. The main purpose of this paper is to review and discuss RFID reader and its industrial application based on the manufacturing product. …”
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1815
Fiscal and monetary policies in Islamic economics: contours of an institutional framework
Published 2013“…The following are the main points in the paper. (1) Roles of both the policies shall be complementary in the context of the overall objectives at the state level. (2) Thrust of both policies would be different from that presently recognized. …”
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‘Two in One’ regulating two business entities under one statute; Labuan Limited Partnership and Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2010
Published 2011“…Research methodology adopted for this paper is mainly statutory analysis.…”
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Strategic human resource management: A framework from an Islamic perspective
Published 2013“…An effective human resource management is crucial for every organization’s success. The main purpose of human resource management is to ensure that an organization achieves the optimal level of benefits from its employees while at the same time giving them the material and psychological rewards for their accomplishment. …”
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Ant colony optimization for controller and sensor-actuator location in active vibration control
Published 2013“…Piezoelectric material has been a popular choice of sensor and actuator to attenuate vibration actively in flexible structures and numerous techniques of optimal control and actuator placement had been proposed. The main focus of this paper is to find the optimal location of the collocated sensor-actuator and controller gains to actively control vibration, using a swarm intelligent algorithm called Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and verified with Genetic Algorithm (GA). …”
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A novel printed antenna for ultrawideband RFID (UWB-RFID) tag
Published 2010“…Different studies to optimize the design of this antenna for the UWB-RFID system have been performed, particularly to overcome the main challenges such as minimizing the size of the antenna, improving its read range, and the effects of the metallic objects on the antenna performance. …”
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Mobile technology for older people: use of personas
Published 2013“…This paper is concerned with the use of mobile phone by Malaysian older people and the main focus was the appropriate methods for collecting data. …”
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