The knowledge of lexical collocation among university students and its relation to their speaking proficiency by Abdul Ghani, Rozina

“…Exposure to collocations in particular would enable the learners to speak more fluently and sound more native-like.…”
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Can serumpun still binds Malays and Indonesians after recent cultural flare-ups? by Rusli, Mohd Hazmi, Mustafa, Maizatun

“…History has recorded that the area of what it is now Malaysia and Indonesia was for centuries under the dominions of powerful kingdoms of the Malay race namely Srivijaya, Majapahit, the Malacca Sultanate and other sultanates like Johor, Aceh, Brunei and Gowa. It was not until the advent of colonialism and eventually the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 that the Malay Archipelago was separated into two spheres of colonial dominions. ....…”
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Introduction (The Poet and his world) by Quayum, Mohammad Abdul

“…The volume has eminent scholars like, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Bharati Ray, William Radice, Uma Dasgupta, Abhijit Sen and others as contributors. …”
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E-Learning: can it help the education in Bangladesh? by Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan, Hassan, Md. Mehedi

“…We also discuss how human learning process could be influenced by E-learning strategies and why E-Learning could be helpful for a country like Bangladesh.…”
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PC sound card based instrumentation and control by Gunawan, Teddy Surya, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…The buffer hardware circuit or signal conditioning circuit is developed and implemented to enable sound card to be functioned like oscilloscope. Preliminary results showed that sound card with the developed software has a good potential for instrumentation and control.…”
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Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet by Hassan, Arif, Hassan, Sajid

“…Top managements are often unaware of IT jargons and they allow expenditure on unnecessary or obsolete IT activities and projects. Problems like improper human-IT interface resulting into employees becoming techno shy, improper mformation flow have become quite common. …”
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Effect of Nanoclay on Thermal Properties of Polylacticacid-Clay Nanocomposite by Anuar, Hazleen, Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul

“…Biopolymer and their composites (like Polylacticacid (PLA) and its composites) can be a suitable competitor to replace convention polymers and composites. …”
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Some thoughts on separation of powers: Westminster model versus American model by Ismail, Ibrahim

“…This paper also highlights the influence of the theory through constitutional provisions and judicial pronouncements, which indicated the modification of the two models to suit countries like Malaysia.…”
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Factors influencing the adoption of m-commerce: a literature review by Sadi, A.H.M. Saifullah, Noordin, Mohamad Fauzan

“…Mobile commerce has been a huge success in terms of individuals’ adoption in some markets like Japan, while, surprisingly, not as flourishing in others. …”
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Seigniorage of fiat money and the maqasid al-shari'ah: the compatibility of the gold dinar with the maqasid by Mydin Meera, Ahamed Kameel, Larbani, Moussa

“…In this Part II paper we argue for commodity monies, like the gold dinar and silver dirham, as being compatible with the maqasid. …”
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A novel text steganography technique to Arabic language using reverse fatah by Shah, Asadullah, Memon, Mujtaba S

“…This technique can be applied on other languages like Persian, Sindhi and other Regional languages…”
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Iraq’s democratic dilemmas: from entrenched dictatorship to fragile democracy by Abdulla, Namo

“…Saddam and his former like-minded people created a culture capable of producing as many dictators as it wants. …”
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British and Irish Diasporas: Societies, cultures and ideologies by MacRaild, Donald

“…People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.Wherever they went, the English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and and even sub-national, supra-regional groups like the Cornish, co-mingled, blended and blurred. …”

Parallel querying of distributed ontologies with shared vocabulary by Aslam, Sharjeel, Vassilev, Vassil, Ouazzane, Karim

“…However, although SPARQL is well-established standard for querying semantic repositories in RDF and OWL format and there are commonly used APIs which supports it, like Jena for Java, its parallel option is not incorporated in them. …”
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Protea / Extraction by Arkomanis, Ektoras, Shummo, Mae, Medina Uriarte, Lucia

“…Central to the installation is a trophy-like bronze relief of the outline of Protea Village, an area adjacent to Kirstenbosch, the National Botanical Garden of South Africa, located in Western Cape. …”
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Malaysia's palm oil exports: does exchange rate overvaluation and undervaluation matters? by Mohd Sidek, Noor Zahirah, Yusoff, Mohammed, Mat Ghani, Gairuzazmi, Duasa, Jarita

“…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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Pricing efficiency of the 3-month KLIBOR futures contracts: An empirical analysis by Razak, Marina Abdul, Bacha, Obiyathulla Ismath

“…The study spans the contract's entire 10-year history, June 1996 to June 2006. In line with findings in other markets, we find a pre-ponderance of overpricing. …”
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Assessing future needs of IT education in Malaysia: a preliminary result by Ahlan, Abdul Rahman, Suhaimi, Mohd Adam, Hussin, Husnayati, Arshad, Yusri

“…The 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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Ten gamat species in Malaysia’s seawaters for health-based industries by Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim, Hashim, Ridzwan

“…The Langkawi Archipelago and Pangkor Island are the main produc=on sites of air gamat and minyak gamat. In line with the development of science and technology, modern-­‐formularised gamat-­‐based products sold by Malaysia’s companies e.g. …”
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'Cash waqf' and Islamic microfinance: untapped economic opportunities by Md Saad, Norma, Anuar, Azizah

“…Given these shortcomings, the article explores the possibility of using ‘cash waqf’ as a new source of funding for Islamic microfinance and proposes a new concept and application of Islamic microfinance so that it is truly in line with the Islamic spirit of microfinance. It is hoped that with this new concept and application of Islamic microfinance, the use of microfinance genuinely caters for the needs of the poor as well as generating socio-economic growth of the Muslim ummah. …”
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