Persistence and cyclical dependence in the monthly Euribor rate by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Models based on fractional integration at the long run or zero frequency, although adequately describing the persistent behaviour of the series, do not take into account its cyclical structure. …”
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An analysis of oil production by OPEC countries: persistence, breaks and outliers by Barros, Carlos Pestana, Gil-Alana, Luis A., Payne, James E.

“…Thus, shocks affecting the structure of OPEC oil production will have persistent effects in the long run for all countries, and in some cases the effects are expected to be permanent.…”
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Interest rate dynamics in Kenya : commercial banks' rates and the 91 day treasury bill rate by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…For this purpose we use data on four commercial banks’ interest rates (Deposits, Savings, Lending and Overdraft) together with the 91-Day Treasury Bill rate, for the time period July 1991 – August 2010, and apply various techniques based on long-range dependence and, in particular, on fractional integration. …”
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Banking efficiency and Economic growth in the MENA region by Ghannouchi, Walid, Radić, Nemanja

“…We introduce a set of control variables associated with the long run growth and find an interesting interaction with banking productivity and financial deepening suggesting that efforts should be focusing on the investments’ efficiency and the increase of regulation to spur a more stable financial system and foster financial deepening in the future.…”
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Book review : Human development and capabilities: re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century by Fourali, Chahid

“…The book was a criticism of the over focus on economic rational without considering long term effect on the human condition. The review was overall positive but argued that the book did not go far enough, and in the case of some authors such as Nussbaum, there was a contrast between the argument on what constitutes 'justice' and her actual actions as in the case of supporting a brutal regime.…”
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Populism in world politics: a comparative cross-regional perspective by Hadiz, Vedi, Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…As a concept, populism has had a long and contentious history. We suggest that populism has been on the rise alongside new imaginings of what constitutes the ‘people’ and ‘elites’, as the meanings attached to these labels are continually reshaped in conjunction with new social conflicts. …”
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Expanding the scope of architectural education: creating a culture of global citizenship for students by Denicke-Polcher, Sandra

“…Our unique teaching framework uses a project entitled Crossing Cultures as its vehicle of investigation to experiment with forms of integration of refugees into depopulated Italian villages, whilst offering students to positively impact and become an integral part of this new community, thereby, ensuring its continuity long-term. Such pedagogical experiments provide an education beyond architecture, and shape society by teaching citizenship to students.…”
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Structured medication reviews: origins, implementation, evidence, and prospects by Stewart, Duncan, Madden, Mary, Davies, Paul, Whittlesea, Cate, McCambridge, Jim

“…Notwithstanding the COVID-19 vaccination programme, a new Structured Medication Review (SMR) service has been introduced in Primary Care Networks (PCNs). The long term drivers are clear: addressing problematic polypharmacy in the NHS, reducing avoidable hospitalisations, and delivering better value from medicines spending. …”
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Work / memories of work by Arkomanis, Ektoras

“…Filmed over ten years, ‘work / memories of work’ documents the last days of a tannery in the area of Eleonas, in Athens. The long, monotonous shifts of the tanners are set against a backdrop of work in the surrounding neighbourhoods – scavengers’ markets, old farmhouses, abandoned kilns, and people labouring away amid factory ruins. …”
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Determination of baseflow quantity by using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and Google Earth by Tajul Baharuddin, Mohamad Faizal, Awang, Zarizi, Yusoff, Nor Azizi, Embong, Zaidi, Lim, Alvin John Meng Siang

“…In many catchments, base flow is an important component of streamflow and, therefore, base flow separations have been widely studied and have a long history in science. Baseflow separation methods can be divided into two main groups: non-tracer-based and tracer- based separation methods of hydrology. …”
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Mixture of CO2-N2 as a potential to SF6 insulation gas: an overview by ., Noor Mazliza, ., Noor Zahirah, ., Muhammad Saufi, Abd-Rahman, Rahisham, Baharom, Md Nor Ramdon

“…An excellent gaseous dielectric material, however, required a long list of demanding properties, for example, having an utmost dielectric strength, good heat transfer, environmental-friendly, high thermal constancy, and available at low cost.…”
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A review on prevalence and risk factors of musculoskeletal disorders (Msds) among VDT users by Mohamad, Siti Shafika, Abdol Rahman, Mohd Nasrull

“…Through the studies, it was found that computer-related risk factors correspond with Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) including awkward postures, long duration of computer use, work involving repetitive processes and the office environment…”

Organisational communication occurrences: a conceptual dialogue by Saleh, Nor Shela, Rosli, Mohd Shafie, Rahman, Riki, Abdullah, Muhaymin Hakim, Ramel, Norizan, Razali, Nurul Aimi, Kamaruddin, Yuslizar

“…Formal communication usually occurs in work environments, whereas informal communication is interaction in everyday life. Organisational communication occurs between the top leadership and subordinates. …”
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Integration of Mahalanobis-Taguchi system and activity based costing in decision making for remanufacturing by Abu, Mohd. Yazid

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Heritage tourism and English national identity by Palmer, Catherine

“…Battle Abbey is our way of life, Hever Castle is our ancestral line and Chartwell is Churchill, our honorary relative. …”
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Low voltage distribution level three terminal UPFC based voltage regulator for solar PV system by Uddin, Md. Nasir, Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur, Nithe, NA

“…The Instantaneous Power balance with negative sequence current allows a hundred-fold reduction in the value of DC bus capacitance which allows long life polypropylene or ceramic capacitors to replace of electrolytic capacitor in this application.…”
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Experimental study of fatigue age on SUP-9 leaf spring steel which received heat treatment and shot peening processes by Achmad, Zainun, Ismail, Al Emran

“…This study shows that for a long shot time, good results are obtained, namely, the fatigue life has increased 8.7 times from the fatigue life of the spring steel without shot peening with application stress of 217 N / mm², and the residual stress is -847.39 N / mm².…”
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Preparation and characterization of TIG-alloyed hybrid composite coatings for high-temperature tribological applications by Adeyemi, Bello K., Maleque, Md. Abdul, Ahmad, Zuraida, Adebisi, Adetayo A., Mirdha, S.

“…There is an increasing interest in tribology community for developing high performance composite coating to meet severe tribological conditions of advanced mechanical system which requires high operating temperature and long life. In the present work, powder preplacement and tungsten inert gas (TIG) torch melting techniques have been employed to generate titanium carbide (TiC) based composite coatings containing hexagonal boron nitride(hBN) or Ni-P coated hBN (Ni-P-hBN) lubricant additive. …”
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Transmission power consumption management for zigbee healthnets by Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi, Elashaal, Zahra A.

“…In such scenarios, it is important to prolong the battery's life as much as possible. In This paper, a simple yet effective method that can be used to reduce power consumption of wireless sensor nodes is presented. …”
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Sacred and transcendental organization development: Bricoluer of strategic suggestions for knowledge-based consultants. by Ahmad, Che Mahzan

“…As tazkiya is a work of an adult knower, we theorized three grammars of organizing, namely imagin.i.zation about the dynamics of order/disorder of the three compounds, reading and contemplating ayah (verbal and non-verbal signs) and eschatology as paradigm of living-life. Consultants in this regard must understand that the whole gamut mentioned above so far is to bring the desired future state of organizational well-being, saadah, within the reach of the acquired second. …”
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