Financial disruptions and bank productivity growth: evidence from the Malaysian experience by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…The non-parametric Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) is used to compute individual banks’ productivity levels. We find that the Malaysian banking sector has exhibited productivity regress due to the decline in efficiency. …”
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Prediction of the glucose level in blood using near infrared spectrometer by Abd. Rahim, Intan Maisarah

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Nanostructural analysis of finogel (Fish Nano Gelatin) for new process development by Monsur, Hammed Ademola, Jaswir, Irwandi, Salleh, Hamzah Mohd.

“…Cross~linked rods observed in ABS denote adequate removal ofnon~collagen content of the fish skin and increase its surface area. ABS is suggested as the best pretreatment lex perch fish gelatin.…”
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Unsteady three-dimensional boundary layer flow due to a stretching surface in a micropolar fluid by Ahmad, Kartini, R, Nazar, Aris, Ishak, I, Pop

“…The solutions of interest for the skin friction coefficient with various values of the stretching parameter c and material parameter K are presented. …”
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Carotenoid diversity in 22 species of Malay traditional ulam by Othman, Rashidi, Mohd Hassan, Norazian, Mohd Zaifuddin, Fatimah Azzahra

“…These antioxidants including the yellow-orange-red pigments, collectively known as carotenoids, which some of them play vital role as pro-vitamin A that supples humans' skin and visual health. Carotenoids also act as boosters to our immune system. …”
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Natural corrosion inhibitor for corrosion protection of metal artefact: an overview by Musa, Muktaruddin, Ani, Mohd Hanafi, Othman, Raihan

“…Unfortunately, the inhibitors used in conservation are frequently hazardous to conservator, either through inhaler or touch with skin. Responding to this, several researches has been conducted to look into environmental friendly inhibitors or green inhibitors. …”
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Gamma irradiated starch based hydrogel impregnated with silver nanoparticle by Esalami, Fayezeh, Ahmad, Zuraida, Abdul Razak, Nur Humairah

“…In this paper, biopolymer is used to overcome this problem and promote environmental friendliness and biocompatible to the human skin and impregnation of silver nano-particle (SNP) acts as anti-bacterial which needed for this application. …”
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Informational content of short interest (EBES 2011) by Mohamad, Azhar

“…We also find the larger the increase in short interest, the more negative is the abnormal returns. …”
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Predicting Financial Distress based on Corporate Actions by Mohamad, Azhar

“…Furthermore, we also find that Working Capital to Total Assets Ratio and Asset Turnover Ratio are reliable predictors of financial distress among the accounting ratios.…”
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Opening the Black Box on bank efficiency in China: does economic freedom matter? by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…By examining different dimensions of economic freedom, we find that not all are equally regressive on bank efficiency. …”
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Granting employee stock options (ESOs), market reaction and financial performance by Bacha, Obiyathulla Ismath, Syed Mohd Zain, Sharifah Raihan, Mohd Rasid, Mohd Eskandar Shah, Mohamad, Azhar

“…Firm size has been identified in previous studies as a determinant of market reaction and post-ESO performance. Indeed we find this to be the case for Malaysian ESOs. We find a positive announcement effect for large firms but a significantly negative one for small firms. …”
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The effect of environmental treatments on fiber surface properties and tensile strength of sugar palm fiber-reinforced epoxy composites by Leman, Zulkiflle, Sapuan, Salit Mohd, Azwan, M., Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan Megat, Maleque, Md. Abdul

“…However, glass fiber can cause acute irritation to the skin, eyes, and upper respiratory tract. This study looked at the possibility of substituting glass fiber with natural fiber in composite materials. …”
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Adjustment to atopic dermatitis: a cross-sectional study investigating the role of maladaptive self-schemas in a community sample of people with atopic dermatitis by Kalaki, Elli, Mizara, Alexandra

“…All groups completed the Young Schema Questionnaire (Short Form 3) and the Adjustment to Chronic Skin Disease Questionnaire. Results: There were no significant differences in adjustment levels between the two groups. …”

Properties and performance of kenaf fiber-sawdust polymeric sandwich bio-composites by Adole, Michael Adole

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The impact of corporate governance on the restrictiveness of covenants in private debt contract by Abu Bakar, Intan Suryani, Mather, Paul, Tanewski, George

“…Our cross-sectional analysis on a sample of new syndicated loans in the U.S private debt market indicates that both a corporate governance score and board independence are positively and significantly associated with covenant slack. Similarly, we find that independent directors’ financial expertise and covenants slack are positively related, but we find no evidence that slack is associated with ‘busy’ directors or CEO duality. …”
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Journalism cupcakes: Same cakes, different icing or vice-versa by Ismail, Awan, Aripin, Norizah, Yusof, Norhafezah, Mohamad, Noraihan, Ismail, Rizalawati

“…After three to four years of study, journalism graduates from these universities would have to share the same pie to find jobs in media or communication related organizations. …”
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The effect of material property gradient on the fracture toughness of a PMMA/PC bimaterial with a crack normal to the interface by Shah, Qasim Hussain, Homma, H., Iliyas, M. H., Ismail, Ahmad Faris

“…Finite element analysis was used to find out the stresses IC in the specimens. Subsequently the stress values were used to find out the fracture toughness of each specimen. …”
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Rural transformation and productivity in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…This paper carries out for the first time an econometric investigation of the contribution of rural transformation to total factor productivity in China. We find that the efficiency gains resulting from rural transformation make a significant and nontrivial contribution to factor productivity in China. …”
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Classification of satellite fused data for land use mapping in development plan by Hj. Mohd. Noor, Norzailawati, Abdullah, Alias, Hashim, Mazlan

“…Land use mapping in development plan basically provides resources of information and important tool in decision making. In relation to this, fine resolution of recent satellite remotely sensed data have found wide applications in land use/land cover mapping. …”
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Cooling tower: an energy conservation resource by Mohiuddin, A. K. M., Kant, Keshav

“…In order ot achieve a higher level of performance of a cooling tower, various sub-systems of the tower should be refined and fine tuned to work together as a coherent system. …”
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