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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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 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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Disputes and issues arising from unlawful occupation of state land in Malaysia by Syed Abdul Kader, Sharifah Zubaidah

“…The National Land Code 1965 declares in section 48 that there shall be no adverse possession in respect of state land and under section 425, those who are in unlawful possession of state land commit a statutory offence liable to a fine not exceeding RM10,000 and/or imprisonment for one year or both. …”
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Criminal offences and civil wrongs by or against migrant workers by Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali

“…If he is found guilty, an employer may be subjected to severe penalties such as imprisonment, fine and/or whipping.Likewise, a migrant worker who takes the law into his own hand by inflicting injury or harm on the employer or their properties, may be dealt with in the court and if found guilty, he may be sentenced in accordance with the severity of the offence committed.…”
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Media audience ethics in Islam and Christianity by Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain

“…To demonstrate this role, the study highlights the theoretical foundation of the audience understanding of the message, cites some legal rights that can be used to challenge the media content or change its course, and identifies some ways of fine-tuning the media contents to conform to one’s value. …”
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Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking pulmonary neoplasm by Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi, Abdul Samad, Humairah, Ahlawat, Sunita

“…She made good clinical recovery with anti tuberculosis treatment but review CXR at four months showed a mass lesion in the left apex for which she underwent fine needle aspiration cytology. This showed healing granuloma compatible with tuberculosis. …”
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Fraudulent mediums and miracle-mongers: illusion, concealment and revelation in the works of Crivelli, Greenberg and Houdini by David, Karen

“…This article aims to raise questions and comparisons between illusions found in pictorial language, magical apparatus and parafictions, illustrating the fine line between illusion and material, and concealment and revelation.…”

In-process truing for ELID (Electrolytic In-Process Dressing) grinding by pulsewidth control by Saleh, Tanveer, Rahman, Mustafizur

“…In conventional ELID grinding, constant voltage is applied on the metal-bonded diamond wheels to ensure constant protrusion of super fine cutting grits throughout the grinding cycle. …”
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ELID grinding and EDM for finish machining by Saleh, Tanveer, Bahar, Rubina

“…ELID grinding uses metal-bonded super-abrasive wheel with in-process electrolytic dressing for grinding hard and brittle materials. The fine abrasive wheels in ELID grinding is able to achieve ductile machining of the work material. …”
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Prioritizing issues of Malaysian vision 2020: an application of the analytic hierarchy process by Islam, Rafikul

“…The present research findings are expected to provide useful guidelines to the policy makers at the national level in course of fine tuning the Vision 2020 strategies.…”
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Malaysia on course to become a developed country: prioritizing issues with the analytic hierarchy process by Islam, Rafikul, Ismail, Yusof

“…The present research findings are expected to provide useful guidelines to the policy makers at the national level in the course of fine tuning Vision 2020 strategies. …”
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