Non-traditional activities and bank efficiency: empirical evidence from the Chinese banking sector during the post-reform period by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…This paper examines the impact of non-traditional activities on the China banking sector’s technical and scale efficiency during the post-reform period 2000–2005. …”
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Analysis of quarter-car 2 degree-of-freedom semiactive systems by Ihsan, Sany Izan, Faris, Waleed Fekry, Ahmadian, Mehdi

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Oil-price macroeconomic relationship in Australia and New Zealand: Application of hidden co-integration technique by Alom, Fardous

“…The study fails to find any convincing evidence of the long-run relationship between oil price and New Zealand macroeconomic variables.…”
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Design of a heuristic for balancing a multi-stage production flow line by Kays, H. M. E., Karim, A. N. M., Tajudin, M. N. B., Abdesselam, M.

“…But the solution given by the RPW model loses its exactitude due to the presence of the extra-long tasks. In this research a heuristic approach based on RPW is developed through which the problem has been resolved in an efficient and effective manner and hence the proposed heuristic is deemed to be capable of balancing production lines having such extra-long tasks.…”
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The child labor situation in the commercial and construction sectors in Bangladesh by Karim, A.H.M Zehadul

“…As we come to accept the fact that there are millions of under-aged children who are employed as potential labor-force throughout the world, the imposition of laws could not however, control the family employment when people find it an easy means to circumvent the regulations. …”
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Causality relationships between non-bank financial intermediaries and economic growth: the case of Malaysia by Islam, Mohd Aminul

“…The results show evidence of a long-run causality running from nonbank financial intermediaries to economic growth, but not the vice versa.…”
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Ride comfort assessment in off road vehicles using passive and semi-active suspension by Faris, Waleed Fekry, BenLahcene, Zohir, Ihsan, Sany Izan

“…Improving the comfort ability enables the drivers to derive for a long time at critical situations with full activity. …”
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Cointegration and Causality between non-bank financial intermediaries and economic growth in Malaysia by Islam, Mohd Aminul

“…The finding shows evidence of a long-run causality running from nonbank financial intermediaries to economic growth, but not the vice versa.…”
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Macro/micro-mobility fast handover in hierarchical mobile IPv6 by Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi

“…The handover (or registration) operation is the operation when MN registers its presence to its Home Agent (HA) and Correspondent Node (CN). …”
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Section 106 of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 of Malaysia: issues and suggestions by Md Hashim, Noraini, Abdul Hak, Nora, Rahmat, Nur Ezan

“…Different societies across the world have long used non-judicial indigenous methods to resolve conflicts. …”
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Investigation of the influence of the properties of the work and tool materials on performance level of Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) process by A.K.M., N. Amin, A. K., Sardar

“…From the experimental results it was observed that the curves of MRR versus machining time show convex behavior, specially after long duration of machining. It was also observed that the MRR and WR are inversely proportional to the melting points of the work and tool materials respectively. …”
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The legal and beneficial ownership conundrum in sovereign sukuk structuring by Oseni, Umar Aimhanosi

“…With the increasing interest of emerging economies in ṣukūk to meet their long-term financing needs, this study is expected to guide the global Islamic finance industry on Sharī‘ah and legal issues relating to sovereign ṣukūk.…”
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Islamic civilization: factors behind its glory and decline by Ashimi, Tijani Ahmad

“…Indeed, historically speaking, during the period when Western civilization was experiencing the dark ages, between 700-1200 A.D., an Islamic empire stretched from Central Asia to southern Europe. …”
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A review of Malaysian experience in tissue engineering research and development:A bibliometric study using online databases by Ahmad Radzi, Muhammad Aa’zamuddin, Zainuddin, Zainul Ibrahim, Abdulahi Hashi, Abdurezak, Mohamad, Mohd Yusof, Md Nazir, Noorhidayah, Hashim, Rosyafirah, Mat Nawi, Nur Farhana, Sha'ban, Munirah

“…The search’s result came out with only 311 publications when compared to the overall progress of tissue engineering worldwide. …”
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The notion of interpretation and commentary in Islam: projecting a true and guided meaning of texts by Jusoh, Che' Razi

“…One of today’s predicaments in Islamic society is when interpretation is no longer guided as though it is merely one’s right to interpret anything according to one’s whims and passions and that is in contradiction with the spirit of Islam. …”
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Islamic finance : a comparative jurisprudential study by Elsefy, Hossam Eldin

“…It is one of the means of security upon which people have been dependent for a long time. As people use it, it develops with the development of their economic and commercial dealings. …”
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Soft computing based controllers for automotive air conditioning system with variable speed compressor. by Ng, Boon Chiang.

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A note on the pricing of contingent claims with a mixture of distributions in a discrete-time general equilibrium framework by Vitiello, Luiz, Poon, Ser-Huang

“…Second, we show that the components of the mixture do not need to have the same density as long as they belong to the family of transformed-normal distributions. …”
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Phronesis by Lee, Nirmala

“…Sustainability issues involve practical matters such as protecting the planet from environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources; preventing/reducing air, water, and soil pollution; and preserving the long-term health of ecosystems. Practical matters require practical reasoning. …”
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Generic innovation and social change : the American thriller in the 1970s by Cobley, Paul

“…It will also be argued that the predominance of text-based definitions of genre has had a long-term effect on the constitution of generic corpuses. …”
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