Book review : Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives by Luca Mavelli. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 190 pp., £75 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-19-285758-3 by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Impacted by the end of the Cold War, globalisation, increasing immigration, and the regional rise of right-wing populism, today's Europe faces the future with fear and trepidation. …”
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Effects of gradation on engineering properties of compacted laterite soil liner by Yamusa, Yamusa Bello

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Signature recognition using artificial neural network by Abushariah, Ahmad A. M., Gunawan, Teddy Surya, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Chebil, Jalel

“…It might be done by asking a secret question that the user will answer to get into that application, and it might be a password or a pin code, face, eye, fingerprint or signature. Automatic signature verification is an active field of research with many practical applications. …”
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Tribological (wear) properties of aluminum–silicon eutectic base alloy under dry sliding condition by Alias, Tuti Yasmin, Khalid, Asad A., Haque, Md. Mohafizul

“…Wear experiments on both samples were conducted with a pin-on-disk type wear testing apparatus. The test variables were the rotational speed, input weight, and time/sliding distance. …”
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3rd order coupled-resonator bandpass filter assisted by Groove Gap-Waveguide technology for 26-GHz radio link diplexer by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Parand, Peiman, Zidour, Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Longhi, Patrick, See, Chan Hwang, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Its unit-cells consist of a rectangular metal-pin which is connected to a bottom metal plate and its other side is electromagnetically coupled to a top plate with an air-gap of approximately λ/4 that creates a bandgap, preventing unwanted electromagnetic-wave propagation. …”
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Frequency reconfigurable substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity F-shaped slot antenna by AL-Fadhali, Najib, A Majid, Huda, Omar, Rosli, Mokhtar, Mohd Hezri, Abo Mosali, Najmaddin

“…Configurability is accomplished by embeddings PIN diode switches in the 'F' slot. The proposed antenna is equipped for exchanging between working band of 3.172 GHz to 3.606 GHz in four different narrow bands and it underpins the cognitive system for LTE2300, WiMAX and WLAN. …”
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Development of a High Hertz-Stress Contact for conventional batch production using a unique scribing technology by Bhuiyan, Md. Moinul Islam, Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur, Alamgir, Tarik, Bhuiyan, Munira, Kajihara, Masanori

“…Accordingly, more compact fine pitch contact is successfully fabricated and tested with 5μm High Hertz Stress without using the MEMS and EFF technology. …”
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Nanoparticle preparation of Mefenamic acid by electrospray drying by Zolkepali, Nurul Karimah, Abu Bakar, Noor Fitrah, Naim, Mohd Nazli, Anuar, Nornizar, Abu Bakar, Mohd Rushdi

“…Electrospray drying is a process that uses electrostatic force to disperse a conductive liquid stream into fine charged droplets through the coulomb fission of charges in the liquid and finally dry into fine particles. …”
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Internet influence on materialism among urban muslim women: Some challenges to the ummah by Wok, Saodah, Abdullah, Kalthom

“…As such, this study tries (1) to explore the users of the Internet among urban Muslim women in Malaysia; (2) to determine the amount of money spent on selected material possession; (3) to examine the level of dependency on and skills in, usage, believability, and influence of the Internet; (4) to determine level materialism among urban Muslim women; (5) and to study the relationships between the Internet related variables and materialism among urban Muslim women. …”
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Relationship between Facebook usage and youth political participation: a Sub-Saharan African context by Lahabou , Mahaman, Wok, Saodah

“…Facebook usage includes length of time on Facebook, frequency of usage, time spent daily, and number of Facebook friends. Political participation comprises political activity, political knowledge, and interest in politics. …”
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Public international law: a practical approach, 3rd ed. by Hamid, Abdul Ghafur@Khin Maung Sein

“…Written by an author who has spent many years specialising in this area, this book continues to give valuable insights into the Malaysian position on the various topics of international law in particular and the general principles of international law in general. …”
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Implementation of the Balanced Scorecard (Pelaksanaan kad skor berimbang) by Abdullah, Shamsul Nahar, Mohd Yusof @ Mohamed, Borhanudin, Tengku Mohd. Yusof, Tengku Farah Maimunah

“…The results show that company spent a substantial amount of resources to train its staff, create awareness, revisit strategies, and develop scorecards at the company, department and individual levels. …”
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Biodiesel production from solid coconut waste by Sulaiman, Sarina

“…Raw material from waste sources such as used bleaching earth, spent coffee ground, waste cooking oil, animal fat and sludge are increasingly being exploited in biodiesel production because of the cost and environmental considerations. …”
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Radiation protection and safety measurements in nuclear medicine departments: students perspective by Sayed, Inayatullah Shah, Mahmood, Muthahharah Nabilah Syuhada

“…A questionnaire was distributed to 65 students those spent more than two months of clinical practice at the nuclear medicine department. …”
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Web-enabled smart home using wireless node infrastructure by Mantoro, Teddy, Ayu, Media Anugerah, Elnour, Elbara

“…The result shows that the occupant spent their time mostly at home, not outside, either during working day (65%) or non working day (93.75%). …”
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Toxic species and particulate emissions from synthetic polymer fires by Mat Kiah, Hasimawaty, author, Phylaktou, Herodotos, thesis advisor, Andrews, Gordon, thesis advisor, Li, Hu, thesis advisor

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Effects of MEMS material on designing a multi-band reconfigurable antenna by Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Khan, Sheroz, Mohd Sahar, Norsuzlin, Zamani, Norasyikin

“…Abstract—In this work, two adjacent patches and MEMS switches are proposed a reconfigurable antenna that is capable of operating at several frequencies. Optimization of wing patches is done to obtain more than three resonant frequencies of the antenna by selecting the MEMS cantilever bridge materials. …”
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Experimental investigation of the flow over IIUM-MAV using six component balance test and particle image velocimetry by Omar, Ashraf Ali, Altaf, Alaman, Azwir, Ahmad Rizal, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Amirul

“…The experimental model of Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) shaped like cropped delta wing was designed, fabricated and tested in low speed wind tunnel. …”
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Remote operation of CNC milling through virtual simulation and remote dekstop interface by , Afzeri, Sutjipto, Agus Geter Edy, Muhida, Riza, Konneh, Mohamed, ., Darmawan

“…Capability of remote operation is supported by an auto setup attachment with a reconfigurable pin type setup free technology installed on the table of CNC milling machine to perform unattended machining process. …”
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Wear behavior of modified surface layer produced by TIG melting of preplaced Ti powder in nitrogen environment by Mridha, Shahjahan, Dyuti, S., Shaha, S.K.

“…The wear property of the melt track was investigated using pin-on-disk tribometer at room temperature. The modified surface layer gave a low friction value of 0.12 and wear rate of 0.007895 ×10-4 compared to 1.648 × 10-4 mm3/N/m for the uncoated steel surface.…”
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