Shear bond strength ‎of three different ‎bonding agents on ‎three different tooth ‎substrates in ‎different times by Mustafa, Ammar A., Ibrahim, Maan, Junaidi, termizi, Akhtaruzzaman, Md.

“…Introduction:‎ The importance of high tensile strength in the adhesion of resin materials to enamel, and ‎particularly to dentin, for the creation of well-sealed and long lasting restorations has ‎often been detailed. …”
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Acoustic wave based MEMS devices, development and application by Voiculescu, Ioana, Nordin, Anis Nurashikin

“…A SAW device can also be designed to have a long propagation path between the input and output transducer. …”
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Islam, accounting and finance: challenges and opportunities in the new decade

“…Even though the author fails to find any significant result, the study documents interesting findings. …”
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Environmental impacts of greywater use for irrigation on home gardens by Radin Mohamed, Radin Maya Saphira

“…It is suggested that proper management of greywater irrigation with periodic monitoring of soil fertility and quality parameters are required to ensure successful and safe long-term use of greywater for irrigation. The adequate assessment of any environmental risks will require further research.…”
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A study on ultra-low power and large-scale design of digital circuit for wireless communications by Zainal, Mohd Shamian

“…This procedure has disadvantageous that requires a long time to estimate the circuit performance for operation in the subthreshold region. …”
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Effects of positive metacognitions and meta-emotions on coping, stress perception and emotions by Beer, Nils

“…Study 1 revealed that long-term challenge scenarios require a higher degree of resilience-related factors, whereas selfregulation appears to be crucial when the challenge is of a short-term nature. …”
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Smoking-related knowledge, attitude and perception among young girls by Mohamad Noor, Zaswiza, Kaur, Swinder Jit, Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki

“…Result: Mean age is 17.85 ± 1.1 (range 16 to 19) years old. 56 (100%) respondents admitted to tobacco use. 53.6% were light smokers, 14.3% moderate and 32.1% heavy smokers. 32% of the subjects smoked more than 20 sticks, 50% smoked 2-20 sticks and 18% smoked less than 2 sticks per day. 40% of them smoked everyday. 78% bought cigarettes from convenient stores or restaurants. 18% also tried shisha, bidis, cigars and chewing tobacco.66% smoked at public area and 62.5% smoked without family acknowledgement. 21.4% believed will still smoke in the next 5 years. 69.6% agreed that quitting is difficult. 71.4% agreed smoking makes appearance less attractive. …”
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10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and the impact on social networking by Shah, Asadullah, Shaikh, Muniba

“…This paper provides an analysis of facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace, all current, interactive social networks. …”
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Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users by Shaikh, Muniba, Dar, Humaira, Shah, Asadullah

“…This paper provides an analysis of four most popular interactive SNs that are, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace according to different perspectives. …”
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Exploring the processes of change in individual cognitive behavioural therapy for bulimia nervosa from the patients’ perspectives : a grounded theory study by Devantier, Line

“…The processes of de-fusion of the sense of self and therapeutic change in the BN seemed to have an interactional relationship that was central to the experiences of change at all stages of CBT for BN. The main findings are linked to the wider context and the possible implications are discussed. …”
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Wall Climbing Robot: Mechanical Design and Implementation by Albagul, Abdulgani, Asseni, A., Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…We are required to design and create a wall climbing robot which uses suction as a means of sticking to the wall. The robot will be controlled using Basic Stamp and the movement of its legs will generated by two servo motors. …”
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Probabilistic sticker systems by Selvarajoo, Mathuri, Fong, Wan Heng, Sarmin, Nor Haniza, Turaev, Sherzod

“…Starting from the axioms – incomplete double stranded sequences, and iteratively using sticking operations, complete double stranded sequences are obtained. …”
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Tourism destination quality and the UN sustainable development goals: Tourism Agenda 2030 by Mason, Peter A., Augustyn, Marcjanna M., Seakhoa-King, Arthur

“…. • Findings: The paper reveals that most of the SDGs are largely focused on quantity, whilst relatively few are concerned primarily with quality. …”
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Transnational Family Networks and Ethnic Minority Business Development: The Case of Vietnamese Nail-shops in the UK by Bagwell, Sue

“…The analysis draws on concepts of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ network ties (Granovetter, 1973) and ‘mixed embeddedness’ (Kloosterman et al, 1999) to explain why the Vietnamese continue to enter such a competitive sector. Findings The results highlight the importance of transnational family networks within all aspects of the business and suggest that these links can sometimes provide a fertile source of new business ideas, but can equally limit innovation. …”
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Some properties of probabilistic one-sided sticker systems by Selvarajoo, Mathuri, Fong, Wan Heng, Sarmin, Nor Haniza, Turaev, Sherzod

“…A sticker system, introduced by Kari in 1998, is an abstract computational model that uses the Watson-Crick complementary feature of DNA molecules: starting from the incomplete double stranded sequences and iteratively using sticking operations until a complete double stranded sequence is obtained. …”
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Myths and realities of digital reference services: perspectives of libraries from developing countries by Abu Bakar, Ahmad Bakeri

“…Similarly, EvalAccess is used to evaluate the accessibility problems of these web sites. Findings – It is found, in the case of public universities' web sites, that the International Islamic University Malaysia has the highest in-links while Universiti Teknologi Malaysia has the highest web traffic volume. …”
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Role models: expatriate gender diversity pipeline or pipe-dream? by Shortland, Susan

“…Originality/value: This research contributes to theory by linking the importance of role models to women’s career stages. …”
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The importance of halal consumption in forming a civilized Muslim by Muflih, Betania

“…This work investigates the methods and ideas of Imam Nursi regarding human civilization and to understand his lively scriptural approach to the importance of sticking to Allah’s guidelines. This article follows library and textual analysis. …”
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Income convergence or divergence? Study on selected Muslim countries by Duasa, Jarita

“…The results are then linked to the degree of openness in which the countries use globalization indices. …”
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Women’s public office positions in Islāmic jurisprudence: the case of Malaysia by Abdul Karim, Asar, Ghalia, Bouhedda, Ab Hamid, Mohd Rashid

“…The study also will include the finding data collected from a sample of 369 Malaysian Muslims respondents who met certain criteria set by the study conducted by the researchers; results of the study show several significant findings. …”
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