An empirical analysis of Malaysian ringgit equilibrium exchange rate and misalignment by Mohd Sidek, Noor Zahirah, Yusoff, Mohammed

“…This paper attempts to ascertain the degree of misalignment of the ringgit by estimating the long run equilibrium real effective exchange rate of the currency. …”
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Enhanced stability of cluster-based location service mechanism for urban vehicular ad hoc networks by Mujahid, Muhammad Akram

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Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words by Holland, Amanda, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…However, after one week only the mappings for object labels were retained above chance levels. Our findings suggest that fast mapped object labels are retained long-term better than color, shape and texture words. …”
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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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Multi-factor Gegenbauer processes and European inflation rates by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…In this paper we specify a multi-factor long-memory process that enables us to estimate the fractional differencing parameters at each frequency separately, and adopt this framework to model quarterly prices in three European countries (France, Italy and the UK). …”
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Human values, personality and religiosity on green products purchase behavior by Nazari, Maryam Kashani

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Behavioural intention model of facebook usage for weight loss among young women in Sudan by Abdelguiom Mohme, Ghada Ahmed

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Lead time management in the garment sector of Bangladesh: an avenues for survival and growth by Nuruzzaman, Md., Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul

“…In this study attempts have been made to find out the ways to face the competitive business environment by the efficient management process towards the lead time reduction. …”
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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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Making a commercial atomic force microscope more accurate and faster using positive position feedback control by Mahmood, Iskandar Al-Thani, Moheimani, S.O. Reza

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Intergating multiple metrics to improve the performance of a routing protocol over wireless mesh networks by Rahman, Md. Arafatur, Azad, Md. Saiful, Anwar, Farhat

“…This approach implicitly assumes that links either work well or don't work at all. While often true in wired networks, this is not a reasonable approximation in the wireless case; since many wireless links have intermediate loss ratios, interference problem, low throughput etc. …”
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The impact of cybervictimization on the self-management of chronic conditions: lived experiences by Alhaboby, Zhraa A., Evans, Hala, Barnes, James, Short, Emma

“…Disability discrimination was a prominent finding to be further investigated. This paper reports the impact as themes to guide further research and practice, with the recognition that long-term conditions and impairments are not a homogeneous group. …”
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Virtual reality in heritage studies and historical reconstruction through animation – A case study of a 16th century university complex in the Ottoman world by Ibrahim, Mansor, Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen, Ali, Maisarah, Abdul Latif, Nurul Syala, Zainal Abidin, Norzalifa

“…The modelling was focused on selected portions of the Suleymaniye complex in Istanbul Turkey, while the animation and storyboard integrated findings from a research extension of the project which looked at the link between the social structure of the city with the overall hierarchical nature of the architecture and planning of the complex. …”
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Arabic ID-DGBL :an instructional design (ID) model for e-arabic teaching and learning by Sahrir, Muhammad Sabri, Zainuddin, Nurkhamimi, Wan Abdullah, Wan Najmuddin

“…This Arabic educational DGBL is now used and linked with several learning and research institutions such as My-Arabic at CELPAD, IIUM (Link : http://myarabic.e-celpad.com/), Malaysian Foundation of Innovation (Link : http://www.yim.my/databank/index.cfm?…”
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Pattern of the news media consumption and news discussion among youth : a test of agenda setting theory by Wok, Saodah, Tamam, Ezhar, Bolong, Jusang

“…The specific objectives of the study are (1) to determine the level of perceived news media credibility, (2) to find out the level of news media consumption, (3) to find out the extent of interpersonal news discussions, (4) to analyze the relationship between perceived media credibility and news media consumption with interpersonal news discussions, and (5) to differentiate between selected demographic characteristic with news media consumption and interpersonal news discussions. …”
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Pricing efficiency of the 3-month KLIBOR futures contracts: An empirical analysis by Razak, Marina Abdul, Bacha, Obiyathulla Ismath

“…The study spans the contract's entire 10-year history, June 1996 to June 2006. In line with findings in other markets, we find a pre-ponderance of overpricing. …”
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Pattern of the news media consumption and news discussion among youth: a test of agenda setting theory by Wok, Saodah, Tamam, Ezhar, Suci , Elsa Maria

“…The specific objectives of the study are (1) to determine the level of perceived news media credibility, (2) to find out the level of news media consumption, (3) to find out the extent of interpersonal news discussions, (4) to analyze the relationship between perceived media credibility and news media consumption with interpersonal news discussions, and (5) to differentiate between selected demographic characteristic with news media consumption and interpersonal news discussions. …”
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Bank specific and macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability: empirical evidence from the China banking sector by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…This paper seeks to examine the determinants of the profitability of the Chinese banking sector during the post-reform period of 2000–2005. The empirical findings from this study suggest that all the determinants variables have statistically significant impact on China banks profitability. …”
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