A commentary on the HC division’s ruling to demolish BGMEA building by Jalil, Md. Abdul

“…Under these Acts BGMEA authority has committed fraud to get the land and to erect the building on it for which section 6(3) of the Wetlands Protection Act 2000 provides 5 (five) years imprisonment or fine or both against the BGMEA authority and other people involved in the process.…”
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Synthesis of copper nanoparticles by electroreduction process by Mohan, Raja, J, Subha, Ali, Fathilah, Ryu, Sung Hun

“…The spongy layers of copper can be easily separated to give fine particles. Structural characterizations are done by using X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy. …”
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Running in circles - defamation recriminalised in Russia by Arapova, Galina

“…No journalist, regional publication, blogger or civic activist is likely to be able to afford a fine of 5,000,000 roubles. This article discusses these changes in the law.…”
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Does economic freedom fosters banks’ performance? Panel evidence from Malaysia by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…The empirical findings seem to suggest that corruption has a corrosive impact on Malaysian banks’ profitability. …”
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Promoting the Individual Learning Styles of Masters Students Studying Marketing-related Modules through the Use of YouTube Video-Clips by Lance, Justin

“…It is often hard for academics to find resource material, particularly visual material for new and emerging disciplines; particularly when Universities are developing courses faster than teaching materials are made generally available. …”
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Batu pahat car workshops finder by Lee, Wei Chuan, Kasim, Shahreen, Seah, Choon Sen, Hassan, Rohayanti, Mohd. Ali, Norhayati

“…Batu Pahat Car Workshops Finder is an application for driver to find the nearest car workshops with the current location and can get GPS navigation to the selected car workshop. …”
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Hijab wearing among Malay women in Malaysia: media or social influence? by A.Manaf, Aini Maznina, Wok, Saodah, Ismail, Rizalawati

“…This study was conducted to find out the perception of Muslim women on the extent to which media and people surrounding them influence their hijab (head cover) wearing. …”
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Banks total factor productivity change in a developing economy: does ownership and origins matter? by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…On the other hand, the empirical findings seem to reject the ‘liability of unfamiliarness’ hypothesis.…”
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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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Multi-response optimizations for high speed ductile mode machining of soda lime glass by Bagum, Nasima, Amin, A. K. M. Nurul, Konneh, Mohamed, Mohd Zaib, Noor Fathiah

“…Obtained results demonstrated that optimal combination of the response parameters, 0.78 μm Ra, 107 μm (Tw) and 0.56 min (Tl) were achieved with maximum desirability 77%, at the lowest depth of cut 20 μm at spindle speed of approximately 40000 rpm with feed rate of 69 mm/min.…”
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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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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 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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