A comparative study on flank wear and work surface finish during high speed milling of cast iron with different carbide tools by Khan, Ahsan Ali, Aman Nor Rasid, Zuraida, Yusof, Izausmawati

“…Though the productivity would be double at the speed of 1000m/min than that at the speed of 500m/min, tool wear increases to a few times which indicates that the inserts used are not suitable for machining at a high speed like 1000m/min. It is better to cut cast iron using uncoated K20 carbide at low cutting speed rather than at high speed. …”
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Transforming carbon nanotube forest from darkest absorber to reflective mirror by Saleh, Tanveer, Moghaddam, Mehran Vahdani, Mohamed Ali, Muhamed Sultan, Dahmardeh, Masoud, Foell, Charles Alden, Nojeh, Alireza, Takahata, Kenichi

“…We have attempted controlled mechanical processing of the CNTs and, surprisingly, observed mirror-like reflection from the processed area with 10%–15% reflectivity, a level higher than typical reflectivity of pure forests by over two orders of magnitude, for a wide range of the spectrum (570–1100 nm). …”
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Education in fostering a united and caring citizenship in Malaysia by Hashim, Rosnani

“…As each ethnic group desires to maintain its culture, religion and language, it poses a problem for the central government which would like to see the use of a common language and its citizens being united and sharing a common destiny. …”
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Negotiating classroom pedagogy for effective teaching - learning by Hashim, Che Noraini, Salleh, Mohamad Johdi

“…The effective teacher can help overcome obstacles to the learning process, obstacles like poor materials, inadequate equipment, negative self-image (of the learner), and so on, while creating optimal conditions for learning. …”
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Experimental study on jute-fiber-epoxy composite plate subjected to impact loading by Omar, Nurihan, Syed Mohamad, Sharifah Najwa, Aminanda, Yulfian, Syed Mohamed Ali, Jaffar, Kashif, Syed Muhammad

“…A comparative study with typical synthetic fibers like carbon and glass were also conducted.…”
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An investigation on morphology of hard-brittle silicon surface by diamond grinding by Konneh, Mohamed, Izman, S., Ali, Mohammad Yeakub

“…Silicon like any hard and brittle material is well known for its low machinability unless it is machined under ductile mode condition. …”
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Sustainable development: Islamic dimension with special reference to conservation of the environment by Ansari, Abdul Haseeb, Jamal, Parveen, Oseni, Umar Aimhanosi

“…Disturbing them is considered as a misdeed (fasad), and Allah (s.w.t.) does not like it. The idea of sustainable development is already there in Islam, in the concepts of vicegerency (khalifah) Islamic brotherhood (ukhuwwah), trust (amanah), public interest (maslahah mursalah), prevention from bad (sadd al-dhari‘ah). …”
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A study of CGA- (cryptographically generated address) signature based authentication of binding update messages in low-end MIPv6 node by Qadir , Sana, Siddiqi, Mohammad Umar, Anwar, Farhat

“…It is also known that public-key cryptographic operations (like digital signatures) are computationally expensive for low-end nodes. …”
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Out-of-Plane rotated object detection using patch feature based classifier by Mohd Mustafah, Yasir, Azman, Amelia Wong

“…The square patch feature is as discriminative as the popular Viola-Jones Haar-like classifier and is faster. Out-of-plane detection without any extra sample data is possible due to the point based representation of the patch feature. …”
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Malaysian Islamic bankers' perceptions of al-Qard al-Hasan by Mohd Ariffin, Noraini, Adnan, Muhammad Akhyar

“…The paper concludes that Islamic banks need to diversify the products and services they offer so as to balance their orientation to profit with a stronger commitment to products and services, like al-qard al-hasan that will demonstrate their status as Islamic entities and improve their public image through good corporate social responsibility. …”
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Key factors influencing target capital structure of property firms in Malaysia by Haron, Razali

“…This study found that these property firms do practice target capital structure which is influenced by certain firm characteristics like tax shield, asset structure, profitability, firm size, growth opportunity and liquidity in their capital structure and they also time their security issuance. …”
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Appreciating beauty in Islam by Spahic, Omer

“…The paper shows that beauty in Islam and the utter formation of Islamic aesthetics - just like any other segment of Islamic culture and civilization - cannot be disengaged from the body of Islamic teachings and values and be treated in isolation. …”
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Pharmacological relevance of primitive leafy Cactuses Pereskia by M., Sharif K., Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Sarker, Md. Zaidul Islam, Azmir, Jannatul, Akanda, Jahurul Haque, A., Mohamed, S. H., Shamsudin, Samsudin, Siti Hadijah

“…Although Pereskia genus originates in Latin American countries but it is also widespread in tropical areas like Malaysia, Indonesia. Some species of Pereskia have been used by traditional practitioners for the treatment of many diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, gastric pain and ulcer. …”
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Geographical information system (GIS) in Malaysian planning education by Ibrahim, Mansor, Abdullah, Muhammad Faris, Abdul Samad, Dazilah

“…In most developed countries, the major users of GIS are not restricted to planning authorities at local, regional, and central government agencies, but covered across other non-planning agencies like engineering firms, resource management firms, and increasingly, financial, real estate and marketing firms. …”
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Hierarchical structural driven model for integrative information management architecture by Mohd Tamrin, Mohd Izzuddin, Tengku Sembok, Tengku Mohd, Kartiwi, Mira

“…Support models are used and they are made from tree-like structure in XML documents. The recommendations are stored in the leaf nodes whereas the intermediary nodes are filled with characteristics of the deviation. …”
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Online brand awareness: determining the relative importance of Facebook and other strategies among the Malaysian consumers by Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Momen, Abdul, Sultana, Seyama, Yasmin, Farzana

“…The purpose of this study is to determine the relative importance of Facebook with other strategies like affiliate marketing and word of mouth in creating online brand awareness. …”
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Factors influencing the adoption of social networking sites: Malaysian Muslim users perspective by Jan, Muhammad Tahir, Abdullah, Kalthom, Momen, Abdul

“…It will justify the social, educational, technological and other factors behind the adoption of social networking sites like Facebook, twitter and MySpace. The paper is conceptual in nature and proposes that a future research can be conducted with the Structural Equation modeling approach to sort out the significance and the relative importance of these factors behind the Muslim users’ adoption of social networking sites in Malaysia.…”
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Learning strategies for teacher education in the era of globalization by Hashim, Rosnani

“…They seem to hold the repertoire of knowledge, values and skills to be handed down to the younger generation. In a sense they are like little repositories of knowledge for the civilization. …”
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Canadian Muslims and Canada’s domestic and foreign policy issues: an analysis by Islam, Syed Serajul, Hossain, Ishtiaq

“…It also shows that like other Canadians, the Muslim citizens of Canada express their opinion freely on matters, which are of importance to the country. …”
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Experimental observation of Jute/Epoxy composite plate subjected to impact loading by Omar, Nurihan, Syed Mohd, Sharifah Najwa, Aminanda, Yulfian, Syed Mohamed Ali, Jaffar, Kashif, Syed Muhammad

“…A comparative study with typical synthetic fibers like carbon or glass is also conducted. The characterization tests on jute-epoxy show that the tensile behavior is non linear as found for carbonepoxy or glass-epoxy plate.…”
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