Managerial roles and the training of Malaysian co- operatives' managers by Sarif, Suhaimi Mhd, Ismail, Yusof

“…The results showed that senior managers of co-operatives performed Mintzberg’s managerial roles and sought similar managerial training like their companies counterparts despite operating under different legal frameworks. …”
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Artificial intelligence - A tool for thermal design of cooling towers by Mohiuddin, A. K. M.

“…Artificial intelligence seeks to provide a computational theory of intelligence, besides trying to transform the way we interact with computers, and enlarge the ‘cognitive’ abilities of the computers, thereby opening up many new application areas like Expert Systems, etc. The author has developed an Expert System for the thermal design of wet cooling towers using artificial intelligence as a tool. …”
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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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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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In search of model for evaluating the quality of e-commerce websites by Balfagih, Zain, Mohamed, Norshidah, Mahmud, Murni

“…Researchers have also shown that there are several perspectives about evaluation on quality for e-commerce websites, that is, one may take an approach or combination of approaches like product quality, systems as product quality, service quality of provider, quality of service offered and quality of the Human Computer Interface (HCI) design. …”
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An approach to improve the robustness of substitution techniques of audio steganography by Zamani, Mazdak, Abdul Manaf, Azizah, Ahmad, Rabiah, Zeki, Akram M.

“…The robustness specially would be increased against those intentional attacks which try to reveal the hidden message and also some unintentional attacks like noise addition as well.…”
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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 framework for providing e-services to the rural areas using wireless ad hoc and sensor networks by Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan, Islam, Humayun Kadir, Sayeed, Sabit Anjum, Ahmed, Farruk, Hong, Choong Seon

“…This has led to the rapid growth of several wireless systems like wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks etc. …”
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Judicial review of the Tribunal for Consumer Claims' awards: a justice for whom? by Amin, Naemah

“…Nevertheless, in the course of offering an informal, faster and cheaper procedure to consumers, the TCC has to face with few challenges and one of the major challenges is judicial review. Just like other inferior courts or quasi-judicial bodies, the awards of the TCC may be subject to judicial review on questions of law. …”
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Analysis of multicomponent transient signals using music superresolution technique by Jibia, Abdussamad Umar, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Emiyoka, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…Such signals arise in many problems in Science and Engineering like nuclear magnetic resonance for medical diagnosis, deep-level transient spectroscopy, fluorescence decay analysis, etc. …”
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Control of pallets in automatic storage and retrieval system by Kafayat Oluwatoyin, Shobowale, Khan, Md. Raisuddin, Muhida, Riza

“…The controller and algorithm developed will be used for executing a puzzle like x and y motion to store and retrieve specific pallets. …”
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Hardware implementation of intelligent braking system by Sidek, Shahrul Na'im, Salami, Momoh Jimoh Emiyoka

“…The system when integrated with other subsystems like automatic traction control system, intelligent throttle system, and auto cruise system, etc will result in smart vehicle maneuver. …”
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On being in the wrong place: the role of children’s conceptual understanding and ballgame experience when judging a football player’s offside position by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Bosco, Giorgia

“…Thereafter, children judged whether a designated player was in an offside position in a computerized task. Like adults, also children found it easier to judge when a player was in a wrong rather than a right place. …”
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Beyond behaviour: changing foods as well as changing people by Winkler, Jack

“…Like many specialists in public health, Clarke focuses on “ways to change and sustain our individual behaviour.” …”

Preventing and designing out plagiarism : making the most of VLEs and CAA tools by Baños-Piñero, Rocío

“…The role of new technologies is such that new terms like "cyber plagiarism" or "digital plagiarism" (Park, 2003: 481) and "cyber cheating" or "e-cheating" (Jones et al., 2008) have been coined to refer to the use of new technologies for dishonest purposes. …”
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Your password is music to my ears: cloud-based authentication using sound by Phipps, Anthony, Ouazzane, Karim, Vassilev, Vassil

“…Whilst this removes barriers to use for those with accessibility challenges like visual impairment or motor skills issues and opens up a much more convenient user experience, a number of cyber security threats remain unanswered. …”
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Miniaturized planar ultra-wideband slot antenna with an interference suppressing capability by Masoumi, Masoume, Amiri, Zhaleh, Ghaedi, Farshad, Sahraban, Amene, Hayati, Soghra, Shokry, Majed, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…In this article analysis of antenna parameters like radiation characteristics, survey of surface currents and antenna gain will be presented.…”
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Effect of Pre-treatment on The Impregnation of Osmotically Dehydrated Fruits: A Review by RAJA, SHALINI, ASMAN, SALIZA

“…Additional data showed that pre-treatments like blanching, freezing, drying, and ultrasound negatively affect calcium salt impregnation on fruit samples. …”
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Effect of Pre-treatment on The Impregnation of Osmotically Dehydrated Fruits: A Review by RAJA, SHALINI, ASMAN, SALIZA

“…Additional data showed that pre-treatments like blanching, freezing, drying, and ultrasound negatively affect calcium salt impregnation on fruit samples. …”
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