The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) by Wheeler, Mark

“…Within this rust-belt drama, two of the men are black --- the thirty year-old Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Brown (Richard Pryor) and the two-time ‘loser’ ex-convict thirty-five-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). …”
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The effect of fabric constructions on elastic behaviour and tension decay of compression garment by Idris, M. K. M., Nasir, S. H., Roslan, M. N.

“…The strain of fabrics was measured using a tensile testing machine, and each sample was cycled five times between zero and the specified strain to simulate the repeated use of compression garments. …”
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Empirical bayesian binary classification forests using bootstrap prior by Olaniran, Oyebayo Ridwan, Abdullah, Mohd Asrul Affendi, Gopal Pillay, Khuneswari A/P, Olaniran, Saidat Fehintola

“…An illustration of the proposed, and existing methods was performed using five high-dimensional microarray datasets that emanated from colon, breast, lymphoma and Central Nervous System (CNS) cancer tumours. …”

A carnivorous plant algorithm for solving global optimization problems by Ong, Kok Meng, Ong, Pauline, Sia, Chee Kiong

“…The applicability of the CPA was further examined on mechanical engineering design problems and a real-world challenging application of controlling the orientation of a five degree-of-freedom robotic arm. Experimental simulations demonstrated the supremacy of the CPA in solving global optimization problems.…”
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Information from pharmaceutical companies and the quality, quantity, and cost of physicians' prescribing: a systematic review by Spurling, Geoffrey K., Mansfield, Peter R., Montgomery, Brett D., Lexchin, Joel, Doust, Jenny, Othman, Noordin, Vitry, Agnes I.

“…Background Pharmaceutical companies spent $57.5 billion on pharmaceutical promotion in the United States in 2004. …”
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Methane emission inventory and forecasting in Malaysia by Yusuf, Rafiu Olasunkanmi

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Mathematical model for the prediction of chip serration frequency in end milling of steel AISI1020 by Patwari, Muhammed Anayet Ullah, Amin, A. K. M. Nurul, Faris, Waleed Fekry

“…A small CCD with 2 blocks and 5 replication of centre point in each factorial block was selected to design the experiments and each of the independent variables is considered up-to 5(five) levels in developing the chip serration models in terms of primary cutting parameters (Cutting Speed, Feed, Axial Depth of Cut). …”
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Export-Led Growth Hypothesis: Further Econometric Evidence From South Asia (2005) by Shirazi, Nasim Shah, Turkhan Ali , Abdul Manap

“…This paper examines the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis for five South Asian countries through cointegration and multivariate Granger causality tests. …”
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National pride in news media among youth by Tamam, Ezhar, Wok, Saodah, Bolong, Jusang

“…This chapter describes the theoretical rational and reports the research design and findings of a national survey designed to examine the relationships of exposure and attention to national and public affairs news in television and newspaper among fifteen to twenty five years old Malay, Chinese and Indian youths in Malaysia.…”
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Proposed research for optimization of the performance of cooling system in data center facilities by Romadhon, Rahmat, Ali, Maisarah

“…Data center requires three to five times higher cooling capacity for the same space area than the cooling system for office building. …”
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Evaluation of nutritional status of recently hospitalized patients by Khattak, Muhammad Muzaffar Ali Khan, Khan, Alam, Begum, Shagufta, Abid, Javeria, Qadir, Syed Saeed

“…Three hundred and fifty five patients of various age groups were assessed for their nutritional status. …”
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Between the purposefulness of the Shari‘ah and normativity by El-Mesawi, Mohamed El-Tahir

“…His effort culminated in his widely acclaimed theory of the Shari‘ah objectives (maqasid al-Shari‘ah) that consisted in developing a new and comprehensive legal hermeneutics whereby Islamic spiritual, moral and legal teachings are seen to revolve around realizing and promoting five necessary universal objectives. .....…”
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Higher-order statistics and neural network based multi-classifier system for gene identification by Gunawan, Teddy Surya, Ambikairajah, Eliathamby, Epps, Julien

“…Classification results of the three individual neural networks are combined through an aggregation function, of which five variants are compared herein. An evaluation of the multi-classifier system on 117 sequences from the HMR195 database shows that when different opinions of more classifiers on the same input data are integrated within a multi-classifier system, a relative improvement in precision of 5% over the individual performances of the neural networks can be obtained.…”
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Essential readings in Islamic finance

“…This book contains a total of twenty-two papers falling under the five themes, i.e, Shari`ah Framework of Islamic Banking and Finance; Islamic Banking Development; Takaful (Islamic Insurance); Legal, Accounting and Governance in Islamic Finance and Islamic Capital Market. …”
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Customer satisfaction and switching behavior in Islamic banking: evidence from Indonesia by Abduh, Muhamad, Kassim, Salina, Dahari, Zainurin

“…Factor analysis has successfully uncovered the five dimensions of Indonesia Islamic banking customer satisfaction i.e. profitability, bank staff, accessibility, costs, and bank physical appearance. …”
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An empirical investigation on internet privacy on social network sites among Malaysian youths by Salleh, Norsaremah, Hussein, Ramlah, Mohamed, Norshidah

“…Using university students as sample, five hundred questionnaires were distributed and four hundred and eighty six were collected for further analysis. …”
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Creating dialogues in the Islamic Studies classsrooms: a comparative study of traditional pedagogy vs. critical pedagody by Hussien, Suhailah, Edwar, Lissa

“…The two teachers are observed and interviewed, while a group of five students from each teacher’s class are also interviewed in a group. …”
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Teaching English to muslim students : some pedagogical implications by Othman, Khairiah, Mohd. Asraf, Ratnawati

“…The methodology adopted were interview and classroom observation. The study found five recurring themes employed by these teachers in teaching English to Muslim students. …”
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Factors attracting the use of public private partnership in Malaysia by Ismail, Suhaiza

“…The overall results show that "facilitate creative and innovative approaches", "solve the problem of public sector budget restraint", "provide an integrated solution", "benefit local economic development" and "accelerate project development" are the top five attractive factors for adopting PPP in Malaysia. …”
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Human resource development in Asia: capitalizing on human expertise for greater innovation and creativity Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Academy of...

“…Data was collected from five universities in the Klang Valley. There were 575 internal customers and 600 external customers participated in this study. …”
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