The significance of perceptions and cultural engagement in the evolution of a European commercial and soft power diplomacy with the emerging Asian giants by Vergeron, Karine Lisbonne-de

“…The focus of my submission is on external perceptions of Europe from the perspectives of the two new great powers in Asia: China and India. It spans over nine years of research. When the work started in 2006, the EU was in deep crisis just a year after the uncertainty that was unleashed by the rejection in France and the Netherlands of the then Constitutional Treaty. …”
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Effects of simple abrasive combing and pretreatments on properties of pineapple leaf fibers (PALF) and PALF-Vinyl ester composite adhesion by Abd. Rahman, Mohamed, Mohd. Salit, Sapuan, Mridha, Shahjahan, Abdan, Khalina

“…In pineapple leaves, PALF are present in top lamina as large vascular bundles and bottom lamina as fine strands. Tensile strength and modulus of fine PALF strands are 155% and 134% higher than those of vascular bundles respectively. …”
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Binder and micro-filler characterization and properties of palm oil fuel ash polymer concrete by Abd. Khalid, Nur Hafizah

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Utilization of Silica Fume and Sodium Hydroxide in Treated Crumb Rubber for Cement Mortar by Supar, Khairi, Mohammad, Hairuddin, Kaamin, Masiri, Mohammad Azmi, Mohamad Azim, Musa, Mohd Kamaruzaman, Abdul Rahman, Mohammad Ashraf, Ahmad, Hilton, Sugiman, Sugiman

“…Cement mortar offers an excellent replacement for materials such as fine aggregate with tire rubber waste in the form of crumbs. …”
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Genetic algorithm optimisation for fuzzy control of wheelchair lifting and balancing by Ahmad, Salmiah, Tokhi, M. Osman, Toha, Siti Fauziah

“…The lifting of the chair is done by transforming the first link, attached to the front wheels (casters) to the upright position while maintaining stability of the second link where the payload is attached. …”
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A cost and delay estimation of a suite of low-cost adaptive routers for hierarchical torus network by Rahman, M.M. Hafizur, Akhand, M. A. H

“…Three deadlock-free adaptive routing algorithms called link-selection, channel-selection, and a combination of link-selection and channel-selection was proposed for the efficient use of physical links and virtual channels of an HTN to improve dynamic communication performance. …”
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Availability evaluation of scalable complex networks by Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed, Al-Khateeb, Khalid A. Saeed, Al-Irhayim, Sufyan

“…Two formulas are developed for the availability evaluation of the n-tuple bridge complex network, one for arbitrary link availability and a second for identical link availability.…”
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An introduction to swarming robotics: application development trends by Zainal Abidin, Zulkifli

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Modeling and control of a multi degree of freedom flexible joint manipulator by Akhtaruzzaman, Md., Akmeliawati, Rini, Teh, Wai Yee

“…Since lightweight materials are employed in the construction of manipulator, the assumption that negligible link deformation no longer applies. A nonlinear passivitybased control method for rigid flexible joint as well as flexible link is proposed here. …”
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A modified weight optimisation for higher-order neural network in time series prediction by Husaini, Noor Aida

“…The MCS-MCMC results is further benchmarked with the standard Multilayer Perceptron, standard Pi-Sigma Neural Network (PSNN), Pi-Sigma Neural Network-Modified Cuckoo Search, Pi-Sigma Neural Network-Markov chain Monté Carlo, standard Functional Link Neural Network (FLNN), Functional Link Neural Network-Modified Cuckoo Search and Functional Link Neural Network-Markov chain Monté Carlo which emphasis in optimising the accuracy rate. …”
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Active vibration isolation system to improve free space optics communication by Abdul Muthalif, Asan Gani, Turahim, Khairiah K., Ab Rahim, Syazwani

“…A Free Space Optics (FSO) link consists of a transmitter and a receiver telescope which requires a continuous alignment for successful transmission of data. …”
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Enchancing QoS protection in MPLS networks by Hanshi, Sabri M., Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed

“…In fact, QoS is important for interactive voice and video application and for specific clients. However, link failure always incurs delay and packet losses of the traffic passing through the failed link. …”
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Neutral point inverter controller using H infinity techniques by M. Alsharif, Ali Omar

“…This can be achieved by using a neutral-point circuit that consists of a conventional neutral leg and a split dc link. In this project, a H infinity (H∞ ) current controller is proposed to force the current flowing through the split dc link to be nearly zero so that the neutral-point current is stable, and then, a current control loop is added to eliminate the imbalance of the current so that the neutral-point current is balanced with respect to the dc terminals. …”
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Performance of warm mix asphalt containing coal bottom ash as alternative aggregate by Ali, Zulfiqar

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A Systematic Review of the Concrete Durability Incorporating Recycled Glass by Mohammed A. Mansour, Mohammed A. Mansour, Ismail, Mohd Hanif Bin, Qadir Bux alias Imran Latif, Qadir Bux alias Imran Latif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdalrhman Milad, Abdalrhman Milad, Walid Abdullah Al Bargi, Walid Abdullah Al Bargi

“…However, up to 20% GP and up to 30% fine glass aggregate (FGA) could be replaced with cement and aggregate, respectively, to achieve a positive effect on durability based on the W/C ratio provided, not compromising the strength.…”
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A Systematic Review of the Concrete Durability Incorporating Recycled Glass by Mohammed A. Mansour, Mohammed A. Mansour, Ismail, Mohd Hanif, Qadir Bux alias Imran Latif, Qadir Bux alias Imran Latif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdalrhman Milad, Abdalrhman Milad, Walid Abdullah Al Bargi, Walid Abdullah Al Bargi

“…However, up to 20% GP and up to 30% fine glass aggregate (FGA) could be replaced with cement and aggregate, respectively, to achieve a positive effect on durability based on the W/C ratio provided, not compromising the strength.…”
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Mechanical properties of concrete containing POFA and EPS as replacement materials by Bahari, Nur Aishah Zafirah, Osman, Mohamad Hairi, Mahyeddin, Mohd Eizzuddin

“…To solve the problems of increase in amount of the oil palm waste and expanded polystyrene, high emission of carbon dioxide and high density or normal concrete, a research of replacing cement and fine aggregate with expanded polystyrene (EPS) and palm oil fuel ash (POFA) were done. …”
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Optimizations and recycling industrial waste (palm oil fly ash) as a pigment in coating technology by Mohd @ Mohd Nor, Syarul Hakimi

“…The sintered product was milled and become grayish fine powder pigment. From the SEM images, the grain size approximately 0.404 µm. …”
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A comparative signaling cost analysis of macro mobility scheme in NEMO (MM-NEMO) with mobility management protocol by Islam, Syaila, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha, Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi, Mohd. Ramli, Huda Adibah, Abdul Latif, Suhaimi, Hassan, Wan Haslina, Hasan, Mohammad Kamrul, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…This effect is particularly significant for wireless environment where a wireless link is not as steady as a wired link since bandwidth is relatively limited in wireless link. …”
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