Exploring the Conceptual Definition of Islamic Financial Literacy from the Quran and Sunnah by Ab Rashid, Rosemaliza, Zainol, Zairani, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Mohd Taib, Hasniza, Khairol Nizam, Aini Nur Hajjar

“…Since some of the elements are not compatible with the rapidly growing segment of the Islamic financial services industry, there is a pressing need to explore the concept of financial literacy from the Shariah perspective. This paper seeks to explore the conceptual definition of financial literacy from the basic sources of Shariah, namely, the Quran and the Sunnah. …”
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A review on antibacterial properties of Malaysian kelulut, tualang and acacia honey to prevent wound infectious bacteria by Mohd Amir Shahlan, Mohd-Aspar, Norhidayah, Kamarudin, Abdul Nasir, Abd Ghafar, Hadi, Manap

“…This paper provides a comprehensive review of the antibacterial properties of three different types of Malaysian honey, namely kelulut, tualang and acacia, in preventing wound infecting bacteria. …”
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Mallet: SQL Dialect Translation with LLM Rule Generation by Ngom, Amadou Latyr, Kraska, Tim

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Flexural buckling behaviour and residual strengths of S700 high strength steel circular hollow section columns after exposure to fire by Koh, Alicia

“…This paper demonstrates the experimental investigation of the flexural buckling behaviour and residual strengths of cold-formed S700 high strength steel (HSS) circular hollow section (CHS) slender columns after being exposed to fire. …”
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Study on supply chain challenges in container shipping : the carrier’s perspective by Zeyar, Maung Maung

“…The objective of this paper is to examine the challenges in the container shipping industry faced by carriers and their impacts on the carriers themselves and other parties namely the shippers and port operators. …”
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A comparison of Google translate and Youdao translation : a case study of sentences Selected from Financial Times by Zhang, Xue Qing

“…In light of this, this paper aims to conduct a comparison of two mainstream online MT tools, namely Google Translate and Youdao Translation, through determining which tool provides higher English-Chinese translation quality in terms of translating informative content. …”
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Creep behavior of EPS composite soil by Gao, HongMei, Chen, Yumin, Liu, HanLong, Liu, JinYuan, Chu, Jian

“…Three well established creep models, namely, Findley model, Singh & Mitchell model, and Mesri model, were used to simulate the creep behavior of EPS composite soil. …”
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A review of life cycle assessment methods to inform the scale-up of carbon dioxide removal interventions by Butnar, I, Lynch, J, Vetter, S

“…<p>Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods are increasingly used for policy decision-making in the context of identifying and scaling up sustainable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) interventions. This paper critically reviews CDR LCA case-studies through three key lenses relevant to policy decision-making on sustainable CDR scale up, namely comparability across CDR assessments, assessment of the climatic merit of a CDR intervention, and consideration of wider CDR co-benefits and impacts. …”

Non-eutectic phase change materials for cold thermal energy storage by Sze, Jia Yin, Mu, Chenzhong, Romagnoli, Alessandro, Li, Yongliang

“…Thus, non-eutectic phase change materials, namely aqueous ethylene glycol and ethanol solutions, are investigated in this paper for potential applications in high-grade cold thermal energy storage applications. …”
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Tailored text augmentation for sentiment analysis by Feng, Zijian, Zhou, Hanzhang, Zhu, Zixiao, Mao, Kezhi

“…In synonym replacement-based data augmentation techniques for natural language processing tasks, words in a sentence are often sampled randomly with equal probability. In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation technique named Tailored Text Argumentation (TTA) for sentiment analysis. …”
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Entropy Based Modelling for Estimating Demographic Trends by Monterola, Christopher, Li, Guoqi, Zhao, Daxuan, Xu, Yi, Kuo, Shyh-Hao, Xu, Hai-Yan, Hu, Nan, Zhao, Guangshe

“…In this paper, an entropy-based method is proposed to forecast the demographical changes of countries. …”
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Performance of strut-reinforced Kagome truss core structure under compression fabricated by selective laser melting by Gautam, Rinoj, Idapalapati, Sridhar

“…Lattice structures are regarded as an excellent candidate for lightweight applications owing to their high specific strength and stiffness. In this paper, a novel lattice design is proposed, and its compressive properties are investigated. …”
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Robust semi-supervised nonnegative matrix factorization for image clustering by Peng, Siyuan, Ser, Wee, Chen, Badong, Lin, Zhiping

“…However, most traditional NMF based algorithms are sensitive to noisy data, or fail to fully utilize the limited supervised information. In this paper, a novel robust semi-supervised NMF method, namely correntropy based semi-supervised NMF (CSNMF), is proposed to solve these issues. …”
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Modal tense: if and wish by Crowley, Paul

“…This paper is concerned with uses of certain morphemes, most notably the past, to represent meanings of distance from reality in modal expressions. …”
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Ship emissions accounting in the port of Singapore – a preliminary analysis on the crude oil tanker segment by Tan, Lovine Nin

“…The purpose of this paper is to conduct emission accounting for the crude oil tanker in the port of Singapore. …”
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A study on the impact of Panama Canal expansion on major stakeholders by Lee, Jin Yan

“…For the purpose of this study, 3 stakeholders are identified, namely, the ports, port users and Republic of Panama. …”
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On Constructing a Secure and Fast Key Derivation Function Based on Stream Ciphers by Chuah, Chai Wen, Alawatugoda, Janaka, Arbaiy, Nureize

“…However, the execution time for key derivation functions based on stream ciphers is faster compared to the other two functions. This paper proposes an improved design for a key derivation function based on stream ciphers, namely I−SCKDF2. …”
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Bio-based lubricant with additives: Tribological performances in hydrodynamic journal bearing by Norazman, Amanda, Paiman, Zulhanafi, Samion, Syahrullail, Afiq, Muhammad Noor, Muhammad Yazid, Witri, Rasep, Zuraidah

“…Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of bio-based lubricants (BBL), namely, palm mid-olein (PMO) enriched with an antioxidant agent, tertiary-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) and a viscosity improver, ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), in journal bearing (JB) applications. …”

Optical spectroscopic ultrasound displacement imaging : a feasibility study by Duan, Tingyang, Lan, Hengrong, Zhong, Hongtao, Zhou, Meng, Zhang, Ruochong, Gao, Fei

“…However, spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging requires expensive and bulky tunable laser source, which severely hinders its further development toward a portable device. In this paper, we propose a novel imaging method, named optical spectroscopic ultrasound displacement (OSUD) imaging, which enables optical spectroscopic imaging in deep scattering tissue using multiple low-cost continuous-wave laser sources and ultrasound imaging equipment. …”
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Revisiting metal electrodeposition in porous anodic alumina: toward tailored preparation of metal nanotube arrays by Zhang, Aiqin, Zhou, Jiajing, Das, Paramita, Xiao, Yuanhua, Gong, Feilong, Li, Feng, Wang, Lizhen, Zhang, Linsen, Wang, Lixia, Cao, Yang, Duan, Hongwei

“…The growth mechanism is also complex and changing with electrodeposition conditions. In this paper, we present new insights into the growth of metal nanostructures in AAO via electrodeposition. …”
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