Perceived Islamic work ethics and organisational commitment among Muslim engineers in Perak Tengah and Manjung district by Yushak, Mohamed Shamaun, Rajuddin, Adli Rafai Ahmad, Mohamed, Zakiah, Daud, Khairian Mohamad, Bawadi, Norfazilah, Sarif, Suhaimi Mhd

“…Thus, the findings rejected the claim that IWE is the barrier for productivity and work quality. …”
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The long-run and dynamic behaviors of wages, productivity and employment in Malaysia by Abdullah Yusof, Selamah

“…Design/methodology/approach – Time-series econometric techniques, which include stationarity and cointegration tests, vector error correction model, impulse response function and variance decomposition, are applied to analyze the relationships of real wages, employment and productivity. Findings – A long run relationship exists between real wages, employment and real productivity, with real wages being the main variable that adjusts to maintain cointegration. …”
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"I don't mind people hugging me when I'm happy": autistic individuals' experience of emotions on their sensory world: an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Georgiou, Alexia

“…The findings were discussed in the context of existing literature and theories. …”
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The relationship between client work and personal and professional development in Counselling Psychology training by Gallagher, Rebecca

“…Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyse semi-structured interviews with six final year trainee Counselling Psychologists. Two main findings were identified: firstly, participants were unable to discuss their personal and professional development in relation to client work specifically; personal and professional development were facilitated by the relevance of specific experiences to individuals’ needs and preferences rather than activities having a direct facilitative effect themselves. …”
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Understanding the factors that inhibit the success of indigenous entrepreneurs in Malaysia by Amiruddin, Mohd Hasril, Sumarwati, Sri, Madar, Ahmad Rizal, Abdullah, Nurhanim Saadah, Suib, Siti Normah

“…The results show that there are nine (9) main factors that inhibit the success of indigenous entrepreneurs in Malaysia. …”
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Meta analysis for special education leadership in Malaysia by Mosbiran, Nor Fauziyana, Mustafa, Mohamad Zaid, Abdul Razzaq, Abdul Rasid, Ahad, Rosnee, Nordin, Mohd Norazmi

“…In addition, this study also focused on the main findings of each study conducted. This study also examines the methodology of the study used. …”
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Meta analysis for special education leadership in Malaysia by Mosbiran, Nor Fauziyana, Mustafa, Mohamad Zaid, Abdul Razzaq, Abdul Rasid, Ahad, Rosnee, Nordin, Mohd Norazmi

“…In addition, this study also focused on the main findings of each study conducted. This study also examines the methodology of the study used. …”
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A Novel Monofilar-Archimedean Metamaterial Inspired Leaky-Wave Antenna for Scanning Application for Passive Radar Systems by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Ali, Abdul, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The antenna is based on metamaterial transmission-lines (MTM-TLs) and is implemented using Monofilar Archimedean spiral and rectangular slots, spiral inductors and metallic via-holes. …”
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Development of harmonic suppressed reconfigurable fractal dipole antenna by Hamzah, Shipun Anuar

“…On the other hand, the feeding line method is also investigated. The first design takes into account of 38Ω input impedance of the fractal curve while the second design is a direct connection from the 50Ω SMA connector to terminal. …”
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Social housing programme of Selangor Zakat Board of Malaysia and housing satisfaction by Mohit, Mohammad Abdul, Nazyddah, Nurul

“…This paper evaluates these programmes by adopting the housing satisfaction model which is currently used as a customer satisfaction tool for public/private housing in many local governments in the UK and USA. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the types of housing programmes adopted by SZB and examine beneficiaries’ housing satisfaction in each programme on a comparative plane. …”
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Pretreatment of seawater: Results of pilot trials in Singapore by Chua, K T, Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam, Malek, A

“…According to the experimental findings, the quality of the filtrate produced by the conventional media-filtration technique was inferior and highly inconsistent. …”
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Evaluating Chris Argyris's ideas: an Islamic perspective by Fontaine, Rodrigue Ancelot Harvey, Oziev, Gapur, Hassan-Hussein, Hussein

“…Design/methodology/approach – The main approach is a literature review combined with an analysis based on Islamic principles. …”
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Liquidity, initial public offering (ipo) long-term return and government ownership: Evidence from bursa malaysia ipo stocks by Ramlee, Roslily, Ali, Ruhani

“…The disperse ownership in the corporation and more well informed investors in the developed markets support their findings. On the other hand, the nature and behaviour of emerging stock markets such as Malaysia differ from the developed markets. …”
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Assessing policies for attracting international students: case of Malaysia by Tham,, Siew Yean, Nik Mahmod, Nik Ahmad Kamal, Alavi, Rokiah

“…The objective of this paper is to compare and assess the policy initiatives at the unilateral, multilateral, regional and bilateral level and their impact on the host environment which is defined in terms of the key pull factors that have attracted international students to Malaysia. The main findings show that domestic policy initiatives have enhanced the host environment for attracting international students by providing a governance system that protects the interests of international students through its regulations. …”
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Cross country mean and volatility spillover effects of food prices: Evidence for Asia and Pacific by Alom, Fardous, Bert, Ward, Baiding, Hu

“…Mean and volatility spillover effects of food prices are examined across a full (1995-2010) sample and two subsamples (1995-2001 and 2002-2010), using daily food price indices. Main findings of the study are as follows: (1) there is no strong evidence of cross country mean spillover effects of food prices across all samples, (2) the recent subsample of sharp rise of food prices shows more evidence of mean spillover effects than the early subsample, (3) evidence of volatility spillover effects is stronger than mean spillover effects, (4) mixed evidence of volatility spillover effects is reported and (5) no exact direction of spillover effects between exporters and importers is evident; rather mixed evidence of spillover from exporter to importer, exporter to exporter, importer to exporter and geographical proximity can be documented.…”
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Shariah observation advertising practices of Bank Muamalat in Malaysia by Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Mohd. Israil, Khaliq Ahmad, Irfath Jahan, Syeada

“…A total of 40 different advertisements were assessed as well as staff and personnel from 30 branches were interviewed. Findings – The paper reveals that customers remain unaware of the Islamic banks’ products. …”
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The use of English derivational forms by Malaysian ESL learners by Md Enzai, Ida Malina, Mohammad Lotfie, Maskanah

“…Neutral and non-neutral affixes underlie the classifications of the derived forms. The findings, which come with theoretical and pedagogical implications, indicate that neutral affixes are more prevalently used. …”
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Microelectrical mechanical systems switch for designing multi-band antenna by Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Khan, Sheroz, Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur

“…Approach: A reconfigurable antenna that is capable to operate at several frequencies was proposed by introducing two adjacent patches along with main radiating patch and two MEMS switches. Parametric done for Alumina, SiN, GaAs and Teflon as MEMS bridge materials for finding better results in terms of return loss and number of bands. …”
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On the conceptualization and measurement of flow by Moneta, Giovanni B.

“…This chapter introduces in chronological order the three main measurement methods – the Flow Questionnaire, the Experience Sampling Method, and the standardized scales of the componential approach – that researchers developed and used in conducting research on the flow state. …”
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Big data-enabled solutions framework to overcoming the barriers to circular economy initiatives in healthcare sector by Kazancoglu, Yigit, Sağnak, Muhittin, Lafcı, Çisem, Luthra, Sunil, Kumar, Anil, Taçoğlu, Caner

“…In this context, circularity and sustainability concepts have become essential in healthcare to meliorate the sector’s negative impacts on the environment. The main aim of this study is to identify the barriers related to circular economy (CE) in the healthcare sec-tor, apply big data analytics in healthcare, and provide solutions to these barriers. …”
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