The research in Scotland event in Edinburgh: reflections and key issues by Terry, Cassandra, French, Fiona, Morrison, Neil

“…Several important points were raised: the requirement for better awareness and better support for those living with Parkinson’s (including specialist care) and the need to invest in research and work together including the importance of Patient and Public Involvement to find better treatments and, hopefully, a cure.…”
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Costantini, Mauro, Paradiso, Antonio

“…We estimate a Vector Error Correction (VEC) model including the saving rate, asset prices, equity withdrawal and interest rates and find that indeed mortgage equity withdrawal is a key determinant of the observed saving pattern.…”
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Competitiveness of credit associations and credit cooperatives in Japan by Matousek, Roman, Minegishi, Shinya, Stewart, Chris

“…The results correspond to research findings by Tsutsui and Kamesaka (2005), and Uchida and Tsutsui (2005). …”
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Ageing and personal retirement savings plan participation with heterogeneity in preferences : the Portuguese case by Barros, Carlos Pestana, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Garcia, Maria Teresa Medeiros

“…A mixed logit model is used to analyse the determinants of retirement saving behaviour, allowing for heterogeneity in the responses. We find considerable heterogeneity among individuals (in terms of socio-economic variables such as age, gender and income), which must be taken into account by any policy aimed at changing retirement saving behaviour.…”
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Identification of segments of European banks with a latent class frontier model by Barros, Carlos Pestana, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…A latent class frontier model is used which allows the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically significant segments in the sample. …”
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Opinion on the compatibility of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) with the European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights by Korff, Douwe, Brown, Ian

“…It follows a request to find out “if the final Version of ACTA and its foreseen legislative procedure is in line with the Treaties of the European Union and which legal possibilities there are for the European Parliament to challenge this in front of the European Court of Justice.” …”
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Characteristic qualities affecting landed house prices by Mohamad, Muhamad Hilmi, Nawawi, Abdul Hadi, Mohd Safian, Edie Ezwan, Ahmad Saleh, Ahmad Fawwaz

“…The research was conducted to find the characteristics quality of houses in Malaysia. …”
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Reforming the society through knowledge and education : the role of Islamic reformism in Malaya, 1906-1941 by Wan Sulong, Wan Suhana

“…Within the published pages, readers could find views, debates and suggestions on this issue. …”
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Methods and methodologies in Fiqh and Islamic economics by Saleem, Muhammad Yusuf

“…It argues that fiqh methods are mainly designed to find out whether a certain act is permissible or prohibited for an individual. …”
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الإفتاءُ بين الانضباط والانفلات دراسة أصولية تحليلية في ضوء الواقع المعاصر by Arif, Arif Ali, Ismail, Ardawan Mustafa

“…What Sharia Fatwa? What are the main forms of anomalous fatwa chaos in the present era? …”
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Evaluating the rediscovery process as a treatment programme for a range of substance use disorders by Parker, Phil

“…However, some did not find it of use and there was evidence of issues of a conflict between the concepts of this and other previously used models, which made adopting the new ideas difficult for some. …”
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Phylogeny of sea cucumber (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) as inferred from 16S mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences by Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim, Hashim, Ridzwan, Usup, Gires

“…Phylogenetic analyses of 37 partial sequences of 16S mitochondrial rRNA gene using three main methods namely neighbour joining (NJ), maximum parsimony (MP) and maximum likelihood (ML) showed the presence of five main genera of sea cucumbers: Molpadia from order Molpadiida and four genera of order Aspidochirotida namely Holothuria, Stichopus, Bohadschia and Actinopyga. …”
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Phylogeny of sea cucumber (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) as inferred from 16S Mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences by Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim

“…Phylogenetic analyses of 37 partial sequences of 16S mitochondrial rRNA gene using three main methods namely neighbour joining (NJ), maximum parsimony (MP) and maximum likelihood (ML) showed the presence of five main genera of sea cucumbers: Molpadia from order Molpadiida and four genera of order Aspidochirotida namely Holothuria, Stichopus, Bohadschia and Actinopyga. …”
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Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus by Bojcun, Marko

“…I don’t believe that the current crisis is over, far from it. I’ll be looking mainly how at these countries have faced the crisis and responded to it so far. …”
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Design for sustainability (D4S) in product development using solidworks software: a case study of redesign a sugar cane extractor machine by Kasmin, Ashari

“…The Design for Sustainability (D4S) is a recognized method to produce sustainable product that embrace three main elements: environment, economic and social. …”
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Human path classifier architecture by Khan, Imran Moez, Htike@Muhammad Yusof, Zaw Zaw, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Lai, Weng Kin

“…Extensive video records may be kept to help find the instigator of criminal activities after the crime has been committed but preventive measures require human involvement. …”
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A theoretical review in evaluating the impact of traffic calming measures on the residential living environment by Rosli, Nur Shazwani, Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez

“…The purpose of this research is to find the balance between traffic and environments by analysing the living environment through traffic calming measures. …”
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Experimental study of cutting parameter for drilling on fabric carbon/epoxy composite laminates by Abd Halim, Nor Farah Huda, , Afzeri, Aminanda, Yulfian

“…This study is mainly about the drilling of carbon-epoxy laminates. …”
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Globalizations and bank performance in China by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…The paper provides for the first time empirical evidence on the impact of economic globalization on the performance of banks operating in the Chinese banking sector. The empirical findings from this study suggest that the well capitalized banks tend to be more profitable, while expense preference behavior exerts negative impact on bank profitability in China. …”
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G-decompositions of matrices and quadratic doubly stochastic operators by Ganikhodzaev, Rasul, Mukhamedov, Farrukh, Saburov, Mansoor

“…In this work we introduce a notion of G-decomposition of matrices which enables to study Birkhoff's problem for quadratic G-doubly stochastic operators. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for the matrices having G-decomposition in the class of stochastic and substochastic matrices. …”
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