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941
Efficient lot batching system for furnace operation
Published 2003“…This implementation has resulted in much better material movement and has also made the manufacturing line more linear.…”
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942
Treatment of a Symptomatic Forearm Muscle Herniation with a Wrap-Around Fascia Lata Graft
Published 2009“…This is a study of a 28-year-old man who had a symptomatic swelling on the volar aspect of his left forearm while working on a car-door assembly line that resulted in a significant decreased of his grip strength, work capacity and median nerve symptoms. …”
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943
Vibration energy harvesting using single and comb-shaped piezoelectric beam structures: modeling and simulation
Published 2012“…Researchers have been venturing into methods that can generate acceptable level of voltage since decades ago. In line with the spirit of green technology, energy harvesting will be a major contributor towards saving our environment in near future. …”
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944
Potential for improving vehicle fuel efficiency and reducing the environmental pollution via fuel ionization
Published 2012“…The first type of magnetic device is installed within the fuel tank and the second is installed onto the fuel line. Each experiment was performed on ten separate vehicles from the Dubai Taxi Corporation fleet.When compared to the baseline data, reductions of 70 % for both hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions, and 68 % for oxides of nitrogen were recorded. …”
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945
Shear wall construction in buildings: a conceptual framework on the aspect of analysis and design
Published 2013“…The software of this system is performed on the platform of modelling and then, the system models are usually idealized as line elements instead of continuum elements. Single walls are modelled as cantilevers and walls with openings are modelled as pier/ spandrel systems. …”
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946
Evolution of brain tumor growth model: a back-in-time approach
Published 2012“…The surgeon is clinically responsible to do these with the aid of IGS software that is fashioned in line with the surgeon training. It has been observed that lots of time used at that stage could be saved if a good model that will accurately estimate tumor growth from few slices could be developed to assist at that stage. …”
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947
Genetic diversity of horseshoe crab (Tachypleus gigas) in Malaysia revealed using microsatellite markers
Published 2013“…Due to the dwindling population size of horseshoe crabs in Malaysian coast line, present data provides new information in assisting proper management and conservation of this living fossil.…”
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Factors Affecting Speed of Adjustment to Target Leverage: Malaysia Evidence
Published 2013“…There are evidences of target capital structure and firms do adjust to be at their target from time to time with a considerably rapid speed of adjustment, in line with dynamic trade-off theory. Firms in Malaysia are found to be under-adjusted, being below the required adjustment to be at the target within a year. …”
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949
Shari’ah and ethical issues in the practice of modified wakalah model in family takaful
Published 2013“…However, Takaful has been acknowledged as insurance which is in line with Shari’ah principles. Due to the prohibited elements such as interest, uncertainty and gambling in the insurance practices, Takaful has been introduced by the Muslim scholars. …”
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950
A calibration framework for swarming ASVs' system design
Published 2012“…Swarming robots work as a team, propelled by slim-line water pump with cylindrical shape of body hull. …”
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951
Development of wheel-less snake robot with two distinct gaits and gait transition capability
Published 2013“…As a solution, mixed mode locomotion is proposed in this paper by synchronizing two types of gaits known as serpentine and wriggler gaits used for non-constricted and narrow space environments, respectively, but for straight line locomotion only. A gait transition algorithm is developed to efficiently change the gait from one to another. …”
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952
Haddul Kifayah: Its comprehensiveness, sufficiency and currency in meeting the needs of the asnaf faqr and asnaf miskin
Published 2015“…In addition, by contrasting the haddul kifayah with the official Poverty Line Income (Pendapatan Garis kemiskinan) and its factors and components thereto the study attempts to establish whether the approach adopted in determining the haddul kifayah is considered appropriate, comprehensive and sufficient vis-à-vis the current cost of living. …”
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953
Design of dual band notched ultra wideband antenna using (U-W) shaped slots
Published 2015“…The antenna consists of rectangular patch, a 50 Ω Microstrip line and partial grounding. By etching a nested inverted U-Shaped and W-Shaped slots in the radiating patch, band rejection filtering properties for WiMAX and WLAN were achieved. …”
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954
Ranking of manufacturing attributes affecting bread quality: application of analytic hierarchy process
Published 2015“…The responses by the manager, supervisor, line leader and quality control inspector on pair-wise comparison scale are collected and analyzed by using Expert Choice software along with the verification of inconsistency value. …”
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955
Proposed framework for Tahkim in the construction industry
Published 2015“…While the practice and procedures in arbitration are well established but not much is known about Tahkīm. In line with the interest of the business community to seek ways to adopt Shari’ah-compliant practice and procedures it is considered important and urgent for the use of Tahkīm in settling construction related disputes to be promoted. …”
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956
Simulation of an hybrid blood cells micro-separator
Published 2015“…The MAP force is induced from ferromagnetic line fabricated on a glass slide while the hydrodynamic force is obtained by a ‘U’ shape microfluidic channel. …”
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957
The ‘God Helmet’ and neuro-spirituality : the pedagogical ramifications for religious and moral education
Published 2015“…This paper discusses this question and suggests a possible line of research to investigate this issue further. …”
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958
Gender issues in Muslim countries
Published 2016“…The Noble Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW indicate equity and parity between men and women although their functions in marriage, family and society are not identical. There is a long line of women scholars and activists who attained high positions and were renowned for their excellence as scholars, social workers, public figures, educators during the time of the Prophet SAW and during the next generations, when Islamic civilisation was flourishing. …”
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959
Natural logarithm sliding mode control (ln-SMC) using EMRAN for active engine mounting system
Published 2010“…Moreover, the advantage of fast on-line training using Extended Minimum Resource Allocating Network (EMRAN) algorithm, made it possible to design feedback control law without having to obtain the precise system model which is normally becomes major difficulties of sliding mode approach.…”
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960
Critical thinking dispositions of new intake engineering technology students
Published 2011“…This paper presents the findings a study to determine the initial critical thinking dispositions of new intake engineering technology students in the effort to provide base-line data for the integration of critical thinking (CT) in the English syllabus of the engineering technology programme. …”
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