b-Bistochastic quadratic stochastic operators and their properties by Mukhamedov, Farrukh, Embong, Ahmad Fadillah

“…It turns out that, upper triangular stochastic matrix defines a linear b-stochastic operator. This allowed us to find some sufficient conditions on cubic stochastic matrix to be a b−bistochastic q.s.o.…”
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University of the future: a conceptual model of university of the future by Sondria, Prilly Noverina, Maneechayangkoon, Nadia, Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman

“…The purpose of this study is find out what is university of the future will be like. …”
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Assessing the impact of financial crisis on bank performance: empirical evidence from Indonesia by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…The paper seeks to examine the determinants of Indonesian banks profitability during the period 1990–2005. The empirical findings indicate that income diversification and capitalization are positively related to bank profitability, while size and overhead costs exert negative impacts. …”
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Has economic freedom fostered bank performance? Panel evidence from China by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…The empirical findings seem to suggest that greater freedom of trade positively influences the performance of banks operating in the Chinese banking sector. …”
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Relationships among expatriate social network characteristics and performance in overseas assignments: implications for HRD by M.Osman Ghani, Aahad, Rockstuhl, Thomas

“…This paper presents the empirical findings of a study that investigated the effects of expatriates' social network characteristics on their perfonnance on overseas assignments. …”
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Electron beam irradiated nanocomposite for gas barrier application by Anuar, Hazleen, Jamal, Nur Ayuni, Abd Razak, Shamsul Bahri

“…Polyolefins, such as polypropylene and polyethylene find extensive use in packaging. Improvements in poor barrier properties of polyolefins will be beneficial for the current applications and should also lead to applications in pharmaceuticals, electronic packaging and particularly packaging of food products, which are sensitive to oxygen. …”
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Anticlone Gaussian attack for continuous variable EPR correlations by Messikh Azeddine, Azeddine, Bouketir, Ahmed, Umarov, Bakhram A., Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza

“…We investigate the security of a model based on continuous variable QKD with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations against Gaussian clone-anticlone attacks. We find that the eavesdropper distils more information using the individual Gaussian anticlone attack than the optimal Gaussian cloner. …”
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Determinants of bank performance in a developing economy: does bank origins matters? by Sufian, Fadzlan, Mohamad Noor, Mohamad Akbar Noor

“…During the period under study, the empirical findings do not lend support for the ‘limited form’ of global advantage hypothesis. …”
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Post COVID-19 river quality: challenges ahead! by Ibrahim, Izihan, Mustafa, Maizatun, Abd Ghani, Hj. Mansor, Kailasam, Kalithasan, Al-Khatib, Ma'an Fahmi Rashid

“…What are the challenges in improving the quality of our river pre- and post-MCO? Lets find out and join us in this special webinar.…”
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Machining Time Simulation in High Speed Hard Turning by Adesta, Erry Yulian Triblas, Al Hazza, Muataz Hazza Faizi

“…By using MATLAB SIMULINK, a new program was developed for machining time allowing the manufacturer to find rapidly the values of cutting time parameters and gives the management the opportunity to modify the processing parameters to achieve the optimum time by using the optimum cutting parameters.…”
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Environmental colour impact upon human behaviour: a review by Ab Jalil, Nurlelawati, Mohd Yunus, Rodzyah, S. Said, Normahdiah

“…This paper analyses 40 previous colour studies selected from various disciplines discussing previous methods and colour effects in order to find its significant impact on humans. It reviews factors such as type of setting, method of assessment, instruments and type of colours. …”
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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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Fiscal shocks and real exchange rate dynamics: some evidence for Latin America by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Ciferri, Davide, Girardi, Alessandro

“…Using quarterly data over the period 1980-2006, we find that in a majority of cases fiscal shocks are the main driving force of real exchange rate fluctuations.…”
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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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Culture of the calanoid copepod, Acartia erythraea and cyclopoid copepod, Oithona brevicornis with various microalgal diets = Kultur kopepod kalanoid, Acartia erythraea dan kopepod... by Rajkumar, Mayalagu, Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur

“…Purata kopepodites dan O. brevicornis dewasa meningkat secara beransur-ansur dari awal hingga akhir eksperimen. Di bawah keadaan eksperimen dalam kajian ini, kedua-dua diet IG dan alga campuran boleh disyorkan untuk prestasi pertumbuhan terbaik bagi A. erythraea dan O. brevicornis.…”
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