Customers’ attitude and purchase intention toward diminishing partnership home financing in Malaysia: a structural equation modeling approach by Abdul Razak, Dzuljastri, Abduh, Muhamad

“…Home financing in Malaysia is mainly focus on the debt-based Bai Bithaman Ajil (BBA) mode implemented for the first time in 1983. …”
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An investigation of factors influencing communities decision to reside in gated development in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor by Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Rabe, Noor Suzilawati, Bachok, Syahriah

“…This research investigates the underlying factors influencing the development of gated and guarded communities in Malaysia. The main objectives of the research is to ascertain whether the increasing demand over the neighbourhood concept was merely due to the needs to exert better control and security over their living environment or due to other factors such as privacy and affluent lifestyle. …”
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The development Of Islamic engineering Sciences: a prelude by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…The Umayyad dynasty however, upon assuming rulership they engaged themselves with some civil engineering activities by building Damascus, their main administrative capital. The Abbasid Caliphate took over from the Umayyad and moved their administrative activity to Baghdad. …”
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Hybrid runge-kutta method for solving linear fuzzy delay differential equations with unknown state-delays by Lim, Rui Sih

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Improvement of gain and elevation tilt angle using metamaterial loading for millimeter-wave applications by Dadgarpour, Abdolmehdi, Zarghooni, Behnam, Virdee, Bal Singh, Denidni, Tayeb A.

“…Integration of the 3x4 array in the H-plane of a dipole antenna is shown to deflect the main beam by +30 degrees with respect to the endfire direction over 57–64 GHz. …”
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Miniature planar antenna design for ultra-wideband systems by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Hence, over the recent years the research and development of UWB antennas has been widely reported in literature. The main performance requirements sought from such antennas include: (1) low VSWR of <2; (2) operation over 7.6 GHz from 3 to 10.6 GHz; and (3) good overall radiation characteristics. …”
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Controlling female cancer in Argentina. Divergent initiatives and the road to fragmentation by Eraso, Yolanda

“…It identifies and examines the main factors in the process of elaborating a national policy to control the disease drawing on a series of actors and instruments such as the state, medical professionals, institutions and services, and the use of technology (notably diagnostic tools) for the detection of the disease. …”
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Integration in European retail banking: evidence from savings and lending rates to non-financial corporations by Rughoo, Aarti, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…The aim of this paper is to investigate the integration process in the European Union retail banking sector during the period 1995-2008, by analysing deposit and lending rates to nonfinancial corporations which represent one of the main constituents of retail banking. An important contribution of the paper is the application of the recently developed Phillips and Sul (2007a) panel convergence methodology which has not hitherto been employed in this area. …”
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Assessment of climate change on UK dwelling indoor comfort by Din, Asif, Brotas, Luisa

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Legitimacy and the celebrity single-issue candidate by Collins, Jeremy

“…Towards the end of the campaign, and notwithstanding the final outcome, legitimacy - in the sense of the various potential parliamentary combinations of the main parties - became a key media topic. To what extent was the legitimacy of candidates such as Murray and Smith questioned?…”
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Balancing gender awareness and professional priorities in advertising and audiovisual translation: an overview by Corrius, Montse, De Marco, Marcella, Espasa, Eva

“…This paper reviews the main findings and challenges of the five phases of our study, which included: (1) exploring advertising and audiovisual translation students’ attitudes towards gender issues in commercial advertising across different educational settings; (2) examining the connections between feminist pedagogies and our courses on advertising translation; (3) evaluating the students’ and the trainers’ gender awareness; (4) exploring students’ gender awareness when they are faced with non-profit advertising, and (5) analysing the varied situated knowledge and perceived responsibility of students, trainers and professionals as regards gender and professional priorities.…”
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An Ontological Approach to Model Software Quality Assurance Knowledge Domain by Bajnaid, Nada O., Benlamri, Rachid, Pakstas, Algirdas, Salekzamankhani, Shahram

“…International standards (SWEBOK, IEEE, and ISO) were the main sources of the terminology and semantic relations of the proposed SQA conceptual model. …”
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Roles and mechanisms of renalase in cardiovascular disease: a promising therapeutic target by Li, Yue, Wu, Weidong, Liu, Weihong, Zhou, Mingxue

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Flipped classrooms and translation technology teaching: a case study by Toto, Piero

“…One of the main aims of translation technology teaching is to ensure that, through sufficient in-class practice with the tools, students develop translator competence (Kiraly, 2006) so as to be marketable and competitive in the translation industry once they graduate. …”
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Social network analysis: new ethical approaches through collective reflexivity (introduction to the special issue of Social Networks) by Tubaro, Paola, Ryan, Louise, Casilli, Antonio A., D'Angelo, Alessio

“…We argue that a suitable response requires a more comprehensive approach to SNA ethics, and we identify two main paths toward this goal. First, we need to recognize the breadth of the subject, no longer limited to anonymity and consent. …”
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Legal aspects of trade in medicines by Parke, Michael Ronald

“…Free movement of goods, competition policy and harmonisation of the legislation of Member States are the main themes discussed. Part III deals with trade in medicines in relation to the Third World. …”
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The transnational politics of religion: Turkey's Diyanet, Islamic communities and beyond by Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi, Baser, Bahar

“…The article investigates how and why Turkey has implemented similar policies with different aims in different geographic territories and the underlying material and normative motivations for this pursuit. The main argument presented in the article is that Turkey, under the rule of the AKP (Justice and Development Party), employs religion for three fundamental reasons: to bolster its regional and global influence, to access regions or groups that are difficult to reach through traditional foreign policy tools and to alter domestic political balances or amass power.…”
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Reflective practice: key to the future of nursing?: a comparative study of the nursing practice of graduate and non-graduate nurses by Creber, Barbara D. M.

“…A theoretical framework was developed which identified different types of nurses characterised by certain behaviours. Two main types of nurse, reflective and non-reflective emerged but this however was not necessarily related to whether the nurse was a graduate or not. …”
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Foreign aid and tourism induced electricity consumption in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus by Wolde-Rufael, Yemane, Mulat-Weldemeskel, Eyob

“…However, since energy consumption is the main source of environmental degradation, the TRNC should develop an energy strategy that promotes environmental sustainability.…”
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Longevity and reinvention: Venetianization and the Biennale by Gold, John Robert, Gold, Margaret

“…This chapter explores the development and urban implications of the Biennale. It contains five main parts. After considering the events and circumstances that led to the Biennale’s foundation in 1895, the ensuing section examines the politically inspired festivalization that characterised the 1930s, its growth after 1945 and its increasing ‘Venetianization’ – the term used by Clarissa Ricci (2010, 105) to describe the festival’s tendency to spread spatially from its original hub in the Giardini into locations scattered throughout the rest of the city. …”
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