A foresight study on green technology in paint industries in Malaysia by Ramasamy, Chandrashekar, Mohan, Kanchana, Shamsuddin, Alina

“…New technologies in preparing low energy consuming paints and the role of government and non-governmental organization was voted as the most influential drivers for the eco-friendly paint industries in Malaysia. In line with this regard, a scenario development carried out and a number of projects were suggested in order to move towards sustainable development of eco-friendly paint industry. …”
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Effect of broken skirts on voltage distribution along insulator strings by Othman, Nordiana Azlin, M. Piah, M. A., Adzis, Z.

“…This result helps to explain the ability of transmission line insulation system to operate satisfactorily even with the presence of stubs along the string.…”
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Optimization of received power and SNR for an indoor attocells network in visible light communication by Mohammed Gismalla, Mohammed Salih, Abdullah, Mohammad Faiz Liew

“…In this paper, the optical attocells configuration and LEDs distribution are proposed for optimizing the received power and Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) in the Line of Sight (LOS) propagation link. Besides that, the trade-off between minimum SNR and received power are investigated. …”
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Technical efficiency evaluation: study on Malaysian electrical and electronics firms by Abdullah, Mohd Fahmy, Lai, Wei Sieng, Muhammad Isa, Hamdan

“…The policy implication is that the electrical and electronic manufacturing industry needs to focus on scale economic achievement and high technology production in line with the competency level of employee and create more international industry technical cooperation.…”
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Building and implementing a multi-level system of ethical code for biologists under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) of the United Nations by Xue, Yang, Shang, Lijun, Zhang, Weiwen

“…Biologists are at the front line of biotechnology development and are key to maintaining biosecurity awareness and moral self-discipline. …”
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Ferocious Marys and dark Alessas: the portrayal of religious matriarchies in Silent Hill by Beddows, Amy

“…Unsurprisingly, such stereotypical depictions are in line with the patriarchal norms which have long persisted in wider, secular society, which deem women as inferior and subordinate to men (Schur 1984). …”
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Handbook of research on fostering social justice through intercultural and multilingual communication by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Building trust impacts the bottom line for global companies, and multilingual communication is a core pillar for effective growth. …”

Bandwidth extension of planar antennas using embedded slits for reliable multiband RF communications by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…This is accomplished by embedding capacitive slits in the rectangular patch with a truncated ground-plane, and exciting the antenna through a meandered strip-line feed. The proposed antenna was fabricated on standard FR-4 substrate with permittivity of 4.6, thickness of 0.8 mm and loss-tangent of 0.001. …”
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Towards a broader approach to the community interpreter’s role: on correspondence between role perceptions and interactional goals by Kaczmarek, Lukasz

“…The various respondents seemed to differ in their perceptions of the interpreter’s role, ostensibly reflecting their own conversational goals, but not necessarily in line with their status as service provider, service recipient or interpreter.…”
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Power Factor Correction – A Simulation Approach by Che Ros, Ziana, Nordin, Muhammad Faris, Anuar, Muhammad Abdullah, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Hazim

“…In so doing, they incur more line losses. They also must have larger capacity equipment in place than would be otherwise necessary. …”
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Teaching similarities and differences between non directive teaching and enhancing self esteem of special education students by Senin, M. S., Nordin, Mohd Norazmi, Abd Mutalib, Norathirah Nabila, Abd Rashid, Intan Maizura, Mustafa, Mohamad Zaid, Abdul Razzaq, Abdul Rasid, Ibrahim, Badarudin

“…Teaching strategies are not fixed, they can be modified as needed. This statement is in line with the existing needs in special education. …”
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A foresight study on nanotechnology in cosmetics industries in Malaysia by Ramasamy, Chandrashekar, Hsin, Chan Yuet, Shamsuddin, Alina

“…Need an efficient waste management system and usage of biocompatible and biodegradable compounds in nanocosmetics was voted as the most influential drivers for the nanocosmetics industries in Malaysia. In line with this regard, a scenario development was done and a number of solution were suggested in order to move towards sustainable development of nanocosmetics industry. …”
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Dynamic modeling of a stand - alone pem fuel cell connected to adjustable speed drive by Zambri, Nor Aira

“…Results also show that ASD generates harmonics to the line voltage and current. A method to reduce harmonics distortion in a network of ASD is proposed in this project. …”
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Teachers’ conception of assessment knowledge and their preferred assessment system by Ma’ruf , Amar

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Triple-band planar dipole antenna for omnidirectional radiation by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Located under the horizontal rectangular patch are two λ/2 long meander-line stubs symmetrically interfaced to the feedline. …”
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Quad notched-band UWB BPF based on quintuple-mode resonator by Borhani, Seyyed Jamal, Honarvar, M. Amin, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The MMR is fed through asymmetric interdigital coupled-lines feed to produce controllable notched-band. …”
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Effect of manganese and nickel on the cleavage fracture strength of ferritic weld metal by Sandford, Andrew Robert Brian.

“…This was calculated by reference to slip line field theory from the fracture load at the test temperature where fracture was first coincident with general yielding. …”
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Partners in national cyber security strategy? : An analysis of cyber security strategies of Ministry of Defence and police in UK by Onugha, Chikaodi Viola

“…The research also found that the Cyber Security Strategy is mainly state centric while policing is human centric in approach, this accounts for the challenges in bringing the policing cyber strategy in line with the National cyber strategy. The research concludes that an increase in education and expertise of both forces will help enhance bi-lateral and multi-lateral partnerships in the race to make the UK cyberspace safe.…”
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Comparison of intelligent approaches for cycle time prediction in injection moulding of a medical device product by Kariminejad, Mandana, Tormey, David, Huq, Saif, Morrison, Jim, McAfee, Marion

“…The strengths and limitations of the approaches are presented and the further research and development needed to ensure practical on-line use of these methods for dynamic process optimisation in the industrial process are discussed…”
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Development of new data partitioning and allocation algorithms for query optimization of distributed data warehouse systems by Abdalla, Hassan Ismail

“…However, although data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are essential elements of decision support, the OLAP query response time is strongly affected by the volume of data need to be accessed from storage disks. …”
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