Gamma irradiated starch based hydrogel impregnated with silver nanoparticle by Esalami, Fayezeh, Ahmad, Zuraida, Abdul Razak, Nur Humairah

“…In this paper, biopolymer is used to overcome this problem and promote environmental friendliness and biocompatible to the human skin and impregnation of silver nano-particle (SNP) acts as anti-bacterial which needed for this application. …”
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Impact of cable bleeding towards cable characteristics and performance in VDSL2 ang g.fast technologies by Che Ku Alam, Che Ku Afifah

“…The application of copper cable in broadband services using very high-speed digital subscriber line transceivers 2 (VDSL2) (30a) has been proven to offer up to 50 Mbps upstream (US) and 100 Mbps downstream (DS) bandwidths at lower than 1 km distance. …”
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Informational content of short interest (EBES 2011) by Mohamad, Azhar

“…We also find the larger the increase in short interest, the more negative is the abnormal returns. …”
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Predicting Financial Distress based on Corporate Actions by Mohamad, Azhar

“…Furthermore, we also find that Working Capital to Total Assets Ratio and Asset Turnover Ratio are reliable predictors of financial distress among the accounting ratios.…”
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Opening the Black Box on bank efficiency in China: does economic freedom matter? by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…By examining different dimensions of economic freedom, we find that not all are equally regressive on bank efficiency. …”
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Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory and Cytotoxic Activities of Garcinia Eugenifolia and Calophyllum Enervosum by Bakhtiar, M. Taher, Muhammad Sum , Idris, Dayar, Arbain

“…The cytotoxicity assay on MCF7 cell line showed that enervosanone was found to be active in inhibiting cell proliferation of MCF7 with IC50 of 1.07 mM.…”
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A constructivist grounded theory analysis of how counselling psychologists experience anti Muslim prejudice by Bibi, Majida

“…Furthermore, the findings outline recommendations from participants and research which has shown that AMP practices cannot continue to be ignored and the need to move towards preventative and proactive measures in line with social justice work to help reduce such negative experiences from repeating for current and future generations of Muslims.…”
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Adjustment to atopic dermatitis: a cross-sectional study investigating the role of maladaptive self-schemas in a community sample of people with atopic dermatitis by Kalaki, Elli, Mizara, Alexandra

“…All groups completed the Young Schema Questionnaire (Short Form 3) and the Adjustment to Chronic Skin Disease Questionnaire. Results: There were no significant differences in adjustment levels between the two groups. …”

Blackpool Tower's Irish fun weekend by Blackpool Tower, BT

“…Notice advertising a weekend including an Irish party night, a line dancing afternoon and a concert by Daniel O'Donnell to be held in Blackpool on 27-28 February. …”
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Novel narrowband microstrip filters for wireless communications systems by Farhat, Mohamad

“…The analysis and modelling methods for these resonators includes a transmission-line theory, ABCD matrix, and EM simulation based on method of moments. …”
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Properties and performance of kenaf fiber-sawdust polymeric sandwich bio-composites by Adole, Michael Adole

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Handwritten Arabic word/character recognition : common approaches by O. H., Assma, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha

“…Letters are joined together along the writing line to form words or sub-words. The Arabic Alphabet has 28 letters, each with two to four shapes. …”
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Simmulation of a virtual transducer using potentiometer by Khan, Sheroz, Khairul Hassan, SK, Md Ralib, Aliza Aini, Ma, Li Ya, Arshad, Atika

“…The complete circuit diagram is made of three stages: (i) the input stage for range selection, (ii) a digital logic to make appropriate selection, (iii) a conditioning circuit for realizing a given straight-line segment identified by its relevant slope and reference voltage. …”
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Fuzzy trust model for trustworthiness of information in vehicular ad hoc network by Soleymani, Seyed Ahmad

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High performance metasurface-based on-chip antenna for terahertz integrated circuits by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto, Parchin, Naser Ojaroudi

“…To reduce the surface-waves and substrate-losses a meander-line slits has realized inside the ground-plane. …”
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Equilateral triangular slot-based planar rectangular antenna for millimeter-wave applications by Tahir, M. Usmam, Rafique, Umair, Ahmed, M. Mansoor, Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Arpanaei, Farhad, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The front-side of the proposed antenna is composed of a rectangular patch radiator with an equilateral triangular slot fed using a 50Ω microstrip feeding line, while the bottom side of the antenna consists of a partial ground plane. …”
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Lead time management in the garment sector of Bangladesh: an avenues for survival and growth by Nuruzzaman, Md., Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul

“…In this study attempts have been made to find out the ways to face the competitive business environment by the efficient management process towards the lead time reduction. …”
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The impact of corporate governance on the restrictiveness of covenants in private debt contract by Abu Bakar, Intan Suryani, Mather, Paul, Tanewski, George

“…Our cross-sectional analysis on a sample of new syndicated loans in the U.S private debt market indicates that both a corporate governance score and board independence are positively and significantly associated with covenant slack. Similarly, we find that independent directors’ financial expertise and covenants slack are positively related, but we find no evidence that slack is associated with ‘busy’ directors or CEO duality. …”
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Journalism cupcakes: Same cakes, different icing or vice-versa by Ismail, Awan, Aripin, Norizah, Yusof, Norhafezah, Mohamad, Noraihan, Ismail, Rizalawati

“…After three to four years of study, journalism graduates from these universities would have to share the same pie to find jobs in media or communication related organizations. …”
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The effect of material property gradient on the fracture toughness of a PMMA/PC bimaterial with a crack normal to the interface by Shah, Qasim Hussain, Homma, H., Iliyas, M. H., Ismail, Ahmad Faris

“…Finite element analysis was used to find out the stresses IC in the specimens. Subsequently the stress values were used to find out the fracture toughness of each specimen. …”
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