Determinants of economic performance of micro-credit clients and prospect of Islamic microfinance in Malaysia by Md Saad, Norma, Duasa, Jarita

“…In the first part of the study, we find that the economic performance of AIM participants is significantly determined by the amount of money borrowed from AIM. …”
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Novel approach for secure cover file of hidden data in the unused area within EXE file using computation between cryptography and steganography by Naji, Ahmed Wathik, Zaidan, B.B., Hameed, Shihab A., O-Khalifa, Othman

“…The aim of this paper is implementation of system computation between Cryptography and Steganography which embeds information in unused area 2 within EXE files to find a secure solution to cover file without change the size of cover file. …”
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Excellent work ethics and moral values in public administration: a comparative appraisal by Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail

“…Hence the mission is to develop more who are well informed in the light of the qualities the community should expect to find in them as public servants with unquestionable integrity, who preserve high ethical standards under all circumstances. …”
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Activated carbons derived from oil palm empty-fruit bunches: Application to environmental problems by Alam, Md. Zahangir, Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu, Mansor, M F, Wahid, R

“…Activated carbons derived from oil palm empty fruit bunches (EFB) were investigated to find the suitability of its application for removal of phenol in aqueous solution through adsorption process. …”
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The new public financial management in Malaysia by R. Stiles, David, Karbhari, Yusuf, Mohamad, Muslim Har Sani

“…Major surveys and in-depth interviews with senior managers in 131 government agencies explore perceptions about the effectiveness of NPFM. Findings – Although technical, socio-political and behavioral issues do arise, we find empirical support for a universalist thesis that NPFM is appropriate in this emerging context. …”
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Sewage sludge as a renewable resource for citric acid production:optimization of supplementary nutrients by Mohamad Hanapi, Nur Hanis, Alam, Md. Zahangir, Abdul Karim, Mohamed Ismail

“…A study of single factor was conducted to find the optimum ranges of parameters for citric acid production followed by the central composite design (CCD) under the responses surface methodology. …”
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Quality of service multicast routing protocol for large scale MANETs by Qabajeh, Mohammad M., Hassan Abdalla Hashim, Aisha, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Qabajeh, Liana K.

“…This work proposed a new efficient approach which aims to find paths between the source and all the multicast group members using paths that meet the bandwidth and delay requirements. …”
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Evaluation of aircraft wing-tip vortex using PIV by Elsayed, Omer Ali, Asrar, Waqar, Omar, Ashraf Ali

“…The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate the main features of the lift generated vortices in order to find ways to alleviate hazardous wake vortex encounters for follower airplanes during start and approach such that the increase in airport capacity can be achieved. …”
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Experimental analysis of MIPL based mobile IPv6 using single vs dual interface with practical test-beds by Uddin, Mohammad Moshee, Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan, Ahmed, Mohiuddin, Haseeb, Shariq

“…Alongside presenting our experimental findings, we also show a comparison of performance between dual interfaces and single interface on a mobile node.…”
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Acceptance (qabul) and taking possession (qabd) of hibah under Islamic law and the decision of the Syariah Courts in Malaysia by Hj Ibrahim, Badruddin

“…In addition, as the law of hibah for Muslims in Malaysia is mostly uncodified, the study also examines the law that has been applied by various Syariah Courts in Malaysia regarding these issues, especially whether their decisions are solely based on the law according to the school of Shafi'i. This is in order to find out an acceptable set of rules that could govern the creation of a valid and perfect hibah.…”
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Urban heritage conservation through redevelopment strategies: a case study of Kuala Lumpur by Wan Abdullah Zawawi, Noor Amila, Abdullah, Alias

“…Thus it becomes critical to find a balance between conservation and redevelopment in order to preserve identity. …”
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Steady flow of some non-newtonian fluids through a porous medium by using adomian decomposition method by Mansour Elniel Dalam, Fawzia

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The effect of the provision of financial information upon the construing of employees by Purdy, Derek Ernest.

“…As the intention was to find out what employees made of financial Information. …”
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A new study to suppress mutual-coupling between waveguide slot array antennas based on metasurface bulkhead for MIMO systems by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Khalily, Mohsen, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The proposed method is should find application in MIMO systems where high isolation between neighbouring radiation elements is required to improve the antenna characteristics, and mimimise array phase errors, which is necessary to enhance the system performance.…”
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An optimised competency framework to prepare students for employment by Palmer-Brown, Dominic, Cai, Fang Fang, Patel, Preeti

“…In our study, it is the Personal Effectiveness competencies such as ‘self-management’ ‘adaptability’ and ‘integrity’ that feature prominently and it is this category of competencies that students find the most challenging to refine.…”
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Mean reversion, long memory and fractional integration in African stock market prices by Anoruo, Emmanuel, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Our results can be summarized as follows: we cannot find evidence of mean reversion in any single market, and evidence of long memory returns (i.e., orders of integration above 1 in the logged stock prices) is obtained in the cases of Egypt and Nigeria, and, in a lesser extent in Tunisia, Morocco and Kenya. …”
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‘I didn’t know what strong was until it was required’: factors that promote retention among homeless students in higher education by Mulrenan, Patrick, Atkins, Julia, Cox, Simon

“…The study demonstrates considerable personal resilience among homeless students. These students find it hard to fully engage with other students, or with the wider university experience. …”
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Is the consumption-income ratio stationary? Evidence from linear and nonlinear panel unit root tests for OECD and non-OECD countries by Cerrato, Mario, Peretti, Christian de, Stewart, Chris

“…This extends evidence provided in the recent literature to consider both linear and nonlinear adjustment in panel unit root tests, to addresst he issue of cross-sectional dependence, and to substantially expand both time-series and cross sectional dimensions of the data analysed. We find that the majority (65%) of the series are nonstationary with slightly fewer OECD countries’ (61%) series exhibiting a unit root than non-OECD countries (68%).…”
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Structural Breaks and the Equilibrium Chinese Yuan/US Dollar Real Exchange Rate: A FEER Approach by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…Third, we construct a unique set of quarterly data. We find structural breaks in all trade and the sustainable current account equations, with the break dates corresponding to important policy changes in China. …”
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Erdogan, Burcu, Kuzin, Vladimir

“…In the case of sectoral indices we find convergence in the middle of the sample period, followed by divergence, and detect four (two large and two small) clusters. …”
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