Determinants of bank profitability in a developing economy: empirical evidence from the China banking sector by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…However, the impact of liquidity is not uniform across bank types. We find that the SOCBs with higher level of liquidity tend to be relatively more profitable, which could be vindicated by the significant amount of lending to the State Owned Enterprises. …”
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Statistical Signal Processing and Sorting for Acoustic Emission Monitoring of High-Temperature Pressure Components by Hrairi, Meftah

“…SAS statistical software package was used to find a correlation between these features, leading to the classification of AE signals according to type and discover relationships between emissions and the findings of the investigation. …”
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PID-based control of a single-link flexible manipulator in vertical motion with genetic optimisation by Md Zain, Badrul Aisham, Tokhi, M. Osman, Toha, Siti Fauziah

“…The important point is to evaluate the range of PID parameter which used in the GAs programmed to find the best value of this parameter. Comparative performance assessment of the control approaches are presented and discussed in the time and the frequency domains.…”
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Determinants of banks’ total factor productivity: the post-Asian financial crisis experience of the Philippines by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…The present paper employs the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI)method to examine the sources of total factor productivity change of the Philippines banking sector during the period of 1998 to 2008. The empirical findings suggest that the Philippines banking sector has exhibited productivity regress due to technological regress. …”
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Getting around 'offensive' language by Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen

“…They are insulting to fellow human beings, besides being distasteful in other ways. Users may therefore find it repugnant to use such expressions in their discourse. …”
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Theoretical investigation of a benzene-vanadium multiple-decked sandwich chain on a gold surface by Rahman, Md. Mamudur, Muhida, Rifki, Chowdhury, Md. Sazzad Hossien, Muhida, Riza, Zainuddin, Hishamuddin, Zakaria, Azmi, Kasai, Hideaki

“…We show that in the formation of the chain on the surface, each of the two hydrogen atoms of benzene bonds with only one gold atom, while the carbon and vanadium atoms do not contribute to bonding. We find that this system has no magnetic moment where two vanadium atoms are antiferromagnetically arranged, for which we suggest a superexchange interaction mechanism.…”
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Are rating agencies' assignment opaque? Evidence from international banks by Bellotti, Tony, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…Although support vector machines can identify significant determinants we argue that ordered choice models are more reliable for this. Our findings suggest that ratings reflect a bank’s financial position, the timing of rating assignment and a bank’s country of origin. …”
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Finite sample sensitivity of the critical value of an F-test for cointegration in a single equation ADL model by Stewart, Chris

“…Using simulation methods we find that these critical values are sensitive to the degree of autocorrelation and lag length in the DGP in finite samples. …”
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Banking efficiency and Economic growth in the MENA region by Ghannouchi, Walid, Radić, Nemanja

“…We apply a causality analysis between cost efficiency and financial deepening using the Generalized Methods of Moments and our findings show a significant and positive causality and reverse relationship between financial deepening and banking productivity. …”
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Integration in European retail banking: evidence from savings and lending rates to the household sector by Rughoo, Aarti, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…This method analyses the degree as well as the speed of convergence, identifies the presence of club formation, and measures the behaviour of each country’s transition path relative to the panel average. We find evidence supporting integration in the deposit and short-term mortgage markets but not in the consumer credit market and longer term mortgages. …”
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Comparison of Basic Iterative Methods Used to Solve of Heat and Fluid Flow Problems by Abdulbaset S Alkrbash, Abdulbaset S Alkrbash, Alhadi A Abosbaia, Alhadi A Abosbaia, Abdulhafid M Elfaghi, Abdulhafid M Elfaghi

“…The Jacobi method, the point Gauss-Seidel method, the successive over-relaxation method (SOR), the line Gauss method (TDMA), the ADI method and Strongly Implicit (SIP) method are among the iterative approaches investigated, which are then compared to find the most optimal method. The selection criteria included the number of iterations and the time needed to reach convergence. …”
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Comparison of Basic Iterative Methods Used to Solve of Heat and Fluid Flow Problems by Abdulbaset S Alkrbash, Abdulbaset S Alkrbash, Alhadi A Abosbaia, Alhadi A Abosbaia, Abdulhafid M Elfaghi, Abdulhafid M Elfaghi

“…The Jacobi method, the point Gauss-Seidel method, the successive over-relaxation method (SOR), the line Gauss method (TDMA), the ADI method and Strongly Implicit (SIP) method are among the iterative approaches investigated, which are then compared to find the most optimal method. The selection criteria included the number of iterations and the time needed to reach convergence. …”
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Study on Palm Oil Kernel Shell Coarse Aggregate (PKSCA) as replacement material for coarse aggregate in concrete mix by Ahmad Jeni, Mohamad Luthfi, Zaini, Mohamad Azrul

“…So this study was carried out to find the alternative material for cement to overcome highly cost material especially coarse aggregate. …”
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Language learning strategies of students in content-based instruction by Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail, Ismail, Yusuf, Esa, Zaleha, Muhamad, Ainon Jariah

“…This study investigates the learning strategies of students at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The study was mainly motivated by concerns about the standards of English of graduates of Malaysian universities. …”
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Testing the third-person effects theory on political campaign in Malaysia by Syed Abdullah Idid, Syed Arabi, Wok, Saodah

“…This paper tests the use of Third-Person Effect Theory (TPET) on political campaign on self, family, supporters, non-supporters, and non-supporters of other parties. Previous research mainly tested the TPET on the mass media. Thus, the application of the TPET is extended to gauge the effect of political campaign. …”
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Design for sustainability (D4S) in product development using solidworks software: a case study of redesign a sugar cane extractor machine by Kasmin, Ashari

“…The Design for Sustainability (D4S) is a recognized method to produce sustainable product that embrace three main elements: environment, economic and social. …”
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Elastase and inflammation inhibitory from labisia pumila by Abdullah, Norhanisah

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Non-invasive objective assessment of diabetic foot ulcer healing with blood perfusion and tissue oxygenation by Philimon, Sheena Punai

“…The strategies explored in this work can provide quantitative information of changes in blood perfusion with tissue revascularization to evaluate the outcomes of skin grafting procedures in positive and impaired healing diabetic wounds.…”
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An Enhancement of AODV routing protocol for more robust wireless sensor network by Che-Aron, Zamree, Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed, Anwar, Farhat

“…Furthermore, fault-tolerance is one of the main issues in WSNs since it becomes critical in real deployed environments where network stability and reduced inaccessibility times are important. …”
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An enhancement of fault-tolerant routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Network by Zamree, Che-Aron, Mohammed Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi, Anwar, Farhat

“…We apply a backup route technique by creating a backup path for every node on a main path of data transmission. When a node gets failure to deliver a data packet through the main path, it immediately utilizes its backup route to become a new main path for the next coming data packet delivery to reduce a number of data packets dropped and to maintain the continuity of data packet transmission in presence of some faults (node or link failures). …”
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