Does economic freedom fosters banks’ performance? Panel evidence from Malaysia by Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…The empirical findings seem to suggest that corruption has a corrosive impact on Malaysian banks’ profitability. …”
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Promoting the Individual Learning Styles of Masters Students Studying Marketing-related Modules through the Use of YouTube Video-Clips by Lance, Justin

“…It is often hard for academics to find resource material, particularly visual material for new and emerging disciplines; particularly when Universities are developing courses faster than teaching materials are made generally available. …”
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Batu pahat car workshops finder by Lee, Wei Chuan, Kasim, Shahreen, Seah, Choon Sen, Hassan, Rohayanti, Mohd. Ali, Norhayati

“…Batu Pahat Car Workshops Finder is an application for driver to find the nearest car workshops with the current location and can get GPS navigation to the selected car workshop. …”
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Wear behavior of as-cast and heat treated triple particle size SiC reinforced aluminium metal matrix composites by Maleque, Md. Abdul, Karim, Md. Rezaul

“…The wear test was carried out using a pin-on-disc type tribo-test machine under dry sliding condition. …”
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Hijab wearing among Malay women in Malaysia: media or social influence? by A.Manaf, Aini Maznina, Wok, Saodah, Ismail, Rizalawati

“…This study was conducted to find out the perception of Muslim women on the extent to which media and people surrounding them influence their hijab (head cover) wearing. …”
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Banks total factor productivity change in a developing economy: does ownership and origins matter? by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…On the other hand, the empirical findings seem to reject the ‘liability of unfamiliarness’ hypothesis.…”
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Financial disruptions and bank productivity growth: evidence from the Malaysian experience by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…The non-parametric Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) is used to compute individual banks’ productivity levels. We find that the Malaysian banking sector has exhibited productivity regress due to the decline in efficiency. …”
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Terracotta figurines from the National and Military Museums in Sana’a, Yemen by Yaseen, Ghassan Taha, D. Shargabi, Dhekra

“…The thumb and forefinger were generally used to suggest the spinal column, rump, eye cavities, nose and breasts. …”
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Classification of electroencephalogram (EEG) for lower limb movement of post stroke patients using artificial neural network (ANN) by A. Rahman, Khairul Azlan

“…Nowadays, many neurological conditions happen suddenly, such as stroke or spinal cord injury. This can cause chronic gait function impairment due to functional deficits in motor control. …”
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Wear study of Mg-SiCp reinforcement aluminium metal matrix composite by Maleque, Md. Abdul, ., M. Radhi, Rahman, Md. Mustafizur

“…The study further analysed the effects of different size variations of silicon carbide particles such as the coarse particle size, fine particle size, intermediate particle size and mixed particle size in the fabrication of the composites on the hardness and wear properties. The pin-on-disc test was also done at room temperature in a dry sliding wear condition. …”
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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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Granting employee stock options (ESOs), market reaction and financial performance by Bacha, Obiyathulla Ismath, Syed Mohd Zain, Sharifah Raihan, Mohd Rasid, Mohd Eskandar Shah, Mohamad, Azhar

“…Firm size has been identified in previous studies as a determinant of market reaction and post-ESO performance. Indeed we find this to be the case for Malaysian ESOs. We find a positive announcement effect for large firms but a significantly negative one for small firms. …”
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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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Rural transformation and productivity in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…This paper carries out for the first time an econometric investigation of the contribution of rural transformation to total factor productivity in China. We find that the efficiency gains resulting from rural transformation make a significant and nontrivial contribution to factor productivity in China. …”
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Pattern of the news media consumption and news discussion among youth : a test of agenda setting theory by Wok, Saodah, Tamam, Ezhar, Bolong, Jusang

“…The specific objectives of the study are (1) to determine the level of perceived news media credibility, (2) to find out the level of news media consumption, (3) to find out the extent of interpersonal news discussions, (4) to analyze the relationship between perceived media credibility and news media consumption with interpersonal news discussions, and (5) to differentiate between selected demographic characteristic with news media consumption and interpersonal news discussions. …”
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