Mechanical properties of hybrid recyclate glass fibre - montmorillonite nanofiller reinforced polymer nanocomposite by Hanan, Umar Abdul

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The Experience of Depression among Black and Minority Ethnic Women in the United Kingdom : An Interpretative Phenomenological Study by Robinson, Sabrina

“…Discussions around experiences of taking antidepressants served to highlight the importance of the understanding of medication for lay individuals and their implications for treatment adherence. …”
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Cancer control and prevention in Argentina by Eraso, Yolanda

“…From the 1920s to the early 1980s, three distinct periods can be identified: first, an institutional approach, where the first cancer institute attempted to concentrate all the activities related to the control of cancer, that is, lay education, scientific research, diagnosis and treatment, patients’ support, and cancer statistics; second, a state approach, inaugurated by the arrival of Juan Domingo Perón to government, where the centralization of cancer initiatives became a state affair; and third, a long period characterized by the retirement of the state—marked by political unrest and a succession of military governments until the return of democracy in 1983—informed by decentralizing policies, the prominent role of civil society actors, such as voluntary organizations and medical societies, and the relative sway of the Pan American Health Organization. …”
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Nexus between fintech, green finance and natural resources management: transition of BRICS nation industries from resource curse to resource blessed sustainable economies by Yadav, Sanjeev, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil, Pandey, Krishan Kumar

“…This article offers a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding literature on the resource curse phenomenon, in which nations wealthy in natural resources (such as the BRICS) have slower rates of sustainable monetary growth compared to those with less natural resources. This study lays the groundwork for the future of green finance by creating a theoretical basis for the application of fintech to the financial sector. …”
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10 c’s of social networking, interconnections and the impact on social networking by Shah, Asadullah, Shaikh, Muniba

“…This paper provides an analysis of facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace, all current, interactive social networks. …”
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Health tourism in Malaysia : prospects and challenges by Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah

“…In 2007 alone, Malaysia received 341,288 medical tourists with revenue of RM253.84 million (www.tourism.gov.my). Thus, the potential of the industry is enormous, and the Malaysian government is making the right strategic move in this direction. …”
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Entertainment noise control in Algeria by Belayat, Nadia Bousseksou

“…In this present study, my concern will be on one of the main noise source in Algeria which is noise from entertainment halls. …”
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The significance of perceptions and cultural engagement in the evolution of a European commercial and soft power diplomacy with the emerging Asian giants by Vergeron, Karine Lisbonne-de

“…The focus of my submission is on external perceptions of Europe from the perspectives of the two new great powers in Asia: China and India. …”
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A mystic quest in the sheltering country : an investigation into Paul Bowles's literary image of Morocco by Bouachrine, Assila

“…A significant element of my study is then the analysis of the autobiographical cohesion and centrality that subtend the writer’s work as a whole. …”
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Serangga akuatik sebagai indikator kualiti air di Johor by Zakaria, Mohd Zulhusni

“…Berdasarkan hasil pembandingan antara indeks biotik, mendapati indeks biotik Malaysia (MFBI, BMWP-My dan ASPT-My) lebih baik berbanding indeks biotik asal (HFBI, BMWP dan ASPT) berdasarkan data serangga akuatik di tapak kajian. …”
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Walking through night markets: a study on experiencing everyday urban culture by Zakariya, Khalilah

“…The study employs an ethnographic approach through my own personal walking experience, engaging in the experiences of others, observations and conversations with vendors and visitors, mapping, and photo-documentation. …”
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Development of FYP online system for outcome based education by Mutholib, Abdul, Gunawan, Teddy Surya, Kartiwi, Mira

“…Contributing to the education and development of open source, the system will be developed under Open Source Initiative including GNU Linux Ubuntu, Apache for the web server, MySQL for the relation database management system (RDBMS), PHP server scripting and jQuery java script framework which is addressed by Google. …”
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Analysis of SNS popularity from different perspectives among users by Shaikh, Muniba, Dar, Humaira, Shah, Asadullah

“…This paper provides an analysis of four most popular interactive SNs that are, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace according to different perspectives. The data has been collected from secondary sources that has been used in this paper. …”
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Gendered migrant experiences and multiple identities of Muslim women in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf by Hasan, Md. Mahmudul

“…Based on these theoretical premises, my paper will analyze the representation of diasporic Muslim women and their multiple identities in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005) and Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf (2009). …”
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RE: Semi‑rigid ureteroscopy – Proximal versus distal ureteral stone by Kamarulzaman, Mohd Nazli

“…Without precise selection of the ureteroscope size, the author concluded that the use of smaller caliber semi‑rigid ureteroscopy combined with holmium‑yttrium‑aluminum‑garnet laser for proximal ureteral calculi is safe.[1] In my opinion, the conclusion made by the authors was not proved by this study.…”
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Positioning Malaysia in medical tourism by Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah, Johari, Roslan, Marikar, Kadar

“…In 2007 alone, Malaysia received 341,288 medical tourists with revenue of RM253.84 million (www.tourism.gov.my). Thus, the potential of the industry is enormous, and the Malaysian government is making the right strategic move in this direction. …”
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An analysis of humanitarian intervention in action by Szamuely, George

“…This submission examines these claims in light of the standards that the advocates of humanitarian intervention have themselves put forward in order to measure the success or otherwise of any military action undertaken to stop mass atrocities and to save endangered civilians. My findings suggest that, even judged by those standards, NATO’s actions in Bosnia and Kosovo fell well short of success. …”
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Mathematics learning and teaching : a student’s perspective by Ansari, Tasnuva

“…Sometimes it is surprising how people even with barely any formal education can deal with calculations so quickly. From my own experience, I have seen people in Bangladesh without any academic background, dealing with calculations fairly quickly without any formal education, and there is the famous study of Brazilian street children. …”
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Helping dyslexic students to negotiate the challenges of essay-writing : a case study by Colledge, Marion, Hargreaves, Sandra

“…As a result of poorly structured essays submitted by First Years, Steve Jones [my colleague on BA ELS] and I carried out a survey among First Semester students in Autumn 2006. …”
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Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus by Bojcun, Marko

“…Thus it is understandable that the present global crisis should have appeared in these countries in the summer and autumn of 2008 first as a collapse of their external commodities markets located mainly in the East, followed quickly by the collapse of their external sources of credit from the West. My task here is to examine how the present global crisis unfolded in these three countries, what their common experience has been, and in what measure it has been distinct for each of them. …”
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