Ragi tapai and saccharomyces cerevisiae as potential coculture in viscous fermentation medium for ethanol production by Azmi, Azlin Suhaida, Ngoh, Gek Cheng, Mel, Maizirwan, Hasan, Masitah

“…A comparison study on the ethanol production from 20% (w/v) of unhydrolyzed raw cassava starch using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida tropicalis was performed and compared with the commercialized ragi tapai. The findings showed that S. cerevisiae, C. tropicalis and ragi tapai produced 23, 20 mg/l and 26 g/l of ethanol in 72 h, respectively. …”
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Can consumption make you happy? exploring student’s quality of Life from marketing perspective by Jan, Muhammad Tahir, Zain, Osman M., Jehangir, Muhammad

“…Several procedures were applied to carry out a rigorous qualitative analysis (i.e., interview guide, audio/ video recording and field notes, prompt transcription, coding and tabulating the transcripts, direct quotes and rich data slices when presenting findings). The findings of this paper revealed that in milieu of consumption students believe that their quality of life enhance with the consumption of various products. …”
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Does the trade structure among the league of Arab states show potential for a successful regional economic integration? by Hamid, Zarinah, Mohd Amin, Ruzita, Md Saad, Norma

“…Therefore, based on the findings there is a need for these countries to realign their trade policies in order to promote a more favorable environment for the creation of the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area. …”
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English language competency for employment purposes: meeting the needs of the industry by Sarudin, lsarji, Zubairi, Ainol Madziah, Nordin, Mohamad Sahari, Tunku Ahmad, Tunku Badariah

“…The literature on employable graduates indicates that there is a considerable concern regarding the widening gap between the communication skills in English of job applicants and the English language competency required for employment.This paper presents the findings of a study to investigate the industry's perceptions of the importance of graduates' English language competency for employment purposes, the industry's assessment of graduates' English language competency and the industry's initiatives to enhance the English language competency of employees. …”
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Comparative analysis on the financial performance of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia by Ahmed Sulub, Yasin, Che Mohd Salleh, Marhanum

“…Future research should involve bigger samples and more performance indicators, either quantitative or qualitative, in order to extend the current research findings.…”
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Financial Depression and the Profitability of the Banking Sector of the Republic of Korea: Panel Evidence on Bank Specific and Macroeconomic Determinants by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…The paper provides new empirical evidence on factors that determine the profitability of the banking sector of the Republic of Korea. The empirical findings indicate that the banks of the Republic of Korea with high capitalization levels tend to have higher profitability levels. …”
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A study on advertising practices of Islamic banks in Malaysia: an empirical assessment under Islamic observation by Haque, A. K. M. Ahasanul, Sayyed Ahmad, Mohd. Ismail, Rahman, Sabbir

“…It is hoped that the findings of this study will assist the Islamic banks in what they can produce their services and how they want to promote their services as well?…”
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Cultural influences on self-directed learning readiness among selected university students by Hashim, Junaidah, Wok, Saodah

“…For individualism cultural dimension, the findings revealed that that the respondents are collective in nature and they tend to exhibit low SDLR. …”
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Mangrove ecotourism - striking a balance between ecology and economics by Mohd. Yaman, Maheran, Ab Rahman, Nik Ismail Azlan

“…A survey were conducted based on the individual travel cost method (ITCM) and their perception towards the mangrove environment. The findings suggest that a symbiosis relationship between the local community, visitors and mangrove ecotourism will help the stakeholders to plan and implement a better tourist management plan for the future.…”
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Corporate governance mechanisms and earnings management in Malaysian government linked companies. The impact of GLCs transformation policy by Mohamad, Muslim Har Sani, Abdul Rashid, Hafiz Majdi, Ali Mohammed Shawtari, Fekri

“…In particular, the study uses data for two periods of time (pre and post transformation), and examine whether the period of post transformation policy has experienced any improvement of board monitoring role in curbing earnings management activities. The main findings show that there is an increase of earnings management activities in post transformation period. …”
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Long memory properties and asymmetric effects of emerging equity market: evidence from Malaysia by Abdul Manap, Turkhan Ali, Kassim, Salina

“…Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts the Fractionally Integrated GARCH (FIGARCH) model and Fractionally Integrated Asymmetric Power ARCH (FIAPARCH), focusing on the Malaysian data covering the period from April 15, 2004 to April 30, 2007. Findings – The study finds evidence of long memory property as well as asymmetric effects in the volatility of the KLSE. …”
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Factors influencing the purchase intention of organic personal care products by Mohammad, Noorita

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Systematic management and recycling training as the educational tool of food waste composting by Hassan, Rokiah

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Teachers’ conception of assessment knowledge and their preferred assessment system by Ma’ruf , Amar

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The role of work volition and organizational commitment in the relationship between total rewards and employee retention by Aamir, Alamzeb

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Activity-based life cycle cost process model for facilities maintenance of public universities by Thanaraju, Puvaneswary

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Individual resources, opportunity discovery, government intervention and exploit opportunity among Malaysia rural entrepreneurs. by Ahmad, Abd. Razak

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Machine learning applications for sustainable manufacturing: a bibliometric-based review for future research by Jamwal, Anbesh, Agrawal, Rajeev, Sharma, Monica, Kumar, Anil, Kumar, Vikas, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo

“…Based on the findings, a ML-SM framework is proposed. The framework will be helpful to researchers, policymakers and practitioners to provide guidelines on the successful management of SM practices. …”
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"I don't mind people hugging me when I'm happy": autistic individuals' experience of emotions on their sensory world: an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Georgiou, Alexia

“…The key finding was that negative and extreme positive emotions increase sensory sensitivity in autistic individuals, whereas mild positive emotions decrease sensory sensitivity. …”
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The relationship between client work and personal and professional development in Counselling Psychology training by Gallagher, Rebecca

“…Secondly, participants did not engage in active personal development work, and this was not explicitly discussed or structured in training. These findings imply that trainees may not develop optimally: as personal and professional development are highly individualised and complex processes, research and training that focuses on specific training activities may fail to interrogate the complexity of why and how personal and professional development are facilitated. …”
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