Critical Thinking in Academic Reading by Muhamad, Ainon Jariah, Mohd. Asraf, Ratnawati

“…Lack of critical thinking skills in reading, especially at tertiary level, is a great handicap to undergraduates, as they will find it difficult, or even unable, to analyze and evaluate reading materials. …”
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Improvement of existing water quality index in Selangor, Malaysia. by Al-Mamun, Abdullah, Hafizah, Nor, Alam, Md. Zahangir

“…Analyses were conducted to develop the rating curve, find the new subindices and weighing factors for the selected parameters. …”
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Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment by Hrairi, Meftah

“…In addition to the feature extraction, correlation and clustering procedures applied to the AE signals, data were studied in time and frequency domain to characterise and to find out the relation between AE parameter and damage sources. …”
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The Consumer Expectation Test under the Consumer Protection Act 1999: a viable test for determining the quality and safety of products? by Amin, Naemah

“…Under this test, the product is considered defective if a reasonable consumer would find it defective. Whether the test could provide a readily ascertainable objective standard against which the quality and safety of a product can be measured by relevant parties is highly debatable. …”
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Creative thinking among today's Muslims: barriers and breakthroughs by Badi, Jamal Ahmed Bashier

“… Creative thinking and problem solving is of extreme concerns in the Western research for the last half century. The findings of these researches are being implemented and applied in all walks of life: education, administration, leadership, etc. …”
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Comprehensive QoS analysis of MIPL based mobile IPv6 using single VS. dual interfaces by Uddin, Mohammad Moshee, Haseeb, Shariq, Ahmed, Mohiuddin, Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan

“…In this work, we have done a comprehensive study of dual interfaces on a test-bed to find out the effectiveness of dual interfaces and compared the results with single interface. …”
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A deadlock-free routing algorithm using minimum number of virtual channels and application mappings for Hierarchical Torus Network by Rahman, M.M. Hafizur, Horiguchi, Susumu

“…In this paper, we present a deadlock-free dimension-order routing using minimum number of Virtual Channels and evaluate the network's dynamic communication performance under the uniform traffic pattern by computer simulation and compare it with other contemporary conventional and hierarchical networks. We find that the dynamic communication performance of the HTN is better than that of the H3D-mesh, TESH, mesh, and torus networks. …”
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Muffler design optimization through experimental analysis of noise and back pressure by Mohiuddin, A. K. M., Ideres, Mohd Rashidin, Mohd Hashim, Shukri

“…The main objective of this paper is to find the relationship between the back pressure and the noise level. …”
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A new algorithm to measure relevance among Web pages by Sadi, M.S., Rahman, M.M. Hafizur, Horiguchi, Susumu

“…Experimental results show that RWP outperforms existing algorithms to find relevant Web pages. RWP increases the search efficiency effectively and enhances the application area of Web related research.…”
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Relationship between average slope of textured substrate and poly-Si thin film solar cells performance by Muhida, Riza, Sutjipto, Agus Geter Edy, ., Afzeri, Toyama, T., Okamoto, Hiroaki

“…This paper presents a nanoscopic characterisation of a series of textured substrates with a structure of Ag-grid/ZnO/p-i-n/ZnO/Ag/SnO2/glass for poly-Si thin film solar cells performed by atomic force microscopy, in order to find the optimum texture substrate and realise the light trapping. …”
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Healthcare mosque-based information system: Planning and implementation by Ali, Hindh, Hassan, Azizah, Nakkazi , Rukia, Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman

“…It is a common trend to find information systems which store and share health related information of patients, their diagnosis and general other health information. …”
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Conciliation and mediation in civil and Islamic family laws: issues and challenges by Abdul Hak, Nora

“…Research suggests that the children find emotional adjustment more difficult if the parents’ relationship is hostile and conflict between them continues after divorce or separation, particularly if contact with one parent is not maintained. …”
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Price Competition, Efficiency and Riskiness in Investment Banking by Radić, Nemanja, Fiordelisi, Franco, Girardone, Claudia

“…Our paper examines the intertemporal relationships between price competition, cost efficiency and riskiness for a sample of investment banks inten large developed countries over 2000-2008.We show that price competition is rather limited in investment banking worldwide thus implying the existence of colluding oligopolies.We also find that although investment banks’ stability was granted by relatively low competitive pressures, banks appeared prone to take more risk thus giving some support to the competition-stability view for the investment banking industry.…”
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Labour reallocation and total factor productivity growth in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…The empirical evidence rejects VES and CES and supports the Cobb Douglas production function. We find that rural transformation has made a highly significant contribution to total factor productivity and output growth in China irrespective of the production function and capital series employed. …”
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for the error term. In brief, we find evidence that a lower degree of integration is associated with lower data frequencies. …”
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EU banks rating assignments: is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries? by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. …”
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Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…The implications of these empirical findings are discussed in the light of the debate about the possible restructuring of the regulatory framework for the Treasury bond market in Europe.…”
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Consumption, Wealth, Stock and Housing Returns: Evidence from Emerging Markets by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Sousa, Ricardo M.

“…We use quarterly data for a panel of 31 emerging economies and find that, when agents expect future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. …”
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Ordered choice models of international banks' ratings with an indicator variable for country effects by Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…Using data on international banks’ ratings we find that banks with a greater capitalisation, larger assets, and a higher return on assets have higher bank ratings. …”
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Book review : Streetwalking: LGBTQ lives and protest in the Dominican Republic, by Ana-Maurine Lara by López, María E.

“…In a similar vein, Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic gives priority to the narration of the LGBTQ victims of police repression and political violence—those lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer individuals who hang out in parks and streets and find refuge in each other.…”
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