Regulation of labour market intermediaries and the role of social partners in preventing trafficking of labour by Paraskevopoulou, Anna, Fromm, Andrea, Clark, Nick

“…This report aims to contribute to the development of a best practice guide for public authorities on monitoring and enforcing rules and regulations relevant to labour market intermediaries to prevent trafficking for labour exploitation. The report brings together research findings on two main areas: how labour market intermediaries are regulated by public authorities in the different Member States, and to what extent social partners’ activities contribute to preventing trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation. …”
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Signature recognition using artificial neural network by Abushariah, Ahmad A. M., Gunawan, Teddy Surya, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Chebil, Jalel

“…It might be done by asking a secret question that the user will answer to get into that application, and it might be a password or a pin code, face, eye, fingerprint or signature. Automatic signature verification is an active field of research with many practical applications. …”
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Tribological (wear) properties of aluminum–silicon eutectic base alloy under dry sliding condition by Alias, Tuti Yasmin, Khalid, Asad A., Haque, Md. Mohafizul

“…Wear experiments on both samples were conducted with a pin-on-disk type wear testing apparatus. The test variables were the rotational speed, input weight, and time/sliding distance. …”
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Influence of single and multiple particle size variation on mechanical and wear behaviour of aluminium silicon carbide composites by Adebisi, Adetayo A., Maleque, Md. Abdul, Ali , Mohammad Yeakub, Bello, Kamilu Adeyemi

“…Standard impact and hardness test was conducted to ascertain the energy absorbed before fracture failure and resistance to plastic deformation of the composite. Pin-on-disc test was also investigated at room temperature under dry sliding wear condition. …”
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3rd order coupled-resonator bandpass filter assisted by Groove Gap-Waveguide technology for 26-GHz radio link diplexer by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Parand, Peiman, Zidour, Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Longhi, Patrick, See, Chan Hwang, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Its unit-cells consist of a rectangular metal-pin which is connected to a bottom metal plate and its other side is electromagnetically coupled to a top plate with an air-gap of approximately λ/4 that creates a bandgap, preventing unwanted electromagnetic-wave propagation. …”
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Frequency reconfigurable substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity F-shaped slot antenna by AL-Fadhali, Najib, A Majid, Huda, Omar, Rosli, Mokhtar, Mohd Hezri, Abo Mosali, Najmaddin

“…Configurability is accomplished by embeddings PIN diode switches in the 'F' slot. The proposed antenna is equipped for exchanging between working band of 3.172 GHz to 3.606 GHz in four different narrow bands and it underpins the cognitive system for LTE2300, WiMAX and WLAN. …”
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Modulational instability and discrete breathers in discrete cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrodinger equation by Abdullaev, Fatkhulla Kh., Bouketir, Ahmed, Messikh, Azeddin, Umarov, Bakhram

“…It is shown that the quintic nonlinearity brings qualitatively new conditions for stability of strongly localized modes. …”
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An Integrated approach of ethics and professional issues into engeneering curriculum. by Hrairi, Meftah, Khalifa, Othman Omran

“…One way of answering these two questions is to teach engineering ethics in a way that brings home how integral it is to engineering work and avoid the addition of new ethics courses. …”
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Muslim women in contemporary societies: realities and opportunities by Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan, Kamaruddin, Zaleha

“…This book brings to focus, ideas articulated by some contemporary Muslim writers during a three-day conference organized by the International Institute for Muslim Unity (IIUM), on the politico-religious and socio-economic challenges of Muslim women in our time. …”
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Liberalisasi pendidikan dan cabarannya dalam kontek pendidikan Islam di Malaysia by Hashim, Rosnani

“…Due to this, there is a greater demand for higher education which could not all be met by the government, thereby resulting in the privatization of education. Liberalization also brings with it internationalization which means the hegemony of the English language and also accountability through international comparison in education, thereby scrutinizing local education system to international standards. …”
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Understanding the perception of society towards ‘pengkid’: effective solutions by Abdul Rahim, Adibah

“…It might also affect Muslims’ faith and brings harms to the society. ‘Pengkid’ has been prohibited by the National Council of Fatwa (Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan), but the problem is still seriously spreading in the society. …”
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Professionalism in teaching and learning in higher education: learning from the basic teaching methodology programme by Othman, Azam, Mohin, Mohaida, Dahari, Zainurin

“…The interview data revealed that academic participation in professional development brings encouraging changes in teacher knowledge, skills and ICT culture. …”
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Flood Estimation using SCS Method for Sungai Johor Catchment, Kota Tinggi by Mohd Arish, Nur Aini, Hamidon, Nuramidah, Hashim, Nor Haslina, Mohd Sari, Kamarul Aini

“…In December 2006 and January 2007, the Northeast Monsoon had brings heavy rain through series of continuous extreme storms that caused a devastating floods in the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia particularly to Kota Tinggi, Johor. …”
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Remote operation of CNC milling through virtual simulation and remote dekstop interface by , Afzeri, Sutjipto, Agus Geter Edy, Muhida, Riza, Konneh, Mohamed, ., Darmawan

“…Capability of remote operation is supported by an auto setup attachment with a reconfigurable pin type setup free technology installed on the table of CNC milling machine to perform unattended machining process. …”
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Aluminium metal matrix composite: improving wear performance through treatment by Maleque, Md. Abdul, Karim, Md. Rezaul, Yassin, N.

“…The wear test was carried out using a pin-on- disc type tribo-test machine under dry sliding condition. …”
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Wear behavior of modified surface layer produced by TIG melting of preplaced Ti powder in nitrogen environment by Mridha, Shahjahan, Dyuti, S., Shaha, S.K.

“…The wear property of the melt track was investigated using pin-on-disk tribometer at room temperature. The modified surface layer gave a low friction value of 0.12 and wear rate of 0.007895 ×10-4 compared to 1.648 × 10-4 mm3/N/m for the uncoated steel surface.…”
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Recovery of virus producing NDV vaccine by Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) by Mel, Maizirwan, Arifin, Mohd Azmir, M Pauzi, Sazana

“…The results revealed that higher pressure input (Pin), lower pressure output (Pout), and higher virus concentration led to higher virus titer. …”
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Wear properties of Fe-C-Al cast iron and conventional cast iron - a comparative study by Maleque, Md. Abdul

“…In the present study, the wear test was conducted on both conventional cast iron (CI) and Fe-C-Al cast iron using universal pin-on-disk (POD) machine. The wear track profile and damage surface were characterized using optical profilometer and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) respectively. …”
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Microelectrical mechanical systems switch for designing multi-band antenna by Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Khan, Sheroz, Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur

“…Problem statement: In this study Microelectrical Mechanical System (MEMS) switches were proposed to design a reconfigurable/multi-band antenna to replaced PIN diode switches or semiconductor switches due to lower insertion losses, good isolation, much lower intermodulation distortion, and lower power consumption. …”
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Smart home control system design using internet of things based energy harvesting technology by Silalahi, Lukman Medriavin, Indrawan, Muhammad Rafi, Budiyanto, Setiyo, Hanafi, Dirman, Abdul Hamid, Abdul Hamid, Ronaldo, Davit

“…The objective of this research is to provide security for homeowners by facilitating fingerprints and PIN (Personal Identification Numbers) in entering the house, then in the event of a power outage, it activates the function of energy harvesting technology. …”
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