The proliferation of online social networking (OSN) in recent years has caused organizations information security threats due to disclosure of information by their employees on their sites. The accessibility of OSN to anyone, at any time, using any devices, causes confidential and sensitive organizational information to be disclosed to unauthorised

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the long memory property of equity returns and volatility of emerging equity market by focusing on the Malaysian equity market, namely the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE). Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts the Fractionally Integrated GARCH (FIGARCH) model and Fractionally Integra

The explosion of online social networking (OSN) in recent years has caused damages to organizations due to leakage of information by their employees. Employees’ social networking behaviour, whether accidental or intentional, provides an opportunity for advanced persistent threats (APT) attackers to realize their social engineering techniques and

Understanding the transmission mechanism among the stock markets is important and of great interests both for market investors and market regulators. This paper takes alternative way to investigate the relationship between the China and the ASEAN stock markets during the Asian financial crisis and the Subprime crisis. In doing so, a vector-autoregr

Asymmetry is a key feature to understand the different behavior of expansions and recessions, and it provides a stylized fact that business cycle models should help to explain. Furthermore, the types of asymmetries provide guidance about underlying economic mechanism. This paper intends to adopt Clements and Krolzig (2003) parametric tests to deter

Schiff bases were prepared from S-benzyldithiocarbazate with 5-fluro-, 5-chloro- and 5-bromoisatin. All are potential tridentate nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur donors. They were found to be selectively active against MCF-7 cell line (Human non-metastatic mammary gland adenocarcinoma cell line). The bromide and fluoride compounds were the most active with

Uncontrolled urbanization and growing industrialization are major sources of pollutants that affect the urban stormwater quality and, therefore, the receiving aquatic environment. The concentrations of heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, and Zn), and Pb isotope ratios in surface sediment samples obtained from SMART holding and storage ponds l

This study is essentially projected to explore the process of translating hedges existed in Arabic language novel of Gassan Kanafni’s ( "رجال في الشمس" ( 1962 “Rijolun fo Ash-shamsi” into English language in “Men in the Sun” of Hilary Klipatrick (1978). It investigates how the hedges forms and types are affected by many

This paper reexamines the efficiency Chinese stock market for the period December 1990 to February 2010 by extending recent work of Qian et al (2008)2 using the nonlinear unit root test developed by Kapetanios, Shin and Snell (2003)3 and Kruse (2010)4. In doing so, the nonlinearity test of Harvey, Leybourne, and Xiao (2008)5 is used to have an insi

Solar energy is the least polluting and most inexhaustible of all known energy sources. The sun bathers the earth with more energy each minute then the world consumes in one year. In Malaysia, the sun intensity does not vary with season. It is a suitable place to develop the solar cell system. To make solar energy more efficient, the solar panel sy