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Inward Fdi Performance in the Muslim World: Assesing Business and Political Environments
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This article aims to make a survey of business and political environments for inward Foreign Direct Investment performance of the Muslim countries. It offers a cross-country analysis of the 57 Muslim majority countries’ FDI performance during 1995-2007. The research finds that the business environment in the Muslim countries is not favourable for

Modeling and Computational Experiment to Obtain Optimized Neural Network for Battery Thermal Management Data
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The focus of this work is to computationally obtain an optimized neural network (NN) model to predict battery average Nusselt number (Nuavg) data using four activations functions. The battery Nuavg is highly nonlinear as reported in the literature, which depends mainly on flow velocity, coolant type, heat generation, thermal conductivity, battery l

Quality Rating of Islamic Websites Features : a single-User Evaluation
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Islamic Websites post a new challenge for evaluation criteria due to the importance to their design contents. Today, little is known regarding the present quality rating of both design & content features of Islamic websites. This paper proposes several criteria to evaluate Islamic Websites: navigation, interactivity, legitimacy, objectivity, au

Achieving Human Development Objectives Through Microfinance Institution: the Case of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia
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Human development (HD), according to Ranis and Stewart (2000) is defined as the enhancement of the human situation so that people enjoy longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives. Some aspects of HD are related to people’s physical well-being, such as health, nutrition, and education. Other aspects of HD encompass widening of choice and enhance

User Experience: Assessing the Effectiveness of Internet Booking Services
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Despite the undeniable importance of usability and utility, one should not forget that people use Internet booking service for variety of reasons or in essence overlooked the vital intent. Online booking systems challenge the effectiveness of traditional way of booking process. Therefore the effectiveness of the task is crucial to support the user

The Relationship Between Social Supports and Psychological Problems Among Students
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This study was conducted to examine the relationship between social support and psychological problems i.e. depression, anxiety, and stress. 120 undergraduate university students were involved in this study. They were selected using purposive sampling technique. The Social Support Behaviour (SSB) scale was used to measure the level of social suppor

Arborine, a Quinazolin-4-one Antimicrobial Alkaloid from Glycosmis Pentaphylla (Retz.) DC
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Quinazolin-4-one is a type of alkaloid that possesses a chromophore with some structural similarities to that of the pharmacophore of the conventional 4-quinolone antimicrobial agents. Therefore it is presumed that this type of natural quinazoline alkaloid could also share the same activity as the conventional quinolone agents. These characteristic

Defining 'housing Developer' and 'housing Development' Under Malaysian Housing Law
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The words ‘housing developer’ and ‘housing development’ have been defined in section 3 of the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 (‘the Act’). These statutory definitions have severally been discussed and examined by the courts in several cease law and it has been contended that the meanings of the definitions are too l

A Comparative Performance Analysis of Islamic and Conventional Banking: a Case Study of Pakistan
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The objective of this research is to critically evaluate the performance indicators which are used in previous studies and propose a comprehensive indicator to check the performance of selected Islamic and Conventional banks of Pakistan over the period of 2011–2016. The comprehensive indicator of performance is comprised of indicator of profitabi

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction of Bioactive Flavonoid from Strobilanthes Crispus (Pecah Kaca)
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The bioactive flavonoid compounds of Strobilanthes crispus (Pecah Kaca) leaves obtained by using supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) extraction were investigated and the obtained crude extract yields were compared in order to select the best operation parameters. Since carbon dioxide is a non-polar solvent, ethanolwas used as co-solvent to increa

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