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A study on properties of wax (palm oil based) for industrial uses on machining application / Muhamad Azli Alias and Badaruddin Abdul Wahab
Get PDFMachining is a mechanical process where excess material from a workpiece can be removed by cutting action to produce a part of specified geometrical shape and surface finish. Machining can be performed on virtually all solid materials even though the term commonly applies to the cutting of metals, alloys, plastics and woods. In this paper, we will discuss whether there is a possibility to use the palm oil based wax for machining application. At the moment, different ferrous and non-ferrous materials are used for practical training purposes by different educational and training organisation. However, the price of such material is very expensive. As for prototype making with use of high-technology machines, such as CNC machine, require cheaper and reliable material to balance the cost of its operations. Hence an attempt is made to substitute these materials by the "palm oil based wax produced in Malaysia. This project gives the approaches taken in this direction
The comparative study on financial performance between Citibank Berhad and Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad / Che Muhamad Azli Che Ab Hadi
Get PDFThis case study was conducted to evaluate the financial performance of both International banks that are operating in Malaysia, Citibank Berhad and Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad which come from a same banking sector. But, there is a different from their operation in running the business. For completion of this report, secondary data and other approaches such as common sizing, financial ratios and gap analysis has been use as a data collection. The data is taken from external sources such as journal, internet, and newspaper. The study examines four type of ratios include (1) common size, (2) liquidity, (3) capital structure and solvency, (4) Return on Investment
The main focus of this study is to compare financial performance measurement used by Citibank Berhad and Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad with the theory of the ratios based on financial statement analysis written by K.R. Subramanyam and John J. Wild in order to measure a bank’s performance. From the analysis, for current ratio the Standard Chartered Bank has higher current ratio in 2006, 2007 and 2008 than Citibank because it has more liquid assets and able to pay off its short-term debt. For quick ratio the Citibank has more liquid assets that can cover its liabilities. Citibank also shows a stable quick ratio from year 2006 until 2009. For total debt to asset the Standard Chartered Bank has more risk that it should take on their assets. For total debt to equity the Standard Chartered Bank need more in financing of assets is due to investors putting in money into the company than Citibank that has the lower ratios. For return on equity the Citibank Berhad is more efficient management in utilizing it equity base compared to Standard Chartered Bank. Lastly, for return on asset Citibank Berhad is more efficient in management of utilizing the assets ratio and better return to investment in the year 2006, 2007 and 2009 compared to Standard Chartered Bank which only very efficient in 2008. Result from the financial analysis done provide that Citibank Berhad which is centered in America is more strong financial position and earned lower profit rather than the standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad which is centered in Britain. Separate comparisons from their operation for both bank on this case study also showed significant performance different in every ratio category
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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