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This paper reviews the role played by a company’s internal R&D in stimulating operational performance of a manufacturing company, which is moderated by intellectual property rights (IPR), particularly patents, in Malaysia. The constructs of this paper are based on a comprehensive review of recent literature…

Generation of electronic waste is concurrent with higher demand for equipments consumed by households and business institutions. Exponential growth of waste that enters landfill is a valuable secondary resource that presents cost-saving opportunities for OEMs through take back programs, because recoverable assets would otherwise be…

Renal squamous cell carcinoma is a rare form of renal cancer which is considered incurable once metastases develop. Prognosis is poor and average survival of advanced stage disease is typically in the range of several months, despite all available conventional therapies.We describe the case of…

We all know that buying a car is an act of consumption under constraint. It is subjected to a process of identical co-construction joining a socioeconomic context in perpetual transformation. This looks a little bit hard to understand! But the semiotic analysis of 28 interviews…

Spam is the most common problem faced by email users today when they communicate via the Internet or mobile technology. Despite numerous efforts taken, the battle to contain this problem still goes on. This paper describes a proposed model which focuses on the behavior of…

Starting from the economic and financial performance, this study proposes an analysis of the relationship between two return rates that are often used in respect of measuring the companies' performances. It is known that return rates represent the most popular instruments of measuring the economic…

This study aims to examine the perceptions regarding systems thinking and shared vision and mission of librarians in an academic library in Malaysia. In this preliminary study, questionnaires were distributed to fifty academic librarians in one large public university in Malaysia. The result shows that…

The utilization, sharing and distribution of digital data have been increasing with the wide adoption of internet. This resulted difficulty in protection of copyright and ownership of digital data. Digital watermarking has been proposed as a solution for digital data authentication and copyright protection. We…

Thanks to the study of twelve Tunisian deposit banks, the researchers were able to identify the influence of these determinants on the bank profitability, using a technique of panel data over the period of 1995-2005. The empirical results suggest that the bank capitalization, as well…

Climate change and global food security issues will continue to be at the center of policy debates as long global warming prolongs due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Since agriculture is very vulnerable to climate change, various climate change scenarios are projected for the impact…