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                                 Volume 28 Number 11, 2013


The Neutrality of Sinar Harian Newspaper in Malaysian Politics

Wan Rohila Ganti bt Wan Abdul Ghapar, Nurul Saadatun Nadiah Mohd Ngah and Ilyas Abdullah

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Does Credit Really Matter to Food Security for the Fishermen? A Case of Community Based Fishery Mangement Project in Bangldesh

Kazi Tanvir Mahmud, Jahangir Alam, Ferdous Alam and G.M. Shamsul Kabir

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The Effect of Board Size and Managing Director Duality on the Capital Structure of Listed Companies in Tehran Stock Exchange

Mehrdad Karmozdi and Hadi Karmozdi

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Forecasting the Inflation in Pakistan; The Box-Jenkins Approach

Nadia Iftikhar and Iftikhar-ul-Amin

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Classroom Debate as a Systematic Teaching/Learning Approach

Pezhman Zare and Moomala Othman

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First Documented Occurrence of the Giant Mottled EEL, Anguilla marmorata in Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia

Takaomi Arai and Ryon Siow

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Adsorption Process of Heavy Metals by Low-Cost Adsorbent: A Review

Siti Nur Aeisyah Abas, Mohd Halim Shah Ismail, Md Lias Kamal and Shamsul Izhar

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Factors Affecting the Adoption of Electronic Health Records by Nurses

Brijendra Singh and Prema Muthuswamy

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Optimization of Growth and Lipid Production of the Chlorophyte Microalga Chlorella vulgaris as a Feedstock for Biodiesel Production

Mohammed Battah, Yassin El-Ayoty, Abd El-Fatah Abomohra, Salah Abd El-Ghany and Ahmed Esmael

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Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Cost of Capital in Listed Companies in Tehran Stock Exchange

Zohreh Hajiha and Bahman Sarfaraz

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Psychometric Evaluation of Utrecht Work Engagement Scale among Academic Staff in Universities of Pakistan

Rosman Bin Md Yusoff, Azlah Md Ali, Anwar Khan and Suaibah Abu Bakar

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Extended Commercial Concession Agreements in Education as a Perspective Form of Public Private Partnership

Larisa S. Shaskhovskaya, Aleksandr F. Dzhindzholiya, Irina A.Morozova and Sergey K. Volkov

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Human Resource Development Practices in Telecom Sector in Saudi Arabia: An Empirical Presentation

Nasser S. Al-Kahtani and Nawab Ali Khan

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Automated Localization of Optic Disc in Colour Fundus Images

Hidayat Ullah, Zahoor Jan, Rashid Jalal Qureshi and Bilal Shams

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Analysis of Hydraulic Fracture Propagation in Fractured Reservoirs: Fracture Coalescence and Reverse Suction Two Important Parameters the Interaction Between Induced and Natural Fractures

Jaber Taheri Shakib, Abdolvahed Ghaderi, Ebrahim Akhgarian and Mohammad Torfi

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Effect of Heat Stress on Fatty Acids Profiles of Aloe vera and Bryophyllum pinnatum Leaves

Mushtaq Ahmad, Hasnain Nangyal, Sikandar Khan Sherwani, Ziaul Islam and Safdar Hussain Shah

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The Board of Directors in Family Controlled Firms

Hafiza Aishah Hashim and Haslindar Ibrahim

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Analysis of Free Vibration of Cylindrical Shells on the Basis of Three Dimensional Exact Elastisity Theory

Babak Gasemzadeh, Reza Azarafza, Yaser Sahebi and Asadollah Motallebi

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Relationship between Skepticism and Decision Making in Audit

Ramzan Ali Royaee, Ahmad Yaghoob nezhad and Kaveh Azinfar

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Book Prefaces in Basic, Applied and Social Sciences: A Genre-Based Study

Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh and Hossein Salarvand

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Liver Histopathological Changes in Milkfish (Chanoschanos) Exposed to Petroleum Hydrocarbon Exposure

Narges Amrollahi Biuki, Ahmad Savari, Mohammad Sedigh Mortazavi, Hossein Zolgharnein and Negin Salamat

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Impact of Brand Personality on Three Major Relational Consequences (Trust, Attachment and Commitment to the Brand): Case Study of Nestle Nutrition Company in Tehran, Iran

Ali Sorayaei and Marjan Hasanzadeh

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Land Use Changes in Istanbul’s Marmara Sea Coastal Regions Between 1987 and 2007

Sümeyra Kurti

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Changes in the Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Contents of a Waste Engine Oil Polluted Soil Exposed to Different Periods of Monitored Natural Attenuation

B. Ikhajiagbe, G.O. Anoliefo, H.A. Erhenhi and G.E. Obi-Iyeke

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The Effects of Environmental Temperature on Chicken Meat Specification

Om-Alsalame Babaee Fini and Ali Anissian

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Self Assessment of Motahari Hospital, Jahrom, Iran Based on European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Model

Nahid Hatam, Vahid Kohpeyma, Zahra Kavosi and Erfan Kharazmi

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Tracking of Person Through Localization in Real Time Environment

Ahmad Mudassir, Aneeb Sohail and Umar Ahmad

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An Evaluation of the Quality of Information Technology Literacy in Iranian Sport Organizations

Sardar Mohammadi, Nerges Esmaeily and Nasim salehi

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CMPR: Clustering Based Multi-Path Routing Algorithm for Improving the Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks

Ali Ghaffari and Muhammad Amiraslani

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Factors Affecting Customer Loyalty of Using Internet Banking in Iran

Fakhraddin Maroofi

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Price Transmission, Threshold Behavior and Asymmetric Adjustment in Iranian Poultry Market (Case Study: Ardebil and East-Azerbaijan Provinces)

Parisa Khaligh Khiyavi and Reza Moghaddasi

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Studying the Personality and Family Characteristic and Life Quality of Exceptional Challengers in Urban and Rural Areas of Iran

Soodabeh Azdolmolki, Fereshteh Safarpour and Malahat Shabani Minaabad

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An Investigation on the Effect of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB) Toward Customer-Orientation: A Case of Nursing Home

Hamid Reza Hadjali and Meysam Salimi

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Title the Effect of P53 Codon 72 Polymorphism on Esophageal Cancer in North of Iran

Ana Boyajian

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Optimal Location and Optimized Parameters for Robust PSS Using Honey Bee Mating Optimization

A. Ghasemi, O. Abedinia, F. Javidzadeh and D. Garmarodi

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Organic Chemistry Crossword Puzzle

Nilgün Seçken

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Effect of Preharvest Bagging on Fruit Epidermis Epiphyte Community Structure of ‘Red Fuji’ Apple

S.J. Qin, F.D. Li, D.G. Lv and W.S. Gao

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Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Groundwater, the Effect of Evaporation Ponds of Distillery Spent Wash: A Case Study of Southern Punjab Pakistan

Muhammad Tariq Mahar, Muhammad Yar Khuhawar, Mushtaq Ahmad Baloch and Taj Muhammad Jahangir

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Seroprevalance Survey of Anti-CCHFV IgG by ELISA in Sheep from Some Area in Northwest of Iran

F. Rezazadeh, S. Chinikar and F. Bageri Amiri

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The Evaluation of Scientific-Research Articles on Sports Management in Iranian Professional Journals

S.N. Sajjadi, M. Behnam, S.Z. Hashemi, H. Bakhshandeh and H.R. Ahmadi

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Long-Term Strength under Cyclic Loading

M.B. Akhundov, A.I. Seyfullayev and L.A. Hasanova

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A Study and Comparison of Data Transfer Methods in LabVIEW

Shehryar Humayun, Maria Mehmood, Faran Mahmood and Qamar UlIslam

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Algorithms for Sequencing Jobs in Production/Service Centers

Saud Mandurah

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Study on Floristic Composition, Chorology and Ecological Structure of Forest Reserve, Talesh, Iran

M. Ravanbakhsh and T. Amini

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Formulation of Sub-Pollution Indices and Evaluation of Leachate Pollution Index of Pilot Scale Landfill Lysimeter

Islam M. Rafizul and Muhammed Alamgir

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Effects of Antibacterial Activities Methanol Ofextract and Lemon Grass Essence on Pathogenic Bacteria

Behboud Jafari, Amirreza Ebadi, Babak Mohammadiaghdam and Zarifeh Hassanzade

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Using Formal Model Of Fuzzy For Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Architecture

A. Marahel, A. Harounabadi and S.J. Mirabedini

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Rich Petri net with VDM-SL for Business Process Modeling

Majid Aboutalebi and Nona Ghasemi

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The Structure and Functional Significance of Branched Anastomosing Mucosal F0lds in the Proximal Intestine of the Domesticated African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus Burchell 1822)

E. Ikpegbu, D.N. Ezeasor, C. Nwogu, U.C. Nlebedum, O. Nnadozie and I.O. Agbakwuru

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Thermal Annealing Effect on the Electrical Properties of the Ni/AlGaN Schottky Diode Gas Sensor

A.Y. Hudeish and A. Mahgoob

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Effect of Salicylic Acid and Seed Weight on Germination of Wheat (Cv. Bc Roshan) under Different Levels of Osmotic Stress

Majid Jiriaie, Esfandiar Fateh, Shahrzad Shahbazi and Rozita Jashni

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Seed Dormancy Breaking of Ziziphus Nummularia

Enayatollah Yazdanpanah, Nezam Armand, Sasan Mohsenzadeh, Ali Moradshahi, Khadijeh Ahmadi and Esfandiar jahantab

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Evaluation of Subpopulation of T Lymphocytes and Expression of P53 on T Lymphocytes in Peripheral Blood of Human Psoriasis

Soraya Bueeni, Afshar Ramezanpour, Farhad Vaez-Zadeh and Nasrrollah Ghoroghi

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Towards Humanizing ELT

Nima Shakouri Masouleh and Razieh Bahraminezhad Jooneghani

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Assessment in the Variations of Water Uptake of Two Horticultural Crops Amaranthus and Celosia at Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

G.C. Ufoegbune, N.J. Bello, A.O. Ogunsakin, A.O. Eroula, A.A. Makinde and A.A. Amori

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A Novel Data Replication Policy in Data Grid

Y. Nematii

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Empowerment Experiences in Iran’s Spontaneous

Zahra Mosharzadeh Mehrabi

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An Integrated SAW, TOPSIS Method for Ranking the Major Lean Practices Based on Four Attributes

Seyed Mohammad Hossein Hojjati and Alireza Anvary

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