Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Security concerns regarding individual identification can be handled by utilizing unique biometric traits available on a person. Unlike traditional identification mechanisms which must either be carried with us or remembered, biometrics are

Subject(s): Crops -- Computer simulation | Crops -- Mathematical models | Fuzzy systems | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechatronics Engineering -- IIUM Summary: In many countries, substantial amount of agricultural products, including root and tuber crops, which cannot be consumed, processed, commercialized, transported or exported

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology -- IIUM Summary: The emergence of mobile government (m-government) has resulted in improved transaction facilities for both government and citizens, providing a medium through which government services and transactions are delivered. Studies related to

Subject(s): United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). 1997 Dec. 11 Protocols, etc | Environmental protection -- International cooperation | Environmental protection -- Religious aspects Islam | Global warming | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Civil Law -- IIUM Summary: Climate change is one of the most pressing thre

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Manufacturing and Material Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Interest in producing bio-based polymers is encouraging to support environmental rights. Fascinatingly, local natural resources such as sago starch can be converted into biopolymer and formed a thermoplastic starch. However, modification

Subject(s): Maudoodi, Syed Abul A'la, 1903-1979 | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi described the four key terms of the Qur'an, i.e., Ilah, Rabb, Ibadah and Din in his Qur'an Ki Char Bunyadi Istilahen in detail. He has shown that each of the

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Communication -- IIUM Summary: The main purpose of this study is to find out how media framing on Somalia during the early period of state-building was represented by local and regional newspapers based on the framing theory. The study employed two online newspapers (Garowe Online (GO) of Som

Subject(s): Memory | Color | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Psychology -- IIUM Summary: This study examines the effect of ground colour on memory performance. Most of the past researches on colour-memory relationship focus on the colour of the figure rather than the background. This study extends on the previous works on background co

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Social Foundation and Educational Leadership -- IIUM Summary: Student empowerment has become one of the central issues in some educational debates. There are several different concepts of student empowerment. This study attempts to look at student empowerment from the critical pedagogical p

Subject(s): Motion control devices | Wheelchairs -- Design and construction | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechatronics Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Conventional wheel configuration of currently available electric wheelchair poses several constraints, such as limited mobility due to three or four wheel structures, limited maneuverab