Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechanical Engineering -- IIUM Summary: In this work, we propose a novel flutter-based wind energy harvesting technique which is capable of providing power to low power applications in remote areas. The flutter-based wind microgenerator developed in this work uses electromagnetic transduction

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: The sources of Ijtihad recognized by Al-Imam Ibn Hazm are limited to two primary sources and their extensions. The two sources are Al-Qur'an and the Sunnah while the extensions are the consensus of legal opinion (Al-Ijma'),

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance -- IIUM Summary: Mergers and Acquisitions M&A are a popular practice in the modern financial world, firms – including banks – tend to merge or acquire to achieve numerous benefits, in-cluding financial and operating synergies. Economies of scale play signifi

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences -- IIUM Summary: This study aims to address the issue of accountability in a waqf institution. Specifically, the focus of this study is to shed more light on how the Mutawalli (waqf trustee) perceives and discharges accountability in managing waqf. In so doing

Subject(s): Insurance -- Religious aspects Islam -- Malaysia | Dissertations, Academic -- Ahmad Ibrahim of Kulliyyah Laws -- IIUM Summary: The study focuses on the contractual relationship of Retakaful operation from the viewpoints of sharīah and Law, and the extent of commitment of the companies in applying these viewpoints. It started with e

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling -- IIUM Summary: The study aimed at investigating religion as a coping mechanism in managing stress among first year student. The sample consist of 321 undergraduate first year students from five Kulliyyahs: Education, Engineering, Economics, Law and Huma

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Subject(s): Drug addiction -- Oman | Drugs of abuse -- Physiological effect | Dissertations, Academic -- Institute of Education -- IIUM Summary: Countries of the world have agreed that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include, among others, achievement of quality health and wellbeing and quality education by all citizens of the wo

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Sociology and Anthropology -- IIUM Summary: One of the major challenges towards achieving progress in rural islands is the lack of research on local societies. Concurrently, globalization, technology, the new economy, demographic shifts, political change and their consequent transformations h

Subject(s): Small business -- Indonesia | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences -- IIUM Summary: This study focuses on the determinants of the success of microenterprise owners in receiving loans from one of the successful microfinance institutions, namely, BRI Unit in Medan City, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Th