Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechatronics -- IIUM Summary: Three degree-of-freedom (3 DOF) helicopter model presents a quite interesting control challenge due to its nonlinearities. It is therefore intuitive to design a controller using nonlinear techniques to control the aircraft. In this study, a Nonlinear Energybased

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language & Literature -- IIUM Summary: In academic communities, research article serves to disseminate new knowledge and contribute to the academic or professional success of the writer. However, many students or novice writers are unaware of the important aspect of rhetorical org

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Biodiesel is a non-toxic, renewable and biodegradable fuel that can replace the fossil fuels which have issues on toxic emissions, higher price and depleting reserve. The high cost of biodiesel feedstock can be reduced by using low cost and abundant

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: Morphemes are the building blocks of lexical item. Due to this, the ability to identify and manipulate morphemes at the word level, or termed as morphological awareness, is said to be a good predictor to one's vocabulary knowledge. Therefor

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Psychology -- IIUM Summary: The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between optimism, perceived social support and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and to examine a possible mediating role of perceived social support between optimism and HRQOL among mothers of c

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Political Science -- IIUM Summary: The 2008/2009 Gaza War was detrimental for the people and infrastructure of Gaza and was divisive for the Arab states. Arab states were divided in this war into two camps; the Moderate Camp headed by Egypt and the Defiant or Radical Camp headed by Syria. As

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: This study examines and analyzes Malaysia-Bangladesh Relaltions from 1981 to 1997. It adopts descriptive, analytical and historical methods. It analyzes the origin of the relationship, discusses its developent during the period u

Subject(s): Education -- Philosophy | Dissertations, Academic -- Institute of Education -- IIUM Summary: Educational philosophy is regarded as the mirror, filter, and light for all components of the curriculum. Determination of subject matter, pedagogy, and evaluation depend largely on the philosophy of education. This present study was carried

Subject(s): Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange | Dissertation, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Abnormal stocks' returns obtained from cross-sectional time series are reported in a lot of financial literature. To find out similar phenomenon, this paper undertook a research work focused on the size effect

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Psychology -- IIUM Summary: This study was carried out to examine the relationship between parenting stress and parent-child relationship among a sample of mothers in the Klang Valley. This study also investigated whether there were any differences in the parent-child relationship between the