Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Tropical climate and equatorial climate experience heavy precipitation all over the year and Earth-to-satellite links that operate at frequencies higher than 10 GHz suffer from severe degradation of performance. In order to overcome such problems, link designers so

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences -- IIUM Summary: There is an enormous impact of the financial subprime crisis on returns of many asset classes, questioning on the effectiveness of the portfolio theory. Post the global financial crisis, one of the major challenges for regulators and investors

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Education -- IIUM Summary: The Malaysia Ministry of Education (MOE) made a huge paradigm shift in 2011 by introducing a new curriculum, Primary School Standard curriculum/ Kurikulum Standard Sekolah Rendah (KSSR) to primary school level. Teaching of critical thinking skills is one of the attri

Subject(s): Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Incident, 2014 | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: This thesis explores the presence of speculative discourse in newspaper reports produced by local and foreign press in regards to the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. T

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Communicating persuasively is a skill that is needed in both academic and business contexts and yet, second language learners have often been reported to be lacking the skill to persuade. Thus, there is a need to equip the learners

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Qur'an and Sunnah Studies -- IIUM Summary: The sale of real estate on the map is an innovative way by the owners of real estate investment projects, as a company buys a piece of land, and publishes ads about the desire to put up a project to build housing units, and then provides an oppor

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Malaysia has an active public relations industry; however, there has been limited research done to explore its antecedents and to understand how the present knowledge, practice and acceptance have come to being what it is today. Ma

Subject(s): Human capital -- Malaysia | Corporation reports -- Malaysia | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences -- IIUM Summary: The digital era has augmented the importance of non-financial information, specifically Human Resource Disclosure (HRD) in annual reports. Moreover, in line with the global recognit

Subject(s): Artificial satellites in telecommunication | Earth stations (Satellite telecommunication) | Tropics | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Satellite technology is coping with the advancement in bandwidth and technology in terrestrial communication by incorporating new technology for Fixed Satellite Se

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: The entry of Islam into West Africa and its penetration into Nigeria are key factors in cultivating Arabic culture in these lands. It has changed the way people think, provided them with other colours of thought and opened the door