Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Single species cultivation or monoculture is a classic method used in the industries to improve intracellular and/or extracellular production from the living organisms. However, the problem of monocultures is that they are unstable and prone to pertu

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering -- IIUM Summary: The domestic pharmaceutical industry has been identified by the Malaysian government as an industry to be developed under its new 11th economic development plan. Most of the homegrown companies within the industry fall under the categor

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Graduate School of Management -- IIUM Summary: This study is undertaken to determine the effects of branding on performance of SMEs in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Quantitative research methodology is adopted to identify branding factors affecting SME performance. Data is collected from 175 SMEs, indicating a h

Subject(s): Discourse analysis -- Political aspects -- Malaysia | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Political Science -- IIUM Summary: 16 September, 1963 is an important date for Malaysia as it marks the beginning of its existence. On this very date, an agreement was made between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and t

Subject(s): Islam -- Indonesia Java | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of History and Civilization -- IIUM Summary: A very long period of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia still has a very significant impact on Indonesia, including Java as a part of Nusantara. Javanese people as the largest population in Indonesia were greatly affected of a d

Subject(s): Kota Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia). Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Political Science -- IIUM Summary: This case study examines the implementation of local e-Government services by Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK), in terms of its implementation degree, customers' satisfaction level and the r

Subject(s): Nawawi 1233-1277 al-Arba'un al-Nawawiyah -- Criticism and interpretation | Hadith -- Language, style | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: The present study seeks to analyse the prophetic discourse in the light of textual linguistics in order to investigate the e

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: The study highlights the problems and challenges faced by the Sri Lankan Muslim minority from some of the Buddhist and Hindu extremist movements and organizations. These are organized in a systematic way to fight the Islam intellec

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: This qualitative research studies postmodernism, postmodern culture and the postmodern mind in two novels written by diasporic Muslim writers: Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2009) and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundame

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Psychology -- IIUM Summary: The purpose of the present study is to determine the influence of the Big Five personality traits and positive affect on work engagement. Positive affect here refers to the extent of positive emotions or positive moods felt by a person. A total of 103 white-collar