Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Architecture -- IIUM Summary: The rising energy costs, an aftermath of the energy crises of the 1970s, resulted in stringent measures in buildings' design, construction, operation and maintenance. Amongst the several factors of achieving building energy efficiency, airtightness reduces ai

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechatronics Engineering -- IIUM Summary: In recent years, utilizing kinetic energy in mechanical vibrations has become an interesting area of research. This is due to ubiquitous sources of vibration energy, coupled with the ever increasing demands to power wireless sensing electronics and Mi

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: This study is an analysis of the production of lexical bundles among L2 learners. The data for the analysis were collected from 40 English as a Second Language (ESL) students' term papers from Universiti Teknologi Mara Terengganu. The study

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Education -- IIUM Summary: In the Executive Summary of the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education), it is stated that Malaysia is aiming to be an excellent international education hub in Asia. Malaysia aims to be a globally-connected higher education player and expects to hav

Subject(s): Democracy -- 21st century -- Arab countries | Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Political Science -- IIUM Summary: This research aims to study the democratic transformations in the world, focusing particularly on the events and revolutions in Arabian countries betwee

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling -- IIUM Summary: The aim of religion in Islam is to produce a good person with sound character. Childhood is a time for preparing for adulthood and parents are responsible for training, educating and equipping their children with sound skills and moral va

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Usul al-Din and Comparative Religion -- IIUM Summary: This research is aimed at investigating Christians' conversion to Islam and their criticism of Christianity. It is also to present their efforts in that field and to show the importance in calling people to Islam. In particular, the wo

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Education -- IIUM Summary: Many societies around the world are facing increasing numbers of youth involved in anti-social behaviors, and sometimes even committing crimes. While the mainstream counselling models mainly emphasize psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioural and humanistic interventions

Subject(s): Qur'an -- Language, style Arabic | Arabic language -- Semantics | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Arabic Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: The research aimed at manifesting the psycho-sociological meanings of the word “Al-qiyam” and its derivatives as in different qur'anic contexts; for its religious and

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Arabic Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: The main purpose of this study to investigate students' achievement in learning Arabic vocabulary via WhatsApp Program among non-native Arabic students. In addition, it aims to identify the participation of students in learning Arabic vocabu