Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Smoking has been an enduring problem in Asia. This health risk behaviour continues to haunt Malaysians as the number of smokers continues to rise. Taking a communication perspective on this issue, the theoretical arguments of the S

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- IIUM Summary: The consumer demands on having multi-functional wireless communication devices have driven current mobile handset to be more complex than it has ever been before. Of interest, radio frequency (RF) front end has evolved to adapt to multi-sta

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Science -- IIUM Summary: In this thesis, we start to study a class of quadratic stochastic operators called (s) ξ - QSO. We first classify them into 20 non-conjugate classes. Moreover, we investigate the dynamics of four classes of (s) ξ -QSO. Furthermore, we study another class of quadratic

Subject(s): Digital libraries -- Collection development | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Library & Information Science -- IIUM Summary: Semantic Digital Libraries give users a better understanding of the collections. This research is aimed at developing ontology for use in a Semantic Digital Library. The research objectives are to

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechanical Engineering -- IIUM Summary: This dissertation studies the passive drag reduction of 3D bluff bodies like trucks and buses. Preliminary studies were conducted with various add-on devices to find which one gives optimistic drag reduction. From the preliminary study, two add-on devic

Subject(s): Evangelicalism -- Malaysia | Malaysia -- Church | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Usul al-Din and Comparative Religion -- IIUM Summary: The interest in the study of religion continues to flourish in this age of globalisation. The emergences of various religious beliefs and thoughts as well as the growth of new movements pro

Subject(s): Hadith -- Selections, extracts, etc | Hadith -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Creation (Islam) | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Qur'an and Sunnah Studies -- IIUM Summary: This research investigates Ahadith in "Creation of Human Being" from a collection of six books of Ahadith, and investigates the meanings

Subject(s): Layth ibn Sa'd, d.791 | Ijtihad (Islamic law) | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Studying the approach or methods of a certain scholar in a certain science is known and used in academic studies of various sciences. Among such sciences is that of Islamic jurisp

Subject(s): International Islamic University Malaysia Center of Language and pre-Academic Development -- Case studies | Arabic language -- Case studies -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Malaysia | Arabic language -- Study and teaching Malay speakers | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Arabic Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: This

Subject(s): Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia. Darul Quran | Qur'an -- Sociology | Qur'an -- Study and teaching -- Malaysia | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Qur'an and Sunnah Studies -- IIUM Summary: The objective of this research is to use an empirical study to reveal the contributions of Darul Quran (JAKIM) towards Malaysi