Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Communication -- IIUM Summary: The main purpose of this study is to find out how media framing on Somalia during the early period of state-building was represented by local and regional newspapers based on the framing theory. The study employed two online newspapers (Garowe Online (GO) of Som

Subject(s): Memory | Color | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Psychology -- IIUM Summary: This study examines the effect of ground colour on memory performance. Most of the past researches on colour-memory relationship focus on the colour of the figure rather than the background. This study extends on the previous works on background co

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Social Foundation and Educational Leadership -- IIUM Summary: Student empowerment has become one of the central issues in some educational debates. There are several different concepts of student empowerment. This study attempts to look at student empowerment from the critical pedagogical p

Subject(s): Motion control devices | Wheelchairs -- Design and construction | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechatronics Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Conventional wheel configuration of currently available electric wheelchair poses several constraints, such as limited mobility due to three or four wheel structures, limited maneuverab

Subject(s): Bone substitutes | Bone-grafting | Porous materials | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Artificial bone graft has become a favourable solution for bone substitute, replacing the function of autograft and allograft. Due to this, study on the development of porous artific

Subject(s): Cellulase -- Biotechnology | Fusarium oxysporum | Kluyveromyces marxianus | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology Engineering. -- IIUM Summary: Cellulose is the main component in plant cell wall and thus the most abundant biopolymer on earth. Endoglucanase is one of the key constituent of a complex multienzyme syste

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechatronics Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Limb loss is a growing problem in Malaysia and the rest of the world due to the increasing number of industrial accidents, diseases and armed conflicts. After a tragic incident resulting in an amputation or paralysis, the disabled individual needs to

Subject(s): Internet in public administration -- Saudi Arabia | Electronic government information -- Saudi Arabia | Public administration -- Saudi Arabia | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Recent developments in information communication technology (ICT) have heightened the need of more

Subject(s): Avicenna, 980-1037 -- Contributions in economic | Economic -- Religious aspects Islam | Dissertations, Academic -- International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization -- IIUM Summary: This study explores the economic ideas of Ibn Sina in household and political economies. The study also discusses the relevance of Ibn Sina

Subject(s): Islamic literature -- History and criticism | Classical literature -- History and criticism | Storytelling in literature | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: Dāstān-e-Amīr Hamza Sahibqirān is the longest Romance cycle in Urdu literature. It contributes to the tradition of or