Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Architecture -- IIUM Summary: The thermal comfort of a person is the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment that plays a significant role in determining building occupant performance, productivity and energy efficiency. The ASHRAE Standard 55-2013 has opine

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Qur'an and Sunnah Studies -- IIUM Summary: Indeed, the Qur'an is a book of guidance, peace and security. It possesses a noble approach for the maintenance of peace, stability and the establishment of man on this earth so as to carry out his divine responsibility of worship and success

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Civil Law -- IIUM Summary: This dissertation initially examines the concept of international investment law and it sources. Fair and equitable treatment (hereinafter “FET”) as one of the principles of International Investment law is examined under multilateral and bilateral investment tre

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: Men and women are often required to employ a specific style in their speech for effective communication. Direct and assertive statements are associated with men while women are perceived to use an indirect style. However, the ways men and women

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: This research reviews the criteria of ahl al-bayt in the Qur'an and Hadith using a framework composed of four terms: definition, identification, attributes and merits. It also comparatively examines the Sunnite and Shiite crit

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Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Landscape Architecture -- IIUM Summary: This study focuses on three research dimensions, namely vertical greenery (VG), public art (PA) and the implementation of VG as PA in the Malaysian urban context. VG is greenery where plants can be grown on, up, or against internal or external walls of

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Urban and Regional Planning -- IIUM Summary: This research is motivated by the need to reduce energy consumption in buildings, which will subsequently cut Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. At least one-third of global worldwide energy is used in buildings, which generate about 15 percent of glo

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Healthcare is a service industry with unique characteristics. In healthcare, customers are the immediate patients followed by their families and quite possibly their friends, as the outcome of the healthcare service potentially affects all the

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Education -- IIUM Summary: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among three factors namely, Effective School Management (ESM), Teacher Efficacy (TE) and Quality Teaching (QT). A sample of 585 teachers from forty-seven Islamic private secondary schools in Songkh