Islamic banking industry is tremendously growing worldwide and no exception in the case of Malaysia. Malaysian Government is very supportive for the development of the Islamic banking and to ensure that Malaysia will become the center and the heart of the Islamic banking and finance. Even though, the rapid growth of the Islamic banking in Malaysia,

Corporate governance issue has attracted the researchers, especially the Malaysian researchers due to the 1997-1998 economic crises. Furthermore, it is undeniable that the banking sector is the heart of the economy in any country since it is the main source in mobilizing the monetary system. Thus, this study investigates the impact of corporate gov

Takaful and insurance have been compared long ago by many scholars around the world. Prior literatures of Takaful are mainly focusing on the concept and theoretical nature of takaful and its differences from insurance. Malaysian Takaful industry has been given flexibility in terms of the operational models adopted and to the researchers’ knowledg

Financial accounting information is the main part of the annual reports on which investors rely on. The reliability and relevant of the financial accounting information is on the shoulders of directors. It has been highlighted in the corporate governance literature that information disclosure about the companies is the heart of the good corporate g

The practice of underwriting and risk rating for individual participants in family takaful stems from the underwriting practice in life insurance, and thus could contain elements which contravene the essence of the shariah. A review of literature on takaful indicates that there are very few materials which look at the underwriting practice from a s

Human activities recognition is becoming a field of great interest and relevance to a number of areas of research and applications The availability of a system capable of automatIcally classifying the physical activity performed by a human subject is extremely attractive for many applications such as in surveillance and security systems, choreograp

Human Posture Recognition gives machines the ability to detect, track and identify people and their actions from video, has become a central topic in computer vision research. Recognition of human posture is a very challenging problem. The training and evaluation stage, datasets of pre-processed posture images are needed. After the video sequences

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of corporate governance on the risk of banks. A sample of twelve listed bank holding companies is examined over a ten year period (1996-2005). All the sample banks are offering Islamic banking products, in addition to conventional products. Based on the panel data analysis, separate board leaders

Human posture refers to the arrangement of the body and its limbs. According to Oxford Dictionary (2009), posture is defined as the particular position of the body and the way in which a person holds his or her body. There are several agreed types of human postures such as standing, sitting. squatting, lying, kneeling and other unusual positions su

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance on social and environmental information disclosure of Malaysian listed banks by using a panel data analysis. Good corporate governance is proxied by board leadership structure, board composition, board size, director ownership, institutional ownership and block ownership. Social and environ