There is a worrying trend recently of inter-religious cases which have fuelled angst amongst multiracial communities in Malaysia, and which threaten to disrupt racial harmony or dismantle the 1Malaysia Unity Framework. We refer to the recent case of a “Muslim” bride (named Zarina Majid) marrying her Hindu boyfriend of seven years. The earlier v

In recent years, online tutorials have become well-established tools for the delivery of information literacy training to seek new and more effective ways to reach audiences. This paper focuses on a project at the Quranic Language Department, IIUMto develop a new approach to online instruction. The goals of the project were to explore how the addit

Street plays an important role in shaping the urban living environment. Preliminary studies have highlighted on the importance of the street as public space that provide setting for activities and amenities which allow people to do their activities. Simultaneously, it can attract more people to the city and invite social interaction among them. How

Salesperson’s tenure is a major issue for companies especially in today’s era of high competition. A high rate of employee turnover is reported to impact organizational productivity and competitiveness. The present study aims to identify and test those factors which play an important role in salesperson’s career tenure. For this purpose, data

Malaysian tax system includes a tax depreciation rule separate from accounting depreciation. This paper is to compares and contrasts the accounting treatment of depreciation and the tax treatment of capital allowance. The gap between the accounting and tax is resulted from different definitions of capital expenditure and qualifying asset and also d

Stack ventilation in the hot and humid climate is inherently inefficient due to minimal air temperature differences between indoor and outdoor environment of a naturally ventilated building. Solar induced ventilation is a viable alternative in enhancing this stack ventilation. This paper aims to demonstrate investigations on the effective solar col

A top-down silicon nanowire fabrication using a combination of optical lithography and orientation dependent etching (ODE) has been developed using <100> Silicon-on Insulator (SOI) as the starting substrate. Initially, the samples were doped with phosphorus using the diffusion process resulting in carrier concentration of 2 X 10 18 cm-3. Af

The main objective on this study proposed anti-pornography system works on four machine learning methods in two different stages namely skin detector stage and pornography classifier stage. A multi-agent learning is used twice. In the first stage, we proposes a multi-agent learning method that combines the Bayesian method with a grouping histogram

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption through the implementation of electronic government (e-Government) helps improves local authority‘s service delivery for the benefit of the community. Many of the local authorities have adopted the online payment method for the assessment rate collection. Despite the notion that e-Government

Urban farming is one of the approaches done to achieve sustainable agriculture that is widely practiced by communities, especially around the rapid urbanization areas to address the environmental and economic issues. Various efforts have been made over the past few decades in commercializing urban farming to the international, national and local le