The objectives of this study are to examine the best practice of transformational leadership among multi-ethnic Headteachers of various types of primary schools, Malaysia, according to the gender, age, working experience, number of students, ethnic group, academic qualifications, working state, location of the school, and, type of school. The study

The purpose of this research is to address the practices of project change management in the context of Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia, focusing on Project Managers (PMs), Project Team Members (PTMs), Change Managers (CMs) and any other Top Managers involvement in a project. Also, checking the validity of a number of critical succes

The purpose of the study is to examine the practice of framing and communicating school goals by the principals of the Cluster Secondary Schools, Malaysia as perceived by 418 respondents. They comprised of 12 Principals, 120 Teacher-Administrators, and, 286 Teachers of selected cluster secondary schools in Malaysia. The study used questionnaire as

The main focus of the study is to analyze the principals’ management of school mission and instructional programs of secondary schools in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The framework of the study is based on the models by Dwyer (1984), Hallinger and Murphy (1985), and, Latip (2006). Data was collected using survey methods and the questionnaires are the m

This chapter presents analysis of current data management challenges, tools, and practices in selected financial institutions in developed (i.e. United kingdom) and developing (i.e. Malaysia) countries. The chapter attempts to explore how SAS tools were used to tackle those challenges and the benefits gained through implementing SAS software. Also,

Recently there has been a heightened global concern over ‘contagion’ in the conventional financial markets. Our study is motivated by the desire to test empirically whether this contagion is reflected in the fast growing Islamic financial markets as well. This study is the first attempt at testing whether there has been any contagion among the

The effect of using sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), a high-dielectric-strength gas, for dry micro-electro-discharge machining (μEDM) of carbon-nanotube (CNT) forests is investigated. It is found that SF6 enables μEDM of CNTs without O2, which is known to be essential for CNT machining in N2. The process in the SF6 ambient at a discharge voltage of 25

The problem of determining simultaneously the model order and coefficient of an Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) model is examined in this paper. An Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) comprising two-level Differential Evolution (DE) optimization scheme is proposed. The first level searches for the appropriate model order while the second level compute

This paper proposes three new approaches for micro patterning of CNT forest in order to make it useful for MEMS based applications. The first two techniques are based on micro electro discharge machining (-EDM). However, the biggest problem associated with EDM is the spark gap which limits the structural resolution of the fabricated patter

Vertically aligned Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) which are commonly referred to as CNT forests, have many potential engineering applications for its attractive mechanical, electrical, optical, and thermal properties. Patterning of CNT forests is very important to make them useful for different applications. Growing CNT forests selectively by chemical vap