Performance measurement is becoming more relevant as the government is pressuring for more efficient and effective service delivery. A series of in-depth exploratory face-to-face interviews were conducted with public managers of 19 agencies and public bodies across the country asking them to share their experience with what works with performance m

Convenient stores or mini-marts are becoming a common sight in many residential areas as well as town centers. They are usually located at the corner of a block of business establishments. This category of convenient stores is typically characterized by its size, the range of products they carry, the target market and location, and its pricing stra

Board diversity is important especially in countries which practice a one-tier board system, such as Malaysia. Under the system, board appointments are usually controlled by the firm’s substantial shareholders, and as a result, directors are chosen based on “the old-boy” network or “people like us”, who are typically middle-aged males and

*Dr. Selamah Abdullah Yusof, *Dr. Wan Jamaliah Wan Jusoh, **Dr. Rohaiza Abd Rokis *Kulliyyah of Economics & Management Sciences **Kulliyyah of Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences International Islamic University Malaysia selamah@iium.edu.my Poster ID: Risk Exposure, Risk -bearing Capacity, And Risk -Coping Strategies: A Comparative Study Amon

The discoveries of carbon nano tube change the direction of the research in the field of fibrous materials and are attracting much interest as reinforcement to aluminium matrix for carbon nano tubes (CNTs) aluminium (Al) matrix nano-composite. This is due to unique properties such as high strength, elastic modulus, flexibility and high aspect ratio

This paper is about the historical absorption of quality culture from Islam and secular ways. Turkey is located in a very strategic position between east and west. In the Ottoman empire time it was able to absorb the quality culture to split Islam but when the empire declines it is able to absorb the quality of the western civilization. This resear

Active compounds such as secondary metabolite from plants can be produced via its regeneration of organ or callus or from cell suspension culture. Thus, the aim of this study is to establish the protocol for callus regeneration and cell suspension culture of Ficusdeltoidea var. trengganuensis. Callus regeneration study was conducted on solid media

This paper is intended to study the pattern of scientific development in the Muslim world. For this purpose, Malaysian scholars were assessed with regard to their collaboration with scholars from the Muslim world. It was found that the main international collaborator among Malaysian scholars and institutions is Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) w

The ageing process is associated with increasing life expectancy in the community and it means more and more people are going to require more health care and maintenance. In keeping pace with demographic changes, the number of places taken in residential care homes, nursing homes and hospitals are on the rise. In order to develop new health care tr

Online banking transactions have become one of the common daily tasks. Security is very important to accomplish these tasks. There are a lot of frauds and threats for online banking transactions that need to be studied, discovered and come out with the proposal of suitable solutions. It has been found that the main problem is in the connection chan