This study examines the level of women participation on the boards of Malaysian listed companies, and examines the association between women participation on the board and firm performance. We use normalized Tobin’s q and return on assets (ROA) to measure firm performance. An analysis of 841 companies in 2008 shows that 362 (43 percent) of the bo

A critical overview of human rights from western perspective reveals their deficiencies in conceptualization, flaws in formulation, and injustices in application. This all is due to political agendas, economic pressure and culturally biased viewpoints. They often serve the interests of certain organizations. As such they carry the residues of colon

Background Deficiencies of micronutrients can affect the growth and development of children. There is increasing evidence of vitamin D deficiency world-wide resulting in nutritional rickets in children and osteoporosis in adulthood. Data on the micronutrient status of children in Malaysia is limited. The aim of this study was to determine the anthr

All these while, the concept of a book is that it is printed on paper, bound and portable. With the advent of computer technology and internet, a new form of book has developed, known as e-book. This is a trendy on the perception usage of e-book among selected group students in Malaysia and overseas.CONTEMPORARY ISSUESIN LIBRARY ANDINFORMATION SCIE

This paper presents the classification of EEG correlates on emotion using features extracted by Gaussian mixtures of EEG spectrogram. This method is compared with three feature extraction methods based on fractal dimension of EEG signal including Higuchi, Minkowski Bouligand, and Fractional Brownian motion. The K nearest neighbor and Support Vector

In this paper, we present a detailed review on various types of SQL injection attacks, vulnerabilities, and prevention techniques. Alongside presenting our findings from the survey, we also note down future expectations and possible development of countermeasures against SQL injection attacks.A SURVEY ON SQL INJECTION: VULNERABILITIES, ATTACKS, AND

The emergence of new technologies presents huge challenges to the role of parents in gUiding their children. In this paper, we will discuss some issues and problems in social networking sites used by children. We found that parents worry about their children's activity on the internet. On the other hand kids do not want their freedom to be rest

The Faculty of Pharmacy, International Islamic University Malaysia conducted this survey during the second semester examination in March-April 2007 in order to improve and upgrade the quality of examination in pharmacy education. This study attempted to assess the perception of students on the duration of the exam, clarity of exam questions, diffic

The Holocaust of Muslims ofAI-Andalus is one of the darkest pages of history of thc Christian Europe and simultaneously one of the most tragic periods in the history of the Islamic West. This era of the planned, sustained and systematically executed policy of total eradication of Islam from the southwestern Europe was authorized by the "Renaiss

The aim of this study was to examine the phytoplankton patchiness, as expressed by community composition and their diversity during the monsoon and Non-monsoon seasons along the Pahang estuary, Malaysia during 2008. Three zones in the estuary were sampled on both the seasons covering both upstream and downstream of the estuary. Among the identified