Subject(s): Microfinance | Microfinance -- Indonesia | Finance -- Religious aspects Islam | Poverty -- Indonesia | Income | Dissertations, Academic -- Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance -- IIUM Summary: This study assesses the impact of Islamic microfinancing on clients' income and poverty status with reference to the clients' spi

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechatronics Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Vibration control using piezoelectric (PZT) material has gained significant attention for its ability to behave as a sensor or actuator due to PZT direct and inverse effect. For control or excitation purposes, PZT patch actuator is embedded or attache

Subject(s): International Islamic University Malaysia -- Students | Dissertations, Academic -- Institute of Education -- IIUM Summary: The main purpose of the present study is to develop and validate the model of predictors of academic self-handicapping (POASH) on the data derived from undergraduate students in an ongoing co-curriculum compulso

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechanical Engineering -- IIUM Summary: In this research work, three major challenges of numerically simulating turbulent incompressible flows are investigated, namely; the pressure handling, accurate discretization and parallel processing for speeding up calculations. A high performance, uns

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Curriculum and Instruction -- IIUM Summary: The teaching of English language in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has witnessed substantial development through the past decades. This present work evaluates perceptions among teachers who taught English with the curriculum of the fourth grade p

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Institute of Education -- IIUM Summary: Effective use of vocabulary learning strategies such as guessing, dictionary use, memory recall and activation makes learners more independent and capable of taking on more responsibility for their own learning, involvement and proficiency. The act of regulating the

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Qur'an and Sunnah Studies -- IIUM Summary: Islam continues to be a misunderstood religion especially to non-Muslims. Many of its directives remain a subject of hot debate, and continue to be a thorn in the minds of Muslim scholars. One of them is related to the Qurʼanic provision derived

Subject(s): Fishes -- Feeding and feeds | Feeds | Marine algae | Solid-state fermentation | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology Engineering -- IIUM Summary: The importance of fish as a protein source in human and animal's diet as well as the rising cost of imported fish feed ingredients have called for an intensive resear

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechanical Engineering -- IIUM Summary: One of the most dangerous aeroelastic failure phenomenons is flutter. The flutter characteristic is different for each type of aircraft depends on the wing geometry and its operational region of subsonic, transonic or supersonic. Prior to performing fli

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Business Administration -- IIUM Summary: Online social networks, as a phenomenon, around the globe have formed and established a platform for interaction and communication among people. This platform, due to its online features, has created a functional way for individuals to share their know