Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws -- IIUM Summary: In the early 1990s, UK experienced a recession which led to massive job losses and insolvency of businesses, particularly in the construction sector. This state of affairs triggered the UK Government to enact the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws -- IIUM | Takaful Summary: Islamic banking and takaful institutions in Indonesia and Malaysia have increased significantly both in numbers and number of services and products offered. A well-framed regulation is essential to support and develop their activities, more particu

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws -- IIUM Summary: Motor vehicle accidents have dominated tort law in the country where unfortunate injured victims seek relief from the courts for injuries and loss resulting from such accidents. However, the present adversarial tort compensation mechanism founded on the noti

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Urban and Regional Planning -- IIUM Summary: Bukit Bintang is one of the most significant attraction destinations in Kuala Lumpur. This area is famous with its landmarks and shopping district with variety of commercial attractions. In such a crowded urban tourism destination with a huge numbe

Subject(s): Biosensors | Dissertations, Academic -- Department Communication Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Cell culture is essential to diagnose many life threatening diseases like cancer, HIV, hepatitis B etc. Mass change of biological cells is detected by Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM)-based mass-sensor through a shift in its resonance freq

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of IS -- IIUM Summary: "A picture is worth one thousand words". This Chinese proverb dates back to 2500 years ago gives us a quick glance of the importance of images and information that might be contained in it. With the advent of photography equipment and techniques combination to revo

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Computational and Theoretical Sciences -- IIUM Summary: The binomial tree model is a natural bridge, overture to continuous models for which it is possible to derive the Black-Scholes option pricing formula. In turn a binomial branch model is the simplest possible non–trivial model which th

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws -- IIUM | Banks and banking, Islamic Summary: This is a qualitative research focusing on the legislative conflicts facing Islamic banking in Malaysia. This research identifies the practical legislative conflicts facing Islamic banking in Malaysia by analysing the statutory p

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechatronic Engineering -- IIUM Summary: In this work Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference Systems (ANFIS) based voltage control of Induction Generator for wind turbine is presented. Wind power is developing rapidly on both European and global levels. Over the past 15 years, the global installed c

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance. -- IIUM Summary: Due to its important role for banking industry, Basel II Capital Standards have been developed by Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) with a conventional bank's perspective. The balance sheet underlying the Basel II Capital Standards