Subject(s): English language -- Rhetoric Study and teaching | Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) | Research -- Study and teaching (Higher) | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: Academic writing has always been one of the main problems for undergraduates in universities here in M

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Computer Science -- IIUM Summary: This study tries to utilize positioning (location detection) and activity recognition to achieve context awareness by only using tools and sensors that are standard in modern smart phones. User locations are gathered through participatory crowdsourcing, where

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad's concept of 'mechanosis' in his masterpiece, Occidentosis: A Plague from the West was examined through a library and qualitative research to determine its relevance with Islamic teaching, amid the Ir

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Business Administration -- IIUM Summary: Malaysia is a multi-racial but Muslim majority country. Malaysian tax authority has introduced a rebate system on tax for their customers who pay both zakat and tax taking it as religious obligation to the creator Allah SWT and compulsory duty to the g

Subject(s): Polymeric composites | Nanocomposites (Materials) | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Manufacturing and Material Engineering -- IIUM Summary: The objective of this research is to develop polymer/metal-oxides nanocomposites based on polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) and zinc oxides (ZnO). The nanocomposites with variation of 2, 4, 6

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Arabic Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: The main purpose of this research is to understand the quality of book “Aljadid fi allughtu alarabiyah – Volume Two” prepared for Chinese students in China. The research was based on the world standards to evaluate the book in question use

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Landscape Architecture -- IIUM Summary: This research addresses the safety of kindergarten premises in Malaysia due to improper planning of the landscape area. Crimes in Malaysia that revolve around kindergarten premises have repeatedly occurred throughout the years. Hence, this study address

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Management Centre -- IIUM Summary: The cost of jet fuel is the second largest operating expenditure in the airlines sector. Even a small increase in the fuel price often leads to a significant increase of expenditure on the operating cost of the airlines. Airlines use derivatives as hedging instruments for

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: This qualitative study attempts to discover Islamic concepts in selected poems of Edgar Allan Poe using Mohammed Sharafuddin's Realistic Orientalism framework. This is achieved by cross-examining main concepts found in Poe's poems with

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- IIUM Summary: A two dimensional array-based overlay network is proposed to stream the live video data. Instead of streaming in conventional tree-based or in mesh-based overlay network, the overlay network efficiently utilizes the additional upload bandwi