Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Engineering -- IIUM Summary: The increase in frequency spectrum for wireless communication system has led to the growing interest of thin film electroacoustic technology that scale favourably upon miniaturization. To date, current off chip SAW resonators are made from bulk piezoelectric materi

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Political Science -- IIUM Summary: This study examines the significant role played by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) in the intersecting crises that destabilized Mali in 2012-2013 by analyzing the reasons behind the establishment of MNLA, the goals and strategies of

Subject(s): Foreign trade regulation | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Civil Law -- IIUM Summary: The legitimacy and the credibility of any international organizations depend primarily on the effectiveness of its decision-making process, in particular the extent to which such a process could produce dependable and acceptable decisions.

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Computer Science -- IIUM Summary: The speed of computers increases tremendously day by day. Those speedy computers are needed to solve the computational problems in many areas of life. However, the computers that are sequential-based have limit in terms of speed and not able to solve the new

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh -- IIUM Summary: Snatch theft is one of the most serious and ugliest crimes rampant in Malaysia in recent times. It is of deep concern and a pressing threat to Malaysians due to the severity of its impact on the victims. The existing provisions governing the Penal Code

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