Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechanical Engineering -- IIUM Summary: The heat generation in the electronic chips and microprossors needs a special and effective cooling system. Microchannel heat sink (MCHS), that offers a high heat transfer coefficient, is used to remove this heat where high thermal-conductive fluids suc

Subject(s): International Islamic University Malaysia -- Students | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Communication -- IIUM Summary: Motivation-Hygiene theory or popularly known as Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene theory was introduced by Herzberg, Mausner, & Synderman in 1959. Originally, it explains the motivation and hygiene fact

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: Discourse Linkers (DLs) are included into academic texts to ensure smooth information flow. Academic writing, unlike other genres, is complex and requires substantial amount of DLs to be used as sign posting devices. Writers must have a good un

Subject(s): Ibn Khaldun, 1332-1406 | AK Parti (Turkey) | Dissertations, Academic -- International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization -- IIUM Summary: This research analyses the writing of Ibn Khaldun in regards to the 'role of hope', and suggest its relevance to Turkish AKP government's reign from 2002 to 2012. It examine

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechatronics Engineering -- IIUM Summary: The importance of robotic devices for upper-limb rehabilitation therapy has been underscored by clinical evaluation of some existing robotic platforms. The devices have been used largely with the aid of expert human therapists who are required to spec

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- IIUM Summary: With the increasing demand of using multiple services in a single device, instead of using multiple antennas, current trend is to use single antenna capable of communicating in multiple frequency bands. For the devices like tablet PC, the n

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Information Systems -- IIUM Summary: The existence of internet has played a potential role in the process of information dissemination in the global context. The era of pervasive information regardless of the nature of information is clearly witnessed and no one can overlook its impact on our

Subject(s): Majlis Perbandaran Kajang | City planning -- Malaysia Selangor Kajang | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Urban and Regional planning -- IIUM Summary: The study examines the implementation of the Kajang Municipal Council Local Plan 2020 with reference to public facilities sector. Local plan is the document containing policies

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Nowadays renewable energy and its harvesting are attractive, because this energy is free which leads to reduce energy cost. One of the common energy harvesting (EH) technique is a piezoelectric based system. But the piezoelectric based tech

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of English Language and Literature -- IIUM Summary: The theory of Intercultural Rhetoric (IR) fundamentally highlights the interrelation of language and culture. It is believed that each community has its own preferred rhetorical style of interaction which is deemed different from one culture to