This paper presents investigations into the control of a stair climbing wheelchair particularly for indoor usage. A virtual wheelchair model is developed using Visual Nastran software and linked with Matlab/Simulink for control purposes. The goals are to have a simple, compact and stable stairs climbing wheelchair in order to complete the ascending

This paper aims to identify factors distinguish Islamic and conventional bank customers in Indonesia. It tries to relate between bank customers’ religiosity, assessment upon certain factors such as bank performance, bank advertisement and main reasons of using banking services towards their decision on which bank they had joined. Logistic regress

This study is aimed at investigating the dimensions of customer satisfaction in Indonesia Islamic banking industry and how those dimensions could affect the customers’ switching behavior. Data collection is done by using self administered questionnaire and involves as many as 732 Islamic bank customers from the area of Jakarta. The methods used i

The Islamic financial institutions have been developing tremendously since the last three decades. However, many studies are focused more on the development and performance of banking and financial markets and almost neglecting another specific and important sector, which is insurance. Thus, this study aims to measure the performance of Islamic ins

Islamic banking started three decades ago in Bangladesh and was expected to have a significant relationship and contribution towards the economic growth of the country. This study aims to investigate the long run and dynamic relationship between Islamic banking development and economic growth in the case of Bangladesh. The quarterly time-series dat

Introduction: Islam takes a realistic view of human affairs and therefore, it attaches great importance to the happiness of both the spouses in Marriage. It provides that every attempt should be made to preserve a marriage, but once it is established that marriage has broken down (shiqaq), Islam does not scruple to allow the parties to separate fro

In dealing with custody disputes especially, mediation is generally considered as a process more humane than the confrontational approach taken in the adversarial system, (Pearson and Thoennes 1989). Mediation is claimed to not only avoid adversary settlement procedures, but also to be a „family-friendly‟ intervention program employed in helpin

Religion has always played an important role in the political milieu of the Malay Archipelago since the establishment of the first known Malay kingdom almost two thousand years ago. Different roles have been entrusted to the religious authorities by the Malay rulers. During the period of Indian cultural and religious dominance, religious scholars h

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has recently attracted a lot of attention a lot of attention in the research field due to its suitable to a wide array of civil and military application. Many world class universities, as well as research centers, are currently conducting active programs concerning the different aspects of UAV.

There can be unlimited reasons why patients choose different countries while going for medical treatments or procedures. Moreover, empirical evidence on medical tourism is very limited. Due to the limited literature and empirical evidence on the topic, we believe that, other related studies focusing on the choice and criteria of selecting the desti