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Vitamin D Insufficiency and its Association with Obesity Among Primary School Children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Aims: To present findings on low blood vitamin D status and its association with obesity among primary school children in Kuala Lumpur. Methods: A cross-sectional study of primary aged school children was undertaken in 2008. Six primary schools were randomly selected from a zone in Kuala Lumpur with a multi-ethnic population from middle income leve

Disturbance Decoupled Fault Reconstruction Using Sliding Mode Observers
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

This paper investigates and presents conditions that guarantee disturbance decoupled fault reconstruction using sliding mode observers, which are less stringent than those of previous work, and show that disturbance reconstruction is not necessary. An aircraft model validates the ideas proposed in this paper.

Feminism as Islamophobia: a Review of Misogyny Charges Against Islam
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

One important feature of Islamophobia is to caricature Islam as misogynistic and oppressive to women and thus to advance imperialist hegemony. This “gendered Islamophobia” stigmatizes the religion even though, compared to other world religions, its treatment of women is arguably preferable and more enlightened. Historically, one treasonous use

Implementing Key Performance Indicators in a Malaysian Local Government
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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is an example of private sector practices developed and implemented in public sector organizations to improve the performance of public services delivery to its optimum level. This paper proposes a case study on one Local Governments (LGs) in Malaysia to investigate the organizational changes through the developmen

The Islamization of English Literary Studies: an Introduction
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Literature tells us the story of human life. Like any other literary tradition, English literature concerns human beings, their experiences, sorrows and happiness. This is also very much the case with the religion of Islam whose fundamental message is, as Muslims believe, about what is good and what is bad for human beings, as it is about their wel

Separating item-Related Electrophysiological Indices of Retrieval Effort and Retrieval Orientation
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The relationship between two classes of retrieval process—retrieval orientation and retrieval effort—was investigated using electrophysiological (ERP) and behavioural measures. ERPs were recorded during retrieval phases of exclusion tasks in which participants focused on retrieval of either phonological or semantic associates that were generate

The Application of Choice of Law and Choice of Forum Clauses to Islamic Banking and Financial Cross Border Transactions
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Litigations in cross border transactions are inevitable. There would be legal uncertainty and ambiguity without identifying the governing law and the appropriate forum for settling disputes arise from the cross border transactions. Accordingly, the application of both choice of law and choice of forum clauses are vital in Islamic banking and financ

Is Capital Structure Study Still a Puzzle? Southeast Asian Panel Data Evidence
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Issues on inconclusive results in capital structure studies are still unresolved todate. Various perhaps and justifications being put forward by researchers past and present to rationalize their inconsistent findings. Different leverage definitions used in the studies is identified as one of the main factors that lead to inconsistent results record

Energy Savings in the Combustion Based Process Heating in Industrial Sector
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Energy efficiency and savings strategies in the combustion based industrial process heating has been reviewed comprehensively and presented in this paper. This work compiles latest literatures in terms of thesis, journal articles, conference proceedings, web materials, reports, books, handbooks on industrial process heating systems in the industria

The Impact of Sukuk on Corporate Financing: Malaysia Evidence
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A remarkable effect of bond market development on corporate financing is detected among firms in Malaysia en route the study to identify the existence of target capital structure and simultaneously explore firm specific and country specific determinants of target capital structure for firms in Malaysia. This is argued to be the effect of the phenom

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