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Critical Analysis on the Choice of Takaful (Islamic Insurance) Operating Models in Malaysia
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Takaful and insurance have been compared long ago by many scholars around the world. Prior literatures of Takaful are mainly focusing on the concept and theoretical nature of takaful and its differences from insurance. Malaysian Takaful industry has been given flexibility in terms of the operational models adopted and to the researchers’ knowledg

The Impact of Corporate Governance on the Voluntary Accounting Information Disclosure in Malaysian Listed Banks
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Financial accounting information is the main part of the annual reports on which investors rely on. The reliability and relevant of the financial accounting information is on the shoulders of directors. It has been highlighted in the corporate governance literature that information disclosure about the companies is the heart of the good corporate g

The Shariah Viewpoint on the Practice of Underwriting and Risk Rating for Individual Participants in Family Takaful
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

The practice of underwriting and risk rating for individual participants in family takaful stems from the underwriting practice in life insurance, and thus could contain elements which contravene the essence of the shariah. A review of literature on takaful indicates that there are very few materials which look at the underwriting practice from a s

Human Posture Recognition Classifiers
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Human activities recognition is becoming a field of great interest and relevance to a number of areas of research and applications The availability of a system capable of automatIcally classifying the physical activity performed by a human subject is extremely attractive for many applications such as in surveillance and security systems, choreograp

Human Posture Recognition Results Using Database a
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Human Posture Recognition gives machines the ability to detect, track and identify people and their actions from video, has become a central topic in computer vision research. Recognition of human posture is a very challenging problem. The training and evaluation stage, datasets of pre-processed posture images are needed. After the video sequences

Better Corporate Governance and Risk in Dual Banking Environment : Evidence from Malaysia.
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of corporate governance on the risk of banks. A sample of twelve listed bank holding companies is examined over a ten year period (1996-2005). All the sample banks are offering Islamic banking products, in addition to conventional products. Based on the panel data analysis, separate board leaders

Theoretical Background of Human Posture Recognition
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Human posture refers to the arrangement of the body and its limbs. According to Oxford Dictionary (2009), posture is defined as the particular position of the body and the way in which a person holds his or her body. There are several agreed types of human postures such as standing, sitting. squatting, lying, kneeling and other unusual positions su

The Impact of Corporate Governance on the Social and Environmental Information Disclosure of Malaysian Listed Banks: Panel Data Analysis
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance on social and environmental information disclosure of Malaysian listed banks by using a panel data analysis. Good corporate governance is proxied by board leadership structure, board composition, board size, director ownership, institutional ownership and block ownership. Social and environ

Corporate Governance and Risk Management Information Disclosure in Malaysian Listed Banks: Panel Data Analysis
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Corporate governance issue has attracted the researchers, including the Malaysian researchers due to the 1997-1998 economic crises. Furthermore, it is undeniable that the banking sector is the heart of the economy in any country and it cannot be separated since it is the main source in mobilizing the monetary system. Thus, this study investigates t

Better Boards Towards Higher Profitability
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

This paper will examine the impact of corporate governance on the profitability of banks using the agency theory. The profitability of banks is measured by return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). A total of twelve listed bank holding companies are examined over a ten-year period. Based on the panel data analysis, none of the conventional

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