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Psychological Distress Among Medical Undergraduate Students in Malaysia
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Background and Aims: It is well known that medical students are subjected to different levels of stressors during various stages of their study. Exposure to severe and prolonged stressors may cause serious psychological distress that may hinder students’ academic performance and may affect their mental and physical health as well. Therefore, this

The Arab Spring, Good Governance and Citizens' Right
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

This article is a study of the origins and consequences of the Arab Spring through highlighting the higher objectives of the Shariah in governance, as well as the basic rights and responsibilities of the citizens and the rulers in Islam. The paper suggests that maintaining peace, harmony and social stability are the main objectives of Islam in gove

Assistive Technology for Relieving Communication Lumber Between Hearing/speech Impaired and Hearing People
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

This study proposes an automatic sign language translator, which is developed as assistive technology to help the hearing/speech impaired communities to communicate with the rest of the world. The system architecture, which includes feature extraction and recognition stages is described in detail. The signs are classified into two types: static and

Exploring Information Technology Governance in a Malaysian Public University: Providers' Perspectives
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

There has been dearth of studies on how universities, in developing nations, govern their information technology (IT) to leverage the business goals of teaching and learning, research and administration. The purpose of this paper is to present how a public university governs IT and learn from “over the years” experiences to improve disposition

Dearth of Information Technology Governance Studies in Developing Nations: Making Case for Nigeria
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Can Nigeria afford to be oblivion of governance of information technology (IT)? This study explores the dearth of research in the field of Information Technology Governance (ITG) in the developing nation context. It goes to show the reason behind the need to think out of the box which informed the focus on ITG in developed nations. ITG is seen as t

Particle Swarm Optimization with Partial Search for Solving Traveling Salesman Problem
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-studied combinatorial optimization problem and recently a number of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based methods have been investigated to solve TSP. Among the popular conventional PSO based methods, several methods consider Swap Sequence (SS) and Swap Operator (SO) for velocity operation to get a new s

Agent Based Modeling and Simulation of Granuloma Formation for the Development of Energy Charging Mechanism in Swarm Robots
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

This paper presents an agent-based simulation of the processes involved in granuloma formation for the inspirations on the development of energy charging mechanism for swarm robotic systems. Granuloma formation is a process in which unwanted substances are removed by immune system. To better understand the components and the processes in granuloma

Development of an Intelligent Scorpion Detection Technique Using Vibration Analysis
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A possible solution to address the problem of Scorpion stings is the capability of detecting its presence earlier before it stings. This paper presents efforts in Scorpion detection using substrate vibration modelling approach. An eight stage approach has been presented in this work. Using sinusoidal signal, signal representing Scorpion behaviour w

Ibn Khaldun: His Contribution to the Science of Civilisation
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

ÑAbd al-RaÍmÉn Ibn KhaldËn was a Muslim historiographer and historian of Arab origin, and one of the founding “fathers” of modern historiography, sociology and economics. He is best known to modern readers for his Muqaddimah (Prolegomena [To History]), the introductory book to the magnificent seven-volume account on history of the world ent

Cytotoxic Agents from Luvunga Scandens Human Breast Adenocarcinoma Cell Line (Mcf-7)
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Breast cancer is among of the frequently diagnosed cancer and causes high mortality rate in most countries in the world. These led to the necessity for the development of potential chemotherapeutic agents against breast cancer cells with novel mechanisms of actions. The plant-derived triterpenoids commonly used due to its ability to exhibit cytotox

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