Extremism in Muslim feminism and the balanced scale

Feminism seeks to remedy the injustice and inequalities confronting women and society at large. Within this broad social movement, points of tension exist between different camps whose trends of thought differ from one another even though they head in one direction. In staying clear of extremisms that could tilt the scale of social justice in Islam, this talk discusses the significant of adopting the equilibrium that ensures the scales are not tilted at either end. By exploring Muslim feminist liberal thought and the patriarchal saturated cultural practices of the Muslims, the concept of ummatan wasatan of Islamic feminism is expounded

Alternative models of higher education: an epistemological enquiry

This chapter explores the alternative models of higher education for Muslim universities globally. The epistemological enquiry which analyses three contemporary models of Islamization of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Ismail Farooqi and IIUM led to the conclusion that the alternative models of higher education should be based on two: i. for undergraduate programme- IIUM should be the model and ii. for postgraduate programme- ISTAC that was under al-Attas should be the model

The Influence Of Social Media In Marketing Communication Strategies Towards Reputation Building Of Open University Malaysia (OUM)

The study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of social media as a marketing communication towards reputation building of Open University Malaysia (OUM). Based on the previous studies, three factors have been identified known as content, promotion and comprehensiveness of the information. The population of this study are the students of OUM and the sample size were taken from students in Bangi Learning Centre through convenience sampling technique. This study adopts a quantitative research method approach with result of 211 respondents. To analyse the data, multiple linear regression analysis was adopted in this study. The findings of the study have shown enough evidences to support the hypotheses. All three variables indicated significant results. Comprehensive information is the highest variable perceived by the respondents, followed by promotion and content towards the reputation building of OUM. The implication of the study brings more understanding on the importance of enhancing the content, promotion and comprehensive information in the OUM social media. This will lead towards increasing the student’s enrolment and improve OUM brand equity. The conclusion of this study can be used to strengthen OUM reputation in social media as an effective marketing tool hence becoming a source of reference for students to choose Open Distance Learning (ODL) institutions to pursue their studies.(Abstract by authors

The philosophy of higher education of the 21st century

This article briefly looked at the socio-politico-economic context of ancient Chinese,Greeks, Medieval Europe, the Muslims during the Medieval period and Postmodernism. The political thought of Confucius, Plato, St. Augustine, al-Farabi were surveyed in order to put into perspective the philosophy of higher education from 5th century BC to the 21st century AD

The philosophy of higher education

Introduction : The philosophy of higher education is about the empowerment of human beings so as to fully realise their potentials as rational beings. The reason is because the contributions which these individuals can give towards the development of the society are invaluable for the stability and progress of a country. The reason is simply because a nation that is heterogeneous can only be progressive and live in harmony if it has a society that shares common goals and aspirations. This leads one to conclude that a state can achieve its goal when its four components; territory, government, population and sovereignty reinforce one another. This in turn would mean that the government and the people understand their responsibilities in ensuring their territory and sovereignty are properly guarded hence the honour of their countries will be protected. On the otber hand, if these four components of a state are in conflict with one another then social unrests will take place and the state will be stagnant. Since it is said that the pbilosophy of higber education is to empower human beings, one can make an assumption that the importance of having a philosophy of higher education will determine the behaviours of the people of a state

DESIGN AND MODELING OF A SHORT -STROKE LINEAR PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR

The thesis concentrates on design and modeling a short-stroke linear permanent magnet motor using finite element analysis. Various types of linear machines technologies have been review such as, linear induction motor, linear synchronous motor, linear switched reluctance motor, linear DC motor and linear permanent magnet brushless motor. The advantages of linear permanent magnet motor which are, there is no field winding required for the motor since the permanent magnet will produce the excitation flux for the motor. Even though it has higher cogging torque but it also has higher output power. In other aspect, the permanent magnet motor believe would give better dynamic performance due to the higher magnetic flux density in the air-gap. Four proposed design have been developed for further analysis; the single slot linear permanent magnet motor with air-cored and iron-cored also the double slot linear permanent magnet motor with air-cored and iron-cored. The design is relatively to improve efficiency of the compressor system for refrigerator pump, which basically have very low efficiency. The proposed design undergoes the optimization process with optimizing the dimension of the motor that give influences to the motor performance

Service Quality in the School of Management, USM: Perceptions of Students in Pursuit of MBA

In many countries and many cultures, the issue of service quality is firmly on the agenda for higher education institutions. Universities and faculties strive to provide high quality services because they need to compete for their students. Measuring the quality of their services is therefore an important task

An Experimental Study on Relationship between Performance and Energy Consumption of Serial and Parallel Text Searching Algorithm.

The world data is growing vigorously intersecting of large ordered sets and it is a common problem in the evaluation of data queries to a search engine. Thus, text retrieval systems have become a popular way in providing support for text databases. However this becomes a major question among us like how much energy is consumed? How to reduce execution time in searching large amount of data? In this paper, text searching algorithm is using to study the relationship between performance of computer and amount of energy produced in serial and parallel text searching algorithm. The amount of energy produced should be reduced along with the execution time to increase performance in data searching. Based on data recorded from the series of experiments, Serial Text Searching Algorithm is saving energy and reducing power usage. However, their performance is reducing as a smaller processor speed is using. In contrast to Parallel Text Searching Algorithm, there are larger amount of energy consumed from this experiment. However, it is approved that the performance of parallel experiment is far better than a single node performance

Design and Modeling of a Short-Stroke Linear Permanent Magnet Motor

The advantages of linear permanent magnet motor which are, there is no field winding required for the motor since the permanent magnet will produce the excitation flux for the motor. Even though it has higher cogging torque but it also has higher output power

BUGOPTIMIZE: Bugs dataset Optimization with Majority Vote Cluster-Based Fine-Tuned Feature Selection for Scalable Handling

Software bugs are prevalent in the software development lifecycle, posing challenges to developers in ensuring product quality and reliability. Accurate prediction of bug counts can significantly aid in resource allocation and prioritization of bug-fixing efforts. However, the vast number of attributes in bug datasets often requires effective feature selection techniques to enhance prediction accuracy and scalability. Existing feature selection methods, though diverse, suffer from limitations such as suboptimal feature subsets and lack of scalability. This paper proposes BUGOPTIMIZE, a novel algorithm tailored to address these challenges. BUGOPTIMIZE innovatively integrates majority voting cluster-based fine-tuned feature selection to optimize bug datasets for scalable handling and accurate prediction. The algorithm initiates by clustering the dataset using K-means, EM, and Hierarchical clustering algorithms and performs majority voting to assign data points to final clusters. It then employs filter-based, wrapper-based, and embedded feature selection techniques within each cluster to identify common features. Additionally, feature selection is applied to the entire dataset to extract another set of common features. These selected features are combined to form the final best feature set. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of BUGOPTIMIZE compared to existing feature selection methods, reducing MAE and RMSE in Linear Regression (MAE: 0.2668 to 0.2609, RMSE: 0.3251 to 0.308) and Random Forest (MAE: 0.1626 to 0.1341, RMSE: 0.2363 to 0.224), highlighting its significant contribution to bug dataset optimization and prediction accuracy in software development while addressing feature selection limitations. By mitigating the disadvantages of current approaches and introducing a comprehensive and scalable solution, BUGOPTIMIZE presents a significant advancement in bug dataset optimization and prediction accuracy in software development environments