Conference Papers: Recent submissions
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Green marketing and sustainable consumerism
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)Green marketing began in Europe in the early 1980s when certain products were found to be harmful to the earth's atmosphere. Consequently new types of products were created, called "green" products, that would cause less ... -
The role of entrepreneurship and technopreneur under Global Competition
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)This paper reviews the role of entrepreneurship and technopreneur under Global Competition. It is a descriptive study in nature. The emergence of entrepreneurship in this part of the country got localised and spread ... -
ICT and rural development: The case of village knowledge centres in Pondicherry India
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the key enabler and a vital component of the new knowledge based economy and information revolution. It is a major factor in economic growth and increasing productivity. ... -
Study on the human and social dimensions of dam-building projects. (Inquiry on Karoun 4 Dam in Iran)
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)Development is dialectic of destruction and construction and developmental projects contain the same specifications. Each and every construction will obviously hurt some fields especially the human and social ones. Thus ... -
Womens’ participation in homestead agriculture as a rural culture: A micro level study on Barisal District in Bangladesh
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)An attempt has been taken to know the Women’s Participation in Homestead Agriculture in the context of rural culture of Rangasree Union under Barisal District in Bangladesh. To achieve the findings of the study primary ... -
The effect of web-based Thai language learning site on recalling performance and motivation among undergraduate students
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)Learning a foreign language nowadays extremely spread in the web-based form or online learning. Web-based is one of the tools that can be count for the learners to choose for learning. A good web-based is when the developer ... -
Impact of innovativeness on small and medium enterprises
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)The year 2010 has been made as the Year of Innovation aims to celebrate and encourage innovation among Malaysians. Innovation is recognized as the next phase of development towards a developed country status. Innovation ... -
Mental health problems among female offenders and its relation to social engineering
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)The objective of this study is to understand the common mental health problems among female offenders and how they affect the society through application of rehabilitation program. Female offenders have always been a ... -
What motivates women to start a business?
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)The continuous development of women entrepreneurs has given much attention among researchers to conduct study on them. However, little research has been carried out on the factors that motivate women to start a business. ... -
A study of students’ language strategies use and difficulties during group discussions
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)Even after years of learning English in both primary and secondary levels, many university students are still rather weak when it comes to speaking in English, including performing discussions in the language. Many are ... -
Work-family conflict among Muslim women academician: The role of religion as coping strategies in Malaysian higher learning institutions
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)The purpose of this research is to investigate work-life balance outlook in Malaysian academic institutions, the role of religion as coping strategies for managing work-life balance and help their workforce to reach their ... -
An evaluation of an international collaborative project on soft skills and entrepreneurial skills development
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)A cross-border collaborative project involving 16 engineering students from a Malaysian university and 16 social science students from a Thai university was implemented with the objectives of enhancing the participants’ ... -
Perception of employees when experiencing computer hassle and computer anxiety in selected commercial banks
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)The presence of telecommunications, internet, computer application software and hardware as well as databases in commercial banks injects new challenges to employees to adapt and continue learning new technology. It is ... -
The adoption of wireless classroom technology among undergraduates students
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)An inherent feature of technology in education is the constant development of new technologies and creating new and modern applications of already existing technologies. To date, numerous studies that examined student ... -
Geographical information technology approach and model for visualizing the lifetime value of customers in the geographical marketplace
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)Geographical information technology is one of the top most techniques for handling and managing the world wide business issues including customer lifetime value on the geographical based environment. In fact, visualizing ... -
A concept paper on compliance with NADOPOD regulation and guideline Vis-À-Vis the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 among technology-based SME in Northern State of Peninsular Malaysia
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)Many researchers claim that technology-based risks are growing in number and frequency. The major accidents, which often involve large numbers of workers and the public, and adversely affect the environment, have highlighted ... -
Design and simulation of a Sierpinski Carpet Fractal PIFA for WLAN and HiperLAN application
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010-11-09)This paper describes the design and simulation of Sierpinski Carpet Fractal Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA) for WLAN and HiperLAN applications. Simulation of antenna is carried out using CST software; on a FR4 board ... -
Jenayah rogol: Ulasan kes, faktor kontribusi dan cara mengatasi
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)Kertas ini membincangkan secara mendalam tentang fenomena kes rogol yang berlaku. Penulis memberikan definisi jenayah rogol dan bagaimana pandangan ahli kajian psikologi dalam memahami perlakuan rogol ini. Fokus yang ... -
Factors affecting service satisfaction among students: The case of a higher learning institution in Malaysia
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)This research attempted to find out factors that affect students’ satisfaction in a higher learning Institution. The students were randomly selected from degree, masters and PhD programs to evaluate the level of students’ ... -
The causes of global credit crisis
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship, 2010-11-12)This paper discussed the chronology, indicators and causes of global credit crisis to the financial institution and firms. It begins with the background of global credit crisis and follows a discussion of the causes of ...