Tentative Programme

Tentative Programme: (Subject to confirmation)

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Date:  20 January 2010 (Wednesday)

08:30 – 09:15   Registration

09:15 – 09:30   Briefing

09:30 – 10:30   Plenary Session 1 “PhD & its Significance

Keynote Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Hj. Muhd Kamil Ibrahim,

Accounting Professor, UiTM, Malaysia

10:30 – 10:50   Refreshment

10:50 – 11:50   Parallel session 1

11:50 – 12:45   Opening Ceremony

12:45 – 13:45   Lunch

13:45 – 15:15   Parallel session 2          \\

15:15 – 15:45   Refreshment

15:45 – 17:15   Parallel Session 3

17.15               End of Day 1

Date: 21 January 2010 (Thursday)

08:30 – 09:30   Registration

09.30 – 10:30  Plenary Session 2: “What external examiners expect”

a.  Science Technology:

Keynote Speaker:

Prof. F. N. Coton

Deputy Vice Chancellor and

Professor of Low Speed Aerodynamics

Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Glasgow

b.  Social Science

Keynote Speaker (to be confirmed)

Dr Mahdi Zahraa
Director of Postgraduate Research Studies Programme in the Division of Law, Division of Law,

School of Law and Social Sciences,
Glasgow Caledonian University

10.30 – 11.00  Refreshment

11.00 – 12.30   Parallel Session 4

12.30 – 13.30  Lunch

13.30 – 15.00  Parallel Session 5

15.00 – 15.30  Refreshment

15.30 – 17.00  Parallel Session 6

17.00 – 17.30  Closing Ceremony

DETAILS OF PARALLEL SESSION

20 January 2010

Parallel session 1  (10:50-11:50)

Room 1

(Accounting, Business, Finance & Management)

Room 2

(Medical sciences)

  • Prof. Roszaini Haniffa (Chair)
  • Prof. Andrew Marshall
  • To be confirmed
  • To be confirmed
Diara Mat Jadi

The determinants of financial resilience of insurance companies.

Norazita Marina Abdul Aziz

Social Responsibility and Accountability Relations : A case study of ABIM

Dzulkarnain Bin Daud

Property Taxation Administration and The Need for Capacity Building in Local Authorities in Malaysia

Bidi Ab Hamid

The Reliability of B-Mode Transvaginal Probe Image for Quantitative Texture Analysis and The Dependence of Extracted Features on Region of Interest Size for Ovarian Cancer Detection

Rozaihan Mansor

Milk Protein analysis in the diagnosis of bovine mastitis

20 January 2010

Parallel session 2  (13:45-15:15)

Room 1

(Accounting, Business, Finance & Management)

Room 2

(Engineering & Sciences)

  • Prof. Andrew Marshall (Chair)
  • Prof. Roszaini Haniffa
  • (to be confirmed)
  • (to be confirmed)
Mustafa Omar

Strategy Public Property Management in Malaysia- The Determinants of Organizational Effectiveness

Raudzah Roslan

Retirement Benefit: Characteristics of Firms in Malaysia

Wan  Ibrisam Fikry Wan Ismail

Implementation and Achievement of National Agricultural Policy with Special Reference to Conversion of Agricultural Land to Buildings and Industries in the State of Kedah, Malaysia

Zuraeda Ibrahim

Islamic Perspective Accounting Information (IPA) and Their Disclosure in Annual Reports:  Empirical Evidence from Malaysian Public Listed Companies

Soon Chin Fhong

Physical Interaction of Cells with lyotropic liquid crystals

Wan Rosmiza Zana Wan Dagang

Adhesion of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae S1278B biofilms of glass surface

Faridah Yahya

The effect of particle size and drying treatment on Pandan Leaves extract.

20 January 2010

Parallel session 3  (15:45-17:45)

Room 1

(Education)

Room 2

(Engineering & Sciences)

[Computer Science]

  • Prof. Ian Finlay (to be confirmed)
  • Prof. Ross Denchan (to be confirmed)
  • Prof. Derek Long (Chair)
  • to be confirmed
Azizah Abdullah

Therapeutic Power of Creative Expressive Therapy In Strengthening Young People’s Self Esteem

Hadijah Jaffri

The Conception of Giftedness among Pre Service and in Service Primary School Teachers in Malaysia

Khadijah Amat

Identifying Children With Characteristics Of Asperger Syndrome And High Functioning Autism In The Special Education Units And Mainstream Classes In Three Schools In Malacca – A Pilot Study

Nordin Mamat

Pre-school environment affect on children’s relationships: a qualitative investigation among ethnically diverse families in Malaysia

Tan Wee Hoe

In search of research methodology: a doctoral research design journey

Madihah Mohd Saudi

Efficient Defensive of Worm Attack via Incident Respond and Apoptosis Approach (EDOWAIRA)

Putri Afzan Maria Zulkifli

Graphical protocol analysis: A method to measure writer language competency

Rasyidi Johan

Animating students’ misconceptions in a Personalised approach to supporting learning

Unaizah Hanum Obaidellah

Drawing on Graphics Tablets : Retreiving Ccognitive Chunks

Wahidah Md Shah

Location Awareness of P2P in Live Streaming

2nd Days

21 January 2010

Parallel session 4  (11:00-12:30)

Room 2

(Law/Islamic Finance)

Room 1

(Engineering & Sciences)

  • Dr. Mahdi Zahraa (Chair)
  • To be confirmed
  • (to be confirmed)
  • Prof. Richard De La Rue (to be confirmed)
Ahmad Jailani Abd Ghani

Legal Rules Principles And Practices In Islamic Banking, With Special Emphasis On Selected Home Financing Cases As Decided By Malaysian Courts

Asma Hakimah Ab Halim

The issue of combination of contract in sukuk (Islamic securities): substance over form

Maryam Rafei

Click Wrap in  software Licencing

Noriswadi Ismail

Malaysia’s data protection Bill; Some useful headway from the United Kingdom and European Union

Fuada Mohd Siam

Modeling the Effect of Ionizing Radiation

Aminuddin Saat

Measurement of Laminar Burning Rate in two-phase combustion

Nor Kamilah Saat

Detection of an explosive material using an electrically tunable dual-frequency terahertz quantum cascade laser-based imaging system

Khidzir Zakaria

Comparison of Distortion on part accuracy of Indirect Metal Selective Laser sintering (IMSLS)

21 January 2010

Parallel session 5  (13:30-15:00)

Room 2

(Law/Islamic Finance)

Room 1

(Engineering & Sciences)

  • Dr. Mahdi Zahraa (Chair)
  • To be confirmed
  • (to be confirmed)
  • (to be confirmed)
Rafidah Mohd Cusairi

Voluntary Participation versus Mandatory Participation in Mediation in the U.K.: A Comparative Analysis with Reference to Some Lending Cases

Safinar Salleh

A critical analysis on the contractual Framework of Islamic Insurance

Zulkifli Hassan

Shariah Governance Framework and The Effect of The Central Banking of Malaysia Act 2009

Maszlee Malik

Post Colonial Critiques of Good Governance: Towards Cultural-Based Alternatives

Nurulfajar Abd Manap

Multi-view Video Coding for 3DTV

Anis Suhaila Mohd Zin

New Transistors Design Toward Single Ion Detection with an ISFET

Zahriladha Zakaria

Design of Coaxial Resonator Filter with Finite-Q

Suhaila Mohamad Yusuf

Ionic Poly-Metal Composite (IPMCs)as micro-actuator

21 January 2010

Parallel session 6  (15:30-16:30)

Room 1

(Computer science)

Room 2

(Engineering & Sciences)

  • to be confirmed
  • to be confirmed
  • (to be confirmed)
  • (to be confirmed)
Amelia Rithani Ismail

Towards a Biologically Inspired Granuloma Formation Algorithm for Swamp Robotics in Aggregation Task

Nor  Suhaida Ahmad

MIMO Radar system as a new approach in agriculture application

Afandi Ahmad

FPGA-based architectures for 3-D Medical Image Compression

 

Extended Date of Submission

Greetings,

The deadline for the abstract submission has been extended to 5th December 2009. Thank you for the support and interest with MGDC. For any questions, please contact us through our email: sekretariatmgdc@gmail.com.

Thank you.

 

Early Bird Offer

Greetings,

Pursuant to the tremendous support from various individuals and institutions that would like to participate in this colloquium; the organising committee has decided to extent the date for ‘early bird’ to 10th November 2009.

Get the registration form and the format of extended abstract in the download page. Your support and interest in this event are highly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

Registration for MGDC

1.  Received call for paper from the organising committee
2.  Submit abstract with the intention to present
3.  Received notification of acceptance with invoice & registration form
4.  Make payment
5.  Attend MGDC with receipt or evidence of payment.

Greetings,

Here we include the flow of registration for MGDC

  1. Received call for paper from the organising committee
  2. Submit abstract with the intention to present
  3. Received notification of acceptance with invoice & registration form
  4. Make payment
  5. Attend MGDC with receipt or evidence of payment.

Meanwhile, we also received question regarding the format of the extended abstract. It should be noted that the format in SINGLE column format, as attached in the sample of abstract submission. Get the sample of paper in Word format here.

Thank you.

Hope to meet you soon!

 

MGDC 2010

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Call For Papers

Salam and greetings,

We are pleased to announce the first Malaysia-Glasgow Doctoral Colloquium organised by the Malaysia-Glasgow Community in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher Education and Malaysian Student Department, United Kingdom.

The main objective of the colloquium is to provide an opportunity for all research postgraduate students in Malaysia and the United Kingdom to meet the experts in the United Kingdom, discuss and exchange ideas to help the students in the development of their projects.

We invite participation from research postgraduate/PhD students who would like to present and discuss their research plans and progress. Participants are required to present for 20 minutes and the experienced supervisors will then provide feedback. Presentations may cover any stage from initial research proposals to the final discussion of contribution in preparation for a viva. A number of Professors have shown keen interest in sharing their knowledge and experience during this two-day event.

We welcome papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Social Science:
• Accounting & Business
• Economics
• Management
• Law
• Islamic Finance
• Education

Science & Technology:
• Engineering,
• Medicine,
• Computer Science & Information Technology,
• Applied Sciences/Pure Science

Please find attached a more detailed write-up on the abstract submission guidelines. The key dates are:

15 November 2009 – Extended Abstract submission deadline
20 November 2009 – Notification to authors
20 & 21 January 2010 – MGDC

Registration Fee (including refreshments and lunch): £75.00
Registration Fee for early birds (before 5 November 2009): £65.00

Please feel free to contact us for further information:

Shahbudin Mat : +447860881239
Khairul Ariffin : +447787700136
Muhammad Azril Hezmi : +447590647835
Nor Haizan Mohd Radzi : +447810023926
Haslina Hassan : +447595690197

Email address: sekretariatmgdc@gmail.com

We look forward to your participation in making MGDC a meaningful event for all.

 

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