Plukenetia volubilis L. is an Amazon species commonly known as sacha inchi, considered a high agro-industrial potential plant due to high nutritional values. Despite some published propagation studies of sacha inchi, to the best of our knowledge, there is little information about its dormancy and growth pattern, especially from Malaysia. Thus, this study aimed was to assess seed germination, seedling substrate requirement and growth pattern of sacha inchi. The germination test was using four different treatments: acid scarification, mechanical scarification, an overnight soak in water, and hot water. Two different scarification methods were conducted using sulphuric acid with a concentration of 20% (98.08g/mol) and mechanical scarification using sandpaper (grade 80) sanding gently about 30 sec to 1 min. Hot water treatment was done by soaking the seeds in 82_C of hot water until the temperature drops to room temperature and control treatment, an overnight soak in water. Seedling substr.....

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Kajian mengenai keganasan rumah tangga di Malaysia masih belum mendalami naratif perjalanan yang dialami oleh setiap wanita yang menghadapi keganasan rumah tangga. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan geo-naratif, penyelidikan ini dilaksanakan dengan menggunakan kaedah persampelan bertujuan untuk mendapatkan peserta kajian dan persampelan teoritikal dalam pembentukan naratif daripada data kajian. Perisian Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) digunakan untuk membina peta tiga dimensi perjalanan menyelamatkan diri daripada keganasan rumah tangga oleh peserta kajian. Dengan memfokuskan kepada campur tangan yang terlibat, kajian ini mendapati bahawa terdapat tiga naratif perjalanan wanita iaitu; stasis, ulang-alik dan disorientasi. Naratif ini perlu difahami sebagai mempunyai perhubungan yang dinamik dan tidak berasingan antara satu sama lain. Naratif stasis dalam kajian ini merujuk kepada keadaan atau tempoh wanita yang tidak aktif daripada melakukan sebarang perjalanan. Wanita juga mela.....

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Kajian ini mengkaji ancaman pihak komunis di Sarawak pada 1963 hingga 1972. Tumpuan kajian ini akan menfokus kepada perkembangan gerakan, pembanterasan ancaman komunis dan penerimaan masyarakat terhadap ideologi komunisme di Sarawak. Ancaman ini berlaku secara besar-besaran disebabkan oleh pelbagai peristiwa pada era pembentukan Malaysia 1963. Terdapat kerjasama dan gerakan anti-komunis yang digerakkan oleh pihak di dalam dan luar Sarawak sebagai respon kepada ancaman yang semakin berleluasa. Metodologi kajian ini menggunakan kaedah kualitatif dengan menekankan analisis dokumen dan manuskrip. Fakta yang diperoleh ditafsir dan ditulis dalam bentuk naratif deskriptif serta menekankan aspek sebab dan akibat. Kajian ini menggunakan analisis dokumen dari sumber arkib dan perpustakaan sebagai rujukan seperti bahan dan data daripada Arkib Negara Cawangan Sarawak, Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, Repositori Arkib Negeri Sarawak, Perpustakaan Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka Cawangan Sarawak dan Perpustakaan Tuan.....

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Social media is perceived as a medium of communication and a source of information. Social media has become popular among adolescents, particularly since it is simple to use and information can be rapidly disseminated. Accordingly, the excessive amount of time spent on social media eventually drives an addiction to social media, known as social media addiction. Previous studies have researched social media addiction. However, a lack of study focuses on computer students. Therefore, this study aims to investigate factors of social media addiction among computer students in higher education. The research design used in this study is a cross-sectional survey, and the sample data is 225 computer students. The sampling was selected using a purposive sampling technique. The instrument in this study were adopted from Griffith (2005) and validated by three experts. Descriptive statistics have been conducted to identify the students_ demographic on social media addiction among computer students.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan menentukan pengaruh tanggapan sokongan penyelia dan tanggapan sokongan organisasi terhadap tingkah laku kewarganegaraan organisasi, dan pengaruh tanggapan sokongan organisasi sebagai pengantara dalam hubungan antara tanggapan sokongan penyelia dan tingkah laku kewarganegaraan organisasi dalam perkhidmatan polis bantuan di Universiti Malaya. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan kaedah tinjauan. Seramai 131 orang polis bantuan di Universiti Malaya telah terlibat dalam kajian ini. Kajian ini menggunakan keseluruhan set data populasi. Data dikumpul menggunakan borang soal selidik sebagai instrumen. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan inferens. Analisis deskriptif digunakan untuk meringkaskan profil responden, manakala analisis regresi berbilang dan PROCESS Macro Model 4 untuk menguji hipotesis-hipotesis yang dicadangkan. Dapatan pengaruh langsung menunjukkan bahawa tanggapan sokongan penyelia mempunyai pengaruh yang signifikan ke .....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk melihat sejauh mana tahap pengetahuan dan tahap pelaksanaan serta kesan pembelajaran berasaskan permainan (PBP) dalam pengajaran guru Pendidikan Islam sekolah rendah. Kajian ini juga mengkaji tentang perbezaan tahap penggunaan aplikasi gamifikasi dalam kalangan guru Pendidikan Islam sekolah rendah berdasarkan faktor demografi dan juga hubungan antara tahap pengetahuan dan tahap gamifikasi dalam pengajaran guru Pendidikan Islam sekolah rendah. Kajian ini dijalankan dalam bentuk kuantitatif dengan reka bentuk kajian tinjauan. Kajian ini dilaksanakan menggunakan instrument soal selidik dan disebarkan secara google form dan juga salinan borang soal selidik. Saiz sampel yang terlibat dalam kajian ini adalah seramai 260 orang GPI yang mewakili populasi seramai 791 orang GPI di seluruh sekolah rendah di Daerah Kuantan, Pahang. Data telah dianalisis menggunakan perisian SPSS versi 22. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan tahap pengetahuan terhadap gamifikasi dalam pengajaran g.....

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Asian cultures and aesthetics of music and music making were significant influences on Cage_s ideas on indeterminacy and chance-controlled music. His interest in Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s paved the way for his creative output a decade later. It also changed the way in which music composition is perceived, constructed and received, influencing the direction and craft of new music. Drawing common ground with Cage, this paper reflects on how the author embraces oriental philosophies in her compositional approach. Applying practice-led methodology, it extrapolates the manner in which elements of Hindustani and gamelan music have been applied in the creation of _Ragaslendro_, a work which has lent itself to multiple transformations in different performance settings in (re)presenting time, space and musical shape.   Keywords John Cage, ragaslendro, oriental philosophies, raga, gamelan..

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John Cage_s interest in Japanese gardens came to the fore in the series of instrumental works Ryoanji (1983-1985), and the related visual art works Where R=Ryoanji (1983- 1992). In this paper the author proposes that the aesthetics of Japanese traditional gardens can provide insights into Cage_s work as a whole. Traditional Japanese aesthetics, which permeate garden design, tea culture, poetry and the other arts, had a significant impact on Western modernism. The _Zen boom_ in the West, in which Cage played an important part, furthered the perceived relationship between Japanese aesthetics, Zen Buddhism and modernism. The dry stone garden at Ryoanji came to exemplify the spirit of Zen in garden design. In relationship to the work of Cage, many aspects of traditional gardens are relevant: the preference for asymmetry, the importance of empty space, the borrowed view, the use of re-purposed materials, and the acceptance of limitations either imposed by available space and resources or as.....

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This research aimed to determine and compare the effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) versus foam rolling on muscular power output. Sixteen kayak sprint (n=16) athletes were involved in this research. All the participants underwent both interventions (traditional and modern-technological based methods) on different days. All the participants were required to perform 10 repetitions of squat jump as a pre-test, then 1 minute of body weight squat as a training. After that, participants need to recover using the recovery methods in different session. Then, a post-test was done to compare and determine the results. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the mean and standard deviation and paired T-Test was used to compare the effect of both interventions. Pearson correlation and Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) were used to determine validity and reliability of squat jump test protocol on power development. There were significant differences found in t.....

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Scott Simon (2008) describes jazz improvisation as an act of _reproduction of music_, _reinterpretation of compositions_, and _quotations of melodies_, while Paul Berliner (1994) puts it as _reworking precomposed material_. In contrast, Lee Brown highlights the spirit of _non conformism_ embedded in jazz playing, so that the musical outcome of jazz is _unanticipated_, and _nondeterministic_ (Brown, 2000). In 2012, I proposed _heteronomy_ as one of the defining features of jazz. How would these characters of jazz appear in the light of John Cage_s thoughts? If jazz is an art of quoting rather than creating, then that it was a genre of _distaste_ to Cage becomes understandable. Cage_s relationship to jazz and/or improvisation is more than a mild rejection. Sabine Feisst (2009) refers to it as an _unresolved relationship_, while for Rebecca Kim (2012) there is a _separate togetherness_ between Cage and jazz. In coaching Malaysian students to embrace jazz, needs arise for a clear understan.....

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