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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The John Cage Variations provide a useful snapshot of a range of score writing techniques employed by Cage throughout this career. From very complex preparations and realisation of parts required in Variations I and II, to the almost non-existent scores of VII and VIII, the complete Variations provide a range of opportunities and challenges. In 2011, Western Australian new music ensemble Decibel developed a software-based score maker and player for the works and presented a series of concerts of the Complete Eight Variations. The performances have led to the development of the John Cage Complete Variations App for the iPad tablet computer, developed in conjunction with Peters Edition. Drawing on the ensemble_s experiments with realtime and scrolling computer score generation and performance, and their unique make up of performers, composers, sound artists and programmers, the group has made the realisation of these works more accurate and possible in real-time for the first time. This .....

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Reading the introduction into the International Conference John Cage 101 held in August 2013 in Tanjung Malim, Malaysia, the following two sentences caught my attention: _Cage was an early proponent of the need for Western music to incorporate Asian music characteristics. He studied Zen and I Ching, both philosophies having a powerful impact on his music, writings and art._1 This paper examines the essence of this statement that seems to commend openness and at the same time points towards a globally dominating perception of musical intellectuality rooted in the West, a place that John Cage to some extent intended to leave. He studied what many studied before him, the I Ching [Yi Jing]. By doing so, how much could he contribute to the world of composition? Methodologically, this paper will focus on the hermeneutic perspective in discussing Asian music characteristics that are incorporated into contemporary music compositions. Taking further some teaching texts on John Cage to illustrat.....

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This paper is a descriptive study of the creation of a new work that used practice-based and practice-led methodology, chance, indeterminacy, Malaysian folksong, Hindustani Raga, birdsong and philosophy to guide its creation, its coming into being and its performance realization. The paper also addresses the main problem encountered in its creation, which was how to maintain form whilst using indeterminacy. The composition which was the focus of the study employed indeterminacy and chance in the approximation of the performance realisations and interpretations of the notation. Each of the four main elements of the composition was created separately and incorporated a mode of limited transposition, Hindustani Raga, Kalimantan folktune and Malaysian avian motifs. In the context of the emphasis of the John Cage 101 International Conference, the composition attempted to explore concepts of space and time, chance and indeterminacy and the Cagean notion that _There is no such thing as an emp.....

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