Kajian  ini dilakukan  untuk  menentukan  pengaruh  emosi  berbelanja  terhadap  sikap  dan niat  berbelanja  dalam  kalangan  wanita  di  negeri  Selangor.  Pendekatan  kuantitatif  dan  deduktif diguna pakai bagi menjalankan kajian ini. Data dikumpul melalui kajian tinjauan sampel  menggunakan borang soal selidik yang ditadbir sendiri. Populasi bagi kajian ini adalah  golongan   wanita  yang  bekerjaya,  manakala  sampel  kajian  pula  terdiri  daripada 216  orang  wanita   bekerjaya  yang  berumur  sekurang-kurangnya  18  tahun  di  tiga  buah daerah  di  negeri   Selangor.  Sampel  dipilih  menggunakan  teknik  persampelan  rawak berkelompok.  Kajian  ini   dijalankan  di  Selangor  kerana  negeri  tersebut  mencatatkan jumlah  penduduk   dan  tenaga    buruh  wanita   tertinggi   di  Malaysia.   Data   dianalisis menggunakan analisis Regresi  Pelbagai. Dapatan menunjukkan bahawa emosi berbela.....

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In recent years, the popular music of Virgilio “Pirot” Petcheller had been included in the banda (ensemble) musical repertoire, practice and identity of several indigenous cultural communities in Panay Island located in Western Visayas, Philippines. Pirot’s music, particularly renderings of folk music genres, such as harana (serenade) and komposo (ballad), had been in mainstream broadcast media and were widely produced by the recording industry in the 1970s. Because of the parallels between his music and West Visayan folk practice, folk musicians categorically ascribe and recognise his music as dinuma-an (tradition and traditional) to refer to a standard folk canon with an associated pastoral imagery. Later, Pirot’s music had become emblematic of a regional folk, cultural and/or ethnic identity. This paper investigates the problematic fluidity of boundaries between traditional and popular music categories and its implications in the construction of identity in the Western Visay.....

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Zaum Box is a collection of compositions for solo speaking percussionist setting transrational Russian futurist sound poetry called zaum. Zaum arose among a small interdisciplinary group of artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who invented a beyond-rational language as part of the radical disruption of traditional artistic and expressive forms, necessary to bring about the accelerated experience of a technologically-driven future. The subgenre of contemporary concert music for solo speaking instrumentalist dates from the 1970’s and has grown into a significant branch of the solo percussion repertoire. The composition of Zaum Box was founded on an extended period of research into zaum, futurism and Russian language. The complete set of compositions was produced as a limited-edition box set of uniquely formatted scores, which were realised by percussionist Katelyn Rose King in a set of ten videos. This article by the composer reviews all the phases of this project, including resear.....

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This article addresses newly developed approaches to gamelan composition among Balinese composers by focusing on changes and innovations within tradition. Balinese composers today represent a cross-section of arts communities who collectively have produced some of the most innovative gamelan compositions in nearly half a century. Subjected to increasingly cosmopolitan reviews from both conservative and progressive audiences, these composers encapsulate the shifting ideals of a generation who value new aesthetic paradigms that increasingly diverge from the history, tradition and legacy of their traditional Balinese predecessors. In the fiercely competitive world of gamelan group rivalry, struggles and triumphs between contemporary composers have always seen creative boundaries pushed to their limits. I examine some of these triumphs and limitations by examining the creative output of six representative Balinese composers who contend with innovation and its reception in local contexts. I.....

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This  research  aims  to  produce  visual  artwork  through  identity  interpretation  and political  culture  in  Bangladesh.  This  concept  manifests  a  sense  of  the  process  of  expressing Bangladesh's unique identity by making a subtle difference with India. The main  objectives focusing on the Bengal tradition and symbol with artistic practices in pre and  post-liberation in Bangladesh and the evolving current  scene. The reference artists within this  research project  are Safiuddin Ahmed, SM Sultan, Zainul Abedin, Maqbool Fida Husain, Melanie Hava,  Quamrul Hassan, and Shahabuddin Ahmed. The justification  of selected  this  artist  because  they  are  producing  the  issues  of  identity interpretation in Bangladesh's political scenery. The  reference of artworks carried out a suggestion on how the combined traditional folk art and modern  aesthetic framework with specific symbols had been produced. A studio practice metho.....

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This aim of this study is to investigate the perspectives of Korean pre-service music teachers on self-directed thesis seminar conducted in the graduate teacher education program. This research focused on 1) the attitude of pre-service music teachers towards self-directed thesis seminar and 2) the impact of self-directed thesis seminar on the progress of the pre-service music teachers’ performance. Ten pre-service music teachers participated in the researcher’s thesis seminar. The results demonstrated that most of the participants were anxious and insecure in managing the various educational resources as well as monitoring the progress of their study. However, the selfdirected thesis seminar has indirectly provided the participants with a new learning environment to manage their own goals, initiate their own learning, and responsible for their own progress and outcomes. The findings also showed that collaborative learning is essential as an instructional approach in self-directed l.....

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This survey research aims to assess the collegiate instrumental teachers’ ability to estimate students’ practice habits in the practice room based on the students’ performance during the instrumental lesson and to collect collegiate instrumental teachers’ suggestions on estimating students’ practice habits in the practice room. A questionnaire in two forms was designed for 15 collegiate instrumental teachers and 30 music performance undergraduate students who were selected through a convenience sampling approach. The percent agreement (PA) and Cohen’s kappa ( ) were utilised to examine the inter-rater reliability between the results of both participants on the practice habits that focus on the practice time, practice sessions, goal setting, focused attention, mental practice, technique practice, metronome practice, practise with an electronic tuner, and practise with other practice strategies. The low average results, 31.50% on the percent agreement and .0437 on the Cohen�.....

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In Bali, compositional process in music was traditionally more intuitive than conceptual. The recreation of beauty in nature through musical expression and melodic ideas was and is still thought to be sufficient for many to form a musical repertoire. However, these examples may be perceived as naïve, straightforward, or simplistic expressions in comparison to newer styles of Balinese musical composition. This article discusses how the terms ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ are understood by academic and non-academic Balinese artists (both musicians and composers alike), and the extent to which they influence the aesthetics of Balinese composers’ musical creations. Initially, I examine the historical dimension of Balinese compositions with all of its challenges, considering the terms ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ as important to the understanding of the development of Balinese musical creations. I explore some new works for gamelan by Balinese composers, and further address so.....

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This research aimed to synthesis and investigate the potential of amphiphilic chitosan derivatives, namely N-octyl-O-sulfate chitosan (NOOSC), N-octyl-N-succinyl chitosan (NONSC), N-octyl-O-glycol chitosan (NOOGC), N-deoxycholic acid-Oglycol chitosan (DAGC), N-hexanoyl-O-glycol chitosan (HGC) and N-lauryl-Oglycol chitosan (LGC) as environmental friendly media for atrazine, rotenone and thymol formulations. The amphiphilic chitosan derivatives were characterised using proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectrometer, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer, CHNS-O elemental analyser, fluorescence spectrometer and scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). Encapsulation efficiency of pesticide active ingredients by amphiphilic chitosan derivatives was determined using a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The release mechanism of atrazine, rotenone and thymol from the amphiphilic chitosan derivatives micelles was fitted to four kinetic models. .....

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This research aimed to synthesis intercalated nanocomposites of paddy pesticides for controlled release formulation (CRF), namely zinc/aluminium–layered double hydroxide–quinclorac (Zn/Al–LDH–QC), zinc hydroxide nitrate–sodium dodecylsulphate–bispyribac (ZHN–SDS–BP) and zinc hydroxide nitrate–sodium dodecylsulphate–imidacloprid (ZHN–SDS–IC) using coprecipitation method. Surface modification of the nanocomposites, were then performed using carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and chitosan coatings. The physicochemical properties, CRF and kinetic behaviour were monitored using powder X–ray diffraction (PXRD), thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), elemental analysis, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), gas sorption analysis and ultraviolet–visible spectrometer. The appearance of intercalation peaks at lower 2θ angle in the PXRD pattern, 15.8–16.7 ? (Zn/Al–LDH–QC), 28.2–28.6 ? (ZHN–SDS– BP).....

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