Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh takut akan kegagalan terhadap prokrastinasi akademik yang dimoderasi status identitas vokasional pada mahasiswa Bidikmisi Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. dilakukan 227 orang Indonesia tingkat satu, dua, tiga dan empat menggunakan instrumen Academic Procrastination Scale (APS), The Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (PFAI), Occupational I...

This study examines the role of students' thinking styles in their knowledge and use of as well as in their attitudes towards the use of computing and information technology (CIT) in education. One hundred and five students from a large university in Texas responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory and to a brief measure of their attitudes towards the use of CIT in education. Between the presen...

The western side of Hong Kong possesses estuarine characteristics (from the Pearl River estuary) and the eastern side is mainly influenced by the oligotrophic South China Sea, while the southern side has intermediate hydrological characteristics. We investigated the concentrations of dissolved inorganic nutrients and limitations to phytoplankton growth at these 3 locations around Hong Kong. As ...

This study describes and examines the acoustic properties of the central vowels [ɨ] and [ ] in Malaysian Hokkien (MH). The two central vowels are typologically special in that both of them are “full-fledged”, phonemic vowels in an inventory. Therefore our main research question is to see if the two central vowels are subject to contextual influences, just like their counterparts in other langua...

Apart from Tamil, Malayalam is the only Dravidian language that still retains a fifth liquid in its inventory (denoted as /ʐ/), a sound that can be traced back to Proto-Dravidian. The phonetic and phonological status of this sound has been the subject of considerable debate, both in terms of its rhotic versus lateral status and its phonetic realisation. Studies to date have been impressionistic...