Smartphone addiction is a new phenomenon when a smartphone becomes a necessity in our daily life. This study explores smartphone usage patterns associated with its addiction drivers and results. Four factors such as ease of use, emotional lift, preference of social interaction, and flow, are used for drivers and neglect of work is used as a proxy of addiction result. In the output of path analy...

In her article "Globalization and Theater Spectacles in Asia" I-Chun Wang discusses how performance is an integral part of cultural discourse: in industrially advanced Asian nations governments started to examine the relationship between cultural discourse and popular culture, cultural identity and tourist attractions and artists have become prominent participants in this development in particu...

The phenomenon of globalization, which refers to the rising trade and Ž nancial integration of the world economy, has gathered steam in recent decades. The growth rate of world trade has been greater than that of world output in almost all years since 1960, and the cumulative increase in the volume of world trade is almost three times larger than that of world output over this period. A more dr...

Retroperitoneal lipoma presenting with a nutcracker-like phenomenon is extremely rare. I experienced a case of a 65-year-old man presenting with left flank pain and macrohematuria intermittently for 3 years. Computed tomography revealed a lipoma at the left pedicle of the kidney, 30 mm in diameter, causing a curving of the left renal artery and dilatation of the left renal vein. This patient wa...

This article explores the impacts of cultural globalization on the cultural awareness and orientation of cultural values among educated Chinese young people and on English writing of Chinese college students. It demonstrates that, while making fast achievements in its economy in the process of globalization, China has also gone through great changes in its national culture in the areas of tradi...

Hallyu phenomenon is a globalized cultural product from South Korea that has spread uncontrollably into many parts of the world, and Malaysia was no exception. With aid media internet, domination its significant products such as K-drama, K-pop music, K-Food, K-Beauty, technology brands left an indisputable impact on society. Hallyu's wide acceptance in Malaysia, however, received backlash anti-...

Since the late 1970s, globalization has become a phenomenon that has elicited polarizing responses from scholars, politicians, activists, and the business community. Several scholars and activists, such as labor unions, see globalization as an anti-democratic movement that would weaken the nation-state in favor of the great powers. There is no doubt that globalization, no matter how it is defin...

Algorithms for solving agreement problems can be classified in two categories: (1) those relying on failure detectors that we call FD-based, and (2) those that rely on a Group Membership Service that we call GMS-based. The paper discusses the advantages and limitations of these two approaches, and proposes an extension to the GMS-approach that combines the advantages of both approaches, without...