Amachi In Brief

This first issue in P/PV's In Brief series focuses on the Amachi program, which partners faith-based organizations with public agencies and nonprofit service providers to identify the children of prisoners and match them with caring adult volunteers.Amachi In Brief touches on the program's development and recruiting strategies, its early results and its expansion into new cities

Pupal and Adult Parameters as Potential Indicators of Cottonwood Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Fecundity and Longevity

Cottonwood leaf beetle, Chrysomela scripta, pupae from a laboratory colony were weighed and monitored through adult emergence, oviposition, and mortality to determine if correlations existed between various pupal or adult parameters and fecundity or longevity. Forty-three female cottonwood leaf beetles were monitored. Pupal weight was not a good indicator of fecundity, total oviposition events, number of eggs/beetle/day, or adult longevity. In addition, adult weight showed very low correlation with fecundity, adult longevity, total oviposition events, or number of eggs/beetle/day. However, adult weight was a marginal indicator of the number of eggs/beetle/day, and correlated well with adult body length. Adult longevity could be used to predict fecundity

Mitigating blind spot collision utilizing ultrasonic gap perimeter sensor

Failure to identify the vehicle by the side of the vehicle or in other word as blind spot area, especially larger vehicles are one of the causes of the accident. For some drivers, the simple solution is to place an additional side mirror. However, it is not the best solution because this additional side mirrors do not provide an accurate picture of actual or estimated distance to the object or another vehicle. The objective of this project is to identify the causes of automobile collisions, notably the side collision impact causes by the blind spot, to develop a system that can detect the presence vehicles on the side and to develop a system that are affordable for normal car users. To achieve this objective, flow chart was designed to help write coding using Arduino 1.0.2 and design hardware. This system can detect the obstacle within range 2cm to 320cm from the edge of the project vehicle. Before this system developed, the survey was conducted to determine what the driver wants. After that, the design process is carried out. The input to this system is Ping ultrasonic sensor, LCD, LED, and siren for the output part. LCD and LED were displaying the distance from the vehicle and the siren will be switched on to warn the driver when have obstacle in the blind spot area. As a conclusion, the Mitigating Blind Spot Collision Utilizing Ultrasonic Gap Perimeter Sensor System has successfully completed. This system able to detect the presence of other vehicles on the side of the project vehicle, especially in the blind spot area and will alert the driver when the vehicle is nearby when the alarm system is operated. The efficiency of this system to detect objects in the blind spot area is 79.82%. Others, it will give the display value less than one second after obstacle exists in front of the sensor. This operating time is most important because if the system is slow, the main function of this system to detect the obstacle in the blind spot area is not achieved

An economic assessment of the accession of the Central and Eastern European countries to the EU single market

In 2004 the European Union is due to incorporate 10 new members, mostly from theCentral and Eastern European Countries (CECs). Trade between the EU and CECs currently falls well short of that between EU countries, and if we assume this pattern reflects both tariffs and a resource cost due to regulatory differences, then 1997 trade patterns would imply such costs are 7-15% on trade between the EU and CECs. Elimination/harmonisation of remaining tariffs is likely to bring small welfare gains to new entrants. By contrast entry to the Single Market looks far more significant: after both tariff union and entry to the Single Market total trade volumes between the EU and CECs could rise by 50-100% (much more in some commodities), while welfare gains in the CECs could be of the order of 11.5-20%, larger than the previous two studies have suggested. Welfare gains within the EU are around 0.4% of GDP, with all regions gaining but Germany gaining most. Gains are greater where capital is fully mobile

PENGARUH KEGIATAN EKSTRAKURIKULER DAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR SISWA TERHADAP PRESTASI BELAJAR SISWA PADA PROGRAM KOMPETENSI KEAHLIAN TEKNIK INSTALASI TENAGA LISTRIK DI SMK NEGERI 2 WONOSARI

Faktor yang mempengaruhi prestasi belajar siswa antara lain kegiatan ekstrakurikuler dan motivasi belajar. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kegiatan ekstrakurikuler siswa dan motivasi belajar siswa terhadap prestasi belajar siswa pada Program Kompetensi Keahlian Teknik Instalasi Tenaga Listrik di SMK Negeri 2 Wonosari. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian ex post facto dan populasi, dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Penelitian dilakukan di SMK Negeri 2 Wonosari dan respondennya adalah siswa kelas X dan XI Program Kompetensi Keahlian Teknik Instalasi Tenaga Listrik di SMK Negeri 2 Wonosari Tahun Ajaran 2011/2012 yang berjumlah 127 siswa. Variabel dalam penelitian ini yaitu kegiatan ekstrakurikuler (X1) dan motivasi belajar (X2) sebagai variabel bebas dan prestasi belajar (Y) sebagai variabel terikatnya. Pengumpulan data untuk variabel kegiatan ekstrakurikuler dan motivasi belajar menggunakan metode angket dengan skala Likert, sedangkan untuk variabel prestasi belajar dengan metode dokumentasi yang dikuantitatifkan. Pengujian persyaratan analisis meliputi uji normalitas, uji heteroskedastisitas dan uji multikolinieritas. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif untuk menghitung harga mean, median, modus, dan simpangan baku. Uji hipotesis menggunakan analisis regresi linier sederhana dan berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) antara kegiatan ekstrakurikuler terhadap prestasi belajar tidak terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan, dengan kontribusi 0,6% dan sisanya 99,4% ditentukan oleh variabel lain, (2) antara motivasi belajar terhadap prestasi belajar terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan, dengan kontribusi 5,2% dan sisanya 94,8% ditentukan oleh variabel lain, (3) antara kegiatan ekstrakurikuler dan motivasi belajar terhadap prestasi belajar terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan, dengan kontribusi 5,5% dan sisanya 94,5% ditentukan oleh variabel lain