Effect of Work Culture and Physical Skills Competency on Employee Performance at PT. Khong Guan Biscuit Factory Indonesia Ltd

The objectives of this study are: 1) To determine the effect of work culture on employee performance at PT. Khong Guan Biscuit Factory Indonesia Ltd. 2) To determine the effect of physical skill competence on employee performance at PT. Khong Guan Biscuit Factory Indonesia Ltd.. 3) To determine the effect of work culture and physical skill competence together on employee performance at PT. Khong Guan Biscuit Factory Indonesia Ltd. This research approach is quantitative, descriptive and associative. The population in this study were 50 PT. Khong Guan Biscuit Factory Indonesia Ltd. In this study, the sampling technique used is non-probability sampling with the technique taken is saturated sampling (census), a sample of 50 respondents was taken at PT. Khong Guan Biscuit Factory Indonesia Ltd. The results of this study indicate that: 1) There is an influence of work culture on employee performance. 2) There is an influence of physical skill competence on employee performance. 3) There is an influence of work culture and physical skill competence together on employee performance. Keywords: Work Culture, Competence, Employee Performanc

PELANGGARAN P3SPS DALAM PROGRAM REALITY SHOW (STUDY ANALISIS ISI TERHADAP REALITY SHOW“BROWNIS” TRANS TV)

Banyak program-program talk show terbaru yang semakin menghiasi pertelevisian Indonesia. Talk show juga ambil peran dalam meramaikan industry pertelevisian Indonesia. Secara serempak seluruh industry televisi berlomba-lomba menyuguhkan tayangan program talk show untuk menarik perhatian masyarakatnya. Namun sangat disayangkan ketika stasiun televisi menayangkan acara talk show yang berbau yang tidak mendidik dan adanya kata-kata kasar serta kekerasan dalam program acara tersebut yang tidak layak ditonton oleh anak-anak. Salah satu contoh program acara yang sudah beberapa kali ditegur oleh KPI bahkan sudah pernah dihentikan sementara oleh KPI adalah Program Brownis.Program ini di anggap melanggar Pedoman Perilaku Penyiaran (P3) Dan Standar Program Siaran (SPS). Program “Brownis Trans TV” kembali mendapat sanksi berupa teguran tertulis. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pelanggaran P3SPS yang dilakukan oleh program Brownis, pasca mendapat teguran tertulis dari pihak KPI. Metode penelitian yang digunakan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif dan metode yang digunakan analisis isi kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data observasi dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian mengungkapkan program Brownis masih melakukan pelanggaran P3SPS yang tayang pada tgl 28 oktober 2020. masih melakukan Pelanggaran P3SPS terhadap norma baik kesopanan maupun kesusilaan masih dilakukan program acara ini. n. Standar Program Siaran (SPS) yang seharusnya menjadi pedoman dalam penyelenggaraan dunia penyiaran tidak dilaksanakan secara maksimal.Berdasarkan Pedoman Perilaku Penyiaran Dan Standar Program Siaran Program Brownis ini masih melakukan Pelanggaran Setelah adanya teguran dari KPI. Pasca teguran KPI program masih melakukan pelanggaran yang terdapat pada pasal 9 tentang nilai dan norma kesopanan. Yang dimana sebagai bintang tamu atau narasumber tidak dilakukan selayaknya bintang tamu dan melakukan hal yang tidak patut dicontoh oleh masyarakat. Pasal 37 ayat a yang dimana membenarkan perilaku yang tidak pantas tersebut sebagai hal yang lumrah dalam kehidupan sehari-hari

SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS ON GIANT CHARACTER IN JACK THE GIANT KILLER : A FAIRY TALE BY BENJAMIN TABART

Keywords: Structural, Semiotics, Symbol, Fairy tale Fairy tale is the oldest genre of human culture. Its aims are to conveymoral and entertainment. Fairy tale is the reflection of social custom. One ofEnglish Fairy Tale, Jack the Giant Killer consists of moral value and societycustom that represents signs. This research aims to investigate: the kind of symbol found in the Jack the Giant Killer and its relation with English society.This research applies semiotic analysis by Peirce and structural by Propp.Structural narrative by Propp deals with the sequences of event in the fairy tale.The sequences of event is known as function; the act of character. Semiotics is the study of signs. Everything can be signs while it is interpreted as a sign. For further information, sign is divided into three; icon, index and symbol. The symbol is a sign that shows the relation between signified and signifier, and the relation between it are arbitrary.The result of this research based on Peirce’s concept shows there are threeicon finds in this tale; imaginal, diagrammatic and metaphoric icon. The indexical sign is the reason, cause-effect relation that shows the giant as the villain in the tales. The symbolic sign is giant character in this tale is a symbol of powerful and tyrant character of English’ upper-class in 18th century. The signs found in Jack the Giant Killer supported by function of Propp’s structural.The researcher suggests the next researchers who have the same field mustbe more careful when they interpret something as a symbol so that the study willbe more accurate. Making the new concept of problem and make the limitationalso can help the next researcher to focus and make the study better

ZBED4, a cone and Müller cell protein in human retina, has a different cellular expression in mouse.

PurposeZBED4, a protein in cones and Müller cells of human retina, may play important functions as a transcriptional activator of genes expressed in those cells or as a co-activator/repressor of their nuclear hormone receptors. To begin investigating these potential roles of ZBED4, we studied the developmental expression and localization of both the Zbed4 mRNA and protein of mouse retina.Methodsnorthern blots showed the presence of Zbed4 mRNA in retina and other mouse tissues, and western blots showed the nuclear and cytoplasmic expression of Zbed4 at different developmental times. Antibodies against Zbed4 and specific retinal cell markers were used for retinal immunohistochemistry.ResultsZbed4 mRNA was present at different levels in all the mouse tissues analyzed. The Zbed4 protein was barely detectable at embryonic day (E)14.5 but was clearly seen at E16 at both retinal outer and vitreal borders and throughout the retina by E18 and postnatal day 0 (P0). Thereafter, Zbed4 expression was more restricted to the inner retina. While ZBED4 is localized in cones and endfeet of Müller cells of human retina, in adult mouse retina Zbed4 is only detected in Müller cell endfeet and processes. The same localization of Zbed4 was observed in rat retina. In early development, Zbed4 is mainly present in the nuclear fraction of the mouse retina, and in adulthood it becomes more enriched in the cytoplasmic fraction.ConclusionsThe patterns of spatial and temporal expression of Zbed4 in the mouse retina suggest a possible involvement of this protein in retinal morphogenesis and Müller cell function

Reflections on the Utility of the Retina as a Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease: A Literature Review.

As a part of the central nervous system, the retina may reflect both physiologic processes and abnormalities related to diseases of the brain. Indeed, a concerted effort has been put forth to understand how Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology may manifest in the retina as a means to assess the state of the AD brain. The development and refinement of ophthalmologic techniques for studying the retina in vivo have produced evidence of retinal degeneration in AD diagnosed patients. In this review, we will discuss retinal imaging techniques implemented to study the changes in AD retina as well as highlight the recent efforts made to correlate such findings to other clinical hallmarks of AD to assess the viability of the retina as a biomarker for AD

A bio-inspired image coder with temporal scalability

We present a novel bio-inspired and dynamic coding scheme for static images. Our coder aims at reproducing the main steps of the visual stimulus processing in the mammalian retina taking into account its time behavior. The main novelty of this work is to show how to exploit the time behavior of the retina cells to ensure, in a simple way, scalability and bit allocation. To do so, our main source of inspiration will be the biologically plausible retina model called Virtual Retina. Following a similar structure, our model has two stages. The first stage is an image transform which is performed by the outer layers in the retina. Here it is modelled by filtering the image with a bank of difference of Gaussians with time-delays. The second stage is a time-dependent analog-to-digital conversion which is performed by the inner layers in the retina. Thanks to its conception, our coder enables scalability and bit allocation across time. Also, our decoded images do not show annoying artefacts such as ringing and block effects. As a whole, this article shows how to capture the main properties of a biological system, here the retina, in order to design a new efficient coder.Comment: 12 pages; Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2011

Neural ensemble decoding reveals a correlate of viewer- to object-centered spatial transformation in monkey parietal cortex

The parietal cortex contains representations of space in multiple coordinate systems including retina-, head-, body-, and world-based systems. Previously, we found that when monkeys are required to perform spatial computations on objects, many neurons in parietal area 7a represent position in an object-centered coordinate system as well. Because visual information enters the brain in a retina-centered reference frame, generation of an object-centered reference requires the brain to perform computation on the visual input. We provide evidence that area 7a contains a correlate of that computation. Specifically, area 7a contains neurons that code information in retina- and object-centered coordinate systems. The information in retina-centered coordinates emerges first, followed by the information in object-centered coordinates. We found that the strength and accuracy of these representations is correlated across trials. Finally, we found that retina-centered information could be used to predict subsequent object-centered signals, but not vice versa. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that either area 7a, or an area that precedes area 7a in the visual processing hierarchy, is performing the retina- to object-centered transformation

Non-viral delivery and optimized optogenetic stimulation of retinal ganglion cells led to behavioral restoration of vision

Stimulation of retinal neurons using optogenetics via use of chanelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) has opened up a new direction for restoration of vision for treatment of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Here, we report non-viral in-vivo electroporation of degenerated retina of adult RP-mice with ChR2-plasmids and subsequent in-vivo imaging of retina to confirm expression. Further, we demonstrate that in addition to efficient non-viral delivery of ChR2 to a specific retinal layer, threshold level of stimulation light needs to be delivered onto the retina for achieving successful behavioral outcome. Measurement of intensity of light reaching the retina of RP-mouse models along with geometrical optics simulation of light propagation in the eye is reported in order to determine the stimulating source position for optimal light delivery to the retina. The light-guided navigation of mice with ChR2 expressing retinal ganglion cells was found to be significantly improved over a long distance in correlation with stimulation intensity

Egocentric Perception using a Biologically Inspired Software Retina Integrated with a Deep CNN

We presented the concept of of a software retina, capable of significant visual data reduction in combination with scale and rotation invariance, for applications in egocentric and robot vision at the first EPIC workshop in Amsterdam [9]. Our method is based on the mammalian retino-cortical transform: a mapping between a pseudo-randomly tessellated retina model (used to sample an input image) and a CNN. The aim of this first pilot study is to demonstrate a functional retina-integrated CNN implementation and this produced the following results: a network using the full retino-cortical transform yielded an F1 score of 0.80 on a test set during a 4-way classification task, while an identical network not using the proposed method yielded an F1 score of 0.86 on the same task. On a 40K node retina the method reduced the visual data bye×7, the input data to the CNN by 40% and the number of CNN training epochs by 36%. These results demonstrate the viability of our method and hint at the potential of exploiting functional traits of natural vision systems in CNNs. In addition, to the above study, we present further recent developments in porting the retina to an Apple iPhone, an implementation in CUDA C for NVIDIA GPU platforms and extensions of the retina model we have adopted

Streaming an image through the eye: The retina seen as a dithered scalable image coder

We propose the design of an original scalable image coder/decoder that is inspired from the mammalians retina. Our coder accounts for the time-dependent and also nondeterministic behavior of the actual retina. The present work brings two main contributions: As a first step, (i) we design a deterministic image coder mimicking most of the retinal processing stages and then (ii) we introduce a retinal noise in the coding process, that we model here as a dither signal, to gain interesting perceptual features. Regarding our first contribution, our main source of inspiration will be the biologically plausible model of the retina called Virtual Retina. The main novelty of this coder is to show that the time-dependent behavior of the retina cells could ensure, in an implicit way, scalability and bit allocation. Regarding our second contribution, we reconsider the inner layers of the retina. We emit a possible interpretation for the non-determinism observed by neurophysiologists in their output. For this sake, we model the retinal noise that occurs in these layers by a dither signal. The dithering process that we propose adds several interesting features to our image coder. The dither noise whitens the reconstruction error and decorrelates it from the input stimuli. Furthermore, integrating the dither noise in our coder allows a faster recognition of the fine details of the image during the decoding process. Our present paper goal is twofold. First, we aim at mimicking as closely as possible the retina for the design of a novel image coder while keeping encouraging performances. Second, we bring a new insight concerning the non-deterministic behavior of the retina.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1104.155