A BLUEPRINT FOR IMPLEMENTING GRAND CHALLENGE SCHOLARS’ PROGRAMME: A CASE STUDY OF TAYLOR’S UNIVERSITY

The National Academy for Engineering announced 14 Grand Challenges for the 21st Century engineers to address in order to ensure a sustainable future for the generations to come. These grand challenges are in four broad areas, namely, energy and environment, health, security and learning and computation. This paper reports on a Grand Challenges Scholars’ Programme that is developed to prepare the engineering students to be able to address the grand challenges using the CDIO framework and focusing on five components; research experience, interdisciplinary curriculum, entrepreneurship, global dimension and service learning. The programme is voluntary and the candidates are expected to commit additional learning time. The programme was launched with 16 participants who are expected to graduate in 2016. A preliminary assessment of the programs shows that the participants found the programme useful in developing an array of CDIO skills. The School intends to continue offering this programme with the intention of integrating it with a holistic education approach

Pengembangan Sistem Dashboard untuk Mengevaluasi Platform E-Marketplace dengan Metode Scrum pada Startup GRAVIS

Dalam pengelolaan sebuah bisnis, penjual perlu mengetahui kinerja tokonya dengan mengolah dan menganalisis data transaksi dengan pembeli menjadi sebuah informasi menggunakan Dashboard. Penggunaan dashboard cukup penting sehingga butuh studi lanjutan terkait evaluasi penggunaannya. Penelitian sebelumnya lebih banyak membahas pembuatan dan pengembangan aplikasi dashboard berbasis website dan mendiskusikan operasionalisasi dashboard pada lembaga pendidikan. Oleh karena itu penelitian ini berupaya memfokuskan pada aspek perusahaan rintisan. Penelitian ini akan difokuskan pengembangan dashboard menggunakan framework Laravel dengan metode pengembangan Scrum. Penelitian ini menggunakan model konseptual dan sistematika penyelesaian masalah sehingga tercipta sebuah aplikasi yang membantu e-Marketplace. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah (1) memahami KPI evaluasi platform GRAVIS. (2) memahami konsep arsitektur aplikasi dashboard platform GRAVIS. (3) mengembangkan dashboard untuk menyajikan informasi dalam bentuk visualisasi data. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan (1) Key performance indicator (KPI) yang digunakan meliputi enam belas poin utama. (2) Dashboard akan menampilkan informasi dengan gauge chart, line chart dan bar chart. (3) Hasil dari enam scenario black-box testing yang diujikan mendapatkan total sukses sebanyak enam scenario dan nol scenario gagal, maka dari itu hasil dari pengujian black-box testing selesai pada iterasi pertama

REDESIGN USER INTERFACE WEBSITE PORTAL MENGGUNAKAN METODE ATOMIC DESIGN (STUDI KASUS : BADAN PENGAWAS OBAT DAN MAKANAN)

Akses informasi menjadi sangat penting bagi masyarakat untuk mendapatkan informasi dari BPOM. Saat ini BPOM telah memiliki sebuah website resmi pada laman https://www.pom.go.id/. Mengingat BPOM sendiri membawahi sub unit layanan yang sangat banyak, maka informasi yang tersedia dalam website ini semakin bertambah seiring berjalannya waktu Akibatnya informasi menjadi sangat banyak dan pengunjung website mengalami kesulitan untuk mencari informasi yang sesuai. Tanpa sebuah struktur maupun pengelolaan tertentu, maka website akan memiliki nilai kegunaan yang sangat rendah dan infor-masi cenderung overload. Untuk menghindari permasalahan ini terjadi, dapat dilakukan penyortingan informasi dan perbaikan desain website agar informasi yang terdapat dalam website tersebut lebih tertata dan website nyaman untuk dilihat, sehingga masyarakat lebih mudah menemukan informasi yang dibu-tuhkan. Atomic Design adalah sebuah metodologi desain yang terdiri dari lima tahap yang saling beker-jasama untuk membuat sebuah sistem desain antarmuka dengan cara yang hierarkis mulai dari atom, molekul, organisme, template, hingga menjadi pages / laman. Berdasarkan penelitian yang dilakukan mengenai desain ulang halaman utama website BPOM menggunakan atomic design, maka kesimpulan yang dapat diambil dari penelitian ini adalah rancangan user interface terlihat lebih modern dan selaras, arsitektur informasi lebih jelas, navigasi website menjadi lebih mudah user lebih mudah mencari dan menemukan informasi yang user butuhkan

Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network

Landslide is one of the natural disasters that occur in Malaysia. Topographic factors such as elevation, slope angle, slope aspect, general curvature, plan curvature, and profile curvature are considered as the main causes of landslides. In order to determine the dominant topographic factors in landslide mapping analysis, a study was conducted and presented in this paper. There are three main stages involved in this study. The first stage is the extraction of extra topographic factors. Previous landslide studies had identified mainly six topographic factors. Seven new additional factors have been proposed in this study.They are longitude curvature, tangential curvature, cross section curvature, surface area, diagonal line length, surface roughness, and rugosity. The second stage is the specification of the weight of each factor using two methods. The methods are multilayer perceptron (MLP) network classification accuracy and Zhou’s algorithm. At the third stage, the factors with higher weights were used to improve the MLP performance. Out of the thirteen factors, eight factors were considered as important factors, which are surface area, longitude curvature, diagonal length, slope angle, elevation, slope aspect, rugosity, and profile curvature.Theclassification accuracy of multilayer perceptron neural network has increased by 3% after the elimination of five less important factors

Physicomechanical properties of a zinc-reinforced glass ionomer restorative material

We compared a zinc-reinforced glass ionomer restorative material (ChemFil Rock) with three commercially available glass ionomer cements (GICs), namely, Fuji IX GP Extra, Ketac Molar Quick Aplicap, and EQUIA Fil, with respect to fracture toughness, microhardness, roughness, and abrasive wear. Fracture toughness (KIC) was tested according to ISO 13586 (n = 10). Hardness, roughness, and abrasive wear were also tested (n = 9). Data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test with adjustment for multiple comparisons (α = 0.05). As compared with the other GICs ChemFil Rock exhibited a greater increase in surface roughness (P 0.05). ChemFil Rock had significantly lower fracture toughness as compared with EQUIA Fil (P = 0.01) and significantly higher fracture toughness as compared with the other GICs (P < 0.02). In conclusion, as compared with the three other commercially available GICs, ChemFil Rock had intermediate fracture toughness, the lowest microhardness, and the greatest change in surface roughness

Semantic Knowledge Graphs for the News: A Review

ICT platforms for news production, distribution, and consumption must exploit the ever-growing availability of digital data. These data originate from different sources and in different formats; they arrive at different velocities and in different volumes. Semantic knowledge graphs (KGs) is an established technique for integrating such heterogeneous information. It is therefore well-aligned with the needs of news producers and distributors, and it is likely to become increasingly important for the news industry. This article reviews the research on using semantic knowledge graphs for production, distribution, and consumption of news. The purpose is to present an overview of the field; to investigate what it means; and to suggest opportunities and needs for further research and development.publishedVersio

The nexus among green financial development and renewable energy: investment in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic

Environmental protection has become a significant issue around the globe. The extensive use of renewable energy and green finance is considered as the solution to this dramatic issue, especially in the Covid-19 lockdown. To answer this demand, the present study examines the impact of green financial development such as green credit, green investment, and green securities along with corporate social responsibility (CSR) in reporting renewable energy investment based on evidence from an emerging economy. Economic growth was used as the control variable of the study. The data was gathered from the central bank and World Development Indicators (WDI) from 1976 to 2020. The error correction model (ECM) was used to test the nexus among the variables. The findings revealed that green credit, green investment, and green securities along with CSR reporting and economic growth have a significant positive nexus with renewable energy investment in the selected emerging economy. These outcomes are helpful for new arrivals to investigate this area in the future along with regulators who want to formulate policies related to green finance and renewable energy usage and investment in the context of emerging and developing countries

Analysis and Prediction of Patient Survival After Radiotherapy For Liver Cancer Based On Volumetric Segmental Response and Clinically Relevant Factors

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