IDENTIFICATION AND SOLUTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY-BASED AGROTOURISM: CASE STUDY IN THE TUTUR SUBDISTRICT OF PASURUAN DISTRICT

ABSTRACT Tourism is becoming advantage commodity, because it’s able to contribute significantly on foreign exchange from non oil and gas commodities.  Nowadays, Indonesia is 60th ranking and left behind from other Asian countries. This was  caused by some problems of Indonesian tourism. The objectives of this research were  to identify and structuralize some problems in agrotourism in Tutur Subdistrict and to obtain the solution for its development. This research was  case study using the systemic approach.  Data were  analyzed by Interpretative Structural Modelling (ISM).  The result of this research shows that Tutur Subddistrict agrotourism development have many problems.  Main problems were  low  quality of human resources management and  weakness of business orientation.  The solution would be to develop training on agrotourism and business to human resources in Tutur subdistrict , so that they can work  and  manage their business professionally. Keywords: agrotourism,  ISM, human resources quality, business , solution, professiona

IDENTIFICATION AND SOLUTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY-BASED AGROTOURISM: CASE STUDY IN THE TUTUR SUBDISTRICT OF PASURUAN DISTRICT

ABSTRACT Tourism is becoming advantage commodity, because it’s able to contribute significantly on foreign exchange from non oil and gas commodities.  Nowadays, Indonesia is 60th ranking and left behind from other Asian countries. This was  caused by some problems of Indonesian tourism. The objectives of this research were  to identify and structuralize some problems in agrotourism in Tutur Subdistrict and to obtain the solution for its development. This research was  case study using the systemic approach.  Data were  analyzed by Interpretative Structural Modelling (ISM).  The result of this research shows that Tutur Subddistrict agrotourism development have many problems.  Main problems were  low  quality of human resources management and  weakness of business orientation.  The solution would be to develop training on agrotourism and business to human resources in Tutur subdistrict , so that they can work  and  manage their business professionally. Keywords: agrotourism,  ISM, human resources quality, business , solution, professiona

Calculation of dose distribution on Rhizophora spp soy protein phantom at 6 MV photon beam energy using Monte Carlo method

Some of the commercial solid phantoms were unable to provide a good simulation to water atlow and high energy ranges. A potential phantom from Malaysian mangrove wood family,Rhizophoraspp was fabricated with addition of Soy Protein. An Electron Gamma Sho(EGSnrc) code was used to evaluate the dose distribution on Rhizophoraspp Soy Proteinphantom at 6 MV photon beam energy.  The result of the Rhizophoraspp Soy Protein phantom was then compared with the water phantom and the solid water phantom. This study showed that the uncertainty between Rhizophoraspp Soy Protein phantom and the water phantom and the solid water phantom is less than 8 % at certain depth. These comparable results have demonstrated the potential of the Rhizophoraspp Soy Protein phantom as another option for solid phantom in dosimetry purposes.Keywords: mangrove wood; solid water phantom; water equivalent phantom; EGSnrc; depth dose

Charged Higgs boson contribution to νˉe−e\bar{\nu}_e-e scattering from low to ultrahigh energy in Higgs triplet model

We study the $\bar{\nu}_e-e$ scattering from low to ultrahigh energy in the framework of Higgs Triplet Model (HTM). We add the contribution of charged Higgs boson exchange to the total cross section of the scattering. We obtain the upper bound $h_{ee}/M_{H^\pm}\lesssim2.8\times10^{-3}GeV^{-1}$ in this process from low energy experiment. We show that by using the upper bound obtained, the charged Higgs contribution can give enhancements to the total cross section with respect to the SM prediction up to 5.16% at $E\leq10^{14}$ eV and maximum at $s\approx M_{H^\pm}^2$ and would help to determine the feasibility experiments to discriminate between SM and HTM at current available facilities.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure

Mitochondrial DNA diversity of the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) from the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia

We examined the genetic diversity of 64 long-tailed macaques from the northern states of Peninsular Malaysia covering the states of Perlis and Kedah including the Langkawi Island using the complete control region (CR) segment of the mitochondrial DNA. Standard genetic diversity including nucleotide diversity, haplotype diversity and genetic divergence were calculated. Moderate nucleotide diversity (π = 0.021) was observed which is higher than a previous study on the Penang M. fascicularis population. Twenty-three haplotypes were detected with haplotype diversity, h of 0.936. Haplotype sharing was observed among Langkawi and Perlis macaques indicating historical connection between the island and the mainland. Phylogenetic trees constructed grouped the samples into 4 groups without any obvious populations structuring

An insight on the flora species and meiofauna distribution at Pantai Kelanang mangrove forest, Morib, Selangor

Mangrove forest at Pantai Kelanang was famous for its diverse marine wildlife and various density of flora and meiofauna distributed at Morib shorelines. Moreover, the diverse marine wildlife, variation of flora and meiofauna distribution at Kelanang mangrove area has never been documented. Kelanang mangrove forest is also surrounded within heavy industrial activity zoning along the Malacca Straits. The objective of this study is to determine the diversity and distribution density of the mangrove flora and meiofauna at different intertidal zones influenced by prolonged human activities. Block sampling technique with quadrat analysis was used in this study. There are two major plants species belonging to Avicennia and Sonneratia families that have been discovered, where the average diameter at breast height was recorded between 3.3 to 32 cm and the average height ranged between 2.0 to 14.5 m. Whereas, Nematoda was found to be the largest distributed meiofauna compared to other meiofauna taxa such as Harpacticoida, Copepoda, Oligochaetea and Polychaetea. Flora species at Kelanang mangrove forest are less diverse at different intertidal zones and the meiofauna diversity were less at the mid- and high-intertidal zones. This finding may be a direct consequence of the influence of heavy industrial activities along the Malacca Straits

A multi-stakeholder strategy to identify conservation priorities in Peninsular Malaysia

Malaysia, with its rapidly growing economy, exemplifies the tensions between conservation and development faced by many tropical nations. Here we present the results of a multi-stakeholder engagement exercise conducted to (1) define conservation priorities in Peninsular Malaysia and (2) explore differences in perceptions among and within stakeholder groups (i.e. government, academia, NGOs and the private sector). Our data collection involved two workshops and two online surveys where participants identified seven general conservation themes and ranked the top five priority issues within each theme. The themes were: (1) policy and management, (2) legislation and enforcement, (3) finance and resource allocation, (4) knowledge, research and development, (5) socio-economic issues, (6) public awareness and participation and (7) rights of nature. In spite of their very different backgrounds and agendas, the four stakeholder groups showed general agreement in their priority preferences except for two issues. Respondents from government and private sector differed the most from each other in their priority choices while academia and NGO showed the highest degree of similarity. This ranked list of 35 conservation priorities is expected to influence the work of policy-makers and others in Peninsular Malaysia and can be used as a model to identify conservation priorities elsewhere

Optimasi Portofolio Resiko Menggunakan Model Markowitz MVO Dikaitkan dengan Keterbatasan Manusia dalam Memprediksi Masa Depan dalam Perspektif Al-Qur`an

Risk portfolio on modern finance has become increasingly technical, requiring the use of sophisticated mathematical tools in both research and practice. Since companies cannot insure themselves completely against risk, as human incompetence in predicting the future precisely that written in Al-Quran surah Luqman verse 34, they have to manage it to yield an optimal portfolio. The objective here is to minimize the variance among all portfolios, or alternatively, to maximize expected return among all portfolios that has at least a certain expected return. Furthermore, this study focuses on optimizing risk portfolio so called Markowitz MVO (Mean-Variance Optimization). Some theoretical frameworks for analysis are arithmetic mean, geometric mean, variance, covariance, linear programming, and quadratic programming. Moreover, finding a minimum variance portfolio produces a convex quadratic programming, that is minimizing the objective function ðð¥with constraintsð ð 𥠥 ðandð´ð¥ = ð. The outcome of this research is the solution of optimal risk portofolio in some investments that could be finished smoothly using MATLAB R2007b software together with its graphic analysis

Search for heavy resonances decaying to two Higgs bosons in final states containing four b quarks

A search is presented for narrow heavy resonances X decaying into pairs of Higgs bosons (H) in proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at root s = 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb(-1). The search considers HH resonances with masses between 1 and 3 TeV, having final states of two b quark pairs. Each Higgs boson is produced with large momentum, and the hadronization products of the pair of b quarks can usually be reconstructed as single large jets. The background from multijet and t (t) over bar events is significantly reduced by applying requirements related to the flavor of the jet, its mass, and its substructure. The signal would be identified as a peak on top of the dijet invariant mass spectrum of the remaining background events. No evidence is observed for such a signal. Upper limits obtained at 95 confidence level for the product of the production cross section and branching fraction sigma(gg -> X) B(X -> HH -> b (b) over barb (b) over bar) range from 10 to 1.5 fb for the mass of X from 1.15 to 2.0 TeV, significantly extending previous searches. For a warped extra dimension theory with amass scale Lambda(R) = 1 TeV, the data exclude radion scalar masses between 1.15 and 1.55 TeV