The Use of Mind Mapping Technique in Writing Descriptive Text

This paper will discuss the result of a study on the effectiveness of mind mapping technique in teaching writing Descriptive texts to seventh-graders in a Junior High School in Bandung. This research used a mixed method between pre-experimental design particularly one group pretest-posttest design and questionnaire and interview techniques. The results indicate that there is a significant improvement in students' writing ability, as can be seen from the results of the t-test, in that the tobt is higher than the tcrit (7.821 > 2.021) at the level significance 0.05 (two-tailed). Furthermore, the results of questionnaires show that most students (86.1%) gave positive responses toward the use of mind mapping technique in writing Descriptive text. Finally, the results of interviews suggest that the students loved this technique because it successfully motivated them to write Descriptive texts in an enjoyable way, to improve their writing Descriptive texts, to increase vocabulary and creativity, to arrange sentences and organize ideas. It is then recommended that mind mapping technique be used in teaching writing in different text types and levels of scholing. Keywods: Mind mapping technique, writing, descriptive text

Molecular characterisation of Sardina pilchards larvae diet in Málaga Bay (SW Mediterranean Sea)

The study of predation in the early life stages of fish by direct observation of their stomach content is very difficult, mostly because prey lose all identifiable characteristics. We developed a multiplex-PCR based method, which detected within the gut of the larvae the presence/absence of the five main species of copepods that live in Malaga Bay: Clausocalanus parapergens, Oncaea waldemari, Paracalanus indicus, Temora stylifera and Acartia clausi. A set of five species-specific primers were designed and combined in a single multiplex PCR system, which allowed a time and cost effective screening of the samples. The method detected as little as 0.09 ng/μL of copepod DNA without cross-reactions with Sardina pilchardus DNA

Warped flavor symmetry predictions for neutrino physics

A realistic five-dimensional warped scenario with all standard model fields propagating in the bulk is proposed. Mass hierarchies would in principle be accounted for by judicious choices of the bulk mass parameters, while fermion mixing angles are restricted by a $\Delta(27)$ flavor symmetry broken on the branes by flavon fields. The latter gives stringent predictions for the neutrino mixing parameters, and the Dirac CP violation phase, all described in terms of only two independent parameters at leading order. The scheme also gives an adequate CKM fit and should be testable within upcoming oscillation experiments.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figue

Nursing Experience in Treating People Living With Hiv/Aids (Plwha) at Adventist Hospital Bandung

Health workers that are the most faced by People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) isanurse. According to UNAIDS, 2016 reluctance of health workers to reach out to thepopulation of PLWHA can limit HIV prevention and care services for PLWHA this statementalso supported by the researcher experience of feeling reluctance to reach out to PLWHApatients. That is why the researcher is interested to do this research. This study usesqualitative methods with the phenomenology approach. There are 6 informants on thisresearch which is female nurses with minimum of working experience in Bandung AdventistHospital for 2 years or above and working in medical hospital ward. The data are gatheredusing snowball sampling and in-depth interview. Coallizi’s method are used to analyze theinterview results. From this research can be found that the informant has knowledge ofHIV/AIDS disease, being acceptance to care for PLWHA, providing nursing care ofthoroughly, and can establish good communication despite facing obstacles such as patientswho would not open up. This research can be an input to enhance the sense of empathy inproviding nursing care in patients People Living with HIV/AIDS