PERSEPSI SISWA KELAS X PROGRAM KEAHLIAN MEKANIK OTOMOTIF SMK MUHAMMADIYAH 3 YOGYAKARTA TERHADAP PENGAJARAN TEAM TEACHING PADA MATA DIKLAT MEMPERBAIKI RODA DAN BAN

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: 1) Persepsi siswa kelas X Program Keahlian Mekanik Otomotif SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta terhadap penyajian materi dalam pengajaran team teaching pada mata diklat memperbaiki roda dan ban. 2) Persepsi siswa kelas X Program Keahlian Mekanik Otomotif SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta terhadap pengelolaan kelas dalam pengajaran team teaching pada mata diklat memperbaiki roda dan ban. 3) Persepsi siswa kelas X Program Keahlian Mekanik Otomotif SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta terhadap latihan siswa dalam pengajaran team teaching pada mata diklat memperbaiki roda dan ban. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian non-eksperimental kuantitatif dengan metode pendekatan deskriptif. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode kuesioner pada 84 orang responden. Uji validitas instrument dilakukan melalui penilaian para ahli (expert judgement). Data disajikan berdasarkan rentang kategori yang telah ditetapkan yakni; baik, cukup baik, kurang baik, dan tidak baik. Data hasil penelitian juga ditampilkan dalam bentuk persentase dan diagram lingkaran (piechart) untuk lebih mudah dalam pemaparan hasil. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: 1) Persepsi siswa kelas X Program Keahlian Mekanik Otomotif SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta terhadap penyajian materi dalam pengajaran team teaching pada mata diklat memperbaiki roda dan ban adalah cukup baik. Ditandai 19 responden atau 23% pada kategori baik, sedangkan 65 responden atau 77% dalam kategori cukup baik. 2.) Persepsi siswa kelas X Program Keahlian Mekanik Otomotif SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta terhadap pengelolaan kelas dalam pengajaran team teaching pada mata diklat memperbaiki roda dan ban adalah cukup baik. Ditandai 23 responden atau 27% dalam kategori baik, 51 responden atau 61% pada kategori cukup baik, dan 10 responden atau 12% pada kategori kurang baik. 3.) Persepsi siswa kelas X Program Keahlian Mekanik Otomotif SMK Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta terhadap latihan siswa dalam pengajaran team teaching pada mata diklat memperbaiki roda dan ban adalah cukup baik. Ditandai 34 responden atau 41% pada kategori baik, 48 responden atau 57% terdapat pada kategori cukup baik, sedangkan 2 responden atau 2% terdapat pada kategori kurang baik

Comparing Models of Macroeconomic Fluctuations: How Big Are the Differences?

I generate priors for a VAR from four competing models of economic fluctuations: a standard RBC model, Fisher’s (2006) investment-specific technology shocks model, an RBC model with capital adjustment costs and habit formation, and a sticky price model with an unaccommodating monetary authority. I compare the accuracy of the forecasts made with each of the resulting VARs. The economic models generate similar forecast errors to one another. However, at horizons of one to two years and greater, the models generally yield superior forecasts to those made using both an unrestricted VAR and a VAR that uses shrinkage from a Minnesota prior.Model Evaluation; Priors from DSGE models; Economic Fluctuations; Hours Debate; Business Cycles;

Why do markets react badly to good news? Evidence from Fed Funds Futures

It is well known that U.S. monetary policy is well-approximated by a Taylor rule. This suggests a reason why good macroeconomic news sometimes depresses equity returns: good news about the real side of the economy implies tighter future monetary policy. I test this hypothesis by assessing the effect of news on equity returns after controlling for changes in expectations of future monetary policy using Fed Funds Futures data. The results do not support the theory. Furthermore, the negative response of stock markets to unanticipated inflation is unchanged by controlling for changes in monetary policy expectations.Fed Funds Futures. Macroeconomic News Surprises. Taylor Rule

A large narrow band Hα\alpha survey at z∼0.2z\sim0.2: the bright end of the luminosity function, cosmic variance and clustering across cosmic time

We carried out the largest ($>3.5\times10^5$ Mpc$^3$, 26 deg$^2$) H$\alpha$ narrow band survey to date at $z\sim0.2$ in the SA22, W2 and XMMLSS extragalactic fields. Our survey covers a large enough volume to overcome cosmic variance and to sample bright and rare H$\alpha$ emitters up to an observed luminosity of $\sim10^{42.4}$ erg s$^{-1}$, equivalent to $\sim11 M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$. Using our sample of $220$ sources brighter than $>10^{41.4}$ erg s$^{-1}$ ($>1 M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$), we derive H$\alpha$ luminosity functions, which are well described by a Schechter function with $\phi^* = 10^{-2.85\pm0.03}$ Mpc$^{-3}$ and $L^*_{H\alpha} = 10^{41.71\pm0.02}$ erg s$^{-1}$ (with a fixed faint end slope $\alpha=-1.35$). We find that surveys probing smaller volumes ($\sim3\times10^4$ Mpc$^3$) are heavily affected by cosmic variance, which can lead to errors of over $100$ per cent in the characteristic density and luminosity of the H$\alpha$ luminosity function. We derive a star formation rate density of $\rho_\mathrm{SFRD} = 0.0094\pm0.0008$ $M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$, in agreement with the redshift-dependent H$\alpha$ parametrisation from Sobral et al. (2013). The two-point correlation function is described by a single power law $\omega(\theta) = (0.159\pm0.012) \theta^{(-0.75\pm0.05)}$, corresponding to a clustering length of $r_0 = 3.3\pm0.8$ Mpc/h. We find that the most luminous H$\alpha$ emitters at $z\sim0.2$ are more strongly clustered than the relatively fainter ones. The $L^*_{H\alpha}$ H$\alpha$ emitters at $z\sim0.2$ in our sample reside in $\sim10^{12.5-13.5}$ $M_\odot$ dark matter haloes. This implies that the most star forming galaxies always reside in relatively massive haloes or group-like environments and that the typical host halo mass of star-forming galaxies is independent of redshift if scaled by $L_\mathrm{H\alpha}/L^*_{H\alpha}(z)$, as proposed by Sobral et al. (2010).Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 18 pages, 19 figures, 6 table

The Making of Online Identity. The use of creative method to support young people in their reflection on age\ud and gender

In the .GTO.project our ambition is to study how young people (10 to 14 years old) in Estonia and Sweden construct and normalise gender and age, as markers of identity and identity development, in their online interactions. After\ud conducting interview studies on how young people experience on- and offline interactions, and their intertwining, as well as online ethnographic studies of online presentations, we went on with the third phase of the project: creative\ud workshops with young people. In these workshops, young people in groups of four were to create fictitious online characters. In the analysis of these, we focus on how power differentials and identity markers such as age and gender are constructed and negotiated.\u

ANALYZING THE ROMANIAN RESIDENTIAL MARKET UNDER THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS EFFECT

As the financial crisis effects continue to spread around the world, Romania is no exception to the global economic climate, as the country continues its attempts to better integrate into the European Union. To what extent is the Romanian residential market affected by the United State financial crisis? What are the causes and effects of the Romanian crisis? How has the crisis evolved so far and our prognostics regarding it? These are some of the questions to which we answer in the present article. We will take into consideration factors such as the residential market of both new and old products, comparing their evolution up until March 2009 and studying their prices, units sold, and latest projects focused on our nation’s capital. Our prognostics estimates that the residential market will start the process of revitalization by Q4 2009 – Q2 2010, when the great demand will be sustained by good bank credit loans.mortgage subprime loans, the contagion effect, the cumulative causality effect, the herd effect, reference interest rate, credits, fiscal facilitation, developer financing, real estate transactions, constructions, sales prices, demand, offer, BREI-N, BREI-V, speculative investments

DISCIPLINARY RESPONSABILITY OF TEACHERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The regulations contained in Law no.1/2011, complete the common regulations thatcan be found the Labor Code. This way, the teachers in university education are going to bepenalized disciplinarily, as much for the infringement of the common law directives (LaborCode), as for the behavior rules violation that prejudice the Education System interest and theinstitution’s name, directives contained in the University Charta. Analyzing the regulationsfrom Law 1/2011, I observed some deficiencies of regulations2 concerning the disciplinaryresponsibility of teachers in higher education

From Aurora Borealis to Carpathians. Searching the Road to Regional and Rural Development

This paper aims at analysing the current regional and rural development tools available for Romania and Finland, as well as common encountered problems and differences in the local realities. The theoretical framework covers contemporary concepts typical for regional development and for rural development, such as learning regions, knowledge creation, social networks, innovation, bottom-up versus top-down approaches, and social, cultural and economical sustainable development. References to the specific problems encountered in remote areas or related to the communities with limited access to various resources are made and the existing policy trends are compared. Rural reality embraces very particular characteristics both in Romania and Finland. However, the history trends have been different and the actual situation of countries’ economy indicates a potential of learning in case of Romania and available solutions to similar problems in case of Finland. Still, transferring models and solutions is not an easy task and the particular challenges encountered in Nordic knowledge transfer projects are mentioned as a starting point helping to formulate assumptions related to the impediment to be expected in such a transfer case. Project Cycle Management in its newest version is brought in the discussion in an attempt to asses in what extent its recommendation could be useful and applied in the case of rural development programmes. The potential quality increase and the high technicality of the used terms are some of the analysed features of project Cycle Management. The concrete examples used in the paper are based on the interviews carried on by the authors in different and common research and evaluation projects in Finland and Romania. The paper brings into discussion the lacks existent in rural and regional development policy in an EU country and a accession one, as they appear using the initially proposed theoretical framework. Recommendations to be followed in the coming year are suggested in this paper evaluating comparatively some of the existent problems affecting local development

Exposing WikiPathways as Linked Open Data

Biology has become a data intensive science. Discovery of new biological facts increasingly relies on the ability to find and match appropriate biological data. For instance for functional annotation of genes of interest or for identification of pathways affected by over-expressed genes. Functional and pathway information about genes and proteins is typically distributed over a variety of databases and the literature.

Pathways are a convenient, easy to interpret way to describe known biological interactions. WikiPathways provides community curated pathways. WikiPathways users integrate their knowledge with facts from the literature and biological databases. The curated pathway is then reviewed and possibly corrected or enriched. Different tools (e.g. Pathvisio and Cytoscape) support the integration of WikiPathways-knowledge for additional tasks, such as the integration with personal data sets. 

Data from WikiPathways is increasingly also used for advanced analysis where it is integrated or compared with other data, Currently, integration with data from different biological sources is mostly done manually. This can be a very time consuming task because the curator often first needs to find the available resources, needs to learn about their specific content and qualities and often spends a lot of time to technically combine the two. 

Semantic web and Linked Data technologies eliminate the barriers between database silos by relying on a set of standards and best practices for representing and describing data. The architecture of the semantic web relies on the architecture of the web itself for integrating and mapping universal resource identifiers (URI), coupled with basic inference mechanisms to enable matching concepts and properties across data sources. Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies are increasingly being successfully applied as integration engines for linking biological elements. 

Exposing WikiPathways content as Linked Open Data to the Semantic Web, enables rapid, semi-automated integration with a the growing amount of biological resources available from the linked open data cloud, it also allows really fast queries of WikiPathways itself. 

We have harmonised WikiPathways content according to a selected set of vocabularies (Biopax, CHEMBL, etc), common to resources already available as Linked Open Data. 
WikiPathways content is now available as Linked Open Data for dynamic querying through a SPARQL endpoint: http://semantics.bigcat.unimaas.nl:8000/sparql

Unveiling the cause of hybrid morphology radio sources (HyMoRS)

19 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRASHybrid morphology radio sources (HyMoRS) are a rare group of radio galaxies in which differing Fanaroff & Riley morphologies (FR I/II) are observed for each of the two lobes. While they potentially provide insights into the formation of lobe structure, particle acceleration, and the FR dichotomy, previous work on HyMoRS has mainly been limited to low-resolution studies, searches for new candidates, and milliarcsecond-scale VLBI observations of the core region. In this paper, we use new multi-array configuration Very Large Array (VLA) observations between 1 and 8 GHz to determine the morphology of HyMoRS on arcsecond scales and perform the first well-resolved spectral study of these unusual sources. We find that while the apparent FR I lobe is centre-brightened, this is the result of a compact acceleration region resembling a hotspot with a spectrum more consistent with an FR II ("strong-flavour") jet. We find that the spectra of the apparent FR I lobes are not similar to their classical counterparts and are likely the result of line-of-sight mixing of plasma across a range of spectral ages. We consider possible mechanisms that could lead to the formation of HyMoRS under such conditions, including environment asymmetry and restarted sources, concluding through the use of simple modelling that HyMoRS are the result of orientation effects on intrinsically FR II sources with lobes non-parallel to the inner jet.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio