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Boston University Medicine was published by the Boston University Medical Campus, and presented stories on events and topics of interest to members of the BU Medical Campus community. It followed the discontinued publication Centerscope as Boston University Medicine from 1991-2005, and was continued as Campus & Alumni News from 2006-2013 before returning to the title Boston University Medicine from 2014-present

Hubungan Kepemimpinan Transformasional Dengan Disiplin Kerja Pegawai Balai Rehabilitasi Sosial Mardi Utomo Semarang I

Disiplin kerja pegawai sangat dibutuhkan, karena tujuan organisasi mustahil akan tercapai bila pegawainya tidak disiplin. Hasil penjajagan awal memperlihatkan di Balai Rehabilitas Sosial Mardi Utomo Semarang I terjadi penggunaan waktu jam kerja yang tidak pada tempatnya. Sebab didapati pegawai pada saat jam kerja tidak ada di kantor dan beberapa lembar absen masih kosong selama beberapa hari. Secara teoritis disiplin kerja dipengaruhi oleh kepemimpinan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji secara empiris hubungan kepemimpinan transformasional dengan disiplin kerja pegawai Balai Rehabilitas Sosial Mardi Utomo Semarang I.Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian korelasi dengan mengambil seluruh populasi sebagai sampel dan didapatkan sampel sebanyak 33 pegawai. Metode penggalian data dengan menggunakan dua skala psikologi yaitu skala Disiplin Kerja dan skala Kepemimpinan Transformasional. Skala Disiplin Kerja dengan 33 item valid (α = 0,902) dan skala Kepemimpinan Transformasional dengan 33 item valid (α = 0,936). Analisis data menggunakan regresi linier sederhana.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan koefisien korelasi rxy = 0,482 dengan p = 0,002 (p<0,05) yang berarti ada hubungan positif antara kepemimpinan transformasional dengan disiplin kerja, semakin tinggi kepemimpinan transformasional maka semakin baik disiplin kerja pegawai, demikian pula sebaliknya semakin rendah kepemimpinan transformasional maka semakin rendah disiplin kerja pegawai. sumbangan efektif kepemimpinan terhadap disiplin kerja pegawai Balai Rehabilitas Sosial Mardi Utomo Semarang I sebesar 23,2% dan sisanya sebesar 76,8% dijelaskan oleh faktor-faktor lain

Analisis Eksistensi Kearifan Lokal Huyula Desa Bongoime Provinsi Gorontalo

This study aims to analyze the existence of local wisdom Huyula measured by knowledge, attitudes and behavior of farmers to Huyula and its relationship with the internal and external factors farmers. The sample was Bongoime villagers who work as rice farmers. This study uses quantitative data with qualitative data furnished. This study tested using Spearman rank correlation test with significance level 0,05 level. Results of this study indicate that Huyula is a values contained in the mutual aid society. Farmers have the high knowledge, attitude and behavior towards Huyula although in practice only in the cleaning of irrigation channels. There is a relationship between knowledge, attitudes and behavior of farmers toward Huyula. There are two variabel like age and extention intensity that affects the existence Huyula

Penggunaan Informasi Pengungkapan Sukarela di Media Sosial: Analisis Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

This study aims to analyze the determinants of investor behavior while making investment decisions using voluntary disclosure information obtained from social media pages. Using the technology acceptance model, the correlation between belief constructs and behavioral intentions is measured. Perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived enjoyment are the three belief constructs used in this study. 180 employees were respondents, and structural equation modelling partial least square was used to evaluate the hypotheses. The results showed that Indonesian investors believe that information regarding voluntary disclosures provided on social media pages will influence their decision to use such information when making investments. The intention is influenced by perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived enjoyment. This study also found that perceived enjoyment has an effect on perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness

Microcontroller Implementation for Automatic Smart Bell

This study aims to design automatic school bell hardware based on the ATmega32 microcontroller, design automatic school bell software based on the ATmega32 microcontroller using Basic programming language, and test the performance of the automatic school bell based on the ATmega32 microcontroller. This automatic school bell uses a minimum system of ATmega32 microcontrollers which equipped with data input from the push button, LCD to display character output, ISD2560 to output sound, and a timer taken from DS1307 RTC. This research is a Research or Development (R & D) research. This research is carried out through two stages of design. The first stage is the stage of hardware design. The second stage is the stage of software design. Programs are made using the Basic programming language using the Bascom-AVR application. The results of the product were tested using the black box method with two stages. In the first stage, software testing uses a series of simulations on the Proteus 7 Professional application. The second stage, testing hardware

Kepuasan Nasabah Dan Strategi Pengembangan Usaha BNI Kantor Cabang Utama Harmoni Jakarta

Industri perbankan di Indonesia berkembang dengan cepat, ditunjukkan dengan banyaknya bank dan produknya yang menyebabkan persaingan semakin ketat. Disamping itu, terjadinya Perubahan pola pikir konsumen yang ditandai dengan semakin banyaknya faktor yang menjadi pertimbangan dalam memilih bank, antara lain akses yang mudah, rasa aman, produk bersaing dan pelayanan memuaskan. Tujuan kajian untuk mengidentifikasi karakteristik nasabah, menganalisis hubungan tingkat kinerja mutu jasa yang diberikan dengan karakteristik nasabah, menganalisis tingkat kepentingan nasabah dengan atribut-atribut mutu pelayanan, menganalisis kesesuaian antara tingkat kepentingan dengan atribut-atribut mutu pelayanan menurut nasabah dengan kinerja dan menyusun strategi yang tepat untuk pengembangan Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) Kantor Cabang Utama (KCU) Harmoni dalam menghadapi persaingan. Metode yang digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah analisis deskriptif, keandalan dan uji validitas, khi-kuadrat (chi-square), tabulasi silang, Importance Performance Analysis (IPA), Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) dan Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis. Karakteristik nasabah BNI KCU Harmoni sebagian besar adalah wanita berusia 36-55 tahun dan bekerja sebagai karyawati dengan penghasilan di atas Rp 8 juta lebih. Secara umum, nasabah mendapatkan informasi dari spanduk yang dipasang di depan kantor BNI KCU Harmoni. Berdasarkan hubungan antara karakteristik nasabah dan tingkat kinerja, dapat disimpulkan bahwa pelanggan wanita, terutama berusia 36-55 tahun membutuhkan pelayanan sesuai dengan yang dibutuhkan. Karyawan membutuhkan pelayanan menurut standar layanan. Nasabah dengan penghasilan Rp 5-8 juta mengharapkan transaksi keuangan dilakukan dengan aman. Nasabah melakukan transaksi sekali dalam satu bulan, karena merasa percaya dan nyaman dengan pelayanan yang diberikan. Sumber informasi berupa spanduk yang dipasang di depan BNI KCU Harmoni sangat membantu petugas dalam memberikan informasi. Prioritas utama perbaikan perlu dilakukan tentang pelayanan parkir dengan melakukan koordinasi keamanan operasional gedung dan melakukan pemasaran secara agresif, lebih informatif dan fokus dengan lingkungan di sekitar kantor. Secara keseluruhan dari hasil integrasi IPA, CSI dan SWOT menunjukkan bahwa nasabah telah merasa puas dengan pelayanan yang telah diberikan BNI KCU Harmoni. Kepuasan ini harus dibandingkan (benchmarking) dengan pelayanan yang diberikan oleh bank-bank pesaing di sekitar BNI KCU Harmoni agar pelayanan dapat lebih ditingkatkan menjadi lebih baik

Kajian Konservasi Ekosistem Mangrove Di Desa Pasar Banggi, Kabupaten Rembang

Northern coast of Central Java. The manage of ecosystem mangrove there started since 1960 with conduct rehabilitation especially independently by the community. The purpose of this research is to study the management of existing mangrove ecosystem conservation and composing the development strategy for conservation area mangrove ecosystem in the Pasar Banggi village. Methods used in this research is descriptive explorative. A method of collecting data by using a method of surveying in the form of primary and secondary data. Data obtained by the kinds of vegetation analyze and SWOT analyze (strength, weakness, opportunity and thread). The results stated that the density of the category tree is worth 2700-3100 ind/ha, Sapling 933-2533 ind/ha, in seedling 83333-100000 ind/ha. The parameters of water quality in the mangrove ecosystem Pasar Banggi suitable for mangrove habitat. The most suitable method of planting is seeds in a polybag. Problems in rehabilitation include biological factors (barnacles, gastropoda and algae), physical factors (wave, wind, sediment, reclamation) and anthropogenic factors (pollution, land conversion, hunting mangrove worms). The presence of community leaders and frequent counseling makes the level of public knowledge about the benefits of mangroves are good. The community participation levels 80%. Rehabilitation is the most common forms of community participation in the Pasar Banggi the rehabilitation are mostly that come from self-help by the community (57.08%) and government assistance or private (42.92%). According to the results of the SWOT analysis, which is a top priority at the Pasar Banggi are: a) Determination of the zone within the mangrove ecosystem conservation (score 4.52) and b) increase the participation of stakeholders on mangrove ecosystem conservation program (score 3.29)

Implementation of K-Means Clustering on Poverty Indicators in Indonesia

This study aims to cluster all districts/cities in Indonesia related to poverty indicators. The attributes used are poverty gap index and poverty severity index. The data used comes from BPS. The method used is K-Means clustering, and the results show that by using the elbow and silhouette index methods, the optimal number of clusters is 2, where for cluster 1, it can be defined as a cluster with an area with a high poverty gap index and poverty severity index compared to cluster 2. As a result, cluster 1 has 42 districts/cities, and 472 for cluster 2

Aplikasi Teknologi Budidaya Kelengkeng Super Sleman Di Padukuhan Gejayan

Longan (Dimocarpus longan L.) is not an indigenous fruit from Indonesia. Thus, the demands for this fruit were supplied by importing them from nearby countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, and China. Longan has been cultivated and developed in Indonesia in order to supply the local needs and to reduce the rapid flows of importing Longan. Recently, a brand new breed of local Longan has been engineered from Sleman District of D.I.Yogyakarta Province, known as Kelengkeng Super Sleman (KSS). The KSS well adapted to medium-high above sea level- terrain, the most typical terrain in Sleman. Some prosperous features of this Longan cultivar were had a short harvesting time (2 years), thicky flesh, low water content, and able to be induced twice per year for flowering (to produce fruits). All of this goodness thus been introduced to rural communities of Padukuhan Gejayan, Desa Condongcatur, Depok, Sleman, D.I.Yogyakarta by a well designed community service programme. The kind of activites that was going on in this programme were workshop, training, and assistance. Workshop was emphasized on the prospectous consequences of planting Longan trees (KSS) for a long term until could be developed into local industrial product (One Village One Product/OVOP concept), basic knowledge on Longan diversity, KSS cultivation technology, basic knowledge on plant physiology, environmental development based on Education for Sustainable Development (EfSD), and potential local market for KSS. Training was mainly focused on KSS seedling production by both apical stem grafting method and medium preparation method, KSS plantation in some villager houses for a pilot project on how to maintain KSS such as health evaluation, health recovery for infested or unhealthy plant, method on lateral branching development, method on hormone-induced flowering, and application of resting period for after-harvesting plant. Assistance has been actively conducted during training to motivates villager to be get involved. Some positive indicators for implementation of this programme are both the great enthusiasm on KSS Longan plantation in communities and “the shifting paradigm” on KSS Longan maintenance for which has been long considered to be both impractical and arduous

Retrospective Study on Milk Production and Reproductive Performance of Dairy Cattle in a Farm in Selangor, Malaysia

Dairy industry is small in Malaysia and unable to fulfill its dairy self-sufficiency. Therefore, Malaysia has to import most of the dairy products to satisfy its domestic demands. This study was performed to evaluate the performance of a selected dairy farm in Malaysia. A dairy farm in Selangor was selected and the farm records between 2011 and 2015 were analysed for the annual milk yield, calving rate and disease occurrence. It was found that the milk yield was low with average annual yield of 44,967 kg and the average milk production per cow per day was 6.83 kg. Clinical mastitis (67%) and traumatic injury (6.9%) were the most common disease occurrence. The calving rate of 75% was within the farm target. Calving percentage and diseases showed significant (P0.05) positive and negative influences on milk production, respectively