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Pengaruh Desa Wisata Kandri terhadap Peningkatan Kesejahteraan Masyarakat Kelurahan Kandri Kota Semarang (Studi Kasus: Kelurahan Kandri Semarang)
Kelompok sadar wisata atau POKDARWIS Kelurahan Kandri membentuk sebuah konsep Desa Wisata, dengan maksud tujuan dapat meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat Kandri. Dampak positif yang diharapkan yaitu dapat meningkatkan pendapatan, masyarkat dapat menempuh pendidikan, dan masyarakat dapat menikmati fasilitas kesehatan yang telah di sediakan oleh pemerintah. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi hubungan dan pengaruh adanya Desa Wisata Kandri terhadap peningkatan kesejahteraan masayarakat kelurahan kandri. Metode yang digunakan yaitu metode kuantitatif, dengan menggunakan analisis yaitu analisis diskriptif kuantitatif dan analisis regresi. Hasil dari analisis diatas diketahui bahwa keberadaan Desa Wisata dapat mempengaruhi peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat terbukti dari persentase manfaat yang dirasakan masyarakat dengan keberadaan Desa wisata Kandri dalam meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat didominasi 60 % mengatakan tinggi, 38 % mengatakan sedang, dan hanya sebesar 2 % yang mengatakan rendah, hal tersebut menandakan bahwa keberadaan desa wisata kandri cukup signifikan dalam meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat Kelurahan Kandri. Kemudian berdasarkan analisis regresi dapat diketahui Nilai signifikansi pada tabel anova menunjukkan 0.036. Maka pada kasus ini, variabel X berpengaruh terhadap variabel Y karna nilai sig < 0,05 dengan kata lain adanya desa wisata berpengaruh terhadap indikator peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat Kandri
Nuclear emulsions for the detection of micrometric-scale fringe patterns: an application to positron interferometry
Nuclear emulsions are capable of very high position resolution in the
detection of ionizing particles. This feature can be exploited to directly
resolve the micrometric-scale fringe pattern produced by a matter-wave
interferometer for low energy positrons (in the 10-20 keV range). We have
tested the performance of emulsion films in this specific scenario. Exploiting
silicon nitride diffraction gratings as absorption masks, we produced periodic
patterns with features comparable to the expected interferometer signal. Test
samples with periodicities of 6, 7 and 20 {\mu}m were exposed to the positron
beam, and the patterns clearly reconstructed. Our results support the
feasibility of matter-wave interferometry experiments with positrons.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figure
Letter of Intent for FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC
FASER is a proposed small and inexpensive experiment designed to search for
light, weakly-interacting particles at the LHC. Such particles are dominantly
produced along the beam collision axis and may be long-lived, traveling
hundreds of meters before decaying. To exploit both of these properties, FASER
is to be located along the beam collision axis, 480 m downstream from the ATLAS
interaction point, in the unused service tunnel TI18. We propose that FASER be
installed in TI18 in Long Shutdown 2 in time to collect data from 2021-23
during Run 3 of the 14 TeV LHC. FASER will detect new particles that decay
within a cylindrical volume with radius R= 10 cm and length L = 1.5 m. With
these small dimensions, FASER will complement the LHC's existing physics
program, extending its discovery potential to a host of new particles,
including dark photons, axion-like particles, and other CP-odd scalars. A FLUKA
simulation and analytical estimates have confirmed that numerous potential
backgrounds are highly suppressed at the FASER location, and the first in situ
measurements are currently underway. We describe FASER's location and discovery
potential, its target signals and backgrounds, the detector's layout and
components, and the experiment's preliminary cost estimate, funding, and
timeline.Comment: 23 pages, 13 figures; submitted to the CERN LHCC on 18 July 201
Intercentre reproducibility of cardiac apparent diffusion coefficient and fractional anisotropy in healthy volunteers
BACKGROUND: Diffusion tensor cardiac magnetic resonance (DT-CMR) enables probing of the microarchitecture of the myocardium, but the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and fractional anisotropy (FA) reported in healthy volunteers have been inconsistent. The aim of this study was to validate a stimulated-echo diffusion sequence using phantoms, and to assess the intercentre reproducibility of in-vivo diffusion measures using the sequence. METHODS AND RESULTS: A stimulated-echo, cardiac-gated DT-CMR sequence with a reduced-field-of-view, single-shot EPI readout was used at two centres with 3 T MRI scanners. Four alkane phantoms with known diffusivities were scanned at a single centre using a stimulated echo sequence and a spin-echo Stejskal-Tanner diffusion sequence. The median (maximum, minimum) difference between the DT-CMR sequence and Stejskal-Tanner sequence was 0.01 (0.04, 0.0006) × 10(-3) mm(2)/s (2%), and between the DT-CMR sequence and literature diffusivities was 0.02 (0.05, 0.006) × 10(-3) mm(2)/s (4%). The same ten healthy volunteers were scanned using the DT-CMR sequence at the two centres less than seven days apart. Average ADC and FA were calculated in a single mid-ventricular, short axis slice. Intercentre differences were tested for statistical significance at the p < 0.05 level using paired t-tests. The mean ADC ± standard deviation for all subjects averaged over both centres was 1.10 ± 0.06 × 10(-3) mm(2)/s in systole and 1.20 ± 0.09 × 10(-3) mm(2)/s in diastole; FA was 0.41 ± 0.04 in systole and 0.54 ± 0.03 in diastole. With similarly-drawn regions-of-interest, systolic ADC (difference 0.05 × 10(-3) mm(2)/s), systolic FA (difference 0.003) and diastolic FA (difference 0.01) were not statistically significantly different between centres (p > 0.05), and only the diastolic ADC showed a statistically significant, but numerically small, difference of 0.07 × 10(-3) mm(2)/s (p = 0.047). The intercentre, intrasubject coefficients of variance were: systolic ADC 7%, FA 6%; diastolic ADC 7%, FA 3%. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to demonstrate the accuracy of a stimulated-echo DT-CMR sequence in phantoms, and demonstrates the feasibility of obtaining reproducible ADC and FA in healthy volunteers at separate centres with well-matched sequences and processing
Random, blocky and alternating ordering in supramolecular polymers of chemically bidisperse monomers
As a first step to understanding the role of molecular or chemical
polydispersity in self-assembly, we put forward a coarse-grained model that
describes the spontaneous formation of quasi-linear polymers in solutions
containing two self-assembling species. Our theoretical framework is based on a
two-component self-assembled Ising model in which the bidispersity is
parameterized in terms of the strengths of the binding free energies that
depend on the monomer species involved in the pairing interaction. Depending
upon the relative values of the binding free energies involved, different
morphologies of assemblies that include both components are formed, exhibiting
paramagnetic-, ferromagnetic- or anti ferromagnetic-like order,i.e., random,
blocky or alternating ordering of the two components in the assemblies.
Analyzing the model for the case of ferromagnetic ordering, which is of most
practical interest, we find that the transition from conditions of minimal
assembly to those characterized by strong polymerization can be described by a
critical concentration that depends on the concentration ratio of the two
species. Interestingly, the distribution of monomers in the assemblies is
different from that in the original distribution, i.e., the ratio of the
concentrations of the two components put into the system. The monomers with a
smaller binding free energy are more abundant in short assemblies and monomers
with a larger binding affinity are more abundant in longer assemblies. Under
certain conditions the two components congregate into separate supramolecular
polymeric species and in that sense phase separate. We find strong deviations
from the expected growth law for supramolecular polymers even for modest
amounts of a second component, provided it is chemically sufficiently distinct
from the main one.Comment: Submitted to Macromolecules, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial
text overlap with arXiv:1111.176
Alpha-band rhythms in visual task performance: phase-locking by rhythmic sensory stimulation
Oscillations are an important aspect of neuronal activity. Interestingly, oscillatory patterns are also observed in behaviour, such as in visual performance measures after the presentation of a brief sensory event in the visual or another modality. These oscillations in visual performance cycle at the typical frequencies of brain rhythms, suggesting that perception may be closely linked to brain oscillations. We here investigated this link for a prominent rhythm of the visual system (the alpha-rhythm, 8-12 Hz) by applying rhythmic visual stimulation at alpha-frequency (10.6 Hz), known to lead to a resonance response in visual areas, and testing its effects on subsequent visual target discrimination. Our data show that rhythmic visual stimulation at 10.6 Hz: 1) has specific behavioral consequences, relative to stimulation at control frequencies (3.9 Hz, 7.1 Hz, 14.2 Hz), and 2) leads to alpha-band oscillations in visual performance measures, that 3) correlate in precise frequency across individuals with resting alpha-rhythms recorded over parieto-occipital areas. The most parsimonious explanation for these three findings is entrainment (phase-locking) of ongoing perceptually relevant alpha-band brain oscillations by rhythmic sensory events. These findings are in line with occipital alpha-oscillations underlying periodicity in visual performance, and suggest that rhythmic stimulation at frequencies of intrinsic brain-rhythms can be used to reveal influences of these rhythms on task performance to study their functional roles
Bedrock sculpting under an active alpine glacier revealed from cosmic-ray muon radiography.
Mountain glaciers form landscapes with U-shaped valleys, roche moutonées and overdeepenings through bedrock erosion. However, little evidence for active glacial carving has been provided particularly for areas above the Equilibrium Line Altitude (ELA) where glaciers originate. This is mainly due to our lack of information about the shape of the bedrock underneath active glaciers in highly elevated areas. In the past years, the bedrock morphology underneath active glaciers has been studied by geophysical methods in order to infer the subglacial mechanisms of bedrock erosion. However, these comprise surveys on the glaciers' surface, from where it has been difficult to investigate the lateral boundary between the ice and the bedrock with sufficient resolution. Here we perform a muon-radiographic inspection of the Eiger glacier (Switzerland, European Alps) with the aid of cosmic-ray muon attenuation. We find a reach (600 × 300 m) within the accumulation area where strong lateral glacial erosion has cut nearly vertically into the underlying bedrock. This suggests that the Eiger glacier has profoundly sculpted its bedrock in its accumulation area. This also reveals that the cosmic-ray muon radiography is an ideal technology to reconstruct the shape of the bedrock underneath an active glacier
Prospects for measuring the gravitational free-fall of antihydrogen with emulsion detectors
The main goal of the AEgIS experiment at CERN is to test the weak equivalence
principle for antimatter. AEgIS will measure the free-fall of an antihydrogen
beam traversing a moir\'e deflectometer. The goal is to determine the
gravitational acceleration g for antihydrogen with an initial relative accuracy
of 1% by using an emulsion detector combined with a silicon micro-strip
detector to measure the time of flight. Nuclear emulsions can measure the
annihilation vertex of antihydrogen atoms with a precision of about 1 - 2
microns r.m.s. We present here results for emulsion detectors operated in
vacuum using low energy antiprotons from the CERN antiproton decelerator. We
compare with Monte Carlo simulations, and discuss the impact on the AEgIS
project.Comment: 20 pages, 16 figures, 3 table
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