Pengaruh Utang Luar Negeri Dan Fluktuasi Nilai Tukar Rupiah Terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Indonesia ( Studi Pada Bank Indonesia Tahun 2003-2013)

Foreign debt to be an alternative for developing countries to cover the budget deficit. In addition, the problem of the exchange rate also affect the economic growth of a country.This research uses quantitative research. This study population using time series data of foreign debt, Rupiah exchange rate and economic growth. Determination of the sample based on time series data in the first quarter of 2003 to the fourth quarter of 2013, as many as 44 samples. The data used were obtained from the official website of Bank Indonesia (www.bi.go.id) and the Central Bureau of Statistics (www.bps.go.id). Analysis of the data used is multiple linear statistical analysis using SPSS 20.0. the result of this study showed that the partial test variable of foreign debt has a significant influence on economic growth, while exchange rates had no significant effect on economic growth. The Simultaneous test result showed that foreign debt and exchange rate has a significant effect on economic growth

Monitoramento da extração de areia nos municípios não pertencentes ao Zoneamento Ambiental Minerário do trecho paulista da várzea do rio Paraíba do Sul.

Remote sensing techniques can significantly contribute to environmental monitoring of the low cost mineral extraction of sand pits. This study aims to evaluate the increase of sand pits mining activity between the period of 2004 to 2009, in municipalities of the Paraiba do Sul basin of São Paulo State, Brazil, that are not included in the mineral zoning of this basin. Visual interpretation of Landsat-5 (Thematic Mapper ? TM sensor) images indicated areas of sand extraction for the municipalities of Aparecida, Cachoeira Paulista and Roseira with an annual average increase of 10.1 ha, 20.5 ha and 33.5 ha, respectively. The municipality with the highest percentage of sand mining area increase was Lorena (233%). Results presented in this study can be used to justify the mineral zoning expansion to these municipalities

A Testing Based Extraction Algorithm for Identifying Significant Communities in Networks

A common and important problem arising in the study of networks is how to divide the vertices of a given network into one or more groups, called communities, in such a way that vertices of the same community are more interconnected than vertices belonging to different ones. We propose and investigate a testing based community detection procedure called Extraction of Statistically Significant Communities (ESSC). The ESSC procedure is based on p-values for the strength of connection between a single vertex and a set of vertices under a reference distribution derived from a conditional configuration network model. The procedure automatically selects both the number of communities in the network and their size. Moreover, ESSC can handle overlapping communities and, unlike the majority of existing methods, identifies “background” vertices that do not belong to a well-defined community. The method has only one parameter, which controls the stringency of the hypothesis tests. We investigate the performance and potential use of ESSC and compare it with a number of existing methods, through a validation study using four real network data sets. In addition, we carry out a simulation study to assess the effectiveness of ESSC in networks with various types of community structure, including networks with overlapping communities and those with background vertices. These results suggest that ESSC is an effective exploratory tool for the discovery of relevant community structure in complex network systems

Air-sea interaction in the Bay of Bengal

Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2016. This article is posted here by permission of The Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 29, no. 2 (2016): 28–37, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2016.36.Recent observations of surface meteorology and exchanges of heat, freshwater, and momentum between the ocean and the atmosphere in the Bay of Bengal are presented. These observations characterize air-sea interaction at 18°N, 89.5°E from December 2014 to January 2016 and also at other locations in the northern Bay of Bengal. Monsoonal variability dominated the records, with winds to the northeast in summer and to the southwest in winter. This variability included a strong annual cycle in the atmospheric forcing of the ocean in the Bay of Bengal, with the winter monsoon marked by sustained ocean heat loss resulting in ocean cooling, and the summer monsoon marked by strong storm events with dark skies and rain that also resulted in ocean cooling. The spring intermonsoon was a period of clear skies and low winds, when strong solar heating and weak wind-driven mixing led to ocean warming. The fall intermonsoon was a transitional period, with some storm events but also with enough clear skies and sunlight that ocean surface temperature rose again. Mooring and shipboard observations are used to examine the ability of model-based surface fluxes to represent air-sea interaction in the Bay of Bengal; the model-based fluxes have significant errors. The surface forcing observed at 18°N is also used together with a one-dimensional ocean model to illustrate the potential for local air-sea interaction to drive upper-ocean variability in the Bay of Bengal.Deployment of the WHOI mooring and R. Weller and J.T. Farrar were supported by the US Office of Naval Research, grant N00014-13-1-0453. N. Suresh Kumar and B. Praveen Kumar acknowledge the financial support from Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES, Government of India)

Interview with Howard Lesnick

For transcript, click the Download button above. Howard Lesnick was Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he began teaching in 1960. From 1982 to 1988 he taught at the newly founded CUNY Law School at Queens College, where he was responsible for curriculum and faculty development. Thereafter, he returned to Penn, retiring in 2016. He made important contributions to scholarship in fields ranging from labor law to legal education to law and religion. He died in 2020

Idatidosi Splenica. Descrizione di un caso clinico e revisione della letteratura

A rare case of primary hydatid cyst of the spleen is described. The hypotheses of this possible primary localization, diagnostic techniques and the therapeutic management are discussed

Interview with Lita Indzel Cohen

For transcript, click the Download button above. For video index, click the link below. Lita Indzel Cohen (L \u2765) represented the 148th district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1991 until 2003. Before that she was the first woman to theto the Lower Merion Township Planning Commission and served for eight years on the Lower Merion Township Commission.