PENGARUH KUALITAS PRODUK DAN HARGA TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN SEPEDA MOTOR HONDA PADA MAHASISWA KAMPUS 1 UNIVERSITAS KRISTEN KRIDA WACANA

                                                 ABSTRACTThe background: Many people use motorcycle as transportation, especially Honda motorcycle.Two main factors which influencing purchase decision, product quality and price , were evaluatedin this study. The problem in this research was there any influence of product quality on purchasedecisions of Honda motorcycles and was there any influence of price on purchase decisions ofHonda motorcycles. As quantitative research, a survey method using a questionnaire was used.The sampling technique was accidental sampling . The population in this research someone thatwere using Honda motorcycle, type Beat, Blade, Megapro, Revo, Scoopy, Spacy, Supra X, Vario,and Verza in the Campus 1 Krida Wacana Christian University. Total population was 186. Thesample was 127 respondents. The results showed that the quality of products and price influencedon purchase decisions of Honda motorcycles.Keywords: product quality, price, purchase decision                                             ABSTRAKSaat ini sepeda motor banyak dijadikan sebagai alat transportasi utama oleh masyarakat. Dua faktorutama yang biasanya mempengaruhi keputusan pembelian , kualitas produk dan harga, yang dianalisispada penelitian ini. Rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini adalah apakah terdapat pengaruh kualitasproduk terhadap keputusan pembelian sepeda motor honda dan apakah terdapat pengaruh hargaterhadap keputusan pembelian sepeda motor Honda. Sebagai penelitian kuantitatif , metode surveidilakukan dengan menggunakan kuesioner . Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan accidentalsampling. Populasi yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa pengguna sepeda motorHonda tipe Beat, Blade, Megapro, Revo, Scoopy, Spacy, Supra X, Vario, dan Verza di Kampus IUniversitas Kristen Krida Wacana. Jumlah populasi adalah 186 . Sedangkan jumlah sampel adalah127 responden. Hasil penelitian ini adalah terdapat pengaruh kualitas produk dan harga terhadapkeputusan pembelian sepeda motor Honda.Kata kunci: kualitas produk, harga, keputusan pembelia

KINERJA IMPLEMENTASI TATA KELOLA HUTAN TAMAN NASIONAL GUNUNG HALIMUN SALAK

Salah satu pekerjaan rumah yang harus diselesaikan dalam kaitannya dengan kebijakan tata kelola hutan di Indonesia adalah SK Menteri Kehutanan No.175 Tahun 2003. Namun, kebijakan tersebut tidak memperhatikan klaim dan persetujuan masyarakat yang sudah sejak lama tinggal dan bermukim di dalam/dekat dan disekitar kawasan hutan sehingga menimbulkan banyak permasalahan. Penelitian ini menggunakan indikator kinerja implementasi dari Bappenas (2007) dan metode penelitian deskriptif analisis. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa kebijakan perluasan tersebut cukup kompleks karena menimbulkan kerugian bagi pengelolaan maupun bagi masyarakat. Kerugian bagi pengelola terkait konflik dengan masyarakat lokal menyebabkan tidak semua program taman nasional dapat dijalankan, sedangkan masyarakat lokal mengalami kerugian yang nyata karena kehilangan hak akses untuk menggarap lahan pertanian yang masuk ke dalam kawasan hutan. Namun demikian, kebijakan perluasan taman nasional tersebut memberi manfaat bagi pengelolaan dan masyarakat disekitar kawasan.Manfaat bagi pengelola adalah semakin luasnya kawasan taman nasional sedangkan bagi masyarakat kaitannya dengan banyaknya program baru yang ditawarkan oleh pemerintah sebagai pengganti nafkah baru

Opinions: Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Business

For this issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology, I approached a number of people who have conducted research in, with, on, or for business organizations of one sort or another and asked them to reflect upon their ethnographic experiences. What follows is a series of essays by scholars and practitioners ‒ many of them extremely experienced, but one at the beginning of her career ‒ who between them have provided us with a collation of exemplary practices and insights. It isn’t just restaurant kitchens and home cooking that provide ‘food for thought’, but cruise ships, art museums, General Motors, and an Austrian electrical company. Bon appetit

Socio-cultural influences on the behaviour of South Asian women with diabetes in pregnancy: qualitative study using a multi-level theoretical approach

BACKGROUND: Diabetes in pregnancy is common in South Asians, especially those from low-income backgrounds, and leads to short-term morbidity and longer-term metabolic programming in mother and offspring. We sought to understand the multiple influences on behaviour (hence risks to metabolic health) of South Asian mothers and their unborn child, theorise how these influences interact and build over time, and inform the design of culturally congruent, multi-level interventions. METHODS: Our sample for this qualitative study was 45 women of Bangladeshi, Indian, Sri Lankan, or Pakistani origin aged 21-45 years with a history of diabetes in pregnancy, recruited from diabetes and antenatal services in two deprived London boroughs. Overall, 17 women shared their experiences of diabetes, pregnancy, and health services in group discussions and 28 women gave individual narrative interviews, facilitated by multilingual researchers, audiotaped, translated, and transcribed. Data were analysed using the constant comparative method, drawing on sociological and narrative theories. RESULTS: Key storylines (over-arching narratives) recurred across all ethnic groups studied. Short-term storylines depicted the experience of diabetic pregnancy as stressful, difficult to control, and associated with negative symptoms, especially tiredness. Taking exercise and restricting diet often worsened these symptoms and conflicted with advice from relatives and peers. Many women believed that exercise in pregnancy would damage the fetus and drain the mother's strength, and that eating would be strength-giving for mother and fetus. These short-term storylines were nested within medium-term storylines about family life, especially the cultural, practical, and material constraints of the traditional South Asian wife and mother role and past experiences of illness and healthcare, and within longer-term storylines about genetic, cultural, and material heritage - including migration, acculturation, and family memories of food insecurity. While peer advice was familiar, meaningful, and morally resonant, health education advice from clinicians was usually unfamiliar and devoid of cultural meaning. CONCLUSIONS: 'Behaviour change' interventions aimed at preventing and managing diabetes in South Asian women before and during pregnancy are likely to be ineffective if delivered in a socio-cultural vacuum. Individual education should be supplemented with community-level interventions to address the socio-material constraints and cultural frames within which behavioural 'choices' are made

An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

Background: A major bottleneck in our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of life is the assignment of function to proteins. While molecular experiments provide the most reliable annotation of proteins, their relatively low throughput and restricted purview have led to an increasing role for computational function prediction. However, assessing methods for protein function prediction and tracking progress in the field remain challenging. Results: We conducted the second critical assessment of functional annotation (CAFA), a timed challenge to assess computational methods that automatically assign protein function. We evaluated 126 methods from 56 research groups for their ability to predict biological functions using Gene Ontology and gene-disease associations using Human Phenotype Ontology on a set of 3681 proteins from 18 species. CAFA2 featured expanded analysis compared with CAFA1, with regards to data set size, variety, and assessment metrics. To review progress in the field, the analysis compared the best methods from CAFA1 to those of CAFA2. Conclusions: The top-performing methods in CAFA2 outperformed those from CAFA1. This increased accuracy can be attributed to a combination of the growing number of experimental annotations and improved methods for function prediction. The assessment also revealed that the definition of top-performing algorithms is ontology specific, that different performance metrics can be used to probe the nature of accurate predictions, and the relative diversity of predictions in the biological process and human phenotype ontologies. While there was methodological improvement between CAFA1 and CAFA2, the interpretation of results and usefulness of individual methods remain context-dependent. Keywords: Protein function prediction, Disease gene prioritizationpublishedVersio

An Expanded Evaluation of Protein Function Prediction Methods Shows an Improvement In Accuracy

Background: A major bottleneck in our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of life is the assignment of function to proteins. While molecular experiments provide the most reliable annotation of proteins, their relatively low throughput and restricted purview have led to an increasing role for computational function prediction. However, assessing methods for protein function prediction and tracking progress in the field remain challenging. Results: We conducted the second critical assessment of functional annotation (CAFA), a timed challenge to assess computational methods that automatically assign protein function. We evaluated 126 methods from 56 research groups for their ability to predict biological functions using Gene Ontology and gene-disease associations using Human Phenotype Ontology on a set of 3681 proteins from 18 species. CAFA2 featured expanded analysis compared with CAFA1, with regards to data set size, variety, and assessment metrics. To review progress in the field, the analysis compared the best methods from CAFA1 to those of CAFA2. Conclusions: The top-performing methods in CAFA2 outperformed those from CAFA1. This increased accuracy can be attributed to a combination of the growing number of experimental annotations and improved methods for function prediction. The assessment also revealed that the definition of top-performing algorithms is ontology specific, that different performance metrics can be used to probe the nature of accurate predictions, and the relative diversity of predictions in the biological process and human phenotype ontologies. While there was methodological improvement between CAFA1 and CAFA2, the interpretation of results and usefulness of individual methods remain context-dependent

Further delineation of Malan syndrome

Malan syndrome is an overgrowth disorder described in a limited number of individuals. We aim to delineate the entity by studying a large group of affected individuals. We gathered data on 45 affected individuals with a molecularly confirmed diagnosis through an international collaboration and compared data to the 35 previously reported individuals. Results indicate that height is > 2 SDS in infancy and childhood but in only half of affected adults. Cardinal facial characteristics include long, triangular face, macrocephaly, prominent forehead, everted lower lip, and prominent chin. Intellectual disability is universally present, behaviorally anxiety is characteristic. Malan syndrome is caused by deletions or point mutations of NFIX clustered mostly in exon 2. There is no genotype-phenotype correlation except for an increased risk for epilepsy with 19p13.2 microdeletions. Variants arose de novo, except in one family in which mother was mosaic. Variants causing Malan and Marshall-Smith syndrome can be discerned by differences in the site of stop codon formation. We conclude that Malan syndrome has a well recognizable phenotype that usually can be discerned easily from Marshall–Smith syndrome but rarely there is some overlap. Differentiation from Sotos and Weaver syndrome can be made by clinical evaluation only