Analisis Pengaruh Ekuitas Merek Terhadap Respon Konsumen Pada Produk Levi’s Di Palembang

This study aimed to examine the effect of brand equity consists of brand awareness, brand associations, perceived quality, and brand loyalty on consumer response Levi's products in Palembang. The stronger the brand equity, the more powerful it the confidence of consumers use a product that will produce a response from the consumers so as to make the company a profit from time to time even though competition in the global market is very tight between the various brands. The population in this study was the use Levi's products. The sample obtained in this study was 100 respondents. Hypothesis testing using multiple regression analysis with SPSS ver. 17.0. The test results showed that brand awareness (X1), brand association (X2), perceived quality (X3) and brand loyalty (X4) have an influence on consumer response to Levi's products in Palembang

The Determinants of European Union (EU) Foreign Direct Investments in the EU Countries from Central and Eastern Europe During 1994–2012

This study examines whether the CEECs’ financial market development can explain the EU FDI in the CEECs during 1994–2012. The higher bank credit flows had a positive effect on the FDI in 2005–2012. This can be attributed to the major banking sector reforms undertaken before the CEECs’ EU accession. Second, the stock market size had a positive effect in 1997–2004. This is due to the fact that the EU membership announcement facilitated deeper stock market integration. Third, the higher country income, in interaction with a higher bank credit flow, had only a small positive effect in 2005–2012. The higher income CEECs have pursued much deeper bank liberalization through large-scale privatization of state-owned banks. Finally, the higher country income, in interaction with a larger stock market size, had a negative effect in 2005–2012. A possible reason for this is that the EU countries have started to divert their new FDI to the non-EU countries

Reasoning in a Multicultural Society

Multicultural society as a way of being-with-others needs a certain form of public reasoning. Unfortunately, the current yet dominant form of public reasoning is infiltrated by biases from occidental culture. This mode of reasoning does nothing but uproot participants from their cultural identity for the sake of universal consensus. Multicultural society, however, consists of identities which are embedded in the individuals' cultural tradition. This sociological fact demands a richer form of rationality that does not deny the multiplicity of cultural values and embedded identities. We need a form of public reasoning which emphasizes cultural understanding rather than abstract consensus. We might call it a multicultural, contextualized and other-regarding form of public reason

On the Torus Degeneration of the Genus Two Partition Function

We consider the partition function of a general vertex operator algebra $V$ on a genus two Riemann surface formed by sewing together two tori. We consider the non-trivial degeneration limit where one torus is pinched down to a Riemann sphere and show that the genus one partition function on the degenerate torus is recovered up to an explicit universal $V$-independent multiplicative factor raised to the power of the central charge.Comment: 18 page

Understanding pathways

The challenge with todays microarray experiments is to infer biological conclusions from them. There are two crucial difficulties to be surmounted in this challenge:(1) A lack of suitable biological repository that can be easily integrated into computational algorithms. (2) Contemporary algorithms used to analyze microarray data are unable to draw consistent biological results from diverse datasets of the same disease. To deal with the first difficulty, we believe a core database that unifies available biological repositories is important. Towards this end, we create a unified biological database from three popular biological repositories (KEGG, Ingenuity and Wikipathways). This database provides computer scientists the flexibility of easily integrating biological information using simple API calls or SQL queries. To deal with the second difficulty of deriving consistent biological results from the experiments, we first conceptualize the notion of “subnetworks”, which refers to a connected portion in a biological pathway. Then we propose a method that identifies subnetworks that are consistently expressed by patients of he same disease phenotype. We test our technique on independent datasets of several diseases, including ALL, DMD and lung cancer. For each of these diseases, we obtain two independent microarray datasets produced by distinct labs on distinct platforms. In each case, our technique consistently produces overlapping lists of significant nontrivial subnetworks from two independent sets of microarray data. The gene-level agreement of these significant subnetworks is between 66.67% to 91.87%. In contrast, when the same pairs of microarray datasets were analysed using GSEA and t-test, this percentage fell between 37% to 55.75% (GSEA) and between 2.55% to 19.23% (t-test). Furthermore, the genes selected using GSEA and t-test do not form subnetworks of substantial size. Thus it is more probable that the subnetworks selected by our technique can provide the researcher with more descriptive information on the portions of the pathway which actually associates with the disease. Keywords: pathway analysis, microarra

Cellular Automata as a Model of Physical Systems

Cellular Automata (CA), as they are presented in the literature, are abstract mathematical models of computation. In this pa- per we present an alternate approach: using the CA as a model or theory of physical systems and devices. While this approach abstracts away all details of the underlying physical system, it remains faithful to the fact that there is an underlying physical reality which it describes. This imposes certain restrictions on the types of computations a CA can physically carry out, and the resources it needs to do so. In this paper we explore these and other consequences of our reformalization.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of AUTOMATA 200

Models of Quantum Cellular Automata

In this paper we present a systematic view of Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA), a mathematical formalism of quantum computation. First we give a general mathematical framework with which to study QCA models. Then we present four different QCA models, and compare them. One model we discuss is the traditional QCA, similar to those introduced by Shumacher and Werner, Watrous, and Van Dam. We discuss also Margolus QCA, also discussed by Schumacher and Werner. We introduce two new models, Coloured QCA, and Continuous-Time QCA. We also compare our models with the established models. We give proofs of computational equivalence for several of these models. We show the strengths of each model, and provide examples of how our models can be useful to come up with algorithms, and implement them in real-world physical devices