Spatial Patterns Associating Low Birth Weight with Environmental and Behavioral Factors

Low birth weight (LBW) is a significant public health problem in the world. It was estimated globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) that prevalence of LBW was 15% of all births. In Murung Raya district LBW cases remain high. This paper aimed to identify and discuss the relationship between environmental risk factors with LBW in Murung Raya.A spatial analysis was conducted with 150 women as the total participantswho were recruited through the incidence data in 2013-2014. The questionnaires, medical records, and geographic data were measured by Stata software, ArcGis, SatScan, and Geoda. The study results indicated there was significant correlation between health behavior and environmental variables with the strength of external neighborhood effect across LBW risk factors. More intense clustering of high values (hot spots) was found through the spatial analysis showing that most of the cases were located near the defined buffer zone. This research demonstrates that the spatial pattern analysis provided greater statistical power to detect an effect that was not apparent in the previous epidemiology studies

Pemanfaatan Tanaman Bambu untuk Membuat Aneka Kerajinan Tangan Khas Suku Dayak Desa sebagai Alternatif Peningkatan Kreativitas Mahasiswadalam Menganalisis Peluang Bisnis

Tujuan penelitian adalah meningkatkan kreativitas mahasiswa dalam menganalisis peluang bisnis dengan cara memanfaatkan tanaman bambu yang banyak tumbuh di alam Kalimantan Barat khususnya kabupaten Sintang. Tanaman bambu dimanfaatkan untuk membuat aneka kerajinan tangan khas suku dayak desa yang dikemas dalam bentuk souvenir dengan kreasi model-model baru merubah ukuran aslinya menjadi miniatur yang lebih kecil ukurannya sehingga cocok digunakan sebagai cindera mata.Adapun jenis kerajinan tangan khas suku dayak desa yang ada di kabupaten Sintang yang telah dimodifikasi menjadi souvenir diantaranya cupai, takin, tanggui, capan, keban, tabung, keranjang bakul dan tikar. Hasil kerajinan tangan ini selanjutnya dipasarkan melalui praktek pemasaran pada matakuliah analisis peluang bisnis dimana mahasiswa diberikan kesempatan untuk menjual hasil kerajinan tangannya di kantin kampus; selain itu produk juga dapat dipesan untuk souvenir pernikahan, souvenir ulang tahun, dan dititipkan pada toko cenderamata. Produk telah berhasil dipasarkan dengan mendatangkan keuntungan sebesar Rp. 864.000 dari 100 unit Produk . Kegiatan ini akan terus berlanjut dan dikembangkan dengan target membuat galeri khusus serta memperluas pangsa pasar

Hambatan Komunikasi Downward Dan Upward Pada Divisi Sales & Marketing Bukit Darmo Golf Surabaya

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yang dilakukan untuk mengetahui bagaimanakah hambatan komunikasi downward dan upward pada divisi sales & marketing di Bukit Darmo Golf Surabaya. Dalam penelitiannya, peneliti menggunakan jenis deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode studi kasus dalam melakukan analisis serta menggunakan teknik observasi dan wawancara mendalam untuk memperoleh informasi secara mendalam dari para informan yang telah ditentukan. Hambatan komunikasi downward dan upward yang diteliti oleh peneliti adalah meliputi hambatan perilaku, hambatan struktur, hambatan bahasa, hambatan latar belakang, hambatan teknis dan hambatan jarak.Peneliti menemukan bahwa dalam divisi sales & marketing Bukit Darmo Golf terjadi hambatan komunikasi yang dilakukan dari atasan ke bawahan maupun dari bawahan ke atasan. Dimana antara atasan dengan bawahan kurang adanya kedekatan sehingga hubungan yang terjalin pun kurang harmonis dan komunikasi pun menjadi tidak efektif. Tidak adanya meeting antara atasan dengan bawahan sehingga bawahan tidak dapat memberikan umpan Balik / masukan berupa kritik dan saran. Atasan hanya berkomunikasi dengan bawahan jika ada pekerjaan yang ingin diberikan kepada bawahan

Improvement of speed-accuracy tradeoff during practice of a point-to-point task in children with acquired dystonia

: The tradeoff between speed and accuracy is a well-known constraint for human movement, but previous work has shown that this tradeoff can be modified by practice, and the quantitative relationship between speed and accuracy may be an indicator of skill in some tasks. We have previously shown that children with dystonia are able to adapt their movement strategy in a ballistic throwing game to compensate for increased variability of movement. Here, we test whether children with dystonia can adapt and improve skills learned on a trajectory task. We use a novel task in which children move a spoon with a marble between two targets. Difficulty is modified by changing the depth of the spoon. Our results show that both healthy children and children with acquired dystonia move more slowly with the more difficult spoons, and both groups improve the relationship between speed and spoon difficulty following 1 wk of practice. By tracking the marble position in the spoon, we show that children with dystonia use a larger fraction of the available variability, whereas healthy children adopt a much safer strategy and remain farther from the margins, as well as learning to adapt and have more control over the marble's utilized area by practice. Together, our results show that both healthy children and children with dystonia choose trajectories that compensate for risk and inherent variability, and that the increased variability in dystonia can be modified with continued practice.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study provides insights into the adaptability of children with dystonia in learning a point-to-point task. We show that these children adjust their strategies to account for increased difficulty in the task. Our findings underscore the potential of task-specific practice in improving motor skills and show higher level of signal-dependent noise can be controlled through repetition and learned strategies, which provides an avenue for the quantitative evaluation of rehabilitation strategies in this challenging group