BOOK REVIEW OF “5 CM” WRITTEN BY DONNY DHIRGANTORO

5 CM adalah sebuah novel yang mengangkat tema tentang persahabatan. Novel karya onny Dhirgantoro ini merupakan salah satu novel best seller yang banyak menginspirasi para embaca. Membaca novel 5 CM ini sama seperti melihat kehidupan nyata, di mana hubungan persahabatan yang diceritakan terlihat hi Hasil review ini menunjukkan ba M merupakan novel yang sarat akan ilai-nilai kehidupan. Adapun nilai-nilai yang terkandung dalam novel ini adalah nilai persahabatan, nilai nasionalisme dan nilai kemanusiaan. Selain memaparkan nilai-nilai kehid ta dapat diraih meskipun dengan perjuangan yang berat. Dp dup. hwa novel 5 C n upan, novel ini juga memaparkan bagaimana kekuatan mimpi itu mampu mengubah diri seseorang menjadi manusia yang lebih memaknai hidup dan masih tetap berjuang meskipun dihadapkan pada kesulitan-kesulitan di dalam kehidupan. Dengan kepercayaan diri yang kuat, mimpi yang mungkin sulit diwujudkan ternya Novel 5 CM ini merupakan novel yang bagus. Kelebihan dari novel ini terletak pada temanya yang sederhana. Selain itu, bahasa yang digunakan dalam novel ini pun sangat ringan dan mudah dipahami. Pengarang juga menggunakan lirik lagu dan judul film untuk menjelaskan karakter tokoh dalam cerita. Hal ini membuat cerita menjadi lebih menarik untuk dibaca. Adapun kekurangan dari novel ini terletak pada akhir ceritanya yang terkesan dipaksakan, sehingga akhir ceritanya pun terlihat kurang natural. Secara keseluruhan novel 5 CM ini merupakan novel yang sangat menarik, karena selain sarat akan pesan moral dan nilainilai sosial, novel ini juga memiliki kekuatan untuk memotivasi pembacanya agar percaya pada kekuatan mimpi

Konstruksi Sosial Masyarakat Percandian dalam Pemeliharaan Kearifan Lokal

This study aims to determine the social construction of the Batujaya temple complex, Karawang, West Java in maintaining local wisdom. This study uses Peter L. Berger's social construction theory, which sees society as a process that takes place in three dialectical moments at once, namely externalization, objectification, and internalization. The social construction of society has a long journey from the past to the present, and the future. So that in society a social reality is created. The method used in this research is a descriptive method, which is a type of qualitative data to describe, analyze, and reveal events that occur in the field. The data sources of this research are the village government, community leaders, temple maintenance workers, and the temple community. Data collection methods used in this study were observation, interviews, and documentation. In addition, it is also equipped with secondary data in the form of reference books, tourism profiles in the form of brochures that are relevant to the research theme to support data in the field. The results showed that in order to maintain local wisdom, the people of the baths still maintain their belief in animism and dynamism. Relations between local communities are built through a process of adaptation, interaction, and socialization. Efforts to regenerate local wisdom are carried out through integrated socialization to schools and creating a tourism-loving community

Exchange Rate Regimes and Volatility: Comparison of the Snake and Visegrad

Exchange rate stability was defined as one of the prerequisites for monetary integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze recent developments in the volatility of exchange rates of the Central European countries (the Visegrad Group) and a selected group of European Union countries (the Snake) participating in the former European Monetary System. We compare volatilities in the currencies of both groups under specific exchange rate regimes using two different approaches to modeling exchange rate volatility: squared returns parametric model and GARCH. Both methods provide identical results for the currencies of the Visegrad group: an increase in volatility after a floating exchange rate regime was introduced. The case of the Snake countries exhibits mixed results for two currencies and a concurring result for the others: a decrease in volatility. In one case we are left with an insignificant coefficient. We consider the results as robust and suitable for policy making decisions.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/40008/2/wp622.pd

Stitches, Seams, and Garment Finishes

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The power of the crowd: promise and potential of crowdsourcing for education

Crowdsourcing is the term often used for processes of data collation and creation where individuals or groups of users who are not necessarily located centrally generate content that is then shared. While the term originates within the world of business, it has since gained traction within a number of academic and professional disciplines. Drawing upon two examples that have originated within the Republic of Ireland, this paper reflects on the educational potential of crowdsourcing. Firstly, it reports a unique one-year open crowdsourcing initiative which compiled a comprehensive A-Z directory of edtech tools for teaching and learning through collaborative contributions. Secondly, it describes an initiative to develop a crowdsourced repository of study tips and suggestions for adult, part-time, online and flexible learners embarking on further study. These two case studies provide a valuable context for considering the wider potential of crowdsourcing applications for teaching and learning purposes

Traffic Light Control Using Deep Policy-Gradient and Value-Function Based Reinforcement Learning

Recent advances in combining deep neural network architectures with reinforcement learning techniques have shown promising potential results in solving complex control problems with high dimensional state and action spaces. Inspired by these successes, in this paper, we build two kinds of reinforcement learning algorithms: deep policy-gradient and value-function based agents which can predict the best possible traffic signal for a traffic intersection. At each time step, these adaptive traffic light control agents receive a snapshot of the current state of a graphical traffic simulator and produce control signals. The policy-gradient based agent maps its observation directly to the control signal, however the value-function based agent first estimates values for all legal control signals. The agent then selects the optimal control action with the highest value. Our methods show promising results in a traffic network simulated in the SUMO traffic simulator, without suffering from instability issues during the training process

Exchange Rate Regimes and Volatility: Comparison of the Snake and Visegrad

Exchange rate stability was defined as one of the prerequisites for monetary integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze recent developments in the volatility of exchange rates of the Central European countries (the Visegrad Group) and a selected group of European Union countries (the Snake) participating in the former European Monetary System. We compare volatilities in the currencies of both groups under specific exchange rate regimes using two different approaches to modeling exchange rate volatility: squared returns parametric model and GARCH. Both methods provide identical results for the currencies of the Visegrad group: an increase in volatility after a floating exchange rate regime was introduced. The case of the Snake countries exhibits mixed results for two currencies and a concurring result for the others: a decrease in volatility. In one case we are left with an insignificant coefficient. We consider the results as robust and suitable for policy making decisions.exchange rate regime, volatility, transition, integration, Central Europe, European Union, nonlinearity, interest rate parity

Ownership, Control and Corporate Performance After Large-Scale Privatization

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find that few types of private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic) ownership improves some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring by increasing the rate of change of sales, while domestic private owners reduce the rate of change of sales and labor cost without increasing profitability. The effects of concentrated foreign ownership support the agency theory and go against theories stressing the positive effects of managerial autonomy and initiative. Our results are also consistent with the thesis that large domestic stockholders are not improving performance because they loot the firms. We find some support for the hypothesis that firms restructure by first lowering and later increasing the rate of change of employment. The state as a holder of the golden share has a positive effect on employment, while stimulating profitable restructuring. The state hence appears as a more economically and socially helping agent than in some recent studies.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/40038/3/wp652.pd