Pengaruh Budaya Organisasi terhadap Kinerja Individu dengan Penerapan Sistem Informasi Akuntansi sebagai Variabel Intervening

The objective of this study is to examine the influence of organizational culture on individual performance with accounting information system application as intervening variable. This study uses primary data obtained through the distribution of questionnaires to respondents, who are employees working on the clothing distribution store or outlet (Distro) in the Mataram city. The sample of this study consisted of 102 respondents, which is determined based on purposive sampling method. The results of this study indicate that organizational culture has a significant and positive influence on individual performance. Organizational culture also has a significant and positive influence on accounting information system application. However, the application of accounting information system as intervening variable has no influence on individual performance. Likewise the study also found that application of accounting information systems has no indirect influence of organizational culture on the performance of individuals. Businessmen who apply accounting information system in the form of application of accounting software especially on the distrocould use the result of this research, as well as employees as the user of the accounting software in order to understand in advance the steps to apply it thoroughly

Pengembangan Aplikasi Penilaian Kinerja Guru untuk Meningkatkan Profesionalisme Guru di SMA Negeri 3 Sragen

Penilaian tentang kinerja guru semakin penting untuk mengetahui tingkat profesionalisme guru. Lembaga pendidikan harus mengetahui faktor-faktor apa saja yang mempengaruhi kinerja guru. Hasil analisis akan bermanfaat untuk pengembangan SDM (Sumber Daya Manusia) guru secara optimal yang sangat diperlukan untuk memajukan mutu pendidikan. Guru memerlukan perhatian khusus dari pemerintah dan masyarakat oleh karena itu pemerintah mengatur peningkatan kualitas tenaga pendidik atau guru secara nasional melalui Undang-undang No 20 Tahun 2003 tentang sistem pendidikan Nasional. Sistem PKG (Penilaian Kinerja Guru) masih dilaksanakan secara konvensional yang sangat berperpengaruh pada profesionalisme guru. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membangun aplikasi Penilaian Kinerja Guru yang dapat meningkatkan kinerja dan profesionalisme guru. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode Research and Development yang terdiri dari 10 tahap yang telah dimodifikasi menghasilkan aplikasi PKG yang sesuai untuk meningkatkan profesionalisme guru. Hasil pengembangan berupa aplikasi Penilaian Kinerja Guru berbasis komputer yang memuat komponen- komponen penilaian yang terdiri atas kompetensi kepribadian, kompetensi pedagogik, kompetensi profesional, kompetensi sosial dan hasil rekap penilaian yang mampu meningkatkan profesionalisme guru secara maksimal

Sum of exit times in series of metastable states in probabilistic cellular automata

Reversible Probabilistic Cellular Automata are a special class of automata whose stationary behavior is described by Gibbs--like measures. For those models the dynamics can be trapped for a very long time in states which are very different from the ones typical of stationarity. This phenomenon can be recasted in the framework of metastability theory which is typical of Statistical Mechanics. In this paper we consider a model presenting two not degenerate in energy metastable states which form a series, in the sense that, when the dynamics is started at one of them, before reaching stationarity, the system must necessarily visit the second one. We discuss a rule for combining the exit times from each of the metastable states

The order of the quantum chromodynamics transition predicted by the standard model of particle physics

We determine the nature of the QCD transition using lattice calculations for physical quark masses. Susceptibilities are extrapolated to vanishing lattice spacing for three physical volumes, the smallest and largest of which differ by a factor of five. This ensures that a true transition should result in a dramatic increase of the susceptibilities.No such behaviour is observed: our finite-size scaling analysis shows that the finite-temperature QCD transition in the hot early Universe was not a real phase transition, but an analytic crossover (involving a rapid change, as opposed to a jump, as the temperature varied). As such, it will be difficult to find experimental evidence of this transition from astronomical observations.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure

Clinical relevance of silent red blood cell autoantibodies.

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Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors and Nuclear Receptors Gene Expression in Infertile and Fertile Men from Italian Areas with Different Environmental Features

Internal levels of selected endocrine disruptors (EDs) (i.e., perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), di-2-ethylhexyl-phthalate (DEHP), mono-(2-ethylhexyl)-phthalate (MEHP), and bisphenol A (BPA)) were analyzed in blood/serum of infertile and fertile men from metropolitan, urban and rural Italian areas. PFOS and PFOA levels were also evaluated in seminal plasma. In peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of same subjects, gene expression levels of a panel of nuclear receptors (NRs), namely estrogen receptor α (ERα) estrogen receptor β (ERβ), androgen receptor (AR), aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) and pregnane X receptor (PXR) were also assessed. Infertile men from the metropolitan area had significantly higher levels of BPA and gene expression of all NRs, except PPARγ, compared to subjects from other areas. Subjects from urban areas had significantly higher levels of MEHP, whereas subjects from rural area had higher levels of PFOA in both blood and seminal plasma. Interestingly, ERα, ERβ, AR, PXR and AhR expression is directly correlated with BPA and inversely correlated with PFOA serum levels. Our study indicates the relevance of the living environment when investigating the exposure to specific EDs. Moreover, the NRs panel in PBMCs demonstrated to be a potential biomarker of effect to assess the EDs impact on reproductive health

HST - WFPC2 photometry of the globular cluster ngc 288: binary systems, blue stragglers and very blue stars

We report on new WFPC2 observations of the globular cluster NGC 288, focusing our attention on peculiar stars. A very pronounced binary sequence, paralleling the ordinary Main Sequence (MS) is clearly observed in the Color Magnitude Diagram (CMD) and a huge relative fraction of Blue Straggler Stars is measured. The dataset offers the opportunity of studying the evolution of a large population of binaries (and binary evolution by-products) in a low density environment, where the evolution of such systems is not dominated by collisions and encounters. Three (very) Extreme Horizontal Branch Stars have been found, all lying outside of the cluster core.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, in press in the chemical evolution of the Milky Way: stars versus clusters, F. Matteucci and F. Giovannelli eds, Kluwe

Two distinct sequences of blue straggler stars in the globular cluster M30

Stars in globular clusters are generally believed to have all formed at the same time, early in the Galaxy's history. 'Blue stragglers' are stars massive enough that they should have evolved into white dwarfs long ago. Two possible mechanisms have been proposed for their formation: mass transfer between binary companions and stellar mergers resulting from direct collisions between two stars. Recently, the binary explanation was claimed to be dominant. Here we report that there are two distinct parallel sequences of blue stragglers in M30. This globular cluster is thought to have undergone 'core collapse', during which both the collision rate and the mass transfer activity in binary systems would have been enhanced. We suggest that the two observed sequences arise from the cluster core collapse, with the bluer population arising from direct stellar collisions and the redder one arising from the evolution of close binaries that are probably still experiencing an active phase of mass transfer.Comment: Published on the 24th December 2009 issue of Natur

Dynamical age differences among coeval star clusters as revealed by blue stragglers

Globular star clusters that formed at the same cosmic time may have evolved rather differently from a dynamical point of view (because that evolution depends on the internal environment) through a variety of processes that tend progressively to segregate stars more massive than the average towards the cluster centre. Therefore clusters with the same chronological age may have reached quite different stages of their dynamical history (that is, they may have different dynamical ages). Blue straggler stars have masses greater than those at the turn-off point on the main sequence and therefore must be the result of either a collision or a mass-transfer event. Because they are among the most massive and luminous objects in old clusters, they can be used as test particles with which to probe dynamical evolution. Here we report that globular clusters can be grouped into a few distinct families on the basis of the radial distribution of blue stragglers. This grouping corresponds well to an effective ranking of the dynamical stage reached by stellar systems, thereby permitting a direct measure of the cluster dynamical age purely from observed properties.Comment: Published on the 20 December 2012 issue of Natur