Aktor Non-Negara dalam Hubungan Internasional: Studi Kasus Detox Campaign oleh Greenpeace di Republik Rakyat Tiongkok 2011-2014

Environmental issue in China is a concern for international relations actors, including non-state actors. Greenpeace is an international non-government organization that acts to solve global environmental problems in China. This research will explain an environmental campaign, Detox Campaign, by Greenpeace to solve water pollution problem in China. This research aims to explain challenges that Greenpeace has faced in conducting Detox Campaign in China. In conducting Detox Campaign, Greenpeace has faced challenges that contribute to Greenpeace’s failure to change China’s government policy. This research used Global civil society as a theoretical framework, to explain external factors as challenges for Greenpeace in conducting Detox Campaign in China. This research found that water pollution issue is not a main priority in China and Greenpeace is still constrained by their limited organizational capacity. Greenpeace has limited political space in terms of policy advocacy that caused failure of Detox Campaign in China

Reverse Engineering Trimmed NURB Surfaces From Laser Scanned Data

A common reverse engineering problem is to convert several hundred thousand points collected from the surface of an object via a digitizing process, into a coherent geometric model that is easily transferred to a CAD software such as a solid modeler for either design improvement or manufacturing and analysis. These data are very dense and make data-set manipulation difficult and tedious. Many commercial solutions exist but involve time consuming interaction to go from points to surface meshes such as BSplines or NURBS (Non Uniform Rational BSplines). Our approach differs from current industry practice in that we produce a mesh with little or no interaction from the user. The user can produce degree 2 and higher BSpline surfaces and can choose the degree and number ofsegments as parameters to the system. The BSpline surface is both compact and curvature continuous. The former property reduces the large storage overhead, and the later implies a smooth can be created from noisy data. In addition, the nature ofthe BSpline allows one to easily and smoothly alter the surface, making re-engineering extremely feasible. The BSpline surface is created using the principle ofhigher orders least squares with smoothing functions at the edges. Both linear and cylindrical data sets are handled using an automated parameterization method. Also, because ofthe BSpline's continuous nature, a multiresolutional-triangulated mesh can quickly be produced. This last fact means that an STL file is simple to generate. STL files can also be easily used as input to the system.Mechanical Engineerin

Reverse Engineering Trimmed NURB Surfaces From Laser Scanned Data

A common reverse engineering problem is to convert several hundred thousand points collected from the surface of an object via a digitizing process, into a coherent geometric model that is easily transferred to a CAD software such as a solid modeler for either design improvement or manufacturing and analysis. These data are very dense and make data-set manipulation difficult and tedious. Many commercial solutions exist but involve time consuming interaction to go from points to surface meshes such as BSplines or NURBS (Non Uniform Rational BSplines). Our approach differs from current industry practice in that we produce a mesh with little or no interaction from the user. The user can produce degree 2 and higher BSpline surfaces and can choose the degree and number ofsegments as parameters to the system. The BSpline surface is both compact and curvature continuous. The former property reduces the large storage overhead, and the later implies a smooth can be created from noisy data. In addition, the nature ofthe BSpline allows one to easily and smoothly alter the surface, making re-engineering extremely feasible. The BSpline surface is created using the principle ofhigher orders least squares with smoothing functions at the edges. Both linear and cylindrical data sets are handled using an automated parameterization method. Also, because ofthe BSpline's continuous nature, a multiresolutional-triangulated mesh can quickly be produced. This last fact means that an STL file is simple to generate. STL files can also be easily used as input to the system.Mechanical Engineerin

Curves with rational chord-length parametrization

It has been recently proved that rational quadratic circles in standard Bezier form are parameterized by chord-length. If we consider that standard circles coincide with the isoparametric curves in a system of bipolar coordinates, this property comes as a straightforward consequence. General curves with chord-length parametrization are simply the analogue in bipolar coordinates of nonparametric curves. This interpretation furnishes a compact explicit expression for all planar curves with rational chord-length parametrization. In addition to straight lines and circles in standard form, they include remarkable curves, such as the equilateral hyperbola, Lemniscate of Bernoulli and Limacon of Pascal. The extension to 3D rational curves is also tackled

Fermions in the pseudoparticle approach

The pseudoparticle approach is a numerical technique to compute path integrals without discretizing spacetime. The basic idea is to integrate over those field configurations, which can be represented by a sum of a fixed number of localized building blocks (pseudoparticles). In a couple of previous papers we have successfully applied the pseudoparticle approach to pure SU(2) Yang-Mills theory. In this work we discuss how to incorporate fermionic fields in the pseudoparticle approach. To test our method, we compute the phase diagram of the 1+1-dimensional Gross-Neveu model in the large-N limit.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure

PENGARUH PENERAPAN BCQ (BRIEF CHEMISTRY QUIZ) TERHADAP PENINGKATAN MOTIVASI DAN PRESTASI BELAJAR KIMIA SISWA KELAS XI SEMESTER GASAL DI SMA N 1 DEPOK SLEMAN

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian eksperimen dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui ada tidaknya perbedaan motivasi belajar kimia antara peserta didik yang mengikuti pembelajaran dengan diberikan BCQ dan peserta didik yang mengikuti pembelajaran tanpa diberikan BCQ, perbedaan motivasi belajar kimia peserta didik sebelum dan sesudah mengikuti pembelajaran dengan diberikan BCQ dan perbedaan prestasi belajar kimia antara peserta didik yang mengikuti pembelajaran dengan diberikan BCQ dengan peserta didik yang mengikuti pembelajaran dengan tidak diberikan BCQ di kelas XI SMA N 1 Depok Sleman jika pengetahuan awal dikendalikan secara statistik. Populasi penelitian ini adalah semua peserta didik kelas XI SMA N 1 Depok tahun ajaran 2013/2014 yang berjumlah 99 peserta didik. Teknik pengambilan data dilakukan secara purposive sampling yaitu diambil 2 kelas dari 3 kelas XI. Kelas A1 (33 peserta didik) sebagai kelas eksperimen dan kelas A2 (33 peserta didik) sebagai kelas kontrol. Data motivasi awal dan akhir didapat dari angket motivasi sebelum pembelajaran dan sesudah pembelajaran. Data prestasi belajar peserta didik didapat dari nilai ulangan harian. Hasil analisis uji-t beda subjek diperoleh nilai p = 0,894 dan thitung = -0,134. Sedangkan hasil analisis uji-t sama subjek untuk kelas eksperimen diperoleh nilai p = 0,000 dan thitung = -4,598. Kemudian untuk hasil analisis uji anakova satu jalur didapatkan harga Fhitung = 14,242 dan p = 0,000. Berdasarkan hasil analisis data, dapat disimpulkan bahwa: (1) Tidak ada perbedaan yang signifikan dalam hal motivasi belajar kimia antara peserta didik yang mengikuti pembelajaran dengan diberikan BCQ dengan peserta didik yang mengikuti pembelajaran dengan tidak diberikan BCQ, (2) ada perbedaan yang signifikan dalam hal motivasi belajar kimia peserta didik sebelum dan sesudah mengikuti pembelajaran dengan diberikan BCQ, (3) ada perbedaan yang signifikan dalam hal prestasi belajar kimia antara peserta didik yang mengikuti pembelajaran dengan diberikan BCQ dengan peserta didik yang mengikuti pembelajaran dengan tidak diberikan BCQ jika pengetahuan awal dikendalikan secara statistik

Формування маркетингових підрозділів на підприємствах Харківського регіону

У статті розглянуто ситуацію формування маркетингових підрозділів на підприємствах Харківського регіону, розвиток їх структури, проаналізовано підходи до формування кадрового складу маркетингових підрозділів та динаміку їх розвитку, визначені тенденції щодо подальших напрямків вдосконалення маркетингу та виявлені ніші для перспективного розвитку маркетингу у Харківському регіоні.The article deals with the situation forming marketing departments in enterprises of Kharkov region, the development of structure analysis approaches to staffing marketing departments and the dynamics of their development trends identified areas for further improvement of marketing and found a niche for the future of marketing in the Kharkiv region

On Approximating Contours of the Piecewise Trilinear Interpolant Using Triangular Rational-Quadratic Bezier Patches

Given a three-dimensional (3D) array of function values Fijk on a rectilinear grid, the marching cubes(MC) method is the most common technique used for computing a surface triangulation T approximating a contour (isosurface) F(x,y,z)=T. We describe the construction of a Co-continuous surface consisting of rational-quadratic surface patches interpolating the triangles in T. We determine the Bezier control points of a single rational-quadratic surface patch based on the coordinates of the vertices of the underlying triangle and the gradients and Hessians associated with the vertices

Applying inversion to construct rational spiral curves

A method is proposed to construct spiral curves by inversion of a spiral arc of parabola. The resulting curve is rational of 4-th order. Proper selection of the parabolic arc and parameters of inversion allows to match a wide range of boundary conditions, namely, tangents and curvatures at the endpoints, including those, assuming inflection.Comment: 18 pages, 11 figure

Application-Aware Distribution Trees for Application-Level Multicast

In this paper, we present an algorithm to construct application-aware distribution trees for application-level multicast. Unlike existing approaches, the distribution trees do not solely depend on network characteristics but also on the application semantics of the transmitted packets. In the presented algorithm, the application may specify an individual priority for each packet-receiver pair. The distribution tree is then constructed such that the higher the priority, the more direct the path from the sender to the packet\'s destination. This comes at the cost of an increase in link stress -- the more direct a path, the less likely it is that it can be integrated efficiently into an overlay multicast distribution tree. Our algorithm takes this tradeoff into account and constructs efficient application-aware distribution trees. We demonstrate the performance and characteristics of the algorithm through extensive simulation