Illocutionary Acts in Stand-up Comedy

This research was conducted to discover the types of illocutionary acts, the most dominant type of illocutionary acts, the implication of the dominant type of illocutionary acts, and which utterances show the function of stand-up comedy in stand-up comedy performances in Indonesia. It was based on descriptive design by applying both quantitative and qualitative method. This study took ten performances of stand-up comedy which is taken randomly from the internet and there were 1378 illocutionary acts in ten stand-up comedy selected. The findings show that all types of illocutionary acts were used in stand-up comedy and the percentages were: 55.9% of representatives, 22.9% of directives, 16.2% of expressives, 3% of declaratives and 2% of commissives. There was another function of stand-up comedy in addition to entertaining, informing, and criticizing, which is insinuating. The most dominant illocutionary acts type found was representatives. It means, in delivering their material, the comics dominantly convey their belief that some proposition is true and they also indirectly provoke the audience to believe their words

THERMO GRAVIMETRY-DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING COLORIMETRY-MASS SPECTROSCOPY-A REVIEW

Thermogravimetric analysis is an analytical technique used to determine a material's thermal stability and its fraction of volatile components by monitoring the weight change that occurs as a sample is heated at a constant rate. Differential scanning colorimetry analysis is used to measure melting temperature, the heat of fusion, latent heat of melting, reaction energy etc. Mass spectroscopy is a powerful analytical tool with many applications in pharmaceuticals and biomedical fields. The increase in sensitivity and resolution of the instrument as opened new dimensions in analysis of pharmaceuticals and complex metabolites of biological systems. Thermo gravimetry coupled with differential scanning colorimetry and Quadra pole mass spectrometry was applied to monitor the thermal stability and chemical properties of natural polymers isolated from chemically different soils. The TGA/DSC, when coupled with MS generic multiple ions from the sample under investigation, it then separates them according to a specific mass-to-charge ratio. The coupled instrument is used for simultaneous identification of organic compounds, used to evaluate the physical properties, degradation stability of powder coating

Factors Affecting The Main Hypertension Events in The Bukong Pandu Raya Village, West Kalimantan

Hypertension contributes 9.4 million deaths from cardiovascular disease each year. The cause of hypertension is because some people have a bad lifestyle, people often do not maintain their diet and people often eat salted and fatty foods. The purpose of this research is to find out the factors that influence Primary Hypertension in Dusun Bukong, Pandu Raya Village, West Kalimantan in 2018. This research method used quantitative methods with descriptive correlation design and cross sectional approach. By using the Slovin formula a total sample of 197 respondents was obtained. The results of the study, by conducting a univariate analysis found that most respondents had a level of knowledge related to hypertension (62.9%), more than half had a good lifestyle (58.4%), income above the MSE (57.9%) and more of half had hypertension (54.9%). From the bivariate analysis using the Kendall's Tau B test and Kendall's Tau C, the results of the study are found: there is a significant relationship between the level of knowledge (p value = 0,000), lifestyle (p value = 0,000) and income (p value = 0.047) with the incidence of hypertension . Discussion: Knowledge, lifestyle and family income in Dusun Bukong, Pandu Raya village have a significant relationship with the incidence of hypertension, so that health workers are expected to continue to provide support and motivation to the community to continue to improve their knowledge and a healthy lifestyle

Evaluasi Terhadap Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran Inovatif Pada Guru SMA Yang Tersertifikasi Dan Solusinya Dikota Surakarta

The aim of this research is to find to what extent senior highschool teachers has applied innovative teaching after passing the certification examination. In addition, this research has the aim to find out the problems that the teachers have in their application of innovative teaching. Based on the problems, this research proposes some recommendations for the solutions for the problems.Specifically, this research wants to find out whether there are any differences in the application of innovative teaching between the teachers who passed the portofolio ceritification exam and those who passed the exam in the Teacher Profession Education and Training (PLPG). This is a qualitative research with observation, depth-interview, questionnaire used as the instruments to get the data of the research. The objects of the research are certifiedb and non-certified senior highschool teachers of natural science, social science, Indonesian and English of both the private and state schools in SurakartaThe research has obtained the following findings. The certification program has created an impact on both certified and non-certified senior highschool teachers in Surakarta. With their limitations, they tend to implement innovative teaching. There is a difference between certified teachers and non-certified teachers. The former teach better than the later. There is a slight difference between the cerified teachers who passed the portofolio exam and the certified teachers who passed the PLPG exam. The portofolio teachers teach more innovatively than the PLPG teachers.The research has also found that the teachers are facing some problems that discourage them to implement innovative teaching. First, they are forced to prepare the students for the National Exam. Secondly, they have the wrong perception that teaching innovatively means using computers or laptops and this means being expensive. To solve the problems, there should be a continuous supervision and monitoring and evaluation for the teachers.

Karakterisasi Beberapa Sifat Kuantitatif Plasma Nutfah Gandum (Triticum Aestivum. L)

The aim of the experiment were to rejuvenate and characterize of wheat germplasm. Eighty nine genotypes planted at Kuningan Field Research Instalation, West Java from June to October 2002. Plot size for each genotypes 3 x 1 m2 with spacing 25 x 10 cm. Seeds were planted with 2 seed per hole and thinned out to one plant. Several agronomic characters were observed: date of flowering, date of maturing, plant height, number of productive tiller per hill, seed weight per hill and yield per plot. The results showed that: date of flowering (mean 60.9 days with range 48-77 days), date of maturity (mean 102.7 days with range 87-119 days), plant height (mean 72.4 cm, range 53.5-88.7 cm), number of productive tiller per hill (mean 9.71, range 4.9-24.0), seed weight per hill (mean 11.96 g, range 5.3-34.5 g) and seed yield per plot (200.0- 2624.5 g). Seventeen genotypes have date of flowering <54.3 days, some of them were H40, H80, V219, and V132. There were 25 genotypes have date of harvesting ranged 87-98 days, some of them were H40 (87 days), H85 (91 days), H90 (91 days). There were 16 genotypes have plant height <65.2 cm, some of them were C3 (53.5 cm), C7 (58.4 cm), C14 (59.1 cm). Whereas the highest was C10 (88.7 cm). Nine genotypes have number of productive tiller per hill >17.5, some of them were C8 (23.6), C27 (22.7) and the greatest number was C28 (24.0). Sixty six genotypes have number of productive tiller per hill, ranged 4.9-11.2, some of them were: C34 (4.9), C24 (5.2), H85 (5.6). Seed weight per hill showed that 60 genotypes have seed weight <12.6 g, for example: H71 (5.3 g), H40 (6.6 g), C132 (5,4 g), C34 (6,7 g), whereas the heaviest was C28 (34.5 g). Sixteen three two genotypes that have yield per plot >2000 g were V192 (2016.0 g), and V167 (2624.5 g)

Plasma Nutfah Jagung Sebagai Sumber Gen Dalam Program Pemuliaan

In December 2005, maize germplasm collection at the institute were 886 accessions consisted of 581 local varieties, 165 introduced varieties, 107 inbred, lines, and 33 old and the present improved varieties. Required traits in varietal improvement or development are drought tolerant, tolerant to Al-toxicity, early maturity, have better quality, resistant to downy mildew disease, resistant to insect Atherigona exigua and high yield. Maize germplasm must be characterized accordingly. Evaluation for Al toxicity was conducted at Tamanbogo, Lampung, 100-200 accessions of maize germplasm and tolerance to drought were conducted in Jakenan and Imogiri Central Java, 63-100 accessions. Evaluation for downy mildew resistance was conducted at Cikeumeuh Bogor, 100-200 accessions. Evaluation for resistance to seedingfly was conducted at Cikeumeuh, 75-100 accessions. The results of evaluation conducted from 1999-2004 were: 30 accessions tolerant to drought, 21 accessions. tolerant to Al-toxicity, 70 accessions resistant to downy mildew disease (Peronosclerospora maydis), 22 accessions resistant to seeding fly (Atherigona exigua), 126 accessions had very early maturity <80 days (consisted of 31 accessions had yellow seed, 35 accessions had white seed, and 60 accessions had other colour seed). Accessions having good characters, need to be further tested prior to their use in the breeding program, particularly the accessions resistant to Atherigona exigua in monoculture test

Investigation of Conventional and AI Techniques for Online Application to Solve ELD, MED and CEED Problems

In this paper, one conventional and two AI techniques are investigated to find their suitability for ON-LINE application to solve Economic Load Dispatch (ELD), Minimum Emission Dispatch (MED) and Combined Economic and Emission Dispatch (CEED) problem. In this paper, three techniques,  Classical Lambda Iteration method, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Hopfield Neural Network (HNN) are applied to obtain  ELD, MED and CEED problem solutions for three, six and fifteen unit test systems. The results obtained show the superiority of HNN technique over the other two techniques. The solutions obtained are quite encouraging. The algorithm and simulations are carried out using MATLAB software. Keywords: ELD, MED, CEED, Conventional Lambda Technique, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Hopfield Neural Network (HNN), Price Penalty Factor-PPF

THE GRICEAN COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE: FLOUTING AND HEDGING IN THE CONVERSATIONS IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S THE SECRET AGENT

The Cooperative Principle (CP) proposed by Grice states that a speaker should be cooperative by making the conversational contribution as required. In CP Grice proposes four conversational maxims : Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner. Speakers sometimes flout the conversational maxims, so do characters in The Secret Agent. The flouting and hedging the conversational maxims can be done through figures of speech