Implementasi Multikultural Antar Umat Beragama sebagai Perwujudan Karakter di SMP 2 Lingsar

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui implementasi multikultural antar umat beragama dalam setiap aktivitas sekolah yang mampu mewujudkan karakter toleransi di SMP 2 Lingsar. Pendekatan penelitian kualitatif metode deskriptif dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui pengamatan, wawancara mendalam, dan dokumentasi. Subjek penelitian adalah warga sekolah SMP 2 Lingsar. Sementara informan adalah kepala sekolah dan wakil, guru-pegawai yang berbeda agama, dan siswa yang berbeda agama. Sedangkan analisis data dilakukan dengan model interaktif Miles dan Huberman meliputi reduksi data, penyajian data, penarikan kesimpulan atau verifikasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa implementasi multikultural antar umat beragama sebagai perwujudan karakter di SMP Negeri 2 Lingsar dilakukan dengan melalui 1) program kegiatan sekolah seperti Iman takwa sekolah, kunjungan antar umat beragama, hari-hari besar keagamaan, kegiatan sosial antar umat beragama, bakti sosial, perayaan hari-hari besar nasional, karnaval sekolah; 2) kegiatan pembelajaran di kelas seperti berdoa sebelum mulai pelajaran dan sesudah pelajaran berlangsung sesuai agama masing-masing, metode pembelajaran tanya jawab dan diskusi kelompok; 3) kegiatan ektrakurikuler siswa seperti bidang pramuka, seni musik dan tari, olahraga, dan organisasi siswa

Hubungan Variabel Demografi dengan Respon Konsumen terhadap Iklan Produk Kopi Merek Top Coffee di Kota Denpasar

Wings Food adalah Perusahaan yang sedang gencar melakukan periklanan untuk memperkenalkan produk baru. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana hubungan variabel demografi (usia, pendapatan, jenis kelamin dan pendidikan) dengan respon konsumen terhadap iklan produk kopi merek TOP Coffee di Kota Denpasar. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Kota Denpasar. Jumlah sampel yang ditetapkan sebanyak 120 responden, dengan menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah statistik deskriptif dan chi square analysis. Analisis menunjukkan variabel demografi (usia, pendapatan, jenis kelamin dan pendidikan) memiliki hubungan yang signifikan dengan respon konsumen. Artinya, semakin tinggi usia responden akan memiliki respon konsumen yang semakin baik, semakin rendah pendapatan responden akan memiliki respon konsumen yang semakin baik, jenis kelamin laki-laki memiliki respon konsumen yang lebih baik dibandingkan jenis kelamin perempuan dan semakin rendah tingkat pendidikan responden akan memiliki respon konsumen yang semakin baik

Internet Use and Addiction Among Medical Students in Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT: Objectives: This study aimed to measure the prevalence of Internet use and addiction and determine its association with gender, academic performance and health among medical students. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted between December 2017 and April 2018 at the College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia. The validated Internet Addiction Test questionnaire was distributed by simple random methods to medical students (N = 216) in the pre-clinical phase (first-, second- and third-years). A chi-square test was used to determine significant relationships between Internet use and addiction and gender, academic performance and health. Results: A total of 209 student completed the questionnaire (response rate: 96.8%) and the majority (57.9%) were male. In total, 12.4% were addicted to the Internet and 57.9 had the potential to become addicted. Females were more frequent Internet users than males (P = 0.006). Academic performance was affected in 63.1% of students and 71.8% lost sleep due to late-night Internet use, which affected their attendance to morning activities. The majority (59.7%) expressed feeling depressed, moody or nervous when they were offline. Conclusion: Internet addiction among medical students at Qassim University was very high, with addiction affecting academic performance and psychological well-being. Suitable interventional and preventive measures are needed for proper Internet use to protect students’ mental and physical health.Keywords: Internet; Addictive Behavior; Medical Students; Universities; Academic Performance; Saudi Arabia

Variation in gas chromatography (GC) analysis in setting up laboratory protocols for waste to energy novel fixed bed reactor setups

Gas Chromatography coupled with Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) has been applied in various analytical chemistry works. However, to fine tune a system that can serve the purposes of pyrolysis oil identification has proven to be a laborious effort, especially when considering the fact that no standard protocol exists for such analysis. In addition, obtained products were yielded from a newly commissioned unit with a unique and novel design. In this study, a US patent office claimed reactor [SULTAN-1, Pyrolysis Reactor System for the Conversion and Analysis of Organic Solid Waste, Patent application number: 15,487,351] that degrades polyolefinc virgin and waste materials to obtain petroleum refinery and petrochemical feedstock, has been commissioned. The reactor produces three distinct physical states of matter products accumulated as testing specimens, i.e. solids, gaseous and oil. The samples analysed in this work were of the gas and oil produced by pyrolysis of end of life tyre (ELTs) shavings that required to have a special recipe to work with in the laboratory. Various MS cords were utilised and experimental setups to fine tune the process, and special emphasis was given on the gas samples variation in this communication. To reach the desired analysis results with high repeatability, a plethora of experiences of lab personnel and laboratory-based experimental work was accumulated. Laboratory protocols were also setup for this work. These will be detailed along the process execution which yielded a standard laboratory best practice analytical method as part of the State of Kuwait newly initiated Government Initiative project

IFRS Suitability to Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence from Qatar

Most of the countries in GCC region (except Saudi Arabia) have adapted IFRS in 1990s except Oman who was the first to adopt in 1986. Therefore, it can be concluded that, Qatar is one of the countries which adopted IFRS since long time ago. However, no serious discussion was there so far to see whether IFRS adoption in emerging economy country like Qatar is feasible or it has been taken as granted. The adoption of IFRS at country level has sparked two contrasting, but not mutually exclusive viewpoints. One view, which favors IFRS adoption, is that IFRS produces better financial reporting since it is superior accounting standards in comparison to domestic accounting standards (Barth 2008). Additionally, convergence to a singular accounting standard ensures greater comparability that helps investors to make their investment decisions. It results improvement of information environment in a country and hence contribute towards lowering the cost of capital (Barth 2008). The opposite view is that, the accounting quality is shaped by political and economic forces (Ball 2006) and therefore Accounting standard solely will not translate into higher quality reporting. The main objective of the study is to assess the suitability of' International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for emerging market such as Qatar; specifically, the current research explore advantages and disadvantages of IFRS implementation in Qatar. From the prior studies perspective, we found that IFRS is suitable for Qatar for many reasons. First of all, most of the companies in Qatar are characterized by insider dominated ownership structure. Therefore, majority of the shares are owned by the family owners. Also, the influences of institutional investors are in a greater margin in Qatari Stock Market. Moreover, the code of corporate governance in Qatar was just implemented three years back in 2009. As discussed earlier, the law system in Qatar is also very weak in regard to financial reporting. In these circumstances, IFRS can play a big role in Qatar since it is an advanced reporting standard developed and it could ensure that all the information are there for the shareholders and no asymmetric information situation could happen and ensures the rights of individual shareholders. Since Qatar is undergoing major development for the World Cup 2022 and National Vision 2030, it is important for Qatar to attract foreign investors for capital market. IFRS implementation will help Qatar to ensure foreign investors in gaining confidence in Qatari capital market. Furthermore, Qatar has adopted IFRS in 1995 and before that no specific requirement was that which is more established and strictly adopted by the companies. Therefore, Qatar didn't face a lot of issues while the adoption process. However, countries like Australia, Spain who were having their own developed standard faced a lot of issue since they were having their own standard practiced for a period of time. Thus, the current study concluded that IFRS implementation is suitable for the economy of Qatar considering its benefits, Qatari corporate ownership structure and commercial law of Qatar. Although, Qatar is following IFRS without any amendments by considering their own culture, economic environment and corporate governance, however, their implementation was very strong with the existence of big four international audit firm and regulation from Qatar Central Bank and Qatar Financial Market Authority. Furthermore, many of the Qatari companies such as QTEL, QNB are listed in internationally in various stock exchanges because they are following IFRS for their financial report. Finally, we conclude saying that, despite come short coming are there, it is beneficial to adopt IFRS for an emerging country like Qatar.qscienc

Theoretical analysis of triple-pass erbium-doped fiber amplifier

Many configurations of EDFA producing triple pass EDFAs have been used, however, only two configurations are commonly used in the optical fiber communication system due to their high performance. Those two configurations are configured in a double stage EDFA. The first configuration is (configuration A) consists of a single-pass EDFA as the first stage and a double-pass EDFA as the second stage. The second configuration is (Configuration B) which consists of a double-pass EDFA as the first stage and a single-pass EDFA as the second stage. The Literature shows the use of triple pass EDFA is either with configuration A or configuration B and literature also shows there is no theoretical analysis and comparison between the performance of two Triple-pass EDFA configurations A and B. This paper focus on the performance analysis of both configurations A and B. The importantance of this research is the theoretical analyses that analyze the performance of those two configurations and illustrate a comparison between them. This comparison is important to show which of the two configurations is more reliable in amplifying optical signal for the fiber optic communication systems

Perceptions of Assistant Principals’ and Principals’ of Bahrain Government Schools about the Impact of the Bahrain Teachers College Educational Leadership Program on Their Performance

This article examines the perceptions of school assistant principals and principals who completed the Bahrain Teachers College higher diploma of education leadership program about its impact on their performance. The study sample consisted of 141 program graduates from 9- cohorts. A multilevel concept in measuring the impact of the educational leadership program on the graduates’ performance was employed. The framework consisted of 4 levels: self-learning, changing others, embedding changes in school practices and sustainability of change and scaling up the school performance. The study questionnaire was designed on the basis of this framework. Results show that the Educational Leadership program positively affected its graduates’ performance in the 4 levels. The majority of the program graduates agreed that the program positively affected their personal qualities, leadership styles and practices to support school development, school staff, students’ performance and school ranking. The majority of the program graduates also agreed that the program positively affected their skills in dealing with curriculum innovations, professional development, research, strategic planning, staff appraisal, communication with community, using ICT, improving students’ learning and applying educational ethics.     Keywords: Education Leadership, School Principals’ Performance, Leadership Styles, School Practices, Leadership Skill

Discrepancy in the Critical State Void Ratio of Poorly Graded Sand due to Shear Strain Localization

The critical state (CS) concept is a theoretical framework that models the constitutive behavior of soils, including sand and other granular materials. It supports the notion of a unique postfailure state, where the soil ultimately experiences continuous shearing with no change in the plastic volumetric strain. However, the published literature has frequently noted the nonconvergence of sand specimens with different initial densities to a unique CS in the compression plane due to many factors such as specimen fabric, particle morphology, breakage, and grain size distribution. This paper examines the CS for poorly graded (uniform) glass beads and 3 different types of silica sands using 50 conventional triaxial compression (CTC) experiments, 12 oedometer tests, and in situ synchrotron microcomputed tomography (SMT) scans for 10 CTC experiments. The results of the 50 CTC experiments revealed a diffused CS zone in the compression plane, which was further examined using the in situ SMT scans. A thorough three-dimensional image analysis of the SMT scans accurately quantified the evolution of the local void ratio (elocal ) versus axial compression within zones of intensive shearing toward the center of the specimen. The evolution of the void ratio was also measured using the entire volume of the specimen (eglobal ). At the CS, the elocal/eglobal ratio was assessed to be ∼1.25 when a single shear band developed within the scanned specimens and ∼1.1–1.15 for specimens that failed via external bulging that was internally manifested by the development of multiple shear bands. This finding suggests that the CS zone in the compression plane can be attributed to the common wrong consideration of eglobal evolution in lieu of elocal within the developing shear bands. Furthermore, the lack of shear band development in uniaxial compression has made the results of the oedometer test reliable in quantifying the CS parameters in the compression plane.This material was partially funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant CMMI-1266230. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. The SMT scans presented in this paper were collected using the X-Ray Operations and Research Beamline Station 13-BMD of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated by the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. We acknowledge the support of GeoSoilEnviroCARS (Sector 13), which is funded by the NSF Earth Sciences (EAR-1128799), and the DOE Geosciences (DE-FG02-94ER14466). We thank Dr. Mark Rivers for his guidance at APS.Scopu