MEMPERKENALKAN CLAY TEPUNG SEBAGAI SENI KERAJINAN ALTERNATIF UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KREATIFITAS REMAJA MELALUI MEDIA KOMUNIKASI VISUAL

ABSTRAK Reduce, Reuse, dan Recycle. Mungkin istilah-istilah ini sangat sering dibicarakan sejak keluarnya issue Pemanasan Global. Sejak saat itu seluruh kegiatan yang berpotensi menyebabkan pemanasa global semakin menjadi sorotan di Indonesia pada khususnya. Banyak hal yang dilakukan baik oleh pemerintah maupun perorangan untuk mengurangi dampak dari Pemanasan Global mulai dari pengontrolan emisi kendaraan, mengurangi pengganaan mesin pendingin, hingga mengurangi jumlah sampah nondegradable dengan jalan daur ulang (Recycle). Banyak sekali benda-benda yang ada disekitar kita yang sebenarnya “dibuang sayang”. Siapa bilang benda-benda bekas tidak bisa menghasilkan? Buktinya banyak sekali benda-benda unik berhasil diciptakan dari barang bekas. Seperti dompet dari kertas pembungkus, pot bunga dari kaleng bekas, hingga clay dari tepung kadaluarsa. Beranjak dari hal tersebut mungkin baru segelintir orang yang menyadari hal ini, clay contohnya. Dewasa ini bisnis kerajinan tangan salah satunya clay sudah sepatutnya dilirik. Tidak harus mahal, clay sebenarnya bisa dibuat menggunakan tepung kadaluarsa, hanya saja bisnis ini kurang berkembang karena image clay adalah hobby yang mahal masih sulit dihilangkan dari benak konsumen. Remaja sebagai salah satu target konsumen yang paling menarik karena sifatnya yang dinamis perlu diarahkan kepada suatu aktifitas yang positif dan kreatif, salah satunya adalah berkreasi dengan clay. Pembuatan media dan sampling dipandang perlu dilakukan, karena pendekatan secara teori tidak akan mudah diserap oleh para remaja. Biarkan mereka melihat dan mencoba clay itu sendiri maka mereka akan jauh lebih tertarik, oleh karena itu media maskot, kemasan, folder, pin, poster, e-banner, celemek, t-shirt, tas kain, dan katalog akan membantu proses edukasi dikalangan remaja. Kata Kunci : Clay Tepung, Seni Kerajinan Alternatif, Kreatifitas Remaja, Media Komunikasi Visual. INTRODUCING FLOUR CLAY AS ALTERNATIVE ART CRAFT TO INCREASE YOUTH CREATIVITY THROUGH VISUAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA ABSTRACT Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Perhaps these terms are very frequently discussed issue since the release of Global Warming. Since then all activities that could potentially cause Global Warning has became the spotlight in Indonesia in particular. Many things were done by both the government and individuals to lessen the impact of Global Warming ranging from controlling vehicle emissions, reduce the use of aircon, reduce the amount of waste nondegradable (Recycle) things. There are so many things around us that actually "dumped dear". Who says the unused objects can not produce? Proof, lot of unique objects had been created from recycled materials. Such as wallets of wrapping paper, flower pots from tin cans, clay from expired flour. There only few people that aware about this, for example they turn expired flour into clay. Nowadays one business clay craft has should me counted in term of profitable business. Does not have to be expensive, in fact clay can be made using expired flour, it's just business image is less developed because clay is an expensive hobby is still difficult tobe removed from the minds of consumers. Adolescents as one of the most attractive target consumers because of its dynamic need to be directed to a positive and creative activities, one of which is to play clay. Media preparation and sampling is deemed necessary, because in theory the approach will not be easily absorbed by the teens. Let them see and try out the clay itself then they would be much more interested, therefore mascot media, packaging, folders, pins, posters, e-banners, aprons, t-shirts, cloth bags, and the catalog will help the process of education among adolescents. Keywords: Clay Flour, Alternative Arts Crafts, Creativity Youth, Media Visual Communications

Komunikasi Guru Dengan Siswa Dan Bimbingan Orang Tua Terhadap Motivasi Belajar Siswa

The objectives of this research are to investigate: (1) the significant effect of the teacher\u27s communication with students on the learning motivation of the students in Grade X of Vocational High School Murni 2 Surakarta in Academic Year 2012/2013; (2) the significant effect of the parental guidance on the learning motivation of the students in Grade X of Vocational High School Murni 2 Surakarta in Academic Year 2012/2013; and (3) the significant effect of the teacher\u27s communication with students and the parental guidance on the learning motivation of the students in Grade X of Vocational High School Murni 2 Surakarta in Academic Year 2012/2013.This research used the descriptive quantitative research method. Its population was all of the students in Grade X of Vocational High School Murni 2 Surakarta in Academic Year 2012/2013 as many as 84 students. The samples of the research were 46 students and were taken by using the proportional random sampling. The data of the research were gathered through questionnaire and documentation. They were then analyzed by using the multiple regression analysis aided with the computer program of SPSS 17.The results of the research are as follows: (1) there is a significant effect of the teacher\u27s communication with students on the learning motivation of the students in Grade X of Vocational High School Murni 2 Surakarta in Academic Year 2012/2013 as indicated by the value of r count = 0.568 > that of rtable = 0.291; (2) there is a significant effect of the parental guidance on the learning motivation of the students in Grade X of Vocational High School Murni 2 Surakarta in Academic Year 2012/2013 as shown by the value of r count = 0.491 > that of rtable = 0.291; and (3) there is a a simultaneously significant effect of the teacher\u27s communication with students and the parental guidance on the learning motivation of the students in Grade X of Vocational High School Murni 2 Surakarta in Academic Year 2012/2013 as pointed out by the value of F count = 18.992 > that of rtable = 3.214. The regression equation is Ŷ = 7.887 + 0.705 X1 + 0.430 X2. The relative contribution of the teacher\u27s communication with the students (X1) is 59.11%, and the relative contribution of the parental guidance (X2) is 40.89%. In addition, the effective contribution of the teacher\u27s communication with the students (X1) is 27.72%, and the effective contribution of the parental guidance (X2) is 19.18%

Tingkat Konsentrasi Belajar Anak pada Siswa Kelas IV SD melalui Brain Gym (Senam Otak)

This study aims to determine the effect of the brain gym on the level of concentration in children's learning in fourth-grade elementary school students at SDN Cimalaka II, Cimalaka District, Sumedang Regency. The research method used is a quasi-experimental design using one group pre-test and post-test design. The results showed that the average level of learning concentration in fourth-grade elementary school students before the brain gym was done was 6.18, with a standard deviation of 1.632. Meanwhile, the intermediate level of learning concentration in fourth-grade elementary school students after brain gym is done 7.01 with a standard deviation of 1.291. Bivariate analysis showed that the average increase was 7.09, evidenced by a p-value of 0.001 <0.05. In conclusion, the brain gym affects concentration in children's learning in fourth-grade elementary school students at SDN Cimalaka II, Cimalaka District, Sumedang Regency.   Keywords: Brain Gym, Learning Concentration, Elementary School Student

Deep Predictive Models for Collision Risk Assessment in Autonomous Driving

In this paper, we investigate a predictive approach for collision risk assessment in autonomous and assisted driving. A deep predictive model is trained to anticipate imminent accidents from traditional video streams. In particular, the model learns to identify cues in RGB images that are predictive of hazardous upcoming situations. In contrast to previous work, our approach incorporates (a) temporal information during decision making, (b) multi-modal information about the environment, as well as the proprioceptive state and steering actions of the controlled vehicle, and (c) information about the uncertainty inherent to the task. To this end, we discuss Deep Predictive Models and present an implementation using a Bayesian Convolutional LSTM. Experiments in a simple simulation environment show that the approach can learn to predict impending accidents with reasonable accuracy, especially when multiple cameras are used as input sources.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure

Occlusion-Aware Object Localization, Segmentation and Pose Estimation

We present a learning approach for localization and segmentation of objects in an image in a manner that is robust to partial occlusion. Our algorithm produces a bounding box around the full extent of the object and labels pixels in the interior that belong to the object. Like existing segmentation aware detection approaches, we learn an appearance model of the object and consider regions that do not fit this model as potential occlusions. However, in addition to the established use of pairwise potentials for encouraging local consistency, we use higher order potentials which capture information at the level of im- age segments. We also propose an efficient loss function that targets both localization and segmentation performance. Our algorithm achieves 13.52% segmentation error and 0.81 area under the false-positive per image vs. recall curve on average over the challenging CMU Kitchen Occlusion Dataset. This is a 42.44% decrease in segmentation error and a 16.13% increase in localization performance compared to the state-of-the-art. Finally, we show that the visibility labelling produced by our algorithm can make full 3D pose estimation from a single image robust to occlusion.Comment: British Machine Vision Conference 2015 (poster

Hypertension as a Determining Factor in the Rupture of Intracranial Aneurysms, Diagnosed by 64-MDCT Angiography

Background: To determine a correlation between risk factors and the rupture of intracranial aneurysms. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 29 patients with a saccular intracranial aneurysm was obtained using consecutive sampling and examination of 64-MDCT angiography. Bivariate statistical analysis using Fisher's exact test was arranged using cross-tabulation to determine the correlation between each risk factor of age, sex, hypertension, and smoking with the occurrence of ruptured intracranial aneurysms. Results: The highest incidence of ruptured intracranial aneurysms were in patients aged <60 years (70%), male (75%), experienced hypertension (85%), and were smokers (85.7%). Only the risk factor of hypertension had a correlation with the occurrence of a ruptured intracranial aneurysm (p < 0.05). The prevalence ratio of age and sex were 1.0 and 0.9, whereas hypertension and smoking were 2.6 and 1.3. Conclusions: The risk factor of hypertension leading to a ruptured intracranial aneurysm was 2.6 times higher than non-hypertensive patients, and as such hypertension is a risk factor associated with the occurrence of ruptured intracranial aneurysm

Growth Optimization of Thermophilic Bacteria Bacillus thermoamylovorans and Brevibacillus sp. in Producing Keratinolytic Enzyme

Some thermophilic bacteria have been isolated from Tanjung Sakti hot spring. Two isolates which qualitatively showed keratinolytic activity, identified as Bacillus thermoamylovorans and Brevibacillus sp., were optimized the growth in producing keratinase enzyme. Keratinase is a group of proteolytic enzyme which able to hydrolyze insoluble protein (keratin). In this research, whole chicken feathers were used as keratin substrate. The growth curves and measurement of keratinase enzyme activities were determined to the isolates, with a span of measuring 4 hours during 48 hours incubation, and gained the growth and optimum enzyme activity at 28 h incubation. The isolates were then observed the growth and keratinase activity at several different temperatures and pH. The results showed that the optimum temperature and pH for both isolates were same, i.e. at temperature 70° C and pH 7. The effect of adding a source of carbon and nitrogen into the medium were also observed. The growths of both isolates were increased on the addition of 1% glucose and 0.4% casein