Pengaruh Gaya Kepemimpinan, Budaya Organisasi, dan Nilai-nilai Personal terhadap Kinerja Pegawai di Dinas Pendidikan Nasional Provinsi Sulawesi Utara

Sumber Daya Manusia (SDM) menjadi penting dalam keberhasilan suatu organisasi. Persaingan global saat ini membuat organisasi menyiapkan berbagai strategi pengembangan kemampuan sumber daya manusia agar dapat siap bersaing dengan organisasi lain. Keberlangsungan organisasi tidak hanya dipicu dari performa tenaga kerja saja melainkan gaya kepemimpinan yang dapat membangun motivasi kerja, budaya organisasi yang menciptakan Kenyamanan bagi pekerja. Selanjutnya nilai-nilai personal yang nantinya akan berpengaruh pada kinerja baik bagi seluruh pegawai dalam suatu organisasi. Faktor-faktor ini yang akan menjadi fokus telaah dalam penulisan ini, dengan mengambil objek teliti yaitu pegawai pada Dinas Pendidikan Nasional Provinsi Sulawesi Utara. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisa pengaruh Gaya Kepemimpinan, Budaya Organisasi, dan Nilai-Nilai Personal terhadap Kinerja Pegawai di Dinas Pendidikan Nasional Provinsi Sulawesi Utara. Metode penelitian yaitu kuantitatif dengan analisa data menggunakan regresi berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Gaya Kepemimpinan, Budaya Organisasi, dan Nilai-Nilai Personal memiliki pengaruh yang positif dan signifikan terhadap Kinerja Pegawai di Dinas Pendidikan Nasional Provinsi Sulawesi Utara. Sebaiknya pimpinan Kantor Dinas Pendidikan Nasional Provinsi Sulawesi Utara tetap mengarahkan serta mempengaruhi secara positif para pegawai, dan juga perlu untuk tetap mempertahankan serta meningkatkan budaya organisasi yang lebih baik sehingga dapat meningkatkan kinerja pegawai. Kata kunci: gaya kepemimpinan, budaya organisasi, nilai-nilai personal, kinerja pegawa

Experiences With Chiropractic Care for Patients With Low Back or Neck Pain.

BackgroundMusculoskeletal disorders are the second leading cause of disability worldwide.ObjectiveExamine experiences of chiropractic patients in the United States with chronic low back or neck pain.MethodObservational study of 1853 chronic low back pain and neck pain patients (74% female) who completed an online questionnaire at the 3-month follow-up that included Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) items assessing their experiences with care.ResultsWe found similar reports of communication for the chiropractic sample and patients in the 2016 CAHPS National Database, but 85% in the database versus 79% in the chiropractic sample gave the most positive response to the time spent with provider item. More patients in the CAHPS database rated their provider at the top of the scale (8 percentage points). More chiropractic patients reported always getting answers to questions the same day (16 percentage points) and always being seen within 15 minutes of their appointment time (29 percentage points).ConclusionsThe positive experiences of patients with chronic back and neck pain are supportive of their use of chiropractic care

Interaksi Trofik Jenis Serangga Di Atas Permukaan Tanah Dan Permukaan Tanah Beberapa Pertanaman Varietas Jagung (Zea Mays Linn.)

The aim of the reasearch was to know the tropic interaction of insect on the soil surface and above of soil surface for many varieties of corn (Zea mays Linn.) and index diversity value of insect of corn. The research was conducted in BBI of Tanjung Slamat and Agriculture Pest Laboratory in University of Sumatera Utara, Medan from November (2013) until March (2014). The insect trapped used yellow stiky trap and pitt fall trap. The result of the research showed that insects caught each consist of 9 ordo and 33 family. The highest relative density values in PRG NK603 (application of glyphosate) variety was 16.691% and the lowest was 0.681%. The highest relative density values in PRG NK603 variety was 16.363% and the lowest was 0.578%. The highest relative density values in C7 variety was 15.499 % and the lowest was 0.577 %. The highest relative density values in DK979 variety was 15.073 % and the lowest was 0.450 %. Shanon-Weiner (H') Index diversity value of insect in PRG NK603 (application of glyphosate) variety was 2.950309 (standart), in PRG NK603 was 3.006432 (stable), in C7 variety was 3.051692 (stable), and in DK979 variety was 3.082916 (stable)

LNK (SH2B3): paradoxical effects in ovarian cancer.

LNK (SH2B3) is an adaptor protein studied extensively in normal and malignant hematopoietic cells. In these cells, it downregulates activated tyrosine kinases at the cell surface resulting in an antiproliferative effect. To date, no studies have examined activities of LNK in solid tumors. In this study, we found by in silico analysis and staining tissue arrays that the levels of LNK expression were elevated in high-grade ovarian cancer. To test the functional importance of this observation, LNK was either overexpressed or silenced in several ovarian cancer cell lines. Remarkably, overexpression of LNK rendered the cells resistant to death induced by either serum starvation or nutrient deprivation, and generated larger tumors using a murine xenograft model. In contrast, silencing of LNK decreased ovarian cancer cell growth in vitro and in vivo. Western blot studies indicated that overexpression of LNK upregulated and extended the transduction of the mitogenic signal, whereas silencing of LNK produced the opposite effects. Furthermore, forced expression of LNK reduced cell size, inhibited cell migration and markedly enhanced cell adhesion. Liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy identified 14-3-3 as one of the LNK-binding partners. Our results suggest that in contrast to the findings in hematologic malignancies, the adaptor protein LNK acts as a positive signal transduction modulator in ovarian cancers

Final Report - Inspection Limit Confirmation for Upper Head Penetration Nozzle Cracking

The ASME Code Case N-729-1 defines alternative examination requirements for the Control Rod Drive Mechanism (CRDM) upper head penetration nozzle welds. The basis for these examination requirements was developed as part of an Industry program conducted by the Materials Reliability Program (MRP) through the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The results of this program were published in MRP-95 Rev. 1 and document a set of finite element weld residual stress analyses conducted on a variety of upper head penetration nozzles. The inspection zone selected by the industry was based on the stress where it was assumed that primary water stress corrosion cracking (PWSCC) would not initiate. As explained in MRP-95 Rev. 1, it has been illustrated that PWSCC does not occur in the Alloy 600 tube when the stresses are below the yield strength of that tube. Typical yield strengths at operating conditions for Alloy 600 range from 35 ksi to 65 ksi. A stress less than 20-ksi tension was chosen as a conservative range where PWSCC would not initiate. Over the last several years, Engineering Mechanics Corporation of Columbus (Emc2) has conducted welding residual stress analyses on upper head penetration J-welds made from Alloy 182 weld metal for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff. These efforts were performed as a confirmatory evaluation of the industry’s analyses conducted as part of their MRP-95 Rev. 1 effort. To this point, the analyses conducted by Emc2 have not been compared to the MRP-95 Rev. 1 results or the examination zones defined in the Code Case. Therefore, this report summarizes the past Emc2 CRDM welding analyses and investigates the regions where the welding stresses may be sufficiently high to promote stress corrosion cracking (SCC). In all, 90 welding residual stress analyses were conducted by Emc2 and the largest distance below the weld where the stress drops below 20 ksi was 5 inches for the uphill weld of the 53-degree nozzle case. For the largest distance above the weld where stress drops below 20 ksi, the worst case was 1.5 inches above the downhill side of the 25-degree nozzle case. The inspection zones described in both MRP-95 Rev. 1 and Code Case N-729-1 were set at 1.0 inch for nozzle angles greater than 30 degrees or 1.5 inches for nozzle angles less than 30 degrees, above the highest or below the lowest point on the weld. In all cases analyzed by Emc2 in this effort, there was only one case where the stress was above 20 ksi outside of this inspection zone. For that case, the stresses were very close to 20 ksi at the inspection zone limit and were considered acceptable

Medical Care Costs of Breast Cancer in Privately Insured Women Aged 18–44 Years

Breast cancer in women aged 18–44 years accounts for approximately 27,000 newly diagnosed cases and 3,000 deaths annually. When tumors are diagnosed, they are usually aggressive, resulting in expensive treatment costs. The purpose of this study is to estimate the prevalent medical costs attributable to breast cancer treatment among privately insured younger women

Estimation of Breast Cancer Incident Cases and Medical Care Costs Attributable to Alcohol Consumption Among Insured Women Aged <45 Years in the U.S.

This study estimated the percentage of breast cancer cases, total number of incident cases, and total annual medical care costs attributable to alcohol consumption among insured younger women (aged 18–44 years) by type of insurance and stage at diagnosis

ADVANCED INTEGRATION OF MULTI-SCALE MECHANICS AND WELDING PROCESS SIMULATION IN WELD INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT

The potential to save trillions of BTU’s in energy usage and billions of dollars in cost on an annual basis based on use of higher strength steel in major oil and gas transmission pipeline construction is a compelling opportunity recognized by both the US Department of Energy (DOE). The use of high-strength steels (X100) is expected to result in energy savings across the spectrum, from manufacturing the pipe to transportation and fabrication, including welding of line pipe. Elementary examples of energy savings include more the 25 trillion BTUs saved annually based on lower energy costs to produce the thinner-walled high-strength steel pipe, with the potential for the US part of the Alaskan pipeline alone saving more than 7 trillion BTU in production and much more in transportation and assembling. Annual production, maintenance and installation of just US domestic transmission pipeline is likely to save 5 to 10 times this amount based on current planned and anticipated expansions of oil and gas lines in North America. Among the most important conclusions from these studies were: • While computational weld models to predict residual stress and distortions are well-established and accurate, related microstructure models need improvement. • Fracture Initiation Transition Temperature (FITT) Master Curve properly predicts surface-cracked pipe brittle-to-ductile initiation temperature. It has value in developing Codes and Standards to better correlate full-scale behavior from either CTOD or Charpy test results with the proper temperature shifts from the FITT master curve method. • For stress-based flaw evaluation criteria, the new circumferentially cracked pipe limit-load solution in the 2007 API 1104 Appendix A approach is overly conservative by a factor of 4/π, which has additional implications. . • For strain-based design of girth weld defects, the hoop stress effect is the most significant parameter impacting CTOD-driving force and can increase the crack-driving force by a factor of 2 depending on strain-hardening, pressure level as a % of SMYS, and flaw size. • From years of experience in circumferential fracture analyses and experimentation, there has not been sufficient integration of work performed for other industries into analogous problems facing the oil and gas pipeline markets. Some very basic concepts and problems solved previously in these fields could have circumvented inconsistencies seen in the stress-based and strain-based analysis efforts. For example, in nuclear utility piping work, more detailed elastic-plastic fracture analyses were always validated in their ability to predict loads and displacements (stresses and strains). The eventual implementation of these methodologies will result in acceleration of the industry adoption of higher-strength line-pipe steels

Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Evaluation of Selected Passive Components – Technical Letter Report

This report addresses the potential application of probabilistic fracture mechanics computer codes to support the Proactive Materials Degradation Assessment (PMDA) program as a method to predict component failure probabilities. The present report describes probabilistic fracture mechanics calculations that were performed for selected components using the PRO-LOCA and PRAISE computer codes. The calculations address the failure mechanisms of stress corrosion cracking, intergranular stress corrosion cracking, and fatigue for components and operating conditions that are known to make particular components susceptible to cracking. It was demonstrated that the two codes can predict essentially the same failure probabilities if both codes start with the same fracture mechanics model and the same inputs to the model. Comparisons with field experience showed that both codes predict relatively high failure probabilities for components under operating conditions that have resulted in field failures. It was found that modeling assumptions and inputs tended to give higher calculated failure probabilities than those derived from data on field failures. Sensitivity calculations were performed to show that uncertainties in the probabilistic calculations were sufficiently large to explain the differences between predicted failure probabilities and field experience