APPLYING COGNITIVE LEARNING STRATEGY IN DEVELOPING THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

This research aimed to examine the types of cognitive learning strategy that the students employed in developing their ability to speak English. This research applied quantitative descriptive and experimental research method. Data were analyzed by descriptive presentation and statistical analysis of t test. This research was carried out at the second year of SMA 2 Sinjai. They are all selected by using random sampling by number of students as sample of 30 students. The researcher conducted questionnaire to capture data about type of cognitive learning strategy used by the students. The result showed that, on average 58.04 % of all respondents using cognitive learning strategy, and 70 % or 21 of the 30 respondents used the practice to overcome the difficulties speaking. The analysis with the formula t test showed that, applying the cognitive learning strategy had significant positive impact on developing the learners’ ability to speak English. This was indicated by the average value before and after treatment (73 and 85.25) and obtained the distribution t table 2.000 with t calculate 5.467 obtained greater than t table

THE INFLUENCE OF SHARIA, SUKUK AND SHARIA MUTUAL FUNDS TO NATIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH YEAR 2011-2019

This research aims to test and analyze the influence of sharia stocks, Sukuk, and sharia funds against national economic growth. This type of research is associative with a quantitative approach. The data used in this research is secondary data obtained from the report of the stock value of Sharia, sukuk and sharia funds published in the Financial Services Authority (OJK) and the Indonesian economic growth publication data from the central statistic (BPS) period 2011 to 2019. The sampling technique used is the Probability Sampling method, which is to fetch the quarterly data from the years 2011 to 2019 which results in a sample of 32 samples. Data analysis is done by using statistics with SPSS tools. Based on the results of data analysis by using test-T is known that partial shares of Sharia and sukuk influential significant and positive to the growth of national economic and sharia funds partially no significant effect on national economic growth. While based on the results of data analysis using Uji-F is known that simultaneously shares of Sharia, sukuk, and sharia funds have a significant and positive influence on national economic growth

AL-MUSYTARAK AL-LAFDZY MENDEKONSTRUKSI ARGUMEN TAFSIR TEKSTUAL - LUQMAN

Salah satu yang dapat mendekontruksi argumen tekstual adalah kaidah-kaidah teks juga, di antaranya kaidah al-musytarak al-lafdzi yang sejak generasi awal para mufassir telah meletakkan fondasi dasarnya. Seperti apakah kaidah al-musytarak al-lafdzi ini?. Bagaimana kaidah ini dapat mendekontruksi paham tekstual ini? Untuk menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan ini dilakukan kajian yang menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan cara mamaparkan data yang berasal dari kajian pustaka kemudian ditarik kesimpulan umum. Hasil kajian ini membuktikan kaidah al-musytarak al-lafdzi dapat menganalisa makna teks agama secara komprehensif. Yaitu dengan memahami makna lafadz dari akar bahasa secara holistik, satu kata memiliki makna ganda, terulang di banyak posisi yang memiliki arti yang berbeda-beda, menggambarkan sebuah makna teks secara komprehensif dan integral. Kajian ini bagian dari upaya dekontruksi pemikiran tekstualis dengan menggunakan instrumen yang mereka gunakan

Ferric reducing antioxidant power and free radical scavenging activity of Moringa oleifera: Relevance in oxidative stress

Moringa oleifera of family Moringaceae, commonly known as Horseradish-tree or the Ben-oil tree is an exceptionally nutritious vegetable tree with a variety of medicinal uses, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The tree's bark, roots, fruit (pod), flowers, leaves, seeds and gum are used as an antiseptic, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective and in treating rheumatism, venomous bites and other conditions. The immature green pods, called ‘drumsticks’ are probably the most valued and widely used part of the tree for water purification (e.g. desalination of ocean salt water). The leaves are highly nutritious, being a significant source of beta-carotene, vitamin C, protein, iron and potassium used in soups and sauces. The present study focuses on concentration-dependent ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), free radical scavenging (DPPH), total phenolics (TP), total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and reducing power (RP) of moringa leaf and fruit (pod) extract compared with standard antioxidant. A strong positive co-relation was observed between FRAP, DPPH, TP and RP activity. Comparatively, the antioxidant potential of fruit extract was more pronounced than the leaf extract and ethanolic extract showed better activity than aqueous. On the basis of our observations, we hypothesize that moringa fruit (pod) and leaves can be a potential source of natural antioxidants due to their marked antioxidant activity

STRATEGIES OF CONSTRUCTING APPEALS IN OBAMA’S VICTORY SPEECH

One of important things that a speaker should pay attention in delivering a speech is constructing appeals. By constructing appeals in the speech, it will make the well-organized content of speech to be more influencing and convincing. In addition, constructing appeals in the speech is also primarily essential as it particularly impacts to the audience’s feeling. As Baird stated (1981: 19) the feelings toward the speaker are important determinants of listeners’ acceptance of the speaker’s message. Constructing audience’s appeals is an important point in communication in the objective of persuading audience (Baird, 1981:199). By constructing appeals in the message, the speaker can also motivate the listeners to attend the message and to persuade them. In addition, the speaker not only needs to give people reasons for doing or thinking things, we also need to stir their emotions so that those actions or thought are strong and long lasting. As a matured politician having well experienced in public speaking, Obama has many inspiring speeches which achieved immediate popularity around the world. Many of his speeches are broadcasted in video sharing web site like YouTube, garnering many views and being watched by million views around the world. One of his inspiring speeches is his victory speech delivered right after he won U.S. presidential election. Obama's victory speech is a powerful example speech in communication on how to connect with and inspire audiences. He gave his victory speech at Grant Park in his home city of Chicago, Illinois. There were tears of joy in Chicago when America's new president-elect Barack Obama took to the stage to speak to his supporters. It was watched by an estimated crowd of 240,000. Considered one of the most widely-watched and repeated political addresses in recent history, Obama's speech focused on the major issues facing the United States and the world, all echoed through his campaign slogan of change. Obama’s victory speech consists of influencing people's beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors. He persuaded people when he somehow convinced them, to think what he wanted them to think, feel what he wanted them to feel, or do what he wanted them to do. As a learner, I am interestingly interested to analyze strategies of constructing appeals in Obama’s victory speech as it is a model of great powerfully inspiring speech

Investigations on biological activity of Vetiveria zizanioides L. Nash, a palingenesis of some important findings in miracle grass

Vetiveria zizanioides L. Nash synonymously known as Chrysopogon zizanioides L. Roberty (Family: Poaceae/Graminae), widely cultivated in the tropical regions of the world, is a miraculous grass native to India first developed for soil and water conservation by the World Bank during mid 1980s. Popularly known as ‘KHUS’, it is the major source of the well-known oil of vetiver, which is used in medicine, cosmetics and in perfumery making agarbattis, soaps, soft drinks, pan masala. Being a major constituent of ‘Rasayana’ in Ayurveda, different parts of the vetiver plant have traditionally been used by the Indian tribes for treating various ailments, diseases and disorders including boils, burns, epilepsy, fever, scorpion sting, snakebite, sores in the mouth, headache, toothache, weakness, lumbago, sprain, rheumatism, urinary tract infection, malarial fever, acidity relief and as an anti-helmintic. It has also been used in traditional medicine of Asia and Africa, particularly ancient Tamil literature mentions the use of vetiver for medical purposes. The essential oil of vetiver has extensive applications in toiletries and cosmetics, possesses sedative property and has traditionally been used in aromatherapy for relieving stress, anxiety, nervous tension and insomnia. Root is also important in traditional medicine as a carminative, stimulant and diaphoretic. Besides these medicinal properties of the plant, the dried culms of the plant are used as brooms and to thatch roofs. Pulp of the plant is used to prepare straw boards and paper. In India, the roots have been used for making screens, mats, hand fans, and baskets. Formulations containing oil and/or extracts of vetiver have been reported to treat inflammatory bowel disease, urinary tract infection, and in making insect repellents. Research on various aspects of vetiver make it an excellent plant describing many characteristics including phytoremediation, water purification, leachate and effluent disposal, utilizing wastewater, removing nitrogen and phosphorus etc. It is one of the most promising aromatic plants known to possess antimicrobial, antioxidant and termicidal properties. However, the plant has not been studied exclusively for other pharmacological activities and there is a lack of scientific evidence to prove these effects. We are studying bioactivity of vetiver root as a part of our effort to discover plant-based biologically active molecules since last many years using molecular and cell target based assays. In our published reports, we showed potent antibacterial, drug-resistant modifying, hydroxyl radical scavenging, anticancer, antihepatotoxic and antioxidant activity in intact and spent root of vetiver. In view of our findings, the present paper recapitulates some important findings on the bioactivity of Vetiveria zizanioides L. Nash and a palingenesis has been made for this miracle grass

Development of an Effective Drying System to Improve the Fuel Quality of Poultry Waste Material Using FLUENT Simulation

Indubitably, the world today is in a state of dependent towards energy for developments. It is no riddle today that world is heavily reliant on oil as the primary source of fuel for energy and oil is known to be a finite source of fuel, thus with the increasing need and usage, the source itself is depleting. Scientists and developers are ever in desperation to seek a new source of energy to prepare for the inevitable day when oil is completely depleted. Biomass provides an ample alternative for a renewable energy source. Nevertheless, extracting energy from poultry waste is not as simple as combusting fuel oil. Poultry waste is far more distinguished compare to oil. Although the step of recovering energy is somewhat similar to oil, that is by combusting the poultry waste, it is not as simple as throwing the poultry waste into a combustor and hope for the best. Poultry waste is known to have a high moist content, thus recovering energy using Fluidized Bed Combustor is a problem as it is not as efficient. Moreover, the high content of water in poultry waste will lead to a waste of energy as it is being use to dry up the moisture.A drying technique is required to ensure the moist content of poultry waste is lowered and possibly purge completely. A spraying technique is developed as one of the technique to be used for drying up the poultry waste. Simulation using FLUENT 6.3 will be conducted to analyze the effectiveness of droplets in drying mechanism. Success in developing this spraying technique will ensure the optimum energy recovery from poultry waste and reduction of cost

Fabrication and characterization of nanostructured fluorine doped tin oxide thin film for dssc by hydrothermal method

Nanostructured Fluorine Doped Tin Oxide (FTO) thin film has been successfully synthesized on top of bare FTO layer substrates using hydrothermal method. The performance of FTO thin film including conductivity and transparency depend on the surface morphology and the properties of the material. Hydrothermal method has proven to be a very good method for the fabrication of novel metal oxides. Thus, a new nanostructured FTO thin film like nanorice has been fabricated using one step hydrothermal method. FTO nanorice thin films were obtained from the reaction of tin (iv) chloride (SnCl4), ammonium fluoride (NH4F), acetone, deionized water and hydrochloric acid (HCl). The compound was prepared in an autoclave at 150°C hydrothermal temperature for different reaction times of 5 hours, 10 hours, 15 hours, and 20 hours. FESEM studies on the surface morphologies of all the samples showed that nanorice structure had formed to fully cover the bare FTO substrate. Then, to further the optimization of FTO nanorice thin film, this research focused on studying the effect of hydrothermal temperature on FTO nanorice thin films. The experiments were conducted at 130°C, 140°C, 150°C, 160°C, and 170°C of hydrothermal temperature in constant reaction time of 10 hours. Basically, there were six properties studied; surface morphology, structural, element composition, thickness measurement, electrical and optical properties. At the end of this research, homogeneous FTO thin film has been successfully prepared. By controlling the reaction time and hydrothermal temperature, a transparent FTO film with beyond 85% percentage of transmittance was developed. The FTO thin film produced at 10 hour reaction time and 150°C of hydrothermal temperature time gave the low sheet resistance of 0.012 Ohm/sq with high transparency. The DSSC fabricated using the optimized FTO film gave higher efficiency of 2.77% compared to commercial FTO of 1.93%

The Comparison of Different Types of Chemicals as Fluid Loss Control Additives in Synthetic Base Mud

In drilling fluids, there are a few components that need to be taken care of in order to produce desired drilling fluids. One of the main components in the drilling fluids is fluid loss control additives. This additives help in reducing and controlling fluid loss from the drilling fluids. It can be severe if the fluid loss is not being controlled. There are many types of chemicals that can be used in order to help in fluid loss control. In this project, four (4) fluid loss additives that will be tested are gilsonite, sodium asphalt sulfonate, sulphonated asphalt and organophilic lignite. All of these chemicals have different ability in order to control fluid loss. Some of them also have different ability and usage in drilling fluids. For instance, sodium asphalt sulfonate can be used as shale control inhibitor in the drilling fluids system. Above-mentioned chemicals are widely used and known. Most of them are compatible with the synthetic base muds system. Therefore, in this project, all of the chemicals will be tested in synthetic base mud system. Since all of the chemicals have different ability, therefore the mud properties will be specified and tested as follows condition: 10 lb/gal mud weight, 75:25 oil water ratio and 25% Wt CaCl2. In order to make the data more relevant, there will be two conditions whereas the chemicals will be tested which is in contaminated muds and also in non-contaminated muds. Contaminated muds means that the muds will be added with some solids and cuttings and the non-contaminated muds are fresh muds which it will not be added with solids. All of the conditions also will be tested using three different types of base oil which are SARALINE 185V, SARAPAR 147 and ESCAID 110. This is to ensure the data is valid and the comparison can be done. At the end of the experiment, gilsonite tend to be the most efficient fluid loss reducer agent based on the initial condition of the test. The SARALINE 185V base oil also gives the best result while compared to SARAPAR 147 and ESCAID 110 as base oil in this test

Mobile Interactive Courseware for Dyslexic Children

The importance of education shown through words of Barack Obama, President of United States of America, when he said, 'In an economy where knowledge is the most valuable commodity a person and a country have to offer, the best jobs will go to the best educated - whether they live in the United States or India or China'. The word shows very important and obvious message of the need of education in someone‟s life. The „Mobile Interactive Courseware for Dyslexia Children‟ project is a proposed project for Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS undergraduate final year project. Also known as „YoungLexic‟, it offers a learning experience for dyslexic children by taking standard learning method that are recommended by Government for dyslexia children to mobile phone. YoungLexic also hoped to benefit the child directly, on the other hand to help parents so that they involve more to their dyslexic child learning process. Using Android OS as the platform of the courseware, the module of „World of Knowledge‟ had been chose from a survey done to a group of parents with dyslexic children and topic of “Let‟s Go to the Farm” hope to make learning more meaningful and purposeful. The relevancy of the project is accepted with the evidence of a survey done to a group of Android developers and a group of parents with dyslexic children that shows that the courseware is attractive, interactive and suitable to be use by dyslexic children. This document elaborates on the scope and purpose of this project as well as the theory and methodology used in developing it