PERAN STAKEHOLDERS DALAM PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT DISABILITAS DAN PELESTARIAN LINGKUNGAN MELALUI INOVASI SOSIAL DI DAERAH: Studi pada Pengembangan Program Inovasi PERTADAYA terhadap pelestarian Lingkungan di Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan

Seiring dengan perkembangan teori-teori pembangunan, tanggung jawab sosial pada prosesnya kemudian bukan lagi menjadi tanggung jawab tunggal pemerintah sebagai pemegang amanat konstitusi dan peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat. Seiring dengan munculnya konsep-konsep kontemporer seperti halnya good governance, pemerintah bersamaan dengan civil society dan pihak perusahaan/swasta memiliki wewenang yang sama dalam pemberdayaan masyarakat. Dalam hal ini, PT. Pertamina sebagai salah satu perusahaan yang beroperasi di wilayah Kalimantan Selatan, sejatinya juga berperan dalam pengembangan masyarakat dan pelestarian lingkungan melalui program corporate social responsibility yang efektif. Dalam konteks ini, program PERTADAYA merupakan salah satu program yang ditujukan untuk memberdayakan masyarakat disabilitas, dimana melalui proses pemberdayaan tersebut, Pertamina juga mewujudkan pelestarian lingkungan dengan menjadikan penyandang disabilitas sebagai aktor utama dan garda terdepan dalam pelestarian lingkungan. Pada prosesnya kemudian, implikasi yang ditimbulkan dari program ini berdampak pada aspek sosial, ekonomi, serta lingkungan di wilayah Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan

Resistance to ceratocystis wilt (Ceratocystis fimbriata) in parents and progenies of Eucalyptus grandis x E. urophylla.

Ceratocystis wilt, caused by Ceratocystis fimbriata, is one ofthe most damaging diseases in eucalyptus plantations worldwide. Although there are resistant genotypes, the genetic basis of resistance is still poorly understood. In this paper we studied the resistance leveI by a stem inoculation experiment of genotypes of Eucalyptus grandis and E. urophylla and estimated the heritability and gains of selection in families derived from controlled interspecific crosses. In both species, highly resistant as well as highly susceptible genotypes to Ceratocystis wilt were found. Out of 21 parents assessed, twelve were resistant and nine susceptible. Estimates of individual narrow (50%) and broad (59%) sense heritability suggested a high degree of genetic control and low allelic dominance of the trait. There was great genetic variation among and within families, a fact that contributes to high heritability and genetic gain. A genetic gain in lesion size of up to -74.4 % was obtained from selection of the 50 best clones in the evaluated families, i.e., the mean lesion length in the progeny population can be reduced by 74,4%

Substrate volume and age: influence on the performance of clonal eucalyptus seedlings after replanting

O r?pido crescimento inicial das mudas ? um ponto cr?tico para o sucesso da planta??o florestal. Neste estudo, objetivou-se avaliar a influ?ncia da idade e do volume de substrato utilizado na produ??o de mudas clonais de Eucalyptus urograndis no desempenho ap?s o replantio. O experimento foi conduzido em blocos casualizados com dez repeti??es, no arranjo fatorial 2 x 4 (mudas clonais produzidas em tubetes de 53 e 180 cm? e com quatro idades - 60, 75, 90, e 120 dias) no espa?amento 3 x 3,33 m. Como tratamento adicional, avaliaram-se plantas de um plantio comercial, plantadas 20 dias antes da instala??o do experimento. A utiliza??o de mudas para replantio produzidas com maior volume de substrato possibilitou melhor crescimento inicial em campo. Entretanto, aos 12 meses de idade, o crescimento das mudas de replantio n?o foi influenciado pela idade e nem pelo volume de substrato utilizado para a produ??o das mudas.Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG)Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecu?ria de Minas Gerais (EPAMIG)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico (CNPq)Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES)Rapid early growth of tree seedlings is critical for the forest plantation success. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of age and substrate volume on the clonal eucalypt seedlings performance after replanting. The experiment was conducted in randomized blocks with ten replications in a 2 x 4 factorial arrangement (clonal seedlings grown in tubes of 53 and 180 cm? and four ages - 60, 75, 90 and 120 days) in a 3 x 3,33 m spacing. As an additional treatment, it was evaluated plants of a commercial plantation, settled 20 days before the experiment. Seedling replanting with higher substrate volume provided better initial growth in the field. However, at 12 months of age, replanting seedling growth was not influenced by age or by the amount of substrate used for seedling production

A computational study on outliers in world music

The comparative analysis of world music cultures has been the focus of several ethnomusicological studies in the last century. With the advances of Music Information Retrieval and the increased accessibility of sound archives, large-scale analysis of world music with computational tools is today feasible. We investigate music similarity in a corpus of 8200 recordings of folk and traditional music from 137 countries around the world. In particular, we aim to identify music recordings that are most distinct compared to the rest of our corpus. We refer to these recordings as ‘outliers’. We use signal processing tools to extract music information from audio recordings, data mining to quantify similarity and detect outliers, and spatial statistics to account for geographical correlation. Our findings suggest that Botswana is the country with the most distinct recordings in the corpus and China is the country with the most distinct recordings when considering spatial correlation. Our analysis includes a comparison of musical attributes and styles that contribute to the ‘uniqueness’ of the music of each country