ANALISIS FENOMENA SUPPLY CHAIN INDUSTRI PERTAHANAN NASIONAL MENGGUNAKAN SYSTEM THINKING DAN SWOT

Industri pertahanan dalam negeri menghadapi beberapa permasalahan yang ada, baik dari segi manajerial maupun dari segi finansial. Sehingga industri pertahanan nasional dinilai kurang mampu bersaing dengan industri pertahanan dari negara lain. Untuk membangun segi manajerial tersebut dibutuhkan supply chain industri pertahanan yang terorganisir dengan baik agar permintaan alat peralatan pertahanan dan keamanan dapat diproduksi dengan baik dan maksimal. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk menganalisis strategi pengembangan rantai pasok industri pertahaan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil rekondisi diperoleh nilai IFAS yaitu 3,01 sedangkan EFAS yaitu 3,1. Nilai tersebut lebih besar dari 2, maka strategi yang tepat untuk diterapkan yaitu strategi SO (Strenght-Opportunity), dimana berada dikuadran I dengan strategi agresif. Sehingga strategi yang sesuai dengan kelemahan supply chain industri pertahanan di Indonesia adalah strategi SO. Strategi SO yang bisa diaplikasikan yaitu menggunakan kebijakan baru mengenai anggaran industri pertahanan yang mendukung pengembangan dan kemajuan teknologi, membuat kebijakan industri pertahanan melalui KKIP untuk pengadaan kontrak jangka panjang, serta memanfaatkan sumber daya manusia dan sumber daya alam domestik untuk pengolahan bahan mentah sampai barang jadi dengan manajemen rantai pasok. Hasil akhir dari analisa SWOT berupa alternatif strategi yang nantinya bisa dipakai sebagai pertimbangan dalam menentukan STP: segmentasi – targeting – positioning

Modeling of a New Structure of Precision Air Conditioning System Using Secondary Condenser for Rh Regulation

A dynamic mathematical model for a new structure of precision air conditioning (PAC) has been developed. The proposed PAC uses an additional secondary condenser for relative humidity regulation compared to a basic refrigeration system. The work mechanism for this system and a vapour-compression cycle process of the system are illustrated using psychrometric chart and pressure-enthalpy diagram. A non-linear system model is derived based on the conservation of mass and energy balance principles and then linearized at steady state operating point for developing a 8th-order state space model suited for multivariable controller design. The quality of linearized model is analyzed in terms of transient response, controllability, observability, and interaction between input-output variables. The developed model is verified through simulation showing its ability for imitating the nonlinear behavior and the interaction of input-output variables

Unravelling social constructionism

Social constructionist research is an area of rapidly expanding influence that has brought together theorists from a range of different disciplines. At the same time, however, it has fuelled the development of a new set of divisions. There would appear to be an increasing uneasiness about the implications of a thoroughgoing constructionism, with some regarding it as both theoretically parasitic and politically paralysing. In this paper I review these debates and clarify some of the issues involved. My main argument is that social constructionism is not best understood as a unitary paradigm and that one very important difference is between what Edwards (1997) calls its ontological and epistemic forms. I argue that an appreciation of this distinction not only exhausts many of the disputes that currently divide the constructionist community, but also takes away from the apparent radicalism of much of this work

Male and Female Visions of Mediation

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Children’s participation in school grounds developments: creating a place for education that promotes children’s social inclusion

Abstract This paper advances the idea that ‘education for the social inclusion of children’ is similar but different to ‘inclusive education’ as it has come to be understood and used by some authors and UK government documents. ‘Inclusive education’ tends to carry an inward emphasis on the participation of children in the education system (with discussions on school culture, transitions, truancy, exclusion rates, underachievement, and school leaving age). In contrast, education for the promotion of children’s social inclusion requires an outward emphasis on children's participation in 'mainstream' society while they are still children. The latter emphasis is seen to be lacking in educational policy discourse in Scotland though a recent shift in policy towards education for active citizenship is noted. Examples are provided to show how many policy statements enact a limitation on the scope for education to promote children’s social inclusion by emphasising children’s deficits as social actors and focussing on the ‘condition’ of social exclusion. The paper draws on an empirical study of children’s participation in changing school grounds in Scotland. The analysis shows how the enclosure of learning in books, classrooms and normative curricula was challenged. Learning from school grounds developments was constructed relationally and spatially but the scope of what was to be learned was often delineated by adults. The paper closes with a discussion of how education that promotes the social inclusion of children will benefit from seeing both children and adults as current though partial citizens and utilising socio-spatial opportunities for the generation of uncertain curricula through their shared and/or differentiated participation

Gender differences in conversation topics, 1922–1990

Gender differences in conversation topics were first systematically studied in 1922 by Henry Moore, who theorized that the gender differences in topic choice he observed in a field observation study would persist over time, as they were manifestations of men's and women's “original natures.” In this paper, I report a 1990 replication of Moore's study, in which similar but smaller gender differences in topic choice are found. In order to explore further the apparent trend toward smaller gender differences, reports of quantitative observation studies conducted between 1922 and 1990 are examined. Other explanations besides change over time—such as variations in conversation setting and audience, target populations, and researcher's intentions—may account for the decline in gender differences in topic choice. Social influences are seen more clearly in the discourse about gender differences in conversation than in gender differences in conversation topics themselves.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45599/1/11199_2004_Article_BF00289744.pd