PENGARUH FASILITAS KERJA, LINGKUNGAN KERJA DAN GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN TERHADAP PRODUKTIVITAS KARYAWAN PT. PERKEBUNAN NUSANTARA III

This study aims to determine whether work facilities, work environment and leadership style affect employee productivity at PT. Perkebunan Nusantara III. The instrument used is a questionnaire to obtain data. The population used is 672 and 85 act as samples. From the data processing obtained Simultaneous Test with Fcount of 7.566>2.71(Ftable) from the above results, it can be indicated that the results of the study H0 are rejected and for H1 are accepted. This is also supported by a significant value of 0.000<0.05. Therefore, the independent or independent variables of work facilities, work environment and leadership style together contribute to the influence of the dependent or independent variable, namely employee productivity. Partial Test is also obtained with the value of tcount from the independent variable or independent of work facilities (-2,194)< ttable(1,988), or the value of the significance of t from the facility variable (0.031)<(0.05), tcount value of the independent or independent variable from the work environment (2.226)>(1.988), or the value of the significance of t from the work environment variable (0.029)<(0.05) and the t-value of the independent variable or independent of leadership style (3.278)>ttable(1.988), or the value of the significance of t of the independent or independent variable of leadership style (0.002)<(0.05)

Seed Quality of Greengram Stored in Different Storage Environment

A laboratory experiment was conducted with mungbean seeds kept in three different containers. Three containers were tin pot, poly bag and jute bag and stored at room temperature and RH for three months (23 June-23 September) in the Laboratory of Agronomy Department, Sher-e- Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh to study their storage behavior, germination percentage and quality. The seed of jute bag came to the contact with air and their moisture contents was decreased from initial moisture content and remained near to their Equilibrium Moisture content (EMC), moisture content of the seeds of jute bag was found decreased from 7.50% to 16.70% within 6 weeks of storage. But moisture contents of seeds of tin pot and poly bag remained approximate constant throughout 7 weeks period. As tin pot and poly bag was more or less air tight so the seeds of these container could not come to the contact with ambient room air, resulting no significant change of their moisture content. Germination capacity of the seeds of tin pot was found decreased from 78% to 68% and 77% to 58% in the seeds of poly bag. Germination capacity of the seeds of jute bag was found decreased from 73% to 48%t in 5th week of storage. So, the germination capacity was also found a little bit higher than the seeds of other containers. Considering three different container, tin pot container has been proved much more safe and secured than jute bag or poly bag container

Ruppeiner Geometry of RN Black Holes: Flat or Curved?

In some recent studies \cite{aman1, aman2, aman3}, Aman {\it et al.} used the Ruppeiner scalar as a measure of underlying interactions of Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes, indicating that it is a non-interacting statistical system for which classical thermodynamics could be used at any scale. Here, we show that if we use the complete set of thermodynamic variables, a non-flat state space will be produced. Furthermore, the Ruppeiner curvature diverges at extremal limits, as it would for other types of black holes.Comment: 9 page

Evaluation of quality of drinking water from Baghdad, Iraq

This is a joint work between the Italian Red Cross and the Environmental Laboratories, Baghdad. The drinking water (DW) samples from 16 residential districts in Baghdad were chemically evaluated with reference to the raw water samples and water directly taken from the purification plants. In addition to the routinely measured parameters, 17 metals and 11 trihalomathane (THM) were measured. Generally, the samples of water analysed can be considered of good quality. The relatively high sulphate and aluminium contents results from the use of aluminium sulphate as flocculent. The ammonia and Nitrite concentrations were lower than the detectable limit, because ammonia is converted into chloramines and nitrite is converted into Nitrate during chlorination. This indicates no sewage contamination of the drinking water. The high chloride contents can be referred to the use of partially degraded hypo for the disinfection. The presence of THM's in the samples analysed is indicative of good disinfection process. The presence of these compounds is preferred better than bacterial contamination. The relatively high levels of zinc and iron have no impact on the quality of DW. Iron, however, was efficiently removed during the treatment, together with Manganese. Reference was done to the EU specification of drinking water regarding total hardness, chloride contents, sulphate, iron and THM's. As for the iron content, the original pH of the river water (7.5 and 8.0) ensures that Iron should not be present in soluble form at a detectable level. Corrosion of the pipes could be one of the reasons for the presence of iron. Key Words: Drinking water quality, heavy metals, sulphate, Aluminium, Trihalomethans, hardness

Antegrade balloon dilatation as a treatment option for posttransplant ureteral strictures: Case series of 50 patients

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of antegrade balloon dilatation on ureteral strictures that developed after kidney transplant. Materials and Methods: The hospital databases of the Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and the Academic Medical Center (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) were retrospectively screened for patients who underwent balloon dilatation after kidney transplant. Balloon dilatation was technically successful whenever it was able to pass the strictured segment with the guidewire followed by balloon inflation; the procedure was clinically successful if no further interventions (for example, surgical revision of the ureteroneocystostomy or prolonged double J placement) were necessary. Results: Fifty patients (2.4%) of 2075 kidney transplant recipients underwent antegrade balloon dilatation because of urinary outflow obstruction. Median time between transplant and balloon dilatation was 3 months (range, 0-139 mo). In 43 patients (86%), balloon dilatation was technically successful. In the remaining 7 patients (14%), it was impossible to pass the strictured segment with the guidewire. In 20 of 43 patients (47%) having a technically successful procedure, the procedure was also clinically successful, with median follow-up after balloon dilatation of 35.5 months (range, 0-102 mo). We did not identify any patient o

Effect of Passivation on Selectively Grown Sub-µm Ge-on-Si Single Photon Avalanche Diode Detectors

Ge-on-SOI (silicon-on-insulator) single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) have been fabricated with exposed sidewalls allowing variation of passivation techniques. Reduced dark currents and density of surface states are demonstrated with thermal oxide passivation, demonstrating the benefit of optimal passivation of low aspect ratio selectively grown Ge

Bio-processing of macroalgae Palmaria palmata: metabolite fractionation from pressed fresh material and ensiling considerations for long-term storage

Red algae, belonging to the phylum Rhodophyta, contain an abundance of useful chemicals including bioactive molecules and present opportunities for the production of different products through biorefinery cascades. The rhodophyte Palmaria palmata, commonly termed dulse or dillisk, grows predominantly on the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and is a well-known snack food. Due to its abundance, availability and cultivation capacity, P. palmata was selected for study as a potential candidate for a biorefinery process. In addition to studying juice and solid fractions of freshly harvested P. palmata, we have investigated the novel possibility of preserving algal biomass by ensilaging protocols similar to those employed for terrestrial forage crops. In the metabolite partitioning within the solid and liquid fractions following screw-pressing, the majority of the metabolites screened for—water soluble carbohydrates, proteins and amino acids, lipids, pigments, phenolics and antioxidant activity—remained in the solid fraction, though at differing proportions depending on the metabolite, from 70.8% soluble amino acids to 98.2% chlorophyll a and 98.1% total carotenoids. For the ensiling study, screw-pressed P. palmata, with comparative wilted and chopped, and chopped only samples, were ensiled at scale with and without Safesil silage additive. All samples were successfully ensiled after 90 days, with screw-pressing giving lower or equal pH before and after ensiling compared with the other preparations. Of particular note was the effluent volumes generated during ensiling: 26–49% of the fresh weight, containing 16–34% of the silage dry matter. This may be of advantage depending on the final use of the biomass

Unintentional p-type conductivity in intrinsic Ge-rich SiGe/Ge heterostructures grown on Si(001)

In this work, we investigate the effective background charge density in intrinsic Si0.06Ge0.94/Ge plastically relaxed heterostructures deposited on Si(001). Hall effect measurements and capacitance–voltage profiling reveal a p-type conductivity in the nominally intrinsic layer with a hole concentration in the mid 1015 cm−3 range at temperatures between 50 and 200 K. In view of the carrier freeze out that we observe below 50 K, we attribute the origin of these carriers to the ionization of shallow acceptor-like defect states above the valence band. In addition, one dominant hole trap located at mid-gap position is found by deep level transient spectroscopy. Carrier trapping kinetics measurements can be interpreted as due to a combination of point defects, likely trapped in the strain field of extended defects, i.e., the threading dislocation

Towards a standardised informed consent procedure for live donor nephrectomy: The PRINCE (Process of Informed Consent Evaluation) project-study protocol for a nationwide prospective cohort study

Introduction: Informed consent is mandatory for all (surgical) procedures, but it is even more important when it comes to living kidney donors undergoing surgery for the benefit of others. Donor education, leading to informed consent, needs to be carried out according to certain standards. Informed consent procedures for live donor nephrectomy vary per centre, and even per individual healthcare professional. The basis for a standardised, uniform surgical informed consent procedure for live donor nephrectomy can be created by assessing what information donors need to hear to prepare them for the operation and convalescence. Methods and analysis: The PRINCE (Process of In formed Consent Evaluation) project is a prospective, multicentre cohort study, to be carried out in all eight Dutch kidney transplant centres. Donor knowledge of the procedure and postoperative course will be evaluated by means of pop quizzes. A baseline cohort (prior to receiving any information from a member of the transplant team in one of the transplant centres) will be compared with a control group, the members of which receive the pop quiz on the day of admission for donor nephrectomy. Donor satisfaction will be evaluated for all donors who completed the admission pop-quiz. The primary end point is donor knowledge. In addition, those elements that have to be included in the standardized format informed consent procedure will be identified. Secondary end points are donor satisfaction, current informed consent practices in the different centres (eg, how many visits, which personnel, what kind of information is di

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic variants contribute substantially to ASD susceptibility, but to date no individual variants have been robustly associated with ASD. With a marked sample-size increase from a unique Danish population resource, we report a genome-wide association meta-analysis of 18,381 individuals with ASD and 27,969 controls that identified five genome-wide-significant loci. Leveraging GWAS results from three phenotypes with significantly overlapping genetic architectures (schizophrenia, major depression, and educational attainment), we identified seven additional loci shared with other traits at equally strict significance levels. Dissecting the polygenic architecture, we found both quantitative and qualitative polygenic heterogeneity across ASD subtypes. These results highlight biological insights, particularly relating to neuronal function and corticogenesis, and establish that GWAS performed at scale will be much more productive in the near term in ASD.Peer reviewe