Analisis Vertikal dan Horizontal terhadap Laporan Keuangan PT Perkebunan Nusantara III (Pesero) Medan

This study aims to see the development of assets, profit / loss and observe financial ratios as projected financial performance of PT Perkebunan Nusantara III (PTPN III) Medan for the last 3 years ie the period of 2010 until 2012. From the results of vertical analysis known factors Causing the fluctuation of PTPN III financial ratios are: a) Liquidity increases due to the decrease in short-term liabilities; B) Solvency increases as a result of the increase in total debt; C) The creditability of accounts receivable collectability has improved; D) The profitability of a company decreases due to lower net income, increased assets and equity; E) Declining profitability is caused by the global economic crisis. While the results of comparison analysis are: 1) Current assets increased in 2011 and decreased in 2012 resulting from a reduction in cash, cash equivalent of third party receivables; 2) Fixed assets due to increased ownership of facilities / infrastructure and buildings; 3) Short-term debt increased in 2011 but decreased in 2012 due to decreased contractor debt, tax debt and bank debt; 4) Long-term debt increased due to increased deferred employee benefits and deferred tax liabilities; 5) Increased equity caused by increased issued and paid-up capital of the company; 6) Reduced net sales of palm oil, rubber and palm kernel and its derivatives due to falling selling prices; 7) Net income increased in 2011 but in 2012 is reduced and far from the planned company

Analisis Sistem Antrian pada Stasiun Pengisian Bahan Bakar (SPBU) Kopkar Nusa Tiga Jl. Sunggal Medan

This study aims to analyze the model of queues at filling stations Kopkar Nusa Three Jl. Sunggal Medan using phase.Teknik single multi-channel data collection is done through observation and documentation. The study population was the whole vehicle wheel 2 (two) in the queuing system on weekdays applicable on Nusa Tiga Kopkar gas station Jl. Sunggal Medan. Sampling is done by nonprobability sampling Convenience sampling using primary data obtained from observation. So the data is taken against vehicles entering into the queuing system is running. From the analysis of the queuing system Kopkar Nusa Three gas station Jl. Terrain Sunggal known Poisson distributed arrival frequency, level of service and inter-arrival time is not exponentially. The level of visitor arrivals was obtained for 13 people per 8 minutes. This means that the server is quite crowded by the customer and the service provided is also capable of serving pelanggan.Waktu customers waiting in the queue (Wq) is 0871 minutes and still be within the maximum limit of the customer is willing to wait (time aspiration) that is equal to 15 minutes

Aflatoxin free complementary food to improve the growth of the children

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Application of a radial basis function neural network for diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

In this article an attempt is made to study the applicability of a general purpose, supervised feed forward neural network with one hidden layer, namely. Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network. It uses relatively smaller number of locally tuned units and is adaptive in nature. RBFs are suitable for pattern recognition and classification. Performance of the RBF neural network was also compared with the most commonly used multilayer perceptron network model and the classical logistic regression. Diabetes database was used for empirical comparisons and the results show that RBF network performs better than other models

Effect of Mycorrhizal Association on Nodule Number, Mass, Leghaemoglobin and Free Proline Content in Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc. Under PEG Induced Water Stress.

Seeds of Macrotyloma uniflorum were fed with various concentrations of PEG ranging from 5 to 25% during germination and continued till 45 days after germination on alternate days to induce water stress. Inoculums of Glomus mosseae and G. fasciculalum were added to the soil in pot experiment before sowing the seeds. Nodule number, mass, leghaemoglobin and proline contents were estimated in 45 days old plants of unstressed, induced stressed, unstressed AMF treated and stressed AM fungal treated. Observations revealed that AM fungal association improves the number and mass of nodules along with enhanced contents of leghaemoglobin under induced stressed condition. Content of proline in leaves is increased under induced stress in both mycorrhizal and non mycorrhizal plants. However the increase is more evident in non mycorrhizal plants than AM fungal treated plants under induced stress indicating better osmotic adjustment by AM symbiosis. Among the two AM fungal species, G. mosseae is more compatible with the host by improving all the parameters studied than G. fasciculalum inoculated plants indicating its host specificity. The significance of AM fungal association in the process of nodulation of legumes is discussed

Antimicrobial potential of leaf extract of normal and tissue cultured plants of Andrographis Paniculata nees

Various extracts of root, stem and leaf of normal and tissue cultured plants of Andrographis paniculata were tested against five pathogenic bacteria. Four months old field grown and tissue cultured plants raised on MS+BAP (8.86 ÎM) were used as source plants. Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Proteus vulgaris were pathogenic bacteria tested by Agar well diffusion method. The effect of various extracts measured by zone of inhibition varies with pathogens and also the source. Comparatively, methanolic leaf extracts of tissue cultured plants showed better zone of inhibition than the normal plants against all pathogens. Enhanced antibacterial activity of extracts of tissue cultured plants is related to the better growth performance and high content of secondary metabolites than the normal plants

Reducing child undernutrition through dietary diversification, reduced aflatoxin exposure, and improved hygiene practices: the immediate impacts in central Tanzania

Open Access Article; Published online: 28 Nov 2019The study aimed to quantify the immediate effects of dietary diversification, food safety, and hygiene interventions on child undernutrition in four rural villages in Kongwa district of central Tanzania. One hundred mothers with their children of less than 24 months old were recruited for this study. The difference-in-difference (DID) method was used to assess the effects of intensive intervention through a learning-by-doing process on the topic of aflatoxin free diversified food utilization and improved hygiene practices. Periodic anthropometric measurements were conducted on the 0th, 7th, 14th, and 21st days, and DID estimator showed the significant and positive average marginal effects of the intervention on Z-Scores being 0.459, 0.252, and 0.493 for wasting, stunting, and underweight, respectively. Notably, at the end of the study, the mean aflatoxin M1 level in urine samples decreased by 64% in the intervention group, while it decreased by 11% in the control group. The study provides quantitative evidence on intensive 21-day training for mothers incorporating integrated technologies yielded positive impacts on their children’s nutritional outcomes