Creative innovations for the sustainable city: Widening the range of the possible

Europe is first and foremost urban. In the 1990s, cities emerge stronger on the European scene; they wish to become attractive to people and capital. Winning the battle of sustainability is central to this effort, and presupposes a thorough understanding of this frequently used term, with environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions. The European Foundation's project on innovations conducive to the sustainable city, which this paper analyses, involved an examination of innovative projects in cities of all European Union states. Projects highlighting the environmental dimensions of sustainability include the local movements for environmental plans, charters and Agendas 21, the development of co-generation and heating schemes, innovative types of resource (including waste) management, and actions to limit the use of the private car and enhance public transport. Projects focusing on socio-economic sustainability aim at improving the employment outlook, housing situation and safety conditions of cities. Planning interventions target bringing harmony to cities, improving the mix of uses and functions (in contrast to rigid zoning) linking the city with its periphery and enhancing public spaces as centres of citizenship and democracy

Investigating Economic Growth Impact On Poverty Reduction In East Java: Does Spatial Matter?

Many studies on growth impact on poverty reduction have been conducted in Indonesia using variouseconomic sectors and regional data. However, none of those studies have incorporated on even test thepresence of spatial effects. This study is conducted using spatial analysis method to measure the impactof districts growth on poverty reduction in East Java. The estimation of growth elasticity of poverty isbased on Ravallion's model (2001) by considering the presence of growth and poverty clusters identifiedby ESDA (Explanatory Spatial Data Analysis). The model is run to 37 districts of East Java on 2003and 2007 by incorporating the presence of spatial effect. This is conducted by using spatial econometricprocedure to test and model the presence of spatial effect. The spatial model is established by insertingspatial lag of district growth as independent variable. The estimation result finds that growth impact onpoverty in East Java is geographically different. There are clusters of region which have high growthelasticity of poverty and there also clusters of regions with low and no impact of growth to povertyreduction. The significant impact of district growth spatial lag to poverty reduction in every clusterimplies that poverty reduction program/policy needs to be coordinated among district governments inEast Java. This is more important for districts that share borders.Key words: growth, poverty, district, spatial analysi

Analisis Faktor Pemberian Asi Eksklusif

Pemberian ASI eksklusif adalah pemberian ASI saja tanpa makanan atau minuman lain kecuali obat dan vitamin dari usia bayi 0 bulan sampai dengan 6 bulan. Hasil riset kesehatan dasar (Riskesdas) tahun 2013 menunjukkan bahwa pemberian ASI eksklusif sampai usia bayi 6 bulan di Indonesia masih rendah yaitu hanya sebesar 30,2% (Riskesdas, 2013).Penelitian dilaksanakan pada bulan Juni 2014.Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah case control.Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah semua ibu yang mempunyai bayi umur 6-12 bulan di Polindes Desa Keplaksari Kecamatan PeteronganKabupaten Jombang.Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik Probability Sampling dengan metode sampling Simple Random Sampling dengan jumlah sampel 28 orang. Alat pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner.Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pengetahuan ibu merupakan factor yang paling dominan berhubungan bermakna secara statistic terhadap pemberian ASI eksklusif dengan nilai p sebesar 0,023 dan nilai OR 8,000.Dengan demikian ibu yang mempunyai pengetahuan baik mempunyai peluang 8,000 kali lebih besar untuk memberikan ASI eksklusif selama 6 bulan.Dengan demikian perlu dilakukan upaya-upaya untuk meningkatkan pemberian ASI Ekslusif dengan cara melaksanakan KP-ASI dan melakukan penyuluhan untuk menambah ilmu pengetahuan. Kata Kunci :ASI eksklusif, faktor yang mempengaruhi pemberian AS

Collectibility Analysis for Small and Medium Enterprise – Bank BUKOPIN Case

In Indonesia, small and medium enterprises (SME) have experienced 68% growth in 2008 and47% growth in 2007. The simple structure made it able to respond quickly to changingeconomic conditions and meet local customers' needs, growing sometimes into large andpowerful corporations or failing within a short time of the firm's inception. Unfortunately,lack of access to finance has been cited as an important problem for SMEs, being theconstraint in the creation, development or diversification of their economic activities. Lendinginstitution such as banks conduct an intensive assessment (usually called credit scoring) tofind out the creditworthiness of applicants in order to mitigate the risk. This paper,“Collectability Analysis in Small and Medium Enterprise”, is purposed for creatingappropriate credit scoring model to support the judgmental analysis approach in small andmedium enterprise, finding out how generic and plafond-specific variables affect thecollectability of the debtors from different plafond level (< Rp. 500 Million and > Rp. 500Million), and providing early detector for the bank to predict about future loan performanceof its debtors, thus the bank can be more careful in selecting qualified debtors

Sistem Monitoring Mutu Hasil Ujian Sekolahpada Sekolah Dasar di Kecamatantenggarong Seberang

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk merancang dan membangun sistem yang berguna dalam memudahkan pendistribusian informasi hasil Ujian Sekolah, pengarsipan hasil nilai Ujian Sekolah serta monitoring mutu hasil Ujian Sekolah pada Sekolah Dasar. Penelitian ini dilakukan di UPT.Dinas Pendidikan Kecamatan Tenggarong Seberang dengan menggunakan teknik pengumpulan data yaitu studi lapangan (wawancara) dan studi literatur.Sistem monitoring ini berbasis website dengan menggunakan metode System Development Life Cycle model waterfall.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dengan menggunakan sistem monitoring ini, maka data yang diolah dapat terintegrasi ke dalam manajemen sistem yang baik serta memudahkan pihak UPT.Dinas Pendidikan dan Sekolah Dasar dalam memantau perkembangan mutu hasil Ujian Sekolah setiap tahun

PENGARUH MEKANISME CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DAN UKURAN KAP TERHADAP MANAJEMEN LABA

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of corporate governance mechanism to the earnings management (discretionary accruals) in the manufacturing companies. Corporate governance mechanisms in this study are institutional ownership, managerial ownership, independent board composition, independent audit committee composition, and audit firm size. The populations in this study are manufacturing companies which listed on BEI in the year 2012-2014. With the sampling method is purposive sampling. The method of selecting the data used in this research is purposive sampling method. This research was conducted by using documentation method which used data from annual report listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) and the data from Indonesian Capital Market Directory (ICMD). The method of data analysis is used an OLS (Ordinary Least Square) regression. The total number of samples for this study is 219 companies. But, there are found 23 samples as outlier should be excluded from sample observation. So, the final samples for this study are 193 companies. The results of this research showed that independent board composition, independent audit committee composition, managerial ownership and institutional ownership had negatively affected to the earnings management. Meanwhile, audit firm size had no significantly affected on earnings management. This result showed that corporate governance mechanism be able to reduce earnings management

Pelatihan Pembuatan Media Flipbook Bagi Guru SMA Muhammadiyah Se-DKI Jakarta

Kegiatan pengabdian yang dilakukan adalah pelatihan pembuatan media flipbook bagi guru SMA Muhammadiyah se-DKI Jakarta. Mitra kegiatan pengabdian yang dilakukan adalah Dikdasmen PWM DKI Jakarta. Berdasarkan survei, wawancara dengan  Wakil Kepala Sekolah dan Sekretaris Dikdasmen bahwa belum pernah diadakannya pelatihan media pembelajaran, khususnya flipbook dan sebanyak 75% guru belum pernah menggunakan media flipbook dalam pembelajaran. Berdasarkan permasalahan tersebut, kegiatan pengabdian yang dilakukan menawarkan pelatihan yang komprehensif dimulai dari pemahaman tentang literasi media, pentingnya media pembelajaran, pemberian materi mengeni media flipbook, cara membuat media flipbook sesuai dengan langkah-langkah yang telah dijelaskan dan cara penggunaan media flipbook dalam pembelajaran. Kegiatan pengabdian dilaksanakan pada bulan Januari 2019. Target luaran kegiatan pengabdian yang dilakukan berupa jasa dan publikasi. Luaran jasa berupa paparan materi mengenai melalui pelatihan pembuatan media flipbook. Langkah-langkah yang dilakukan dalam kegiatan pengabdian ini yaitu : 1) Paparan materi tentang literasi media, 2) Paparan materi tentang media pembelajaran, 3) Paparan materi tentang media flipbook, 4) pembuatan media flipbook, 5) Pengaplikasian media flipbook

Prediction of extreme events in the OFC model on a small world network

We investigate the predictability of extreme events in a dissipative Olami-Feder-Christensen model on a small world topology. Due to the mechanism of self-organized criticality, it is impossible to predict the magnitude of the next event knowing previous ones, if the system has an infinite size. However, by exploiting the finite size effects, we show that probabilistic predictions of the occurrence of extreme events in the next time step are possible in a finite system. In particular, the finiteness of the system unavoidably leads to repulsive temporal correlations of extreme events. The predictability of those is higher for larger magnitudes and for larger complex network sizes. Finally, we show that our prediction analysis is also robust by remarkably reducing the accessible number of events used to construct the optimal predictor.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure