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Pengaruh Desa Wisata Kandri terhadap Peningkatan Kesejahteraan Masyarakat Kelurahan Kandri Kota Semarang (Studi Kasus: Kelurahan Kandri Semarang)
Kelompok sadar wisata atau POKDARWIS Kelurahan Kandri membentuk sebuah konsep Desa Wisata, dengan maksud tujuan dapat meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat Kandri. Dampak positif yang diharapkan yaitu dapat meningkatkan pendapatan, masyarkat dapat menempuh pendidikan, dan masyarakat dapat menikmati fasilitas kesehatan yang telah di sediakan oleh pemerintah. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi hubungan dan pengaruh adanya Desa Wisata Kandri terhadap peningkatan kesejahteraan masayarakat kelurahan kandri. Metode yang digunakan yaitu metode kuantitatif, dengan menggunakan analisis yaitu analisis diskriptif kuantitatif dan analisis regresi. Hasil dari analisis diatas diketahui bahwa keberadaan Desa Wisata dapat mempengaruhi peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat terbukti dari persentase manfaat yang dirasakan masyarakat dengan keberadaan Desa wisata Kandri dalam meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat didominasi 60 % mengatakan tinggi, 38 % mengatakan sedang, dan hanya sebesar 2 % yang mengatakan rendah, hal tersebut menandakan bahwa keberadaan desa wisata kandri cukup signifikan dalam meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat Kelurahan Kandri. Kemudian berdasarkan analisis regresi dapat diketahui Nilai signifikansi pada tabel anova menunjukkan 0.036. Maka pada kasus ini, variabel X berpengaruh terhadap variabel Y karna nilai sig < 0,05 dengan kata lain adanya desa wisata berpengaruh terhadap indikator peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat Kandri
Nuclear emulsions for the detection of micrometric-scale fringe patterns: an application to positron interferometry
Nuclear emulsions are capable of very high position resolution in the
detection of ionizing particles. This feature can be exploited to directly
resolve the micrometric-scale fringe pattern produced by a matter-wave
interferometer for low energy positrons (in the 10-20 keV range). We have
tested the performance of emulsion films in this specific scenario. Exploiting
silicon nitride diffraction gratings as absorption masks, we produced periodic
patterns with features comparable to the expected interferometer signal. Test
samples with periodicities of 6, 7 and 20 {\mu}m were exposed to the positron
beam, and the patterns clearly reconstructed. Our results support the
feasibility of matter-wave interferometry experiments with positrons.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figure
Intercentre reproducibility of cardiac apparent diffusion coefficient and fractional anisotropy in healthy volunteers
BACKGROUND: Diffusion tensor cardiac magnetic resonance (DT-CMR) enables probing of the microarchitecture of the myocardium, but the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and fractional anisotropy (FA) reported in healthy volunteers have been inconsistent. The aim of this study was to validate a stimulated-echo diffusion sequence using phantoms, and to assess the intercentre reproducibility of in-vivo diffusion measures using the sequence. METHODS AND RESULTS: A stimulated-echo, cardiac-gated DT-CMR sequence with a reduced-field-of-view, single-shot EPI readout was used at two centres with 3 T MRI scanners. Four alkane phantoms with known diffusivities were scanned at a single centre using a stimulated echo sequence and a spin-echo Stejskal-Tanner diffusion sequence. The median (maximum, minimum) difference between the DT-CMR sequence and Stejskal-Tanner sequence was 0.01 (0.04, 0.0006) × 10(-3) mm(2)/s (2%), and between the DT-CMR sequence and literature diffusivities was 0.02 (0.05, 0.006) × 10(-3) mm(2)/s (4%). The same ten healthy volunteers were scanned using the DT-CMR sequence at the two centres less than seven days apart. Average ADC and FA were calculated in a single mid-ventricular, short axis slice. Intercentre differences were tested for statistical significance at the p < 0.05 level using paired t-tests. The mean ADC ± standard deviation for all subjects averaged over both centres was 1.10 ± 0.06 × 10(-3) mm(2)/s in systole and 1.20 ± 0.09 × 10(-3) mm(2)/s in diastole; FA was 0.41 ± 0.04 in systole and 0.54 ± 0.03 in diastole. With similarly-drawn regions-of-interest, systolic ADC (difference 0.05 × 10(-3) mm(2)/s), systolic FA (difference 0.003) and diastolic FA (difference 0.01) were not statistically significantly different between centres (p > 0.05), and only the diastolic ADC showed a statistically significant, but numerically small, difference of 0.07 × 10(-3) mm(2)/s (p = 0.047). The intercentre, intrasubject coefficients of variance were: systolic ADC 7%, FA 6%; diastolic ADC 7%, FA 3%. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to demonstrate the accuracy of a stimulated-echo DT-CMR sequence in phantoms, and demonstrates the feasibility of obtaining reproducible ADC and FA in healthy volunteers at separate centres with well-matched sequences and processing
Alpha-band rhythms in visual task performance: phase-locking by rhythmic sensory stimulation
Oscillations are an important aspect of neuronal activity. Interestingly, oscillatory patterns are also observed in behaviour, such as in visual performance measures after the presentation of a brief sensory event in the visual or another modality. These oscillations in visual performance cycle at the typical frequencies of brain rhythms, suggesting that perception may be closely linked to brain oscillations. We here investigated this link for a prominent rhythm of the visual system (the alpha-rhythm, 8-12 Hz) by applying rhythmic visual stimulation at alpha-frequency (10.6 Hz), known to lead to a resonance response in visual areas, and testing its effects on subsequent visual target discrimination. Our data show that rhythmic visual stimulation at 10.6 Hz: 1) has specific behavioral consequences, relative to stimulation at control frequencies (3.9 Hz, 7.1 Hz, 14.2 Hz), and 2) leads to alpha-band oscillations in visual performance measures, that 3) correlate in precise frequency across individuals with resting alpha-rhythms recorded over parieto-occipital areas. The most parsimonious explanation for these three findings is entrainment (phase-locking) of ongoing perceptually relevant alpha-band brain oscillations by rhythmic sensory events. These findings are in line with occipital alpha-oscillations underlying periodicity in visual performance, and suggest that rhythmic stimulation at frequencies of intrinsic brain-rhythms can be used to reveal influences of these rhythms on task performance to study their functional roles
Random, blocky and alternating ordering in supramolecular polymers of chemically bidisperse monomers
As a first step to understanding the role of molecular or chemical
polydispersity in self-assembly, we put forward a coarse-grained model that
describes the spontaneous formation of quasi-linear polymers in solutions
containing two self-assembling species. Our theoretical framework is based on a
two-component self-assembled Ising model in which the bidispersity is
parameterized in terms of the strengths of the binding free energies that
depend on the monomer species involved in the pairing interaction. Depending
upon the relative values of the binding free energies involved, different
morphologies of assemblies that include both components are formed, exhibiting
paramagnetic-, ferromagnetic- or anti ferromagnetic-like order,i.e., random,
blocky or alternating ordering of the two components in the assemblies.
Analyzing the model for the case of ferromagnetic ordering, which is of most
practical interest, we find that the transition from conditions of minimal
assembly to those characterized by strong polymerization can be described by a
critical concentration that depends on the concentration ratio of the two
species. Interestingly, the distribution of monomers in the assemblies is
different from that in the original distribution, i.e., the ratio of the
concentrations of the two components put into the system. The monomers with a
smaller binding free energy are more abundant in short assemblies and monomers
with a larger binding affinity are more abundant in longer assemblies. Under
certain conditions the two components congregate into separate supramolecular
polymeric species and in that sense phase separate. We find strong deviations
from the expected growth law for supramolecular polymers even for modest
amounts of a second component, provided it is chemically sufficiently distinct
from the main one.Comment: Submitted to Macromolecules, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial
text overlap with arXiv:1111.176
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF
The Physics Program for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at
the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) is described
Observation of nu_tau appearance in the CNGS beam with the OPERA experiment
The OPERA experiment is searching for nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillations in
appearance mode i.e. via the direct detection of tau leptons in nu_tau charged
current interactions. The evidence of nu_mu -> nu_tau appearance has been
previously reported with three nu_tau candidate events using a sub-sample of
data from the 2008-2012 runs. We report here a fourth nu_tau candidate event,
with the tau decaying into a hadron, found after adding the 2012 run events
without any muon in the final state to the data sample. Given the number of
analysed events and the low background, nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillations are
established with a significance of 4.2sigma.Comment: Submitted to Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP
Emulsion sheet doublets as interface trackers for the OPERA experiment
New methods for efficient and unambiguous interconnection between electronic
counters and target units based on nuclear photographic emulsion films have
been developed. The application to the OPERA experiment, that aims at detecting
oscillations between mu neutrino and tau neutrino in the CNGS neutrino beam, is
reported in this paper. In order to reduce background due to latent tracks
collected before installation in the detector, on-site large-scale treatments
of the emulsions ("refreshing") have been applied. Changeable Sheet (CSd)
packages, each made of a doublet of emulsion films, have been designed,
assembled and coupled to the OPERA target units ("ECC bricks"). A device has
been built to print X-ray spots for accurate interconnection both within the
CSd and between the CSd and the related ECC brick. Sample emulsion films have
been extensively scanned with state-of-the-art automated optical microscopes.
Efficient track-matching and powerful background rejection have been achieved
in tests with electronically tagged penetrating muons. Further improvement of
in-doublet film alignment was obtained by matching the pattern of low-energy
electron tracks. The commissioning of the overall OPERA alignment procedure is
in progress.Comment: 19 pages, 19 figure
Procedure for short-lived particle detection in the OPERA experiment and its application to charm decays
The OPERA experiment, designed to perform the first observation of oscillations in appearance mode through the detection of
the leptons produced in charged current interactions, has
collected data from 2008 to 2012. In the present paper, the procedure developed
to detect particle decays, occurring over distances of the order of 1 mm
from the neutrino interaction point, is described in detail. The results of its
application to the search for charmed hadrons are then presented as a
validation of the methods for appearance detection
Determination of the muon charge sign with the dipolar spectrometers of the OPERA experiment
The OPERA long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiment has observed the
direct appearance of in the CNGS beam. Two large muon
magnetic spectrometers are used to identify muons produced in the
leptonic decay and in interactions by measuring their charge and
momentum. Besides the kinematic analysis of the decays, background
resulting from the decay of charmed particles produced in
interactions is reduced by efficiently identifying the muon track. A new method
for the charge sign determination has been applied, via a weighted angular
matching of the straight track-segments reconstructed in the different parts of
the dipole magnets. Results obtained for Monte Carlo and real data are
presented. Comparison with a method where no matching is used shows a
significant reduction of up to 40\% of the fraction of wrongly determined
charges.Comment: 10 pages. Improvements in the tex
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