Pengaruh Pelatihan Motivasi Berbasis Otak Terhadap Kekuatan Limbik , Abilitas, Kreatifitas Dan Kemauan Siswa

Penelitian ini untuk bertujuan membuktikan pengaruh pelatihan motivasi berbasis otak terhadap kekuatan limbik, abilitas, kreatifitas dan kemauan siswa kelas III SMPN 9 Kabupaten Sijunjung. Penelitian ini merupakan aplikasi neurosains dalam bidang pendidikan yang telah diteliti selama lima tahun. Metodeyang digunakan adalah metode Kinesiologi yang merupakan ilmu yang mempelajari tentang saraf-saraf pada lengan yang telah dikembangkan oleh ahlinya untuk deteksi berbagai penyakit dan mampu menjelaskan secara ilmiah penyebab hal tersebut dengan mekanisme gelombang elektromagnetis tubuh.Selanjutnya, metode perrmainan motivasi (game motivation) dapat mengukur abiliotas, kreativitas dan kemauan siswa. Hasil penelitianmenunjukkan pengaruh yang nyata, dimana85.30 % kondisi limbik siswa SMPN9 pada taraf yang lemah. Sementara, sisanya dalam kondisi agak lemah 11.77% dan limbik yang kuat dengan prosentase 0.03%.pada saat sebelum pelatihan.Setelah pelatihan, limbik level kuatmenjadi 0.06%. Kondisi limbik yang lemah berkurang menjadi 42.42%.Selanjutnya, sebelum pelatihan, nilai kreatifitas, abilitas dan kemauan masing-masing adalah 12-109, 12-93 dan 16-82. Setelah pelatihan tingkat kreativitas, abilitas dan kemauan siswa meningkat dengan rentang masing-masing 38-137, 22-96 dan 29-150. Terbukti, pelatihan motivasi berbasis otak mempengaruhikekuatan limbik, abilitas, kreatifitas dan kemauan siswa kelas III SMPN 9 Kabupaten Sijunjung, Sumatera Bara

Agriculture for Food and Nutrition Security: A Must For Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) underscore an overriding importance of human development for sustained economic, social, political and other development, and nutrition is the beginning of human development. Nutrition has, however, not been viewed as a development imperative in many African countries. Agricultural and health policies, projects and programmes and the conduct of agricultural and health research in most African countries do not consider nutrition to any significant degree. The paper argues that food production, poverty, malnutrition and health are very intricately linked and the result of that linkage is probably the most important determinant of development and, thus, the realization of the MDGs in Africa. It also argues that it is a misconception that food security implies or is synonymous with food and nutrition security. The paper proposes that food policies, projects, programmes and research should focus on food and nutrition security and not just food security. In that regard, the paper proposes that the following interlinked processes must be taken into consideration in agricultural policies, projects, programmes and research: (1) Effective marriage of indigenous and “scientific” knowledge in food production, processing, preservation, preparation and consumption. (2) Promotion of agrobiodiversity, including the domestication of known nutritionally-rich semi-wild plants. (3) Development of sustainable farming systems, including effective crop-livestock integration systems. (4) Development of food production-marketing-consumption-nutrition linkage processes at community levels. National and local level nutrition policy research and advocacyAgricultural and Food Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Food Security and Poverty, International Relations/Trade, Marketing, Production Economics, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,

The emerging of employment gap in the Malaysian construction industry

Employment of young people is a big issue in the Malaysian construction industry. This is a common phenomenon not only in Malaysia but affected most developed and developing countries around the world. Sufficient workers are needed to cater to the robustness of the construction sector and to sustain the productivity that will boost the development demand. However, young people had difficulties to find decent employment in this industry due to lack of experience and skills among young people and some employer are more likely to hire foreign workers. The aim of this study is to examine the emerging of skill gaps in the Malaysian construction industry. The methodology adapted for this study comprise of primary and secondary data collection. The primary data had been collected from the questionnaire surveys on the professional within the construction industry. The data then were analyzed using the percentage score and the diagram such as bar chart had been used to visualize the results from the analysis. While, secondary data collected through literature review to gather information and important views from previous studies. The findings reveal that the construction industry prefer more than 30 years old skilled workers. Eventhough, the jobs could be filled by young people, but somehow, some barriers such as high risk, low wages, hard work and availability of foreign workers had distracted the involvement of young people in the construction industry

Uji Daya Hambat Ekstrak Daun Kucai (Allium Schoenoprasum L.) terhadap Pertumbuhan Streptococcus Mutans

Salah satu tanaman di Indonesia yang sering digunakan sebagai bahan pengobatan alami yaitu Daun Kucai (Allium schoenoprasum L.). Daun dari tanaman kucai telah diteliti dan diketahui memiliki kandungan yang diduga dapat bersifat sebagai antibakteri yakni allicin, saponin, tannin, flavonoid, dan triterpenoid.penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui daya hambat ekstrak daun Kucai terhadap pertumbuhan bakteri Streptococcus mutans. penelitian ini merupakan penelitian eksperimental laboratorium dengan menggunakan 3 konsentrasi yaitu, 2%, 4%, dan 8%. Control positif Ciprofloxacin dan control negatif Na CMC. Pengujian antibakteri ini menggunakan metode difusi dengan kertas cakram.Daya hambat diperoleh berdasarkan pengukuran zona hambat yang terbentuk di sekitar paper disk dengan menggunakan mistar.Analisis statistik yang dilakukan dengan menggunakan uji ANOVA dan Uji BNT. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa diameter zona hambat untuk Streptococcus mutans pada konsentrasi ekstrak daun Kucai 2% b/v  9,33 mm, 4% b/v 10,66 mm, dan 8% b/v 12,66 mm, sedangkan pada control negatif tidak memperlihatkan adanya zona hambatan dan pada control positif adalah 22 mm. Pada hasil analisa statistik menunjukkan terdapat perbedaan yang berbeda nyata antara berbagai konsentrasi ekstrak daun Kucai dalam menghambat bakteri Streptococcus mutans. Ini berarti, semakin tinggi konsentrasi ekstrak daun Kucai maka semakin luas diameter zona hambat.Ekstrak daun Kucai dapat menghambat pertumbuhan bakteri S.mutans.Namun, masih belum efektif dibandingkan dengan kontrol positif (Ciprofloxacin)

Opposition-based manta ray foraging algorithm for global optimization and its application to optimize nonlinear type-2 fuzzy logic control

Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control (IT2FLC) possesses a high control ability in a way that it can optimally handle the presence of uncertainty in a system dynamic. However, the design of such a control scheme is a challenging task due to its complex structure and nonlinear behavior. A Manta Ray Foraging Optimization (MRFO) is a promising algorithm that can be applied to optimize the control design. However, MRFO still suffers the local optima problem due to unbalance exploration-exploitation of the MRFO agents and hence limiting the performance of the desired control. In this paper, Standard, Quasi, Super, and Quasi-Reflected opposition strategies are integrated into the MRFO structure. Each strategy enhances the exploration-exploitation capability and offers different approaches of varying agent’s step size relative to the algorithm’s iteration. The proposed opposition-based MRFO (OMRFO) algorithms are applied to optimize the IT2FLC control design for a laboratory-scaled inverted pendulum system. Moreover, as the algorithms are also promising strategies to other problems, they are applied to solve 50D of 30 IEEE CEC14 benchmark functions representing problems with different features. Performance analysis of the algorithms is statistically conducted using Wilcoxon sign rank and Friedman tests. The result shows that the performance of MRFO and Quasi-Reflected-OMRFO are equal, while all other OMRFO variants show a significant improvement and better rank over the MRFO. The Super and Quasi OMRFO-IT2FLC schemes acquired the best responses for the cart and pendulum, respectively

Do you Facebook? Usage and applications of Facebook page among academic libraries in Malaysia

This paper explores usage and application of Facebook among Malaysian academic libraries in order to provide academic libraries with ideas for best practices in using social networking sites to better profile themselves and communicate effectively with their users in this new milieu. The research questions guiding this study are as follows: (a) What are the extent and nature of institutional Facebook use by Malaysian academic libraries?(b) What information that Malaysian academic libraries deliver through Facebook page? This study employs content analysis to examine current uses of the library Facebook page. A checkpoint was developed to analyze the libraries’ usage and application of Facebook page. A total of 14 academic libraries in Malaysia are using Facebook page as part of their services to users. However only 3 libraries are fully utilizing their Facebook page and they have been identified as “Skaters” based on the 8-S Framework of Category Development for Facebook user. Most libraries are using their Facebook page for marketing and creating awareness of library services to their users

The biology of the Mango Leafhopper, Idioscopus nitidulus in Malaysia

Field experiments were conducted to study the biology of the mango leafhopper, Idioscopus nitidulus Walk., following outbreaks in north Peninsular Malaysia in 1986 and 1987. The developmental period on inflorescense was 13.77±0.25 days for males and 13.50±0.60 days for females, and mean incubation period of eggs was 3.85±2.00 days. Hoppers reared on the inflorescence produced 277±110 eggs with a hatchability rate of 90.2±8.4%; those on shoots produced 149±57 eggs and had a hatchability rate of54.8±22.0%. A female mating only once laid 176±72 eggs, whereas multiple mated females produced 149±57 eggs. On shoots in the field, the longevity of females (69.8±9.8 days) was not significantly different from that of males (60.5±8.5 days)

Review on Machine Learning Algorithms for Weather Forecasting Issues

Machine leaning is a ground of recent research that officially focuses on the theory, performance, and properties of learning systems and algorithms. It is particularly cross disciplinary field building upon ideas from many different kinds of fields such as artificial intelligence, optimization theory, information theory, statistics, cognitive science, optimal control, and many other disciplines of science, engineering, and mathematics. Since implementation in a wide range of applications, machine learning has covered almost every scientific domain, which has brought great impact on the science and society. Machine learning techniques has been used on a variety of problems, including recommendation engines, recognition systems, informatics and data mining, and autonomous control systems. This research paper compared different machine algorithms for classification. Classification is used when the desired output is a discrete label

The genus Xiphinema Cobb, 1913 (Nematoda: Longidoridae) in Western Malaysia

A survey for Xiphinema species in Serdang, the Puchong area and the Cameron Highlands (Malaysia) yielded eleven species, of which one new, described hereunder as X.winotoi n.sp. It is close to X.radicicola