The Role of Television on Early Onset Puberty

The trend of early onset puberty has been increasing in recent years. As several studies have shown, a strong link between diet and puberty has been established in animals as well as in humans. However, not much attention has been paid to the cultural influences that have emerged recently such as television, computers, and gaming devices. Several different aspects of this trend were carefully studied and analyzed such as television and diet habits, children with early onset puberty, hormonal changes in children with early onset puberty, as well as the methodology of administering treatment. By connecting television to early onset puberty, pediatricians can reconsider treatment options for children maturing at a faster-than-normal rate and the harmful effects of early puberty (i.e. increased risk for breast/testicular cancer, insulin rejection, etc.) can be better averted. After careful analysis of reports from a wide range of persons all over the world, increased television viewing time was shown to be associated with a higher intake of fatty foods, a higher BMI, and in turn higher leptin levels. These high leptin levels predisposed the child to early puberty and the most effective way to treat this proved to be providing a detailed prescription outlining how to cut down on television and poor food habits in order to maintain healthy growth.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/uresposters/1092/thumbnail.jp

The Tarbiyah Movement: Why People Join This Indonesian Contemporary Islamic Movement

This study seeks to explain the reasons behind people's participation in the Tarbiyah Movement in Indonesia. Although this movement has had phenomenal political and social achievements, it appears to be exclusive in the sense that it is dominated by a certain type of Indonesian Muslim. That is, as observed by the likes of Bahtiar Effendy, the core participants of the Tarbiyah Movement tend to be Muslims who are young and well-educated. This does not mean, however, that all those who fit this description join the Tarbiyah Movement. In fact, there are many of those with the same characteristics who not only do not participate in the movement but even oppose of it.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v13i2.56

Implementation of Mediation and Hakam in Divorce Case in Religious Court

The resolution of divorce cases in the Religious Courts is still more dominant in the orientation of the litigation process than the non-litigation process, even though the spirit of suppressing the increase in the divorce rate from year to year is one of the missions that the Religious Courts want to achieve. Mediation institutions are actually established to encourage the realization of these ideals, but the results are still far from adequate. In fact, there are other ways in Islamic law that are believed to be effective in reducing the divorce rate, namely hakam. Unfortunately the rights have not been maximally applied by judges in resolving divorce cases at the Religious Court

Constitutional court and constitutional economy: A study on decisions of Indonesian constitutional court

Indonesian constitutional court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of statutes. This paper focuses on the study on the decisions of the Constitutional court in judicial review cases concerning legal issues of economic system as promulgated in article 33 of the Constitution. Study on the decisions on the cases of electricity law, water law and oil and gas law shows how the Constitutional court take part in economic policy. It is argued that constitutional interpretation of judges upon the question of economy converges at the following issue: the role of state in economic system; the meaning of welfare state; and economic market and interrelation among them. However, in broader perspective, the role of constitutional court raise more general questions about the interrelations of law (constitution) and economics and the role of economic reasoning in judicial review

THE USE OF AUTHENTIC TEACHING MATERIALS TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION (A Classroom Action Research in SMP Muhamadiyah 8 Surakarta of the Academic Year 2008/2009)

Salman Alfarisi K2202046: THE USE OF AUTHENTIC TEACHING MATERIALS TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION (A Classroom Action Research in SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Surakarta of the Academic Year 2008/2009). Teacher Training and Education Faculty. Sebelas Maret University. 2010. This study is based on the problem that was the low reading comprehension of the 8th grade students of SMP Muhamadiyah 8 Surakarta of the Academic Year 2008/2009. It is focused on improving students’ reading comprehension through the use of authentic teaching materials. The researcher conducted classroom action research from July to September 2009. The subject of this research is the students of class VIII A of SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Surakarta of the Academic Year 2008/2009. The researcher conducted the teaching learning activities in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four steps: planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. In cycle one, the researcher applied authentic materials in order to drag the students interested in reading so that they enjoyed in their reading class. By enjoying the reading, their reading comprehension might increase. In this cycle, the students’ reading comprehension increased but not optimally yet. Moreover, there were still problems that arose in this cycle. For example: some students still got difficulties in finding the main idea, they got difficulties to find out the appropriate meaning of words, and they still failed to find any informations from the text. In cycle two, the researcher tried to solve the previous problems by focusing on the teaching materials given and adding the medium in the teaching learning process, which was group discussion. In this cycle, the researcher was able to solve the problems. From the explanation above the researcher concluded that after he conducted the actions the students’ reading comprehension increased optimally. Before he conducted the actions the mean score of the pre-test was 55.5, and after doing the actions the mean score of the post-test was 77.6. The result of the research showed that after implementing the authentic teaching materials, the students’ level of interest in the reading class increased. Finally, their reading comprehension improved well

A New Quantum Data Processing Inequality

Quantum data processing inequality bounds the set of bipartite states that can be generated by two far apart parties under local operations; Having access to a bipartite state as a resource, two parties cannot locally transform it to another bipartite state with a mutual information greater than that of the resource state. But due to the additivity of quantum mutual information under tensor product, the data processing inequality gives no bound when the parties are provided with arbitrary number of copies of the resource state. In this paper we introduce a measure of correlation on bipartite quantum states, called maximal correlation, that is not additive and gives the same number when computed for multiple copies. Then by proving a data processing inequality for this measure, we find a bound on the set of states that can be generated under local operations even when an arbitrary number of copies of the resource state is available.Comment: 12 pages, fixed an error in the statement of Theorem 2 (thanks to Dong Yang