MANAJEMEN PONDOK PESANTREN AL-ISMAILIYUN DALAM KEGIATAN DAKWAH DI MASYARAKAT DESA SUKADAMAI KECAMATAN NATAR LAMPUNG SELATAN

Sistem belajar “Pondok Pesantren” sudah menjadi tradisi masyarakat sukadamai semenjak dibukannya tanah perkampungan Sukadamai sampai sekarang. Pondok pesantren Al-Ismailiyun merupakan lembaga Dakwah yang memiliki pengaruh besar dalam Kegiatan Dakwah kepada masyarakat, nuansa keagamaan di Desa Sukadamai juga masih terasa sangat kental, dan pondok pesantren Al-Ismailiyun telah menjadi bagian dari masyarakat sukadamai yang istiqomah dalam menjaga dan melestarikan nilai-nilai Islam dan budaya religious. Kegiatan Dakwah yang dilakukan di pondok pesantren Al-Ismailiyun mengajak masyarakat sukadamai ke arah yang lebih baik, sehingga masyarakat sukadamai merespon, mendukung, dan memberikan support dengan kegiatan Dakwah yang dilakukan pondok pesantren al-ismailiyun. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui Manajemen Pondok Pesantren Al-Ismailiyun dalam Kegiatan Dakwah di Masyarakat Desa Sukadamai. Berdasarkan tempat penelitian, penelitian yang dilakukan penulis merupakan penelitian lapangan (Field Research). Penelitian ini bersifat Deskriptif. Adapun yang menjadi populasi dalam penelitian adalah berjumlah 3.500 orang. Teknik pengambilan sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah teknik non random sampling, dalam penelitian ini penulis mengambil 10 % dari jumlah populasi 350 orang, sedangkan informan dalam penelitian ini, yaitu: 1 orang pimpinan pondok pesantren, 3 ustadz pondok pesantren, 2 orang (Tokoh agama & Tokoh masyarakat). Metode pengumpulan Data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan Wawancara, Observasi, Dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data menggunakan model Miles dan Huberman yaitu: Reduksi Data, Model data ( data display), penarikan/verifikasi kesimpulan. Manajemen pondok pesantren AlIsmailiyun dalam kegiatan dakwah di masyarakat dilakukan melalui fungsi manajemen yaitu perencanaan seperti membagi wewenang dan tugas terhadap ustadz pondok pesantren dalam melaksanakan kewajiban, lalu pengorganisasian dengan mengelompokan kegiatan dakwah yang sudah direncanakan, selanjutnya pelaksanaan kegiatan di masyarakat berbentuk safari ramadhan, pengajian thoriqoh, rutinan sholawatan, gebyar ismailiyun scout festival, pengajian peringatan hari besar islam, wisuda sarjana, zakat, dan fungsi pengawasan dengan ditemukannya beberapa faktor pendukung dan penghambat

Development of a mechanism to facilitate the safety stock planning configuration in ERP

Safety stock planning in ERP in general is dependent upon the planner having the experience to simulate planning scenarios. This paper focuses on the development of a mechanism to calculate adequate safety stocks in accordance with required service levels while enabling efficient configuration of the ERP safety stock parameters. The proposed mechanism could be of great benefit to industrial firms as it offers the ability to classify demand patterns, proposes replenishment strategies that are consistent with the demand profile, calculates key parameters and identifies the changes required to the ERP master data. The associated real world application is able to identify potential to save approximately £1.2 M in stock reductions and, more importantly, allows targeted actions to be implemented at material level. These results demonstrated that the proposed mechanism can be considered as a valuable new development for manufacturing industry to gain the competitive advantage

Iron chelators inhibit amyloid-beta-induced production of lipocalin 2 in cultured astrocytes

Lipocalin 2 (Lcn2) has been implicated to play a role in various neurodegenerative diseases, and normalizing its overexpression may be of therapeutic potential. Iron chelators were found to reduce Lcn2 levels in certain animal models of CNS injury. Focusing on Alzheimer's disease (AD), we found that the iron chelators deferoxamine and deferiprone inhibited amyloid-β (Aβ)-induced Lcn2 production in cultured primary astrocytes. Accordingly, Aβ-exposure increased astrocytic ferritin production, indicating the possibility that Aβ induces iron accumulation in astrocytes. This effect was not significantly modulated by Lcn2. Known neuroprotective effects of iron chelators may rely in part on normalization of Lcn2 levels

Living in the past, present, and future: measuring temporal orientation with language

OBJECTIVE: Temporal orientation refers to individual differences in the relative emphasis one places on the past, present, or future, and is related to academic, financial, and health outcomes. We propose and evaluate a method for automatically measuring temporal orientation through language expressed on social media. METHOD: Judges rated the temporal orientation of 4,302 social media messages. We trained a classifier based on these ratings, which could accurately predict the temporal orientation of new messages in a separate validation set (accuracy/mean sensitivity = .72; mean specificity = .77). We used the classifier to automatically classify 1.3 million messages written by 5,372 participants (50% female, aged 13-48). Finally, we tested whether individual differences in past, present, and future orientation differentially related to gender, age, Big Five personality, satisfaction with life, and depressive symptoms. RESULTS: Temporal orientations exhibit several expected correlations with age, gender, and Big Five personality. More future-oriented people were older, more likely to be female, more conscientious, less impulsive, less depressed, and more satisfied with life; present orientation showed the opposite pattern. CONCLUSION: Language-based assessments can complement and extend existing measures of temporal orientation, providing an alternative approach and additional insights into language and personality relationships. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Support for this article was provided by grant #63597 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (M. E. P. Seligman, PI) and by a grant from the Templeton Religion Trust (M.E.P. Seligman, H. A. Schwartz, L. H. Ungar, co-PIs)

Retirement and cognition: A life course view

This study examines the relationship between retirement and cognitive aging. We build on previous research by exploring how different specifications of retirement that reflect diverse pathways out of the labor market, including reason for leaving the pre-retirement job and duration spent in retirement, impact three domains of cognitive functioning. We further assess how earlylife factors, including adolescent cognition, and mid-life work experiences, condition these relationships. To do so, we draw on longitudinal data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a cohort study of Wisconsin high school graduates collected prospectively starting in 1957 until most recently in 2011 when individuals were aged 71. Results indicate that retirement, on average, is associated with improved abstract reasoning, but not with verbal memory or verbal fluency. Yet, when accounting for the reason individuals left their pre-retirement job, those who had retired for health reasons had both lower verbal memory and verbal fluency scores and those who had retired voluntarily or for family reasons had improved abstract memory scores. Together, the results suggest that retirement has an inconsistent effect on cognitive aging across cognitive domains and that the conditions surrounding the retirement decision are important to understanding cognitive functioning at older ages

Incidence of mild cognitive impairment in World Trade Center responders: Long-term consequences of re-experiencing the events on 9/11/2001

Objective: This study examined whether World Trade Center (WTC) exposures and chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were associated with incidence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in a longitudinal analysis of a prospective cohort study of WTC responders. Methods: Incidence of MCI was assessed in a clinical sample of WTC responders (N = 1800) who were cognitively intact at baseline assessment. Crude incidence rates were calculated and compared to population estimates using standardized incidence ratios. Multivariable analyses used Cox proportional-hazards regression. Results: Responders were 53.1 years old (SD = 7.9) at baseline. Among eligible cognitively intact responders, 255 (14.2%) developed MCI at follow-up. Incidence of MCI was higher than expected based on expectations from prior published research. Incidence was higher among those with increased PTSD symptom severity, and prolonged exposure was a risk factor in apolipoprotein-ε4 carriers. Conclusions: PTSD and prolonged WTC exposures were associated with increased incidence of MCI in WTC responders, results that may portend future high rates of dementia in WTC-exposed responders

A Workshop on Cognitive Aging and Impairment in the 9/11-Exposed Population

The terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 potentially exposed more than 400,000 responders, workers, and residents to psychological and physical stressors, and numerous hazardous pollutants. In 2011, the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP) was mandated to monitor and treat persons with 9/11-related adverse health conditions and conduct research on physical and mental health conditions related to the attacks. Emerging evidence suggests that persons exposed to 9/11 may be at increased risk of developing mild cognitive impairment. To investigate further, the WTCHP convened a scientific workshop that examined the natural history of cognitive aging and impairment, biomarkers in the pathway of neurodegenerative diseases, the neuropathological changes associated with hazardous exposures, and the evidence of cognitive decline and impairment in the 9/11-exposed population. Invited participants included scientists actively involved in health-effects research of 9/11-exposed persons and other at-risk populations. Attendees shared relevant research results from their respective programs and discussed several options for enhancements to research and surveillance activities, including the development of a multi-institutional collaborative research network. The goal of this report is to outline the meeting’s agenda and provide an overview of the presentation materials and group discussion

The routinisation of management controls in software.

Author's post-print version. Final version published by Springer; available online at http://link.springer.com/Our paper aims to explore management control as complex and intertwining process over time, rather than the (mainstream) fixation on rational, optimising tools for ensuring business success. We set out to contribute towards our understanding of why and how particular management controls evolve over time as they do. We discuss how the management control routines of one organisation emerged and reproduced (through software), and moved towards a situation of becoming accepted and generally unquestioned across much of the industry. The creativity and championing of one particular person was found to be especially important in this unfolding change process. Our case study illuminates how management control (software) routines can be an important carrier of organisational knowledge, both as an engine for continuity but also potentially as a catalyst for change. We capture this process by means of exploring the ‘life-story’ of a piece of software that is adopted in the corrugated container industry