Evaluasi Pemanfaatan Koleksi (Suatu Studi Di Badan Perpustakaan Arsip Dan Dokumentasi Provinsi Sulawesi Utara)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimanakah tingkat pemanfaatan koleksi buku di Badan Perpustakaan Arsip dan Dokumentasi Provinsi Sulawesi Utara. Penelitian ini merupakan jenis penelitian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Populasi dalam penelitian ini sebesar 120 pengguna perpustakaan dalam waktu satu 1 minggu. Sementara jumlah sampel sebesar 22 pengguna perpustakaan. Metode pengambilan data dengan menggunakan kuesioner dan studi kepustakaan. Teknik analisis data menggunakan distribusi frekuensi. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa tingkat pemanfaatan koleksi di Badan Perpustakaan Arsip dan Dokumentasi Provinsi Sulawesi Utara termasuk tinggi, Pada faktor internal motiv pengguna memanfaatkan koleksi buku karena untuk menambah wawasan sangat tinggi, sebesar 72.72% “Sangat Setuju” dan 27.27% “Setuju”. Sedangkan yang “Tidak Setuju” dan “Sangat Tidak Setuju” adalah 0%. Pada faktor internal minat pengguna merasa senang jika dapat memanfaatkan koleksi buku termasuk tinggi, sebesar 63.63% “Sangat Setuju” dan 31.81% “Setuju”. Sedangkan yang “Tidak Setuju” sebesar 4.54% dan yang “Sangat Tidak Setuju” 0%. Faktor internal kebutuhan pengguna memanfaatkan koleksi buku karena untuk menambah pengetahuan pengguna tentang suatu bidang tertentu juga termasuk tinggi, sebesar 77.27% “Sangat Setuju” dan 18.18% “Setuju”. Sedangkan yang “Tidak Setuju” sebesar 4.54% dan yang “Sangat Tidak Setuju” 0%. Pada faktor eksternal kelengkapan koleksi pengguna memanfaatkan koleksi buku karena dipengaruhi oleh kondisi fisik di perpustakaan bagus, rendah, sebesar 0% “Sangat Setuju” dan 36.36% “Setuju”. Sedangkan yang “Tidak Setuju” sebesar 54.54% dan “Sangat Tidak Setuju” 9.09%. Pada faktor eksternal keterampilan pustakawan dalam melayani pengguna cukup tinggi, sebesar 31.81% “Sangat Setuju” dan 50% “Setuju”. Sedangkan yang 18.18% “Tidak Setuju” dan 0% yang “Tidak Setuju”. Dan pada faktor eksternal ketersediaan fasilitas temu kembali informasi pengguna memanfaatkan koleksi buku karena dipengaruhi oleh fasilitas penelusuran (katalog) yang sudah memudahkan dalam melakukan pencarian koleksi buku juga cukup tinggi, sebesar 9.09% “Sangat Setuju” dan 68.18% “Setuju”. Sedangkan yang 22.72% “Tidak Setuju” dan 0% yang “Tidak Setuju”

The Urban Food Question in the Context of Inequality and Dietary Change: A Study of Schoolchildren in Accra

Diets are changing globally, as agricultural and food systems have become globalised. Understanding how patterns of globalisation affect welfare is a key development question, but we know little about the way that the globalisation of food systems impacts different groups. This study explores food security and consumption among schoolchildren in Accra. We use a novel approach based on triangulation of primary data on food consumption and a synthesis of secondary literature on food trade, policy and urban food environment. Thus, we bridge a divide between micro-level analyses of food consumption and macro-level studies of food systems. We find that socio-economic status is a critical dimension, with poorer children more vulnerable to food insecurity and narrow dietary diversity. However, the consumption of packaged and processed foods, often sugar-rich and nutrient-poor, cuts across wealth groups. We argue that the urban food question today is defined by two intersecting phenomena: inequality and dietary change. The urban poor continue to face the fundamental challenge of adequate food access amidst a food environment that provides consumers with unhealthy and cheap food options. Therefore, food policy needs to regulate imports of cheap, unhealthy and enticing food

'Better decisions for food security? Critical reflections on the economics of food choice and decision-making in development economics

With malnutrition recognised as a key public health issue, attention has been placed on how individuals can make better decisions to attain food and nutrition security. Nevertheless, food practice entails a complex set of decisions that are not fully understood. This paper interrogates the focus on food choice by investigating how socio-economic relations shape practices of food provisioning. Given the surge of behavioural approaches in development economics and our focus on a middle-income country, we contextualise food choice in the transformations of the conceptualisations of decision-making in development economics. We draw on mixed-method evidence on food consumption practices among schoolchildren in Accra, Ghana. We find that the food decision-making process is complex in that it entails multiple moments and people, and embodies contradictory motivations. Decisions are negotiated outcomes reflecting social relations of power among the actors involved. Socio-economic inequality fragments the urban food environment and material living conditions. Furthermore, the concentration of capital gives the food industry the power to shape material and cultural relations to food in ways that extraordinarily limit the scope for individual choice. This is a critical case study to understand the contemporary dynamics of malnutrition in the urban Global South, with broader relevance for the analysis of food poverty elsewhere

Employers’ responses to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: Revisiting the evidence

Do employers have a role to play to support people living with HIV? The literature on sub-Saharan Africa points to the existence of a positive business case that sees firms as incentivised to provide HIV-related services to HIV positive workers4. However, the evidence is narrow and incomplete, with the business case holding for a limited number of formal sector skilled workers, leaving out the majority of people living with HIV. If employers are to play a role, policy makers need to create conducive conditions for positive responses, in addition to – not in replacement of – strengthening public health care systems

Studi Financial Distress pada Perusahaan Perbankan di Bei

Financial Distress is a condition where the company unable to fulfill their obligation. Big scale effect on the banking system would cause monetary crisis which leads to economic crisis. This study is meant to analyzed CAMEL(S) ratio predicting the probability of Financial Distress occured on banks that are listed at IDX 2010-2015 period. This research population are banks that are listed at IDX 2010-2015 period, which there are 30 banks. Samples are taken with purposive sampling which there are 28 banks are being used for further analysis. The method that were taken to analyze are logistic regression. The result of the study showed that only BOPO and ROA are capable significantly to predict the probability of Financial Distress occured on bank. On the otherhand CAR, NPL and log of total asset are unsignificantly to predict the prbability of financial distress

Review: Time Use as an Explanation for the Agri-Nutrition Disconnect: Evidence from Rural Areas in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Time is a vital input into nutritional outcomes, as it is necessary for the production, procurement and preparation of food, child feeding and childcare. Thus, agricultural interventions may fail to improve nutritional outcomes if they do not take account of time constraints, particularly of rural women who spend a considerable portion of their time in agriculture. Given the potential trade-offs pertaining to time in productive vs. reproductive activities and its implications for maternal and child nutrition, the goal of this review is to systematically map and assess the available evidence, both qualitative and quantitative studies, agriculture-time use-nutrition pathway. Through an analysis of 89 studies, identified through a systematic search, on rural areas of low and middle-income countries, we observe three findings. First, women play a key role in agriculture, as reflected in their time commitments. Second, evidence from a very limited set of studies suggests that agricultural interventions tend to increase time commitments in agriculture of the household members for whom impact is measured. Third, while changing time use tends to change nutritional outcomes, it does so in a range of complex ways and there is no agreement on the impact. Nutritional impacts are varied because households and household members respond to increased time burden and workload in different ways

STRUCTURE POPULATION OF PINE WOOLLY ADELGIDS (Hemiptera : Adelgidae) IN PERUM PERHUTANI UNIT III, WEST JAVA AND BANTEN, KPH SUMEDANG

Pinus boerneri as Pine Woolly Adelgids, emergence rapidly around Pinus Plantation in Indonesia has been reported since last decade. This pest causing dieback, defoliated branches, and even death to the tree. The aim of this study to investigate the population structure of pine wooly adelgid attack in Pine forest (Pinus merkusii) in Perum Perhutani Unit III, West Java and Banten, KPH Sumedang. This research important as consideration about the distribution of pine wooly adelgid stages in presumtive level of consequential damage. There were three part of Pine twigs (crown, middle, and lower) from 18 trees that positively attacked being collected. Later on, twigs diameter and number of each pine woolly adelgids stages (egg, nymph and imago) from every twigs part been observed. Result shows that imago as the dominant stage that infested in Pine forest in Perum Perhutani Unit III, KPH Sumedang. Damage level that effect by P. boerneri devided into two categories light infested and heavy infested.Key words : Hemiptera, Pine Woolly Adelgid, P. boerneri, Pest, P. merkusi

The limits of instrumentalism: Informal work and gendered cycles of food insecurity in Mozambique

The instrumentalist literature suggests that women can help achieve household food security if they have access to productive resources but do not become overburdened as a result. This paper seeks to assess the relevance of this literature by exploring the gendered cycles of food insecurity in the context of women’s informal labour in northern Mozambique. It considers the relation between women and food security as embedded in the broader socio-economic setting, and finds that the interaction of different forms of deprivation, such as lack of secure employment and conflicting labour demands, generates food insecurity