389 research outputs found
Analisis Sikap Konsumen terhadap Atribut Sabun Mandi Biasa di Kota YOGYAKARTA (Studi pada Merek Lux dan Giv)
The study has as its rationale the fact that there are numerous brands of bath soap in the market. The changes of consumer behavior, which influenced by the economy crisis occurred in Indonesia, has suppressed the producers to readjust their marketing programs. It is crucial for the firms to recognize the consumer attitudes on their products in making their marketing programs. The study was aimed at understanding: (1) the consumer attitudes on the bath soaps' (i.e., Lux and Giv brands) attributes, (2) the influence of the consumer's social environment toward the subjective norm in making the purchasing decision on the Lux and Giv, (3) the differential of consumers attitudes on the Lux and Giv. Interview and questionnaire were used to collect data, by using the semantic differential scale method. Fishbein model and Wilcoxon's signed rank test were applied to test the study's results. Results of the study showed that: (1) there was a positive attitude of consumer on both the Lux and Giv. âAromaâ, whereas âprestigeâ had the lowest positive score for the Giv; (2) the consumer's social environment influenced the subjective norms of consumer in making the purchasing decision of the Lux and Giv. âFamily membersâ was the dominant variable of both the Lux and Giv; (3) there were the differences in the consumer attitude between the Lux and Giv brands. By the differential test for each attribute, then, it was showed that there were the significant differences in the consumer attitude on the product's attributes, except for the âpackagingâ. Based on the study results and empirical evidences supported by the statistical testing, it is showed that the two bath soap brands have dominate the consumer's mind. Nevertheless, in making their purchasing decision, the consumers have the difference attitudes in assesing those two brands depends on their desires
Analisis Sikap Konsumen terhadap Atribut Sabun Mandi Biasa di Kota Yogyakarta
The study has as its rationale the fact that there are numerous brands of bath soap in the market. The changes of consumer behavior, which influenced by the economy crisis occurred in Indonesia, has suppressed the producers to readjust their marketing programs. It is crucial for the firms to recognize the consumer attitudes on their products in making their marketing programs. The study was aimed at understanding: (1) the consumer attitudes on the bath soaps (i.e., Lux and Giv brands) attributes, (2) the influence of the consumers social environment toward the subjective norm in making the purchasing decision on the Lux and Giv, (3) the differential of consumers attitudes on the Lux and Giv. Interview and questionnaire were used to collect data, by using the semantic differential scale method. Fishbein model and Wilcoxons signed rank test were applied to test the studys results. Results of the study showed that: (1) there was a positive attitude of consumer on both the Lux and Giv. Aroma, whereas prestige had the lowest positive score for the Giv; (2) the consumers social environment influenced the subjective norms of consumer in making the purchasing decision of the Lux and Giv. Family members was the dominant variable of both the Lux and Giv; (3) there were the differences in the consumer attitude between the Lux and Giv brands. By the differential test for each attribute, then, it was showed that there were the significant differences in the consumer attitude on the products attributes, except for the packaging. Based on the study results and empirical evidences supported by the statistical testing, it is showed that the two bath soap brands have dominate the consumers mind. Nevertheless, in making their purchasing decision, the consumers have the difference attitudes in assesing those two brands depends on their desires. Keywords : consumer behavior, bath soap attribute
Analisis Variabel Keberhasilan Kud (Studi Kasus di Kud Kabupaten Musi Banyuasin, Sumatera Selatan)
The aims of this research are to determine (1) the effect of variables to the success of cooperation in achieving an autonomous village cooperative; (2) to determine which of the seven variables has the strongest effect on the success of the village cooperative. This research was mainly on the village cooperatives running in providing food and distributing production tools such as fertilizer, pesticide, prime seeds, and so on, in the Musi Banyuasin regency, South Sumatra province. The research location was determined based on the fact that the Musi Banyuasin Regency is one of the regencies located in South Sumatera which succeeded in developing the autonomous village cooperative. Sampling was applied to the village cooperatives which had been operating for more than two years and had corporate body at the time of investigation. As many as 47 autonomous village cooperatives were selected from the 147 available in the Musi Banyuasin regency. A village cooperative is considered autonomous if it has fulfilled the 13 criteria of the Department of Cooperative. To measure the success of the cooperative, several indicators are used, they are Profit Margin, Liquidity Ratio, and Solvability Ratio. The variables influencing the success of the village cooperative in becoming an autonomous cooperative are member's participation, operation volume, the board's education, board's experience, capital growth, business variation and service of the village cooperative involved. The regression and regression coefficient test simultaneously showed highly significant influence on the indicators of profit margin, liquidity and solvability. This means that the suggested variables statistically determined toward the success of the village cooperative. The t-significance at a=1% showed that two variables highly influenced the success of the village cooperative, they were the operation volume and capital growth. This fulfils the autonomous cooperative criteria: the total operation volume has to be in proportion with the number of members and the capital equity has to be at least 25 million rupiah. This indicates that the core of success for the village cooperative rests on the operation volume and the capital growth: the higher the operation volume and capital growth, the better the marketing and financial performance of the village cooperative. From the management handling perspective, it is indicated that the higher the board's education and the longer the experience, the higher the success of the village cooperative
Information content of note transitions in the music of J. S. Bach
Music has a complex structure that expresses emotion and conveys information.
Humans process that information through imperfect cognitive instruments that
produce a gestalt, smeared version of reality. How can we quantify the
information contained in a piece of music? Further, what is the information
inferred by a human, and how does that relate to (and differ from) the true
structure of a piece? To tackle these questions quantitatively, we present a
framework to study the information conveyed in a musical piece by constructing
and analyzing networks formed by notes (nodes) and their transitions (edges).
Using this framework, we analyze music composed by J. S. Bach through the lens
of network science and information theory. Regarded as one of the greatest
composers in the Western music tradition, Bach's work is highly mathematically
structured and spans a wide range of compositional forms, such as fugues and
choral pieces. Conceptualizing each composition as a network of note
transitions, we quantify the information contained in each piece and find that
different kinds of compositions can be grouped together according to their
information content and network structure. Moreover, we find that the music
networks communicate large amounts of information while maintaining small
deviations of the inferred network from the true network, suggesting that they
are structured for efficient communication of information. We probe the network
structures that enable this rapid and efficient communication of
information--namely, high heterogeneity and strong clustering. Taken together,
our findings shed new light on the information and network properties of Bach's
compositions. More generally, our framework serves as a stepping stone for
exploring musical complexities, creativity and the structure of information in
a range of complex systems.Comment: 22 pages, 13 figure; discussion in section IV and VII expanded,
references added, results unchange
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SEMI AUTOMATIC TRAILER STEERING MECHANISM
ABSTRACT The "Semi-Automatic Trailer Steering Mechanism" has been conceived having studied the difficulty in unloading the materials. Our survey in the regard in several automobile garages, revealed the facts that mostly some difficult methods were adopted in unloading the materials from the trailer. Now the project has mainly concentrated on this difficulty, and hence a suitable arrangement has been designed
Generalization of escape rate from a metastable state driven by external cross-correlated noise processes
We propose generalization of escape rate from a metastable state for
externally driven correlated noise processes in one dimension. In addition to
the internal non-Markovian thermal fluctuations, the external correlated noise
processes we consider are Gaussian, stationary in nature and are of
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type. Based on a Fokker-Planck description of the effective
noise processes with finite memory we derive the generalized escape rate from a
metastable state in the moderate to large damping limit and investigate the
effect of degree of correlation on the resulting rate. Comparison of the
theoretical expression with numerical simulation gives a satisfactory agreement
and shows that by increasing the degree of external noise correlation one can
enhance the escape rate through the dressed effective noise strength.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur
Analisis Ekonomi terhadap Struktur, Perilaku, dan Kinerja Pasar Pupuk di Jawa Timur (Kasus di Kabupaten Lumajang dan Kabupaten Ngawi)
The objectives of this research are: (1) to analyze the market structure of subsidizedfertilizer in East Java, (2) to analyze the need of subsidized fertilizer which should beallocated to their farms, (3) to observe the deviation, if any, of subsidized fertilizerdistribution along the distribution channel.This research found that the market struc-ture has the following characteristics: the access of market information is generallyquite even among distributors at the same level but not between different level. Fromthe market conduct point of view, it is found that there are rent seeking behaviorsresulting in some deviation in distribution channel as mentioned above. It is the resultof market structure being characterized by oligopolistic in nature. Such market struc-ture and conducts result in the level of fertilizer prices far above the highest retailprice set by the government, but farmers are forced to buy because they are in emer-gency need
Bacteriological profile of patients with biliary obstruction in tertiary care center
Background: Bile ducts are usually kept sterile by bacteriostatic and flushing effects of bile. Patients presenting with biliary obstruction especially due to benign etiology have either single or multiple bacterial organisms. Acute cholangitis carries significant morbidity with variable mortality rate. The serious presentation of such toxic patients signifies the requirement of appropriate antibiotic treatment. Choledocholithiasis followed by neoplasm and benign biliary strictures are the common predisposing factors for obstruction. Widespread use of antibiotics over years lead to change in sensitivity pattern of organisms which necessitates change in empiric antibiotic usage.
Methods: This retrospective study was conducted in department of medical gastroenterology. We studied 50 patients with biliary obstruction (clinical and demographic data were recorded). The diagnosis of cholangitis was made according to TG2018. While undergoing therapeutic ERCP, bile aspirate was collected by biliary cannulation and sent for microbiological analysis. The antibiotic susceptibility pattern and rest of the data were analyzed by appropriate statistical tests.
Results: Mean age of the study group was 49 years. Majority were female in study (60%). Overall, 74% had benign etiology, 32% had cholangitis. Bile cultures were positive in 64% patients 75% of them had benign etiology (gallstone being most common; 56%) and 25% had malignant etiology. Bacterobilia in cholangitis patients was statistically significant in comparison to patients without cholangitis (p-0.01). Organisms grown are mainly aerobic gram negative, most common being E. coli, Klebsiella and Pseudomonas species. Patients having bacterobilia had mortality of 6.25% during hospital stay.
Conclusions: In this study we found higher sensitivity to colistin (90.6%), tigecycline (81.25%), amikacin (75%) and least sensitivity was noted for ampicillin (6.25%) followed by cefixime (12.5%). Sensitivity to previously commonly used ciprofloxacin antibiotic was 31.25%. Study confirms the significance of obtaining routine bile sample during ERCP in obstructed biliary system to prevent dreaded complications of cholangitis
Accelerated generation of elite inbreds in maize using doubled haploid technology
The creation of homozygous parental lines for hybrid development is one of the key components of commercial maize breeding programs. It usually takes up to 6 to 7 generations of selfing to obtain homozygous inbreds from the initial cross using the conventional pedigree method. Using doubled haploid (DH) method, concurrent fixation of all the genes covering entire chromosomes is possible within a single generation. For generation of DH lines, haploids are generated first by several means such as in-vitro method using tissue culture technique and in-vivo method using the haploid inducer (HI) lines. Of which, tissue culture-based methods have shown little promise for large-scale DH production as it needs good infrastructures and technical requirements. In contrast, inducer-based method provides more optimistic solutions for large-scale DH lines production. Due to its rapidity, DH technology is now being adopted in many countries including India for reducing the breeding cycle
The Infrared Behavior of Gluon and Ghost Propagators in Landau Gauge QCD
A solvable systematic truncation scheme for the Dyson-Schwinger equations of
Euclidean QCD in Landau gauge is presented. It implements the Slavnov-Taylor
identities for the three-gluon and ghost-gluon vertices, whereas irreducible
four-gluon couplings as well as the gluon-ghost and ghost-ghost scattering
kernels are neglected. The infrared behavior of gluon and ghost propagators is
obtained analytically: The gluon propagator vanishes for small spacelike
momenta whereas the ghost propagator diverges stronger than a massless particle
pole. The numerical solutions are compared with recent lattice data for these
propagators. The running coupling of the renormalization scheme approaches a
fixed point, , in the infrared.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Revtex; revised version accepted for publication
in Physical Review Letter
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