STRATEGI MINDSET ENGLISH CENTER PAREPARE PERSPEKTIF MANAJEMEN SYARIAH

This research is a qualitative research using a sociological normative approach. Data were collected using observation and interview methods. Data analysis technique used is to reduce data, present data and draw conclusions. The results of this study can be stated that 1) Strategic planning of the Parepare English Center Mindset can help, assist and ease the cost of English courses. 2) Implementation of the Parepare Mind Center English Center strategy, which means that participants can make payments easier. 3) Evaluate the Parepare Mind Center English Center strategy to run effectively and efficiently. If this is related to sharia management, it is in accordance with the principles of sharia management, namely justice, trustworthiness and accountability, as well as communicative.Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif menggunakan pendekatan normatif sosiologis dan dalam mengumpulkan data menggunakan metode observasi dan wawancara. Tekhnik analisis data yang digunakan yaitu dengan mereduksi data, menyajikan data dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian ini dapat dikemukakan bahwa 1) Perencanaan strategi Mindset English Center Parepare dapat menolong, membantu dan meringankan biaya kursus Bahasa Inggris. 2) Implementasi strategi Mindset English Center Parepare yakni peserta dimudahkan dalam pembayaran. 3) Evaluasi strategi Mindset English Center Parepare berjalan efektif dan efisien. Jika hal ini dikaitkan dengan manajemen syariah maka hal ini sesuai dengan prinsip-prinsip manajemen syariah yakni keadilan, amanah dan pertanggungjawaban serta komunikati

The "water-specific PPP risk model"

Risk assessment is one of the key success factors of public-private partnerships (PPP) water projects. Factors such as utility condition problems, unsustainable increase in water supply requirements, socio-technical issues and changes in government policies can cause such capital-intensive projects to overrun planned budget and schedule allocations. Where the project is a commercial asset, delayed completion time and cost overruns usually have significant impact on the profitability of the project as well as the estimated returns on investment over the operational phase of the project. Understanding the specific risks involved in PPP water projects can be very crucial in designing containment measures to deal with their likely impact on the projects. Through the combination of review of literature and questionnaires, different risk elements in PPP water projects were first identified. The identified elements were then rated and prioritized using the Analytical Network Process (ANP) to demonstrate the complex interactions among those risks and to establish the most salient Value-for-Money (VFM) variables on PPP water projects. The outcome of this research is an innovative ANP-based model known as the “Water-Specific PPP Risk Model” that offers a platform to incorporate tangible and intangible risk variables into a risk assessment process in water infrastructure projects

The affects of caching in browser stage on the performance of web items delivery

Network congestion remains one of the main barriers to the continuing success of the Internet. Caching is a way to reduce traffic load on the server and network backbone, which improves the efficiency and scalability of web items delivery. Caching in computer networks might be performed in different stages. In this article, we investigate the load that web pages can put on a network and how caching can reduce the bandwidth requirements. This article concludes that caching in browser stage improves the delivery of web items

PERAN HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT (HRD) DALAM MENINGKATKAN COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE KARYAWAN PADA BTN SYARIAH KCPS PAREPARE

The purpose of this study was to determine the role of Human Resources Development in increasing the Competitive Advantage of employees at BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare. The formulation of this problem is (1) What is the role of HRD for employees of BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare?, (2) what steps are taken by HRD in increasing the competitive advantage of employees of Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare?. The research method used is descriptive qualitative research to explain the implementation of the dual banking system at Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare. This research will be conducted at Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare. Primary data sources are bank employees as financing analysts and secondary data sources are relevant research journals. Data collection techniques are the methods of observation, interviews and documentation. Data analysis using Miles and Huberman, namely reduction, data display and conclusion drawing/verification. The results of the study show (1) The role of HRD in Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare employees is very important, because with the existence of HRD the bank can more easily manage its employees, because it can organize, assess, provide training, and develop employees. Without HRD, the organization or bank will not run because HRD is the liaison between employees and the company. (2) The steps taken by HRD in improving its employees at Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare are starting from looking for and selecting employees who are considered outstanding, providing training to employees who excel, so that employees are better trained with new things, so that able to develop new ideas or new innovations that can increase employee competitiveness. Keywords: The role of HRD, HRD in increasing the Competitive Advantage of EmployeesTujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui Peran Human Resources Develpment dalam meningkatkan Competitive Advantage  karyawan pada BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare. Rumusan masalah ini yaitu (1) Bagaimana peran HRD pada karyawan BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare?, (2) langkah-langkah apa yang dilakukan HRD dalam meningkatkan Competitif advantage karyawan Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare?. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah jenis penelitian kualitatif deskriptif untuk menjelaskan penerapan dual banking system pada Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare. Penelitian ini akan dilakukan di Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare. Sumber data primer adalah pihak karyawan bank selaku analis pembiayaan dan sumber data sekunder yakni jurnal penelitian relevan. Teknik pengumpulan data yakni dengan metode observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Analisis data menggunakan Miles dan Huberman, yaitu reduction, data display dan conclusion drawing/verification. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan (1) Peranan HRD pada karyawan Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare sangatlah penting, karena dengan adanya HRD bank dapat lebih mudah dalam mengatur karyawannya, karena dapat mengatur, menilai, memberi pelatihan, dan mengembangkan karyawan. Tanpa adanya HRD maka organisasi atau bank tersebut tidak akan tidak berjalan karena HRD adalah penghubung bagi karyawan dan perusahaan. (2) Langkah-langkah yang dilakukan HRD dalam meningkatkan karyawannya pada Bank BTN Syariah KCPS Parepare yakni mulai dari mencari kemudian menyeleksi karyawan yang dianggap berprestasi, memberikan pelatihan-pelatihan pada karyawan yang berprestasi tersebut, sehingga karyawan lebih  terlatih dengan hal-hal baru, sehingga mampu mengembangkan ide-ide baru atau minovasi baru yang dapat meningkatkan daya saing karyawan. Kata Kunci: Peran HRD, HRD dalam meningkatkan Competitif Advantage Karyawan        &nbsp

Microplankton (including dinoflagellate and foraminifera) in the South China Sea, Area I: Gulf of Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia

Joint collaborative research surveys in the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea around the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia during the pre northeast monsoon (4 September - 4 October, 1995) and the post northeast monsoon (24 April - 17 May, 1996) periods were carried out on board the MV SEAFDEC. The microplankton from the sampling stations consisted of more than 205 taxa consisting predominantly of blue green algae (2 species), diatoms (> 120 species), dinoflagellates (> 80 species) and microzooplankton (> 30 groups). The dominant diatom species comprised of Chaetoceros lorenzianum,C. coastatum, Thalassionema frauenfeldii, Skeletonema costatum, Pleurosigma elongatum, Bacteriastrum comosun, Bacillaria paxillifera, Coscinodiscus jonesianus and Rhizosolenia calcar-avis. The genera Chaetoceros, Rhizosolenia, Coscinodiscus, Bacteriastrum and Ceratium were found to contain a wide range of species. Skeletonema bloom (1.12 x 106/m3; 47% of the total cell count) occurred around the Johore waters of the South China Sea. Dinoflagellate was also present during the premonsoon period, especially in offshore waters of the Gulf of Thailand and Terengganu nearshore waters of the South China Sea. The microzooplankton consisted of more than 30 species dominated by copepod nauplii while the foraminifera consisted mainly of the Globigerina species. The diversity index (H) and evenness index (J) values were usually high at stations near to the coast

A method for group formation using genetic algorithm

Due to the increasing of complexity in software projects, group work is becoming more important in order to ensure quality software products can be delivered on time.Thus, in universities, group work is seen as a good preparation for students to enter industry because by working in group, it can reduce the individual workload, improve the ability to manage a project and enhance the problem solving skills. However, due to lack of programming skills especially in Java programming language, most of the students’ software project cannot be delivered successfully.To solve this problem, systematic group formation is one of the initial factors that should be considered to ensure that every group consists of quality individuals who are good in programming.This paper presents a method for group formation using genetic algorithm, where the members for each group will be generated based on the students’ programming skill

A Visual Analysis of a Malaysian English School Textbook: Gender Matters

AbstractIn the Malaysian education system, attention is highly paid on reading words. Visual images are often treated as “decoration”, or are dismissed altogether (Kress & Leeuwen, 1996). Many local researchers (Saedah 1990, Bahiyah et al., 2008) have only analysed written texts to see how social practices deemed negative such as gender biasness are reflected in the words (lexical items) and linguistic structures. Currently, no systematic research has been undertaken in Malaysia to analyse visual images in English language school textbooks to study how visual images can reflect gender biasness. This research project addresses gender biasness found in visual images in school textbooks, i.e., the treatment of one gender over the other especially of women and girls. The project adopts three widely used approaches for analyzing visual images; content, socio semiotic and ethno-methodology analyses. This paper will however highlight its preliminary analysis focusing on image analysis based on participation, gender and representational meanings. Its aim is to identify the types of images and the representation of gender biasness and stereotyping found in the textbook. The preliminary findings should expose the sexism and gender biasness in the visual images of a sampled textbook; i.e. an English school textbook that is abound with visual images that sometimes, more so than written texts, can articulate more forcefully social and cultural meanings

Intelligent cooperative web caching policies for media objects based on J48 decision tree and Naive bayes supervised machine learning algorithms in structured peer-to-peer systems

Web caching plays a key role in delivering web items to end users in World Wide Web (WWW).On the other hand, cache size is considered as a limitation of web caching.Furthermore, retrieving the same media object from the origin server many times consumes the network bandwidth. Furthermore, full caching for media objects is not a practical solution and consumes cache storage in keeping few media objects because of its limited capacity. Moreover, traditional web caching policies such as Least Recently Used (LRU), Least Frequently Used (LFU), and Greedy Dual Size (GDS) suffer from caching pollution (i.e. media objects that are stored in the cache are not frequently visited which negatively affects on the performance of web proxy caching). In this work, intelligent cooperative web caching approaches based on J48 decision tree and Naïve Bayes (NB) supervised machine learning algorithms are presented. The proposed approaches take the advantages of structured peer-to-peer systems where the contents of peers’ caches are shared using Distributed Hash Table (DHT) in order to enhance the performance of the web caching policy. The performance of the proposed approaches is evaluated by running a trace-driven simulation on a dataset that is collected from IRCache network. The results demonstrate that the new proposed policies improve the performance of traditional web caching policies that are LRU, LFU, and GDS in terms of Hit Ratio (HR) and Byte Hit Ratio (BHR). Moreover, the results are compared to the most relevant and state-of-the-art web proxy caching policies. Ratio (HR) and Byte Hit Ratio (BHR). Moreover, the results are compared to the most relevant and state-of-the-art web proxy caching policies