Bakti Anak Keturunan Tionghoa Kepada Orang Tua di SMP Patria Dharma Kecamatan Tebing Tinggi Kabupaten Kepulauan Meranti

Formulation of the problem in this research is how high Consecrated children of Chinese descent in the District Patria Dharma Junior High Cliff Meranti Islands District. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of Consecrated children of Chinese descent in the District Patria Dharma Junior High Cliff Meranti Islands District. The benefits of this research can provide additional information to the parents about the efforts of parents to instill character values. This is a descriptive study with a quantitative approach. The population is 65 people. The samples in this study using a sample of Simple Random Sampling technique. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire containing 60 items of the statement of Consecrated children of Chinese descent in the District Patria Dharma Junior High Cliff Meranti Islands regency, with the indicator 1) receive advice, 2) pleasing to parents, 3) do not precede the elderly, 4) please parents, 5) facing parents who fall into error, and 6) taking care of the elderly sick to death. Alternative answers each item has a statement strongly agree categories (SS) was scored 5, agrees (S) was given a score of 4, less amenable (KS) was given a score of 3, disagree (TS) was given a score of 2, and strongly disagree (STS) given a score of 1. The survey results revealed that the consecrated child of Chinese descent in the District Patria Dharma Junior High Cliff Meranti Islands District is very high

Resource dedication problem in a multi-project environment

There can be different approaches to the management of resources within the context of multi-project scheduling problems. In general, approaches to multiproject scheduling problems consider the resources as a pool shared by all projects. On the other hand, when projects are distributed geographically or sharing resources between projects is not preferred, then this resource sharing policy may not be feasible. In such cases, the resources must be dedicated to individual projects throughout the project durations. This multi-project problem environment is defined here as the resource dedication problem (RDP). RDP is defined as the optimal dedication of resource capacities to different projects within the overall limits of the resources and with the objective of minimizing a predetermined objective function. The projects involved are multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problems with finish to start zero time lag and non-preemptive activities and limited renewable and nonrenewable resources. Here, the characterization of RDP, its mathematical formulation and two different solution methodologies are presented. The first solution approach is a genetic algorithm employing a new improvement move called combinatorial auction for RDP, which is based on preferences of projects for resources. Two different methods for calculating the projects’ preferences based on linear and Lagrangian relaxation are proposed. The second solution approach is a Lagrangian relaxation based heuristic employing subgradient optimization. Numerical studies demonstrate that the proposed approaches are powerful methods for solving this problem

Almond witches’-broom phytoplasma (Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium): a real threat to almond, peach and nectarine.

Within less than a decade, Almond witches’-broom (AlmWB) phytoplasma killed over a hundred thousand almond trees in Lebanon (Abou-Jawdah et al., 2002). AlmWB belongs to the pigeon pea witches’ broom group (16SrIX), and the scientific name (Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium) was suggested (Verdin et al., 2003). Grafting experiments revealed that AlmWB may also affect peaches and nectarines (Abou-Jawdah et al, 2003). Later on, a similar disease was reported in Iran (Verdin et al., 2003; Salehi et al., 2006). This disease is still spreading on almond trees to new areas in North Lebanon, but more recently shoot proliferation with succulent small light green leaves were observed on peach and nectarine in South Lebanon, where the disease seemed to be spreading relatively fast. DNA sequencing showed over 99% sequence homology with AlmWB (Abou-Jawdah et al. 2008). This report shows that epidemics of AlmWB may occur also on peach and nectarine under field conditions, and strongly suggests the presence of an efficient vector