Motif on Apin mat ethnic Murut / Norayni Mohd Basran

This paper contains an analysis of symmetry for Apin mat created in the ethnic Murut. Wicker mat ethnic murut called mat as Apin or Lantungan is a term used by Murut Tahol referring to woven mats. Normally, Lantungan are named the types of rattan used to weave. There are three types of weaving, Apin Lantungan, Lantungan Ulia, Lantungan Puaran. These designs are very distinctive in term of motives and pattern. Apin mat are used as decorative motifs for woven Silaung, woven mat, woven lalandau woven tavil and woven buyong for using live. The basic woven objects are considered plain without kelarai. Apin mat design in a woven mat requires creativity and mathematical skills of the wover to ensure the consistency in design. Therefore, motive and pattern is used as a method to discover the role of symmetry in the formation of Apin mati design. There are ten selected Kelarai patterns used in this analysis. The analysis divides the Apin mat patterns into which are based on the symmetry line, 45°, 90°, 180° and 360°

Imagining one's compassionate self and coping with life difficulties

There is increasing evidence that when people focus on being a certain kind of person, for example optimistic, this changes how they engage with life difficulties. We explored individuals’ experiences in thinking about a small life difficulty before and then after being guided through a compassionate self exercise. During a compassion focused therapy workshop (2016), 95 participants were guided through a Compassionate Mind Training practice that enables them to compare and contrast thinking about a life difficulty from a natural position and then a compassionate self mental state. Following the exercises, individuals completed a short evaluation form exploring the impact of switching to a compassionate mental state when thinking about the life difficulty. All 95 participants rated switching to a compassionate self as increasing their abilities to be empathic to their difficulty, generate more insight into their difficulty, feel better able to cope and feel encouraged about the future. Results suggest guiding people to generate a compassionate sense of self is experienced as having a number of helpful outcomes. It is these outcomes generated by the compassionate self that may be useful to people.This study did not receive any funding, but was supported by the Compassionate Mind Foundation

Harga Bbm 2013 Dan Reaksinya Terhadap Pasar Modal Indonesia

Penelitian ini menganalisa tentang reaksi pasar modal Indonesia terhadap peristiwa dalam negeri yaitu kenaikan harga Bahan Bakar Minyak (BBM) di Indonesia pada tanggal 22 Juni 2013. Penelitian ini menguji kekuatan muatan informasi dari peristiwa tersebut terhadap aktivitas pasar modal Indonesia. Periode waktu penelitian selama 121 hari bursa yang dibagi dalam dua periode yaitu periode estimasi mulai tanggal 11 Januari 2013 sampai dengan 07 Juni 2013 dan periode kejadian mulai tanggal 10 Juni 2013 sampai dengan 05 Juli 2013 (event day 22 Juni 2013). Sampel yang digunakan adalah 35 saham yang tercatat dalam LQ 45 bulan Januari 2013 dan Juli 2013. Parameter yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah abnormal return pada periode peristiwa, rata-rata abnormal return dan trading volume aktivity sebelum dan sesudah peristiwa tersebut. Berdasarkan pengujian terhadap abnormal return yang diperoleh para pemegang saham menunjukkan bahwa terdapat abnormal return negatif yang secara signifikan diterima para pemegang saham pada hari ke 2, 3 dan ke-4 setelah peristiwa tersebut. Pengujian terhadap perbedaan rata-rata abnormal return sebelum dan sesudah peristiwa menunjukkan tidak terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan antara rata-rata abnormal return sebelum dan sesudah peristiwa. Penelitian terhadap rata-rata aktivitas volume perdagangan secara cepat menyesuaikan dengan informasi tersebut sehingga tidak terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan antara rata-rata aktivitas perdagangan sebelum dan sesudah peristiwa kenaikan harga BBM. Berdasarkan penelitian tersebut disimpulkan bahwa pasar modal Indonesia lebih banyak dipengaruhi oleh peristiwa luar negeri (global) sehingga peristiwa kenaikan harga Bahan Bakar Minyak (BBM) tidak memberikan pengaruh yang besar terhadap pasar modal Indonesia

How Messages about COVID-19 May Have Affected People’s Sense of Threat and Mental Health

COVID-19 has had profound effects on many physical, mental and social aspects of health. This study examined people’s fears and concerns about the virus, their experiences of being subjected to expert opinion and media portrayals of suffering from the virus, experiences of lockdown, and hopes and doubts for the future. We also examined how these relate to symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. 180 participants completed an online survey exploring the themes of the study. Results suggest that in addition to concerns of catching the virus themselves, participants were more concerned with passing it on to others. People found information provided by experts at times contradictory and confusing. There was a strong endorsement that the media exploited suffering and while there was a high desire to move to a more compassionate ‘caring and sharing world’, there were strong doubts that this would happen or that politicians would be able to navigate to that. More research is needed on how to present information about high levels of threat, tragic events and processes in order to avoid adding to, rather than reducing mental health difficulties, and generating unhelpful behaviours

Cloning, sequencing, and characterization of the hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine degradation gene cluster from Rhodococcus rhodochrous

Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) is a high explosive which presents an environmental hazard as a major land and groundwater contaminant. Rhodococcus rhodochrous strain 11Y was isolated from explosive contaminated land and is capable of degrading RDX when provided as the sole source of nitrogen for growth. Products of RDX degradation in resting-cell incubations were analyzed and found to include nitrite, formaldehyde, and formate. No ammonium was excreted into the medium, and no dead-end metabolites were observed. The gene responsible for the degradation of RDX in strain 11Y is a constitutively expressed cytochrome P450-like gene, xpLA, which is found in a gene cluster with an adrenodoxin reductase homologue, xplB. The cytochrome P450 also has a flavodoxin domain at the N terminus. This study is the first to present a gene which has been identified as being responsible for RDX biodegradation. The mechanism of action of XplA on RDX is thought to involve initial denitration followed by spontaneous ring cleavage and mineralization

Pengaruh Penggunaan Literasi Digital terhadap Hasil Belajar Pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam di SMPN Karumpa No. 25 Kepulauan Selayar

Penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: 1) Literasi digital peserta didik yang termasuk dalam kategori sangat tinggi sebesar 51 atau 34%, kategori tinggi sebesar 86 atau 57%, kategori sedang sebesar 12 atau 8%, dan kategori Rendah sebesar 1 atau 1%. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa hasil literasi digital peserta didik SMPN Karumpa No. 25 Kepulauan Selayar dinyatakan dalam “Kategori Tinggi” dengan persentase 57%. 2) Hasil belajar peserta didik didapatkan yang termasuk dalam kategori Sangat Tinggi sebesar 3 atau 2%, kategori Tinggi sebesar 59 atau 39%, kategori Sedang sebesar 47 atau 31%, kategori Rendah sebesar 29 atau 19%, dan kategori Sangat Rendah sebesar 12 atau 8%. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa hasil belajar peserta didik SMPN Karumpa No. 25 Kepulauan Selayar dinyatakan dalam “Kategori Tinggi” dengan persentase 39%. 3) Kemampuan literasi digital memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap hasil belajar peserta didik SMPN Karumpa No. 25 Kepulauan Selayar, yang artinya bahwa kemampuan literasi digital peserta didik dapat menyebabkan peningkatan hasil belajar peserta didik SMPN Karumpa No. 25 Kepulauan Selayar dengan tingkat pengaruh dalam kategori sedang. Implikasi penelitian ini yaitu penelitian ini telah berhasil menganalisis hasil belajar peserta didik pada mata pelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam dengan penerapan literasi digital, maka peserta didik mengalami pemahaman konsep dan materi dari pembelajaran melalui usaha mereka sendiri dengan adanya pengaruh terhadap hasil belajar yang didapatkan peserta didik

Numerical Assessment of Anisotropic Diffusion Equation for Image Blurring Using SOR Iteration

Blurring the image while preserving the important features such as edges is a crucial study in computer vision. This paper presents the results of applying three iterative methods which are Jacobi, Gauss Seidel and Successive Overrelaxation (SOR) to solve anisotropic diffusion equation for image blurring, where the output image of Jacobi is used as a control image. The number of iterations and computational time required to solve the anisotropic diffusion equation are used to measure the performance of the considered iterative methods. The findings show that SOR method is more efficient to smooth the inner region of an image compared to Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel methods in which the SOR required the least number of iterations and computational time