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Pengembangan Pembelajaran Blended Learning Berbasis Website Di Program Studi Pendidikan Biologi Universitas Samudra

The development of website based blended learning is aimed to promote change in the acceleration of learning process in higher education which is not bound by space and time, thus will directly improve the quality of learning process in the Study Program of Biology Education of University of Samudra. Utilization of information and communication technology in the development of website based blended learningin higher education combines face to faceand online.Research is functioned as learning mediation between lecturers and students of Study Program of Biology Education of University of Samudra. Research and Development was performed through the model of 4D with stages consisted of Define, Design, Developmentand Disseminatewhich were modified in accordance with the needof researcher. Subjects of experiment were students, lecturers, as well as information and communication technology experts. Instruments of study used were validation sheet and questionnaire. Analysis of qualitative data was done with stages of collecting data, reducing data, presenting data, and drawing conclusion. Result of research based on validation test showed that the validation of media expert was 82.65% with qualification of practical and did not need to be revised, the second validation of teaching expert obtained was 86.25% with qualification of highly practical and did not need to be revisedand validation of respondent by students obtained a value of 90.16% with qualification of highly practical and did not need to be revised. Based on the validation result, the development of website based blended learningis suitable to be used by the students of Biology Education of University of Samudra in learning which combines face to face learning at class and online.
Regularity of the metric entropy for expanding maps

The main result of the current paper is an estimate of the radius of the nonperipheral part of the spectrum of the Perron-Frobenius operator for expanding mappings. As a consequence, we are able to show that the metric entropy of an expanding map has modulus of continuity x log( 1 /x) on the space of C2-expandings. We also give an explicit estimate of the rate of mixing for Cl-functions in terms of natural constants. It seems that the method we present can be generalized to other classes of dynamical systems, which have a distinguished invariant measure, like Axiom A diffeomorphisms. It also can be adopted to show that the entropy of the quadratic family f,(x) = 1 ,ux2 computed with respect to the absolutely continuous invariant measure found in Jakobson's Theorem varies continuously (the last result is going to appear somewhere else).
Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia: An Empirical Analysis, 1968-2010

Long-term sustainable economic growth is manifested in high rates of physical and human capital accumulation. It de- pends on the ability of the economy to mobilize financial resources, and to ensure access by people to these productive assets, which should be invested more efficiently. This process summarizes the role that financial institutions have played in financial intermediation and growth, namely to mobilize savings and allocate them to the most productive and growth-promoting activities. The core argument is that greater financial intermediation gives rise to higher productivity and thus higher national and/or per capita income. This paper examined the empirical relationship between economic growth and financial intermediation for Saudi Arabia during the last four decades (1968-2010). To this end, we adopt the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) methods to cointegration and the associated error correction model (ECM). Despite the minimal restrictions imposed on the functioning of the domestic financial system with a view to “fighting terrorism”, the results overwhelmingly indicate that financial intermediation has impacted negatively on long-run real GDP. These findings are attributed to two sets of factors relating to the dominance of economic activities by the public sector and the characteristics of the institutional environment surrounding the private sector, as well as to some func- tional and structural characteristics of the financial system that have impeded its development.
Gold Nanoparticle Mediated Phototherapy for Cancer

Gold nanoparticles exhibit very unique physiochemical and optical properties, which now are extensively studied in range of medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications. In particular, gold nanoparticles show promise in the advancement of cancer treatments. This review will provide insights into the four different cancer treatments such as photothermal therapy, gold nanoparticle-aided photodynamic therapy, gold nanoparticle-aided radiation therapy, and their use as drug carrier. We also discuss the mechanism of every method and the adverse effects and its limitations.
Characterization of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), Iron and Black Carbon within Street Dust from a Steel Industrial City, Central China

Twenty-two street dust samples collected from a small steel city, central China, were analyzed for 16 USEPA priority PAHs to investigate the concentration, spatial distribution relationship with black carbon (BC) and Iron (Fe), and the source apportionment and to assess the health risk of these compounds. The mean contents of PAHs, BC and Fe were 4.43 µg g–1, 12837.97 mg kg–1, 70205.70 mg kg–1, respectively. The highest spot was in the surrounding of the E’zhou Steel Plant and the Steel Rolling Mill of E’zhou. The correlation analysis indicated that there was no obvious relationship between Fe with each other, the PAHs significantly correlated to black carbon (BC), which might be caused by the continuous emission sources of iron and steel production. The results of sources identification suggested that PAHs contaminations in street dust were a mixed source of industrial production and traffic emission combustion. The incremental lifetime and cancer risks (ILCRs) of exposing to PAHs in the street dust of the E’zhou city for the three age groups (namely childhood, adolescence, adulthood) fluctuated with in the range of 10–6 to 10–4, indicating a potential of carcinogenic risk for exposed populations.
Is the Internet Delivery Channel Changing Banks' Performance? The Case of Spanish Banks

Abstract In spite of the conspicuous use of the Internet as a delivery channel, there is a relative dearth of empirical studies that provide a quantitative analysis of the impact of the Internet on banks’ financial performance. This paper attempts to fill this gap by identifying and estimating the impact of the adoption of a transactional web site on financial performance using a sample of 72 commercial banks operating in Spain over the period 1994–2002. The impact on banks’ performance of transactional web adoption takes time to appear. The adoption of the Internet as a delivery channel involves a gradual reduction in overhead expenses (particularly, staff, marketing and IT). This effect is statistically significant after one and a half years after adoption. The cost reduction translates into an improvement in banks’ profitability, which becomes significant after one and a half years in terms of ROA and after three years in terms of ROE. The paper also concludes that the Internet is being used as a complement to, rather than a substitute for, physical branches.
Standards of angiography & percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and their application to current practice

OBJECTIVES To review standards of angiography and angioplasty in the light of a study of post-intervention complications. METHODSData for early (24-hours) and 30-day complications after diagnostic angiography (DA) and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) were prospectively examined over a 28-month period. Complication rates were compared with the published standards. RESULTS758 patients were included. Major complications occurred in 1.18%. The commonest complication was haematoma (n=16, 2.11%), of which two were major. Systemic problems (nausea, vomiting, vasovagal syncope, transient hypotension and transient arrhythmias) accounted for 1.45%. Arterial occlusion, minor vessel rupture, distal emboli and renal failure constituted the remainder with an incidence of 0.66%. No pseudoaneurysms or arteriovenous fistulae occurred. The 30day mortality rate was 1.82%. CONCLUSIONThis study demonstrated lower mortality and morbidity than published standards in 2001. Standards of DA developed by the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (2001SCVIR) could be extended to include PTA. Pseudoaneurysm appears to be avoidable.
GINI DP 39: Socioeconomic Gradient in Health: How Important is Material Deprivation?

In this paper we use the Spanish Living Conditions Survey (2005-2008) to investigate whether there is a socioeconomic gradient in health when alternative measures of socioeconomic status, apart from income, are considered. In particular we construct a material deprivation index that reflects some minimum standards of quality of life, and we analyze its impact on self-reported health. To address this issue, we use a deprivation index that incorporates comparison effects with societal peers and we estimate health equations using a random effects model. Furthermore, the model is extended to include a Mundlak term that corrects for the potential correlation between the error term and the regressors. Our results reveal that the relationship between health and income operates through comparison information with respect to societal peers. In contrast, material deprivation in terms of financial difficulties, basic necessities and housing conditions exerts a direct effect on individual health.
Beliefs and Consumer Search in a Vertical Industry

This paper studies vertical relations in a search market. As the wholesale arrangement between a manufacturer and its retailers is typically unobserved by consumers, their beliefs about who is to be blamed for a price deviation play a crucial role in determining wholesale and retail prices. The common assumption in the consumer search literature is that consumers exclusively blame an individual retailer for a price deviation. We show that in the vertical relations context, predictions based on this assumption are not robust in the sense that if consumers hold the upstream manufacturer at least partially responsible for the deviation, equilibrium predictions are qualitatively different. For robust beliefs, the vertical model can explain a variety of observations, such as retail price rigidity (or, alternatively, low cost pass-through), nonmonotonicity of retail prices in search costs, and (seemingly) collusive retail behavior. The model can be used to study a monopoly online platform that sells access to final consumers.
An Investigation on the Properties of Palm-Based Polyurethane Solid Polymer Electrolyte

Palm-based polyurethane electrolyte was prepared via prepolymerization method between palm kernel oil polyol (PKO-p) and 2,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) in acetone at room temperature with the presence of lithium trifluoromethanesulfonate (LiCF3SO3). The effect of varying the concentration of LiCF3SO3 salt on the ionic conductivity, chemical interaction, and structural and morphological properties of the polyurethane solid polymer electrolyte was investigated. The produced film was analyzed using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The EIS result showed that the highest ionic conductivity was at 30 wt% LiCF3SO3 with a value of 1.6 × 10−5 Scm−1. Infrared analysis showed the interaction between lithium ions and amine group (–N–H) at (3600–3100 cm−1), carbonyl group (–C=O) at (1750–1650 cm−1), and ether group (–C–O–C–) at (1150–1000 cm−1) of the polyurethane forming polymer-salt complexes. The XRD result proved that LiCF3SO3 salt completely dissociates within the polyurethane film as no crystalline peaks of LiCF3SO3 were observed. The morphological study revealed that the films prepared have a good homogeneity and compatibility as no phase separation occurred.
The achievement of glycaemic , blood pressure and LDL cholesterol targets in patients with type 2 diabetes attending a South African tertiary hospital outpatient clinic

Objectives: To determine differences in the control of multiple diabetes control parameters in a select group of subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) after a four-year follow-up period. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting and subjects: The initial 2009 study population consisted of 666 T2DM patients of whom only 261 (39.2%) were audited at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. Outcome measures: Using a public sector database, retrospective data were obtained on the treatment of participants with T2DM attending a tertiary care setting and a descriptive analysis was done. Results: The mean age was 64 (SD 10.6) years, women represented 55% of the cohort and the mean duration of diabetes was 16 years (range 2–40 years) in 2013. Fewer patients achieved an HbA1c goal (of < 7%) in 2013 (15.5%) compared with 2009 (25.4%), whilst an additional 13.7% and 25.0% of the 261 patients reached blood pressure targets (< 140/80 mmHg) and LDL-C targets ( < 2.5 mmol/L), respectively. Conclusion: Overall, more patients in the study reached blood pressure and LDL-C targets but there were difficulties in achieving optimal glycaemic levels over the four-year period. This study highlights the complexities of managing risk factors in T2DM, especially glucose control.
LeMMINGs - I. The eMERLIN legacy survey of nearby galaxies. 1.5-GHz parsec-scale radio structures and cores

We present the first data release of high-resolution (≤0.2 arcsec) 1.5-GHz radio images of 103 nearby galaxies from the Palomar sample, observed with the eMERLIN array, as part of the LeMMINGs survey. This sample includes galaxies which are active (low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions [LINER] and Seyfert) and quiescent (H ii galaxies and absorption line galaxies, ALGs), which are reclassified based upon revised emission-line diagrams. We detect radio emission ≳0.2 mJy for 47/103 galaxies (22/34 for LINERS, 4/4 for Seyferts, 16/51 for H ii galaxies, and 5/14 for ALGs) with radio sizes typically of ≲100 pc. We identify the radio core position within the radio structures for 41 sources. Half of the sample shows jetted morphologies. The remaining half shows single radio cores or complex morphologies. LINERs show radio structures more core-brightened than Seyferts. Radio luminosities of the sample range from 1032 to 1040 erg s−1: LINERs and H ii galaxies show the highest and lowest radio powers, respectively, while ALGs and Seyferts have intermediate luminosities. We find that radio core luminosities correlate with black hole (BH) mass down to ∼107 M⊙, but a break emerges at lower masses. Using [O iii] line luminosity as a proxy for the accretion luminosity, active nuclei and jetted H ii galaxies follow an optical Fundamental Plane of BH activity, suggesting a common disc–jet relationship. In conclusion, LINER nuclei are the scaled-down version of FR I radio galaxies; Seyferts show less collimated jets; H ii galaxies may host weak active BHs and/or nuclear star-forming cores; and recurrent BH activity may account for ALG properties.
DENSITIES, SPECIES RICHNESS AND HABITAT RELATIONSHIPS OF THE AVIAN COMMUNITY IN THE COLORADO RIVER, MEXICO

We determined the spatial and temporal patterns of avian species richness and density and explored their relationships with habitat features in the fl oodplain of the Colorado River in Mexico, which was subject to regeneration through pulse-fl oods in the last 20 yr. Our work included monthly point counts at 30 transects (240 points) from May 2002–July 2003. The average abundance per point was 29.2 individuals with an average richness of 8.6 species, and an average density of 47.7 birds per ha. The most common species were Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura), Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), and Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater), but another 64 species were commonly found, including Verdin (Auriparus fl aviceps), Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia), and Abert’s Towhee (Pipilo aberti). Surface water was the most important habitat feature related to avian richness and density regardless of vegetation type or land cover. During summer, species richness was explained by variations in water and the cover of cottonwoods (Populus fremontii), and the variation in bird densities was explained by variations in water and the cover of willows (Salix gooddingii). The dedication of instream fl ows and pulse fl oods, the maintenance of vegetation cover and structural diversity, and an increase of older riparian stands will secure the viability of existing bird populations and will increase the probability of recovery of the species that are still extirpated from the fl oodplain of the Colorado River in Mexico.
Enhanced Stem Cell Osteogenic Differentiation by Bioactive Glass Functionalized Graphene Oxide Substrates

An unmet need in engineered bone regeneration is to develop scaffolds capable of manipulating stem cells osteogenesis. Graphene oxide (GO) has been widely used as a biomaterial for various biomedical applications. However, it remains challenging to functionalize GO as ideal platform for specifically directing stem cell osteogenesis. Herein, we report facile functionalization of GO with dopamine and subsequent bioactive glass (BG) to enhance stem cell adhesion, spreading, and osteogenic differentiation. On the basis of graphene, we obtained dopamine functionalized graphene oxide/bioactive glass (DGO/BG) hybrid scaffolds containing different content of DGO by loading BG nanoparticles on graphene oxide surface using sol-gel method. To enhance the dispersion stability and facilitate subsequent nucleation of BG in GO, firstly, dopamine (DA) was used to modify GO. Then, the modified GO was functionalized with bioactive glass (BG) using sol-gel method. The adhesion, spreading, and osteoinductive effects of DGO/BG scaffold on rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (rBMSCs) were evaluated. DGO/BG hybrid scaffolds with different content of DGO could influence rBMSCs’ behavior. The highest expression level of osteogenic markers suggests that the DGO/BG hybrid scaffolds have great potential or elicit desired bone reparative outcome.
of Geophysical Research : Planets Understanding Jupiter ’ s interior

This article provides an overview of how models of giant planet interiors are constructed. We review measurements from past space missions that provided constraints for the interior structure of Jupiter. We discuss typical three-layer interior models that consist of a dense central core and an inner metallic and an outer molecular hydrogen-helium layer. These models rely heavily on experiments, analytical theory, and first-principles computer simulations of hydrogen and helium to understand their behavior up to the extreme pressures ∼10 Mbar and temperatures ∼10,000 K. We review the various equations of state used in Jupiter models and compare them with shock wave experiments. We discuss the possibility that helium rain, core erosion, and double diffusive convection have affected the structure and evolution of giant planets. In July 2016 the Juno spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter, promising high-precision measurements of the gravitational field that will allow us to test our understanding of gas giant interiors better than ever before.
Spatial variation in the community structure of intertidal habitats at Macquarie Island (sub-Antarctic)

The shore environments of most sub-Antarctic islands have been described in a number of previous studies. However, there have been few attempts to quantify the variation in population and community patterns over different spatial scales. The objectives of this study were to provide an analysis of differences in the community structure of the biota of three exposed shore zones and of the macrofauna inhabiting holdfasts of the kelp Durvillaea antarctica across spatial scales of hundreds of metres, kilometres, and between a sheltered and exposed coast. Data were collected using a combination of quadrat, transect and direct sampling methods over the 1994–95 summer season. The results indicated that there were significant differences between coasts for some of the biotic variables in most of the habitats examined but that differences at the smaller spatial scales were more often significant. Thus, although wave exposure exerts an obvious effect on the shore biota of Macquarie Island, these effects are modified by other factors operating at smaller spatial scales. For the holdfast macrofauna, the overall patterns of community structure are likely to be due to the differential response of the component taxa to variation in holdfast volume and holdfast sediment content as well as other, currently undetermined factors.
Efficient FPGA Acceleration of Convolutional Deep Neural Networks

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a powerful model for visual recognition tasks, but due to their very high computational requirement, acceleration is highly desired. FPGA accelerators for CNNs are typically built around one large MAC (multiply-accumulate) array, which is repeatedly used to perform the computation of all convolution layers, which can be quite diverse and complex. Thus a key challenge is how to design a common architecture that can perform well for all convolutional layers. In this paper we present a highly optimized and cost-effective 3D neuron array architecture that is a natural fit for convolutional layers, along with a parameter selection framework to optimize its parameters for any given CNN model. We show through theoretical as well as empirical analyses that structuring compute elements in a 3D rather than a 2D topology can lead to higher performance through an improved utilization of key FPGA resources. Our experimental results targeting a Virtex-7 FPGA demonstrate that our proposed technique can generate CNN accelerators that can outperform the state-of-the-art solution, by 1.80x to maximum 4.05x for 32-bit floating-point, and 16-bit fixed-point MAC implementation respectively for different CNN models. Additionally, our proposed technique can generate designs that are far more scalable in terms of compute resources. We also report on the energy consumption of our accelerator in comparison with a GPGPU implementation.
Reference point formation over time: a weighting function approach

Although the concept of reference point dependent preferences has been adopted to almost all fields of behavioral economics, especially marketing and behavioral finance, we still know very little about how decision makers form their reference points given a sequence of prices. Our paper provides both a theoretical framework on reference point formation over time, based on cumulative prospect theory’s s-shaped weighting function, and a new experimental method for eliciting subjects’ individual reference points in a finance context. Consistent with our model, we document our subjects’ reference points to be best described by the first and the last price of the time series, with the equally weighted average and the highest price receiving smaller weights. Results, however, vary strongly on the individual level and are also affected by the elicitation question applied.