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PENGARUH TRANSAKSI ONLINE (e-Commerce) TERHADAP PENINGKATAN LABA UMKM (Studi Kasus UMKM Pengolahan Besi Ciampea Bogor Jawa Barat)

UMKM mempunyai peran yang strategis dalam pembangunan ekonomi nasional, selain berperan dalam pertumbuhan ekonomi dan penyerapan tenaga kerja. UMKM mampu menjadi prioritas atau tulang punggung sistem ekonomi kerakyatan untuk mengurangi masalah kemiskinan dan pengangguran, selain itu UMKM juga berperan dalam pendistribusian hasil-hasil pembangunan. Realita dilapangan menunjukan bahwa, kebanyakan UMKM di Indonesia, memiliki beberapa permasalahan yang sama, salah satunya adalah kurangnya pengetahuan tentang pemasaran, disebabkan oleh terbatasnya informasi yang dijangkau oleh masyarakat mengenai UMKM tersebut. Desain penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitatif, yang menguji teori â€“ teori tertentu dengan cara meneliti hubungan antarvariabel. Berdasarkan pembahasan dan analisis mengenai pengaruh e-commerce terhadap peningkatan pendapatan UMKM pengelolaan besi di Ciampea Jawa Barat, maka dapat ditarik kesimpulan bahwa variabel e-commerce (X) berpengaruh signifikan terhadap variabel pendapatan (Y) UMKM pengelolaan besi di Ciampea Jawa Barat. Dengan dibuktikan nilai signifikan e-commerce secara parsial dari uji signifikan parametik individual (uji t) sebesar 0,000 < dari Î±=0,05. Sementara dari hasil analisis diketahui nilai thitung yaitusebesar 4,070 > dari t tabel 2,009.
Creative tourism: opportunities for smaller places?

This paper aims to review the development of creativity in tourism, and analyses the potential role of smaller places in creative development. In the past, the role of creativity has been primarily analysed in larger cities. In recent years, more attention has been paid to the creative development of smaller cities and regions. We argue that smaller places should not attempt to emulate big city models of creative development, such as attracting the creative class, but should find their own creative mode based on using their endogenous resources, capacity building and bottom-up creativity. In this way they can avoid the ‘creativity trap’ of following generic creativity models and develop modes of creative tourism more appropriate to their size and capabilities.
Validating market risk models using realized PIT values

The aim of this thesis is to propose new tests for validating market risk models for financial losses using realized probability-integraltransform (PIT) values. We introduce a flexible framework for testing Value-at-Risk (VaR) exceptions at multiple levels based on a weighted transformation of the realized PIT values, where the weight function reflects the risk objectives of the modeller. This framework can be extended to perform tests using multiple different weight functions. We show that this extended framework either nests or is closely related to many of the traditional VaR and realized PIT tests in existing literature. This approach to model validation is preferable to likelihood-ratio based testing, which can be shown to be a test that is based on a set of specific weight functions that may not reflect the modeller’s risk objectives. A further advantage of this framework is that it can be easily be extended to explicitly tests for serial independence of the realized PIT values. We do this using the idea of blocking, as well as exploiting the martingale difference (MD) property. In the empirical studies, we have also found that tests based on VaR exceptions have great difficulty in detecting poorly calibrated historical simulation (HS) models. We will see how tests based on elicitability theory and proper scoring rule complement the tests based on VaR exceptions to detect poorly calibrated HS models.
Corporate Ethical Behaviours and Firm Equity Value and Ownership: Evidence from the GPFG's Ethical Exclusions

This paper investigates the implications for firm equity value and ownership structure when a large institutional investor publicly excludes a firm from its portfolio due to unethical behaviour. To achieve this, it makes use of the GPFG's ethical exclusions. On average, firms lose 1.72% of equity value around exclusion announcements, which is not reversed in the short term. For firms excluded under the product criteria, the effect seems to be driven by the divesting behaviour of ethics-sensitive investors.
Tree-Structured Models of Multitext: Theory, Design and Experiments

Statistical machine translation (SMT) systems use empirical models to simulate the act of human translation between language pairs. This dissertation surveys the ability of currently popular syntax-aware SMT systems to model real-world multitext, and shows different types of linguistic phenomena occurring in natural language translation that these popular systems cannot capture. It then proposes a new grammar formalism, Generalized Multitext Grammar (GMTG), and a generalization of Chomsky Normal Form, that allows us to build an efficient SMT system using previously developed parsing techniques. The dissertation addresses many software engineering issues that arise when doing syntax-based SMT using large corpora and lays out a object-oriented design for a translation toolkit. Using the toolkit, we show that a tree-transduction based SMT system, which uses modern machine learning algorithms, outperforms a generative baseline.
Relationship between gender and proactive work behaviour in the Kenya’s hotel industry

According to Kenya National Bureau of Statistics report, (2016), wage employment by industry and sex statistics indicate a majority of males employed in the modern sector than female with accommodation and food service industry registering 71 percent males and 29 percent female employees. This disparity extended to women in national decision-making category, with slight improvement from previous years. Participation of men and women in key decision making positions in the national assembly was at 19.8 per cent of total legislators. The share of female cabinet secretaries declined from 33.3 per cent in 2014 to 25.5 per cent in 2015. The disparities could be attributed to many other factors, among them the employers‟ perceptions on proactive behaviour between gender and gender role expectations. The purpose of this research paper was to test the difference in proactive work behaviour between the male and female employees working in Nairobi business hotels. The study employed a co-relational research design. From a target population of 190 front line employees, 127 formed the sample size for the study. Primary data was gathered from employees by use of self-administered questionnaires while secondary data was gathered from relevant books, hotel records, journals, publications and the internet. Reliability of data was tested using Cronbach‟s Alpha resulting in a value 0.804. One way ANOVA test was conducted to test the differences in proactive work behavior between male employees and their female counterparts. The findings of this study do not show a difference in proactive work behaviour between male and female employees (F 1.312; p˃0.05). Based on the combination of literature review with the results of this study, it is clear that gender does not restrain proactive behaviour at work. Adoption of work practices which support gender parity can offer a good first step towards innovation and being proactive at work place. Being “nice” to women by opening doors and offering to pay their bills, does not make women feel included. There is need to do more by reflecting on work patterns and policies so as to entrench measures which provide in-depth support of gender parity at work places.The researcher recommends that tourism and hospitality policy makers and regulators should develop national policies on employment which encourage flagship initiatives on gender equality as a key priority.
Heard it Through the Grapevine... Winery Owners Explain the Role of Sustainability in Maine's Emerging Industry

With increased awareness of humanity’s profound impact on the climate, interest in the notion of sustainability has expanded across all disciplines. The inherent link between food and climate has specifically motivated consideration of sustainability within agricultural and food production sectors. The global wine industry has long acknowledged the social, environmental, and economic sustainability concerns (e.g. triple-bottom-line) of their industry. Beginning in 1992 with The Lodi Winegrape Commission in California, several wine regions including France, Australia and South Africa have developed workbooks and policies for sustainable wine production. The budding wine industry in the state of Maine has yet to explore the concept of sustainability as it relates to their operations. In this project, I worked with a community partner, the Maine Winery Guild1, to conduct 10 interviews of wineries across the state. I asked questions to understand how sustainability is being defined and enacted, and what obstacles pertaining to sustainability are being faced. This research can be used by the Guild and other relevant stakeholders to target industry development efforts in a manner that will help the Maine wine industry to overcome challenges in order to grow and compete with other sustainability-conscious wine regions. 1 http://www.mainewineryguild. com/
The Impact of Novice Nurses' Characteristics and Personalities on Work-Related Stress

Background: High stress is related to the high turnover rate of new nursing staffs. Accordingly, determining how to retain novice nurses is critical. Purpose: Understand the relationship between novice nurses' basic characteristics, personality traits, and work-related stress. Methods: This cross-sectional study used purposive sampling to recruit novice nurses working in the general wards and intensive care unit of a medical centre (179 questionnaires). Results: (1) Length of past clinical nursing experience, and self-perceived compatibility with current position was found to be significantly correlated with work-related stress. (2) Personality traits and work-related stress were significantly and negatively correlated. (3) "Length of past clinical nursing experience," "self-perceived compatibility with the current position," "emotional stability," and "conscientiousness" were able to predict work-related stress with an explanatory power of 46%. Conclusion: If will allow nursing students to familiarize themselves with the clinical work model early, add to the clinical nursing experience, and lower the turnover rate for novice nurses. Original Research Article Chiu et al.; AJRNH, 1(1): 1-9, 2018; Article no.AJRNH. 46229 2
Unemployment Dynamics and Endogenous Unemployment Insurance Extensions

This paper investigates the impact of endogenous unemployment insurance (UI) extensions on the dynamics of unemployment and its duration structure in the US. Using a search and matching model with worker heterogeneity, I allow for the maximum UI duration to depend on unemployment and for UI benefits to depend on worker characteristics. UI extensions have a large effect on long-term unemployment during the Great Recession via job search responses and a moderate effect on total unemployment via job separations. Disregarding rational expectations about the timing of UI extensions implies an overestimation of the unemployment rate by over 2 percentage points.
Effects of employee retention practices on perceived firm and innovation performance

The current study purports to establish the linkage between various retention practices and perceived firm performance and innovation performance. Using multiple regression analysis on a sample of 563 respondents from 204 organisations operating in India, the study has highlighted that employee retention practices in the form of 'development and empowerment' and 'supportive organisational culture' are positively related to perceived firm performance. Findings have also highlighted the positive relationship between 'development and empowerment' and innovation performance. However, no such relationship has been found between supportive organisational culture and innovation performance. Implications for HR practitioners and further researches are discussed.
Ke slovesnému vidu v češtině

This article briefly treats the system of Czech verbal aspect. The author touches upon several important matters which have been the subject of research on Czech verbal aspect. The text contains the following sections: 1. basic delimitation of the aspectual category; 2. two types of verbal pairs; 3. the task of prefixation (or verbal prefixes) in the system of verbal aspect; 4. biaspectual verbs; 5. aspectual non-parity.
Detection and Genetic Characterization of an Avipox Virus Isolate from Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia domestica) in Morogoro Region, Eastern Tanzania

Aim: To determine molecular and evolutionary characteristics of a newly isolated Tanzanian isolate of pigeonpox virus (PGPV). Study Design: Experimental. Place and Duration of Study: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania; between November 2011 and May 2014. Methodology: Samples of cutaneous nodular lesions were collected from 17 pigeons suspected to have pigeonpox in Morogoro (n = 11), Pwani (n = 2) and Dar es Salaam (n = 4) regions; followed Original Research Article Masola et al.; AIR, 3(5): 460-469, 2015; Article no.AIR. 2015.041 461 by virus isolation, and confirmation by amplification and sequencing of P4b gene. Further the sequence was phylogenetically analyzed for its evolutionary relationship with other related viruses. Results: PGPV was detected in two samples, both from Morogoro region. Sequence analysis revealed that the Tanzanian PGPV isolate derived in this study was 90 – 99% identical to several avipoxvirus isolates from birds belonging to different species from several countries; for instance the Tanzanian PGPV isolate was 91% identical to each of the Tanzanian fowlpox virus isolates derived in the previous study, and 99% identical to all three PGPV isolates whose sequences were obtained in the GenBank i.e PGPV isolates from India (accession number DQ873811), Egypt (accession number JQ665840) and a PGPV (accession number AY530303) whose country of origin is unknown. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the Tanzanian PGPV isolate belongs to clade A in subclade A2, sharing a recent common ancestor with members of subclade A3. Conclusion: Currently, pigeonpox virus is circulating in Morogoro region. The present study warrants the further surveillance/ molecular epidemiology of PGPV in Tanzania in a large-scale.
Aerodynamics of a generic ground transportation system : Detached eddy simulation

The present study is aimed at studying the use of Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) in simulating truck aerodynamics. A computational procedure based on DES implemented within the Finite Volume Method (FVM) framework is developed. Detailed descriptions of various aspects of the procedure are provided here including mesh generation, solution procedure and post-processing guidelines. The computational procedure is applied to study aerodynamics of a generic Ground Transportation System (GTS) at 0° yaw. This is a largely simplified 1/8 th scale model of a tractor-trailer truck. Time-average and transient surface pressures, skin friction coefficients, and wake velocity structures are reported. To assess the accuracy of the present procedure, these are compared with corresponding experimental data reported in literature. Such comparison shows that the present procedure predicts drag coefficient accurately well within the bounds of experimental uncertainty. Time-average surface pressure predictions show similar bounds of accuracy at most locations on the vehicle. Furthermore, results from the DES simulation are compared with a separately conducted RANS (Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes) simulation to compare and contrast the accuracy of these two computational approaches.
Quality Assurance Survey Of X-Ray Installations In Southern Rajasthan

Amongst the man made ionising radiations, x- ray diagnostic procedures contribute the highest per capita radiation dose to population over and above the natural background radiation. Although the x- ray diagnostic procedures have revolutionised the medical diagnosis and treatment of many diseases, it is many a times being over-used as a routine diagnostic procedure like blood or urine test. The patient receives radiation dose in excess due to bad practice and bad equipment, and hence every x-ray machine should be subjected to periodic quality assurance (QA) test. Extensive radiation protection surveys and QA tests of 190 x-ray installations in southern Rajasthan was carried out. It was observed that the kVp calibration was within limit in only 43.6 % of the surveyed units. Similarly the mA linearity was within the prescribed limit in 22.9 % of the units. Out of 190 x - ray machines, 97 (51 % ) were more than 10 years old and were never subjected to QA tests after installation. The detailed results of beam alignment test, congruency of optical and radiation field, kVp linearity, timer linearity and availability of radiation protection equipment such as lead barrier and lead apron are discussed.
Essays on Vertical Integration, Inventory Efficiency and Firm Performance

In three studies, this dissertation contributes to the link between, on the one hand, how a firm’s supply chain is organized and, on the other, how good its financial and stock market performance is. Study I examines the relationship between the degree of vertical integration and financial performance. Study II links the degree of vertical integration, both theoretically and empirically, to long-term stock returns. Study III concentrates on the relationship between inventory efficiency and financial performance.
Comparing the effects of direct and indirect learning strategies on Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary learning

Vocabulary is vital to English language teaching since without a sufficient knowledge of vocabulary students are not able to understand others or to express their ideas. Therefore, several indirect and direct strategies have been proposed to improve vocabulary learning. Whether indirect or direct strategies can contribute more to vocabulary learning has been a significant issue. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the influence of indirect and direct learning strategies on the vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, ninety upper-intermediate students were selected from two English language institutes in Shiraz, Iran. Students were divided into two experimental groups. One experimental group (A) received vocabulary instruction using direct learning strategies and the other group (B) received vocabulary instruction using indirect learning strategies. After the instruction the students were required to take a vocabulary examination. The results indicated that students who received vocabulary instruction using indirect strategies outperformed their counterparts in the other group. Implications of the findings are also discussed at the end of the study.
Spirochetal Diseases and Seventh Nerve Palsy

Treponema pallidum andBorrelia burgdorferimay lead to seventh nerve palsy and should be suspected in the appropriate clinical context. Serologic testing for syphilis and Lyme disease (LD) is valuable but may show cross-reactivity. We describe a 20-year-old woman with left seventh nerve palsy secondary to latent syphilis of unknown duration, with complete recovery after penicillin G benzathine. In addition to reactive rapid plasma reagin and positive T. pallidum particle agglutination testing, Lyme enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was equivocal, and Lyme Western blot was positive for immunoglobulin M. In syphilis, Lyme enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay may be falsely positive, but Western blot is known to remain negative. Similarly, in LD, fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption testingmay be falsely positive, but rapid plasma reagin remains nonreactive. Careful interpretation of these serologic tests is of utmost importance in differentiating between the 2, especially in areas with low prevalence of LD.
Understanding Intercultural Bilingual Education for Education Equity among Indigenous Students in Ecuador and Peru

Understanding Intercultural Bilingual Education for Education Equity among Indigenous Students in Ecuador and Peru Mirka Martel In this dissertation, I focused on education equity for Indigenous communities in Ecuador and Peru and the policy implications of intercultural bilingual education in the countries’ primary schools. The goals of the study were to (a) measure the extent to which intercultural bilingual education led to increased education outcomes for Indigenous students in Ecuador and Peru and (b) analyze how intercultural bilingual education was implemented in Ecuador by interest groups and how this affected its interpretation and success. Using a sequential mixed methods design, the study began with a longitudinal analysis of education outcomes among Indigenous and nonIndigenous students from 2006-2013 using standardized tests from the Second and Third Regional Comparative and Explanatory Studies. Indigenous students increased their test scores in Spanish language over time; however, these findings were not solely attributed to intercultural bilingual education schools. Improvements among Indigenous students did not necessarily reflect increased equity, as low-income children and those from rural areas continued to underperform. In Ecuador, intercultural bilingual education reform from 2006-2016 resulted in divergent perspectives on the purposes and outcomes of this type of education between the government and Indigenous groups. Opposing interpretations of this education reform as a realization of Indigenous rights and equity as outlined in the 2008 constitution, and its subsequent implementation in Indigenous communities, led to differences in how to measure the success of the reform. Government adherence to a state-level system of evaluation and testing for all students and teachers in 2012 predisposed intercultural bilingual education schools to standardized testing that undermined the theoretical underpinnings of intercultural education.
The role of autumnal swarming behaviour and ambient air temperature in the variation of body mass in temperate bat species

1Polish Society for Bat Protection, Baczyńskiego 6/13, 98-220 Zduńska Wola, Poland 2Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland 3Department of Zoology, Faculty of Animal Science, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Ciszewskiego 8, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland 4Department of Behavioral Ecology, University of Wroclaw, ul. Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland
A new differential evolution algorithm with a combined mutation strategy for optimum synthesis of path-generating four-bar mechanisms

A one-phase synthesis method using heuristic optimization algorithms can solve the dimensional synthesis problems of path-generating four-bar mechanisms. However, due to the difficulty of the problem itself, there is still room for improvement in solution accuracy and reliability. Therefore, in this study, a new differential evolution (DE) algorithm with a combined mutation strategy, termed the combined-mutation differential evolution (CMDE) algorithm, is proposed to improve the solution quality. In the combined mutation strategy, the DE/best/1 operator and the DE/current-to-best/1 operator are respectively executed on some superior parents and some mediocre parents, and the DE/rand/1 operator is executed on the other inferior parents. Furthermore, the individuals participating in the three mutation operators are randomly selected from the entire set of parents. The proposed CMDE algorithm with the three different search modes possesses better population diversity as well as search ability than the DE algorithm. The effectiveness of the proposed CMDE algorithm is demonstrated using five representative problems. Findings show a marked improvement in solution accuracy and reliability. The most accurate results are obtained with an approximate combination ratio for the three mutation operators.