Judul: Kemampuan Bakteri Endofit Penghasil Asam Indol Asetat dan Pengaruhnya dalam Mengendalikan Virus Gemini pada Tanaman Cabai (Capsicum annum L.)
Abstrak: Production of red chilli in Indonesia decreased because of gemini virus disease. The disease is transmitted by Bemisia tabacias insect vector. One of possibility methods is to improve plant resistancecan be supported byendhopytic bacteria or Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) which can produce IAA (Indole Asetic Acid) hormone. IAA hormone can serves as a growth promoter and plant resistance. The aims of this research are to test the effect of 50 isolates endhopytic bacteria producing hormones in the IAA and analyze the effect on growth of chilli plants that Gemini virus. The experimental design was factorial randomize complete block design which three AIA treatment and two variety of chilli treatments as factors. These treatments were replicated in five blocks. The results showed that infection by Gemini virus could reduce and increase plant growth.
Keyword: Gemini virus, productivity, Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria, endophytic bacteria, chilli, hormone

Judul: Pengaruh aplikasi bakteri perakaran pemacu pertumbuhan tanaman pada tiga genotipe cabai (Capsicum annum L.) terhadap pertumbuhan tanaman serta kejadian penyakit penting cabai
Abstrak: In Indonesia, chilli was an important vegetable commodity refer to production area as well as it’s value, but production of chilli in Indonesia still very low. The low production was caused by a lack of proper cultivation techniques, seed quality, and pest and plant disease. Important disease that can decrease the production of chilli includes antrachnose disease, bacterial wilt, mosaic and mottle virus in chilli. The disease controlling effort that were recently developed and relatively safe for the environment, using Plant Growth-promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR). The objective of this study was to determine the effect of PGPR usage, that were P. fluorescens PG01 isolates, B. polymixa BG25 and a mixture of both isolates (PG01 + BG25) against agronomic characters and incidence of important diseases in the three genotypes of chilli (IPB C5, C10 IPB, and Kopay) on the field. The experiment was performed from February until November, 2009 on farmer land were located on Desa Cibatok I, Kecamatan Cibungbulang, Kabupaten Bogor. The experiment was arranged in split plot design, were randomly treated with bacterial group as main plots and genotypes as subplots. Four levels main plots were PGPR treatments isolates PG01, BG25, PG01 + BG25, and without PGPR treatment as a comparison. The three subplots were C10 IPB, C5 IPB, and Kopay. In the experiment there were 12 treatment combinations, each treatment consisted of three replications, so there are 36 experimental units. Each experimental unit consisted of 20 plants, with a total 720 plants were tested. PGPR treatments significantly influenced the plant height and number of branches, but gave no significant effect on leaves number. The highest growth improvement on vegetative phase was occurred by the mixed bacterial treatment (PG01 + BG25). IPB C10, C5 genotypes and varieties of IPB Kopay have different agronomic characteristics measured on plant height, number of branches and number of leaves. PGPR treatment did not affect significantly to crop production and disease incidence (antraknosa, bacterial wilt, TMV, CMV, and ChiVMV). Antrachnose infections most commonly found in Kopay varieties, while the bacterial wilt infection occurs more frequently in genotypes IPB C5.
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Judul: Pricing of Lookback Options with Floating Strike Price Using The Monte Carlo Method
Abstrak: Opsi lookback adalah opsi yang payoff-nya bergantung pada harga saham terbesar atau harga saham terkecil yang dicapai selama masa berlaku opsi. Opsi lookback dikatakan dengan floating strike price jika nilai dari strike price sebesar harga saham pada saat jatuh tempo. Nilai hampiran opsi lookback ditentukan dengan metode Monte Carlo, sedangkan nilai eksak didapat dari nilai simulasi terbesar yang mampu dihitung oleh komputer. Berdasarkan hasil penghitungan, nilai galat relatif yang dihasilkan semakin kecil dengan semakin bertambah banyaknya simulasi yang dilakukan, sehingga metode Monte Carlo untuk menghitung harga opsi lookback dengan floating strike price konvergen ke nilai eksaknya., Lookback option is an option whose payoff depends on the maximum or minimum of the asset price reached during the option period. The lookback option is said to be a floating strike price if the value of the strike price is equal to the stock price at maturity. The value of the lookback option is determined by the Monte Carlo method, while the exact value is obtained from the largest simulation value that the computer can compute. Based on the calculation results, the resulting relative error value get smaller with the increasing number of simulations performed. Therefore, the Monte Carlo method to calculate the price of the lookback option with the floating strike price converges to the exact value.
Keyword: lookback option, floating strike price, Monte Carlo method, convergent