Judul: Birth Control Strategies for the Improvement of Economic and Social Development in West Lampung Regency
Abstrak: West Lampung Regency based on Penta/aka KB (training and workshop on family planning) in Bali in 2008, has the birth rate of 2,84 and BPS (2008) has 61,79 percent of its population is poor. This will become an obstacle to its continous social and economic development. The purposes of the study were: 1) to analyse relationship of factor-factor socio economic (education level, women participation in working, age of first marriage, family planning and income level) with birth rate 2) to analyse difference of birth rate between poor families and non-poor ones 3) arrange the direction of birth control strategies to improvement social and economic development in West Lampung Regency The study was conducted in West Lampung Regency on November-December 2008. This study used correlation analysis and t-test analYSis. The choosing of birth control strategies to improvement social and economic development using Analytical Hierrarchy Process (AHP) The results showed that there are 1) no relationship between educational level and birth rate 2) no relationship between women participation in working with birth rate 3) no relationship between age for the first marriage with birth rate and 4). there is a relationship between partiCipation in family planning with birth rate 5) there is a relationship exists between income level with birth rate 6) no difference in birth rate between poor families and non-poor ones. The social dan cultural problems found in the study were an ideal family is perceived as having three until four children, a family must have children of certain gender types, marriage at too young age, and low value of children, i.e. they are viewed as factor of production in the family. Results of AHP analysis for designed program indicate that birth control strategies for improvement of socio-economic development in West Lampung Regency should include: 1) contruction of entrepreneurship, 2) improvement of education facilities and basis facilities 3) improvement of education acces of formal xenon 4) supply of contraception devices 5) improvement of institutional exsistence 6) empowerment of family economic and 7) socialization and advocacy.
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Judul: Faktor-Faktor Sosial Ekonomi yang Mempengaruhi Fertilitas Perempuan dengan Lama Perkawinan di Bawah 10 Tahun di Provinsi Jawa Barat
Abstrak: The high rate of population growth is the main problem faced by the development of developing countries, including Indonesia. Population explosion occurred mainly due to a decreased level of mortality (death) while the population fertility rates can not be well controlled. The purpose of this study was to determine the socio economics factors that affect fertility (births) in the Province of West Java. Information factors can be used as one tool in population control considerations. This study used the data of National Socio economic Survey of West Java Province in 2011. Response variable in this study is the number of biological children born alive, whisch is continuous, so that the proper analysis is a regression tree with CART algorithm. Regression tree in urban produce 6 end nodes with the most effective explanatory variable is the contraception status, husband’s education, expenditure per capita per month, and the use of toilet. Regression tree in rural produce 5 end nodes with the most effective explanatory variable is the status of the use of family planning, expenditure per capita per month, and the use of toilet.
Keyword: regression tree, fertility, CART

Judul: Karakteristik Anatomi Skelet Kepala Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii).
Abstrak: Buaya sepit atau senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan jenis buaya asli Indonesia yang berhabitat di sungai-sungai Sumatera, Kalimantan, dan juga pedalaman Sulawesi. Salah satu ciri khas buaya senyulong adalah bentuk moncong yang runcing dan sempit, namun hingga saat ini informasi mengenai struktur skelet kepala buaya senyulong sangat terbatas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet kepala buaya senyulong yang dikatikan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian dilakukan secara eksploratif dengan melakukan pengamatan, pencatatan, dan pengambilan gambar dari skelet kepala buaya senyulong. Skelet kepala berukuran panjang 70 cm, lebar 29 cm, dan tingggi 17 cm dengan permukaan kasar pada os nasale, os frontale, os maxilla, os mandibula, os lacrimale, os jugale. Jumlah gigi pada buaya ini sebanyak 78 buah, terdiri dari 4 buah gigi premaxila, 16 buah gigi maxila, dan 19 buah gigi mandibula. Pada regio orbitalis ditemukan dua pasang fenestrae temporales yang berkembang baik. Fenestra supratemporale merupakan lubang oval yang membentang di sepanjang os parietale. Fenestra infratemporale berbentuk segitiga dan dibatasi oleh os squamosum, os postorbitale, os jugulare, dan os quadratum. Os mandibula hewan ini mempunyai symphysis mandibularis yang panjang yaitu garis yang melintang di corpus mandibulae. Secara fungsional ukuran symphysis mandibularis berkaitan dengan adaptasi hewan terhadap diet makan.
Keyword: kepala, moncong, Tomistoma schlegelii