Judul: Metode Ekstraksi dan Uji Aktivitas Antibakteri dari Ekstrak Chaetoceros gracillis
Abstrak: Chaetoceros gracillis merupakan diatom yang paling umum dijumpai di perairan lepas pantai dengan keanekaragaman sekitar 1700 spesies. Sel diatom ini dilapisi oleh dinding sel yang terbuat dari silika yang bersifat kuat dan inert sehingga komponen antibakteri yang terdapat di dalam sel perlu dikeluarkan dari dalam selnya menggunakan metode pemecahan sel yang tepat untuk hail yang lebih optimal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari motode kultivasi terhadap biomassa sel C. gracillis, mempelajari metode pemecahan sel dan jenis pelarut terhadap ekstrak antibakteri dan daya hambat terhadap bakteri patogen. Penelitian yang dilakukan terdiri dari dua tahap, yaitu penelitian pendahuluan dan penelitian utama. Penelitian pendahuluan meliputi kultivasi C. gracillis skala keil (900 ml), sedangkan penelitian utama meliputi kultivasi C. gracillis skala besar (15 l), ekstraksi senyawa antibakteri dan uji aktivitas senyawa antibakteri. Analisis yang dilakukan berupa penghitungan jumlah sel dari kultivasi skala kecil dan pengujian aktivitas senyawa antibakteri dari ekstrak yang dihasilkan.
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Judul: Ektraksi senyawa antibakteri dari mikroalga laut jenis chaetoceros gracilis dan uji aktivitasnya terhadap beberapa bakteri
Abstrak: Penelitian terhadap Chaetoceros gracilis, salah satu jenis mikroalga yang dominan pada perairan lepas pantai Indonesia, bertujuan untuk menentukan pola pertumbuhan mikroalga tersebut pada suliu ruang, mengekstrak senyawa antibakterinya, dan menguji aktivitas antibakteri tersebut terhadap beberapa bakteri. C. gracilis dikultivasi dalam medium Guillard pada suhu ruang dengan kepadatan awal l,0xl0⁴ sel/ml, pengaturan aerasi, dan pemberian cahaya sebesar 1500 luks dari lampu TL 20 watt. Penentuan pola pertumbuhan dilakukan dengan metode hitungan langsung di bawah mikroskop, mengkonversi nilai kepadatannya ke dalam log, dan memplotkannya pada milimeter blok sehingga diperolah kurva pertumbuhan. Ekstraksi senyawa antibakteri ekstraseluler dan intraseluler dilakukan dengan memodifikasi prosedur umum dari metode Quinn (1988) dan Pratt (1945). Setelah diperoleh ekstrak kasar intraseluler dan ekstraseluler antibakteri, dilakukan uji aktivitasnya terhadap bakteri Gram negatif (E. coli dan Pseudomonas sp.) dan Gram positif (B. subtilis dan S. aureus) dengan memodifikasi metode Caliberated Dichotomous Sensitivity (CDS) test. Antibiotik streptomycin dan aquadest steril digunakan sebagai kontrol positif dan negatif.
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Judul: The Effects of Variance of Interest rate to Variance of Annuity Future Values
Abstrak: Time value of money is a concept that refers to the difference of the value of money due to time difference. The value of money for present time would not be the same as the value of money in the future. The value of money for present time is called as Present Value (PV) of the money and the value of money for future time is called Future Value (FV) of the money. Determination the value of money, for present and future time, depends on the time and rate of return. The value of money is determined by several factors such as inflation, fluctuation of interest rates, and government policy in securities and taxation. Due to fluctuation of the value of money we need a FV formulation, it is useful for knowing whether an investment can be profitable or not, and this information is useful also in budget analysis. Annuity is defined as a series of payments made for a specific period. The payment, fixed or varied, can be made at the beginning or at the end of the period. Annuity paid at the beginning of the period is called annuity-due and annuity paid at the end of the period is called immediate annuity-certain. The accumulated value of the annuity after few years later is called as a final value or a future value. Burnecki et al. (2003) have discussed about the FV of a fixed-rate annuity in which payments are made according to the arithmetic or geometric series. They have also examined FV for annuities in which payments are made according to arithmetic or geometric series with random rates of interest. This paper examines FV for annuity-due in which payments are made according to arithmetic or geometric series with interest rates as a random variable, which is normal distribution ,  . Future value formula is expressed in recursive form. FV for annuity-due which payments are made according to the arithmetic or geometric series with random rates of interest is calculated by theoretical way and simulation way. The random rates of interest is denoted as k k i  i  , where k i an independent random variable; i is a constant and k  is a random variable which has normal distribution ,  . By using the determined parameters, a sequence of random rates of interest are generated for theoretical calculation. Meanwhile for the simulation, the random rates of interest is generated 1000 times for the simulation. The generated data give mean value, variance, and standard deviation. Moreover, error of mean value, variance, and standard deviation from the theoretical and simulation results are calculated. Error calculation uses Symmetric Mean Absolute Percentage Error (SMAPE). The smaller the value of SMAPE is the more accurate the simulation. The interest rate variances are varied from 0.000036 to 0.0001 to study the relationship between variance of rates of interest and variance of future value. The theoretical and simulation results show that when the variance of random rates of interest increases, then the variance of FV increases linearly. FV of the annuity-due in
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