Judul: Studi Netralisasi Limbah Serbuk Sabut Kelapa (Cocopeat) Sebagai Media Tanam
Abstrak: Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara di dunia yang memiliki potensi agroi industri yang cukup besar, yang salah satunya adalah kelapa. Men~irut Biro Pusat Statistik (BPS ; 1999), Indonesia memiliki areal kelapa terluas di dunia yaitu 3,7 juta hektar, tetapi potensinya belum dapat dimanfaatkan dengan baik. Salah satu bagian pohon kelapa yang belum dimanfaatkan dengan baik adalah sabut kelapa. Pengolahan sabut kelapa menjadi media tanam merupakan usaha untuk meningkatkan nilai tambah sabut kelapa, mengikat banyaknya unsur hara yang terkandung dalam sabut kelapa. Media tanam dari sabut kelapa merupakan media tanam yang berasal dari bahan organik dan bersifat ramah lingkungan.
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Judul: Kajian Komposisi dan Finansial pada Pemanfaatan Serbuk Sabut Kelapa sebagai Media Tanam Lempengan
Abstrak: Serbuk sabut kelapa merupakan salah satu produk samping hasil pengupasan bush kelapa. Selama ini pemanfaatan produk samping buali kelapa tersebut masih terbatas pada tempurung kelapa dan serat sabut kelapa. Padahal dari pengupasaii tersebut, akan dihasilkan limbah sekitar 19,046 juta m 3. Dari jumlah tersebut, 35 % berupa serat yang dapat. digunakan untuk bahan baku industri rumah tangga sedangkan 65 % dari limbah tersebut bila diolah menjadi media tanam akan meningkatkan nilai tambah yang cukup besar. Media tanam lempengan dari serbuk sabut kelapa merupakan suatu kemasan barn dari media tanam buatan yaitu berbentuk lempeng dengan ukuran sekitar 21 cm x 21 cm x 2 cm dan berat total media adalah 250 g.
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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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