Judul: Hidrolisis Pati Palma Menggunakan Pullulanase dan β-Amilase
Abstrak: Palm trees are unexplored carbohydrate sources that wiidely spread in Indonesia. Palm starches are still under utilized since lacked information about their pysico-chemical properties. Hydrolysis of these starches are the right application without concerning their characteristics. This research investigated the starches from five types of palm trees, namely Metroxylon sago (commersial sago), Metroxylon sp. (sagu rumbia), Arenga pinnata, Arenga microcarpa (sagu baruk), and Caryota mitis; and the hydrolysis of palm starches by using degrading enzymes, i.e. pullulanase and β- amylase. The result showed that palm starches are normal starch which contain17-21% of amylose or 83-79% of amylopectin which differed in branch-chain lengths, and caused typical products from each type of palm. Pullulanase as debranching enzymes, cleaveged the starch to produce DP 13.9- 20.8 of Short-Chains Amylose (SCA). The starch contained 22.2-38.8% of β-limit dextrins as the residue of β-amylolysis. Simultaneous hydrolysis by using β-amylase and pullulanase mainly produced maltose for all starch with DP of 1.7-2.9.
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Judul: Hidrolisis Pati Palma Menggunakan α-Amilase
Abstrak: Today, carbohydratesmostly supplied fromcerealand tuber crops.Even thoughit many other sources of starch for industrial rawmaterials, one of them is palm trees. To explore it’s possibility, thusneedinformation on the physico-chemical properties and processing technology of the starch. The objective of this study were to examine the correlation between starch as substrate and types of enzymes, it’s also to know attack action pattern of the enzyme to glycosides linkages in the starch. Hydrolysis of starch used bacterial α-amylase, porcine pancreatin α-amylase, glucoamylase, dextrozymes, and monitored the changes on the value of DE (dextrose equivalent) and DP (degree of polymerization). The values giveinformation aboutthe types of hydrolysis products and starch digestibility by pancreatin amylasefrom some kind of palm starch. The result showed the palm starches are normal starch with 20.04-26.67% of amylose contents. All palm starches can be utilized as substrates for raw material for starch hydrolysates industry. Completed hydrolysis of palm starch enzymatically produced average 􀜦􀴤􀴤􀴤􀜲􀴤2.23-2.62 and􀴤􀜦􀴤􀴤􀜧􀴤38.27-44.9 for bacterial α-amylase, and average􀴤􀜦􀴤􀴤􀜲􀴤 2.28-3.31 and 􀴤􀜦􀴤􀴤􀜧􀴤30.27-43.91for pancreatin α-amylase.Onthe stage of saccharification, dextrozyme more effective than glucoamylasefor debranching of α-1,6-glycosides linkages so that result value of DEgreater than glucoamylase with the average 􀜦􀴤􀴤􀴤􀜧􀴤95.74-98.81 and􀴤􀜦􀴤􀴤􀜲􀴤 1.01-1.04 for dextrozyme, and average 􀜦􀴤􀴤􀴤􀜧􀴤94.65-98.21and􀴤􀜦􀴤􀴤􀜲􀴤 1.02-1.06 for amiloglukosidase.Palm starch from Arenga pinnatahas a digestibilityvaluehigherthanothertypes ofpalmstarch.
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Judul: Measurement of consciousness in dreaming in adults  using lucid scale
Abstrak: Tidur adalah keadaan saat otak tidak mengolah informasi dari neuron sensorik dan tidak memberi perintah ke neuron motorik. Ketika tidur seseorang bermimpi di mana kesadaran berubah karena otak membangun dunia maya dengan gambaran yang nyata dan tidak dapat kita identifikasi sebagai halusinogen. Lucid dream atau mimpi sadar berkaitan dengan peningkatan konektivitas fungsional antara korteks prefrontal dan area asosiasi temporoparietal. Kedua wilayah ini biasanya dinonaktifkan selama tidur dan pengaktifannya menyebabkan lucid dream di mana orang sadar bahwa pengalaman saat ini adalah milik mimpi. Kita dapat mengukur kesadaran dalam bermimpi dengan menggunakan lucid scale. Namun demikian, Voss et al. (2013) tidak menentukan seberapa skala yang menjadi batas apakah seseorang itu lucid dreamer atau bukan. Untuk menjawab pertanyaan tersebut, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah seorang lucid dreamer itu mempunyai skala lucidity yang lebih tinggi daripada orang yang non-lucid dreamer. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa pada responden dewasa metode pengukuran lucid scale berlaku sebagai indikator lucid dreamer untuk responden laki-laki namun metode ini tidak berlaku untuk responden perempuan. Skala lucidity berkaitan dengan kemampuan penalaran pada laki-laki, tetapi tidak demikian halnya pada perempuan.
Keyword: lucid dream, sleep, lucid scale, reasoning