Judul: Pola Pernikahan Masyarakat Batak Karo di Perantauan
Abstrak: Pernikahan adalah budaya yang tidak akan pernah berhenti, pernikahan akan terjadi secara berkelanjutan Dasarnya, karena pernikahan merupakan kebutuhan biologis manusia. Indonesia adalah negara yang kaya akan budaya dan etnis. Setiap suku di Indonesia mempunyai tata cara/adat istiadat dalam pelaksanaan pernikahan itu sendiri. Begitupun dengan suku Batak karo yang mempunyai sendiri tata cara pelaksanaan pernikahan. Seiring dengan perkembangan zaman Karo Banyak masyarakat yang merantau ke berbagai daerah di Indonesia, salah satunya Bogor berjalan-jalan. Masyarakat Karo yang merantau ke wilayah Bogor pada umumnya akan berusaha melakukan adaptasi ke negara tempat tinggal baru. Keadaan ini juga terjadi pada perkawinan Karo dalam pola adaptasi di Bogor. Namun adaptasi pernikahan masyarakat Karo di Bogor berupaya menjaga nilai-nilai budaya Karo dan sakralisme perkawinan. Mereka do Karo Dimodifikasi pada pola perkawinan, dengan tetap menjaga nilai budaya pernikahan.
Keyword: Weddings Karo, Adaptation marriage patterns, Attitudes

Judul: The existence of bajapuik, a minangkabau marriage tradition practiced in Pariaman , West Sumatra
Abstrak: One model of marriage tradition that often gets the spotlight is bajapuik, an action of giving a sum of money or uang japuik to the prospective bridegroom by the prospective brides’ family. The tradition, which is only practiced by Minangkabau people from Pariaman, contradicts to the rules of marriage in Islam of which the bridegroom has to give something as a present or mahar to the bride. Today, the amount of uang japuik has continuously increase as the socioeconomic status of prospective bridegroom improves. This has resulted in financial burden to the prospective brides’ family. Therefore, this study is aimed to find out what values, basic forms of exchange in bajapuik tradition marriage and factors affecting the changes. It is also aimed to identify who are involved and what are their roles in the bajapuik tradition. Finally it is intended to analyse what are the reasons why bajapuik tradition is still exist in a changing society. Post-positivism paradigm was used to answer these problems and both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed. Data was collected through a survey, in-depth, participant observation, documentation and literature study. Respondents and informants of the research were the people living in surrounding areas of Pariaman. They are chosen on the basis of purposive and snowballing sampling method, The respondent were young, middle and old generation, while the informants were people of KAN (Kerapatan Adat Nagari); and ex-KAN; LKAAM (Lembaga Kerapatan Alam Adat Minangkabau) and tiga tungku sajarangan. This study shows that bajapuik tradition with the uang japuik still exists in the society because it is continuously experiencing adjustments, until present time. This is manifested is the exchange of the basic changes from the title of nobility (ascribed status) to the socio-economic status (achievement status), although the bases of the exchange value is still the same, that is cultural values. Exchange in bajapuik tradition involves actors from the families, which consists of parents, mamak and ninik mamak. The amount tradition of bajapuik money depent on the socioeconomic status of prospective bridegroom. The existence of bajapuik tradition in the social context until the present time is supported by families both parties who share the same values and internal solidarity among the family members.
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Judul: Pengujian Virus Newcastle Disease Gen VII Isolat Lapang Sebagai Virus Standar Pada Uji Tantang Vaksin
Abstrak: This study was conducted to determine the standard of Newcastle disease virus Gene VII field isolate as a virus challenge to vaccine test. A virus suspension that has previously been tested by HA test then titrated with EID50 using 30 Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) of 10 day old chicken embryonated eggs. In addition, chicken lethal dose50 (CLD50) test were used to determine the virus titer that could cause 50% death of the chicken population. The CLD50 test was used 25 day-old-chickens (DOC) divided into 5 groups. The virus was diluted from 10-1 to 10-8. The 104 to 10-8 dilution of NDV was infected to every group of chicken via eyedrop and intranasal with 0.1 ml/chicken dosage. Haemagglutination test showed that the allantoic fluid were contain high titers of NDV is 512 HAU. The infective NDV that had been titrated by EID50 test showed the virus titers is 109 EID50/0.1 ml or 1010 EID50/ml and the virus titers of CLD50 test e.i 106.48 CLD50/0.1 ml or 107.48 CLD50/ml. These results can be concluded that the NDV Gene VII field isolates were most appropriate to be used as a standard virus to vaccine test
Keyword: Newcastle Disease Virus Gene VII, HA tes, EID50 test, CLD50 test