Judul: Retensi β-karoten pada Minyak Goreng Curah yang Telah Difortifikasi Karoten dari Red Palm Oil (RPO)
Abstrak: The aim of this study was to examine the retention of β-carotene in non-branded palm oil fortified with caroten from RPO. This study began with analyzed the nutrient content, physical properties and chemical quality of RPO, followed by fortified the non-branded palm oil with caroten from RPO that equivalent with 45 IU of vitamin A and followed by analysis of the physical properties, chemical quality, and fatty acid profile. Once that it was done, repeated of tofu frying with non-branded palm oil fortified with RPO and calculation of the β-carotene content in the fried tofu as well as its contribution to the needs of vitamin A were done. The results of this research showed that the RPO contents of β-carotene was 356 mcg/gram. Fatty acids in the RPO was dominated by fatty acids palmitic (16:0) and oleic fatty acid (18:1). The viscosity of RPO was 56.5 cP. The color of RPO was red with the degree of Hue 27.74. Peroxide number in RPO was 2.54 μeq/kg with a value of 0.12% palmitic acid. Recovery from RPO fortification was 107.06%. Retention of β-caroten in the first frying phase of non-branded palm oil was 70,57%, the second was 41.83% and 14.05% for the third. The results of analysis of variance showed that repeated frying made a significant difference (p <0.05) on the retention of β-carotene. Duncan’s test results indicate that retention in oil was different from the first, second and third frying phase. The content of β-carotene of fortified non-branded palm oil per 100 grams on fried tofu products decreased from the first fried 57,26 (μg/100 g) to 10,71 (μg/100 g) in a repeat of the third fried. Duncan’s test results indicated that retention β-carotene in fortified non branded palm oil oil was different in the first, second and third frying phase.
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Judul: Retensi Vitamin A dan β-karoten Minyak Sawit yang Difortifikasi Selama Penggorengan
Abstrak: Palm oil can be a good carrier of the vitamin A fortification due to its stability and its wide cooking application, so its consumption contributes to community’s nutrition. The objective of this research is to get information about the effect of fortificants to retention of vitamin A and β-carotene in fortified palm oils. Four palm oils used in this research were palm oil fortified with β-karoten from red palm olein (RPO) 47.08 IU/g, fortified with vitamin A 59.69 IU/g, fortified with combination A (30 IU RPO, 15 IU vitamin A) 45.64 IU/g and fortified with combination B (15 IU RPO, 30 IU vitamin A) 45.95 IU/g. Fortified oils were used to fry tofu by three replicated shallow frying and to stir-fry sprouts. The result showed that the retention of fortificants decreased by frying replication. In the first day of frying, the retention of fortificants were not significanly different (p=0.05), in a range 85.52%-88.22%. In the second and third frying, it was known that β-karoten had lower stability than vitamin A as fortificant. Fortificant combination A and B had the same stability. The peroxide value of the oils increased until the second frying, then decreased in the third frying. The free fatty acid (FFA) percentage increased minimally, except palm oil fortified with vitamin A, the FFA remained same. The highest yield of fortificant in cooked sprouts was vitamin A (63.37%), followed by combination B (53.42%), combination A (50.60%), and RPO (34.86%).
Keyword: vitamin A, retention, red palm olein, fortification, β-carotene

Judul: Discrete Event Simulation for Modeling Concurrency Control in Distributed Database System
Abstrak: Simulasi komputer merupakan metode untuk menggambarkan suatu sistem pada dunia nyata ke dalam suatu representasi pada komputer. Langkah awal pada proses simulasi adalah memodelkan sistem dalam dunia nyata itu ke dalam suatu model simulasi. Salah satu jenis simulasi komputer adalah Simulasi Kejadian Diskrit, jenis simulasi ini menekankan pemodelan suatu sistem yang berubah pada waktu-waktu tertentu pada suatu selang waktu. Salah satu penerapan Simulasi Kejadian Diskrit adalah pada pemodelan sistem basis data tersebar yang menggunakan Two Phase Request Distributed Scheduler sebagai algoritma kontrol konkurensinya. Kontrol konkurensi adalah pengaturan terhadap konkuren akses terhadap suatu data pada basis data. Pengaturan konkuren akses diperlukan karena terkadang konkuren akses dapat berakibat fatal terhadap informasi yang terdapat pada suatu basis data. Salah satu contohnya adalah dua konkuren akses yang berusaha mengubah nilai suatu data pada basis data; jika tidak ada mekanisme yang mengaturnya, ada kemungkinan hanya efek dari dari salah satu akses saja yang terjadi pada basis data. Pada model simulasi ini didefinisikan kejadian-kejadian yang muncul pada suatu sistem basis data tersebar yang menggunakan Two Phase Request Distributed Scheduler sebagai algoritma kontrol konkurensinya. Selain itu diberikan pula tipe data serta pseudo-code yang digunakan untuk merepresentasikan model simulasi di atas ke dalam suatu bahasa pemrograman, sehingga memungkinkan adanya implementasi dari model simulasi di atas.
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