Judul: Pemahaman Anjing terhadap Gestur Sosial  Nonverbal Manusia: Studi Kasus Unit K9 Polda Metro Jaya
Abstrak: Dogs have served numerous purposes in human life. Previous studies showed that dogs have excellent social cognitive abilities to use gestures as communicative cues. This study measured the detection dogs of K9 unit Polda Metro Jaya (PMJ) ability to use human gestures as cues through two-object choice task experiments. The experiment used finger-pointing, gazing, and arm reaching. Control is carried out by not making any gestures. Subjects were four Labrador-retriever, with an age range of 2 to 10 years old, and in active deployment of detection dogs in K9 PMJ, in both males and females. The results indicated that the subject dogs could infer communicative intentions through gestures. Gestures raised their accuracy significantly above chance, with arms reaching and yielding the highest accuracy. Gestures did not affect reaction time. Sex was found to affect reaction time in arm reaching cue. Dogs' work experience did not affect their accuracy and reaction time. These results should be considered when enhancing training and selection methods for working dogs., Anjing memiliki banyak peran dalam kehidupan manusia selama ratusan tahun. Penelitian sebelumnya memperlihatkan anjing memiliki kemampuan kognitif sosial untuk berkomunikasi melalui gestur. Studi ini mengukur kemampuan anjing deteksi dari unit K9 Polda Metro Jaya (PMJ) untuk menggunakan isyarat gestur pada uji pilihan dua objek. Gestur yang diuji antara lain penunjuk jari, arahan mata, dan menjulurkan lengan. Anjing tidak diberikan gestur apapun dipilih sebagai kontrol. Subjek adalah empat ekor anjing Labrador retriever, dengan rentang usia 2 sampai 10 tahun, aktif sebagai anjing deteksi tim K9 PMJ, baik jantan dan betina. Hasil penelitian mengindikasikan bahwa anjing mampu mengartikan komunikasi melalui gestur. Gestur meningkatkan akurasi pemilihan, dimana gestur menjulurkan lengan memiliki akurasi tertinggi. Gestur tidak berpengaruh pada waktu reaksi. Jenis kelamin hanya berpengaruh pada waktu reaksi menggunakan gestur lengan menjulur. Pengalaman kerja anjing tidak berpengaruh pada hasil studi. Hasil studi dapat dipertimbangkan dalam peningkatan metode latihan dan seleksi dari anjing pekerja.
Keyword: communicative cues, human gestures, social cognition, detection dogs, two-object choice, anjing deteksi, gestur manusia, isyarat komunikatif, kognitif sosial, pilihan dua-objek

Judul: Evaluasi Kesadaran Adopsi Anjing dan Persepsinya Terhadap Pemilik Anjing
Abstrak: Dog adoption is a process performed by potential dog adopters to adopt their desired dog after going through a selection of process. Often dog adoption process is carried out in shelters and rescue groups. Dog adoption is practiced mostly in developed countries that prefers to adopt due to several reasons such as helps to promote good mental health, a great companionship, and builds great interaction. This study aims to examine the perceptions of potential adopters on the criteria of adopting, choosing a dog and the information that was concerned before and after pet selection process. An online questionnaire was carried out to determine the perceptions of dog owners. Out of 150 participants, 132 prefers to adopt an animal, whereas 8 of them prefers to buy. The highest picked reason to adopt a pet was to provide the pets a forever home. 69.7% of participants who wishes to adopt prefers to visit the animal before adoption. The concerned factor upon adoption was the dog’s health issue and prefers to adopt puppies (less than 6 months). 99.3% were aware of dog abuse and its welfare., Adopsi anjing adalah suatu proses yang dilakukan untuk mengadopsi anjing yang diinginkan oleh calon pengadopsi (adopter) setelah melalui proses seleksi. Seringkali proses adopsi anjing dilakukan di tempat penampungan dan kelompok penyelamat. Di negara maju adopsi anjing banyak dipraktikkan karena beberapa alasan seperti meningkatkan kesehatan mental yang baik, meningkatkan nilai persahabatan, dan membangun interaksi dengan manusia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji persepsi calon adopter terhadap kriteria adopsi, pemilihan anjing dan informasi yang diperlukan sebelum dan sesudah proses seleksi hewan peliharaan. Kuesioner online dilakukan untuk mengetahui persepsi pemilik anjing. Dari 150 peserta, 132 lebih memilih untuk mengadopsi hewan sedangkan 8 di antaranya lebih memilih untuk membeli anjing. Alasan pilihan tertinggi untuk mengadopsi hewan peliharaan adalah untuk memberikan rumah hewan peliharaan untuk selamanya. 69,7% partisipan yang ingin mengadopsi lebih suka mengunjungi hewan sebelum diadopsi. Faktor yang menjadi perhatian pada saat adopsi adalah masalah kesehatananjing dan lebih memilih untuk mengadopsi anak anjing (kurang dari 6 bulan). 99,3% sadar akan penyalagunaan anjing dan kesejahteraannya.
Keyword: adopter, dog abuse, dog adoption

Judul: Sintesis Krisin dari Floroglusinol
Abstrak: Flavone is a class of flavonoid, widely distributed in vascular plants. Flavones containing hydroxyl groups at 5 and 7 position are quite important regarding their biological activities and their abiquity in nature. Flavone having hydroxyl groups only at position 5 and 7 or 5,7-dihydroxyflavone is known as chrysin. In this study, crude chrysin had been successfully synthesized in 3 steps from phloroglucinol as starting material. Phloroglucinol was acetylated with acetonitrile and HCl gas, resulting phloroacetophenone amount to 74%. Phloroacetophenone benzoylation with 4.5 equivalents of benzoyl chloride produced tribenzoyl phloroacetophenone in 103–107% of yield and the subsequent Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement of the ester by using KOH in dried pyridine produced crude chrysin, with conversion percentage of 71.62%. All synthetic products had been characterized by melting point and spectroscopically.
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