Judul: Correlation of Entrepreneurial Characteristics and the Success of the Contemporary Beverage Business in Medan Johor District, Medan City
Abstrak: Perkembangan dunia usaha Indonesia telah menyebabkan munculnya model usaha mikro, kecil dan menengah (UMKM). Perkembangan jumlah unit usaha UMKM di Indonesia terus mengalami peningkatan setiap tahunnya. Usaha yang saat ini sedang berkembang adalah usaha minuman kekinian yang telah muncul di tengah masyarakat selama beberapa tahun terakhir. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan karakteristik pelaku usaha, karakteristik usaha, dan karakteristik kewirausahaan pelaku usaha, serta menganalisis hubungan karakteristik kewirausahaan dan keberhasilan usaha minuman kekinian. Penelitian dilakukan di Kecamatan Medan Johor, Kota Medan dengan menggunkaan metode analisis deskriptif dan analisis korelasi. Penentuan sampel pada penelitian ini dengan menggunakna purposive sampling berjumlah 35 responden. Alat analisis yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah Rank Spearman. Karakteristik kewirausahaan yang diteliti pada penelitian ini adalah inovatif, percaya diri, berani mengambill risiko, dan berorientasi masa depan. Pengukuran keberhasilan usaha pada penelitian ini menggunakan indikator pertumbuhan usaha dan omzet. Berdasarkan hasil analisis Rank Spearman menunjukkan bahwa keempat karakteristik kewirausahaan berkorelasi secara signifikan terhadap keberhasilan usaha. Hal ini memiliki arti bahwa ketika karakteristik kewirausahaan pelaku usaha minuman kekinian meningkat maka kebrhasilan usaha akan meningkat., The development of the Indonesian business world has led to the emergence of the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSMEs) model. The development of the number of MSMEs business units in Indonesia continues to increase every year. The business that is currently developing is a contemporary beverage business that has emerged in the community over the last few years. The purpose of this study is to describe the characteristics of business actors, characteristics of the business, and the entrepreneurial characteristics of business actors, as well as to analyze the relationship between entrepreneurial characteristics and the success of the contemporary beverage business. The research was conducted in Medan Johor District, Medan City by using descriptive analysis and correlation analysis methods. Determination of the sample in this study using purposive sampling amounted to 35 respondents. The analytical tool used in this research is Rank Spearman. The entrepreneurial characteristics studied in this study are innovative, confident, risk-taking, and future-oriented. The measurement of business success in this study uses indicators of business growth and turnover. Based on the results of Spearman's Rank analysis shows that the four characteristics of entrepreneurship are significantly correlated with business success. This means that when the entrepreneurial characteristics of the contemporary beverage business actors increase, business success will increase.
Keyword: business success, contemporary beverage, entrepreneurial characteristics, rank spearman

Judul: Perilaku Kewirausahaan pada Usaha Mikro Kecil (UMK) di Bogor, Jawa Barat
Abstrak: Entrepreneurial was believed as the wheel of economic growth, as well as entrepreneur is also regarded as an innovator in economic development. The high percentage of the number of entrepreneurs in a country have correlation with the growing well economy (Schumpeter in Casson et al 2006). Data from Kemenkop stated that dominant business in Indonesia is from Micro Small Enterprises (MSEs) with a percentage of 90 %. Nevertheless, this business owner is not counted as an entrepreneur in accordance with Kemenkop assessment. This is associated with the accorded data of number entrepreneurs in Indonesia during 2013, only range about 1.90 % of the total population in Indonesia. This percentage is still very small compared to other Asian countries, Referring to the definition of entrepreneur as an individual who has the ability to create something, to work alone, and to face the risk by leveraging existing opportunities (Casson et al 2006). Empowering the Micro Small Enterprises (MSEs) is one of the best strategic plan because of it has not only great potential in activating economic activities, but also for increasing source of income to improve the welfare of community. Small micro-business is a business that is able to withstand the crisis, as well as micro enterprises that produce tempe in Indonesia. This enterprises has unique characteristics and supply raw materials for producing tempe 100 % derived from soybean imports. Thus, the price change of soybeans will directly influence to business development and also the behavior of producers in negotiating for these circumstances. This enterprises was mostly hereditary, traditional, and small scale home business. However, despite these enterprises are constrained by prices of raw materials and capital, entrepreneurs persist to exist for years despite business growth is not significant . Thus, that behaviors underlying above are the basis on this entrepreneurial behavior research in MSEs. The purpose of this study were (1) identify the characteristics of entrepreneurs in MSE industry (2) analyze the effect of entrepreneurial characteristics and the business climate for entrepreneurial behavior (3) analyze the effect of entrepreneurial behavior on its performance. This research was conducted in Bogor, West Java from November 2014 until July 2015. The number of samples was 121 respondents, taken with purposive sampling technique. Primary data was collected by direct interviews with questionnaire. Data were analyzed with descriptive analysis and multivariate analysis with Structural Equation Models (SEM). Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the characteristics of entrepreneurs, while SEM is used to analyze the relationship between exogenous latent variables of entrepreneurial characteristics and the business climate with latent variables of entrepreneurial behavior and perspective business performance. Descriptive analysis showed that entrepreneurial characteristics was found on the MSE, and increasing scale of production it will be influence on entrepreneurial characteristics. The results of SEM analysis showed that internal factors entrepreneurial characteristics (EC) has a strong influence on entrepreneurial behavior of producer (MSEs). The most variable that reflecting the entrepreneurial character tempe is innovative character. Innovative characteristics that was conducted by producer is innovate on the product, change the size, make a kind of super quality tempe, or make tempe
Keyword: entrepreneurial behavior, entrepreneurial characteristics micro small enterprises (MSES), structural equation models (SEM), tempe industrial

Judul: Babesiosis pada kuda
Abstrak: Babesiosis pada kuda adalah penyakit menular yang di- sebabkan oleh Babesia caballi dan Babesia equi, yaitu pa- rasit protozoa perusak sel darah yang termasuk dalam genus Babesia. B. equi diduga oleh beberapa ahli termasuk dalam genus Theileria. Karena itu klasifikasi genus Babesia di- bicarakan dan siklus hidup B. caballi dan B. equi diulas. Kuda pada semua umur dapat terserang oleh dua parasite tersebut di atas. Tetapi kuda-kuda yang sudah dewasa (tua) lebih rentan jika dibandingkan dengan kuda-kuda yang masih muda. Kasus-kasus yang paling sering dijumpai adalah kasus-kasus yang bersifat akut walaupun kasus-kasus yang bersifat perakut, subakut dan kronik kadang-kadang terlihat. Serangan oleh parasit Babesia biasanya menyebabkan kerusаkan sel darah merah yang hebat sehingga kuda-kuda yang terserang menderita anemia hebat yang dapat menyebabkan kematian bila tidak segera diobati. Untuk mengatasi hal tersebut perlu dilakukan diagnosis yang tepat dan sedini mungkin. Diagnosis dapat dilakukan dengan cara memeriksa gejala-gejala klinik, preparat ulas darah, inokulasi hewan lain dan dengan mengadakan pemeriksaan secara serologik. Gejala-gejala klinik babesiosis pada kuda yang bersifat akut yang paling sering terlihat, ialah : nafsu makan menurun/hilang, lesu, bulu suram dan tidak mau bergerak. Kuda yang dilepaskan di padang rumput akan mengasingkan diri dan jalan sempoyongan. Faeces yang keluar berwarna cok- lat gelap, diselaputi lendir yang berwarna kekuningan dan urimenya berwarna merah tua. Temperatur tubuh meningkat menjadi 39.5 - 41°C dan pulsus meningkat. Terlihat dispnoe, perdarahan petechi pada mukosa membrana nictitans dan conjunctiva yang lebih pucat dari normal dan juga icteris. Kasus-kasus yang bersifat subakut gejala-gejalanya lebih ringan, tetapi bila tidak segera diobati maka gejala- gejala tersebut secara cepat menjadi hebat. Persendian lutut dan persendian gelang puyuh membengkak dan padanya ter- lihat oedema. Pada abdomen, dada dan kepala juga dapat di- temukan oedema. Gejala-gejala klinik yang terlihat pada kasus kronik adalah penurunan kondisi tubuh kuda secara progresif walaupun diberi makan yang banyak. Perubahan temperatur tidak jelas, nafsu makan berubah-ubah, icterus tidak jelas dan anemia mungkin hanya dapat dideteksi dengan menghitung sel darah merah dan kadar hematocrit…dst
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