Judul: Pengaruh perendaman umbi singkong dalam larutan asam asetat terhadap karakteristik mutu keripik singkong
Abstrak: Processing modification of cassava tubers is expected to produce the cassava chips with specific quality characteristics. One form of the modification process is by using acetic acid as medium of soaking of cassava tubers. This study was aimed to know the effects of soaking of cassava tubers in acetic acid solution on quality characteristics of cassava chips. The treatments of this research were soaking cassava tubers in acetic acid solution with concentrations of 0.5; 1.0; 2.0 and 3.0 for 2 hours; 4 hours; and 6 hours. Soaking of cassava tubers in acetic acid solution for 2 hours and 4 hours resulted cassava chips with the lowest brittleness and hardness. Then, soaking treatments of cassava tubers in acetic acid solution with concentrations of 0.5 and 1.0 for 0.5 hour; 1 hour; 1.5 hours; and 2 hours showed that cassava chips with soaking treatment in acetic acid solution for 0.5 hour and 1.5 hours resultedthe lowest brittleness. Organoleptic test showed that cassava chips with soaking treatment in acetic acid solution with concentration of 1.0 for 1.5 hours had the greatest sensory value and be the best cassava chips. The soaking treatment in acetic acid solution acid has produced cassava chips with specific quality characteristics, such as brighter on colors, reduced bitter taste, flavor was preferred, and the texture wasn’t harder. The best cassava chipswas stored for 4 weeks in polypropylene plastic packaging at room temperature. The brightness ofboth of cassava chips with soaking treatment inacetic acid solution with concentration of 1.0 for 1.5 hours (the sample) and cassava chips without acetic acid soaking treatment (control) increased during storage. The increased of brightness was also followed by a decreased in the value of a and b. The rate of increase in the value of brittleness and hardness in the sample were greater than that of control. The sensory value for sample and control decreased, and it showed the decreased of quality characteristics of cassava chips during storage. Up to second week of storage, the peroxide value of sample was greater than that of control. The peroxide value of sample increased at greater rate than that of control during storage.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), peroxide value., chips, cassava, acetic acid

Judul: Pengaruh Perlakuan Panas sebelum Penggorengan terhadap Kerenyahan
Abstrak: Cassava is one of the local commodities of Indonesia that can be found easily at many places. Cassava chip is one of the popular snacks in Indonesia and crispness becomes one of the important factors to measure cassava chips quality. Some efforts have been tried to enhance the crispness of cassava chip. Heating processes before frying, such as steaming and boiling, are explored whether they can help to enhance cassava chip crispness or not. Steaming and boiling can cause the cassava starch gelatinization. As a result, the starch granule swells because of water hydration. When cassava slices is fried, the water comes out and small pores formed. The pores can cause the crispness of chips. The crispness was analyzed by sensory evaluation using rating and triangle test as subjective test and physical test using texture analyzer as objective test. Proximate analysis was also done to see if there are any effects of nutrients change because of heating processes to crispness. The result showed that steaming and boiling cassava slices before frying enhanced the crispness of cassava chips. Nutrients changed because of these heating processes.
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Judul: Query Expansion based on Bilingual Dictionary Using Conditional Probability
Abstrak: Query expansion is a technique that can be used to bridge vocabulary gaps between queries and documents in the collection. With query expansion, user will be helped to formulate queries well so that user will optimize the search result. In this study, the expansion term was resulted from the translation of bilingual dictionary. Subsequently, several terms of expansion were elected based on the closeness of its relationship with the original query. This research showed that conditional probability can be used to select expansion term in bilingual translation method query expansion. The result of 1000 documents was more than 97% relevan document can be retrieved by this system. The more expansion term used, the larger number relevan document was retrieved.
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