Judul: Etnobhotany of Kerinci Ethinic Around Bukit Tinggai Indigenous Forest Sungai Deras Village, Kerinci Regency of Jambi Province).
Abstrak: Hutan adat dengan masyarakatnya merupakan kesatuan yang tidak dapat dipisahkan. Masyarakat ini biasanya memiliki pengetahuan mengenai peranan kearifan lokal. Peranan kearifan lokal tersebut antara lain dalam penggunaan bahan-bahan alam terutama tumbuhan maupun kearifan pengelolaan hutan. Melihat hal tersebut serta proses pendokumentasian yang masih sangat kurang dan adanya perubahan tentang pengelolaan kawasan hutan di beberapa daerah seperti di Hutan Adat Bukit Tinggai, maka perlu dilakukan penelitian untuk menindaklanjuti hal tersebut. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu (1) mengetahui pemanfaatan jenis tumbuhan oleh masyarakat Suku Kerinci di Desa Sungai Deras Kecamatan Air Hangat Timur Kabupaten Kerinci Provinsi Jambi; (2) inventarisasi jenis tumbuhan di Hutan Adat Bukit Tinggai Desa Sungai Deras, Kecamatan Air Hangat Timur, Kabupaten Kerinci Provinsi Jambi. Penelitian dilakukan dengan tiga tahap yaitu (1) studi pustaka berupa pencarian dokumen untuk data sekunder; (2) kajian lapang etnobotani berupa wawancara, survei lapang dan inventarisasi lapang, analisis vegetasi dan pembuatan herbarium; (3) pengolahan dan analisis data yeng meliputi klasifikasi kelompok kegunaan, persentase habitus dan bagian yang digunakan, indeks nilai penting (INP), keanekaragaman spesies Shannon–Wienner, dan persentase potensi tumbuhan berguna. Jumlah jenis tumbuhan yang ditemukan berdasarkan wawancara dan analisis vegetasi adalah 194 jenis. Hasil wawancara etnobotani ditemukan sebanyak 132 jenis dari 55 famili yang juga telah diketahui manfaatnya dan dikelompokkan kedalam 13 kelompok kegunaan. Jumlah jenis hasil analisis vegetasi sebanyak 107 jenis dari 52 famili. Jumlah jenis tumbuhan berguna berdasarkan habitusnya paling banyak adalah tingkat pohon dengan jumlah 55 jenis. Pada tingkat semai satepau memiliki dominansi terbesar yaitu 20,45 %, pada tingkat pancang adalah jenis kayu pecah pinggang (Castanopsis malaccensis Gamble.) dengan nilai 16,70 %, pada tingkat pertumbuhan tiang yaitu semantao (Ficus padana) sebesar 33,61 %, dan kayu pecah pinggang (Castanopsis malaccensis Gamble.) pada habitus pohon yaitu 23,27 %. Kegunaan tumbuhan yang paling banyak dimanfaatkan adalah untuk pengobatan sebanyak 54 spesies dari 39 famili. Spesies-spesies tumbuhan berguna potensial yang ada di Hutan Adat Bukit Tinggai antara lain kopi (Coffea sp.), kayu manis (Cinnamomum subavenium Miq.) dan cengkeh (Eugenia aromatica)
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Judul: Etnobotani dan Potensi Tumbuhan Berguna di Kampung : Keay, Kabupaten Kutai Barat, Kalimantan Timur.
Abstrak: Keay Village is one of villages in West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan. There are four ethnic groups occupying this village, i.e. Dayak, Javanese, Toraja, and Bugis. Dayak is the dominant ethnic group occupying the village, which still has traditional wisdom/knowledge in plants use. Ethnobotany is expected to document and hand on the knowledge of Dayak Benuaq ethnic group in using plants, and keep the knowledge from being loss. Data were collected through literature study, interview, field survey and inventory, vegetation analyses, and herbarium collection. Data on plants species found were classified in to classification of use, classification of illnesses, habitués percentage and parts of plants used, important value index, Shannon-Wienner species diversity index, and percentage of useful plants potential. There were 396 plant species found through ethnobotany and vegetation analyses, which was categorized into three categories i.e. plant species found through ethnobotany (285 species), plant species found through vegetation analyses in natural forest (158 species), plant species found through vegetation analyses in hevea plantation (34 species). There were 285 species belong to 78 families which uses had been known and grouped into 16 use groups. There were 53,79% of plants species in natural forest had the potential as useful plants, while in hevea plantation there were 50% of that species had the potential as useful plants. Dominant plant species in natural forest was keranyiq (Fordia johorensis) with IVI (Important Value Index) of pole level as much as 19,69%, sapling (25,46%), and seedling (24,67%). In hevea plantation, dominant plant species was hevea (Hevea brasiliensis) with IVI the highest IVI of tree level as much as 300%, pole (284,63%), sapling (143,59%), and seedling (52,42%). Plants use most widely used for medicinal as much as 95 species of 43 families. The community uses more plants from the forest than from the plantation, because there were more useful plants species in the forest. Potential useful plants at the forest of Keay village included mara uleq (Eurycoma longifolia), uwe (Korthalsia sp., Calamus sp., Daemonorops sp.), empulung (Asplenium nidus), and kerakap (Platycerium bifurcatum). Other potential other than plants potential in the natural forest was hevea (Hevea brasiliensis).
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Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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