Judul: Level of Economic Empowerment of Micro Entrepreneur Posdaya Mandiri Terpadu in Bogor District
Abstrak: Posdaya merupakan program pemberdayaan keluarga yang salah satu kegiatannya memberikan pinjaman modal bagi pelaku usaha mikro. Penelitian ini betujuan menganalisis tingkat keberdayaan ekonomi pelaku usaha mikro di Posdaya Mandiri Terpadu. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode survey yang didukung data kualitatif dengan teknik pengambilan sampel populasi (sensus) sebanyak 43 responden. Analisis data menggunakan uji korelasi Rank Spearman dan tabel frekuensi yang diolah melalui SPSS for Windows 20.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pelaku usaha mikro yang mendapatkan pinjaman modal memiliki tingkat keberdayaan ekonomi tergolong sedang dengan dicirikan dari adanya peningkatan pendapatan, kelancaran pengembalian dana pinjaman tetapi peningkatan skala usaha belum optimal. Faktor yang mempengauhi hal ini adalah frekuensi keterlibatan Posdaya, jumlah modal pinjaman dan tingkat pendapatan.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University, Institut Pertanian Bogor, IPB, Posdaya, Economic empowerment, Micro entrepreneur, Alfa cranbach, Explanatory research, Rank spearman, Rural development

Judul: Tingkat Partisipasi dan Kemandirian Masyarakat dalam Bidang Ekonomi Program Posdaya (Kasus Posdaya Bina Sejahtera Kelurahan Pasir Mulya Kota Bogor)
Abstrak: Posdaya program is a service institution on family empowerment provided for community to reach welfare through integrated eight family functions. This study aims to analyze both internal and external factors dealing with participation and independence and the relation between community’s participation and independence in the economic view upon “posdaya” program of Bina Sejahtera Posdaya. The study used explanatory research designs involving 87 respondents; namely, the community becoming the members and participants of posdaya. The technique used to determine the samples was simple random sampling, while the method to gather data was by survey. Data were then analyzed by applying descriptive statistics including frequency, percentile, score mean, score total, and cross tabulation. Meanwhile, to test the correlation, Tau B- Kendall with the help of SPSS version 17 was used. It was found that community’s participation in economic view was significantly low in the aspects of planning, implementing, and evaluating the results, whereas the aspect of enjoying the result fell into the low level. Conversely, the independency on mental attitude belonged to the high level. Furthermore, the internal factors that showed an obviously positive correlation with participation were formal education, family income, and cosmopolitans, whereas the external factors comprised the support for family, the roles of both key persons and assistance. Moreover, the external factors which were positively correlated with independence were family support and the roles of the key persons and assistance. Likewise, the significantly positive correlation was found in the level of participation and independence of the community in the economic view of posdaya program.
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Judul: Hydroxyapatite-Chitosan Composite Coating on Stainless Steel 316 to Improve Corrosion Resistance
Abstrak: Metals that were used in bone implantation should have good corrosion resistance that were not easily corroded when implanted into the body. Metal corrosion resistance of stainless steel 316 can be enhanced through the metal coating by hydroxyapatite-chitosan composite with composition ratio of hydroxyapatite (gram) and chitosan 3% (mL) 0.2:0, 0.2:0.1, 0.2:0.5, 0.2:1.0, and 0.2:1.5. Besides improving the corrosion resistance of metal, the presence of chitosan also maintain the position of hydroxyapatite on metal surfaces. Corrosion resistance increases with increasing amount of chitosan added and the best composition of hydroxyapatite-chitosan composite was 0.2:1.0.
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