Judul: Tutor’s competency and performance development on guidance for small industrial craftsmen in West Sumatera Province
Abstrak: The objectives of this research are: (1) to describe factors related to the Tutor’s competency and performance on guidance for small industrial craftsmen, (2) to describe profile of business of small industrial craftsmen and their perception to Tutor’s competency and performance, (3) to analyze factors related and influenced the Tutor’s competency and performance, and (4) to formulate strategy of Tutor’s competency and performance development on guidance for small industrial craftsmen in West Sumatera Province. The research was conducted in May-November 2009 at the Community Education Centre (SKB) in West Sumatera Province. The population were 124 Tutors who have completed life skills program since four years ago and 51 small industrial craftsmen under their guidance. Sampling process was by census procedure sampling for the Tutors and by random sampling for small industrial craftsmen. Data collection techniques were questionnaire, observation, in-depth interview, and documentary study. The statistical analysis used was descriptive, correlation, and structural equation model (SEM). The important results of this research showed the training for Tutor’s, self development for Tutor’s, and Tutor’ external environment was in medium category, Tutor’s competency was in medium category (score = 2,52) and Tutor’s performance also was medium category (score = 2,16). Tutor’s performance was lower than Tutor’s competency. The Tutor’s competency and performance were influenced directly by training (p = 0,29), by external environment (p = 0,26), and by self development (p = 0,17). The total effect of each factor that influenced Tutor’s competency and performance were external environment (p = 0,45), training (p = 0,34), and self development (p = 0,17). The strategy to improve the Tutor’s competency and performance on guidance for small industrial craftsmen were by: (1) developing to Tutor’s external environment, (2) better training program, and (3) extension of Tutor’s self development.
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Judul: The Strategy to improve competence of Islamic Extension Agent in Three Districts of West Java Province.
Abstrak: This dissertation describes on the increasing of Islamic Extension Agent competencies. The objectives of this research are to : (1) analyze the personal characteristics of Islamic Extension Agent, job motivation, the role of implementation of Islamic Extension Agent, institutional support of extention, social environment supports, the fulfillment degree of Islamic Extension Agent, and Islamic Extension Agents competencies, (2) analyze the influence of personal characteristics of Islamic Extension Agent, their job motivation, the level of role implementation of Islamic Extension Agent, institutional support, environmental and social support to the fulfillment of the role of Islamic Extension Agent, (3) analyze the influence of personal characteristics of Islamic Extension Agent, their job motivation, the level of implementation of the role of Islamic Extension Agent, institutional support, social and environmental support level fulfillment of Islamic Extension Agent against the competencies of Islamic Extension Agent, and ( 4) to formulate the strategies for improving the competencies of Islamic Extension Agent in three districts of West Java Province. This study was conducted from September to December 2012 located in Bandung City, Bogor and Ciamis Districts in the province of West Java. Meanwhile the respondents amounted of 114 of Islamic Extension Agent and 120 clients under their guidance of Islamic Learning Group (Majelis Ta’lim) members. Sampling procedure was taken by census of Islamic Extension Agent and by using the Snowball Technique for majelis ta’lim members. The Data collection techniques were questionnaire, observation, in-depth interview, and documentary study. The statistical analysis used were descriptive statistic analysis and path analysis of different test Mann Whitney, path analysis and qualitative analysis were done by using an inductive approach. The findings indicated that: (1) the positive personal characteristics of Islamic Extention Agent are the age, informal education and learning orientation degree; affiliated impulse is the highest kind of job motivation; the role of motivator is the highest kind of type; extention institutional support indicates the low category, especially in terms of facilities and education resources ; whereas the social environment support sphere shows the highest category; need for creativity is the highest kind of fulfillment too; The most lowest competency lies in developing professional competence and develop the extension, (2) the factors that affect the fulfillment of Islamic Extension Agent are: age; the role of educator; central institution policy support; and support of the leader, (3 ) Competence Extension Islam influenced by : the level of learning orientation ; job motivation; the role of motivator ; support facilities and extension resources; information needs; and the fulfillment need of Islamic Extension Agent, (4) increasing the competence Extension Strategies Islamic done by strengthening extention of institutional support and develop cooperation with the extention stakeholders.
Keyword: Islamic Extension Agent (Penyuluh Agama Islam), extension institution, social environment, need fulfillment degree and Competencies

Judul: Infeksin virus rota pada anak babi
Abstrak: Virus Rota sudah lama diduga sebagai salah satu penyebab diare pada anak babi yang baru dilahirkan. Hal ini diperkuat dengan berhasilnya Mebus dan kawan-kawan mengidentifikasi virus Rota pada kejadian diare yang ter jadi pada anak sapi yang baru dilahirkan. Infeksi virus Rota merupakan hal yang serius, kejadian yang mewabah pernah dilaporkan di Amerika Serikat, Inggris, Kanada dan Australia. Sedangkan kejadian di Indonesia yang dihubungkan dengan infeksi virus Rota belum dilaporkan. Virus Rota termasuk keluarga Reo viridea. Sesuai dengan namanya, virus Rota menyerupai roda (Rota = Wheel), mengandung asam nukleat (nucleid acid) yang berupa asam nukleat ribo (ribo nucleid acid, RNA) dan berserabut ganda (double stranded), tidak mempunyai selubung (envelop atau peplos). Hewan rentan adalah hewan yang berumur sangat muda. Selain menyerang babi, dapat pula menyerang sapi, domba, rusa, anjing, kucing, tikus, kelinci, unggas dan manusia. ...
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