Judul: Deteksi dan Interpretasi Target Di Dasar Laut Menggunakan Instrumen Side Scan Sonar.
Abstrak: Dasar laut adalah sebagian dari bumi yang wilayahnya belum terjelajahi secara keseluruhan, baik luas, kedalaman, maupun potensinya. Salah satu cara untuk mendapatkan informasi tentang berbagai aspek dari dasar laut adalah dengan sistem akustik bawah air seperti side scan sonar. Side scan sonar mampu membedakan besar kecil partikel penyusun permukaan dasar laut, seperti batuan, lumpur, pasir, kerikil, atau tipe-tipe dasar perairan lainnya. Instrumen ini mampu menangkap gelombang pasir atau riak-riak kecil yang tingginya beberapa sentimeter serta mampu memberikan informasi dengan rinci tentang kondisi topografi dasar. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mendeteksi dan menginterpretasikan target di dasar laut menggunakan instrumen side scan sonar.
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Judul: Deteksi dan Klasifikasi Dasar Laut Menggunakan Instrumen Side scan sonar
Abstrak: Side scan sonar is an underwater acoustic instrument that is capable for displaying the image of the seafloor and discriminate between large and small particles of the sea floor. This study aims to classify types of seafloor and measure seafloor backscatter values using side scan sonar. This study also use two different types of side scan sonar in two places to get more variant seafloor. Side scan sonar data of Klein System 3000 with a frequency of 500 kHz is taken in the Jakarta Bay and Data of Edgetech 4200 with a frequency of 300 kHz is taken in the Sunda Strait. Both the data side scan sonar processed using software Sonarweb and Sonarpro to display the image of the sea floor, and use Seisee to extract sediment backscatter values. Results of sea floor imagery in Jakarta Bay found the target in the form of mud, mud with excavation, and a shipwreck. Mosaic Klein System 3000 in Jakarta Bay seafloor show a dominant of mud. Extraction of backscatter obtained smallest value is mud -26.33 dB, mud with excavation -23.84 dB and the highest is shipwrecks -6.23 dB. Results seabed imagery found the target in the Sunda Strait seabed is mud, sand, biogenic sand, and a shipwreck. Seafloor in the Sunda Strait shows dominant of sand. Backscatter obtained smallest value is mud -14.25 dB , sand -12.22 dB, biogenic sand -13.56 dB , and shipwreck -4.20 dB.
Keyword: backscatter, Klein System 3000, Edgetech 4200, sediment

Judul: Peran nikotin dosis rendah terhadap profil glukosa darah dan insulin serta perubahan jaringan pankreas dan hati monyet ekor panjang (Macaca fascicularis) obes
Abstrak: Study of low dose nicotine intervention and its effect on blood and cellular level of obese cynomolgus monkeys has never been reported. The aims of this study were to evaluate the role of low dose nicotine on the profile of blood glucose, insulin level and cellular level alteration of pancreatic and hepatic tissue of obese cynomolgus monkey. Fourteen adult (aged 6–8 years) males cynomolgus monkeys grouped based on their Body Mass Index (BMI) into preobese (BMI=23.65–25.00) and obese (BMI ≥ 26.00) were used. Animals were grouped into four groups subsequently preobese with nicotine (pOb+), obese with nicotine (Ob+), preobese without nicotine (pOb-) and obese without nicotine (Ob-). Nicotine groups were fed with high fat diet mixed with nicotine dose 0.75 mg/kg body weight/day for three months and other groups without nicotine were fed monkey chow as control. Blood samples were collected every month for glucose analysis and insulin analysis at the end of study before necropsy was performed. Pancreatic and hepatic tissues were processed histologically and stained with hematoxylin-eosin and immunohistochemical method. The results showed that blood glucose significantly decreased (P<0.05) on the nicotine group, 28.37% (preobes) and 33.72% (obes) based on treatment duration compared to control group. Based on color intensity of granules cytoplasm of insulin producing cells or immunoreactive β-cells showed that non nicotine group were more reactive than those with nicotine group. As a conclusion, there was positive effect of low dose nicotine in maintaining the blood glucose level in normal range by stimulation of islet cells proliferation to maintain the production of insulin in the pancreatic islet. Nicotine low dose also affect to the hepatic parenchymal tissue that showed moderate level of hydrophic and fat degeneration, and necrosis. However, there were found hepatic cell regeneration.
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