Judul: Pengaruh Belanja Pemerintah Daerah terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi dan Kemiskinan Kabupaten/Kota di Provinsi Banten
Abstrak: Economic growth is one measure of economic development. The high economic growth and low poverty indicates that an area has good public prosperity. To get the high economic growth and low poverty required the maximum role of government, by government expenditure. The purpose of this study was to explain the development of government expenditure and analyzed the influence of government expenditure on economic growth and poverty in Banten Province. This research uses descriptive method and panel data on 8 districts/cities in Banten Province in the periode of 2009-2012. The result indicate that the government expenditure in Banten Province always increase. Based on the model in analysis, goods and service expenditure and capital expenditure have a positive effect and significant contributions to the regional economic growth and also have a negative effect and significant contributions to the poverty.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), poverty, panel data, government expenditure, economic growth

Judul: Analysis of Factors Affecting the Poverty Rate in Province Banten (Period 2009-2013).
Abstrak: Kompleksitas dan keberagaman kemiskinan di suatu daerah berbeda dengan daerah lain, tergantung pada kondisi utama yang dihadapi masing-masing daerah. Oleh sebab itu, penanggulangan kemiskinan tidak hanya dilakukan oleh pemerintah pusat, akan tetapi dilakukan juga oleh pemerintah daerah. Provinsi Banten merupakan salah satu daerah yang masih menghadapi permasalahan dalam penanggulangan kemiskinan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan kondisi kemiskinan dan menganalisis faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi tingkat kemiskinan di Provinsi Banten pada periode tahun 2009 sampai tahun 2013, dan dapat mendeskripsikan solusi untuk meminimalisasi masalah kemiskinan di Provinsi Banten. Metode analisa menggunakan metode analisis regresi data panel. Variabel-variabel yang menjadi acuan faktor dalam penelitian ini adalah pertumbuhan ekonomi, upah minimum, jumlah pengangguran, dan angka melek huruf. Dari hasil penelitian yang sudah dilakukan, variabel yang signifikan terhadap tingkat kemiskinan di provinsi Banten yaitu upah minimum, jumlah pengangguran, dan angka melek huruf. Sedangkan variabel yang tidak signifikan terhadap tingkat kemiskinan di provinsi Banten yaitu pertumbuhan ekonomi.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University, Institut Pertanian Bogor, IPB, Poverty, Economic growth, Minimum wages, Unemployment, Education, Banten province, Regression panel data, Literacy rate, Poverty problem, Regional poverty

Judul: Pemurnian dan karakterisasi protein inhibitor RNA helikase virus hepatitis C
Abstrak: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the second most common chronic viral infection in the world with global prevalence. This infection is contribution to chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, often leading to hepatocellular carcinoma. There is no effective drug and vaccine available against HCV. The current standard treatment, a combination of pegylated interferon-α with ribavirin, is limited by its suboptimal response rate in a significant patient population, side effects, and affordability. Therefore, development of effective drug is needed. One approach to find out the candidate of antiviral drug is to discover the inhibitor of enzyme that essential for virus replication, such as RNA helicase. Streptomyces chartreusis 5-095 produce the inhibitor of HCV RNA helicase. The aim of this study was to purify the protein inhibitor which has inhibition activity against ATPase activity of RNA helicase HCV from S. chartreusis 5-095. The supernatant of culture S. chartreusis 5-095 exhibited high inhibiton activity against ATPase activity of RNA helicase HCV (approximately 72%) at 10 days of incubation. The extracellular protein inhibitor was partially purified by procedures of precipitation with ammonium sulfate to 65% saturation and gel filtration (Sephadex G50) using methanol water solution (4:6) as an eluen. The purity of protein inhibitor was monitored by SDS PAGE. The protein inhibitor showed a relative molecular mass were estimated to be 14 kDa and increased the purity 23,08 fold than those of the crude protein. The specific activity and IC50 after purification were 13,1338 U/mg and 0,0767 mg/mL, respectively. The activity of purified protein inhibitor showed its stability over pH range from 5-8 and optimum at pH 7,4. The inhibition activity showed its stability up to 70% at temperature 100 oC. The purified protein inhibitor relatively stable its activity at storage in the range of -20 oC to room temperature for 35 days.
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