Judul: Communication effectiveness in empowering rainfed area self help group (case: pidra program in sumbawa regency, west nusa tenggara)
Abstrak: PIDRA program is abbreviation of Participatory Integrated Development in Rainfed Area. The objectives of research were to analyze the relationship among of individual characteristics, facilitator role and group participation toward communication effectiveness. The research design was an explanatory with correlation analysis. A number of 109 persons were purposively sampled, located on four villages in Sumbawa regency. The data was analyzed by Spearman correlation and chi-square method. The research result indicated a significantly correlation between individual characteristics and communication effectiveness emphasis on training courses. Sex, ownership of farm and family income also had a significantly correlation to communication effectiveness. The facilitator role had a significantly correlation to communication effectiveness. And the participation in group had a significantly correlation to communication effectiveness.
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Judul: Participative Communication On Center For Family Empowerment Program (Case Study In Rw 05 Situgede Village, West Bogor, Bogor)
Abstrak: Empowerment occurred if individuals or communities were assigned to discuss their daily need, especially in education and health matter. And also the topics are focused in political and economic issues. Empowerment program in alleviating poverty and improving the quality of human resources, promoted by Center for Human Resources Development (P2SDM), LPPM IPB, cooperated with Damandiri Post Family Empowerment (POSDAYA) program. This particular cooperation leading to develop Posdaya poverty community at different level, such are village, hamlet and RW. The objectives of study were: to analyze the role of companion, community leader in Posdaya activities, the participatory communication, its impact to community as well and respons communities. The research was a constructivist paradigm, located in RW 05 Situgede village, West Bogor, Bogor. The research was conducted in April 18 to May 25, 2011. The study result was the P2SDM-IPB companion as well as consultant task always coodinated by Posdaya Kenanga. The Situgede village, especially RW 05 had several ultimate tasks, included: cadres supervising, training and motivating. Internal involvement Posdaya Kenanga leaders were: providing insight, advice, criticism and building ideas for sustainability activities. The participatory communication occurred in Posdaya Kenanga were: access, heteroglasia, poliponi, dialogue and carnival. Benefit of cadres were: information and knowledge sharing, problem solving and familiarity relationship. Refers to participatory communication among cadres, they could work optimally as well as equaly right to submit opinions, suggestions, and criticism. As a result, their responsibility increased.
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Judul: Closed Knight’s Tour pada Papan Catur Berbentuk Persegi Panjang dengan Ukuran Maksimal 8 × 8
Abstrak: Closed Knight’s Tour merupakan langkah kuda yang mengunjungi setiap kotak pada papan catur tepat satu kali dengan langkah kuda berawal dan berakhir pada kotak yang sama. Graf yang terbentuk dari closed knight’s tour dinotasikan sebagai graf G(m,n), dengan m adalah banyaknya baris dan n adalah banyaknya kolom. Graf tersebut memuat Hamiltonian cycle. Sebuah graf terhubung G adalah graf bipartite jika dan hanya jika graf tersebut tidak memiliki cycle dengan panjang ganjil. Papan catur yang memenuhi syarat cukup untuk memiliki closed knight’s tour adalah papan catur berukuran 5 × 6, 5 × 8, 6 × 6, 6 × 7, 6 × 8, 7 × 8, dan 8 × 8.
Keyword: bipartite, closed knight’s tour, hamiltonian cycle, knight’s tour, teori graf