Judul: Pengelolaan Hama dan Penyakit Tanaman Kelapa Sawit (Elaeis guineensis JACQ.) di Smart Research Institute PT. Smart Corporation, Libo-Riau
Abstrak: Praktik Kerja PHT ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan memperoleh pengalaman kerja praktis di bidang perkebunan kelapa sawit (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) tentang permasalahan dan pengelolaan hama dan penyakit tanaman kelapa sawit secara terpadu di Bagian Riset Proteksi SMARTRI, PT. SMART Corporation. PT. Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology Corporation (PT SMART Corp.) adalah sebuah perusahaan yang bergerak di bidang perkebunan dan memiliki sebuah lembaga penelitian yang bernama SMART Research Institute (SMARTRI). Sebelumnya lembaga penelitian ini merupakan sebuah departemen yang bernama Departemen Riset dan Pengembangan yang berdiri sejak bulan November 1985 dan dipusatkan di kebun Padang Halaban, Sumatera Utara. Awalnya dilakukan oleh seorang ekspatriat dibantu tiga peneliti junior. Setelah seluruh fasilitas penelitian dibangun maka tahun 1990- kegiatan dipindahkan ke Kebun Libo; Riau dan Departemen Riset dan Pengembangan ini lebih dikenal sebagai Riset Libo dan kemudian pada bulan Juni 1999 berubah menjadi SMART Research Institute.
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Judul: Manajemen Pembibitan Tanaman Kelapa Sawit (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) di Kebun Padang Halaban PT SMART Tbk, Sumatera Utara
Abstrak: Internship have been done at Padang Halaban Estate PT SMART Tbk, North Sumatera. Internship carried out for 4 months starting from February 2014 until June 2014. The objective of internship are to improve knowledge and skills in analyzing and understanding the various problems in the process of oil palm nurseries, technical aspects and managerial of oil palm plantation. Oil palm nursery at Padang Halaban Estate of PT SMART Tbk used ramet or zygotic embryos Dami Mas variety as a source for seedling. After 4 month observation, Dami Mas’s seedlings have the highest percentage of survival rate compared to PPKS variety. At pre nursery, it was 98.21 %. This is the indicator that Dami Mas’s seedling have a good quality as a seedling source. The vegetative growth seedlings of ramet at main nursery have average of high, diameter of stem, and number of midrib are higher than growth standard of companies seedling or standard of PPKS seedling. The result of seedling selection showed that abnormal seedlings were selected as much as 14.89% in main nursery.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Dami Mas, selection, ramet, nursery, Elaeis guineensis

Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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