Judul: Analisis Status Kualitas Udara Lima Kota Metropolitan di Indonesia.
Abstrak: The air pollution has become environmental quality indicator that impact to citizen health and affect the air quality in that area. The metropolitan city with rapid population rate and higher living standard as well as prosperity level than in rural area caused the increasing of energy consumption and pollutant emission. The aim of this study was to analyse the air quality status and the correlation between air quality and the condition of metropolitan cities in Indonesia namely Jakarta, Bandung, Medan, Surabaya, and Semarang. Secondly, to determine the factor affecting the air quality in those cities. The data were obtained from the State Ministry of Environment, BPS-Statistics, and the other related institutions which were then processed by SPSS program. Based on the analyzed data, the pollutant concentrations were fluctuated from 2007-2012 in those five cities. The positive correlation was occurred between the amount of vehicles and the concentration of PM10, SO2, and NO2, between the population and the concentration of SO2 and NO2, also between energy consumption and SO2. The negative correlation was occurred between the green open area with CO and NO2. Therefore, the factors that affect the air quality in metropolitan cities in Indonesia are population, vehicles, and green open area. Moreover, industrial estate and meteorological factor are allegedly to affect air quality in those cities.
Keyword: air quality, metropolitan city, correlation, Indonesia

Judul: Influence of Meteorological Factors on PM2.5 and PM10 Concentration Fluctuation (Case Study: Jakarta)
Abstrak: Jakarta sebagai ibukota negara Indonesia merupakan salah satu kota dengan aktivitas penduduk, transportasi dan industri yang tinggi. Hal ini mendorong semakin tingginya pencemaran udara di Jakarta. Terdapat berbagai faktor yang mempengaruhi pencemaran udara, salah satunya faktor meteorologi. Faktor meteorologi dapat mempengaruhi fluktuasi konsentrasi polutan di udara, seperti suhu udara, kelembaban, curah hujan, radiasi, kecepatan dan arah angin. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui fluktuasi konsentrasi PM2.5 dan PM10 di Jakarta serta interaksi antara faktor meteorologi dengan konsentrasi partikulat. Interaksi antara faktor meteorologi dan konsentrasi partikulat ditunjukkan melalui korelasi pearson dan menggunakan package openair di RStudio. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan konsentrasi PM2.5 dan PM10 di Jakarta memiliki puncak pada siang hari, menurun saat menuju sore hari dan kembali meningkat pada saat menuju malam hari. Interaksi antara faktor meteorologi dengan konsentrasi PM2.5 dan PM10 di Jakarta berkorelasi positif dengan suhu dan radiasi, serta berkorelasi negatif dengan kelembaban, curah hujan dan kecepatan angin. Secara bulanan konsentrasi PM di bulan kering lebih tinggi daripada di bulan basah., Jakarta as the capital city of Indonesia is one of the cities with high population, transportation, and industrial activity. This has led to higher air pollution in Jakarta. There are various factors that influence air pollution, one of which is meteorological factors. Meteorological factors will affect the fluctuation of pollutant concentrations in the air, such as air temperature, humidity, rainfall, radiation, wind speed and wind direction. This study aims to see the fluctuation of PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations in Jakarta and the interaction between meteorological factors and PM concentrations. The interaction between meteorological factors and PM concentrations was shown through Pearson correlation and using the openair package in RStudio. The results showed that the concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10 in Jakarta had a peak during the day, decreases towards the afternoon and increases towards the evening. The interaction between meteorological factors and concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10 in Jakarta has a positive correlation with temperature and radiation, and negatively correlates with humidity, rainfall and wind speed. On a monthly basis, PM concentration will increase in dry months and decrease in wet months.
Keyword: concentration, correlation, meteorology, PM2.5, PM10

Judul: Isolasi dan Transfer DNA Bacillus licheniformis ke dalam Sel Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari salah satu metoda rekombinasi genetika yaitu proses transformasi tanpa menggunakan vektor. Metoda transfo.rmasi ini 'ilakukan denqan cara mengisolasi dan memindahkan DNA dari Bacillus licheniformis ke dalam sel Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Tahap pertama yang dilakukan dalam proses isolasi DNA adalah pemecahan dinding sel dari aacillus licheniformis ciengan perlakuan meng.gunakan sonikator pada 100 Hz dan penambahan SDS 25%. Untuk selanjutnya pemisahan DNA dari protein dilakukan dengan cara penambahan pelarut organik ion perklorat dan klo.roform : isoamil alkohol (24 : 1) yang masing-masing berfungsi untuk melakukan disosiasi pratein dan membantu koagulasi protein. DNA yang berhasil dipisahkan selanj,utnya diendapkan dengan alkohol 70%.
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