Judul: Pengembangan dan Pengukuran Kinerja Analitik Spektrofotometer Sinar Tampak ‘KuantiVis’ Berbasis Detektor Charge-couple Device
Abstrak: The advancement of technology provides alternative ways to develop spectrophotometer using simple components such as web camera with chargecouple device detector. The objective of the research is to develop visible spectrophotometer ‘KuantiVis’ with simple electronic components and web-based software Spectral Workbench as data acquisition system. The performance of KuantiVis was determined by validation of methyl red analysis and rhodamine B measurement in food sample (pacar cina). The whole result was compared with analysis using Spectronic 20D+ and Genesys 10UV. The analytical performance of KuantiVis for methyl red showed linearity with R2 was 0.9629, limit of detection was 0.6953 ppm, limit of quantitation was 2.1070 ppm, recovery was 110.00%, and relative standard deviation was 7.59%. The overall results met the Association of Analytical Communities standard but have not equal to the performance of Spectronic 20D+ and Genesys 10UV. Rhodamine B in pacar cina was 0.0022 (%w/w) based on measurement using KuantiVis. This result was not significantly different at the confidence level 95% using t test and F test as compared to the result using Spectronic 20D+ and Genesys 10UV.
Keyword: visible spectrophotometer, rhodamine B, methyl red, charge-couple device, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB)

Judul: Pengembangan Spektrofotometer Sinar Tampak (KuantiVis) Berbasis Komponen Elektronik Umum dan Uji Kinerjanya
Abstrak: Spectrophotometer can be developed by replacing the main components with electronic components that are easy to find. This study aims to develop visible spectrophotometer (KuantiVis) device using light emitting diode lamp as light source, optical layer of digital versatile disks as grating, and web camera with charge-couple device sensor as detector. KuantiVis was tested for its performance based on linearity, limit of detection, limit of quantitation, and accuracy parameters using a standard of chromium. The optimum result showed that KuantiVis was made with dimensions of 33 × 16 × 5 cm and distance between web camera and source of light was 25 cm. The result showed that linearity of data based on R2 value was 0.9973, limit of detection was 0.1231 ppm, limit of quantitation was 0.4102 ppm, and recovery was 103.19%. The performance was not much different from the performance of Spectronic 20D+ and Genesys spectrophotometer. The KuantiVis was applied for determining borax concentration in wet noodles sample. Concentration of borax in sample was 28.60 μg/gram samples. The result of F test and t test showed that the data was not significantly different with that of Spectronic 20D+ and Genesys spectrophotometer.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), visible spectrophotometer, light emitting diode, digital versatile disks, charge-couple device, borax

Judul: Aspek kehidupan dan reproduksi pada lumba-lumba
Abstrak: Lumba-lumba merupakan mammalia yang hidup di laut dan sebagian hidup di beberapa perairan air tawar. Hewan ini mempunyai bentuk tubuh yang streamline, moncong seperti paruh serta mempunyai gigi kurang lebih 200 buah. Tubuh lumba-lumba dilapisi oleh spermaceti yang terdiri dari lapisan minyak. Hewan yang sering terlihat di gelanggang-gelanggang samudra ini mempunyai ekor horizontal dan panjang tubuhnya berkisar 1,1 meter sampai 9 meter (Yablokov, 1974). Bia- sanya jantan lebih besar daripada yang betina. Di dalam klasifikasinya lumba-lumba termasuk dalam kelas mammalia, ordo Cetacea dan subordo Odontoceti. Di seluruh perairan dunia, terdapat banyak sekali spesies lumba-lumba, yang keseluruhannya termasuk ke dalam kelompok famili Delphinidae yang terdiri atas 19 genus ya- itu : Steno, Sotalia, Stenella, Delphinus, Lissodelphis, Orchinus, Lagenodelphis, Tursiops, Grampus, Lagenorhynchus Orcaella, Cephalorhynchus, Peponocephala, Feresa, Pseu- dorca, Globicephala, Phocoena, Neophocoena, dan yang terakhir Phoconoides (Yablokov, 1974). Tiga genus yang terakhir tidak termasuk lumba-lumba. Selain famili tersebut di atas, terdapat pula lumba- lumba yang hidup di perairan air tawar, yaitu dari famili Platanistidae (Cousteau, J.Y. , 1975). Makanan utama lumba-lumba berupa ikan (tuna, cumi-cu- mi, dan lain-lain), mollusca, cephalopoda dan crustacea. Dalam mencari makanannya, lumba-lumba bermigrasi secara teratur. Mereka menghabiskan musim panas di daerah kutub, kemudian bermigrasi ke daerah selatan selama musim dingin. Habitat lumba-lumba yang mutlak adalah air, baik air asin maupun air tawar. Mereka tidak dapat meninggalkan air, meskipun menurut asal-usulnya lumba-lumba merupakan mammalia darat (Coffey, D.J. 1977). Menurut Yablokov (1974) lumba-lumba betina memiliki sepasang ovarium yang rata/licin yang terdapat dalam ova- rian sac. Pada vagina beberapa spesies lumba-lumba terda- pat sumbat vagina/plug..dst
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