Judul: Strategi Peningkatan Kinerja Usaha Kecil dan Menengah Kluster Kerajinan Tangan Kota Bogor menggunakan The Dream House Model.
Abstrak: Performance is one measure of success of an organization, including the small and medium enterprise clusters crafts. Human capital and social capital have a strategic role in improving the performance of SME. The purpose of this study is (1) To identify the problems faced by SME craft clusters in the city of Bogor, (2) analyze the interest rate comparisons with the performance achieved handicraft SME Bogor, (3) Analyze the influence of human capital and social capital to performance of SME craft cluster in Bogor, (4) analyzing the main indicators of the design model of SME performance improvement craft cluster, and (5) analyze factors driving and inhibiting of efforts to improve the performance of SME clusters crafts in Bogor. The study states that the main problem lies in the stagnation in the growth of the SME category of human resources. At the next stage the main objective of SME will be summarized in the House Model. Managerial implications of this study combines the factors driving and inhibiting factors to build a model of SME performance improvement
Keyword: The House Model, social capital, human capital, performance

Judul: Strategi Peningkatan Kinerja Usaha Kecil dan Menengah (UKM) Agro Kota Bogor Melalui Modal Insani dan Modal Sosial
Abstrak: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Agro is the type of business engaged in agriculture. Bogor has many SMEs Agro engaged in processing that relies heavily on the number and skills of available labor. In other words, human capital and social capital have an important role in the development of the SME performance. The purpose of this study are analyze descriptively about human capital, social capital and performance in SMEs Agro Bogor, analyze the effects of human capital and social capital on the performance of SMEs Agro Bogor, and make a recommendation/managerial implications to improve the performance of SMEs Agro Bogor. Descriptive analysis is a structural dimension, other knowledge and productivity are indicator variable priority in forming human capital, social capital, and performance. The results of the analysis of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is the human capital does not affect the performance and social capital significantly influence the performance of the T-statistic value of 4.174. The results of both analysis become the basic of the formation from managerial implications of The House Model which aim to improve the performance of SMEs Agro Bogor.
Keyword: human capital and social capital, SME’s performance

Judul: Posisi Filogenetik Kura-Kura Carettochelys Insculpta  (Reptillia: Testudinata)
Abstrak: Carettochelys insculpta is an endemic freshwater turtle of southern Papua and northern Australia. Phylogenetic position of this turtle is remain unresolved until now. Most of the research conducted show close relationships of C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. However, some of the research show distance between C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. This research is conducted to analyze phylogenetic relationship between C. insculpta and other members of Testudinata using 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, and both gene as markers. DNA samples were obtained from three different organisms of C. insculpta. Two species used as outgroups were Alligator mississippiensis and Iguana iguana. Phylogenetic analysis was carried out using Neighbor-Joining method with Felsenstein 1981 (F81) modeltest. A polytomy tree of Testudinata was produced by using 12S rRNA gene. However, analysis using 16S rRNA and both genes as markers confirmed that C. insculpta was located between the Chelonidae and the Trionychidae family.
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