Judul: Persepsi dan Sikap Masyarakat terhadap Pengembangan Bambu di Kabupaten Pekalongan Menurut Perspektif Gender
Abstrak: The Government of Pekalongan Regency is developing bamboo as one of primary Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP), to improve community welfare and conserve natural resources. The purpose of study is to analys perception and attitude of people about bamboo’s development in Pekalongan Regency. Survey has been conducted to 73 family who joint bamboo’s development programme with respondent composition of 12 male and 61 female at Kutorejo Village, Kajen District. The result of study shows that male respondent good and has while female respondent very good perception. The characteristic of number of family member significantly affect the male respondent perception and profesion, income, and bamboo’s contribution for income of female respondent perception. Beside that male respondent good and woman respondent very good attitude. The characteristic of land area owned significantly affect the male respondent attitude, while there is no factor affecting significantly in female respondent attitude.
Keyword: perception, gender, bamboo, attitude, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB)

Judul: Analisis Manfaat Sosial Ekonomi dan Lingkungan Pilot Demonstration Activity: Budidaya Bambu (Studi Kasus: Desa Mekarjaya, Kecamatan Banjaran, Kabupaten Bandung, Provinsi Jawa Barat).
Abstrak: Peningkatan lahan kritis di sekitar daerah aliran sungai Citarum, khususnya di Desa Mekarjaya membuat Yayasan Warga Peduli Lingkungan beserta masyarakat melakukan upaya peningkatan kualitas lingkungan dengan budidaya bambu. Tujuan khusus dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisis persepsi masyarakat terhadap budidaya bambu, mengidentifikasi manfaat sosial ekonomi dan lingkungan dari budidaya bambu, mengestimasi besarnya willingness to pay masyarakat terhadap upaya pelestarian lingkungan, dan menganalisis faktor-faktor apa saja yang memengaruhi besarnya nilai willingness to pay masyarakat terhadap upaya pelestarian lingkungan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa setiap indikator persepsi masyarakat terhadap budidaya bambu bernilai baik. Manfaat sosial ekonomi dan lingkungan yang dirasakan masyarakat adalah kegiatan budidaya bambu menjadi sarana sosialisasi warga, bambu dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai bahan kerajinan, bahan bangunan, dan menjadi tambahan penghasilan bagi masyarakat, lahan yang semula menjadi kembali produktif, menahan erosi, dan membantu penyerapan air tanah. Hasil rata–rata willingness to pay dari 50 orang responden sebesar Rp9.500 per KK. Faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh pada taraf nyata 20% adalah jenis kelamin, tingkat pendidikan, tingkat pendapatan, dan status tempat tinggal.
Keyword: lahan kritis, budidaya bambu, willingness to pay

Judul: Pemurnian dan karakterisasi protein inhibitor RNA helikase virus hepatitis C
Abstrak: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the second most common chronic viral infection in the world with global prevalence. This infection is contribution to chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, often leading to hepatocellular carcinoma. There is no effective drug and vaccine available against HCV. The current standard treatment, a combination of pegylated interferon-α with ribavirin, is limited by its suboptimal response rate in a significant patient population, side effects, and affordability. Therefore, development of effective drug is needed. One approach to find out the candidate of antiviral drug is to discover the inhibitor of enzyme that essential for virus replication, such as RNA helicase. Streptomyces chartreusis 5-095 produce the inhibitor of HCV RNA helicase. The aim of this study was to purify the protein inhibitor which has inhibition activity against ATPase activity of RNA helicase HCV from S. chartreusis 5-095. The supernatant of culture S. chartreusis 5-095 exhibited high inhibiton activity against ATPase activity of RNA helicase HCV (approximately 72%) at 10 days of incubation. The extracellular protein inhibitor was partially purified by procedures of precipitation with ammonium sulfate to 65% saturation and gel filtration (Sephadex G50) using methanol water solution (4:6) as an eluen. The purity of protein inhibitor was monitored by SDS PAGE. The protein inhibitor showed a relative molecular mass were estimated to be 14 kDa and increased the purity 23,08 fold than those of the crude protein. The specific activity and IC50 after purification were 13,1338 U/mg and 0,0767 mg/mL, respectively. The activity of purified protein inhibitor showed its stability over pH range from 5-8 and optimum at pH 7,4. The inhibition activity showed its stability up to 70% at temperature 100 oC. The purified protein inhibitor relatively stable its activity at storage in the range of -20 oC to room temperature for 35 days.
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