Judul: Pengaruh Nitrogen dan Rhizobium sp. terhadap Pertumbuhan dan Produksi Kedelai Hitam (Glycine soja) pada Budidaya Jenuh Air di Lahan Pasang Surut
Abstrak: This research aims to determine the optimum concentration of nitrogen fertilizer and influence of Rhizobium sp. as inoculant on the growth and production of black soybeans. The experiment was conducted in the tidal swamps of Banyu Urip village, sub District of Tanjung Lago, Banyuasin District, Palembang, South Sumatera Province from May to September 2013. This research used split plot design with three replications. The concentration of nitrogen as the main plot consisted of 0, 5, 10, and 15 g Urea l-1 water and the Rhizobium sp. as a subplot consist of plus Rhizobium sp. and without Rhizobium sp. Saturated soil culture (SSC) technique was used to support the cultivation of soybeans in tidal swamps. The results showed that the effect of the nitrogen concentration of 15 g Urea l-1 water tends to produce the highest productivity up to 3.775 ton ha-1 and more profitable economically. This is supported by leaf N content to be high at 15 g Urea l-1 water up to 4.89%. Addition of Rhizobium sp. is effective enough increase growth and production although not significantly different. The results also indicate that there is interaction of the two treatments on number of leaves at 4 WAP, then there is no interaction was found on the other variables.
Keyword: tidal swamps, saturated soil culture, Rhizobium sp, nitrogen, black soybean

Judul: Pengaruh Pemberian Abu Sekam, P, dan K terhadap Pertumbuhan dan Produksi Kedelai Hitam pada Budi Daya Jenuh Air di Lahan Pasang Surut
Abstrak: The experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of husk ash, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizer on the growth and production of black soybean under saturated soil culture on tidal swamps. The experiment was conducted in the tidal swamps of South Sumatera Province, Banyu Urip village, sub District of Tanjung Lago, Banyuasin District, Palembang since April to August 2014. This experiment was using Randomize Complete Block Design with three replications. The concentration of husk ash as the first factor consist of 0, 1 000, 2 000, 3 000 kg ha-1, the concentration of phosphorus fertilizer as the second factor consist of 36 and 72 kg ha-1 P2O5, and the concentration of potassium fertilizer as the third factor consist of 30 and 60 kg ha-1 K2O. Saturated soil culture (SSC) technique was used to support the cultivation of soybeans in tidal swamps. The results showed that the effect of husk ash concentration, interactions of husk ash and phosphorus fertilization, interaction of husk ash and potassium fertilization and interaction of husk ash, phosphorus and potassium fertilization increased the ammount of trifoliat leaves. The optimum combination of 1.26 ton ha-1 husk ash, 36 kg ha-1 P2O5 phosphorus fertilization and 30 kg ha- 1K2O potassium fertilization gave the highest productivity by 4.21 ton ha-1and decreased the dose of Phosphorus and Potassium fertilizer
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), under saturated soil culture, potassium, phosphorus, husk ash, black soybean

Judul: Categorization in Macaca fascicularis.
Abstrak: Categorization is an ability to group individuals or events into different classes mediated by conceptualized mental images. There are several levels of categorization and within a taxonomy the levels are nested. At the most concrete level of categorization, all or most members of the category shared common physical attributes that differ from other categories. The higher the level of category, the fewer common attributes between members of the group. In addition to humans, the ability to categorize has also been proposed in animals. One example of categorization in animal is species discrimination. Using matching-tosample task, present experiment tested ability of the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in discriminating dichotomous-stimuli of different animals. The species has been shown to be able to see photos as representations of real object so I used facial photos of humans and animals for the stimuli. First, I tested their ability to classify humans and macaques into separate group. Second, I tested their ability to discriminate their conspecific from other macaques. And the last, I tested whether the subjects were able to discriminate non-human animals from humans. In all of these experiments I found that the subjects showed high performance in categorizing objects, even when I discarded details of visual informations, such as color and local shapes. The ability to identify objects with reduced representation of physical properties means the subjects were able to generalize attributes of members of the group. This would indicate that the subjects created a higher level abstraction. On the other hand, in discriminating intrageneric macaque species I found that they were able to extract uniqueness of each species. More over, I also found that the subjects were able to put photos of non-human animals that shared very few similarities in physical percepts into one group. I suggested that the subjects could create a more abstract concept based on non-percepts relations as a basis to put the objects into one category. Thus, I concluded that M. fascicularis were able to perform multiple levels of categorizations.
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