Judul: Competence and powerness of the cattle farmers to improving beef business (case on West Seram, Mollucas)
Abstrak: The research objectives are: (1) To find out and describe the factors related to the competencies and capabilities of farmers due to manage and improving beef business, (2) To find out the level of cattle farmer competencies and develop the product, and (3) To formulate or to design a strategy how to improve cattle farmer powerness in We st Seram. Structural Equation Model (SEM) was used to analyze quantitative data. From the five variable used to measure the cattle farmer competencies, it can be showed that only three of the variables significantly effect the farmer’s competencies. Those variable were human capital, physical capital and natural capital. The competencies level of the farmers on semi intensive and intensive care system were higher than extensive care system. The farmer entrepreneur competencies were higher than technical competencies. There’re significant effects of the human capital, social capital, physical capital and local government support to the powerness or capabilities of the farmers.
Keyword: marketing system, farmer empowerment, human resources, farmer entrepreneur competencies, natural resources

Judul: Hubungan karakteristik peternak domba dengan kompetensi berusaha ternak domba
Abstrak: The objectives of this study were: I) to dcscribe the characteristic and external factors of sheep farmers at Barengkok village 2) to anal competency of sheep farmers at Barengkok village 3) to analyze correlation between characteristic and external factors of sheep farmers at Barengkok village. This study was conducted on Juni 2008 at Barengkok village. The amount of respondent was 60 farmers at Barengkok village. Primary data was obtained by of questionnaire and interview. Secondary data was obtained from relevant institutions sources. Data were analyzed by descriptive analyze and correlation analyze using rank Spearman and Chi square test. The result of study showed: 1) most farmers were young, less educated, have experience about having livestock are few, ownership of livestock are few, level of medium earning. Most farmers were never frequency of farmers in getting information about sheep farming operation, both newspaper, magazine, radio and television. Sheep farmer never makes interpersonal relation by people who provides elucidation but peer of the farmers. 2) technical competency and management competency of sheep farmer were few but technical competency of sheep farmer better than management competency of sheep farmer. 3) sheep farmers characteristics has high significant correlation at the education of farmers and income of farmers with technical competency and management competency of sheep farmers. Frequency of reading newspaper by farmers and interpersonal relation by other farmers has significant with technical competency
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Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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