Judul: Optimasi pemanfaatan lahan potensial pengembangan komoditas tembakau di Kabupaten Lombok Timur - Nusa Tenggara Barat
Abstrak: Padi dan palawija merupakan jenis tanaman utama yang diusahakan oleh para petani di Kabupaten Lombok Timur. Jenis lahan yang diusahakan adalah sawah dan ladang. Lahan sawah digunakan dengan pola pergiliran tanaman padipalawija, sedangkan ladang diusahakan dengan palawija. Untuk meningkatkan pendapatan petani dilakukan upaya dengan perubahan pola pergiliran tanaman pada lahan sawah dari padi-palawija menjadi padi-tembakau. Pada umumnya tembakau membutuhkan kondisi cuaca yang kering tetapi cukup air dalam masa pertumbuhannya. Kondisi demikian dipenuhi oleh lahan sawah musim tanam ke dua (musim kemarau). Untuk lebih meningkatkan pendapatan petani perlu dilakukan penelitian optimasi pemanfaatan lahan tembakau pada pola pergiliran tanaman padi-tembakau tersebut.
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Judul: Analisis Potensi Pengembangan dan Produktivitas Sapi Bali di Kabupaten Lombok Tengah Nusa Tenggara Barat
Abstrak: Kabupaten Lombok Tengah merupakan salah satusentra sapi bali di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat.Penelitian ini dilakukan pada bulan Januari sampai Maret 2016 dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui kapasitas peningkatan populasi ternak rumianansia (KPPTR) melalui potensi hijauan yang dimiliki dan untuk mengetahui produktivitas sapi bali di Kabupaten Lombok Tengah. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode purpossive sampling, sedangkandata yang digunakan berupa data primerdan sekunder. Data dianalisis menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan menggunakan rancangan acak lengkap (RAL). Hasil analisis deskriptif menggunakan kapasitas peningkatan populasi ternak ruminansia (KPPTR) menunjukkan bahwa populasi ternak ruminansia di Kabupaten Lombok tengah melebihi kapasitas tampung ternak ruminansia berdasarkan potensi hijauan sebesar -48 646.7 ST, produktivitas sapi bali berbeda nyata (P<0.05) pada setiap taraf perlakuan umur dan parameter morfometrik tubuh sapi bali jantan maupun betina.
Keyword: Kabupaten Lombok Tengah, KPPTR, produktivitas, sapi bali

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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