Judul: Analisis Brand Equity Pada Serambi Botani Bogor
Abstrak: Brand equity is a set of brand assets and liabilities linked to a brand, which increase or decrease the value of a company's goods or services to the customer or the company. The purpose of this research is to analyze brand awareness, brand association, perceived quality, and brand loyalty in the minds of consumers Botany Porch. Based on the analysis of brand awareness, top of mind is Bogor Botanical Porch brand. Brand image of Bogor Botanical Porch is: Services the employees are friendly and welcoming; The atmosphere of the outlets are clean and comfortable; Specialty herbal products (natural and healthy); Outlets that reflect healthy lifestyles education; Taste, efficacy, the freshness of the product is good. Results on the analysis of perceived quality indicate that 13 attributes are on a good scale, 3 attributes are on a enough scale. Analysis of brand loyalty pyramid shows that 2 percent of the switcher, 34 percent of habitual buyers, 27 percent of satisfied buyers, 24 percent of liking the brand, 13 percent of committed buyers. These shows that the brand of Bogor Botanical Porch does not have a strong brand equity., Brand equity adalah seperangkat aset dan kewajiban (liabilities) merek yang terkait dengan suatu merek yang menambah atau mengurangi nilai yang diberikan sebuah barang atau jasa kepada perusahaan atau para pelanggan perusahaan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis brand awareness, brand association, perceived quality, dan brand loyalty merek Serambi Botani di benak konsumen. Hasil analisis brand awareness, top of mind adalah merek Serambi Botani Bogor. Brand image Serambi Botani Bogor adalah: Pelayanan karyawan yang ramah dan bersahabat; Suasana gerai yang bersih dan nyaman; Gerai produk herbal (sehat dan alami); Gerai yang mencerminkan edukasi gaya hidup sehat; Cita rasa, khasiat, kesegaran produk baik. Hasil analisis perceived quality menunjukkan bahwa dari 16 atribut, 13 atribut berada pada skala baik yaitu. Sementara 3 atribut lain berada pada skala cukup. Hasil analisis piramida brand loyalty, menunjukkan bahwa switcher sebesar 2 persen, habitual buyer 34 persen, satisfied buyer 27 persen, liking the brand 24 persen, dan committed buyer 13 persen. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa merek Serambi Botani Bogor belum memiliki ekuitas merek yang kuat.
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Judul: Analisis Brand Equity pada The Body Shop Bogor
Abstrak: Dengan seiring berjalannya waktu, semakin berkembangnya pola hidup manusia dan semakin bertambahnya kebutuhan manusia yang perlu dipenuhi. Kosmetik dan produk perawatan tubuh sudah menjadi salah satu kebutuhan primer bagi wanita. Untuk memenuhi kebutuhan tersebut maka muncul merekmerek yang menjual produk perawatan tubuh. Untuk dapat bersaing merek tersebut perlu adanya pembentukan merek yang kuat. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisis pengaruh faktor-faktor brand equity dan korelasi antara karakteristik konsumen dengan faktor committed buyer pada The Body Shop sebagai suatu merek. Data yang diperoleh oleh peneliti adalah data primer yang didapat melalui kuesioner kepada 100 responden. Teknik pengambilan sampel adalah purposive sampling dan menggunakan analisis brand equity dan uji chi square. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, merek The body Shop sudah menempati posisi top of mind di analisis brand awareness, yang membuktikan bahwa The Body Shop sudah mempunyai kesan yang kuat pada responden. Dan hasil uji chi square yang membuktikan bahwa adanya korelasi antara atribut pengeluaran yang dikeluarkan untuk produk perawatan tubuh per bulan dan intensitas pembelian produk The Body Shop per bulan terhadap committed buyer.
Keyword: brand equity, chi square, The Body Shop

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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