Judul: Analisis konsistensi pemeringkatan yang dilakukan oleh times higher education and quacquarelly symonds (THE-QS)
Abstrak: WCU (World Class University) atau Universitas Kelas Dunia telah menjadi istilah yang sangat populer beberapa waktu belakangan ini. Times Higher Education and Quacquarelly Symonds (THE-QS) adalah salah satu sistem pemeringkatan universitas yang paling banyak digunakan. THE-QS memeringkatkan universitas berdasarkan empat kriteria utama yang masingmasing kriteria tersebut diberi bobot yang berbeda. Selain peringkat dunia, THE-QS juga melakukan pemeringkatan universitas di Asia dengan kriteria utama yang secara umum sama dengan kriteria peringkat dunia. Konsistensi hasil pemeringkatan kedua metode ini ditunjukkan oleh nilai korelasi peringkat Spearman. Walaupun secara keseluruhan kedua pemeringkatan ini konsisten, akan tetapi makin rendah peringkat, makin rendah juga konsistensinya. Fenomena lain yang didapat adalah bahwa pemasangan iklan di situs THE-QS ternyata berpengaruh dalam mempertahankan atau menaikkan peringkat universitas. Selain itu dilakukan juga analisis regresi ordinal untuk mendapatkan peubah objektif/ terukur apa saja yang berhubungan dengan peringkat universitas. Hasil analisis regresi ordinal menunjukkan bahwa peubah yang mempengaruhi peringkat universitas antara lain jumlah staf, jumlah staf internasional, jumlah mahasiswa sarjana tahun pertama, rata-rata biaya mahasiswa pascasarjana, jumlah lulusan PhD, rasio mahasiswa internasional, aktivitas penelitian, dan keberadaan fakultas kedokteran. Jumlah bidang ilmu juga berpegaruh terhadap peringkat universitas.
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Judul: Pengembangan sistem simulasi pemeringkatan webometrics
Abstrak: Currently, university’s website is not only as university representation in internet but also as information and knowledge spreading media. University’s activity through website may reflects its quality whether good or not. A research group, Cybermetric Lab, trying to rank universities arround the world by using bibliometric and informetric approach. According to Webometrics team, the ranking measured based on four indicators: size means amount of web pages that indexed by search engine, visibility is means amount of incoming links from another website, rich file means amount of rich content documents that is indexed by search engine, and scholar means amount of jounal or scientific-related document that is indexed by search engine. Webometric ranking published twice yearly, therefore created system that could detemine website ranking everyday. The system determines the ranking based on webometrics indicator that the value of each indicator taken everyday from Yahoo! Search, Google Search, Bing Search, Exalead Search, and Google Scholar. Each indicator has a weight, 50% for visibility, 25% for size, 15% for each rich file and scholar. System outputs are indicator values and the ranking as chart and data-table.
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Judul: Mitochondrial DNA Gene Organization and Phylogenetic Relationship of Naja siamensis
Abstrak: Naja siamensis is one of Asiatic cobra in the Family of Elapidae, known as a cryptic snake. It has many morphological variations that lead to misidentification. Misidentification can cause the wrong concept in developing antivenom types due to high snakebite cases occur in Thailand. Thus, an accurate species identification using a molecular approach is crucially required. Mitochondrial DNA has been used widely in snake molecular studies. These studies were aimed to determine the arrangement of the N. siamensis partial mitochondrial genes using reptile-oriented primers and to reveal the phylogenetic relationship among other species of Asian cobra. DNA extraction was carried out based on the standard DNA salting-out protocol and was conducted by bioinformatics analysis using BLASTn and MEGA 6 software. Gene annotation was performed against N. kaouthia complete genome. A total of 3121 bp of N. siamensis mtDNA genes were sequenced consisting of partial of six regions: 16S rRNA, ND1, tRNA-Ile, CRII region, tRNA-Leu, tRNA-Gln, and COI genes. The mtDNA gene organization of N. siamensis was predicted to has a similar pattern with the common Elapidae mtDNA gene organization. This study showed that there is a monophyletic form in Naja genus and N. kaouthia is the closest species with N. siamensis based on partial 16S rRNA and ND1 gene.
Keyword: 16S rRNA, Elapidae, ND1, phylogenetic relationship