Judul: Aktivitas Inhibisi Terhadap Siklooksigenase, Kadar Pati dan Fenolik Temulawak (Curcuma xanthorriza Roxb.) Aksesi Sukabumi
Abstrak: Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roxb. known as temulawak is widely used as herbal medicinal plant that has many benefits, including antiinflammation. The objectives of this research were to evaluate inhibitory activity of temulawak Sukabumi accession toward cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and to analyze its correlation with starch and phenolic level. The extraction method used maseration with ethanol 70%. The starch level was analyzed using Luff-scohrl’s method, and the phenolic level was determined using the Folin-Ciocalteu’s. The starch level is relatively higher (P>0.05) on temulawak Cursina variety were 23.05%±3.49, while the phenolic level is relatively higher (P>0.05) on temulawak Sukabumi accession were 81.16 mg/g±19.68. Both of temulawak extracts showed inhibitory activity against COX-2. The highest activity (P>0.05) on temulawak Sukabumi accession with inhibition value of 55.35%. Based on analysis of corelation, the phenolic compound has antiinflammation activity, while starch will reduce antiinflammation activity.
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Judul: Aktivitas Inhibisi Enzim α-Glukosidase dan Sitotoksisitas Ekstrak Kurkuminoid Rimpang Temulawak dari Berbagai Aksesi (In Vitro)
Abstrak: Temulawak (Curcuma xanthorriza Roxb.) is one of the Zingiberaceae family medicinal plants that grow in Indonesia. Temulawak rhizome contains curcuminoid which useful as an antidiabetic. This research aims to get temulawak accession with high capability of the inhibition activity of the α-glukosidase enzyme and it’s potential as a compound that toxic to shrimp’s larval Artemia salina Leach. Antidiabetic activity has been measured by formation of p-nitrophenol from enzymatc reaction of nitrophenil-α-D-glucopyranose (p-NPG) which is catalyze by α-glucosidase enzyme. The formation of p-nitrophenol was measured by spectrophotometer at λ=410 nm. The results of curcuminoid content and bioactivity assay (α-glukosidase enzyme inhibition and cytotoxicity) showed that the best accession of temulawak is Wonogiri’s accession. The value of curcuminoid content, IC50, LC50, from Wonogiri’s accession of temulawak rhizome extract, respectively for 85.19±4.64 mg/g, 333±22.52 μg/mL, and 82.78±7.70 μg/mL. Wonogiri’s accesion has the potential to be further researched and developed as a new variety.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), cytotoxicity, curcuminoids, antidiabetic, Curcuma xanthooriza

Judul: Pengembangan model probabilistic neural network (PNN) pada pengenalan kisaran usia dan jenis kelamin berbasis suara
Abstrak: Voice signal can be used to represent a speaker. Voice can also be used to recognize the age range and the gender of the speaker, because of the difference in frequency of the voice signal for different age and gender. Age range for this experiment is divided into children (8-10 years old), teenagers (12-17 years old) and adults (30-50 years old). We performed feature extraction to obtain a representation of the speaker using Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC). MFCC is used with 13, 20, 26 coefficients. Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) is used as the feature matching model. The PNN model is constructed from three different proportions of TRD (Training data) : TSD (Testing data) (25%:75%, 50%:50%, 75%:25%). MFCC with 26 coefficient gives the best accuracy of 93.47%. The proportion of 75% (TRD) : 25% (TSD) also gives the best accuracy of 94.22%. PNN-age and PNN-gender identification result in an accuracy of 91.26%. Specifically, PNN accuracy percentage for male and female are 92.26%, and 95.20%, respectively, while for children, teenagers and adults the accuracies are 99.85%, 92.28% and 95.57%, respectively. In conclusion, the average of accuracy for all categories is 91.26%. The experiment using the voice of male-teenagers gives the worst accuracy, which is caused by the overlapping frequencies of voice in children, teenagers and adults.
Keyword: Voice identification, PNN model, MFCC, Age-identification, Gender-identification