Judul: Faktor-Faktor yang Menentukan Keterlibatan Pemuda Pedesaan pada Kegiatan Pertanian Berkelanjutan
Abstrak: Sustainable agriculture is one of national ideals in the realization of food self-suffiency in Indonesia. Sustainable agriculture will not be realized without the involvement of youth in agricultural activities, which includes the activities of land and seed preparation, maintenance, and harvesting. Agricultural activities must be able to meet the economic needs, maintaining land fertility, and recognized by society as decent job. The purpose of this research was to analyze the factors that determine the involvement of rural youth in sustainable agricultural activities. To achieve that, the research methodology that being used are qualitative and quantitative. Methodology used for quantitative is survey approach. Quantitative data were processed using regression test, rank spearman test, and cross tabulation. Meanwhile, methodology used for qualitative is in-depth interview approach. Data obtained from this method are being reduced, presented, and drawn for conclusion. Result of the research showed involvement of youth in agricultural activities decrease. This happens due to parental socialization and low cohesiveness peers. Agricultures is considered as a job that is not economically viable. Therefore, it needs the attention of various side to improve the socialization of agriculture, and coordinating institution to facilitate youth to share information about agriculture.
Keyword: sustainable agriculture, agricultural activities, rural youth

Judul: Hubungan Orang Tua, Media Massa, dan Teman dengan Sikap Pemuda terhadap Pekerjaan di Bidang Pertanian (Kasus Pemuda di Desa Cipendawa dan Desa Sukatani, Kecamatan Pacet, Kabupaten Cianjur)
Abstrak: The study about youth attitude was conducted in order to identify about kinds of behavior that would be performed by the youth towards agricultural livelihood. By identifying their attitude, people could be able to estimate response from youth about agricultural livelihood. The objectives of this study were: 1). To identify youth attitude towards agricultural activities. 2). To identify internal characteristics of youth, socialization from parents, mass media exposure, and interaction with peers. 3). To analyze the correlations between internal factors and youth attitude towards agricultural livelihood. 4). To analyze the correlations between socialization from parents, mass media exposure, and interaction with peers with youth attitude towards agricultural livelihood. 5). To analyze the correlations between perception toward rural condition and youth attitude towards agricultural livelihood. A number of 65 respondents were taken as sample. This study resulted several important outputs namely, 1). Majority of youth supported and agreed to work at agricultural setting 2). Majority of the youth were categorized late adolescence, low level of education, their parents were owner of their own farmland, low level in farmland mastery, low level in cosmopolite, low frequency from parents on telling about agriculture, average level on youth involvement in helping parents in farming activities, low frequency on mass media exposure, less than 20 minutes in every opportunity of watching television and also listening radio, low interaction with peers on agricultural sector, and good perception toward rural condition 3). There were several variables correlated to youth attitude towards agricultural livelihood i.e. age, gender, youth involvement in helping parents in farming activities, intensity on watching television, closeness with peers, and perception towards further condition of agricultural development.
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Judul: Infeksi Virus Parainfluenza Pada Anjing
Abstrak: Virus parainfluenza anjing termasuk famili Paramyxoviridae, berbentuk pleomorf dengan ukuran bervariasi (bergaris tengah antara 100-500 nm), berpembungkus peka ether, berisi genom RNA dan secara serologis mempunyai kesamaan dengan virus SV-5 kera; dikenak sebagai salah satu kausa penting dari sindrom "kennel cough". Infeksinya dapat mengenai anjing semua umur yang belum pernah terinfeksi atau mendapatkan vaksinasi mengakibatkan gejala klinis ringan yang terbatas pada traktus respirasi atu infeksi yang secara klinis tidak memperlihatkan gejala nyata. Gejala klinis yang nampak setelah masa inkubasi (1-5 hari) terlewati berupa batuk yang tidak berat selama beberapa hari, berbagai tingkat tonsilitis dan pharyngitis dan kadang-kadang ditemukan kenaikan temperatur rektal antara 1-2 derajat C dari temperatur normal rat-rata. Anjing terinfeksi mengandung virus pada traktus respirasi bagian atas dan bawah serta limfonoduli sampai hari ke 9 setelah infeksi. Penyebaran virus antar anjing terjadi secara aerogen.
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