Judul: Influence of Family Empowerment on Increasing Knowledge about Child Development and Parenting of Preschool Age Children
Abstrak: The knowledge of child development and parenting is the important things especially for mothers of preschool-age children. Mothers who are knowledgeable are more likely to create an environment that is appropriate to their children‘s and more likely to interact with their children in more sensitive ways. Intervention of family empowerment is one of way to increase the maternal knowledge. The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of family empowerment on increasing knowledge about child development and parenting of preschool-age children. This study used quasi experimental design with t-test and multiple linear regression analysis. Conducted in two areas in Bogor, the sample of this study was 32 mother in control group and 32 in treatment group. The treatment group involved in eight sessions of family empowerment. The material of intervention prepared based on the three of Euis Sunarti's popular parenting books and considering the HOME score. The result showed that there are no differences of maternal knowledge between control and treatment group in baseline data and there are significant differences in endline data. In control group there are no differences of maternal knowledge between baseline and endline data except parenting knowledge. In intervention group there are significant defferences between baseline and endline data. The result also indicates that there are positive effect of intervention of family empowerment which accounted for 42,2 per cent on increasing knowledge about child development and parenting of preschool age children.
Keyword: family empowerment, child development, parenting, preschool

Judul: The Influence of Family Welfare, the Quality of Home Environment, and the Quality of Preschool Education on Children’s Cognitive Development
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis: (1) perbedaan antara kesejahteraan keluarga, kualitas lingkungan pengasuhan, kualitas pendidikan prasekolah, dan perkembangan kognitif anak yang mengikuti pendidikan prasekolah formal dan nonformal, (2) pengaruh karakteristik keluarga terhadap kesejahteraan keluarga, (3) pengaruh karakteristik anak, karakteristik keluarga, dan kesejahteraan keluarga terhadap kualitas lingkungan pengasuhan, dan (4) pengaruh karakteristik anak, karakteristik keluarga, kualitas lingkungan pengasuhan, dan kualitas pendidikan prasekolah terhadap perkembangan kognitif anak., This study aimed to analyze: (1) the difference between family welfare, quality of home environment, quality of preschool education, and cognitive development of children who are attending formal and nonformal preschool education, (2) the influence of family characteristics on family welfare, (3) the influence of child characteristics, family characteristics, and family welfare on quality of home environment, and (4) the influence of child characteristic, family characteristics, quality of home environment, and quality of preschool education on child's cognitive development.
Keyword: cognitive development, family welfare, home environment, preschool education

Judul: Karakteristik Anatomi Skelet Tubuh Buaya Senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii)
Abstrak: Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan buaya besar yang rentan punah dan hanya dapat ditemukan di rawa dataran rendah, danau dan sungai di Sumatera bagian timur, Kalimantan dan Jawa Barat (Indonesia), Serawak, Semenanjung Malaysia (Malaysia) serta Brunei Darussalam. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet tubuh buaya senyulong yang dikaitkan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian ini menggunakan satu set preparat skelet tubuh buaya senyulong. Parameter penelitian meliputi pengamatan bentuk bagian skelet yang khas, mengukur panjang dan lebar tulang, serta dibandingkan dengan skelet tubuh jenis buaya lain, biawak air (Varanus salvator) maupun literatur yang terkait dengan sistem skelet tubuh hewan. Karakteristik anatomi skelet tubuh buaya senyulong relatif mirip pada jenis buaya lain. Beberapa karakteristik yang ditemukan yaitu, proatlas pada os atlas, os axis hanya memiliki zygapophysis caudalis, bagian lateral dari ossa vertebrae cervicales yang dilengkapi dengan cervical ribs, memiliki jumlah costae sternalis yang banyak, rangkaian ossa gastralia pada abdomen, ossa vertebrae lumbales memiliki zygapophysis cranialis dengan sudut >90o dari sumbu tubuh. Selain itu, os vertebrae caudalis I memiliki caput cranial dan caudal, ossa vertebrae caudales memiliki processus transversus yang semakin memendek ke arah caudal. Di medioventral tulang ini ditemukan ossa chevron dengan hemal arch sampai menjelang akhir ossa vertebrae caudalis. Skelet tubuh buaya senyulong memiliki hubungan yang kokoh dan kompak untuk menunjang fleksibilitas tubuh untuk berjalan, berenang dan berburu mangsa
Keyword: anatomi, buaya senyulong, skelet tubuh