Judul: Kajian Customer Discovery Sereal Kesehatan Bekatul Terstabilisasi
Abstrak: Stabilized rice bran is a form of rice bran that had undergone High Temperature Short Time (HTST) processing technology which diminishes the foul odour producing enzymes. It is highly beneficial for diabetic patients due to its low glycemic index level at 19. The 7.6 million diabetic patients that was recorded in 2012 was providing potential market for stabilized rice bran product. The purpose of this research is to conduct a test problem and solution of stabilized rice bran consumption on diabetic patients thus gaining valuable information regarding customer characteristics to formulate optimal business model. The method implemented during the course of research was action research. Research showed that there are hypothesis of several common main issues diabetic patients, e.g; 1) cereal cannot eaten in anyplace and anytime, 2) healthy cereal do not have good taste, 3) doubt with products cereal with chemical and preservatives ingredients, 4) unpractice preparation of cereal. Therefore the proposed value prepositions are as following; healthy cereal with various taste without preservatives as alternative carbohydrate or healthy snack with practice packaging and practice preparation with customer segments are diabetic patients who have dense activity in a day as well as cereal consumption as additional food of carbohydrate and healthy snack..
Keyword: Diabetic patients., Customer discovery, Stabilized rice bran, Action research, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB)

Judul: Stabilisasi Tepung Bekatul Melalui Metode Pengukusan Dan Pengeringan Rak Serta Pendugaan Umur Simpannya
Abstrak: Bran is side product from rice milling. According to BPS (2008), bran production reach at 4,8 million tons. Bran can be processed to be various product, one of them is bran powder. Bran powder can be used as brade substitution agent, cookies, and dietary drink. The decreasing of quality of bran can occure through hydroliytic and oxidation processes. The problem can be solved trough bran stabilization. It can be processed by steaming of the material in certain time. The purposes of this research are to get condition of stabilization and bran drying, bran characterization and stabilized bran, also to predict the packaging time. Constant condition of drying of the fresh bran reached in 4 hours with the drying rate about 1 x 10-4 g/second untill the water level at 5 %. Steaming of the bran was carried out in 3 level of time; 5, 10, and 15 minutes. The next step was characterizing the bran and stabilized bran. The characterization of fresh bran include water level 6,86 %, fat 16,84 % (db), ash 7,43 % (db), protein 13,72 % (db), crude fiber 7,25 % (db), carbohydrate by different 47,9 % (db), and TBA 0,68 mg malonaldehid/kg sample, solubility 11,95 %, swelling power 5,96 %, cyneresis 95,50 %, total colony number 1,65 x 106, and was not found E. Coli colony. Based on tested parameter water level, fat, and TBA were choosen bran with steaming at 5 minutes. The stabilized bran characterization include water level 5,61 %, fat 14,23 % (db), and TBA 0,23 mg malonaldehid/kg sample. The bran that was stabilized at 5 minutes was used as the material to predict the storage and shelf life. The product packed in metalizzed and was storaged at tempeature 35, 45, and 50oC during 8 weeks. The quality parameter that was used in were water level, TBA, and brightness level. During the storage, it occured decreasing of water level and brightness level, also the increasing of TBA value. The critical value of the quality parameter that was used in packaging time of stabilized bran was TBA. Based on organoleptic test at the 4th week at storage 50oC, the critical point was 0,51 mg malonaldehid/kg sample. Arrhenius equation of stabilized bran during the packaging was k = 0,074 e -176 (1/T). Packaging time of stabilized bran at 30oC was predicted in 39 days, at temperature 25oC was in 40 days, and at temprature at 15oC was in 50 days.
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Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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