Judul: Growth Response of Sago Palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottb) toward Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potasium Fertilizer and Pruning Applied
Abstrak: Sago palm (Metrxylon sagu Rottb.) is a kind of palm that can produce a starch and used as food and raw materials for industry. The purpose of the study was (1) to study the sago plant growth response to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers that were applied singly with pruning and (2) to study the growth response of sucker that were trimmed by pruning. This research was conducted at sago plantation of PT National Sago Prima, Kepau Baru village, Tebing Tinggi Timur district, Meranti Islands regency, Riau Province. The study was conducted from January 2012 to December 2012. The study consisted of three experiments: (1) Nitrogen Fertilization, (2) Phosphorus Fertilization, (3) Potassium Fertilization and all experiments were combined with pruning treatment. The first experiment used randomized block design (RBD) with split plot design. The main plot was the pruning application with two levels, that was pruning and without pruning and the subplot was nitrogen fertilizer (N) which consists of 4 levels, namely N0-N3, respectively 0, 405, 810, and 1215 g clump-1 with three replications and pruning treatments conducted every four months. The second experiment used a randomized block design (RBD) with split plot design. The main plot was the pruning application with two levels, that was pruning and without pruning and the subplot was phosphorus fertilizer (P2O5) consists of 4 levels, namely P0-P3, respectively 0, 216, 432, and 648 g clump-1 with three replications and pruning treatments conducted every four months. The third experiment used a randomized block design (RBD) with split plot design. The main plot was the pruning application with two levels, that was pruning and without pruning and the subplot was potassium fertilizer (K2O) consists of 4 levels, namely K0-K3, respectively 0, 480, 960, and 1440 g clump-1 with three replications and pruning treatments conducted every four months. Each experimental unit consisted of 4 plant clumps, there for the total number as many as 96 clumps, so that the number of clumps of three experiments were 288 clumps. Parameter observed of the three experiments conducted was morphological characters, including: (a) the mother palm and sucker plants were maintained consisting of number of frond, increase of new leaves and increase of trunk height of mother palm. (b) the suckers are trimmed by pruning consisting of number of frond, high sucker, biomass and percentage of life. The characters include the physiology of nutrient content of plant leaves, green leaf index and density of stomata on the mother palm and sucker of sago palms. The results of the first experiment showed that nitrogen fertilization on sago plant can increase accretion of new leaves in suckers sago, whereas in the mother palm does not give the effect to increase the number of frond. The results of the second experiments showed that phosphorus fertilization increases the number and accretion of new frond at suckers seedlings whereas in the mother palm has no effect on number and accretion of new frond. The third experiments showed that pruning treatments and potassium fertilizer did not increase accretion of new frond the mother palm, whereas increase accretion new
Keyword: Mother palm, suckers sago, number of frond, nutrient content, green leaf indeks, density of stomatal

Judul: Pengelolaan sagu (Metroxylon spp.) Di PT. National Sago Prima, Selat Panjang, Riau dengan aspek khusus pengaruh bobot bibit dan penggunaan pupuk organik cair terhadap pertumbuhan bibit sistem polibag di pembibitan
Abstrak: The objective of this study was to obtain some informations about sago palm cultivation especially in nursery and know the effect of sucker weight and liquid manure application to the vegetative growth of sago sucker at polybag nursery system. This experiment held in PT. National Sago Prima, Selat Panjang, Riau from February to June 2011. The primary data were found by direct methods, it included the following activities in cultivation of sago palm, and did experiment in the field. The secondary data were found by indirect method, interviewed and discussed with the company staff and study literature to get more informations. The special aspect was find by arranged in split plot design, where the main plot was sucker weight with three levels (50-200 g, 200-500 g, and 500-800 g) and the subplot was four levels of liquid manure application (0, 2, 5, and 8 ml/l) with three replications. The results showed that there was no significantly different in the vegetative growth of sucker by liquid manure application. The sucker weight treatment showed significantly different to survival rate, leaf length, number of leaves, and percentage of expanded leaves. The larger suckers produced higher of leaf length. However, larger suckers didn’t always produce higher percentage of expanded leaves and higher survival rate of suckers in comparison to smaller ones. The sucker weight 200-500 g was the best sucker size to the vegetative growth of suckers
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Judul: Metrik Einstein (Anti-) Self-Dual Berdimensi Empat dengan Metode Cartan
Abstrak: Gravitational field equation can be formulated in differential forms (differential geometry), which describes gravity as a manifestation of the curvature of space-time. Curvature of space-time is characterized by a metric that satisfies the gravitational field equation. With differential forms it can be formulated the (anti-) self-dual Einstein equation, which is a modification of the Cartan structure in (anti-) self-dual basis. Calculation of (anti-) self-dual metric with (anti-) self-dual Einstein equation is simpler than the calculation using Christoffel symbols.
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