Judul: Model pengembangan infrastruktur kawasan Agropolitan berbasis komoditas unggulan kelapa yang berkelanjutan di Sulawesi Utara
Abstrak: Indonesia is an archipelago country which has the biggest coconut (Cocos nucifera) fannland in the wor1d, yet has a limited amount and type of refined product. In North Sulawesi Province, 70 percent of population are depent their life on this plant, although the condition of system and farmer agribusiness in processing agro industries is not optimal yet. This research located in agropolitan Ngaasan area. South Minahasa Regency. The purposes of this research are: {1) to construct the infrastructure development model of coconut based commodity prime agropolitan region. (2) to analyze the prime mover factors and actors of the commodity prime development in order to fonnulate the policy and the development strategy, (3) to analyze the development potential of coconut refining, zero waste, society based, and private investment agribusiness. This research applied conditional analysis, institutional analysis, SWOT analysis, economical analysis, and spatial analysis which results the needs of agropolitan infrastructures in five subsystems of agribusiness. The next step is to examine this five sub agribusiness into model of institutional development, model of infrastructures development and model of ICA {integrated coconut agribusiness) and the last step is to test for model's validity to the validation of structure and operational model and atso apply the Before-after comparison method to compare the operational of the area before and after this model being developed. ...dst
Keyword: Infrastructures, agropotitan, coconut, model, sustainable.

Judul: Arahan pengembangan kawasan usaha agro terpadu berbasis komoditas kelapa di Kabupaten Lampung Barat
Abstrak: West Lampung Regency has a great potency in agricultural sector. The dominant commodities which developed by the people were: coffee, pepper, clove, oil palm and coconut. The value added of whole products are very low because there are no agroindustries. So that the regency government will build the integrated agribusiness area development based on coconut commodity. The pusposes of the research were: 1) to identify the potential location, 2)to identify the prospective products, 3)to identify the public opinion, 4) to identify the prospect of market and 5) arrange the direction of development. The research was conducted in coastal district of West Lampung Regency on January-Marh 2008. This study used Scalogram, LQ, Land suitability Analysis. The results of those analysis were overlaid to find the alternative location. The choosing of prospective products using Analytical Hierrarchy Process (AHP) with expert respondent on coconut agoindustry. Chain of marketing, Industrial Tree, and Trend Analysis were used to describe the market prospect of coconut products. The result showed that there are 3 potential locations, group of villages Biha, Marang, Sumber Agung, and Negeri Ratu Ngambur, group of villages Way Redak, Kampung Jawa, Pasar Krui, Seray, and Walur, and The Third alternative : group of villages Pardasuka, Pagar Bukit dan Sukanegara. Coconut Oil and Dessicated Coconut were the first and second prospective products. Another prospective produtcs were Carbon Active Coco Milk and Coir Fiber. There are 3 level of collecting traders from village, district until sending trader, and the sending trader enjoyed the biggest profit. Projection trend showed, that export tend to increase. Public perception (farmers and traders) showed that farmers in district of Bengkunat, Pesisir Selatan, Pesisir Tengah and Karya Penggawa know better about (Kawasan Usaha Agro Terpadu ) KUAT program than Pesisir Utara and Lemong district. It was caused by the distant of location and the infrastructure. The direction of development based on 3 alternative location, choosen product which requires tight quality handled by KUAT Management, on the other hand the side products are handled by farmers/group of farmer. All the activities are designed in a cluster which including many stakeholders participation.
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Judul: Leukemia pada kucing
Abstrak: Leukemia pada kucing adalah suatu penyakit yang sangat patogen, disebabkan oleh sejenis virus. Virus ini dikenal sebagai Feline Leukemia Virus atau FeLV. FeLV ini oleh beberapa ahli dikatakan hanya bersifat ganas pada hewan kucing. Penularannya bisa secara horizontal maupun congenital. Kucing pada semua tingkat umur dapat terserang oleh FeLV ini. Khusus pada bentuk "thymic leukemia", virus ini hanya menyerang anak-anak kucing berumur diba- wah 1 tahun. Kucing-kucing liar atau yang tidak terpeli- hara jarang sekali terinfeksi FeLV. Selain dari serangan virus FeLV itu sendiri, maka penyakit leukemia ini bisa disebabkan oleh beberapa fak- tor yang sudah ada dalam tubuh hewan dan sangat menunjang perkembangan penyakit ini, yaitu antara lain tumor, agen toksik, cedera oleh kecelakaan dan gangguan hemopoiesis. FeLV menyerang sel-sel darah dalam tubuh hewan se- hingga pembentukan darah berjalan tidak normal. Terlihat sel-sel darah yang belum dewasa sudah beredar dalam sir- kulasi darah. Bentuk dan jumlahnya tidak lagi seimbang dalam tubuh hewan kucing tersebut. Gejala klinis antara lain kekurusan, ikterus, anemia, lemah, anoreksia, dyspnoe, sulit menelan, batuk, dan membran mukosa pucat. Selain itu kelenjar pertahanan tubuh juga membengkak, kemudian terjadi hepatomegali, spleenomegali dan pembengkakan pada ginjal. Terbentuk massa tumor pada beberapa tempat. Secara biopsy pada sumsum tulang akan terlihat be- berapa perubahan. Sumsum tulang berwarna merah tua atau abu-abu. Konsistensinya lunak dan terdapat banyak sekali memproduksi sel darah putih. Melalui gambaran darah leukemia ini lebih mudah didiagnosa. Jumlah retikulosit rendah sekali. PCV 8-15%, hemoglobin menurun, sel darah putih (WBC) meningkat, lim- fosit meningkat, Alfaglobulin juga ada peningkatan, dan banyak eosinofil yang belum dewasa beredar dalam darah…dst
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