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KEBIJAKAN FISKAL NEGARA INDONESIA DALAM PERSPEKTIF EKONOMI ISLAM
Authors: Supangat Supangat
Published: March 2017

As part of the  mu’amalah discourse, fiscal policy in Islam is flexible and open to ijtihad. Texts related to fiscal policy can not be separated from the socio  historical circumstances early Islamic society. Interpretation must use a contextual approach, although the mechanism may be different contextualisation. With the above formulation, this study  found in common principles and objectives of the State’s fiscal policy in Indonesia. In fact, some types of taxes collected by the government is a reformulation of the tax that is applied in the early days of Islam. Thus, the system of fiscal policies during the State of Indonesia is still in the corridors of Shari’ah. However, implementation of such systems is still far from the expected. With the point of the equation, the government can implement fiscal policies of an Islamic state in accordance with the laws and culture of Indonesia. In this paper, the authors propose the idea to the admissibility of zakat and taxation as a source of state revenue.
PERLINDUNGAN TERHADAP PASAR TRADISIONAL DI TENGAH EKSPANSI PASAR RITEL MODERN
Authors: Noor Afif
Published: March 2017

Modern retail market, especially in Central Java experiencing tremendous growth lately, based on the data, in 2004 the number reached 1,496 traditional markets, while the modern market amounted to 232. Different conditions occurred in 2008, the number of traditional market just reached 1,443 while the modern market reached 399. That means there is a negative growth in traditional markets. In 2010 the modern retail market growth reached 10.2% (1,852 outlets). This condition is one side has a positive effect because it means showing the high investment in the real sector, but on the other result in the more traditional markets entrapment, especially the modern retail market using the franchise system to begin operations 24 hours per day. Therefore, the protection of traditional markets as the center of economic activities of small and medium-sized enterprises should be done to ensure the sustainability of small and medium enterprises.
PERUBAHAN AKAD WADI’AH
Authors: Huda Nur
Published: March 2017

Salah satu produk fiqh muamalah yang turut berkembang bersamaan dengan perkembangan ekonomi syari’ah adalah akad wadi’ah. Lembaga keuangan syari’ah, khususnya bank syari’ah mencoba memodifikasi dan menerapkan akad-akad al musamma termasuk wadi’ah sebagaimana yang disebutkan oleh kitab-kitab fiqh, namun aplikasinya telah mengalami perubahan bentuk yang sebaliknya dari pengertian semula.  Permasalahan yang akan dikaji adalah mengapa dan bagaimana perubahan tersebut bisa terjadi? Tulisan ini dari hasil pengkajian kitab-kitab fiqh (muamalah) klasik dalam berbagai madzhab, kitab-kitab fiqh modern (kontemporer) dan buku-buku tentang perbankan syari’ah termasuk fatwa DSN-MUI tentang wadi’ah dan dianalisis secara kualitatif. Perubahan bentuk akad wadi’ah dari fiqh ke bank syari’ah, setidaknya dalam 4 hal, yaitu 1), sifat wadi’ah yang semula adalah non profit (tabarru’) menjadi profit. 2) barang titipan semula adalah milik penitip dan tidak boleh dimanfaatkan oleh penerima titipan, di bank syari’ah barang titipan beralih menjadi milik bank dan bank bebas memanfaatkannya. 3) barang titipan yang semula adalah barang, dalam bank syari’ah berubah menjadi uang. Dan 4) akad wadi’ah semula obyeknya adalah jasa penitipan dimana penitiplah yang harus membayar jasa penitipan, tetapi di bank syari’ah berubah menjadi titipan investasi.
PENGARUH PROFITABILITAS DAN KAPITALISASI PASAR TERHADAP NILAI EMITEN JAKARTA ISLAMIC INDEX
Authors: Rifqiawan Raden Arfan
Published: March 2017

Tulisan ini meneliti pengaruh antara Return on Assets (ROA) sebagai proksi dari profitabilitas dan kapitalisasi pasar terhadap Tobin's Q sebagai proksi dari nilai emiten. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk menemukan bukti empiris tentang pengaruh profitabilitas  dan kapitalisasi pasar terhadap nilai emiten. Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah emiten Jakarta Islamic Index (JII)  yang terdaftar dalam  Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX)  dalam  rentang tahun 2012-2014. Sampel penelitian adalah sebanyak 21 perusahaan dengan 63 kali pengamatan. Analisis data menggunakan analisis regresi linear berganda.  Hasil penelitian dengan analisis regresi linear berganda menunjukkan bahwa profitabilitas berpengaruh signifikan terhadap nilai emiten. Hal ini ditunjukkan dengan taraf signifikansi dari hasil uji statistik t sebesar 0,000 (0,05). Sedangkan kapitalisasi pasar tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap nilai emiten yang ditunjukkan dengan taraf signifikansi sebesar 0,195 (0,05). Namun secara simultan profitabilitas dan kapitalisasi pasar berpengaruh signifikan terhadap nilai emiten. Hal ini diketahui dari hasil uji statistik F, taraf signifikansinya sebesar 0,000 (0,05). Nilai Koefisien Determinasi sebesar 0,653  menunjukkan bahwa model regresinya sudah baik karena kemampuan variabel bebas dalam menjelaskan variabel terikat  sebesar 65,3%.  Sisanya sebesar 34,7% dijelaskan oleh variabel di luar penelitian.
TRACER STUDY ALUMNI JURUSAN PERBANKAN SYARIAH FAKULTAS EKONOMI DAN BISNIS ISLAM IAIN WALISONGO SEMARANG
Authors: Arifin Johan
Published: March 2017

Salah satu cara untuk mengukur keberhasilan institusi pendidikan dalam menghasilkan kualitas lulusan adalah dengan melaksanakan survei penelusuran alumni (tracer study). Hal ini berguna untuk mengukur kompetensi lulusan yang bermutu tinggi dan relevan dengan kebutuhan pasar, meningkatkan kualitas tata kelola yang kredibel, transparan dan akuntabel, dan cara untuk mengetahui perubahan dan kebutuhan akan kemampuan dan kapabilitas yang sesuai dengan kondisi di dunia praktis yang kompleks melalui pendapat alumninya. Di sisi lain, tracer study juga berguna untuk memperoleh informasi tentang kekurangan yang mungkin terjadi dalam proses pendidikan.
SOLUSI PROBLEM PENGHAPUSAN BUNGA DENGAN PENDEKATAN PRODUK BAI‘ BITSAMAN ĀJIL DALAM UPAYA MEWUJUDKAN LEMBAGA KEUANGAN LĀ-RIBA (Studi Kasus di BMT Damar dan BMT-KJKS IAIN Walisongo Semarang)
Authors: Mujibatun Siti
Published: March 2017

Mudhārabah practices as an icon rather than LKS (Sharia Financial Institution) is still raise unresolved polemic associated with akunting system and balance, especially in the domain of financing, so that the stigma of people who think that the operating system is the same as the system of financial calculating interest only the different’s name has been continues. When examined in detail, there are other products that legitimized the contract either by the arguments Syara agreed by the majority of scholars and schools of jurisprudence, namely the contract of Ba‘i Bitsaman Ājil (BBA) or purchase by way of pay gradually. This article concludes; First, offers a BBA in finance BMT Damar and BMT-KJKS IAIN Walisongo experiencing significant growth, in addition to a simple transaction models are not complex, almost the akunting system likes fixed rate (fixed rate) so that customers become more familiar because the system is not much different from the credit money. Second, BBA financing acounting system can be separated from other products offered by BMT and not to be come one system with murābahah financing. Third, although the BBA acounting system similar to the system of interest and somewhat complicated because managers have the purchase to be come representer for wakālah contract to goods of customers, but offers and akunting BBA financing is more flexible and is not affected by rising interest rates as the often occurs in LKK )Conventional Financial Institutional)
PENINGKATAN ETIKA KERJA ISLAM TERHADAP KOMITMEN ORGANISASI DAN KEPUASAN KERJA (Studi Kasus Pada Staf Auditor Kantor Akuntan Publik Kota Semarang)
Authors: Alwiyah Alwiyah
Published: March 2017

Today many organizations face a dynamic and changing environment which in turn requires the organization to adjust to the environment. Dynamic environments requires management to adopt changes regardless of work ethic (to modify the structure, objectives, technology, organization of work tasks, etc.) in order to adjust to the changing environment. Success in the field of employment is determined by various factors, such as the level of competence, professionalism and commitment to the field is practiced. Having regard to the Islamic work ethic and commitment to the organization hopefully someone can reach the level of job satisfaction. The purpose of this study to find empirical evidence of an increase in the work ethic of Islam against comitment affective, normative commitment, continuance commitment and job satisfaction. The population is a Staff Auditor who work on public accounting firm who are Muslims in the city of Semarang. Hypothesis testing using the F test, the coefficient of determination and t test, where the F test is used to determine the increase of Islamic work ethics to organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Coefficient of determination (R ²) was essentially measure how far the model's ability to explain the dependent variables. Determiasi value is zero and one. Value (R ²) is small means that the ability of the independent variables in explaining the dependent variable is very limited. T Test To test whether there is any significant relationship between dependent and independent variables.
ANALISIS TINGKAT KESEHATAN PT. BANK BRISYARIAH PERIODE 2011-2014 DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE CAMEL
Authors: Prasetyoningrum Ari Kristin , Toyyib Noor Ahmad
Published: March 2017

The rapid development of banking as well as high levels of complexity influence the performance and increase the risk of a bank. Therefore, it is important for banks to maintain the trust because of activities related to public confidence. This study aims to determine the health level of PT. Bank BRISyariah in 2011-2014 by using CAMEL.This research used quantitative descriptive analysis aims to analyze the soundness of PT. Bank BRISyariah in 2011-2014 using the CAMEL factors include capital, asset quality, management, earnings and liquidity. Data used in this study a BRISyariah Annual Report 2011 to 2014 taken from www.brisyariah.co.id. and Quarterly Financial Report Bank BRISyariah published by Bank Indonesia was taken from www.bi.go.id.Based on the analysis of the Bank’s soundness BRISyariah using CAMEL ratio in 2011-2014 can be said that in general PT. Bank BRISyariah in conditions HEALTHY, the the first rank in the CAR, PPAP, ROA, NPM, and CR; The second rank in the KAP; BOPO ranked third; and LDR in the fourth.
Selection of criteria for multi-criteria decision making of reservoir flood control operation
Authors: Zhu Feilin , Zhong Ping-an , Sun Yimeng , Xu Bin
Published: March 2017

In reservoir flood control operation, selection of criteria is an important part of the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) procedure. This paper proposes a method to select criteria for MCDM of reservoir flood control operation based on the back-propagation (BP) neural network. According to the concept of ideal and anti-ideal points, we propose a method to generate training samples of the BP neural network via stochastic simulation. The topological structure of a three-layer BP neural network used for criteria selection is established. The relative importance of criteria is derived via the learned connection weights of a trained BP neural network, and its calculation method is proposed. The sensitivity curve method is employed to conduct sensitivity analysis, and the relative contribution ratio is defined to quantify the relative sensitivity strength of each criterion. We present the principle and threshold value of criteria selection based on the comprehensive discrimination index defined by the combination of the relative importance and relative contribution ratio. The Pubugou reservoir is selected as the case study. The results show that the proposed method can provide an effective tool for decision makers to select criteria before MCDM modeling of reservoir flood control operation.
Qualitative comparative analysis for WASH research and practice
Authors: Kaminsky Jessica , Jordan Elizabeth
Published: March 2017

Qualitative comparative analysis is an established research method that has been underutilized in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) research. It has immense potential for addressing the complexity inherent to WASH projects, and can produce robust and transparent results from intermediate or large numbers of cases. The method enables researchers and practitioners to blend quantitative and qualitative metrics to build more nuanced contextual knowledge, and is able to detect combinations of causal conditions that lead to outcomes of interest. This means that the method is uniquely positioned for building empirically founded theories of change that reflect contextual complexity. In this review paper we use hypothetical data and a review of the existing literature to showcase where and how the method can be productively applied in WASH research and practice.
Biosorption of six basic and acidic dyes on brown alga Sargassum ilicifolium: optimization, kinetic and isotherm studies
Authors: Tabaraki Reza , Sadeghinejad Negar
Published: March 2017

Biosorption of Methyl Blue (MB), Fuchsin Acid (FA), Rhodamine B (RB), Methylene Blue (MEB), Bromocresol purple (BC) and Methyl Orange (MO) onto Sargassum ilicifolium was studied in a batch system. Effect of dye structure on biosorption by Sargassum ilicifolium was studied to define the correlation between chemical structure and biosorption capacity. Different dye groups such as triarylmethane (MB, FA and BC), monoazo (MO), thiazine (MEB) and xanthene (RB) were studied. At optimum experimental conditions for each dye, biosorption capacity was determined and compared. The results indicate that the chemical structure (triarylmethane, monoazo, thiazine, xanthene), number of sulfonic groups, basicity (element of chromophore group: S, N, O) and molecular weight of dye molecules influence their biosorption capacity. Experimental parameters such as biosorbent dose, pH, contact time, and initial dye concentration were optimized for each dye. The biosorption kinetic data were successfully described by the pseudo second-order model. The biosorption results were also analyzed by the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms. Finally, biosorption capacities obtained using Sargassum ilicifolium were compared with the ones presented in the literature.
Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Pd Nanoparticles and Catalysis Application for Suzuki Coupling Reactions
Authors: Zhang Jian , Bai Xuefeng
Published: March 2017

A facile and efficient method was developed for the synthesis of highly active palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs) by microwave-assisted chemical reduction. The PdNPs with different morphology were prepared with or without KBr (capping agent) using ethylene glycol (EG) and citric acid (CA) as reducing agent in the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), respectively. The as-prepared PdNPs were characterized by (UV-Visible Spectrophotometer) UV-Vis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. The results showed that the PdNPs reduced by EG without KBr (PdNPs-EG) has smaller particle size than other PdNPs. The remarkable catalytic activity of the PdNPs catalysts are obtained using a low amount of PdNPs (0.1 mmol‰) using K2CO3 as base and EtOH/H2O as solvent toward Suzuki coupling reactions of aryl bromides and phenylboronic acid for 15 min.
Short-term Wind Power Prediction Using GA-ELM
Authors: Wang Xinyou , Wang Chenhua , Li Qing
Published: March 2017

Focusing on short-term wind power forecast, a method based on the combination of Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) has been proposed. Firstly, the GA was used to prepossess the data and effectively extract the input of model in feature space. Basis on this, the ELM was used to establish the forecast model for short-term wind power. Then, the GA was used to optimize the activation function of hidden layer nodes, the offset, the input weights, and the regularization coefficient of extreme learning, thus obtaining the GA-ELM algorithm. Finally, the GA-ELM was applied to the short-term wind power forecast for a certain area. Compared with single ELM, Elman algorithms, the experimental results show that the GA-ELM algorithm has higher prediction accuracy and better ability for generalization.
An Audit of Clinical Practice in a Single Centre in Kuwait: Management of Children on Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Screening
Authors: Omar Dina , Alsanae Hala , Al Khawari Mona , Abdulrasoul Majedah , Rahme Zahraa , Al Refaei Faisal , Behbehani Kazem , Shaltout Azza
Published: March 2017

Objectives:

To audit the current clinical practice of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) for the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) in children and adolescents attending a single centre in Kuwait.

Methods:

A one year retrospective audit was performed in children and adolescents with T1D on CSII, who attended the paediatric diabetes clinic, Dasman Diabetes Institute during 2012. The primary outcome measure was glycaemic control as evidenced by glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) level and the secondary outcome measures were the frequency of monitoring of the risk for microvascular complications and occurrence of acute complications and adverse events.

Results:

58 children and adolescents (mean age ± SD: 12.6 ± 4.1 years) were included. Mean HbA1c at baseline was 8.8% (72.7 mmol/mol) and 8.9% (73.8 mmol/mol) at the end of a 12 months observation period. Children with poor control (HbA1c >9.5% (80 mmol/mol) had a significant 1.4% reduction in HbA1c compared with the overall reduction of 0.1% (p=0.7). Rate of screening for cardiovascular risk factors and for long term complications were well documented. However, there was underreporting of acute complications such as severe hypoglycaemia and diabetic ketoacidosis. Only 1.7% of patients discontinued the pump.

Conclusion:

There was no significant change in HbA1c values at the end of 12 months follow up. However, HbA1c values in poorly controlled children improved. CSII requires care by skilled health professionals as well as education and selection of motivated parents and children.
Suprascapular Nerve Pathology: A Review of the Literature
Authors: Kostretzis Lazaros , Theodoroudis Ioannis , Boutsiadis Achilleas , Papadakis Nikolaos , Papadopoulos Pericles
Published: March 2017

Background:

Suprascapular nerve pathology is a rare diagnosis that is increasingly gaining popularity among the conditions that cause shoulder pain and dysfunction. The suprascapular nerve passes through several osseoligamentous structures and can be compressed in several locations.

Methods:

A thorough literature search was performed using online available databases in order to carefully define the pathophysiology and to guide diagnosis and treatment.

Results:

Suprascapular neuropathy diagnosis is based on a careful history and a thorough clinical and radiological examination. Although the incidence and prevalence of the condition remain unknown, it is highly diagnosed in specific groups (overhead athletes, patients with a massive rotator cuff tear) probably due to higher interest. The location and the etiology of the compression are those that define the treatment modality.

Conclusion:

Suprascapular neuropathy diagnosis is based on a careful history and a thorough clinical and radiological examination. The purpose of this article is to describe the anatomy of the suprascapular nerve, to define the pathophysiology of suprascapular neuropathy and to present methodically the current diagnostic and treatment strategies.
Comparison of Ethnic-specific Databases in Heidelberg Retina Tomography-3 to Discriminate Between Early Glaucoma and Normal Chinese Eyes
Authors: Tan Xiu Ling , Yap Sae Cheong , Li Xiang , Yip Leonard W.
Published: March 2017

Purpose:

To compare the diagnostic accuracy of the 3 race-specific normative databases in Heidelberg Retina Tomography (HRT)-3, in differentiating between early glaucomatous and healthy normal Chinese eyes.

Method:

52 healthy volunteers and 25 glaucoma patients were recruited for this prospective cross-sectional study. All underwent standardized interviews, ophthalmic examination, perimetry and HRT optic disc imaging. Area under the curve (AUC) receiver operating characteristics, sensitivity and specificity were derived to assess the discriminating abilities of the 3 normative databases, for both Moorfields Regression Analysis (MRA) and Glaucoma Probability Score (GPS).

Results:

A significantly higher percentage (65%) of patients were classified as “within normal limits” using the MRA-Indian database, as compared to the MRA-Caucasian and MRA-African-American databases. However, for GPS, this was observed using the African-American database. For MRA, the highest sensitivity was obtained with both Caucasian and African-American databases (68%), while the highest specificity was from the Indian database (94%). The AUC for discrimination between glaucomatous and normal eyes by MRA-Caucasian, MRA-African-American and MRA-Indian databases were 0.77 (95% CI, 0.67-0.88), 0.79 (0.69-0.89) and 0.73 (0.63-0.84) respectively. For GPS, the highest sensitivity was obtained using either Caucasian or Indian databases (68%). The highest specificity was seen with the African-American database (98%). The AUC for GPS-Caucasian, GPS-African-American and GPS-Indian databases were 0.76 (95% CI, 0.66-0.87), 0.77 (0.67-0.87) and 0.76 (0.66-0.87) respectively.

Conclusion:

Comparison of the 3 ethnic databases did not reveal significant differences to differentiate early glaucomatous from normal Chinese eyes.
Development of a Novel Carbon-11 Labeled PET Radioligand for Melanin- Concentrating Hormone Receptor 1
Authors: Igawa Hideyuki , Stepanov Vladimir , Tari Lenke , Okuda Shoki , Yamamoto Syunsuke , Kasai Shizuo , Nagisa Yasutaka , Haggkvist Jenny , Svedberg Marie , Toth Miklos , Takano Akihiro , Halldin Christer
Published: March 2017

Background and Objective: Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) is an attractive target
for antiobesity agents and many drug discovery programs have been dedicated to identify smallmolecule
antagonists of melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1 (MCHR1). The aim of this study
was to develop a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for MCHR1 for translation of preclinical
pharmacology to clinic to enhance success rate of drug discovery programs.

Methods: We identified 4-(cyclopropylmethoxy)-N-[8-methyl-3-({[(1-methyl-1H-pyrrol-2-yl)methyl]
amino}ethyl)quinolin-7-yl]benzamide (Compound II) from Takeda MCHR1 antagonist library by
utilizing binding affinity, log D value, physicochemical parameters ideal for a central nerve system
agent, and synthetic feasibility of corresponding carbon-11 labeled radioligands as selection parameters
for tracer candidates.

Results: In the rat PET study, [11C] Compound II showed clear uptake in the caudate/putamen with
the pretreatment of cyclosporine A and its uptake was higher than that in the cerebellum where expression
of MCHR1 was reported to be low.

Conclusion: In summary, [11C]Compound II is a promising lead compound for developing a suitable
MCHR1 PET radioligand. [11C]Compound II, in combination with cyclosporine A, could be used as
a research tool to visualize and quantify MCHR1 in rodents.
Modelization and Statistical Optimization of Coagulation–Flocculation Treatment of an Old Leachate
Authors: Lessoued Ridha , Souahi Fatiha , Pelaez Leonor C.
Published: March 2017

Coagulation/flocculation process was studied using the response surface methodology (RSM) and central composite design (CCD), to design the experiments, develop models, evaluate the relationship between operating factors (FeCl3 dose [m] and pH), and provide an efficient method for the treatment of old leachates. The quadratic polynomial models developed for chemical oxygen demand (COD) and turbidity responses indicated that the optimum conditions were m of 0.82 g/L at pH 5.33 with coefficient of determination R2 of 98.88 and 99.84%, and adjusted R2 of 98.09 and 99.73% for both COD and turbidity. The experimental data and model predictions agreed well. Chemical oxygen demand, turbidity, lead and copper removal efficiency of 76.4, 98.9, 99 and 99%, respectively, were reached.
PENGEMBANGAN KEMAMPUAN GURU IPA SD UPTD PIYUNGAN MENINGKATKAN KREATIVITAS BESERTA CARA PENGUKURANNYA
Authors: Subali Bambang , Wibowo Yuni , Kurniawati Atik
Published: March 2017

Kegiatan PPM ini bertujuan melatih guru IPA SD UPTD Piyungan mampu mengembangkan RPP, kisi-kisi dan item untuk meningkatkan kreativitas peseerta didik.Kegiatan PPM ini dilaksanakan dengan ceramah, tanya jawab, dan praktik. Kegiatan praktik meliputi (a)  penulisan Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran (RPP), penggunaan LKPD serta item pengukurnya. Pertemuan kegiatan pendampingan dengan menyajikan hasil pembelajaran dan hasil pengukurannya. Kegiatan diikuti 22 guru kelas IV atas kesepakatan pengabdi dan pengawas.Hasil yang dicapai pada pertemuan pertama hanya sebagian kecil guru berhasil disusun RPP, LKS,  dan kisi-kisi serta item namun setelah diberi bimbingan, para peserta sudah tahu kesalahannya dan bersedia memperbaiki. Pada pertemuan kedua, ada 2 guru yang tidak hadir. Guru melaporkan hasil pengukuran kreativitas dan cara penskorannya. Untuk penulisan soal dan cara penskoran, masih ada 1 dari 20 guru yang belum melaksanakan dengan benar. Kata Kunci: kreativitas, keterampilan proses sains, aspek kehidupan, konstruksi item
Pelatihan Pembuatan Media Pembelajaran IPA Sederhana Bagi Guru IPA SD di Kabupaten Sleman
Authors: Wiyatmo Yusman , Ruwanto Bambang , Suparno Suparno , Jumadi Jumadi
Published: March 2017

Pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk: 1) memberikan  pengetahuan bagi guru IPA SD untuk merancang media pembelajaran IPA sederhana, 2) melatih keterampilan guru IPA untuk membuat media pembelajaran IPA sederhana, dan 3) melatih keterampilan guru IPA dalam menggunakan media pembelajaran IPA sederhana.  Metode yang digunakan adalah dengan memberikan pelatihan kepada 7 guru IPA SD di Kabupaten Sleman tentang merancang, membuat, dan menggunakan alat peraga IPA sederhana.  Pelatihan dilakukan di Ruang Perpustkaan Fisika pada tanggal 4 November 2016.  Hasil pengabdian pada masyarakat menunjukkan bahwa: 1) peserta memiliki pengetahuan dalam merancang alat peraga, 2) peserta memiliki keterampilan dalam merancang alat peraga IPA, dan 3) peserta terampil menggunakan alat peraga IPA. Kata kunci: pelatihan, media pembelajaran, IPA
Politics Representation and Symbolic Violence through the Discourse of Seram as Nusa Ina
Authors: Andries Flavius Floris
Published: March 2017

Political representation and symbolic violence through discourse Seram as Nusa Ina (Mother Island) are interesting phenomenon to be studied. This research was conducted with a qualitative method by in-depth interview and participation observation which aims to know how does this discourse view. The cultural study was applied in order to comprehend the manners of creating, producing, and disseminating the meanings from the perspective of non-Seram society and what their views on the discourse in understanding Moluccas universal identity. The process of data analysis by using the cultural studies approach generated the findings i.e the Nunusaku myth that legitimizes and strengthens Seram as Nusa Ina in society, and that there was a significant influence of myth and discourse in Moluccas identity formation universally in the form of folk songs or reliefs that always shade of Seram in represents the Moluccans. The discourse of Seram as Nusa Ina for the community of non-Seram, especially for Southeast people, is not substantial because they do not have emotional connection or relationship with the genealogy and cultural discourse. They have the other myth and the other own discourse about the myth itself such as Vernusang Island which was sinking in the formation of people’s live in the Southeast. Therefore, the discourse of Seram as Nusa Ina which is forced to become a part of the discourse of Southeast People is a form of a false consciousness as well as form of political representation and symbolic violence.
The 1987 Southam Lecture: Mr. Innis, Is There Life After the 'American Empire'?
Authors: de la Garde Roger
Published: March 2017

Tradition dictates that the organizers of our annual conference choose the Southam lecturer for a specific reason. The choice of the first lecturer, Anthony Smith, opened a window on European social thinking. The following year, Jacques Godbout, a media professional and social critic of considerable experience, was invited to address the present state of the art of media production and practices. Last year, Dallas Smythe was chosen in order to pay homage to an outstanding teacher and founding father of Canadian communication studies. Why this year's lecturer was chosen leaves me dumbfounded, a feeling that is no doubt shared by most of you. Whatever the reason, I dared not wait f o r the organizers to explain their decision and immediately undertook to give this lecture a particular twist.
Communication and Control in Times of Crisis: Israeli Censorship in the Occupied Territories
Authors: Wolfsfeld Gadi , Rabihiya Yitzhak
Published: March 2017

The struggle over information in the territories occupied by Israel is an integral part of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The dilemmas which Israeli policy makers must confront arise from the inherent inconsistency of a democratic country attempting to rule over a large, hostile population. The war over words is a part of a larger conflict over national legitimacy and both sides tend to define the clash as a zero-sum game (Benvenisti 1983).1
Sri Lanka: Mass Communication in a Civil-Regional Conflict
Authors: Samarajiva Rohan , Keerawella Gamini
Published: March 2017

This comment examines the role of mass communication in the civil-regional conflict in Sri Lanka. The conflict is described thus to indicate both internal aspect, wherein Sri Lankan citizens of Tamil as well as of Sinhala ethnic origin have taken up arms against the state, and its external aspect, wherein the regional power, India, armed and provided a base area to secessionist groups on it soil prior to July 1987 and now has between 50,000 and 100,000 troops on Sri Lankan territory. The role of mass communication is examined primarily from within the Gramscian framework of the state (Gramsci 1971). The authors consider Gramsci's concept of hegemony and coercion to be extremely useful in analyzing multiethnic Third World societies such as Sri Lanka (Keerawella and Samarajiva, 1987). It is recognized that there is overlap between the concept of hegemony and the assertion made by Janeway that
New Old Things: Fabrication, Physical Computing, and Experiment in Historical Practice
Authors: Elliott Devon
Published: March 2017

Matter is a new medium for historical research, providing the opportunity to explore physical and experiential questions while working with digitized and materialized forms.
Multiplication and Division: Embodied Action in Digital Space-Time
Authors: Stock Danielle
Published: March 2017

The interaction between corporeality and information in the context of the digital interface is, as Anna Munster (2006) notes, characterized by the distinctly spatio-temporal processes of both “multiplication (doubling) and division (splitting).” In this experience, the body’s “image, sensation, and action” mutate to align with the speeds of the informational universe, translating physical action into digital results and dividing attention between multiple spatio-temporalities. This paper considers such conjunctions and disjunctions within and through the applied media theory project Division Pixel Suppliers created at the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab, focusing specifically on how embodied action in the digital interface of the arcade-cabinet installation is characterized by a fracturing of space and time that places interactants into a particular relationship with their technical environment.
The Xenotext Experiment, So Far
Authors: Wershler Darren
Published: March 2017

Media art theorizes itself in terms of the production of boundary objects and the intermedial zones that they create. In a similar vein, but from a critical perspective, communication studies concerns itself with intermedial border zones as sites of transition and reversal. To what extent, if any, do the intermedial encounters of avowedly interdisciplinary, but relatively stable fields like media art and communication studies, staged through the boundary objects of media art, actually change the way that the fields themselves go about their daily business? What would it mean for communication studies to take contemporary experimental media poetics seriously? This article focuses on Christian Bök’s Xenotext Experiment as a site for working through these questions.
Of Logos, Owners, and Cultural Intermediaries: Defining an Elite Discourse in Re-branding Practices at Three Private Canadian Television Stations
Authors: Ali Christopher
Published: March 2017

ABSTRACT  This article explores the relationship between local television stations and national networks through a careful study of station re-branding. The relationship is explored through case studies of the three privately owned English-speaking television stations in Winnipeg, Canada. Through in-depth interviews with station and network executives, the author investigates the critical factors that facilitated the re-branding of Canada’s private television networks between 1997 and 2005. This period saw many English-speaking television networks unite their respective affiliate stations under a single logo and brand. Influenced by branding theory and scholarship on Canadian broadcasting, this article examines the shift away from local identification in Canadian broadcasting and the benefits, challenges, and resistances therein.
Defying the News: New Aesthetics of “Truth” in Popular Culture
Authors: Lithgow Michael
Published: March 2017

ABSTRACT Aesthetics manifest a rationally ambiguous category of meaning that encompasses both relational and representational dimensions of communication.  In this paper, I argue that (1) truth-claims have ontological consequences bound in the social commitments and obligations generated through expressive choices and interpellated audiences; (2) ontological implications entangle discourses of “truth” in the constitution of knowledge in ways that extend beyond rational argumentation into aesthetic experience; and (3) a reinterpretation of Kantian aesthetics offers a framework for understanding how aesthetic experiences influence the organization of relations of power.
Staying Socially Connected with Online Video Communications: A Case Study
Authors: Molyneaux Heather
Published: March 2017

Video communication conducted online—online videos, video calls, and videoconferencing—is quickly becoming a fixture in the everyday lives of many Canadians. We conducted a case study of residents of a small Canadian city, exploring their use of video communication to maintain social relationships. Our study indicates high levels of acceptance for communicating using video with others at a geographical distance, especially where there is a cost savings, a close personal relationship between participants, and a need to “show” objects or expressions. Concern about privacy restrains more frequent use. The discussion considers these findings in the context of public sphere theory and the potential for online video communications to be a special kind of place for people to meet and socialize with others.
Telling Our Stories/Animating Our Past: A Status Report on Oral History and Digital Media
Authors: High Steven
Published: March 2017

Tens of thousands of oral history interviews sitting in archival drawers, on computer hard drives, or on library bookshelves have never been listened to. Thousands of new interviews are being added each year by the many large testimony projects now underway, including Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Historica–Dominion Institute’s Memory Project. Although the existence of these immense collections is widely known, the interviews are difficult to access. How can we combine oral history and new media to ensure that the potential of such important projects is fully realized? Emergent and digital technologies are opening up new possibilities for accessing Canadian memories and transmitting them to various audiences. New forms of media are changing the ways we think about and do oral and public history.
La Dame de fer, la Bonne Mère et les autres : une analyse du cadrage de la couverture médiatique de certaines politiciennes québécoises et canadiennes
Authors: Lemarier-Saulnier Catherine
Published: March 2017

This article discusses the articulations between gender, politics, and media. With the increasing importance taken by the personalization and personalities of political actors in the political process, this research aims to offer a better understanding of the ways in which female politicians are depicted by and in the media. By looking closely at discourses about some of these women politicians, we intend to better understand the gender norms and expectations that they deal with while doing their job as parliamentarians. Our focus on the representations produced through media discourse on Quebec and Canadian politicians is informed by leadership theories and concepts of representation and framing gender. The qualitative discourse analysis of over 300 articles about 11 women politicians in Quebec newspapers has highlighted six portraits: Women Above All, as well as Iron Ladies, Good Mothers, Women Fighters, Stars, and Exceptional Pioneers. These results are critically discussed in relation to other research about gender, media, and politics.
Beastness Is Our Culture Le legs de Marshall McLuhan aux Études animales
Authors: Jaclin David
Published: March 2017

Shaping a human world is generally understood from an inorganic point of view. Sand becomes microchips while stones are turned into homes, projectiles or writing surfaces. In this article, I suggest broadening these conceptions and looking at the shaping of our world from an organic point of view, with an emphasis on communities composed of humans and their other ancestrally modified companions: “domestic” animals. Using a media ecology-oriented theoretical apparatus, I discuss McLuhan’s legacies from an Animal Studies perspective. Although his work mostly applied to press, TV or radio, can we actualize it to reconsider the existences of some biotechnologically altered organisms? Can over-productive cows, landscaped dogs, estrogenized tigers, spider goats and other reformed guinea pigs be thought of as ever-evolving media?
Romancing the Drone: Military Desire and Anthropophobia from SAGE to Swarm
Authors: Packer Jeremy , Reeves Joshua
Published: March 2017

This article provides an historical account of the U.S. military’s creation of and reliance upon Earth observation media to orient their ability to conduct first the Cold War and then the War on Terror. Two technological case studies are provided: 1) an account of the development of the Semi-Automated Ground Environment (SAGE) system developed to automate the surveillance necessary for anti-nuclear bomber defence; and 2) a brief history of drone development from the nineteenth century to the present war on terror. These observational media systems provide evidence of how Kittler’s two claims regarding media development merge in the teleology of the digital and the “war answer” in which warfare has come to be autonomously guided by computerized media.
Logistical Media: Fragments from Radar’s Prehistory
Authors: Case Judd A.
Published: March 2017

Fragments from the prehistory of radar are analyzed to advance a notion of logistical media. Logistical media order and arrange people and objects and subtly influence our experiences of space and time (Case, 2010). Logistical media emphasize logistics, feedback, and remote control in communication. They gesture to the work of Innis (1951, 1972), Wiener (1948/1961, 1954), Carey (1988), Mumford (1964), and Virilio (1989, 1994), and to the transmission model of communication. This article considers the torpedo, searchlight, war horn, and death ray logistically and as they prefigure radar. The analysis of other logistical media is suggested.
Classifying the Internet: Everyday Negotiations of Technology and Social Order
Authors: Dumitrica Delia
Published: March 2017

Inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, this article explores the classificatory pairs used by 28 Internet users in four urban centres across Canada to describe their daily use of the Internet. The pairs—work/personal, reader/contributor, information/communication, and freedom/control—offer a snapshot of the everyday struggles over the subject positions and the social order that those wider discursive constructions of the Internet present to us. The struggles speak to respondents’ diffuse, yet ongoing, concerns with the increased commodification of Internet spaces. The article argues that there is a need to open up spaces for the critical consideration of our own roles, as Internet users, in the economy of the Internet.
The View from the Window
Authors: Heydon Jeff
Published: March 2017

This article presents a brief analysis of the discrepancies and difficulties in evaluating transmitted images as though they were directly witnessed. It attempts to look closely at the result of representation in the act of witnessing and the divisions inherent in electronic media as a tool for viewing. Primary works by Marshall McLuhan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean Baudrillard are considered order to investigate the relationship between the subject and the viewer in the event of media transmission. How does the introduction of a camera influence the body of the viewer? How does it further alienate the subject (or does it at all)? What, in short, happens when we create an image in order to ‘accurately represent’ something?
Social and Linguistic Convergences in the Information Age
Authors: Szécsi Gábor
Published: March 2017

This article argues that the electronically mediated communication contributes to the construction of new, mediated forms of communities that are based on the synthesis of virtual and physical communities. The appearance of these new forms of communities leads to a new conceptualization of the relation between self and community. The aim of this article, on the one hand, is to show that with the mediatization of communities, our concept of community becomes more complex. On the other hand, in this essay I consider the assumption that the medium of the mediatization and new conceptualization of community is a specific, pictorial language of electronically mediated communication.
The Concept of the Industrial Channel in the Domain of Culture, Information, and Communication: A French Speciality?
Authors: Ménard Marc
Published: March 2017

The concept of the industrial channel refers to an intermediary realm of activity, often characterized as a meso-system, whose functioning logic cannot be reduced to micro- or macro-economic behaviour. The article aims also to present the concept of filière and to describe the different usages of it in the domains of culture, information, and communication in France and in Quebec. We will demonstrate as well that, although quite specific in their formulations, the analyses of filières share many common points with analyses based on the chain of value concept when these rest upon perspectives that are larger than a mere firm or economic sector.
Homelessness: Emotion Discourse and the Reproduction of Social Inequality
Authors: Schneider Barbara
Published: March 2017

ABSTRACT This article draws on data gathered in focus groups to analyze how people talk about homelessness and compares the findings to how homelessness is represented in the media, specifically newspapers. It examines how ideas about homelessness that circulate in society are taken up, used, and reproduced by people in social interaction. People “care” about homelessness and use emotion discourse in the focus group context to construct a moral identity and to manage interactional dilemmas. They express sympathy for homeless people, deflect responsibility for any negative feelings they may have, and shift responsibility for doing something about homelessness. In using emotion discourse, they reproduce conceptions of homelessness that circulate widely in the media and in society generally; this, in turn, reproduces existing social relations of inequality and exclusion.
Temporality as Bergsonian Critique in the Advertising and Visual Art of Bertram Brooker
Authors: Lauder Adam
Published: March 2017

This article explores time concepts derived from Henri Bergson as adapted by Canadian marketing theorist and visual artist Bertram Brooker (1888–1955) in articles and textbooks published during the 1920s and early 1930s. Inspired by Bergson’s critique of the Western metaphysical tradition, Brooker proposed innovative, participatory advertising strategies based on the French philosopher’s non-rational conception of time and the co-evolution of bodies and media. The author argues that the Toronto artist-advertiser’s descriptions of radio as offering the possibility of an interactive and synesthetic alternative to conventional print-based forms of advertising indirectly influenced Harold Innis’ redemptive gloss on the latent dialogism of radio. A critique of Brooker’s and Innis’ respective articulations of “oral” media as foreshadowing the contemporary economy of televisual “flow” is also posited.
Fighting Change: Representing the Canadian Forces in the 2006–2008 Fight Recruitment Campaign
Authors: Goldie Janis L
Published: March 2017

The role of the military in Canadian society has long been an issue of debate. Particularly since the Somalia scandal of 1993, the Canadian military has attempted to repair its damaged reputation among Canadians. Since that time, the Canadian Forces has represented itself as an organization based on quality leadership, strong ethics, and commitment to international security. But have representations like this changed with the increased combat-focused role the Canadian military has played recently? The 2006-2008 Canadian Forces television ad campaign presents an interesting opportunity to analyze the Canadian military’s construction of identity. This article interrogates the representations constructed in the Fight recruitment campaign and finds that while some shifts have occurred, the Canadian Forces appears to be fighting a representational change overall.Le rôle de l’armée dans la société canadienne a longtemps été un sujet de débat. Particulièrement depuis le scandale de la Somalie de 1993, l’armée canadienne a tenté de réparer sa réputation endommagée chez les Canadiens. Depuis ce temps, les Forces canadiennes ont représenté lui-même comme une organisation basée sur un leadership de qualité, une éthique forte, et l’engagement à la sécurité internationale. Mais comme ce sont des représentations changé avec la mission de combat axé sur l’augmentation de l’armée canadienne a joué récemment? La campagne 2006-08 des Forces canadiennes de publicité à la télévision présente une opportunité intéressante à analyser la construction de l’armée canadienne de l’identité. Cet article interroge les représentations construites à la campagne de recrutement de combat et conclut que si certains changements ont eu lieu, les Forces canadiennes semble être la lutte contre un changement de représentation globale.
(Mis)Representing the 2008 Prorogation: Agendas, Frames, and Debates in Canada’s Mediacracy
Authors: Wheeldon Johannes
Published: March 2017

In this article, we explore the role of the Canadian media during the 2008 parliamentary crisis. While the crisis was resolved when the Governor General granted a request for prorogation that allowed the Prime Minister to avoid a vote of no-confidence, debate persists about the wisdom of such action. We argue this event represents an important case study in understanding how the Canadian media communicates essential principles of parliamentary democracy. Five years later, and based on recent research, we compare survey results on the 2008 prorogation between 10 leading Canadian journalists and commentators, and 30 constitutional scholars and former advisers to the Crown.