bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Ecotoxicology of Heavy Metals from Various Anthropogenic Sources and Pathways for their Bioremediation
Authors: Gradinaru Andrei Cristian , Solcan Gheorghe , Spataru Mihalea Claudia , Hritcu Luminita Diana , Burtan Liviu Catalin , Spataru Constantin
Published: January 2020

Although Cu and Zn are important microelements with well-defined roles in organisms functioning, their presence in toxic concentrations is related to a contamination process. On the other hand, Pb, Cd, and Hg are toxic xenobiotics with cumulative effects on various organisms, and in the case of Ni the reports are contradictory. All of these heavy metals are found as a naturally content in the earth�s crust wherefrom are mobilized through volcanic eruptions or mining activities. Some human activities, such as metals smelting, burning of fossil fuels, cement obtaining, usage of pesticides in agriculture, contribute to the environmental pollution with these heavy metals. The presence of heavy metals is considered a risk factor for all components of the ecosystem due to their geo- and bio accumulative features. In long-term exposure, especially in countries with intensive industrialization and urbanization, toxic and carcinogenic effects based on various mechanisms were reported. However, the extraction and the usage of heavy metals in various industry branches might be considered a necessary evil for the nowadays modern society. In some moments of our evolution there were no alternatives, neither as knowledge, nor as application possibilities. In last decades, alarm signals were pulled by the scientific community and non-governmental organizations, and a legislation of heavy metal residues monitoring was developed and applied in many countries all over the world. Moreover, various ecological alternatives were found for the limitation or even excluding of pollutant materials from many of our life aspects (unleaded petrol, insecticides based on pheromones, green concrete manufactured with less cement quantity etc.) and different ways of soil phytoremediation and heavy metals biosorption from aqueous media were tested. The aim of this paper is to review the most important aspects related to heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Hg, Ni, Cu, Zn) ecotoxicology. Various sources of environmental pollution and different mechanisms for physiological homeostasis disruption for each reviewed elementary xenobiotic are critically discussed.
Analyze of Saliva Cortisol as Biomarker in Healthy Distressed Subjects
Authors: Ciobanu Adela Magdalena , Papacocea Marius Toma , Mihailescu Alexandra Ioana , Manea Mirela , Badarau Ioana Anca , Papacocea Ioana Raluca , Nirestean Aurel , Manea Mihnea Costin , Velea Ovidiu Popa
Published: January 2020

Stress investigation especially in young healthy adults is a main mental health issue due to its individual and social consequences on long term. In order to characterize physiological, pathological and biochemical mechanisms of stress response, several biomarkers were proposed. Among these, the evaluation of the salivary biomarkers represents a fast and simple procedure, both in healthy subjects and patients. Saliva contains a wide range of parameters reflecting physiologic endocrine and immune responses, such as biologically active form of certain hormones (e.g. cortisol), growth factors, immune molecules. The present article is focused on cortisol evaluation as possible biomarker of stress and its analyze in the context of literature data.
Menuju Otonomi Daerah Adil dan Sejahtera: Revisi Model Otonomi Daerah Menuju Desentralisasi Asimetris
Authors: Istania Ratri , Junaedi Dedi
Published: January 2020

Since 1999, Indonesia, after more than 13 years of implementing decentralization political, administrative, and fiscal—programs are still struggling to reach its ultimate goals, which is to bring justice and welfare of the local people. The current implementation of the symmetrical decentralized model contains a variety of weaknesses, unable to accommodate the principle of efficiency and differences of ethnicities, religions, cultures. One model that can be proposed is asymmetrical decentralization. In this paper, the authors will compare the weaknesses in the past decentralization policy, Law 22/1924 dan 44/1950 to our current policy, Law 32/2004. So far, the findings indicate two problems of symmetrical decentralization, which are politics fiscal issues. This paper will utilize national and international publications, as well as any available sources to support the argument. The outline of this paper will be divided into five parts, they are as follows: first background; second; concept and definition of decentralization and regional autonomy; third, a review of the symmetrical decentralization versus asymmetrical model; fourth, critical review of the past decentralization model as a lesson learned; and fifth, a reflection on symmetrical decentralization after 13 year; and the last is recommendation to implement asymmetrical decentralization.
Otonomi Daerah dan Korupsi
Authors: SBM Nugroho
Published: January 2020

Arise among scholars about whether the pros and cons of fiscal decentralization to reduce corruption or whether it exacerbates corruption. Facts in Indonesia show that the fiscal decentralization or regional autonomy would exacerbate corruption because there is no public control, there is no state institution that is able to effectively control the local government and the failure of legislative control functions in the local area. It is necessary to revise Law No. 32 of 2004, the establishment of the KPK in the local or district area, and reversed burden of proof application.
Pengukuran dan Evaluasi Kinerja Manajemen PNS di Daerah: Studi Kasus di Provinsi Bali
Authors: Samiaji Samiaji
Published: January 2020

Potret PNS saat ini menunjukkan gambaran yang belum terlalu menggembirakan. Saat ini, PNS digambarkan mempunyai tingkat profesionalisme yang rendah, kemampuan pelayanan yang tidak optimal, rendahnya tingkat reliability, assurance, tangibility, empathy dan responsiveness, tidak memiliki tingkat integritas sebagai pegawai pemerintah sehingga tidak mempunyai daya ikat emosional dengan instansi dan tugas-tugasnya, tingginya penyalahgunaan wewenang (KKN), tingkat kesejahteraan yang rendah dan tidak terkait dengan tingkat pendidikan, prestasi, produktivitas dan disiplin pegawai. Kondisi ini berdampak pada rendahnya kinerja PNS dalam melaksanakan tugas dan kewajibannya dalam melayani masyarakat. Salah satu penyebab buruknya kinerja PNS dalam memberikan pelayanan publik adalah lemahnya manajemen PNS itu sendiri, yang dimulai sejak perencanaan sampai dengan pemberhentian PNS. Pengukuran dan evaluasi kinerja manajemen PNS menjadi penting untuk dilakukan.
Konflik Hubungan Pusat-Daerah antara Pemerintah Pusat dan Kabupaten Blora Terkaiat dengan Dana Bagi Hasil Blok Cepu
Authors: Setiyono Budi , Jati Dio Satrio , Jamaludin Teten
Published: January 2020

Cepu Block located between Centre Jawa and East Java. It is known as a rich block because it has a source of oil and gas. Block Cepu, where geographically located between three districts, Blora (Centre Java), Bojonegoro and Tuban (East Java) has given a contribution to national budget (APBN) and respected local government budget (APBD). About 33 per cent of the land of Cepu Block is owned by Blora, 67 per cent owned by Bojonegoro and the rest is owned by Tuban. Ironically, however, although 33 per cent of the Block belongs to Blora, the district does not receive any financial income from the oil exploration. There is no resources share fund from Cepu Block. Moreover, the district has to deal with the negative impacts of exploration activities at the Block Cepu such as damaging of infrastructure, environmental pollution, and social disturbance. Blora District has protested to Centre Government, but so far there is no outcome. Centre Government asked that this problem should be studied first. The central government argue that if it is approved, then there will be domino impact: other districts will do the same like Blora. Blora district is struggling to get equality in resources share fund (dana bagi hasil). Efforts have done, seminars and workshops, lobby to DPD (Upper House) to find a solution. Now the district government is proposing judicial review to constitution court. This research examines the history of Block Cepu. It reveals the history of the block from the colonial era up to the reformation era. Further, the research aims to know how the tension between local government (Blora Government) and central government regarding Blok Cepu oil exploration. The research suggests that there is injustice in the distribution of revenue from the exploration and it is understandable if Blora district government struggle to get proportional revenue sharing.
Lautan dalam Penyelenggaraan Desentralisasi: Pergeseran Paradigma Menuju Kesejahteraan Masyarakat Lokal Berbasis Kelautan
Authors: Kartikaningsih Meita Ahadiyati
Published: January 2020

Local government has an important role to optimize the potential of marine regions, as this has been among decentralized affairs. However, with the drawback of the decentralization policies and capacity issues of local government in carrying out business in the maritime field, the vast potential of the oceans has not become a basis for increasing social welfare. Moreover, local government policies tend to be oriented to promote local own revenue and the scope of activities need to be diversified beyond the fishery economy. With the diminishing resources in the mainland, sea potential can be a beacon of hope for development, especially in the regions. However, to ‘shift’ the development paradigm towards the development of marine, the strong commitment of the government is required. This paper attempts to offer a variety of ideas that can be taken from the perspective of local government to optimize the utilization of the potential of marine for the welfare of society within the principles of a blue economy.
Peningkatan Kualitas Pelayanan Publik: Konsep, Indikator serta Model Pengukurannya
Authors: Warsono Hardi
Published: January 2020

The paradigm of public service reform direct public services quality improvement efforts on strengthening civil society, good governance, which looks at strengthening of the market mechanism and the greater community role in the formulation and implementation of public service policies. This is in line with the spirit of public service law that gives considerable space in the community's participation. Therefore, improving the quality indicators should also be reflected in the charge. Until now the government assesses the quality of public services by giving trophies to the two levels of service, ie, on a macro scale by giving Citra Bhakti Abdi Negara known by the acronym CBAN, and at the micro-scale by awarding trophies Citra Pelayanan Prima (CPP). Macro associated with the assessment of the district/city governments in the provision of services to the community, while the micro is an assessment of service delivery in the unit of service providers.
Partisipasi, Akuntabilitas dan Peran Civil Society dalam Peningkatan Kinerja Daerah
Authors: Setiyono Budi
Published: January 2020

Bersama dengan dominannya paternalism, ketiadaan transparansi dan akuntabilitas melumpuhkan inisiatif lokal dan menyebabkan keseragaman, standarisasi, kehancuran struktur sosial, kooptasi pemimpin di semua tingkatan, penyalahgunaan kekuasaan dan korupsi dan, yang paling serius adalah, ketidakpercayaan yang mendalam kepada lembaga-lembaga pemerintah. Selama beberapa dekade, suara aspirasi masyarakat sipil dalam kebijakan publik terbatas dalam bentuk surat pembaca dan partisipasi umum dalam proses pemilu setiap lima tahun yang dikendalikan pemerintah. Kritik dan aspirasi kritis warga masyarakat terhadap kebijakan pemerintah dianggap sebagai ketidaksetiaan atau subversi.
Development of a competitive intelligence maturity model: Insights from Moroccan companies
Authors: Oubrich Mourad , Hakmaoui Abdelati , Bierwolf Robert , Haddani Mouna
Published: January 2020

This paper aims to assess the maturity level of competitive intelligence (CI) in Moroccan companies, so as to improve theirs practices, and to justify their investment in competitive intelligence. To do so, we have identified the maturity model based on a comprehensive review of recent literature. The objectives of this paper are threefold: (1) to determine the major purposes of a CI maturity model (CIMM), (2) to identify the types of CI dimensions and levels of maturity, (3) to evaluate Moroccan companies in terms of CI practice. Our approach is to develop a conceptual framework of the CI maturity model that articulates (1) dimensions of CI, and (2) maturity levels of CI. We note that little attention has been given in previous research to how CI is actually conducted in Moroccan companies. For this purpose, an empirical study was conducted. The results discuss various perspectives and insights from a competitive intelligence maturity model point of view in the Moroccan context. The results show that the majority of the Moroccan companies are in an early stage of the CI levels, where the CI practice is only to employ environment scanning and the competition in the business environment is not intense. We also note the absence of CI structure at this level. Most of these Moroccan companies are not able to cope with changes in the business environment. The CI systems and processes are released on an irregular basis. This study is the first to investigate the Competitive Intelligence Maturity Model (CIMM) in the Moroccan context. The findings of this research show that there are six CI dimensions (CI culture of an organization; CI deliverables; CI sourcing; CI cycle; CI investment in terms of resources; CI users and CI application) that should be taken into account in CI implementation with regard to the CI level (early, mid, world class).
Measuring public acceptance with opinion mining: The case of the energy industry with long-term coal R&D investment projects
Authors: Nuortimo Kalle
Published: January 2020

New Web 2.0-based technologies have emerged in the field of competitor/marketintelligence. This paper discusses the factors influencing long-term product development,namely coal combustion long-term R&D/Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology, andpresents a new method application for studying it via opinion mining. The technology marketdeployment has been challenged by public acceptance. The media images/opinions of coal powerand CCS are studied through the opinion mining approach with a global machine learning basedmedia analysis using M-Adaptive software. This is a big data-based learning machine mediasentiment analysis focusing on both editorial and social media, including both structured datafrom payable sources and unstructured data from social media. If the public acceptance isignored, it can at its worst cause delayed or abandoned market deployment of long-term energyproduction technologies, accompanied by techno-economic issues. The results are threefold:firstly, it is suggested that this type of methodology can be applied to this type of researchproblem. Secondly, from the case study, it is apparent that CCS is unknown also based on thistype of approach. Finally, poor media exposure may have influenced technology marketdeployment in the case of CCS.
Analisis Feature dan Machine Learning Untuk Pencarian Web
Authors: Anggun Cipta
Published: January 2020

The use of website socialization is increasingly still for that amount of information growing rapidly, the harder it is to find the information within the specified time. The main searches for searches that are irrelevant or incompatible with user preferences, keyword-based searches, short questions. In this paper, we will examine the various features used in information retrieval. We will also discuss the relevance of web pages with users. We have classified by feature. In the end, we will compare different techniques and their pros and cons are discussed.
Optimalisasi Layanan Pengaduan Masyarakat pada Pemerintah Kota Binjai Menggunakan eGovernment berbasis Data Kependudukan
Authors: Muhammad Idaham  , Pranoto Heru , Ahmad Ilham
Published: January 2020

Berbagai bentuk layanan penggaduan yang telah diimplementasi oleh banyak pemeritah kota, kabupaten, provinsi ataupun pemerintah pusat. Layanan penggaduan tersebut berbentuk layanan pengaduan langsung, call center, sms center, aplikasi berbasis web dan layanan berbasis mobile. Bentuk layanan tersebut memiliki keunggulan dan kelemahan dan masih perlu adanya pengoptimalan penggunaan agar layanan tersebut meningkat efektivitas dan efesiensinya terhadap penanganan pengaduan masyarakat. Pada tulisan ini memaparkan oprtimalisasi penggunaan egovernment yang terinterasi dengan data kependudukan dengan perancangan aplikasi, uji coba aplikasi pada lingkup kecil, perumusan optimalisasi dan kajian dari hasil penerapan aplikasi pada masyarakat kota binjai.
Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithm on IoT Device’s ID
Authors: Aditya Kurniawan  , Ratna Mayasari  , Muhammad Ary Murti
Published: January 2020

Data security is one of many problems that we face in IoT implementation. One of the problems with data security is we cannot assure that the data we received in the server-side is truly our data that we send from client-side or sensor-side. With that problems, comes some solutions like encryption and decryption method or some basic authentication planted on the server-side. In this research, we propose some encryption and decryption method that can be easily implemented on both server and sensor-side and then we analyze the complexity of its algorithm. This research aims to create some authentication process for the data that server-side receive from the sensor-side by creating encrypted ID consisting of 6 digits of alphanumeric and useful for identification process in system, so the server can recognize the data and validate it.
PENGENDALIAN INTERN PIUTANG UNTUK MEMINIMALKAN PIUTANG TAK TERTAGIH KP-RI JAYA DINAS P DAN K KABUPATEN SIMALUNGUN
Authors: Naibaho Efriliana , Supitriyani Supitriyani , Manurung Sepbeariska , Ervina Nelly
Published: January 2020

Dalam pengendalian intern terdapat syarat pemberian pinjaman yang harus dijalankan dengan baik.Fungsi-fungsi yang berkaitan dengan penagihan maupun pemberian kredit dipisahkan sesuai dengan bagian atau fungsinya masing-masing. Analisis pemberian pinjaman juga salah satu cara untuk dapat mengendalikan piutang tak tertagih yang ada pada koperasi.Tujuan penelitian ini adalah: untuk mengetahui pengendalian intern piutang dan piutang tak tertagih pada KP-RI Jaya Dinas P dan K Kabupaten Simalungun dan untuk mengetahui faktor penyebab piutang tak tertagih meningkat pada KP-RI Jaya Dinas P dan K Kabupaten Simalungun.Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode analisis deskriptif kualitatif.Objek penelitian ini adalah laporan rapat anggota tahunan pada KP-RI Jaya Dinas P dan K Kabupaten Simalungun periode 2013 sampai 2017.Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan metode dokumentasi dan metode wawancara.Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif kualitatif dan analisis induktif.Hasil analisis dapat disimpulkan bahwa pengendalian intern piutang untuk meminimalkan piutang tak tertagih belum berjalan efektif dimana penagihan piutang yang dilakukan oleh pihak koperasi hanya menggunakan dua kebijakan yaitu melalui telepon dan kunjungan personal, faktor intern dan faktor ekstern juga menyebabkan adanya piutang tak tertagih.Hasil penelitian ini menyarankan sebaiknya membuat surat perjanjian diawal pinjaman untuk mengambil tindakan apabila suatu saat terjadi penunggakan angsuran dan praktik yang sehat serta syarat pemberian pinjaman lebih dimaksimalkan.Kata kunci: Pengendalian Intern, Piutang Tak Tertagih
PERBANDINGAN KINERJA KEUANGAN SEBELUM DAN SESUDAH AKUISISI PADA PT FIRST MEDIA, Tbk YANG TERDAFTAR DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA
Authors: Safitri Nur , Supitriyani Supitriyani , Putri Debi Eka , Azwar Khairul
Published: January 2020

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui gambaran kinerja keuangan sebelum dan sesudah akuisisi pada PT First Media, Tbk yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia dan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang menyebabkan perbedaan kinerja keuangan sebelum dan sesudah akuisisi pada PT First Media, Tbk yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif kualitatif, analisis komparatif dan analisis induktif. Jenis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Sumber data yang digunakan adalah data sekunder. Hasil penelitian ini disimpulkan bahwa Kinerja keuangan perusahaan sebelum akuisisi ditinjau dari Current Ratio (CR), Debt Ratio (DR), dan Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) berfluktuasi dan cenderung menurun, sedangkan nilai Total Asset Turnover (TATO) berfluktuasi dan cenderung meningkat, untuk nilai Return on Asset (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), dan Net Profit Margin (NPM) cenderung meningkat. Kinerja keuangan perusahaan sesudah akuisisi ditinjau dari Current Ratio (CR) berfluktuasi dan cenderung menurun, sedangkan nilai Debt Ratio (DR) dan Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) cenderung meningkat, untuk nilai Total Asset Turnover (TATO) mengalami fluktuasi dan cenderung meningkat. Sedangkan nilai Return on Asset (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), dan Net Profit Margin (NPM) mengalami penurunan.  Faktor kas dan setara kas, piutang kepada pihak ketiga, investasi pada entitas asosiasi, aset tak berwujud, aset pajak tangguhan, utang usaha kepada pihak ketiga, utang bank dan lembaga keuangan jangka pendek, utang bank dan lembaga keuangan jangka panjang, beban akrual, saldo laba, beban layanan, beban keuangan, dan pendapatan menyebabkan perbedaan kinerja keuangan sebelum dan sesudah akuisisi.Kata kunci: Akuisisi, Kinerja Keuangan
PENGARUH KOMUNIKASI INTERPERSONAL DAN KOMPENSASI TERHADAP KEPUASAN KERJA PADA PT PERKEBUNAN NUSANTARA III (PERSERO) KEBUN BANGUN
Authors: Pertiwi Yulia , Efendi Efendi , Wijaya Andy , Simatupang Sudung
Published: January 2020

Tingkat kepuasan kerja karyawan PT Perkebunan Nusantara III (Persero) Kebun Bangun masih belum optimal dilihat dari implementasi beberapa indikator yang belum maksimal. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui gambaran dan pengaruh komunikasi interpersonal, kompensasi dan kepuasan kerja karyawan pada PT Perkebunan Nusantara III (Persero) Kebun Bangun. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan desain penelitian, kepustakaan dan lapangan. Jenis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data kualitatif dan data kuantitatif. Sumber data adalah primer dan data sekunder. Populasi pada penelitian ini adalah sebanyak 50 orang dan seluruhnya merupakan karyawan tetap kantor PT Perkebunan Nusantara III (Persero) Kebun Bangun. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan kuesioner, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah uji asumsi klasik, analisis deskriptif kualitatif dan deskriptif kuantitatif dengan linear berganda, analisis korelasi, koefisien determinasi dan uji hipotesis. Hasil penelitian menemukan H0 ditolak, artinya komunikasi interpersonal dan kompensasi berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan kerja karyawan pada PT Perkebunan Nusantara III (Persero) Kebun Bangun baik secara simultan maupun parsial.
PENGARUH KUALITAS PELAYANAN DAN HARGA TERHADAP KEPUASAN KONSUMEN DENGAN BRAND IMAGE SEBAGAI VARIABEL MODERATING PADA TOKO SINAR BINTANG PHOTO PEMATANGSIANTAR
Authors: Caniago Chandra , Siregar Robert Tua , Julyanthry Julyanthry , Pakpahan Grace Endang
Published: January 2020

Implementasi kepuasan konsumen sebaiknya didukung beberapa unsur pelengkapnya agar dapat memenuhi kriteria kepuasan sendiri. Untuk memenuhi unsur kepuasan maka diperlukan konsistensi kualitas pelayanan dan harga yang diberikan kepada konsumen. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui gambaran dan pengaruh kualitas pelayanan dan harga terhadap kepuasan konsumen,  untuk mengetahui gambaran dan pengaruh kualitas pelayanan dan harga terhadap kepuasan konsumen yang di moderasi brand image. penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian kepustakaan dan lapangan. Jenis data yang digunakan adalah data kualitatif dan kuantitatif yang bersumber dari data primer dan sekunder. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan kualitas pelayanan sudah baik, harga sudah baik,  brand image sudah baik, kepuasan konsumen sudah puas. Hasil analisis regresi linier berganda Ŷ= 11,460 + 0,485 X1 + 0,165 X2, artinya terdapat pengaruh positif antara kualitas pelayanan dan harga terhadap kepuasan konsumen pada Toko Sinar Bintang Photo Pematangsiantar. Hasil analisis regresi dengan metode selisih mutlak, Ŷ= 40,465 + 2,324 X1 + 1,408 X2 +1,510X3 + 1,679 [X1-X3] + 1,204 [X2-X3] artinya brand image mampu memperkuat hubungan kualitas pelayanan dan harga terhadap kepuasan konsumen. konsumen, kemudian tinggi rendahnya kepuasan konsumen dijelaskan oleh kualitas pelayanan dan harga. Hipotesis H0 ditolak, artinya kualitas pelayanan dan harga berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan konsumen Toko Sinar Bintang Photo Pematangsiantar. Selanjutnya brand image mampu memoderasi hubungan kualitas pelayanan dan harga terhadap kepuasan konsumen secara signifikan.
DAMPAK STRUKTUR MODAL DAN STRUKTUR ASET TERHADAP NILAI PERUSAHAAN PADA PT MERCK, Tbk YANG TERDAFTAR DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA
Authors: Misdayana Alvia , Siahaan Yansen , Nainggolan Christine Dewi , Manurung Sepbeariska
Published: January 2020

Berbagai cara dilakukan para manajer untuk menghadapi persaingan bisnis, salah satunya adalah dengan meningkatkan nilai perusahaan. Beberapa faktor yang mempengaruhi nilai perusahaan suatu perusahaan seperti struktur modal dan struktur aset. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui gambaran struktur modal, struktur aset dan nilai perusahaan pada PT Merck, Tbk yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia, dan untuk mengetahui pengaruh struktur modal dan struktur aset terhadap nilai perusahaan pada ada PT Merck, Tbk yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia baik secara simultan dan parsial. Penelitian ini digunakan dengan menggunakan analisis deskriptif kualitatif dan analisis deskriptif kuantitatif. Objek penelitian ini adalah laporan keuangan PT Merck, Tbk yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan metode dokumentasi. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah uji asumsi klasik, analisis regresi linier berganda, koefisien korelasi dan koefisien determinasi dan uji hipotesis. Hasill penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa nilai rata-rata struktur modal mengalami fluktuasi dan cenderung meningkat, nilai rata-rata struktur aset mengalami fluktuasi dan cenderung meningkat, nilai rata-rata nilai perusahaan mengalami fluktuasi dan cenderung menurun, hasil pengujian regresi linear struktur modal dan struktur aset berpengaruh negatif terhadap nilai perusahaan pada PT Merck, Tbk yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia, hasil koefisien korelasi dan koefisien determinasi diperoleh nilai korelasi atau hubungan yang sangat kuat antara struktur modal dan struktur aset dengan nilai perusahaan, hasil uji F diperoleh bahwa struktur modal dan struktur aset berpengaruh signifikan terhadap nilai perusahaan, hasil uji t struktur modal dan struktur aset berpengaruh signifikan terhadap nilai perusahaan secara parsial
ANALISIS PERTUMBUHAN PENJUALAN DAN STRUKTUR MODAL DALAM MENINGKATKAN PROFITABILITAS PADA PERUSAHAAN SUB SEKTOR KIMIA YANG TERDAFTAR DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA
Authors: Siahaan Berty Kristina , Siregar Liper , Silaen Musa , Ervina Nelly
Published: January 2020

Tujuan penelitian mengetahui gambaran pertumbuhan penjualan, struktur modal dan profitabilitas dan untuk mengetahui faktor apa yang menyebabkan pertumbuhan penjualan, struktur modal dan profitabilitas mengalami fluktuasi dan cenderung tidak stabil pada perusahaan Sub Sektor Kimia yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif kualitatif dan analisis induktif. Jenis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Sumber data yang digunakan adalah dan sekunder. Hasil penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan sebagai berikut: nilai rata-rata Pertumbuhan Penjualan, nilai rata- rata profitabilitas pada Perusahaan Sub Sektor Kimia yang Terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode 2013-2017 mengalami fluktuasi dan cenderung meningkat. Sedangkan nilai rata-rata Struktur Modal pada Perusahaan Sub Sektor Kimia yang Terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode 2013-2017 mengalami fluktuasi dan cenderung menurun. Faktor yang menyebabkan pertumbuhan penjualan dan profitabilitas Perusahaan Sub Sektor Kimia yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode 2013-2017 mengalami fluktuasi dan cenderung meningkat yaitu karena pendapatan atas penjualan dan laba per saham yang diterima perusahaan besar, sedangkan faktor yang menyebabkan struktur modal Perusahaan Sub Sektor Kimia yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia periode 2013-2017 mengalami fluktuasi dan cenderung menurun yaitu karena ekuitas pemegang saham yang dimiliki perusahaan lebih besar dari utang jangka panjang.
IMPLEMENTASI STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN BERCERITA DI KELOMPOK B TK PATRIOTIK KECAMATAN SUWAWA KABUPATEN BONE BOLANGO
Authors: Djuko Rapi Us.
Published: January 2020

Sebelum melaksanakan kegiatan bercerita, guru terlebih dahulu menetapkan rancangan prosedur/langkah-langkah yang harus dilalui dalam bercerita, berikut ini akan diuraikan langkah-langkah yang harus ditempuh oleh guru dalam menerapkan kegiatan bercerita dikelas. Meliputi : (1) menetapkan tujuan dan tema cerita; (2) menetapkan bentuk bercerita yang dipilih; (3) menetapkan bahan dan yang digunakan dalam kegiatan bercerita; (4) menetapkan rancangan langkah-langkah kegiatan bercerita, antara lain mengkomunikasikan tujuan dan tema cerita, mengatur tempat duduk  kegiatan pembukaan, pengembangan cerita, menetapkan tehnik bertutur yang akan digunakan, dan mengajukan pertanyaan-pertanyaan menyangkut isi cerita; (5) menetapkan rancangan penilaian kegiatan bercerita. Rancangan penilaian ini mengacu pada rancangan pelaksanaan kegiatan, serta tujuan dan tema yang telah dipilih  sebelumnya, tanggapan dan jawaban mereka merupakan petunjuk atas pemahaman mereka tentang isi cerita. Kelima langkah kegiatan bercerita ini telah dilaksanakan oleh guru di kelompok B TK Patriotik dalam mengembangkan kemampuan berbahasa khususnya bercerita, dengan memanfaatkan buku-buku di sekolah sebagai media bercerita pada anak. Disamping itu media gambar juga paling efektif sebagai media penyampai cerita pada anak.
Writing ‘A New Vocabulary of Experience’
Authors: Rowe Anne
Published: January 2020

This chapter side-lines Murdoch’s commitment to conventional realism to equate her well-documented love for nineteenth-century realist writing with a more esoteric enthusiasm for experimental European writing. It illustrates the ways in which she expands the novel form to maximise her novels’ emotional and moral impact, creating a fully synaesthetic style that she termed ‘a new vocabulary of experience’, inviting her readers to arrive at meaning not only through through the operation of logic, but also through an invasion of the senses. The chapter moves on to illustrate the variety of ways that Murdoch’s love of painting, colour, poetry, drama and music feeds into her idiosyncratic literary experimentation and concentrates on the more seductive, aesthetic aspects of her narratives that have been oddly neglected by generations of literary critics who commentate more exclusively on her indebtedness to conventional realism and direct equations between her philosophy and fiction.
From ‘Coolie’ to Transnational Agent
Authors: Bailey Paul J.
Published: January 2020

In April 2010 China Central Television’s international English-language channel (Channel Nine) broadcast a six-episode documentary in its series ‘New Frontiers’ hosted by Ji Xiaojun on the 130,000-plus Chinese workers recruited by the French and British governments during World War One. In portentous tones Ji Xiaojun boldly announced in the first episode that the World War One Chinese workers ‘stood shoulder to shoulder’ with British and French troops to combat German military aggression, and that in the process 20,000 of them were killed. Such a valuable contribution to the Allied victory, Ji continued, was not fully acknowledged by France and Britain until fifty years after the end of the war. Overall, the programme depicted the episode as a shining example of China’s positive and beneficial interaction with the world ...
Marigolds and Poppies
Authors: Stanley Peter
Published: January 2020

India is a nation in which paradoxically, the past is omnipresent but the age of any given structure can be annoyingly indeterminate. It is a place where the past can be both absolutely present and frustratingly remote; in which versions of the past co-exist; in which they can contend without necessary contradiction, though sometimes bringing risk of denunciation, controversy and even death. It is a culture in which layers of meaning and significance accrete around historical events – even historical events recorded in the daily newspaper. India takes its many pasts seriously – but can ignore aspects of its history in ways unthinkable in other societies. The Great War of 1914-1918 is an inescapable part of the history of Australia or New Zealand, and even in Britain remains a part of the currency of everyday speech and popular culture. In the nations of South Asia, by contrast, the Great War remains obscure and unimportant....
Introduction
Authors: Harrison Nicholas
Published: January 2020

Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education begins by casting light on some current anxieties about the historical and conceptual foundations of ‘humanities’ education, especially when it comes to teaching literature. The book’s title, it is explained, is meant to evoke those anxieties, and a certain sense of crisis, not to imply that ‘we’ have simply inherited pedagogical frameworks from colonialism, still less that we should embrace any such inheritance. Edward Said is an important reference point; his memoir, Out of Place, reveals and exemplifies internal tensions around education, and suggests that self-doubt has pushed many critic-teachers – notably in the field of postcolonial studies, though certainly not only there – towards paradoxical and self-contradictory positions, particularly in relation to education. The possible ‘coloniality’ of all humanities education is an issue here, meaning its tendency to inculcate specific values and norms. If that normative tendency is inevitable, critic-teachers today must decide if they can still justify it. [156]
Conclusion
Authors: Harrison Nicholas
Published: January 2020

The Conclusion explores the sense in which the experiences of colonial students, though highly unusual in some ways, may be exemplary or instructive in relation to certain questions in and around education. Themes include: the relevance/irrelevance of notions of a national origin, as applied to a text or an idea (notably latecularism); the impact of teaching in the humanities, including its tendency to build or reinforce some sort of common culture (though not necessarily a ‘national’ culture); what that tendency implies for the design of teaching programmes; issues of ‘adaptation’, when the classroom is diverse; the curatorial function of the critic-teacher; teaching as a form of impact; education and social mobility; and what in teaching and in students may allow or encourage students to 'think for themselves', when teaching is normative, and when students are subject to the authority of the teacher. The chapter ends by returning to Edward Said and considering possible parallels, or links, between a certain idea of education and a certain idea of the literary as notional ‘spaces’ that are political in some senses but where a kind of suspension of politics may also have value. [190]
The Politics of Vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas’s Mal de gente
Authors: Wylie Lesley
Published: January 2020

This essay examines the persistent trope of ‘tropical degeneration’ in Arturo Burga Freitas’s Mal de gente (1943). Set in the Peruvian Amazon, the novel is the story of a young European, Edmund Rice, who, like a number of protagonists of the contemporaneous Spanish American novela de la selva, travels to the region for the purposes of work and ends up settling permanently in the jungle. The natural world depicted in Burga Freitas’s book is a zone of exploitation, characterised by the European plundering of tropical products, chiefly rubber. Yet countering this assessment of nature is the native Amazonian view of the jungle as an animate force, capable of enchanting outsiders and reducing them to a kind of vegetable state. This article explores how the idea of ‘going native’ is redefined and redeployed in Mal de gente to counter discourses of nature as an economic resource. Drawing on the work of Philippe Descola and Eduardo Vivieros de Castro, among others, this essay shows that, far from being a negative condition, the ‘degeneration’ of Burga Frieta’s protagonist is a corrective to the over-exploitation of the Amazon and a recognition of the profound interconnectedness of man and the natural world.
Filming Modernity in the Tropics: The Amazon, Walt Disney, and the Antecedents of Modernization Theory
Authors: Weinstein Barbara
Published: January 2020

Through an analysis of the documentary film The Amazon Awakens (1944) this essay posits the use of the tenets of modernization theory in the film’s representation of the Amazon as a way to invent it as a region ripe for development as long as the necessary technological and financial resources become available. In contrast to earlier “civilizing missions” that characterized the heyday of colonialism and neo-colonialism when imperial powers emphasized the need to inculcate “backward” peoples with the rudiments of modern culture and civilization, The Amazon Awakens portrays a society poised to take immediate advantage of the technology and capital the US is eager to provide. To be sure, the Amazon had to be “awakened,” and had to throw off old habits and attitudes, but the film portrays the region’s inhabitants as predisposed to do precisely that. Finally, Weinstein focuses on the elements that the movie decides to include (local industry) and exclude (ecology and indigenous rights), to argue these decisions are systematic and serve to advance and enhance a narrative of Amazonian (natural and human) history that is coherent with the film’s modernization discourse.
The Incorporation of Women in Rwandan Politics after 1994
Authors: Umutoni-Bower Louise
Published: January 2020

Liberation struggle usually entails the active incorporation and participation of women. However, in the period following liberation after power is captured, we tend to see women excluded. Women are often relegated to the sidelines, gender roles are reinforced, with political positions reserved for men. In Africa, the gender backlash that follows liberation was observed in the liberation movements of the first wave (1960s and 1970s) and second wave (1980s and 1990s). However, this was not the case in Rwanda when the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took power after halting the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The RPF actively included women in politics appointing women to half their allocated seats in the Transitional National Parliament (TNP). This initial inclusion during the transitional period is important because it lay the ground for women's participation in Rwandan politics. The subsequent policies that enshrined women's political inclusion in the constitution through the quota system, as well the structures developed at the lowest level of government to encourage women's political participation, have their roots in the active incorporation that happened during the transitional period. This chapter explores the factors that led to this initial incorporation and why the gender backlash common in liberation movements did not occur in Rwanda.
Form and Popular Culture
Authors: Brown Katie
Published: January 2020

Chapter 5 proposes that, while the incorporation of aspects of popular culture in literary texts is not new, it takes on new significance in the context of the distinction between the popular as ‘ours’ and the elite as ‘unpatriotic’ in Bolivarian rhetoric. In addition, the ‘popular’ as celebrated by the Bolivarian Revolution is defined by the national and often the indigenous. Popular culture in terms of globalised media are condemned as neo-imperialist. Bajo las hojas (Centeno, 2010), Chulapos Mambo (Méndez Guédez, 2011), Transilvania unplugged (Sánchez Rugeles, 2011) and El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira (Chirinos, 2004) are all novels that blur the boundaries between elite and popular culture. Popular is understood here as genres such as the gothic, comedy and detective fiction with mass appeal and as global media and the internet. El niño malo… also incorporates aspects of indigenous story-telling to assert that this cultural legacy is not the preserve of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Introduction
Authors: Pladek Brittany
Published: January 2020

This introduction gives an overview of recent scholarship in Romanticism and the medical humanities. It argues that medical humanists are indebted to a Romantic belief that literature cures by making people whole again—what this book calls therapeutic holism. After critiquing therapeutic holism for its limiting assumptions about selfhood and literature’s powers, the introduction offers an alternative in palliative poetics, a model for literary therapy grounded in Romantic writers’ affinity to Georgian medical ethics. It shows how this focus on ethics reorients Romantic scholarship on literature and medicine, which has mostly restricted its definition of medicine to medical science. Finally, this introduction outlines the book’s six chapters: two introductory chapters on the intellectual history of therapeutic holism and four single-author illustrations of palliative poetics.
Therapeutic Holism
Authors: Pladek Brittany
Published: January 2020

This chapter historicizes therapeutic holism, the model of literary therapy The Poetics of Palliation challenges. Beyond the faith that literature and its tools can heal, therapeutic holism reflects three guiding assumptions: first, that healthy people are wholes whose unity depends on an anti-dualist, teleological self-concept; second, that broken holism is mended by literature through a dialectic process of reintegration; and third, that the holism of functioning individuals both parallels and is constructed by the holism of their society. The chapter illustrates therapeutic holism’s Romantic genealogy by comparing its appearance in health humanities scholarship with Romantic writing, particularly the organicist tradition of German Romantics like Friedrich Schiller. Along the way, it reviews the history of nineteenth-century medical ethics that forms the interdisciplinary background to the rest of the book, including a discussion of ethics’ role in medical professionalization; the history of palliative care; and the tradition of advocating education in the humanities as a way to ‘humanize’ physicians.
From John Stuart Mill to the Medical Humanities
Authors: Pladek Brittany
Published: January 2020

This chapter traces therapeutic holism from German Romanticism through Victorian proponents of cultural education, represented by John Stuart Mill, down to its contemporary manifestation in the work of major literary health humanists like Rita Charon, Cheryl Mattingly, and Kathryn Montgomery Hunter. It also explains the relationship of therapeutic holism to its sibling discourses, New Criticism and Millian liberalism. The former’s holistic, unified work of art parallels the latter’s proper citizen—a whole person whose wholeness is created and restored by cultural education. These linked discourses helped secure therapeutic holism’s place in interdisciplinary conversations about why medicine needs literature. The final section of the chapter critiques therapeutic holism and explains why palliative poetics offer a necessary corrective, using the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to illustrate the heterogeneity of Romantic literary therapies. It also surveys complementary recent work within the health humanities. Health humanists working in fields like nursing, chronic pain, and palliative care have begun to develop palliative poetics that do not expect literature to cure.
Broken Teeth
Authors: Thiess Derek J.
Published: January 2020

As the prior chapter did with gender, this chapter suggests that science fiction has long served as a site in which to examine the interplay of race and sport. Several texts from early pulp magazines are examined, and an analysis of Steven Barnes’s Aubry Knight series serves as the chapter’s focal point. The chapter reinforces the notion that the social constructivist emphasis on hegemonic masculinity is not reflected universally, even going so far as to posit that this emphasis is a means to dismiss alternative forms of embodied, kinesthetic knowledge. Such a dismissal, it argues, has important implications for the study of race, science fiction, and sport.
Beasts in the Stands
Authors: Thiess Derek J.
Published: January 2020

Building on the prior two chapters studying the individual athlete and the institution respectively, this chapter examines the role of the sport spectator. Spectatorship, in this case, includes both the fan, which is the emphasis of the chapter, and the critic who is implicated in making both the athlete and the fan monstrous. That is, the fan is often viewed with the same social suspicion and fear as the athlete. Once again, sf stories and films that engage fandom offer a differing picture of sport fandom and suggest that their monstrosity is the result of the active orchestration of criticism both popular and scholarly. Also as in prior chapters, the dangers of that monstrosity may be equally embodied as examples such as the Hillsborough Disaster demonstrate.
Provincial Newspapers: Politics and Censorship
Authors: Doughan Christopher
Published: January 2020

This chapter details the emergence of a predominantly nationalist regional press in Ireland during the late 1800s and early 1900s. It also discusses the attendant developments in the journalistic profession plus educational advances that led to significant rises in levels of literacy. The broader political affiliations of regional newspapers are also outlined in detail and the direct involvement of both political parties and individual politicians in the newspaper business is also scrutinised. Furthermore, the overall relationship between the press and the state is analysed. In this context this chapter explores the increasing deployment of newspapers as a propaganda weapon, particularly during wartime. Additionally, the issue of censorship is examined and the restrictions under which Irish newspapers were compelled to operate during the 1914-21 period are fully investigated.
Film Writing
Authors: Nanney Lisa
Published: January 2020

In 1936, his politics still leftist but increasingly apprehensive about Communism, Dos Passos used his exposure to the Hollywood film industry to create his only independent film treatment, “Dreamfactory.” This manuscript, though never produced as a film, is the only film project he undertook consisting entirely of his own concepts and his own writing. “Dreamfactory” imagines visually what The Big Money communicates by adapting montage to the page: the complicit relationship between film and the creation of material desire that fuels capitalism. Using the techniques of montage Dos Passos had absorbed from early U.S. and Soviet film, the treatment employs the tools of its own making to critique itself as a product. This innovative work presaged the political and professional crisis that would emerge from Dos Passos’s next film project, the documentary The Spanish Earth (1937): though Dos Passos wrote the “Dreamfactory” treatment, its ideological direction was the subject of correspondence between him and the Dutch Communist filmmaker, Joris Ivens, who would direct the Spanish film. Ivens’ conception of his art as a vehicle to be shaped by the ideological demands of the Party would conflict with Dos Passos’s belief that art should evoke creative engagement and individual choice.