bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Comportamiento de cultivares de olivo para aceite (Olea europaea L) bajo condiciones desérticas de Sonora
Authors: Grijalva Contreras Raúl Leonel , Macías Duarte Rubén , López Carvajal Arturo , Robles Contreras Fabián , Navarro Ainza José Cristóbal
Published: April 2018

En México se desconoce el comportamiento de cultivares de olivo bajo condiciones desérticas. En el presente trabajo se evaluaron seis cultivares de olivo italianos para aceite (Nocellara Messinese, Nocellara de Belice, Carolea, Coratina, Leccino y Grossa di Cassano) y se comparó con Manzanillo como testigo, el cual es destinado para aceituna de mesa. El trabajo se realizó en el INIFAP en el Campo Experimental de Caborca, Sonora durante los años 2001 a 2010. Los cultivares fueron plantados a un distanciamiento de 8 x 8 m (156 árboles ha-1) y riego por goteo. Los cultivares italianos fueron mas tardíos en iniciar la floración (6 a 13 días) y en alcanzar la maduracióndelfruto(22a88días)conrespectoaManzanillo. Hubodiferenciassignificativasenladensidadfloral,siendo mayor en Manzanillo con 3 420 flores cm-2 y diferencia en el amarre de fruto sobresaliendo Coratina con 4.15%. El rendimiento y el contenido de aceite presentaron diferencias significativas entre cultivares. El rendimiento de aceituna promedio en los primeros seis años de producción varió de 10.5 a 4.3 t ha-1 siendo mayor en Nocellara Messinese; por otro lado, el mayor contenido de aceite fue para Carolea con 17.5%, seguido por Manzanillo con 12% y fueron los dos cultivares con mayor rendimiento de aceite con 1 557.5 y 960 kg ha-1. En todos los cultivares se obtuvo un aceite extra-virgen y el contenido de polifenoles varió de 117.5±4.4 a 215.4±12.3 meq de ácido cafeico. En ningún cultivar se presentaron problemas de plagas ni enfermedades.
A dupla epidemia: febre amarela e desinformação
Authors: Henriques Cláudio Maierovitch Pessanha
Published: April 2018

Esta nota apresenta um breve histórico da origem da febre amarela no Brasil, das medidas de controle e das dificuldades para que orientações de saúde pública cheguem à população. Nela analisam-se alguns episódios de geração de boatos, assim como informações mentirosas e suas consequências muitas vezes danosas. Aponta-se a necessidade de oferecer e divulgar fontes confiáveis para os profissionais e a comunidade, em especial por meio do fortalecimento das instituições e de suas áreas de comunicação social. Assinala-se também a importância do trabalho de campo das equipes de atenção básica para localizar pessoas expostas a risco, levando-lhes informações e vacinas.
Small Medium Technological Enterprises and Local Economic Resources Development to Promote Activities of Industry and Trade, in Solok City West Sumatra, Indonesia
Authors: Tan Firwan , Sartika Dewi , Maidalena Maidalena
Published: April 2018

The objective of this research is to analyze the macro and microeconomicenvironments of Small Medium Technological Enterprises (SMTEs) in Solok City. “SMTE” in Indonesian language is identical with the term of Small and Medium Industrial Enterprise which is abbreviated by IKM, are considered to be important as an engine to stimulate the growth of local economic resources development. There are two main aspects which are necessary to analyze. The first is to analyze the macroeconomic environments of SMTEs in Solok City. The findings showed that the contribution of industrial sector to GRDP was relatively smaller from year to year during the period of 2010 to 2016. It indicated that Solok City was relatively not yet functioning as the City in accordance to the Indonesian National Urban Development Policy. The result of LQ calculation showed that trade and service sector dominate the economic activities of Solok City, however it still weak in the field of industrial activities particularly in term of processing industry. The area around it such as Solok Regency, South Solok Regency, Sijunjung Regency were dominated by economic activity in primary sector. Padang City in another side has the surplus in secondary as well as tertiary product and services. The findings indicated that macroeconomic environments of SMTEs in Solok City were not yet so conducive to stimulate SMTEs creation and development. However the opportunity of SMTEs creation and development was open and quite prospective. SMTEs in Solok City besides using its owned local resources as the input of production, also it can take the surplus of agricultural commodities and mining from its surrounding regions. Padang City can support the growth of SMTEs by technology transfer. In relation with OTDA, the result of studies indicated that this policy is a profitable policy for SMTEs creation and development. The second is to analyze the microeconomic environments of SMTEs in Solok City. In this case, the primary data taken from questioners and field survey were analyzed. The findingsof study showed that SMTEs have not been so developed in Solok City, therefore it still requires several "program supports” to speed up its creation and development.
Pelatihan Pembuatan Pupuk Organik Cair dari Urine Sapi untuk Mengurangi Ketergantungan Pemakaian Pupuk Subsidi
Authors: Siswati Latifa , Putri Asgami
Published: April 2018

Today the agricultural system that is widely used by farmers today is agriculture that still uses chemicals for both fertilizer and for pesticides. While now many fertilizers and pesticides are already using organic materials as raw materials .The purpose of this dedication is to provide knowledge to partners that the livestock wastes they produce can be used as raw material for the production of livestock waste fertilizer in the form of cow urine can be overcome and also can help the farmers in reducing the expenses incurred for farming that they also do.Evaluation based on participant's answer in the form of Pre Test and Post Test results with yes and no answer that participant's knowledge about making organic liquid fertilizer from cow urine increased significantly from only 11% when Pre Test increased to 100%, from Pre Test 0% to 100% at the Post Test. For the question of whether the participants know the required materials answer yes only 10% while the answer is not as much as 90%. But at the time of Post Test it has increased 100%, about the benefits gained from the use of liquid fertilizer that is, who answered yes as much as 8% while 92% others do not know. of cow urine can reduce the dependence of fertilizer subsidies.
Pengembangan dan Validasi Modul Edukasi Literasi Keuangan Islami untuk Usaha Mikro, Kecil, dan Menengah
Authors: Wahyuny Ikka Nur , Hakim Lukman , Murtini Wiedy
Published: April 2018

Various studies on financial literacy still focus on the measurement of financial literacy, exploration of Islamic financial literacy, and the impact of financial education on improving financial literacy. The existing studies still have no concerns and efforts to develop Module of Islamic Financial Literacy Education. This research aims to develop a valid Module of Islamic financial literacy education for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Development of media using ADDIE model. Materials and designs that have been compiled into draft Islamic Financial Literacy Education Module. At development stage obtained data from the filling sheet validation by experts and practicioner, experts in the field of training media, linguists, and practitioners of SMEs. Validation results are processed by cut off point analysis and ideal percentage to determine that the module made has met both criteria. Islamic Financial Literacy Education Module is considered valid and feasible by material experts, media experts, linguists, and SMEs practitioners. Based on the validation of experts and practitioner shows that the educational module is worthy to be used to improve the Islamic financial literacy of SMEs.
Penyuluhan tentang Pengenalan Konsep Bilangan Melalui Metode Bermain Alat Manipulatif dengan Memperhatikan Tahapan Berpikir Anak Usia Dini
Authors: Khasanah Binti Anisaul , Astuti Robia , Nurdin Astoni
Published: April 2018

Implementation of Community Service activities was conducted with Seminar activity to teachers of Early Childhood Education (PAUD) all Kalirejo sub-districts joined in Teachers Association of Kindergarten Indonesia-PGRI (IGTKI-PGRI) Kalirejo participated by 71 participants. This seminar aims to: 1) provide information to early childhood teachers about early childhood cognitive development, and 2) increase insight to PAUD teachers about the method of playing manipulative tools in introducing the concept of numbers to children of early age 3) with information on cognitive development of children is expected teachers PAUD in providing learning tailored to the child's cognitive development so that children have a strong character. The conclusions in this devotional activity include: 1) in treating the child must be adapted to the stage of development both in terms of educating and teaching a concept in children; 2) to introduce the concept of numbers in early childhood must include the five content in mathematics that is: number and operation of numbers, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and opportunity because in its application the five content is related to number. The introduction of the concept of numbers must be adapted to the early childhood cognitive development stage, namely in the pre-operational stage, one of which is through a manipulative tool; 3) The introduction of the concept of numbers in early childhood through manipulative tools can strengthen the character of the child because it is tailored to the daily life of the child.
Peningkatan Kapasitas Ekonomi Berbasis Masyarakat di Desa Wisata Cibuntu Kuningan, Jawa Barat
Authors: Bahri Asep Syaiful , Suyatno Rianto
Published: April 2018

The process of planning and decision making in the development program for this is oftenly done by top-down. Most often society is not given a choice and an opportunity to provide input. Sometimes government assistance creates dependency, which in turn would create trouble than help. The purpose of this study was to illustrate the potential of tourism and economic potential in the village Cibuntu as well as to determine the model to improve the local economy based on tourism. Samples are some families in the village Cibuntu. The results of this study indicate that the tourism and economic potential are very diverse and can support tourism activities and for the community-based model of economic improvement which can be implemented is culinary-based, homestay based and craft-based.
Virtual Reality of Historical Places in North Sulawesi
Authors: Wahyudi Andria , Adam Patricia , Jesyriviano Geral
Published: April 2018

Sulawesi Utara adalah salah satu provinsi di Indonesia yang memiliki banyak tempat menarik untuk dikunjungi, seperti wisata alam, kuliner dan tempat-tempat bersejarah. Presentasi informasi yang mudah dan menarik sangat penting untuk atraksi wisata di SulawesiUtara. Penyajian informasi yang menarik dapat menarik minat wisatawan mancanegara maupun lokal untuk berkungjung di Sulawesi Utara. Virtual Reality menjadi salah satu teknologi yang dapat memberikan pengalaman baru dalam melakukan eksplorasi suatu tempatsecara digital dengan sangat atraktif. Oleh karena itu, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengembangkan sebuah aplikasi yang dapat memberikan informasi tentang tujuh tempat bersejarah di Sulawesi Utara dengan menggunakan teknologi virtual reality, terutama teknikfotografi yang merupakan teknik untuk menampilkan gambar dengan sudut pandang 360 derajat. Aplikasi ini dirancang menggunakan metode Prototyping sebagai model proses. Unity 3D digunakan dalam penelitian ini untuk membangun aplikasi dan antarmuka dan memungkinkan untuk dapat di jalankan di berbagai operating system. Aplikasi ini dibuat menggunakan bahasa pemrograman C #. Dalam penelitian ini dibahas mulai dari proses desain, pengambilan gambar dengan teknik Immersive, hingga menghasilkan aplikasi yang siap digunakan.
Viewboard Sebagai Laporan Jumlah Keseluruhan Artikel Pada iLearning Raharja Ask and News
Authors: Rahardja Untung , Handayani Indri , Setiani Lilis
Published: April 2018

Sebuah informasi dapat mempengaruhi proses terjadinya komunikasi. Dengan perkembangan zaman yang kian modern seperti saat ini informasi jadi lebih mudah untuk didapatkan karena dapat diakses secara online melalui media elektronik. iRAN (iLearning Raharja Ask and New) sebagai media aplikasi online yang memberikan pelayanan informasi umum maupun khusus pada Perguruan Tinggi Raharja diharapkan dapat memberikan informasi yang selalu ter-up to date. Dalam sebuah sistem perlu adanya sebuah data yang dapat menggambarkan atau memberikan pengukuran performa dari sebuah sistem sebagai bukti jika sistem tersebut memberikan manfaat bagi masyarakat. Dashboard merupakan sebuah sistem aplikasi yang dapat menampilkan informasi dalam bentuk sebuah panel yang penting bagi pemimpin untuk dapat mengendalikan dan membawa organisasi untuk mencapai tujuan yang telah ditetapkan. Selain itu sebuah dashboard juga dapat dijadikan sebagai sarana untuk memonitoring kinerja, mengevaluasi proses dan memberikan solusi bagi proses yang sedang berjalan. Dengan adanya viewboard atau dashboard diharapkan dapat memberikan informasi mengenai kinerja dari official site iRAN.
Aplikasi Pengenalan Ikan Hias Predator Air Tawar Menggunakan Teknologi Augmented Reality Berbasis Android
Authors: Moedjahedy Jimmy , Bokang Ardy , Raranta Arthur
Published: April 2018

Penggemar dan komunitas hobi ikan hias predator di Manado makin berkembang dan orang yang ingin membelinya pun semakin bertambah. Berdasarkan pengamatan peneliti dibeberapa toko yang menjual ikan hias, pengenalan tentang ikan hias predator masih sangat kurang bahkan ditempat penjualan masih ada yang belum memiliki katalog tentang jenis ikan hias predator. Berdasarkan latar belakang tersebut, peneliti membuat aplikasi pengenalan ikan hias predator dengan menggunakan teknologi augmented reality berbasia android dimana pengguna dapat memanfaatkan smartphone mereka untuk melihat jenis dan info tentang ikan hias yang akan mereka beli dengan jelas dan atraktif. Metode rekayasa perangkat lunak yang digunakan adalah metode spiral karena metode ini menawarkan pendekatan yang lebih baik untuk membuat suatu program dengan cepat dan bertahap. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah aplikasi android yang dapat menunjukan 9 jenis ikan hias predator dalam bentuk 3D yang dapat dilihat dari 4 sisi dan 6 jenis ikan lainnya dalam bentuk gambar serta informasi tertulis tentang ikan yang akan dipelihara. Kata kunci : Augemented Reality, 3D, Android
Segmentasi Iris Mata Penderita Penyakit Ginjal Dengan Metode Hough Transform Dan Integro-Differential Operator
Authors: Tawas Maria Angelina Sumampouw , Kalangi Michella Destalia , Rotikan Reymon
Published: April 2018

Iris merupakan bagian penting pada mata yang mempunyai pola yang dapat mendeskripsikan kondisi organ tubuh, mengetahui kondisi psikologi, dan membedakan tiap individu. Iris mata sering digunakan sebagai dasar pengenalan biometrik khususnya dalam ilmu iridologi. Iridologi adalah suatu metode kedokteran yang menyatakan bahwa setiap bagian organ pada tubuh dapat direpresentasikan dengan wilayah yang terdapat pada iris mata. Untuk membuat dataset, membutuhkan 4 tahapan umum, yaitu segmentation, normalization, extraction, dan matching. Namun untuk melakukan penelitian khususnya bidang iridologi, sering terkendala dengan ketidaktersediaannya dataset penyakit, dan proses yang cukup sulit karena untuk mendeteksi lingkaran dalam dan luar iris mata membutuhkan gambar yang jelas, karena itu tahap ini seringkali tidak berhasil. Pada penelitian ini, peneliti melakukan penelitian dataset penyakit ginjal menggunakan metode hough transform dan integro-differential dengan hanya memfokuskan pada tahapan segmentasi saja. Dari 19 gambar iris mata yang diuji, pada metode hough transform tingkat akurasi yang didapatkan adalah 5,26%, sedangkan metode integro-differential operator yaitu 42,10%. Kata kunci : Iris mata, Iridologi, Segmentasi iris, Hough Transform, Integro-differential Operator
Strategi memanfaatkan e-commerce dalam memasarkan makanan khas Bangka (Studi Kasus : Aneka Citra Snack)
Authors: Magdalena Hilyah , Ellyani Widya
Published: April 2018

Usaha Kecil dan Menengah (UKM) adalah salah satu pilar ekonomi Indonesia yang tahan goncangan dan resesi. UKM umumnya berangkat dari usaha yang berakar pada budaya dan kekhasan suatu daerah. Walaupun awalnya lebih banyak bergerak di wilayahnya saja, pemerintah mencanangkan upaya digitalisasi UKM dengan menggalakkan penjualan elektronik atau e-commerce. Di Bangka Belitung UKM bergerak dibidang usaha makanan khas daerah, pakaian dan kain tenun cual khas Bangka, dan beberapa bidang usaha jasa lainnya. Untuk mendapatkan strategi yang tepat memanfaatkan teknologi informasi dalam penjualan elektronik, maka penelitian ini mempunyai dua metode penelitian. Pertama menganalisis faktor – faktor apa saja yang mendorong UKM untuk menggunakan e-commerce. Analisis beberapa faktor pendorong ini dilakukan dengan metode Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP adalah metode pengambilan keputusan yang mampu menyeleksi multikriteria faktor sehingga menghasilkan hasil analisis akurat. Hasil pengolahan data dengan AHP menunjukkan bahwa faktor yang paling besar bobotnya adalah faktor teknologi informasi sebesar 33,2%, dan alternatif yang paling tinggi bobotnya adalah pelaku bisnis usaha makanan khas dengan bobot 38,8%. Dengan adanya hasil analisa AHP tersebut, maka penelitian dilanjutkan dengan merancang sistem informasi berbasis web untuk mendorong UKM menjalankan transaksi penjualan secara elektronik. Analisa dan perancangan sistem dilakukan dengan metode Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) agar sistem dapat dikembangkan secara bertahap. Keywords : UKM, Bangka Belitung, AHP
Robot Perekam Objek Berbasis Face Tracking
Authors: Mambu Joe Yuan , Wahyudi Andria , Reinaldo Zakarias , Braif Therok
Published: April 2018

Face tracking merupakan teknik dalam bidang visi komputer yang digunakan untuk melakukan penjejakan pada wajah yang bergerak. Face tracking dilakukan dengan teknik pengolahan citra melalui rangkaian algoritma yang kompleks.  Proses face tracking memberikan kemampuan pada computer untuk mengetahui gerakan dari wajah yang berpindah keluar dari frame. Kemampuan ini bisa dimanfaatkan untuk merekam objek yang bergerak contohnya seorang pembicara sering bergerak di atas podium tanpa bantuan tangan manusia. Penelitian ini merancang sebuah robot yang dapat mengikuti perpindahan gerak dari wajah dengan menggunakan metode Viola Jones sebagai algoritma pendeteksi wajah. Robot ini menggunakan mikrokontroler Arduino Uno R3 dan komputer sebagai otak dari robot, webcam yang digunakan untuk mendeteksi wajah, Motor Servo sebagai penggerak webcam untuk mengikuti wajah yang terdeteksi, serta Arduino IDE dan Matlab sebagai software untuk pengkodean. Dengan beberapa limitasi penelitian ini mampu memberikan proof of concept: mampu mengikuti dan merekam objek yang bergerak dengan kecepatan tertentu melalui metode face tracking. Keywords : Face Tracking, Robot Perekam Objek, Arduino Uno, Motor Servo, Viola Jones, Pengolahan Citra
Analisis Efektifitas Sistem Informasi E-Ktp Di Dinas Kependudukan Dan Pencatatan Sipil (Dispendcapil) Minahasa Utara
Authors: Rewah Jein
Published: April 2018

Keberhasilan penerapan sistem informasi (SI) perlu diukur dengan melihat efektivitas dari SI dalam mendukung strategi bisnis organisasi, meningkatkan struktur dan budaya dalam organisasi, serta bagaimana SI dapat meningkatkan nilai bisnis dari pelanggan terhadap organisasi tersebut. Oleh sebab dibutuhkan untuk pengukuran penerapan SI e-KTP di DISPENCAPIL Minahasa Utara. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah TQM dan teknik statistik menggunakan regresi sederhana dan regresi berganda untuk melihat pengaruh variabel independen terhadap variabel dependen. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa dari lima variabel independen hanya satu variabel yang berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadad SI e-KTP yaitu Tangibel. Secara serentak juga menunjukan bahwa kelima variabel independen tidak berpengaruh terhadap SI e-KTP. Hasil ini menunjukan bahwa ada ketimpangan dalam penerapan SI e-KTP sehingga dibutuhkan penelitian yang lanjut untuk mengetahui faktor yang menyebabkan ketimpangan ini. Keywords : Sistem Informasi, Total Quality Management, e-KTP, DISPENCAPIL, MINUT
Analisis Domain Proses COBIT Framework 5 Pada Sistem Informasi Worksheet (Studi Kasus: Perguruan Tinggi STMIK, Politeknik Palcomtech)
Authors: Ajismanto Fahmi
Published: April 2018

Perguruan tinggi Stmik, PalComTech adalah lembaga pendidikan komputer dan internet yang berdiri sejak tahun 2003. PalComTech menggunakan Sistem belajar praktek, diskusi, pemecahan studi kasus, praktikum di laboratorium dan setiap pertemuan didukung dengan fasilitas komputer dan internet. Sistem Pembelajaran Worksheet merupakan sistem informasi akademik yang digunakan oleh STMIK Palcomtech Palembang dalam kegiatan belajar mengajar. Penelitian ini menentukan domain proses pada Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT 5) dan Analisa Current Maturity Level, pengukuran tingkat kematangan tata kelola Worksheet. Metode yang digunakan yaitu, deskriptif, quantitative dan metode analisis mengunakan COBIT 5. Berdasarkan hasil dari penelitian ini ditemukan bahwa proses domain COBIT Framework versi 5 yang digunakan adalah: (1). EDM, (Evaluate, Direct And Monitor), (a) EDM03, (b) EDM04 sedangkan pada domain  (2). APO (Align Plan and Organise) yaitu: (a). APO02, (b). APO04, (c). APO07, (d). APO11, (e). APO12, (f). APO13 dan pada domain (3). MEA (Monitor Evaluate and Assess) yaitu: MEA01. Hasil dari Analisis Current Maturity Level adalah: (1). EDM03 : 4,23 berada pada level 4 - Managed and Measureable,(2). APO12 : 4,15 berada pada level 4 - Managed and Measureable,   (3). APO07 : 4,07 berada pada level 4 - Managed and Measureable, (4). MEA01 Memantau,: 3,96 berada pada level 4 - Managed and Measureable, (5). EDM04: 3,90 berada pada level 4 - Managed and Measureable, (6). APO11: 3,80 berada pada level 4 - Managed and Measureable, (7). APO02: 3,70 berada pada level 4 -  Managed and Measureable, (8). APO13 : 3,61 berada pada level 4 - Managed and Measureable, (9). APO04: 3,55 berada pada level 4 - Managed and Measureable. Keywords : COBIT Fremework 5, Tata Kelola TI, Domain Proses, Worksheet
Sistem Pendukung Keputusan Penentuan Dana Pembangunan Mck Menggunakan Fuzzy Simple Additive Weighting
Authors: Arkadia Widya Yoga , Parmadi Eko Hari
Published: April 2018

Masyarakat desa masih banyak yang memiliki MCK tetapi tidak memenuhi standar seperti belum adanya bangunan permanen, sanitasi air dan kakus yang jelek. Pemerintah telah memberi perhatian dalam mengatasi masalah ini lewat dana bantuan perbaikan MCK. Namun, petugas kelurahan kesulitan dalam  menentukan besaran dana bantuan.   Kondisi bangunan MCK dan penghasilan yang bervariasi membuat petugas survei kesulitan dalam menilai kondisi MCK. Sistem pendukung keputusan(SPK) penentuan dana bantuan perbaikan MCK menggunakan Metode Fuzzy Simple Additive Weighting (FSAW) ini,  dibangun untuk mengatasi kesulitan dalam menentukan besarnya dana bantuan yang diterima oleh tiap KK. Kriteria-kriteria yang digunakan  pada SPK ini adalah penghasilan KK, kondisi dinding, kondisi lantai, kondisi atap, kondisi bak, kondisi sumber air, kondisi kloset, dan kondisi pembuangan. Kriteria-kriteria tersebut akan digunakan sebagai variabel linguistik. Fungsi keanggotaan yang digunakan adalah Representasi Linear Turun dan Triangular Fuzzy Number (TFN). Sistem ini dibangun berbasis web dengan bahasa pemrograman PHP dan MySql. Apabila SPK penentuan dana perbaikan MCK menggunakan metode FSAW dibandingkan dengan metode Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) maka hasil perhitungan rangking(peringkat) dan besarnya dana bantuan yang direkomendasikan berbeda. Hasil rekomendasi dari SPK ini juga sangat tergantung pada survei bobot kriteria, survei terhadap kepala keluarga, dan juga nilai l, m dan u pada Triangular Fuzzy Number (TFN).  Keywords : Sistem Pendukung Keputusan (SPK), Fuzzy Simple Additive Weighting, MCK
Implicit Social Trust Dan Support Vector Regression Untuk Sistem Rekomendasi Berita
Authors: Ningrum Melita Widya , Wijanarto Wijanarto
Published: April 2018

Situs berita merupakan salah satu situs yang sering diakses masyarakat karena kemampuannya dalam menyajikan informasi terkini dari berbagai topik seperti olahraga, bisnis, politik, teknologi, kesehatan dan hiburan. Masyarakat dapat mencari dan melihat berita yang sedang populer dari seluruh dunia. Di sisi lain, melimpahnya artikel berita yang tersedia dapat menyulitkan pengguna dalam menemukan artikel berita yang sesuai dengan ketertarikannya. Pemilihan artikel berita yang ditampilkan ke halaman utama pengguna menjadi penting karena dapat meningkatkan minat pengguna untuk membaca artikel berita dari situs tersebut. Selain itu, pemilihan artikel berita yang sesuai dapat meminimalisir terjadinya banjir informasi yang tidak relevan. Dalam pemilihan artikel berita dibutuhkan sistem rekomendasi yang memiliki pengetahuan mengenai ketertarikan atau relevansi pengguna akan topik berita tertentu. Pada penelitian ini, peneliti membuat sistem rekomendasi artikel berita pada New York Times berbasis implicit social trust. Social trust dihasilkan dari interaksi antara pengguna dengan teman-temannya  dan bobot kepercayaan teman pengguna pada media sosial Twitter. Data yang diambil merupakan data pengguna Twitter, teman dan jumlah interaksi antar pengguna berupa retweet. Sistem ini memanfaatkan algoritma Support Vector Regression untuk memberikan estimasi penilaian pengguna terhadap suatu topik tertentu. Hasil pengolahan data dengan Support Vector Regression menunjukkan tingkat akurasi dengan MAPE sebesar 0,8243075902233644%. Keywords : Twitter, Rekomendasi Berita, Social Trust, Support Vector Regression
Neo-Imperialism and the Crisis of Time
Authors: Comor Edward
Published: April 2018

This article applies the Innisian concept of media bias to contemporary U.S. foreign policy developments. The author argues that the common sense informing an emerging neo-imperialism has been profoundly influenced by Washington’s general neglect of time. Among others, consumption is assessed as a medium shaping such biases as well as contradictory policies related to the globalization project.
Video Games as Moral Universes
Authors: Thomas Neal
Published: April 2018

Agency in a video game, ruled by authorial, technological, and economic constraints in its construction and design, tends toward depicting a world and its inhabitants in purely instrumental terms and has difficulty communicating more intrinsic human values in a satisfying way. The video game as a narrative medium tends, with some interesting notable exceptions, to privilege means over ends, bivalency in decision-making, and reification through quantification. These tendencies are partly the result of the medium of the computer, and partly the result of authorial process. I will describe game interaction using ideas developed by sociologist Bruno Latour, and conclude by highlighting the ways in which video games might be made more compelling through alternative models of game design.
Creative Industries, Comparative Media Theory and the Limits of Critique from Within
Authors: Rossiter Ned
Published: April 2018

It has become common for contemporary media and cultural theorists to claim that “there is no more outside.” Such a position pushes the idea of a horizontally organized information society to the extreme and fails to account for how exclusion is a condition of possibility. This essay analyses how a “constitutive outside” functions within the creative industries as a result of the exploitation of the intellectual property generated by labourpower. The essay develops the notion of an outside as it figures in Adorno’s method of immanent critique and Deleuze’s logic of immanence. Finally, the essay examines how the constitutive force of an outside is a key component of Innis’s theories of communications media and cultural formation. Overall, the essay argues that a political theory of mediaculture is one that addresses how the outside operates as an affirmative force that holds the capacity for transformation.
The Vanishing Table, or Community in a World that is No World
Authors: Barney Darin
Published: April 2018

This paper investigates the possibility of community under modern conditions of “worldlessness,” displacement, and disburdenment, conditions recently materialized in, and accelerated by, digital information and communication technologies. The paper engineers an encounter between two literatures: the body of philosophical writing that locates the phenomenon of worldlessness in the progress of modern technology generally; and the growing social science literature examining the character and dynamics of digitally-mediated community practices and forms. The paper begins with a theoretical exegesis of aspects of the work of three thinkers—Harold Innis, Hannah Arendt, and Albert Borgmann—who have made thoughtful contributions to our understand of the technological phenomenon gathered here as worldlessness. It then proceeds to reflect upon recent empirical accounts of digitally-mediated community, in light of the philosophical questions raised by these thinkers. The paper concludes by arguing that digital technology, as it is elaborated in the context of contemporary liberal capitalism, provides a material setting in which community is likely to thrive only in a particular, truncated form: as an infrastructure of convenience for instrumental communication between networked individuals.
Usual Culture: The Jet
Authors: Windsor-Liscombe Rhodri
Published: April 2018

This paper argues that the advent of the turbo jet engine and consequent acceleration in the construction of temporal-spatial dimension enabled novel social and cultural capability. The scientific and mythic aspects of jet power have played out in Canada, from the innovative theorization of Marshall McLuhan to the Avro Arrow and SARS incidents. Assessing the impact of jet propulsion, this paper proposes that while allied with older systems and tropes, jet travel stimulated the consolidation of a broad arena of practice defined as usual culture. The theorization involves the assertion of a prior and heightened interdependence between technology and cultural practice. The focus is upon registers of literary representation that recount the transformative and disruptive outcomes of the rapid transcontinental interchange of the individual body and bodies of knowledge. A further analytic is the redefinition of the aesthetic with respect to technology, especially aeronautical, in Modern Movement discourse. Notwithstanding contrary corporate and political agency, the jet is held to enact the radical pluralism envisaged by Modernism.
Second-hand Shaman: Imag(in)ing Indigeneity from Le Jeune to Pratt, Moore and Beresford
Authors: McKegney Sam W.
Published: April 2018

This paper argues that Le Jeune strategically employs images of Natives within his Jesuit Relations to navigate conditions of extremity in 1630s Quebec, and that the appropriation of these images by later artists, intent on historical “accuracy” yet blind to the politics of Le Jeune’s discourse, ultimately contributes to the semiotic misunderstanding of Native peoples in this country.
Dead Downtown: Writing the Cultural Obituary of the Alternative Press in Border/lines
Authors: Genosko G. , Marcellus Kristina
Published: April 2018

Working through five examples, this article accounts for the role of Toronto-based magazine Border/lines (1984-1999) in Canadian cultural studies. The emphasis is on its “Junctures” section as a key to understanding the magazine’s situatedness. The larger context is the urban alternative press in major Canadian centres and the demise of so many like-minded publications. The Junctures pieces are discussed as eulogies for fellow travellers in the Canadian alternative press. Factors are outlined that likely contributed to Border/lines’ collapse as well as that of other, similar publications. Border/lines was watching and commenting upon the deaths of its contemporaries even as it followed not far behind. “Dead Downtown” is also a eulogy for a largely lost era of Canadian cultural studies.
Walkerton: The Memory of Matter
Authors: Berland Jody
Published: April 2018

In spring 2000 an E. coli water contamination killed seven people and made thousands ill in Walkerton, Ontario. This account analyses accounts of these events from the perspective of risk society theory, agricultural history, speed theory, and the work of Michel Serres. It addresses the temporal implications of various causal explanations for this disaster, the increasing cross-species mobility of contaminating agents, the speedup of biological processes, and the challenges such changes pose to both evolutionary and social Darwinist beliefs. In addition to the necessary critique of neoliberal environmental policy, the article reflects on the challenges these issues jointly present to cultural, theoretical and political approaches to environmental change.
Hiphop with a Northern Touch!? Diasporic Wanderings/Wonderings on Canadian Blackness
Authors: Warner Remi
Published: April 2018

On the basis of a series of separately conducted qualitative interviews, this article explores Canadian hiphop histories and biographies, in the context of, and relationship to, black Canadian identity formation. Focusing on the musical element of hiphop culture which binds my interviewees together in hiphop praxis, the article seeks to elucidate some of the particularities of Canadian Black youth experience, as refracted through a Canadian hiphop musical lens. The ways in which Canadian hiphop music, culture and identities have been socio-historically shaped and structured through diasporic wanderings, national and local socio-cultural contestations, and transformations within the music and entertainment industries and radio broadcasting is considered, as are the ways in which such identities and society have in turn been musically shaped and structured.
Mediated Citizenship and Contested Belongings: Canadian War Brides and the Fictions of Naturalization
Authors: Matrix Sidney Eve
Published: April 2018

When they arrived in Halifax at the end of the Second World War, newly-married or engaged to Canadian servicemen, the war brides were welcomed as exemplary new citizens and media darlings. Sixty years later, Canada officially honoured these women’s war work and reconstruction efforts, commemorating The Year of the War Bride with ceremonies at Halifax’s Pier 21—and more news media coverage. But somewhere along the way, between 1946 and 2006, as immigration and naturalization legislation was redrafted, the war brides got caught in a citizenship quagmire and many of their claims to citizenship were denied. In the summer of 2006, the media picked up on what had emerged as a gap in citizenship statutes, and widespread reportage shaped public discourse about the war brides’ struggle for full enfranchisement. This paper describes the importance of mass media, marriage and migrant networks to the war brides’ ongoing quest to gain secure legal status and Canadian citizenship.
Post-Mortem: A Genealogy of Integration throughout Quebec Immigration Discourse
Authors: Bertelson Christian Allan
Published: April 2018

For a number of years the ethic, concept and goal of integration has served as the lynchpin of social cohesion in Quebec. Despite the decisive role it has played in the foundation of Quebec’s social relations, it has nevertheless managed to avoid critical examination for the better part of its existence. It is possible to retrace integration’s genealogy within the annual reports issued by Quebec’s various immigration ministries between 1968 and 2004. The limited academic research that addresses the concept is also considered. Overall, this research seeks to flesh out the theoretical porousness of this concept and to underscore how a serious reassessment of it is needed vis-à-vis today’s sociological realities.
Revanchism in the Canadian West: Gentrification and Resettlement in a Prairie City
Authors: Granzow Kara , Dean Amber
Published: April 2018

This paper provides a local, quasi-ethnographic, activist-oriented analysis of the City of Edmonton’s gentrification of an area just adjacent to the downtown core. Announced in 2005 and according to the teachings of self-proclaimed “go-to guru” Richard Florida, City officials have called this a “revitalization” of the “downtown east.” The process and its already apparent effects reveal the strategy as one towards a targeted re-appropriation of land and forced displacement of people in the interest of accumulating first cultural but ultimately financial capital. Through analysis of the City of Edmonton’s public meetings, as well as through the analysis of materials provided at those meetings and on City websites, we offer a critique of the City’s process, we debunk Florida’s “creative class” ideology, and finally, most importantly, we situate the gentrification of Edmonton’s downtown within the historical and local context. The particular process of gentrification of this particular Western Canadian city is congruent with the “original” and continual theft of the land from indigenous inhabitants. It also must be considered in light of the cases in which women, mostly aboriginal, have gone missing or been murdered, sometimes from this very neighborhood. Edmonton’s “revitalization” process hides its gentrification and hides an utter inattention to historical parallels and to contemporary issues of urgency.
“Sodomized by Religion”: Fictional Representations of Queer Muslims in the West
Authors: Abraham Ibrahim
Published: April 2018

This article explores fictional representations of queer Muslims in the Western world. Analysing two films (My Beautiful Laundrette and Touch of Pink) and two novels (The Taqwacores and Bilal’s Bread), the article argues that despite queer Muslims facing multiple forms of alienation and othering, new hybrid identities and relationships are developing, rejecting the rhetoric of a clash of civilizations between Muslims and the West. The article explores the political, cultural, sexual and economic situation of Western Muslims as they seek meaning, belonging and faith in late capitalism.
Slippery Speech Acts: Conference Report: Gender, Race, Islam and the “War on Terror”
Authors: Philipose Liz
Published: April 2018

In May 2006, I convened a symposium on the topic of Gender, Race, Islam and the War on Terror, consisting of public presentations and closed workshops with invited participants. The purpose of the symposium was to consider the extent to which transnational feminism could speak to the issues facing Muslim women in a post-9/11 context within Canada and beyond, and the extent to which secular feminism could engage with believing women in a shared quest for liberation and equality. This essay offers an analytical account of the highlights of the symposium from the perspective of a non-Muslim, racialized, transnational feminist.
Reading Nafisi in the West: Feminist Reading Practices and Ethical Concerns
Authors: Burwell Catherine , Davis Hilary E. , Taylor Lisa K.
Published: April 2018

Iranian women’s memoirs have become increasingly popular in the West. Certainly the most popular of these has been Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. But in a world in which Muslim women are increasingly the subject of neo-Orientalist fear and fascination, Reading Lolita in Tehran cannot be read as neutral. We begin this paper by analyzing the ways in which discourses such as the clash of civilizations and global sisterhood shape the reception of Nafisi’s autobiography. We then examine how the autobiography is being taught, providing both a framework for problematizing current approaches to the text and a case study centred on teaching Reading Lolita in Tehran to a group of preservice teachers. We argue for a continuing interrogation into our own pedagogical practices and desires.
Dancing Arabs and Spaces of Desire
Authors: Rottenberg Catherine
Published: April 2018

This paper proposes that Sayed Kashua’s Dancing Arabs can be read as an attempt to dramatize the many parallels between Israel’s ethnocracy and the colonial situation. The novel reveals that the Arab minority in Israel is not one minority among others within a democratic situation, since democracy connotes the possibility and desirability of assimilation. The interactions in Kashua’s novel gesture toward a forceful discouragement of total integration on the part of Israel’s Arab citizens. There is no possibility of assimilation for Arab citizens because the very intelligibility of the ethnic landscape in Israel depends on maintaining the Arab-Jew divide.
George Grant and the Impulse to Carnival
Authors: Lathangue Robin
Published: April 2018

George Grant’s eloquence as a writer and speaker has seldom been the focus of his interpreters and critics. This essay addresses that gap by drawing on the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, especially the category of carnival. It argues that in his carnivalesque rhetoric Grant finds another way to sustain his spirited critique of modernity. The discussion concludes with an assessment of the limitations facing the transposition of Bakhtin’s ideas into the contexts surrounding Grant.
Dreamworld and Reality: An Exploration of Environmental Aesthetics in Contemporary Photography
Authors: Lowe Meaghan
Published: April 2018

This paper investigates the photography of Edward Burtynsky and of Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison, included in Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate (2005; 2008). Following from the premise that the ways in which we visually define our relationship with the environment influence how we interact with our environment, this paper explores these artists’ representations of the environment and nature-human relationships, and the significance of such representations to the discourse of environmental aesthetics and ethics. Through placing these works in the context of the historical foundations and modern criticisms of landscape aesthetics, this paper explores how Burtynsky’s documentation of landscape degraded by industry replicates a traditional aesthetic relationship to the environment as a passive object of seeing landscapes presenting disinterested visions of degradation. Conversely, the ParkeHarrison’s performative photographic works are discussed in relation to an environmental aesthetic of engagement.
Bodies of Water, Human Rights and the Hydrocommons
Authors: Neimanis Astrida
Published: April 2018

Our own bodies, which are primarily composed of water, elucidate the problem of thinking about bodies in binaristic terms as either “natural” or “cultural.” We are both materially and semiotically entwined with other bodies of water in a gestating, differentiating and interpermeating relation. This paper begins by laying out this relation as an “onto-logic” of amniotics, which is in part clarified through Gilles Deleuze’s theory of difference and repetition. I move on to propose that thinking about our amniotic relations to other human and more-than-human watery bodies can help us reconsider the rapid development of new hydrological technologies, water commodification and other stresses on our water resources. While these mounting crises have led to international calls for recognizing water as a human right, I suggest that the promotion of a radically embodied “hydrocommons” might be better suited for negotiating the interbeing of bodies of water on this planet.
For Opacity: Nature, Difference and Indigeneity in Amazonia
Authors: Lindner Keith , Stetson George
Published: April 2018

This paper addresses ethical engagements with difference by articulating the notion of opaque alliance. Using the work of postcolonial theorist Édouard Glissant to analyze the relation between scholars, NGOs, alterity and indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon, it argues that the concept of opacity, that which cannot be reduced, helps counter the depoliticizing implications of current debates surrounding indigeneity and nature. We combine an explicit politicization of scholarly work—writing with, rather than about—with an explicit ethical stance or what Glissant calls “giving-on-and-with,” to help enact concrete ethical responses to the productiveness of opacity.
Bare Roots: Exploring Botanical Agency in the Personal Garden
Authors: Sander-Regier Renate
Published: April 2018

Non-human agency is an anthropocentrically problematic issue that some brave geographers have discussed with relation to plants in contexts such as orchards, cemeteries and gardens. I strive to shake the idea of agency loose of its deterministic human trappings, and explore plant agency from a more basic, bare-roots sense as something achievable by non-human actors. The context I have chosen for this endeavour is the hybrid space of the personal garden—where botanical agency of presence, action, intent, association and capacity is experienced by gardeners actively involved in the space—as portrayed in contemporary personal gardening literature.
The Virus of Fear and the Politics of Globalization
Authors: Featherstone Mark
Published: April 2018

Tocqueville employed the notion of the virus to describe the strange process that led the utopian ambitions of the French revolution to collapse into bloody terror. I use this idea to trace the history of the relationship between utopia, dystopia and the virus of fear. Following discussion of Tocqueville’s notion and its connection to the modern event par excellence, I examine the origin of ancient modernity in Herotodus’s Histories. I show that anxiety, fear and paranoia were embedded in the normal symbolic order of capitalism from the beginning and suggest that the modern version of Platonic communism expressed by Rousseau, Marx and Engels, and realized by Robespierre, Lenin and Stalin, was fated to produce nightmarish totalitarianisms because of the ways it reacted to the radical collapse of European totalitarianisms and the rise of American liberalism in the post-Second World War neoliberal utopia of fear, which suggests that radical anxiety is a condition to be embraced. New fundamentalisms reflect the emergence of new conservative utopias: psycho-social reaction-formations meant to resolve the anxiety of global insecurity. Throughout the paper I hold onto Tocqueville’s metaphor of the virus to suggest that the fear of otherness has always been at the heart of efforts to control radical anxiety.
Asking Too Much, Receiving Too Little: Indigenous Identity and the Aims of Science
Authors: Muller Adam
Published: April 2018

In this paper I examine the refusal by many indigenous people to participate in the National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project, and take a close look at a variety of scientific and indigenous responses to that refusal. I locate in many scientific reactions an often implicit reliance upon what I term the Platonic Conceit: that at the centre of what it means to be human there lies an ineluctable desire for the truth and an aversion to simulations. This Conceit blinds scientists to the extent to which some simulations not only matter deeply to people but enable their world to make sense. It also prevents scientists from easily distinguishing between knowledge and superstition in so-called traditional knowledge schemes, and therefore from adequately understanding the motivation and substance of indigenous complaints about bioprospecting.