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Prediksi Transport Sedimen di Perairan Teluk Tahuna Kabupaten Kepulauan Sangihe
Authors: Kumaseh Eunike , Tatontos Yuliana Varala , Sarapil Costantein Imanuel 
Published: July 2021

ABSTRAK: Secara geografis, Teluk Tahuna diapit oleh 2 muara sungai yaitu Muara Sungai Tidore, yang dekat dengan Pelabuhan Nusantara Tahuna, dan Muara Sungai Towo’e. Hal ini memungkinkan terjadinya sedimentasi.Sehingga, perlu diketahui besarnya angkutan sedimen yang terjadi di perairan Teluk Tahuna.Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu membandingkan metode Engelund-Hansen dengan hasil pengukuran di lapangan. Pengambilan sedimen menggunakan sediment trap dan diukur selama 2 minggu sekali sebanyak 5 kali. Sedimen dibawa ke Laboratorium Mekanika Tanah untuk memperoleh ukuran diameter sedimen. Lokasi penelitian dibagi menjadi 3 stasiun, Stasiun 1 dekat muara sungai Tidore, Stasiun 2 pada bagian tengah perairan, dan Stasiun 3 dekat muara sungai Towoé. Hasil prediksi transport sedimen di Perairan Teluk Tahuna dengan metode Engelund-Hansen yaitu pada Stasiun 1 = 0,00000291(m3/m*s), Stasiun 2 = 0,00000697(m3/m*s), dan Stasiun 3 = 0,00000789(m3/m*s). Perhitungan transport sedimen yang paling tinggi adalah di Stasiun 3. Pengukuran laju sedimentasi yaitu pada Stasiun 1 sebesar 0,0000029 m3/hari, Stasiun 2 sebesar 0,0000053 m3/hari dan pada Stasiun 3 sebesar 0,0000072 m3/ hari. Rata – rata hasil pengukuran yang paling tinggi juga ada di Stasiun 3,yaitu dekat Muara Sungai Towoé. Hasil prediksi Metode Engelund-Hansen hampir sama dengan hasil pengukuran laju sedimen di lapangan. Metode Engelund-Hansen cocok digunakan untuk memprediksi transport sedimen di Perairan Teluk Tahuna. ABSTRACT: Geographically, Tahuna Bay has 2 river mouths, the Tidore river mouth, which is close to the Tahuna Harbor, and Towo'e river mouth. This allows sedimentation. So, it is necessary to know the calculation of sediment transport. The research method is comparing the Engelund-Hansen method with the results of measurements. Sediment rate measured by sediment trap and once in 2 weeks for 5 times. Sediments were taken to the Soil Mechanics Laboratory. The location was divided into 3 stations. The results of prediction of sediment transport in Tahuna Bay with the Engelund-Hansen method are Station 1 = 0,00000291 (m3/m*s), Station 2 = 0,00000697 (m3/m *s), and Station 3 = 0,00000789 (m3/m*s). The highest calculation of sediment transport is at Station 3. The average measurement of sedimentation rate at Station 1 of 0,0000029 m3/day, Station 2 of 0,0000053 m3/day and at Station 3 is 0,0000072 m3/day. The highest average measurement results are also at Station 3, which is near the Towoé River Estuary. The predicted results of the Engelund-Hansen Method are almost the same as those of the sediment rate measurements in the field. Engelund-Hansen Method can be used to predict the sediment transport in Tahuna bay.
Suplementasi Enzim Papain dalam Pakan terhadap Performa Pertumbuhan, Efisiensi Pemanfaatan Pakan dan Kelulushidupan Udang Vaname (Litopenaeus vannamei)
Authors: Rachmawati Diana , Hutabarat Johannes , Dewi Eko Nurcahya , Windarto Seto 
Published: July 2021

Udang vaname (Litopenaeus vannamei) adalah karnivora yang sukar mencerna protein nabati dalam pakan sehingga efisiensi pemanfaatan pakan belum maksimal. Hampir 40-60% dari total biaya produksi hanya untuk biaya pakan. Efisiensi pemanfaatan pakan dapat ditingkatkan dengan penambahan enzim papain dalam pakan yang mampu meningkatkan penguraian dan pencernaan bahan pakan yang mengandung protein nabati sederhana sehingga dapat meningkatkan daya cerna protein pakan. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengkaji pengaruh suplementasi enzim papain dalam pakan terhadap efisiensi pemanfaatan pakan, performa pertumbuhan dan kelulushidupan udang vaname. Hewan uji berupa udang vaname dengan bobot rata-rata 3,02±0,21 g/ekor yang diperoleh dari pembudidaya udang vaname Desa Blebak, Kecamatan Mlonggo, Jepara. Metode dalam penelitian ini adalah metode eksperimen, dengan Rancangan Acak Lengkap, 4 Perlakuan dan 3 kali pengulangan. Terdapat 4 perlakuan suplementasi enzim papain dalam pakan yaitu A (0 %), B (0,1 %), C (0,2 %), dan D (0,3 %). Parameter yang diamati meliputi EPP, PER, RGR, SR dan parameter kualitas air. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penambahan enzim papain dalam pakan meningkatkan EPP, PER, RGR, namun tidak berpengaruh pada SR udang vaname. Enzim papain sebesar 0,1%/kg pakan merupakan dosis optimal pada EPP, PER dan RGR menghasilkan nilai maksimal sebesar 66,51%, 1,64 dan 4,22%/hari. White shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) is a carnivorous animal that difficult to digests vegetable protein in the feed so that the efficiency of feed utilization is not maximal. Nearly 40-60% of the total production cost is only for feed cost. Feed efficiency is improved by using papain in the feed which can increase the breakdown and consumption of feed containing vegetable protein so that it can easily increase the digestibility of feed protein. This study examines the effect of papain supplementation in feed on the growth performance, efficiency of feed utilization, and survival rate of white shrimps. The test animals were white shrimp with an average weight of 3.02 ± 0.21 g / individuals obtained from the whiteleg shrimp farmers in Blebak Village, Mlonggo District, Jepara. The method in this study was an experimental method, with a completely randomized design, 4 treatments, and 3 repetitions. There were 4 supplements of papain in feed: A (0%), B (0.1%), C (0.2%), and D (0.3%). The parameters were EPP, PER, RGR, SR, and water quality parameters. The results showed that the supplementation of the papain in feed increased the EPP, PER, RGR, but had no effect on the SR of white shrimp. Papain of 0.1% / kg of feed was the optimal dose at EPP, PER, and RGR resulting in a maximum value of 66.51%, 1.64 and 4.22% / day.
Model Transformasi Gelombang di Pelabuhan Patimban, Kabupaten Subang dengan Tiga Skenario
Authors: Rachmawatie Rifka Pramesti Asa , Rochaddi Baskoro , Indrayanti Elis 
Published: July 2021

Pembangunan dermaga dan breakwater (pemecah gelombang) di Pelabuhan Patimban, Kabupaten Subang, Jawa Barat dapat mengakibatkan transformasi gelombang di perairan sekitarnya. Pemodelan transformasi gelombang penting untuk memberikan informasi sekaligus memprediksi seberapa besar pengaruh pembangunan dermaga dan breakwater terhadap perairan di sekitarnya. Tujuan dari penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui ada tidaknya transformasi gelombang dengan menggunakan tiga skenario. Penelitian lapangan dilaksanakan pada Januari sampai Februari 2020. Data yang digunakan adalah data gelombang hasil pengukuran lapangan, data angin, dan data batimetri. Peramalan gelombang dengan menggunakan metode Sverdrup-Munk Bretschneider (SMB). Pemodelan gelombang menggunakan model hidrodinamika untuk mengetahui besar transformasi gelombang. Tiga skenario yang digunakan yaitu skenario 1 (tanpa ada dermaga dan breakwater), skenario 2 (ada dermaga tanpa breakwater), dan skenario 3 (ada dermaga dan breakwater). Hasil simulasi menunjukan bahwa terjadi transformasi gelombang yang meliputi refraksi, refleksi, difraksi dan shoaling di Pelabuhan Patimban, dengan nilai koefisien refraksi tertinggi pada skenario 1. Penurunan tinggi gelombang terjadi pada skenario 2 dan skenario 3. The construction of a pier and breakwater at Patimban Port, Subang Regency, West Java can create wave transformation in the surrounding waters. Wave transformation modeling is important to provide information as well as predict how much influence the construction of the pier and breakwater will have effect on the surrounding waters. The purpose of this research is to determine the three scenarios effects for wave transformation. Field research was carried out from January to February 2020. The data used were wave data from field measurements, wind data, and bathymetry data. Wave forecasting using the Sverdrup-Munk Bretschneider (SMB) method. Wave modeling uses hydrodynamic models to determine the magnitude of the wave transformation. Three scenarios are used, namely scenario 1 (without a pier and breakwater), scenario 2 (there is a dock without a breakwater), and scenario 3 (there are a pier and breakwater). The simulation results show that there is a wave transformation which includes refraction, reflection, diffraction, and shoaling at Patimban Port, with the highest refraction coefficient value in scenario 1. A reduction in wave height occurs in scenarios 2 and scenario 3.
Data Analytics to Improve Customer Energy Efficiency
Authors: Angelopoulos Michail , Pollalis Yannis 
Published: July 2021

This research focuses on providing insights for a solution for collecting, storing, analyzing and visualizing data from customer energy consumption patterns. The data analysis part of our research provides the models for knowledge discovery that can be used to improve energy efficiency at both producer and consumer ends.
Τhe study sets a new analytical framework for assessing the role of behavioral knowledge in energy efficiency using a wide range of Case Studies, Experiments, Research, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in combination with the most modern econometric methods and large analytical data taking into account the characteristics of the study participants (household energy customers).
DETERMINANT OF SAFETY AND WORKPLACE SAFETY IN WORK ENVIRONMENT PT. PERUSAHAAN LISTRIK NEGARA (PERSERO) SULUTTENGGO AREA
Authors: Lumintang Genita Gracia , Kindangen Paulus , - Adolfina 
Published: July 2021

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of organizational characteristics, and individual characteristics on physical environment component, psychosocial component, and behavior component toward workplace safety and health in PT. PLN (Persero) Suluttenggo area. The object of this research is permanent employees or outsourcing employees in PT. PLN (Persero) Suluttenggo Area.
Research Design used in this research is survey research, in which the sample collected by distributing questionnaires to 50 permanent employees and outsourcing employees that already worked as work partner of PT. PLN (Persero) Suluttenggo Area. As for the analysis instrument is using partial least squares (PLS).
The result shows that organizational characteristic has a positive influence on the components of work environment, either physically or psychosocially; and on behavior as well as the workplace health and safety. On the other hand, individual characteristic doesn’t have an influence. The result of this research also shows that only the individual behavior that has a positive influence on workplace health and safety, while physical work environment does not, meanwhile psychosocial component has a negative influence on workplace health and safety.
Examining Key Success Factors for Effective Risk Management Affecting Bank Muscat’s Financial Performance: Case of Oman.
Authors: AL-JABRI FAWZIYA 
Published: July 2021

Risk Management is considered as one of the major bank’s financial performance case of Oman. In recent years, the administration and financial corruptions has been shown to affect the financial performance of banks. Therefore, it provides rapid analysis to identify and examine those key factors and come up with better framework for more effective risk management of bank’s financial performance. As project topic shown, the aim of the study is to determine key success factors and the influence of risk management to banks financial performance. However, risk management has adverse effects.

The project provides literature review from scholarly sources for examining the positive impact of risk management. The project carries primary and secondary data to obtain the information of research. The finding of the project indicates to be more effective in banks financial performance. In addition, risk management should ensure the banks financial performance and controlling with success in business through financial planning and control. Finally, contribution of the project could be using as reference source. Many researchers are taken the benefit of the project especially in banks case of Oman.
Keywords: Key Success Factors, Risk Management, Bank Financial Performance, Effective
China’s Democratization Revisited
Authors: Day Dong-Ching 
Published: July 2021

When the Tiananmen Incident happened and the Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989 that indicated the end of the Cold War, some scholars predicted that China’s democratization would be realized in the short term. However, China not only didn’t become a democratic country, but also overtook Japan as the world number two economy in 2010; probably it will replace US as the world number one economy in 2030 which highly challenge the theory of economic growth bringing democratization. How come modernization theory doesn’t apply to China case after its rapid economic growth for decades?
The easiest way to argue why China hasn’t become democratic country based on theories of democratization is that they couldn’t fit into China’s special situation. If that is the case, then further question will be why China’s situation is so special and what are behind it. This paper is trying to explain why China hasn’t democratized from the perspective of identity, and elaborate that ‘Four insistences’, ‘Being bullied experiences’, and ‘Democracy’s disorder and China model’ are those factors enhancing China’s identity. If those factors don’t change, it is hard to see China democratization happening in the foreseeable future.
Habit-change, heightened consciousness, and agential “crises”: impersonal mechanisms, personal agents, and their complex entanglement
Authors: Colapietro Vincent 
Published: July 2021

Abstract
The author begins by highlighting Peirce’s claim that every kind of consciousness is more or less like a cognition. He concludes by making a plea for a cognitive semiotics in which both mechanistic explanations and accounts framed in terms of personal agents are necessary for an adequate account of human cognition. The topics of habit-taking and the form of consciousness associated with this process are what link Peirce’s cognitivist approach to consciousness and an inclusive, non-reductionist vision of cognitive semiotics. Impersonal mechanisms play an integral role in even the most sophisticated forms of human cognition. But the self-critical endeavors of personal agents, especially ones susceptible to “crises” such as doubt, play no less an important role.
A qualitative study of Machine Learning practices and engineering challenges in Earth Observation
Authors: Jentzsch Sophie , Hochgeschwender Nico 
Published: July 2021

Abstract
Machine Learning (ML) is ubiquitously on the advance. Like many domains, Earth Observation (EO) also increasingly relies on ML applications, where ML methods are applied to process vast amounts of heterogeneous and continuous data streams to answer socially and environmentally relevant questions. However, developing such ML- based EO systems remains challenging: Development processes and employed workflows are often barely structured and poorly reported. The application of ML methods and techniques is considered to be opaque and the lack of transparency is contradictory to the responsible development of ML-based EO applications. To improve this situation a better understanding of the current practices and engineering-related challenges in developing ML-based EO applications is required. In this paper, we report observations from an exploratory study where five experts shared their view on ML engineering in semi-structured interviews. We analysed these interviews with coding techniques as often applied in the domain of empirical software engineering. The interviews provide informative insights into the practical development of ML applications and reveal several engineering challenges. In addition, interviewees participated in a novel workflow sketching task, which provided a tangible reflection of implicit processes. Overall, the results confirm a gap between theoretical conceptions and real practices in ML development even though workflows were sketched abstractly as textbook-like. The results pave the way for a large-scale investigation on requirements for ML engineering in EO.
The Conventional Problem with Corporate Sentencing (and One Unconventional Solution)
Authors: Thomas W. Robert 
Published: July 2021

A recent wave of expressive accounts of corporate criminal law operate on the promise that corporate punishment can express a unique form of condemnation not capturable through civil enforcement. Unfortunately, the realities of corporate sentencing have thus far failed to make good on this expressive promise. Viewed in light of existing conventions that imbue meaning into our practices of punishment, corporate sentences rarely impose hard treatment in a manner or degree that these conventions seem to require. Accordingly, standard corporate sanctions turn out to be ill-suited to deliver—and, often, will likely undermine—the stigmatic punch upon which expressive defenses of corporate criminal law depend. A common response to this conventional problem with corporate sentencing has been to propose more, and harsher, corporate punishments. However, this approach overlooks the extent to which corporate punishment derives its stigmatic force from preexisting norms and conventions concerning individual punishment.
If trying to improve corporate punishment, then, expressivists might instead seek either to leverage or to dismantle the underlying conventions that give existing sanctions meaning. An example of the former strategy would be to revitalize long-neglected proposals for corporate shaming by adopting a criminal convention currently absent from the corporate space—namely, the pervasive, stigmatic application of epithets like “thief” or “felon.” An example of the latter would be to join criminal justice reformers in targeting conventions that, in recent decades, have enabled increasingly draconian sentencing practices. On this view, dissolving corporate sentencing’s conventional problem may represent a further, incidental benefit of systemic criminal justice reform.
The relationship between adenosine deaminase and heart rate-corrected QT interval in type 2 diabetic patients
Authors: Lu Chun-feng , Ge Xiao-qin , Wang Yan , Su Jian-bin , Wang Xue-qin , Zhang Dong-mei , Xu Feng , Liu Wang-shu , Su Min 
Published: July 2021

Background
Prolonged heart rate-corrected QT (QTc) interval may reflect poor prognosis of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Serum adenosine deaminase (ADA) levels are related to hyperglycemia, insulin resistance (IR) and inflammation, which may participate in diabetic complications. We investigated the association of serum ADA levels with prolonged QTc interval in a large-scale sample of patients with T2D.

Methods
In this cross-sectional study, a total of 492 patients with T2D were recruited. Serum ADA levels were determined by venous blood during fasting. QTc interval was estimated from resting 12-lead ECGs, and prolonged QTc interval was defined as QTc > 440 ms.

Results
In this study, the prevalence of prolonged QTc interval was 22.8%. Serum ADA levels were positively associated with QTc interval (r = 0.324, P < 0.0001). The proportion of participants with prolonged QTc interval increased significantly from 9.2% in the first tertile (T1) to 24.7% in the second tertile (T2) and 39.0% in the third tertile (T3) of ADA (P for trend < 0.001). After adjusting for other possible risk factors by multiple linear regression analysis, serum ADA level was still significantly associated with QTc interval (β = 0.217, t = 3.400, P < 0.01). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that female (OR 5.084, CI 2.379–10.864, P < 0.001), insulin-sensitizers treatment (OR 4.229, CI 1.290–13.860, P = 0.017) and ADA (OR 1.212, CI 1.094–1.343, P < 0.001) were independent contributors to prolonged QTc interval.

Conclusions
Serum ADA levels were independently associated with prolonged QTc interval in patients with T2D.
Increased thyroid malignancy in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism
Authors: Li Luchuan , Li Baoyuan , Lv Bin , Liang Weili , Zhang Binbin , Zeng Qingdong , Turner Andrew G , Sheng Lei 
Published: July 2021

Background
Multiple studies have reported the increased incidence of thyroid cancer in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). However, the underlying risk factors of concomitant thyroid cancer in patients with PHPT remain unknown. The primary aim of this study was to examine the records of patients with PHPT to identify characteristics that correlated with the presence of coexisting thyroid nodules, and which may have an implication for the prediction of thyroid cancer.

Methods
Medical records of consecutive patients with PHPT (n = 318) were reviewed from January 2010 to September 2020 in two tertiary medical centers in China. Patient clinicopathological and biological data were collected and analyzed.

Results
Of a total of 318 patients with PHPT, 105 (33.0%) patients had thyroid nodules and 26 (8.2%) patients were concomitant with thyroid cancer. A total of 38 thyroid nodules taken from 26 patients were pathologically assessed to be well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), with 81% being papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC). In 79% (30/38) of these cancers, thyroid nodules were considered suspicious following preoperative ultrasound. Multinomial logistic regression analysis revealed that female gender was associated with increased risk of thyroid nodules (OR = 2.13, 95% CI: 1.13–3.99, P = 0.019), while lower log-transformed parathyroid hormone levels were an independent predictor of thyroid cancer in patients with PHPT (OR = 0.50, 95% CI: 0.26–0.93, P = 0.028).

Conclusion
In conclusion, we observed a relatively high prevalence of thyroid cancer in our cohort of Chinese patients with PHPT. Evaluation of thyroid nodules by preoperative ultrasound may be advisable in patients with PHPT, particularly for females and patients with modestly elevated serum parathyroid hormone levels.
Association of central obesity and high body mass index with function and cognition in older adults
Authors: Merchant Reshma Aziz , Kit Michael Wong Wai , Lim Jia Yi , Morley John E 
Published: July 2021

Objective
To investigate the association of normal BMI with central obesity (CO), high BMI with CO, high BMI without CO, and normal BMI without CO, with function and cognition in older adults.

Methods
Cross-sectional study involving 754 participants ≥ 65 years. Data collected include demographics, cognition, and physical measurements.

Results
Females had a higher prevalence of high BMI with CO and a lower prevalence of high BMI without CO than males (61.0% vs 44.6% and 4.6% vs 15.0%, respectively). Within gender, CO groups, regardless of BMI, had lower mini-mental state examination (MMSE), handgrip strength (HGS), and longer timed-up-and-go (TUG) scores. Overall, the high BMI without CO group had the highest MMSE scores, HGS, and shortest TUG. Amongst males, HGS was significantly lower in the normal BMI with CO group (B −3.28, 95% CI −6.32 to −0.23, P = 0.04). CO, regardless of normal/high BMI, had significantly longer TUG time (B 2.65, 95% CI 0.45 to 4.84, P = 0.02; B 1.07, 95% CI 0.25 to 1.88, P = 0.01, respectively) than normal BMI without CO group. CO was associated with lower MMSE scores in both genders but significant only in males with normal BMI and CO (B −1.60, 95% CI −3.15 to −0.06, P = 0.04).

Conclusion
CO may be a better predictor of obesity and adverse outcomes in older adults. High BMI without CO was associated with better outcomes especially in males but require further validation. Prospective longitudinal studies are needed to ascertain the impact of BMI and/or CO on function, cognition, mortality, and gender differences.