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The Impact Of Celebrity Endorser, Trust And Product Quality To The Purchase Decision Mediated By The Word Of Mouth
Get PDFConsumers are going through the series of cognitive processes before making a purchase decision. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of celebrity endorser, trust and product quality to purchase decision either directly or indirectly through the word of mouth. The population in this study are females who are actively using instagram in the city of Surabaya. As the number of the population is not known, the purposive sampling is employed. A total number of sample in this study is 100 respondents. The data analysis technique is using path analysis and sobel test. Findings shows that celebrity endorser and trust have no significant impact on purchasing decision. In contrast, product quality has positive significant impact to purchased decision. On the other hand, word of mouth does not mediate celebrity endorser, trust, and product quality to purchase decision. As a result, word of mouth does not influence consumers to make a final purchase decisions on fashion products advertised via Instagram
Gratanko : Granules Of Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch As A Biomass Based Energy In Indonesia
Get PDFOil palm empty fruit bunches (Elaeis guineensis) are a product of the rest of the palm oil processing industry. It has a potential as biomass fuel in the form of granules because has a carbon content that can be burned. The Implementation of the study was to prove that the oil palm empty bunches can be processed into granules, knowing the characteristics of granules oil palm empty fruit bunches in the combustion process is optimized, and calculate the amount of energy (Cal / g) resulting from the burning of oil palm fruit bunches empty grain. The research method used follows steps such as collecting and elication, milling, granulation, and analysis of characteristics of granules such as moisture content, ash and volatile content, specific gravity, calorific value, and fixed carbon. The results showed that the oil palm empty fruit bunches can be formed into granules and have the best quality at a concentration of 5% to the characteristics of moisture content (45.13%), ash content (13.903%), volatile value (43.939%), density (0.886 g / cm3), the calorific value (4581.448 Cal /g),) and fixed carbon (13.563%). The ash and volatile value greatly affect the results of the calorific value
Factors Affecting Teachers’ Decision To Participate In Professional Development Activities In Prey Tralach Commune, Battambang Provice Of Cambodia
Get PDFThe importance of world education for development has made some remarkably progresses in recent years, with international organizations tackle to increase the professional capacity of local teachers and staffs. Students’ learning achievement depends very much on teachers’ experiences and effectiveness relating to the professional development experiences that support their learning. This study aims to identify teachers’ teaching experience characteristics involving in professional learning activities by examining the key factors affecting teachers’ decision to participate in the professional development activities (PD). The study addresses two research questions consisting of: 1) How do teachers attend the training programs or PD offered to them based on their characteristics? 2) What are the key factors affecting teachers’ decision to get involved in PD or training programs? The research was conducted using quantitative and qualitative methods through directed interviews and survey questionnaires distributed among teachers in person with 103 teachers from 17 schools in commune, namely Prey Tralach by sampling and purposively. The collected data was articulated in descriptive way to show the respondents demographic characteristics such as gender, age, education background, teaching experiences, and grade level of teaching assignment. Logistic Regression was used to analyze to find the key factors affecting teachers’ decision to participate in PD activities. The results revealed that the key factors affecting teachers to attend PD activities included teachers’ characteristics; teaching grade level of assignments, while external factor; insufficient funding/finance in statistically significant way (p<0.05). PD for teachers is need for professional growth and plays important topic in education improvement in Cambodia
Reflecting On “reflections” Of Nursing Students: A Case Study On Task-based Writing
Get PDFIn Thai classrooms, the learning process is dependent on the teachers who just relay them knowledge, thereby, critical thinking is not promoted nor encouraged. In medical related courses such as nursing, writing skills must be also given priority since it is a transactional skill which is useful in their future job. Task-based writing approach using reflection writing was integrated into the English for Careers subject among the second year nursing students of Vongchavalitkul University. It posited the following problems: 1) What are the problems encountered in completing the task; and 2) How to address the problems identified in the completed task? Reflective writing gives the students the freedom to analyze their situations and how to react to a given situation. After watching YouTube clips with Thai audio about HIV situation in Thailand, the students had this question to reflect on: As a Thai citizen and a nursing student, how can I help in the prevention of HIV-AIDS. The students were given a two -week period to write a minimum of 700 words reflection to be submitted in hard copy. The essays were graded using Rubric Scoring. Out of thirtyone participants, 80.65% or 23 students committed plagiarism while 19.35% or only eight students did not. Lack of lexical and syntactic skills hinder the students from writing passable English. Thus, writing must be given priority in ESP as well as in other English subjects to balance the speaking, listening and writing skills of the students
The Novel Paradigm Of “economic Driven Smart City” To The Sustainability
Get PDFA Smart city (SmC) is a model to improve the urban and quality of life in city with the understanding that a SmC is filled with state-of-the-art technology, whether IOTs or ICT (Technology Driven). Whereas the opposite said, a SmC should be aiming to support people (Human Driven). But in an effort of the 2 concepts, got an important neglected, "what are the people real needs?" Many cities are still facing with the problem as unemployment, poverty and social disparity, that mainly caused by Economic problem. A current SmC model unable to solve this problem. This research purpose the Economic Driven and Economic Factor of a SmC model, to solve and improve this issue, The Economic Factor Analysis by GDP/GPP is developed to analyze the Localization of Economic and modeling the new SmC with the fully integrated dimension, and the direction of government policy, to ensure the SmC to a successful and sustainable
Perception And Intention Of Hotel Employees On Environmental Friendly Practices
Get PDFThe level of the perception and participation of the employees also make advantage or disadvantage to the hotel to be green hotel. The objectives of this research were to study the employees with different demographics (gender, age, position) will have different perception and intention on environmental friendly practices, and to study the significant relationship between perception and intention on environmental friendly practices. The samples were 400 hotel employees in Bangkok area. Statistics explored by descriptive statistics, independent sample T-test, One Way Analysis of Variances (ANOVA) and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Results showed that the majority of the respondents were female, age between 20 – 30 years old and were supervisor. The overall perception and intention of hotel employees on environmental friendly practices was found at a high level in all areas. It was found that there were significant difference between age and position toward perception and intention on environmental friendly practices at the level of 0.05, and there was a significant relationship between perception and intention on environmental friendly practices at the level of 0.01
The Benefit Of Joint Border Cooperation Between Malaysia And Indonesia Through Sosek-malindo Cooperation In North Kalimantan Province
Get PDFIndonesia and Malaysia have long borders on land and sea on the island of Kalimantan. Sarawak and Sabah on the Malaysian side are bordered by the provinces of West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan and North Kalimantan on the Indonesian side. Border cooperation has been started since 1967 which focused on security aspects and then developed including economic aspects in 1984. In 1995 a Malaysia-Indonesia Working Committee was formed on the Socio-economic Work Cluster or Sosek-Malindo Cooperation between East Kalimantan and Sabah. In 2013 when several districts in East Kalimantan Province were made into the new Province of North Kalimantan, the Sosek-Malindo Cooperation then included Sabah and the new province. This article analyzes the benefits of the Sosek-Malindo Cooperation from North Kalimantan Province point of view. This research is using descriptive qualitative method with collecting data through interviews and secondary data analysis. The conclusion shows that Sosek-Malindo Cooperation has not brought much benefit to the province of North Kalimantan regarding goods and other living necessities are still supplied from Malaysia
Inclusive Support And Education Of Children With Special Needs; Issues, Challenges, And Responses
Get PDFThere has been a growing number of children with special needs lately with or without diagnose from professionals. According to the recent data, 1 out of 10 students is dyslexic, 1 in 59 children is autistic, and 6000 babies are born with down syndrome annually. The increasing prevalence is quite alarming while there is no adequate research and proper intervention to help the children grow functionally and live inclusively, particularly in Indonesia. The intervention and support given to these children are mostly in partial services, and share less connection one another. Psychologists, pediatricians, therapists, teachers, care-takers, policy-makers, and parents work in their own area and competencies without communicating or connecting to each other. These partial and disconnected services may be contradictory and far from proper intervention needed by the children. Moreover, the parents, teachers, and community have lack of sufficient information and support to raise these children and are let alone to seek help, and eventually feel helpless. In most cases, the children are stigmatized and are not treated equally in term of getting access to health and educational services. And many of them are let undiagnosed and improperly treated to grow more functionally. This research is aim at reviewing issues around special needs services, the challenges faced by parents, teachers, and professionals, as well as the responses to the problems that have been done to support the children. This research uses grounded-theory approach, and the data is generated from professionals (paediatrician and psychologist), parents, teachers, and therapist. The research is conducted in Jepara, Central Java, yet may use national and international data to compare. The findings suggest that albeit some efforts done by the government, professionals, parents, and special education practicioners, yet the efforts and results seem far from satisfaction. The collaboration, inclusive approach, and sustainable programs highly benefit to the future trajectory of the children which can help them to be more independent, adaptive, and functional
Boosting Quality And Effectivity Of Smes Cluster Through Investment-based Financial Assistance Approach In Asean
Get PDFASEAN which is filled by developing countries majorly, are vulnerable to crisis threats due to global economic sentiment. Therefore, the development of strong economic sectors is a necessity for countries in ASEAN. One of the most important economic sectors playing a major role in economic sustainability of developing countries is SMEs. Countries that had been hit by an economic crisis like Indonesia had proven the role of SMEs as the last weapon to end the crisis. The robust development of SMEs in ASEAN is a sign of a strong ASEAN economy realization. One of the hard challenges faced in the development of SMEs is the financial difficulties of business units. Financial aid which has only been dependent on government budget is one of the reasons for the sluggish evolvement of SMEs in the majority of developing countries in ASEAN. In this paper, we examine if financial assistance in terms of investment-based model performed by SMEs connected by clusters on B2B model could avoid financial constraint for the solution to the problem of SMEs financial difficulties. With this financial assistance model, there will be financial support between business units with a reciprocal relationship in a cluster. This method will encourage the growth of SME in productivity. The study shows the evidence of financial aid through investment-based indicates positive impact to strengthen the economy of ASEAN countries through SMEs. Therefore, our study recommends that investment-finance shaping has a good prospect for SMEs
Some Obstacles In Mathematical Communication Of Students While Learning Continous Functions Lesson
Get PDFMathematical Communication is one of the required competencies of the learner in the needs of the real life, and in learning Mathematics, students always have the need to communicate with teacher and other students to solve problems in mathematics, as well as to present the solution or mathematical ideas to the others. However, there are many difficulties with many reasons when they exchange or communicate with the others by mathematical language in classroom. Therefore, the ability for communicating in Math is one of the required competencies of students. In this paper, we try to find out the obstacles which make students have difficulty when they are in mathematical communication while learning continuous functions. The problems set out in this article to assess how difficulties in communication in the Math class, so that we can recommend some possible strategies for teachers to help their students in order to overcome these obstacles in practicing teaching