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Impact of the 2015 Godzilla El Niño event on the Indonesian rainfall
Get PDFThe impacts of El Niño events on the Indonesian rainfall have been documented by several earlier studies. This paper is aimed to extend the study on the El Niño impact by investigating the 2015 El Niño event, which was labelled as a “Godzilla El Niño†by NASA’s climatologist. The event is unique because of its strong intensity and it was preceded by weak 2014 El Niño. We analysed rainfall record of 87 stations for period 1981-2015 using percentile technique. The results show that during March 2015 – February 2016, the majority of stations recorded annual rainfall less than the 30th percentile, a dry condition. Based on analysis of three monthly running accumulation, we found 84%, 89% and 78% stations recording a dry condition during July-August-September (JAS), August-September-October (ASO) and September-October-November (SON), respectively. The largest impact was observed during October 2015 where 51% stations reported the rainfall below the 10th percentile, an extremely dry condition. Compared to 1997, the 2015 Godzilla El Niño event seems to have less impact on Indonesian rainfall even though the intensity of those two events is comparable. The number of stations experiencing dry and extremely dry condition was lower in 2015 than that in 1997, for all time scale we analysed. This may relate to the condition of sea surface temperature (SST) around Indonesia. We found that the Indonesian SST during June-November 2015 was warmer than that during 1997 indicating a more supporting condition for developing convective activity in 2015
Language Pattern of Arabic Debaters of International Islamic University Malaysia in Debating
Get PDFThis study aims to explain the Arabic debating language pattern among International Islamic University Malaysia Arabic debaters. It will focus on debating terms and phrases that are widely circulated in Arabic debating in this university whereby these terms distinguish debate from any other language activities such as forums, discussions and public speaking. This study will show examples of styles and phrases that are used by the debaters when they perform their roles as members of two opposing teams, which are the government and the opposition. This collection of examples can be used as a reference for those who participate in Arabic debate as well as for debate trainers. It can be a useful helping tool when training the novice. Although it may not be the best reference as there are too many language styles and phases debaters use, at the very least it can help debaters to have a grasp of basic debating phrases and terms and therefore, will lead to betterment in choosing the right phrases and words when they debate. It is important for them to have a good grasp of these phrases and terms on the basis, that debating is not a regular dialogue or discussion, but it is also an art of systematic and constructive argumentation. Furthermore, the debate skill requires a high accuracy of words used, clarity of ideas and ‘straight to the point’ manner of speaking without any elongation of the time allocated for every speaker/debater is very limited
Child Abuse Cases Handled by Primary School Counsellor
Get PDFChildren abuse cases have been arising from one year to another, and this is just adding to the nation’s attention. All sides are responsible to find ways to this matter. There are many types of abuse that concern children at primary school such as physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Responsible sides such as charities, women rights authority and society’s authority need to provide full access to help these victims in terms of counselling services in which they play the role to help these victims professionally to endure the trauma that has been kept because of the abuse incident. This research is to look into types of abuse cases that had been handled by the school counsellors at primary school. It also analyses any intervention used by the school counsellors to help the victims. Moreover, it aims to explore the existing obstacles that had to be faced while accessing to the matters of healing these abused children. This research is conducted using qualitative methodology as in interviews through phenomenology approach to see the issues around the children abuse cases handled by school counsellors at primary school in depth. Data provided will be compiled and analysed, themes will then be listed out to see clearer the pattern of children abuse cases handled at primary school setting
Plagiarism in the Perspective of Ethics and Law
Get PDFPlagiarism is the practice of taking someone else`s work or ideas such as papers or articles or essays without the permission of the authors and then passing them off as his or her own. Plagiarism constitutes the type of copyright crime, and it violates The Copyright Law if the object or victim is the original creative expression. From the moral and ethical view, plagiarism clearly violates the norms of society and even breaks The Law of Copyright since the plagiarists take the ideas of others without the legal permission of the owners and usually do not mention explicitly and clearly the sources of the original works. The academic environment is very susceptible with the practice of plagiarism. So it is very difficult now to overcome plagiarism or piracy which is getting more prevalent. Ethic awareness that commonly seems to be ignored in quoting the ideas or works encourages the habit of taking copyrighted material without permission. The students` awareness publishing and prioritizing their original compositions have not been any better up to now that triggers the prevalence of plagiarism among students. The students committing plagiarism usually dissemble their pirated ideas by arguing that just get inspiration from the works of others, not pirating. The globalization and modernization of the cyberspace that is getting advanced generate the prevalence of the practice of plagiarism and piracy especially in the academic environment. The highly developed cyberspace technology is commonly abused by plagiarists or anyone to ruin the originality of the academicians` works and internet users are generally facilitated to commit plagiarism and piracy upon the academicians` scientific works
Android Maze Game for Children as an Autism Therapy
Get PDFSmartphone technology is increasingly used to help things in everyday life and becoming more sophisticated in mobile application. Nowadays it use to handling children with special needs, particularly children with autism. A game application could provide the therapist with game module and approach that is suitable for them to conduct the therapy. This study identify an alternative option of edutainment design that may be usable for ASD's children. The study in an autism therapy field can be improved in this research by using motion sensors on mobile devices tools to facilitate them. Therefore, we have develop an android application of a maze game that are suitable to use as a medium for play therapy specially for children with autism. The game is simple, easy to use and integrates interactivity and fun activities where user can learn more than just a common game
Non-Tariff Barriers is a Problem in the Integration of ASEAN to Achieve the Goal of ASEAN Economic Community
Get PDFASEAN is committed to integrating member economies and establishing an AEC. The AEC aims to convert the ASEAN economies into a market and a production place like investment, services, goods and skilled manpower. The NTBs which have been considered by the whole ASEAN to be as threat as tariffs represent serious obstacles to intraregional trade as they threaten to undermine the AEC process in the sense that they are able to impede the flow of goods: raise transaction costs, lower productivity and eventually distort the economic incentives for trading in South-East Asia. The purpose of this paper is to learn the factor and any influence of NTBs on the territory integration in ASEAN towards AEC. This writing will provide an integrated and updated illegal literatures on the AEC and NTBs. An ASEAN customs Union as an initiative to move beyond AEC will be proposed at the end of this paper
Developing Model of Biology Hand Book Writing Base on Ecology and Local Oriented to Increase Students’ Care Environment
Get PDFA study using Research and Development design was conducted to produce a model of Biology hand book writing base on ecology and local oriented as an effort to increase students’ care toward environment. The background of this research is the reality that the awareness and care of the school graduate toward the environment safe is still low. Besides, hard science instructional at school could not affect or intervene the graduate’s characteristics, for instance in keeping the environment awareness. Whilst, there are many concepts of environment were taught through hard science especially biology, so in the researcher’s point of view, biology subject has strategic role to prevent or mitigate the environment disaster caused by human error. The model was validated at paddy ecosystem. The analysis of the research result includes three aspects, namely: 1) Comprehension, 2) Environment Care Attitude, and 3) Handbook Readability. Based on the result of paddy ecosystem data analysis, it was found that (1) there was a significant difference between experimental class and control class in the paddy ecosystem base on show by tcalculation> ttable (6.150 > 2.00); (2) there was strong correlation between students’ comprehension and attitude base on show by coefficient correlation (r) 0.769. While the text readability test (Cloze Test) show (1) the readability of paddy ecosystem text is 56.72% (moderate). Therefore, the conclusion is that all of the texts in the developed book are fit and proper for Senior High School Students of grade X in East Lampung
The Development of Forest-Prototype Based Learning Model to Activate Students Science Process Skills in Biology Learning
Get PDFThe objective of this research was to produce forest prototype-based learning model. This research and development conducted by using 4D model from Thiagarajan consist of define, design, develop, and disseminate. Syllabus, lesson plan, student’s worksheet, activity guidance, observation sheet of science process skill, and evaluation instrument were developed. Learning model testing was conducted in 2 (two) classrooms containing of 106 students. In this learning model testing, students conducted learning with learning forest model in groups according to developed syntax. This activities were observed with science process skills observation sheets. The research results showed that implementation of developed learning model was able to activate science process skills including skills of observing, classifying, measuring, communicating, and inferring. The average of science process skills score form these two try out results is 4.09 (scoring at scale 1-5), similar 81.70%. Based on this result, the researcher recommends teachers to use learning forest model to activate science process skills in biology learning
Responsiveness, Customer Relationship Management, Confidence and Customer Loyalty
Get PDFThe aims of this research were to determine the effect of responsiveness, customer relationship management, corporate image and confidence on customer loyalty. The quantitative approach is implemented in this research. The method of research surveys on 400 customers is taken by proportional random sampling and questionnaire as an instrument of research. Findings signify that: 1) responsiveness brings positively direct effect on confidence, 2) customer relationship management shows positively direct effect on confidence, 3) corporate image brings positively direct effect on confidence, 4) responsiveness has positively direct effect on customer loyalty, 5) customer relationship management give positively direct effect on customer loyalty, and 6) confidence has positively direct effect on customer loyalty
The Effect of Wage and Incentive on Employee Productivity Viewed in Islamic Perspective
Get PDFWage and incentive in Islam are recognized as Ujr. It is a reward obtained by someone who has given services in Ijarah contract (Aqad). Islam views that wage and incentive should be given to employee properly based on instruction in Al Quran and Hadist. Wage and incentive are the important factors for the company because the amount of wage or compensation given by a company to its employee will influence on the running of the operational of company. Salaries and incentives are needed by each organization or company to maintain and improve employee morale in order to improve employee productivity. Therefore, this research discusses the effect of wage and incentive on employee productivity viewed in Islamic Perspective at PT. Awal Bros Bumi Pusaka Pekanbaru. In this regard, the study employed the quantitative method and analysed using multiple linear regression. The data used are primary data obtained from the questionnaire designed for employees of PT. Awal Bros Bumi Pusaka Pekanbaru. Samplings of this research are 40 respondents selected using purposive random sampling technique. The data obtained was processed by SPSS software. The result of this research found that wage has positive influence or significance on the employee productivity with t-test value of 0.003 or < 0.05 (significance value) and coefficient regression of wage (X1) of 0.433. Besides, incentive also has positive influence or significance on the employee productivity with t-test value of 0.033 or < 0.05 (significance value) and coefficient regression of incentive (X2) of 0.433. It means that increasing in wage and incentive will increase employee productivity. It is suggested that the company should give proper wage based on employee productivity in their performance. The company also has to increase the incentive for the employee in order to motivate them in works and raise the sense of trust employee