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Pemilukada :Analisis Calon Independen Abdul Majid Kasmuri Idris Dalam Pemilihan Walikota Batu Tahun 2017.
No full textPemilihan Walikota ( Pilwali) Kota Batu telah sukses diselenggarakan pada
tanggal 15 Februari Tahun 2017. Penelitian ini akan menelaah terkait strategi
calon independen Abdul Majid – Kasmuri dalam pilwali. Abdul Majid merupakan
calon yang mencalonkan untuk ke-2 kalinya melalui jalur independen. Tidak
adanya calon incumbent merupakan peluang besar bagi pasangan Abdul Majid –
Kasmuri dengan memanfaatkan massa yang mendukungnya di pilwali
sebelumnya yaitu tahun 2012. Hasil yang diperoleh pasangan Abdul Majid –
Kasmuri Idris dalam pemilihan walikota tahun 2017 jauh dari harapan.Penelitian
ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif untuk menjelaskan faktor – faktor
penyebab melemahnya calon independen Abdul Majid – Kasmuri Idris dalam
pilwali Kota Batu Tahun 2017. Sedangkan analisis dilakukan dengan
menggunakan data primer dan data sekunder yang diperoleh melalui kajian
dokumen diikuti wawancara mendalam dari sumber – sumber yang dapat
diandalkan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa faktor utama kekalahan calon
independen dalam pilwali adalah kurangnya modalitas yang dimiliki kandidat,
tidak adanya inovasi dalam berkampanye sehingga strategi yang dijalankan oleh
Abdul Majid kurang efektif dan cenderung konvensional dengan melakukan
kunjungan ke rumah – rumah masyarakat. Rekomendasi yang dapat disampaikan
kepada calon independen adalah pertama, menjaga image melalui personal
branding dalam rencana jangka panjang dengan memanfaatkan media sosial agar
dapat menjangkau seluruh elemen masyarakat. Kedua, melakukan inovasi dalam
melakukan marketing politik dan strategi politik agar masyarakat lebih tertarik
terhadap calon independen
Investigation of dielectric permittivity diversity against soil contamination by [GPR] due to [LNAPL] / Zulfadhli Kasmuri
Full text linkThe most crucial parameter to be investigated for environmental engineering survey was the dielectric permittivity of the sub-surface material by using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). A limitation occurred on the GPR result when Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (LNAPL) posed into the soil that commonly analysed by dielectric permittivity. Other factors that affected soil contamination parameter were temperature and moisture content which caused the dielectric permittivity diversity in time propagation. This research motivated the contaminated soil investigation with a focus on the temporal dielectric permittivity variation due to the presence of LNAPL. GPR method was used to gain the dielectric permittivity variation with aid of analysis regarding the time-based of LNAPL presence that interacted relatively with the soil moisture and temperature. Diesel filled to contaminate the dry sandy site. GPR measurement carried out by using 800MHz frequency while the temperature and soil moisture reading recorded during scanning. Dielectric permittivity of LNAPL zone retrieved based on dielectric contrast in radargram, GPR signal amplitude, time travel, and electromagnetic wave velocity. Uncontaminated soil permittivity was 9.591 among 13.5% of moisture and 27 ̊c temperature recorded. Highest dielectric permittivity value identified was 17.674 at the higher moisture percentage and temperature in the last observation. LNAPL caused a high loss of electromagnetic wave scattering, but sometimes increased the radar signal amplitude, and lead the dielectric permittivity to its higher value for larger increment of soil moisture at the saturated sand. By using the average of absolute percentage error, found that the difference between actual and calculated depth of pipe were 0.038% error in average. Root Mean Square (RMS) in velocity analysis resulted 0.045 m/ns correction for a succession of velocity. Normalised Root Mean Square Error (NRMSE) produced 0.089 of similarity between the de-noised and raw GPR data. This research attributed analysis uses for the subsurface engineering and comes about reliable with discoveries from geophysical study that conceivable to recognize contaminant
Contractual employment framework of private sector for young construction professionals / Siti Hawa Mohd Kasmuri
Full text linkThis study investigated employees’ turnover in the Malaysian construction industry by
focusing on employment regulatory framework. It aims to establish a contractual
employment framework for private-sector construction professionals. Provided that the
young professionals are important to drive the future of the industry, the retention
strategy focusing on the organisation and employee preferences should be considered.
The need for an industrial-based employment framework is observed as an efficient
approach in managing employment issues. Therefore, this research identified the
suitable components, which transformed into a contractual employment framework.
Four objectives were developed to fulfil the research aim, namely 1) to identify
employment issues in the Malaysian construction industry, 2) to compare weaknesses
of existing employment regulatory framework, 3) to analyse suitable components for
contractual employment framework for the young professionals in the construction
industry, and 4) to establish the framework. The primary significance of this study is
the fact that employees’ protection in Malaysia is not generalised, leading to
employment disputes, which may affect the industry contribution. This research
adopted a qualitative research design with the support of content analysis in the form of
thematic network analysis on court cases and regulatory documents, including semistructured
interviews. Furthermore, the expert panels’ opinion was employed to validate
the framework as the final stage in meeting the research aim. It was revealed from the
content analysis on the court cases that the organisation was the contributor to the
employee turnover in the construction industry. Meanwhile, Malaysian employment
regulatory was identified as lacking in employment protection through limited protected
employee group. The suitable components for the development of employment were
found through a semi-structured interview with 17 construction professionals from
eight organisations. Suitable components involved comprehensive coverage of the
organisation management and human resources management (HRM) practices. It could
be concluded that employee turnover among construction professionals could be
reduced through implementation the framework. This research developed further
insight into an understanding of the employee turnover issue by identifying the suitable
components from construction professional perspectives, which is efficient industrialbased
employment tool as compared to existing tools. Furthermore, this research
contribute to comprehensive data by adopting in-depth qualitative study. Due to
research scope and limitation, the sampling based on types of construction organisations
and further exploration of employee turnover determinants in the Malaysian
construction industry were suggested as recommendations for future study
Development of an expert system for mechanical design of pressure vessels / Nor Hazelah Kasmuri
Full text linkAn expert system for mechanical design of a pressure vessel, known as DePV, was developed in this study. Expert system is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that can replace the role of human expert in form of knowledge based system. There are two methods involved, namely object - oriented programming and rule based programming. Object - oriented programming is a composition of data structure which is called an object. While, rule based programming comprises forward and backward chaining. KAPPA PC® expert system shell is used as a tool to develop this prototype software. It supports the conceptual mechanical design procedure as stipulated in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler & Pressure Vessel Design Code: Division 1 from the initial to final design stages. For stress analysis purposes, British Standard (BS5500) Design Code is chosen over ASME because design approach is simple and can obtain accuracy of the results. The expert system methodology used facilitates the development of DePV which consists of knowledge acquisition, knowledge based construction and prototype implementation. The study rationalized the design procedure and the factors affecting the pressure vessel design such as the design pressure (either internal or external), temperature, shell thickness, selection of materials of construction, stress analysis procedure, its supports and ancillary items. The hierarchy of the mechanical design was developed in the form of a schematic flow diagram. The data for process designs, formulation and case studies were first input into DePV. One can then obtain information and results on which series of design units will be calculated, selection of design pressure for vessel will be considered as well as for the stress analysis. The realization of this study will improve the database design of the pressure vessel system for petrochemical industries
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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