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A twelve year old boy is expected to recover after getting struck by a vehicle while crossing the road Friday morning.
The accident happened around 8:00 Friday morning near the intersection of Business 98 and Kraft Avenue in Millville.
Panama City police say the boy tried to cross 98, heading into oncoming traffic, when he was struck by the driver of a Jeep Cherokee who could not stop in time to avoid the accident.
Police say it appears the driver was going about 30 miles per hour when it happened.
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The Saudi Popular Campaign for the Relief of the Lebanese and Palestinian Peoples distributed 10,000 food baskets to displaced Palestinians and Lebanese affected by events at the Nahr Al-Barid refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
In May 2007, most of the 31,000 residents fled Nahr Al-Barid when fighting erupted between the Lebanese Army and the Fatah Al-Islam militant group at the camp. Many took refuge at the Beddawi refugee camp.
Saudi Arabia has also provided the refugees with financial assistance. In June 2007, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz donated $10 million to Palestinian families living in the Nahr Al-Barid and Beddawi camps.


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Science and Health Communication Research Group to Host Student Symposium, March 25
The Science and Health Communication Research Group (SHCRG) is hosting the second Science and Health Communication Student Symposium Tuesday, March 25, from 3:00-4:30pm in the CEO Room in the Carolina Coliseum.
Students pursuing the Certificate of Graduate Study in Health Communication and other students doing science and health communication research and practice will be presenting their research and practicum projects.
This event is free, and all are welcome to come to learn more about the work of students pursuing research and careers in science and health communication. Following the symposium, join the presenters and SHCRG members at Thirsty Fellow for Happy Hour.
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June 25, 2012
EUGENE, Ore. - Another day of action is in the books at the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials as several former Arizona State University student-athletes advanced the their respective events on Monday evening in Eugene, Ore.
Alumnus Lisa Aguilera got things rolling at Hayward Field by advancing to the finals in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Aguilera, the school record holder in the event, clocked a time of 9:51.02 to finish 11th overall in the prelim round of the event. Aguilera, an eight-time All-American as a Sun Devil, advanced to Friday's final as the fastest of the four time qualifiers out of the opening rounds.
In the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase, alumnus Kyle Alcorn took third in the fast heat in a time of 8:29.27 to easily advance to Thursday's final in the event. Alcorn was a two-time NCAA Champion - once in the indoor 3,000-meter run and once in the outdoor steeplechase - and is one of the prime contenders for a spot on this year's London roster having already hit the `A' Standard this season.
Alcorn still trains with ASU track and field assistant coach and head men's cross country coach Louie Quintana.
Rounding out the evening was former Sun Devil All-American Brandon Bethke in the 5,000-meter run. Bethke clocked the sixth-fastest time of the opening round in 13:45.21 to also easily advance to Thursday's final in the event. While a Sun Devil, Bethke posted the top finish in ASU history at the NCAA Cross Country Championships after taking seventh in 2009 and was a two-time All-American on the track.
The Trials will now break for three days before resuming again on Thursday, June 25. There are still a couple Sun Devils left to compete in the event and, as always, you can track their progress by staying tuned in to www.TheSunDevils.com.


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June 02, 2008
Dr. Basma Fallah, a 2007 graduate of the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry orthodontic program, earned the 2008 Harry Sicher Research Award from the American Association of Orthodontists. Fallah accepted the award at the AAO Annual Meeting held in Denver May 16-20.
Established in 1968, the Harry Sicher Research Award recognizes clinical research papers of unusual merit related to orthodontics. Fallah earned the award for her research on gene mutation that may cause cleft lip and palate. Along with faculty and staff from the dental school's Craniofacial Genetics Laboratory, Fallah spent several years completing the research project. Fallah is the first Dugoni School alumna to receive the honor.
"Our department of orthodontics spent years studying and collecting data and it's very encouraging to receive such a prestigious award," said Fallah. "The results of our research would not have been possible without the support of Pacific's Craniofacial Genetics Laboratory and the guidance of my mentor, Dr. Marie Tolarova."
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Public Sector Conducive Ecosystem (EKSA)
MAMPU has undertaken the initiative to enhance the existing Public Sector 5S Practice in a rebranding exercise which introduced the Public Sector Conducive Ecosystem or better known as EKSA. This move is in line with efforts to strengthen the organisational culture of high performance and innovation among public sector agencies by providing a conducive environment, work culture and positive values for public servants. The rebranding is aimed at empowering public sector agencies to:
a) expand the implementation of Conducive Ecosystem in public sector agencies; and
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d) promote efforts supporting the campaign to Go Green;
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EKSA includes the introduction of a new auditing model which comprises Generic criteria as well as Specific criteria which takes into account the diversity of government agencies. Previously, the one-size-fits-all concept which had been used was found to be inadequate in catering to the needs of all agencies. Thus, the improved EKSA criteria is able to conform according to the locality of the agencies.
In conclusion, the introduction of EKSA is meant to enhance the existing Public Sector 5S Practice with an emphasis on creating a condusive working environment. Government agencies that wish to seek consultation may contact the EKSA Fasilitators that have been trained and certified by MAMPU during the Training of Trainers (TOT) programme. Kindly refer to the Facilitator list attached. Also, for agencies that would like to be certified by MAMPU, please do not hesitate to contact our officers as stated below or directly write in to:
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College Hockey:Ward Takes Reins at Conn. College
NEW LONDON, Conn. — Princeton assistant coach Jim Ward has been named the new head coach at Connecticut College. He replaces Doug Roberts, who stepped down at the end of last season following 24 years at the helm.
Ward, who has spent the last three seasons at Princeton, was previously the head coach at Northfield-Mount Hermon (Mass.) Prep School for seven years. He's also been an assistant at Norwich and Union.
"We are excited to add a professional like Jim Ward to our department," said Fran Shields, CC's incoming athletic director. "He has a wealth of hockey coaching experience and a firm understanding of what it takes to run a successful program at a highly selective liberal arts institution. His Ivy League and prep school experience will pay dividends for our student-athletes."
Roberts, a former NHL all-star with the California Golden Seals in 1971, was 252-249-28 with the Camels. He won a Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins, and also played in the WHA with the Hartford Whalers. He was an all-America player at Michigan State.
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STANFORD, Calif. -- Former Stanford football players filled 22 slots on active rosters in the NFL as teams cut to 53 players today. Each team was required to trim its roster to the regular season maximum ahead of this week's season opener.
Of the 22 Cardinal, four head into their rookie seasons. Three other rookies were signed to practice squads and two are on reserve/injured rosters.
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Johnson Bademosi - @j_bademosi24
Cleveland Browns - Defensive Back
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Jim Dray
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Zach Ertz - @ZERTZ_86
Philadelphia Eagles - Tight End
Coby Fleener - @Coby
Indianapolis Colts - Tight End
Cameron Fleming - @cammyjfresh
New England Patriots - Offensive Lineman
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Ryan Hewitt - @Huey_85
Cincinnati Bengals - Halfback
Thomas Keiser - @ThomasKeiser
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New Orleans Saints – Fullback
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Jonathan Martin - @J_Martin71
San Francisco 49ers - Offensive Tackle
Trent Murphy - @TMurphy_93
Washington Redskins - Linebacker
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well here is the #1 and #2 , decided to upload this a litter sooner than i thought i would , also this was recorded about a week ago directly after my #3 and #4 video… hence the same hoodie. #2 , the Cisco Lazer Mod with an 801 atomizer from vapornine.com. While this device has a slightly weaker battery life than my beloved Screwdriver , it is still certainly longer lasting than most traditional e-cig batteries , especially the traditional Joye-510 batteries. This is my "on the couch dripping device". I love the penstyle atomizer for the nice smooth draw and huge vapor. These penstyle attys from vapornine.com seem to rarely leak either. Teamed up with Marlboro from thehouseofvapor.com it's an extremely satisfying vaping experience. #1 , the Puresmoker.com USB passthrough , my only "higher voltage" device is also my most satisfying. I am usually a low volt vaper when i'm out and about but at home this thing knocks my socks off. Like i said in the video i didn't really fall in love with this until i got that 901 adapter for it , now i just drip 3 drops and fill the room with clouds of vapor. It doesn't have a battery to worry about charging and if my computer is on then it's good to go. The only real downside to this device is that i can't take it with me. Regardless it will deliver a RECKLESS throat hit time after time after time after time. This device is REALLY well built , feels very sturdy and has a nice thick gauge cord that DOES RELAX over time. I have also found …
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Walt Anderson
Walt Anderson became involved with nature photography in the 1990s. In addition to being published in both books and magazines, Walt is also selling his work at many art fairs in the Midwest. He and his wife Carol also present travelogues throughout the Chicagoland area. They have begun teaching photography classes and leading tours at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois.
Inspired by Larry West at an early workshop Walt started to explore the capabilities of the new TTL flash units that were just being introduced. He has received widespread recognition for his invention of the Flash X-tender, which is distributed worldwide. (It is also marketed under the name "Better Beamer.") He has shared his knowledge of the use of flash with his Sunshine in your Pocket program for many conventions and clubs.
Walt has been published in books and calendars by Capstone Press, Compass International, The Creative Company, Everyday Learning, and Chicago Wilderness magazine among others.
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Let's face it. Strip clubs ooze sex. They are filled with desire and hope. Customers desire the attention of the dancers. The dancers hope the customers will give them money for their time and attention. Bartenders hope to make a drink and tips off any customer that comes to their bar, whether it be an actual customer or a dancer.
It's rare that a customer will patronize a strip club without having some sort of alcohol in his system. When a customer comes into a strip club, the first place he usually stops at (besides the ATM machine right outside the club) is the bar. It's a transition for the customer. He is mentally adapting from the outside world to the inside of his carnal desires. The bar gives the customer a chance to take a breath, relax and form some sort of game plan in his head before venturing out to the floor filled with plastic shoes, glitter and g-strings.
Bars are the social epicenter in any strip club. Dancers use the bar to seek out potential customers. Dancers can smell money all the way from the dressing room. Dancers know that all the fresh meat in the place (the guys who still have cash in their pocket) will be sitting at the bar. Customers might think they are the only ones who are sizing up the inventory. Little do they know, the dancer has already decided on which guy at the bar has the most money. This assessment will determine which guy she will introduce herself to first.
Throwing a bartender in the mix acts as a buffer for both the customer and the dancer. The bartender acts as the middleman, the innocent party if you will. While the customer and dancer are busy sizing each other up, the bartender is busy lubricating the newly acquainted couple with alcohol. The customer knows that the odds are in his favor. His wallet can have any girl he desires in the strip club. But he knows that the one girl he doesn't stand a chance of being able to have an intimate, one-on-one interaction with is the female bartender. If the female bartender plays her cards right by flashing a few smiles and having a friendly chat with the customer, the customer's desire is more likely to leave her a bigger tip.
A strip club is a social circus where the traditional roles are reversed. Men come inside for the attention and become the prey for the women who come inside for the money (and sometimes attention). When you add alcohol to the mix, everything gets a little easier for everyone involved. The customer relaxes. The dancers generally make more money. The bartender walks away with a healthy tip bucket. It's one of the only triangles where everyone involved walks away a winner.


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It was Burtrand, head of Minnesota Church of the Wicca, which meant that something was probably wrong. He'd never called before.
"Were you guys out at the demo last week?"
It was February 1982, the early years of the Reagan Era. The Teflon President himself had stopped at the Minneapolis Airport and, activist coven that we were, we had gone out to give him the un-welcome that he deserved.
WITCHES AGAINST REAGAN, read our sign. Note the acronym. Hey, they were un-subtle times.
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Santa Catalina is an off the beaten track beach town on the Pacific coast of Panama. We didn't actually make it into the town itself but stayed 10km outside at the Hibiscus Garden guest house. It wasn't the most stunning beach we've seen (we aren't fans of black sand) but it was deserted, blissfully quiet and stretched on for miles. Best of all we rented horses without a guide for just $15 for three hours and I got to realise my dream of riding on the beach. Galloping through the waves was exhilarating and we took a break for a swim in the sea.
Photo of the Week: Horse Riding on the Beach near Santa Catalina
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Possible LG Optimus G2 picture shows up on the Net
LG is becoming more and more interesting by day.
They've already had the greatest quarter in years, shipping 10.3 million smartphones in January-March. And are on the way to have an even better one with worldwide roll-out of their LG Optimus G Pro phablet and an updated cheap Optimus L II line. And then they have the next generation Optimus G2 in the works for Q3, with some interesting unique features to take on Samsung's Galaxy S4.
Today, what appears to be the first live picture of LG's next generation device leaked to the net, which may be that ultrathin Optimus G2 we told you about few weeks ago:
Multiple rumors suggest that the new LG Optimus G2 will come with Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 2GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM, 5" 1080p display and 13 megapixel camera.
At this point we expect LG to announce Optimus G2 in the beginning of September, right before IFA electronics tradeshow in Berlin, and to show it off there. The device will probably start shipping in late September/early October.
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Purdue College of Education Embarks upon a Partnership with Maconaquah and Kokomo School Corporations to Implement Integrated STEM
Integrated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) schools represent a new way of teaching and learning that focuses on the integration of these subjects into problem and project-based learning instruction. The transition from traditional learning to an integrated STEM focus requires a transformation of the way teachers teach and the way students learn. Ideally, in a STEM school, teachers will never hear that oft-asked question, "How am I ever going to use this?" That is because students in an integrated STEM learning environment put what they learn to use through addressing real-world challenges and problems tied to STEM themes.
In the age of the Internet, when most human knowledge is available at the fingertips, the focus in the classroom has moved from acquisition of content to accessing content and applying it through the use of 21st Century Skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration with others. Gaining these habits of mind through an integrated STEM learning environment is an essential part of what it takes to prepare students for college and STEM careers.
Nationally recognized scholar in STEM reform, Carla Johnson, EdD, Professor of Science Education at Purdue University College of Education and Associate Director of the college's Center for Advancing the Teaching and Learning of STEM (CATALYST) is the lead researcher on a $450K grant from the State of Indiana Department of Education Mathematics and Science Partnership Program. This grant, named the Partnership for Advancing Integrated STEM Education (P-STEM), will provide funding which supports professional development for 40 volunteer teachers in curriculum design, teaching strategies, and the acquisition of STEM content for the Maconaquah and Maple Crest (Kokomo) Middle Schools. The grant enables the transition to an integrated STEM focus for both schools.
"This is a remarkable opportunity to partner with Maconaquah and Kokomo and provide support for their journey to implement STEM," says Johnson, "These schools and their teachers will be pioneers who help make the leap to integrated STEM instruction as a driving component of their curriculum. While we have already helped schools in other states move toward integrated STEM education, this grant will help us develop two schools in Indiana that will serve as a model for the state and beyond," she continued.
The 40 teachers will be provided with professional development to help them refine their practice to include inquiry-based instruction, engineering and technological design, and mathematical analysis as key components in the delivery of integrated STEM instruction. The P-STEM program will not only include professional development support, but will also have a graduate course in STEM curriculum design through Purdue, and a job-shadowing/internship experience in a STEM occupation to help teachers develop firsthand experience in a STEM career.
Teachers and leaders in the respective schools are also excited to move this transformation forward. According to Dr. Doug Arnold, Superintendent, Maconaquah School Corporation, "One of Maconaquah's five strategic planning goals is to become a leader in north central Indiana in the use of technology for students and teachers. We began working on this goal by implementing 1-to-1 technology for students in grades K-12 during the 2012-2013 school year." (One-to-one technology means that each student has computer access or a tablet device to interact in real time with educational content.)
Kokomo School Corporation Assistant Superintendent Pennye Siefert said, "Kokomo Schools is excited to partner with Maconaquah School Corporation in collaboration with Purdue University on this 3-year grant. It will help us design, implement, and evaluate professional learning programs that affect deep, lasting student growth in mathematics and science education."
Although many schools around the US have implemented various approaches to STEM, P-STEM will be the first multi-district effort in Indiana focused on the integrated STEM approach. Educational researchers at Purdue College of Education will be following the progress carefully, to publish findings, and to help chart the path to implementing integrated STEM education for schools around the world.


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Proceedings of KNASTIK http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings The Proceeding of KNASTIK Duta Wacana Christian University en-US Proceedings of KNASTIK 2338-7718 LITERATURE STUDY ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH APPLICATIONS FOR DECISION-MAKING http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/210 Application of Data Warehouse (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI), is an application that can be implemented by various companies to implement strategies to compete and benefit for organization generally will be effective and efficient operation of its
business. This paper is an analysis of research results from the application of Business Intelligence and DW-related decision-making system. In this paper the focus of the analysis are a variety of Business Intelligence applications, how BI applications can affect the performance of the company / organization, how far the BI application is received by the organization, what decisions can be supported by BI, how many decisions can be taken from the BI application, how good the decision of BI applications, BI applications are applicable to various organizations / companies, all
the data to answer some of these problem from the previous research / literature. The result is a BI application analysis and comparison and criticism of previous studies. Sulistyo Heripracoyo Copyright (c) EVALUASI SISTEM INFORMASI DENGAN MODEL DESIGN-REALITY GAP http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/211 To evaluate/analyse the results of information systems projects, many researchers have
been using TAM, UTAUT, and DeLone and McLean IS Success Model. Design-Reality
Gap Model was developed by Richard Heeks, this model has been used to evaluate
several information systems projects in developing countries, such as hospital
information system project, e-government, and implementation of ERP project. This
model is claimed to provide a comprehensive explanation the cause of the failure or
success of information systems projects. This is the experimental study using IS Success
model and Design Reality Gap Model with case study approach. A research object
SMEs in Jakarta, focus of this study only evaluates the quality system elements in IS
success model and Technology element in Design reality Gap Model. ERP
Implementation evaluation experiment with these two models produce research outputs
that are complementary. Kursehi Falgenti Copyright (c) SISTEM INFORMASI GEOGRAFIS PENCARIAN JALUR TERPENDEK TEMPAT PENGINAPAN DI SURABAYA MENGGUNAKAN ALGORITMA DIJKSTRA http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/212 On business or vacation travelling to outside city, it's need to take a rest for a while.
Aim of this purpose travelling is begining from departure places that it's need to know
shortest and fastest path that belong to correct way to the destination places. To
determine this shortest path, user have to know the route to reach any place from map.
Although Surabaya is one of the big city, this city devide into five region and 31 district
that define in Google map, Geographic Information system with shortest path find
destination place such rest place, Lodging house in this city is become recommend for
this new traveller. Dijkstra algorithm used to find shortest path very helpfully to solve
traveller problem although worst condition such as weather problem, missing path and
direction or etc. This application support with web base application that can be surf
from Handheld phone that very simple to used. This SIG with google map also expected
to help new traveller getting shortest path similar with his speed of driving. Linda Rimala Dewi Budi Dwi Satoto Copyright (c) DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM TO SELECT CANDIDATES FOR LOAN USING TOPSIS http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/216 Noticing the development of technology is developing rapidly increasing, companies
need information systems that can support decision-making requirement. The existence
of a bank's lending activities is certainly one advantage for the bank including also the
customers. In need of credit ratings as a material consideration for the prospective
customer before the bank decides to accept or reject the request of prospective
customers, this is done given the risk of uncollectible big enough. To assist in
determining a person's determination would be eligible for a loan then takes a decision
support system. This study aims to design and build a Decision Support System for
Selecting Candidates for Loan using TOPSIS method. The criteria used in determining
the decision, among others, ability to repay, collateral value, duration and status of the
house. The benefits of this application are to provide an alternative form of reference to
the bank in determining the prospective customer who deserved the loan. Andeka Rocky Tanaamah Jasson Prestiliano Elvin Djami Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS IMPLEMENTATION BASED ON VARIABLE PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR SIMILARITY PATTERN CLASSIFICATION http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/217 At present, there are many pattern classification methods that can be used such as
LDA, kNN, Bayesian networks, CART, ANN and SVM. However, many classification
methods mentioned above causes some issues. The problem are the large computational
cost, and weakness of methods mentioned above to classify the class because it is based
solely on inter-class boundary (decision boundaries).As an alternative method other
than the methods have already been exist, the relationship between features (interrelation)
in a class can be used to classify a sample of a particular class. Based on
these ideas variable predictive model method based class discrimination (VPMCD) is
proposed by (Raghuraj &Lakshminarayanan, 2008) as a new classification approach to
the problem of large data and overlapping which cannot be easily solved by the other
classification methods.The testings are done using six well studied data sets (Diabetic,
Hear, Iris, Wine, Digit, Letter). The results are equations wihich have capability to
clasify new sample. Ahmad Saikhu Deneng Eka Putra Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING SINGLE SIGN ON WITH THE CENTRAL AUTHENTICATION SERVICE METHOD http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/218 This paper discusses the implementation of a method for single sign on (SSO) by using
Central Authentication Service (CAS) and MySQL in a Web portal environment.
Department of Informatics Faculty of Engineering Langlangbuana Univesity possessed
a variety of web-based applications to support the academic activities, including web
application libraries, application of laboratory management, and academic
information systems. All access to these applications each needs a unique user
authentication for each user. This will cause the user login process many times. Single
Sign On technologies provide convenience to the user to authenticate. Users only need
to do a one-time login for access to all existing applications. Users do not have to
memorize numerous accounts, only one account and not have to repeatedly login, one
single login is enough. It can also simplify user data in organizing existing data
security, so that the user is more secure, because it uses centralized user data storage.
CAS used to handle communication problems between different web applications, so all
the applications can be integrated into a Web portal. MySQL is used as data storage,
where all user data stored in a MySQL database. Awan Setiawan Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 Mobile Application for Student Assessment with Android http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/219 Bina Darma University as university-based Information Technology has stepped
forward in the vision and mission. One of example is the implementation of Information
Technology in the academic process, such as the Academic Information Systems, and
E-learning. This system would assist lecturers in teaching and learning activities such
as knowing the schedule of teaching, preparing teaching materials and conducting the
online grading. This applications will be built is an alternative application that allows
lecture to assess student work offline by using the android platform. Previous research
has been done by creating a desktop-based desktop applications with converting excel
data format that is used to input grade student and then the data will be sent to the
academic information system. In the process of development will be an android-based
application that allowss implification of the previous application. Applications that
will be designed for the lecturer can make an offline assessment to students, a feature
that was added to the android app is student attendance records. The methods to be
used in the development of this system is the system life cycle. The expected result is the
mobile-based application with android platform that can facilitate the entry process of
student grade and convert them to academic information system. Afriyudi Afriyudi M. Akbar Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 PEMBUATAN CHROME EXTENSION UNTUK AKSES WEBSITE SISTEM KOMPUTER UNIVERSITAS DIPONEGORO http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/220 Development of Internet technology have evolved over time. This development led to the
development of the current number of Internet users . The amount was fantastic at the
end of March 2011 where the total number of Internet users is approximately
6,930,055,154 users. The number of users has also resulted in competition in the
development of a web browser that will be used by internet users. Some web browsers
are a favorite on the Internet is Mozilla, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Chrome extension is an application that can be developed by any developer who is to
effectiveness accessing the website This is because users no longer have trouble in
accessing a web page that is a favorite, because users can simply download the file
extensions and then installed into the web browse the chrome. This study refers to the
function of the parts are there in the chrome extension of Diponegoro University
computer system. The results obtained in this study was 100% of existing functions that
can run in the browser google chrome. Kurniawan Teguh Martono Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 ALGORITMA LEAST RECENTLY USED UNTUK PEMBENTUKAN CACHE DALAM PENGAKSESAN WEB SERVICE STUDI KASUS TRANSJOGJA http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/221 Transjogja, a busway transportation system, is widely used by people for traveling in
Yogyakarta. Because of increasing number of Transjogja shelters, using Transjogja
becomes more and more complicated for people. Therefore, the authors propose a
solution by designing a location-based mobile application, which can provide
information about Transjogja. The system is built using a Web Service in order to
support a large number of outstanding mobile platforms. For the optimization of Web
Service access, the authors implement a cache in the client application in order to
speedup Web Service access time. Kristian Adi Nugraha Budi Susanto Antonius Rachmat Chrismanto Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 TEKNIK BAWAH-ATAS UNTUK MEMPERMUDAH PENYELESAIAN DEDUKSI ALAMI DENGAN SISTEM GENTZEN http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/222 Natural Deduction settlement in the realm of propositional logic, normally resolved
through top-down techniques, which means that the deduction starts from an expression
that has been given and or with the assumption, then the rules of certain inferen
produce the next process is called derivation. This method done continuously until the
logical expression to be proved as the results are really materialized.Top-down
approach has certain difficulties not easily solved the difficulty to find an expression
that became the beginning of proof or of the assumptions used. The difficulty is
attempted facilitated by the completion of proof is reversed by bottom-up techniques.
Verification process should start from the proved to find beginning of the proof.To
explain the process of bottom-up approach, in this paper will be given an example on
one of the Natural Deduction proof by Gentzen system. Djoni Dwijono Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 IT VALUE AND RISK PADA PT. X FINANCE http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/223 Sebagai perusahaan pembiayaan kendaraan terbesar di Indonesia dilihat dari
perolehan laba bersih dan jumlah aset perusahaan, PT. X Finance terus
bertekad untuk menjadi perusahaan pembiayaan kelas dunia. Untuk
mewujudkan tujuan tersebut, strategi yang dilakukan oleh PT. X Finance
diantaranya dengan memanfaatkan Teknologi Informasi (TI) dalam semua
kegiatan operasionalnya. Nilai IT (IT Value) pada perusahaan dapat dilihat
dari beberapa variabel, diantaranya firm performance, firm value dan
competitive advantage dari perusahaan. Dalam penerapan TI tidak semuanya
akan berjalan sesuai dengan tujuan perusahaan, sehingga akan menimbulkan
risiko. Untuk mengantisipasi atau mengurangi kemungkinan terjadi risiko
tersebut, perlu adanya suatu manajemen resiko. Salah satu penerapan
manajemen resiko TI (IT Risk) di PT. X Finance dapat menggunakan standar
ISO 31000. Implementasinya mencakup penentuan konteks resiko, asesmen
resiko, penanganan, review dan monitoring terhadap risiko. Eko Budi Setiawan Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 PEMODELAN DOWNSCALING LUARAN GCM DAN ANOMALI SST NINO 3.4 MENGGUNAKAN SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (Studi Kasus Curah Hujan Bulanan Indramayu) http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/224 anomaly Nino 3.4 as input in the training to predict a rainfall monthly in Indramayu.
The techniques of a downscaling is used for a phenomenon indicators of El Nino and
Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate anomaly such as a Global Circulation Model
(GCM) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) nino 3.4 are commonly used as a primary
study learn and understand the climate system. This research propose a method for
developing a downscaling model GCM output and SST anomaly Nino 3.4 by using
Support Vector Regression (SVR). The research result showed that GCM output and
SST anomaly Nino 3.4 can be approach the average value of monthly rainfall. The best
result of prediction is Bondan station which has average correlation that is 0.700. Aries Maesya Agus Buono Mushthofa Mushthofa Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 SISTEM INFORMASI GEOGRAFIS (Geographic Informational System) A Local Road Mapping and Second Collector in South Jakarta Using OpenGeo Suite and PostgreSQL http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/225 Jakarta is Indonesian's capital city which is the central of the most activity and
economical activity for the people from all around Indonesia. The High mobility of
road user is one of the things that become a problem in Jakarta. A road is a primary
aspect for a good traffic. The road itself is depend on how good or how bad the
condition itself, such as the construction, aging and a weight of the vehicle and There is
a possibility of the quality of road is going to change depend on the situation.
A road mapping is needed to deciding, planning and to caring the road by the
government to build a good traffic of people's transportation. That is why, the local
road mapping is very important. The present writer is making a Sistem Informasi
Geografis (Geographic informational system-SIG) which is talking about local road
mapping and a second collector which is using an OpenGeo Suite with the support from
framework OpenLayers. OpenGeo Suite is used for mapping digitalization process.
PostgreSQL 8.2.4. Is used as a data base and Adobe Dreamweaver CS 3 is used to edit
the PHP coding system. The mapping system from the layer is contains of road
dimension, technique of the road, road location, road condition and road user. By the
SIG local road mapping site and second collector, people is be able to know about the
road mapping easily and it also be able to be the key for a planning and caring of the
road in the south Jakarta. Andi Chairunnas Daud Yusuf Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 ENKRIPSI FILE GAMBAR MENGGUNAKAN METODE GOVERNMENT STANDARD (GOST) http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/226 Dalam beberapa kasus, data gambar memerlukan pengamanan agar tidak dapat
dibuka dan dilihat oleh pihak yang tidak berkepentingan misalnya gambar
perencanaan denah sebuah proyek perumahan pada perusahaan kontraktor yang
menjadi rahasia perusahaan. Solusi dari permasalahan ini adalah menggunakan
kriptografi. Salah satu metode kriptografi adalah Metode Government Standart
(GOST), dimana Metode GOST merupakan suatu algoritma enkripsi sederhana yang
memiliki jumlah proses sebanyak 32 round (putaran) dan menggunakan 64 bit block
cipher dengan 256 bit key. Metode GOST juga menggunakan 8 buah S-Box yang
berbeda-beda dan operasi XOR serta Left Circular Shift. Pembuatan Sistem Enkripsi
Gambar dengan metode GOST adalah dengan menyeleksi warna RGB (Red, Green,
Blue) pada gambar dan dirubah ke bilangan heksadesimal, lalu di enkrip menggunakan
Metode GOST. Hasil dari sistem ini adalah dapat mengenkrip sebuah gambar yang
utuh menjadi seperti sebuah gambar yang tidak mempunyai arti (gambar terenkrip),
sehingga kerahasiaan gambar tersebut tetap terjaga. Parma Hadi Rantelinggi Fegie Yoanti Wattimena Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 IMPLEMENTATION OF BRANCH AND BOUND METHOD FOR CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/227 Convex optimization is one of important areas in nonlinear programming, both from
the mathematical and application viewpoints. Numerous real world problems are
naturally expressed as quadratic programming problems. In non linear programming,
it is necessary to use a method to get global optimal value in order to not get trapped in
local optimal value. Branch and bound method in non linear programming known as
one of global optimization technique.In this research we implement branch and bound
method with relaxation process in the problem to get global optimization from convex
programming. The boundary of sub problem will be considering using reformulation
from quadratic with KKT condition. Experiment was accomplished on quadra1tic
programming problems. The results showed that using reformulation from quadratic
with Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) condition for bounding the problems helps to get
optimal solution in branch and bound method. Victor Hariadi Rully Soelaiman Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 DEVELOMENT OF THE A TELEOBSERVATION MEDIC MODULE IN TELEMEDICINE SYSTEM AT MAJALAYA REGIONAL GENERAL HOSPITAL http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/228 This paper aims to describe a development of teleobservation medic module. This
module is a module that was developed in the development of telemedicine systems at
Majalaya Regional General Hospital. Some of the reason why Majalaya Regional
General Hospital develop telemedicine system, including the geographical area
Majalaya and desire to make hospital management Majalaya become one of hospitals
in the utilization of information technology (internet technology) in all its activities.
Teleobservation medic assisting the physician in making observations on patients,
especially patients who are in the ICU. Doctors can take immediate action against
patients who are in critical condition, though at the time the doctor was no longer in
Majalaya Regional General Hospital environment. Software developed from this results
of this research, showing a display screen with two windows. One windows displays the
patient's condition that reads information from the patien monitor. Another video
windows displays the patient's physical condition in real times. Iwan Abadi Benie Ilman Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 KLASTERING INDUSTRI DI KABUPATEN KUDUS MENGGUNAKAN FUZZY C-MEANS http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/229 Penelitian ini dibuat dengan tujuan untuk membuat sistem aplikasi berbasis fuzzy yang
dapat melakukan klastering industri di Kabupaten Kudus, menggunakan metode
klastering Fuzzy C-Means (FCM).Sistem aplikasi ini digunakan untuk mengolah data
industri sehingga menghasilkan informasi klastering industri di Kabupaten Kudus.
Informasi yang dihasilkan adalah kelompok skala industri dari industri kecil,
menengah dan besar di Kabupaten Kudus. Langkah-langkah yang digunakan dalam
metode FCM adalah sebagai berikut : input parameter data, input variabel awal,
tentukan bilangan random, hitung pusat klaster, hitung fungsi obyektif, hitung
perubahan matriks partisi U, dan proses iterasi sampai maksimal iterasi. Yang
kemudian perumusan dan perhitungannya disajikan kedalam sistem.Dalam penelitian
ini disimpulkan bahwa dari pengujian sistem yang dilakukan diperoleh klaster ideal,
yaitu klaster yang mempunyai sebaran jarak antar klaster kecil (Vmin), dan sebaran
jarak antar klaster besar (Vmax) dan setelah diimplementasikan ke data asli terbentuk
kelompok industri berdasar skala yaitu besar, menengah dan kecil. Arif Setiawan Pratomo Setiaji Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN PENERIMA BEASISWA MENGGUNAKAN METODE ANALYTHICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS PADA STT MUSI http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/230 In determining the scholarship recipients at the Sekolah Tinggi Teknik Musi there are
several criteria used to conduct the assessment. Criteria - such criteria as grade point
average (GPA), parental income, elderly dependents, semester, TOEFL, and religion.
For efficiency and effectiveness of work then the right decision making is needed.This
final report aims to create a decision support system using the method of Analytic
Hierarchy Process to assist decision makers in determining who will receive
scholarships based on established criteria. Decision support system scholarship
recipient has the ability to analyze the scholarship recipients by using AHP method,
which will be comparisons between the criteria with other criteria and alternatives in
this case the student compared to each other to obtain comparison graphs.The method
used in the writing of this report is a waterfall method by conducting interviews and
references to obtain data. Making this system starts from the analysis of systems using
modeling in the form, Context Diagram, DFD, process specifications, data dictionary
and ERD, design, implementation, and testing the system. All the stages passed
through, except for installation and maintenance phases. The implementation using
programming language Visual Basic 6.0 and SQL Server 2000 database. Tests
conducted only limited to the functional system of just using black-box testing. It is
expected that awardees decision support system can be implemented at Sekolah Tinggi
Teknik Musi. Andri Wijaya Maria Wulan P Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 TEKNIK PENGAMANAN PESAN DENGAN ALGORITMA RC4 DAN METODA LSB http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/231 information. By using various techniques, many people are trying to access
information that they are should not have access to. With the development of
science, the application of information security techniques and data that have been
used in ancient times can be an alternative in securing data
communications. Cryptography is a science and art to maintain the security of
messages sent from one place to another. RC4, one cryptographic algorithm, is widely
applied to encrypt information. Cryptography can still be broken even if the process
takes time, cost and effort. Other data security techniques are also quite popular is
steganography. In contrast to cryptographic techniques, steganography can reduce
suspicion because the message is disguised is hidden in another file. LSB is one of
steganographic methods. LSB widely applied to insert a secret message into a digital
image.This software is made in order to secure the secret message into a digital image
using the RC4 algorithm and the method of LSB. The software is built using the
waterfall model of software development.The results of the development of this software
has been able to secure the secret message in the form of text into a digital image with
a BMP format using RC4 algorithm and the method of LSB. R. Kristoforus J. Bendi Erwin Budiman Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 PEMANFAATAN MODIFIED AUTHENTICATED KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL WITH TIME STAMP PADA APLIKASI SECURE INSTANT MESSAGING http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/232 Instant messaging (IM) a service that is used as a communication medium has several
advantages since we can communicate in real-time, fast, and with very low cost. These
advantages led to the growing number of IM users of the service both from business,
military, and government. However, since security aspects were not a design priority
the emergence of threats such as eavesdropping and replay attacks also increased in
recent years. Therefore,additional security measures are required to prevent the threat.
Secure Instant Messaging (SIM) is a software that implements the technique IM
encryption, key agreement and authentication with the aim of preventing eavesdropping
and replay attacks. SIM the encryption of the message before it is transmitted over
communication channels. Based on the results of testing, the process of authentication,
encryption and decryption do not degrade performance significantly based on time and
memory used. Key agreement requires an average time of 25-32 seconds. This causes
considerable delay occurred in the SIM application. On memory testing, key agreement
requires a 56% memory. Deny Binsar Mangisi Tobing Aji Setiyo Sukarno Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 Implementasi Problem Base Learning untuk Pemahaman Konsep Fact Finding dalam Analisis & Desain Sistem Informasi http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/233 Fact finding is a difficult task and need a long time. This process can be disrupted also
by personal perception researchers. For information systems workers, fact-finding is
one of the main tasks in performing the steps of analysis and design of information
systems. Therefore, the discovery of the facts is a competence that need to be owned by
a student who will be working at information systems environment. The learning
method uses Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a learning method for understanding
the concept of Fact Finding uses Ishikawa diagrams and Pareto analysis. Students
targeted has ability to level the synthesis of Fact Finding, which is able to apply in
different cases, especially in information systems projects. Yetli Oslan Harianto Kristanto Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 PENERAPAN METODE COBIT DALAM TATA LAKSANA TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DI PERPUSTAKAAN FMIPA UNIVERSITAS PAKUAN http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/234 Penggunaan Teknologi Informasi di Perpustakaan FMIPA Universitas Pakuan menjadi
suatu keharusan dalam meningkatkan kinerja dan produktifitas.Informasi yang diolah
harus bersifat efektif, efisien, rahasia, terintegrasi, tersedia, sesuai, dan dapat
diandalkan.Untuk menilai sejauh mana pengelolaan TI telah dilaksanakan dengann
baik, perlu dilakukan penyesuaian standar manajemen teknologi.Metode COBIT
adalah salah satu standar manajemen teknologi.Tahapan Metode COBIT yang
dilakukan adalah tahap informasi, tahap perencanaan dan organisasi, tahap akuisisi
dan implementasi, tahap pengiriman dan dukungan, serta tahap pemantauan. Setelah
itu, dengan menggunakan Metode COBIT ini akan diberikan penilaian melalui
wawancara dan kuesioner, sehingga dapat diketahui tingkat kematangannya (Maturity
Model). Dengan demikian diketahui temuan-temuan, baik yang sudah baik, buruk,
maupun yang masih perlu dikembangkan. Akhirnya diberikan rekomendasi untuk
meningkatkan mutu perpustakaan FMIPA UNPAK. Lita Karlitasari Sufiatul Maryana Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 IMPLEMENTASI SIMPLE ADDITIVE WEIGHTING (SAW) METHOD UNTUK MENENTUKAN LOKASI PAMERAN (Studi Kasus: PT. Astra International Tbk-Honda Jayapura) http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/235 lokasi pameran menjadi salah satu titik keputusan terpenting. Dengan memiliki lokasi
pameran yang strategis, tujuan pelaksanaan pameran produk dapat tercapai.
Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk menentukan lokasi pelaksanaan pameran
menggunakan Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) Method, metode ini didasarkan pada
kriteria-kriteria tertentu, kriteria yang akan digunakan sebanyak enam kriteria dan
empat alternatif lokasi pameran. Berdasarkan perhitungan yang dilakukan secara
manual maupun dibuktikan dengan sistem yang dibangun dengan Borland Delphi
mendapatkan hasil yang sama. Namun, keputusan akhir tetaplah berada di tangan
pengambil keputusan. Apakah mengikuti rekomendasi dari sistem ataukah memutuskan
untuk memilih alternatif lain. Yulius Palumpun Fegie Y. Wattimena Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 TINGKAT KEPERCAYAAN PELANGGAN TERHADAP INTERNET STORE DAN KESEDIAAN UNTUK MEMBELI http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/236 The rapid growth in the marketplace is highly influenced by the greatest development
and use of the internet that can answering the needs of to up-to-date information about
products and any other things while can be accessed everywhere and anywhere. This is
called e-Marketing or marketing-based electronic. E-marketing become very important
for the companies that sell its product online or its often called internet store. The study
was conducted to observe the correlation between level of customer trust on the
Internet store and the willingness to buy the products through the internet store. The
studied site is www.bhinneka.com. The research method using six variables: Perceived
Size, Perceived Reputation, Trust in Store, Attitude, Risk Perception and Willingness to
Buy. The hypothesis was tested using correlation analysis and regression analysis. The
study concluded that level of customer trust on the internet stores have relationship and
impact on their willingness to buy through the internet store. Meyliana Meyliana Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 PENERAPAN TERMS FREQUENCY-INVERSE DOCUMENT FREQUENCY PADA SISTEM PERINGKASAN TEKS OTOMATIS DOKUMEN TUNGGAL BERBAHASA INDONESIA http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/237 Automated Text Summarization is a process that utilize an computer application to
produce summary from a document and have the same meaning form document. The
research purposed is to develop an application that produce single document summary
in Bahasa Indonesia dynamically. This application quote the majority core meaning of
document and display to user the summary. Implementing of Term Frequency-Inverse
Document Frequency (TF-IDF) count weight and relation between text. Input and
output document form a document in Bahasa Indonesia. Input document consist of title,
heading and text while the output document is essense of the document. This
experimental result shows that accuracy is 61%. Iyan Mulyana Sena Ramadona Herfina Herfina Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 Kinerja Mail dan Web Server pada Layanan Cloud Computing dan Mesin Virtualisasi http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/238 Virtualisasi merupakan upaya menyediakan unit komputasi secara maya dan dinamis.
Mesin virtualisasi yang diakses melalui jaringan internet dikenal dengan istilah cloud
computing. Tulisan ini mendeskripsikan hasil pengamatan kinerja server dedicated,
server virtual pada mesin virtualisasi dan server virtual pada layanan cloud computing
komersial. Penelitian mencermati kinerja mail server dengan melihat waktu transfer
data ketika pengguna login, mengirim dan membuka email dengan attachment dan
tanpa attachmentl. Penelitian juga mencermati kinerja web server dengan melihat
kecepatan transfer data, waktu transfer dan jumlah error, yang diamati menggunakan
web stress tool. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kinerja server dedicated lebih
baik dibanding kinerja server virtual dan kinerja server virtual pada mesin virtualisasi
lebih baik dibanding kinerja server virtual pada layanan cloud computing. Husni Thamrin Ida Sofiana Miyan Banu Setiyawan Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 PREDIKSI CURAH HUJAN BULANAN MENGGUNAKAN TIME SERIES (SINGLE EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING) DAN KNN (STUDI KASUS : KABUPATEN PADANG PARIAMAN) http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/239 Climate is average condition for certain time period. The one of few factors influence
the climate is rainfall. This research develops a system which can predict and give
information of monthly rainfall prediction and also for the next few months.
Climatology data from BMKG from 2000 to 2009 is need in this research. The data
consist of seven variable which are temperature, sunlight condition, air pressure,
humidity, wind speed, wind direction and evaporate. This research uses Exponential
Smoothing for rainfall prediction and K-Nearest Neighbor that need for rainfall
prediction classified. The result shows that the prediction accuracy is 58, 33%. Prihastuti Harsani Iyan Mulyana Ade Ofik Hidayat Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 DTMF SIGNALLING CODED SYSTEM AT ROTATING MOVEMENT CONTROLLER OF MONITORING CAMERA http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/240 Signalling System of DTMF is coding in the form of tone converted into a binary
number from the use of the combination of dual tone /frequency produced by
pressing the tone of telephone. The use of dual tone is meant for the dialing that is
not interrupted by other frequency, with the frequency limitation that is used in the
range of telephone operator. This coded system will be the inputted signal that can
move the motor in contolling the rotating of the camera. In this system, the
performance of DTMF signal sent by transmitted telephone tone is being inputted
to the IC MT8870 as the signal interpreting of DTMF, whereas every DTMF
inputted signal has their own frequency range. Then, that signal will become the
input of IC decoder 74LS4514 which will interprete the voltage changing, after
that, it is inputted to the IC microcontroller AT89C52 in the form of binary. The
output of this IC will activate driver that will move the relay of loads' controller.
From the measurement of DTMF output when being given interruption, the
frequency of pressed tone "2" is 1145 Hz, pressed tone "4" is 1135 Hz, pressed
tone "6" is1477 Hz, and pressed tone "8" is 1059 Hz. Ade Silvia Handayani Nyayu Latifah Husni Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 APPLYING AHP FOR THE DETECTION OF THE BRIDGE CONDITION IN KUDUS http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/241 The Storing methods which use paper, so far brings the Dinas Pekerjaan Umum of
Kudus regency to the problems of determining the bridge destructions priority due
to the fact that unintegrated data, and there are no detail statistical information's.
One of the methods that could integrate technical aspect of the location selections
efficiently and accurately is AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process)
Research uses statistical method by using AHP since it is able to simplify the
complicated material. Therefore, the hierarchy method of decision making would be
efficiently. In addition, it shows a comparison grade of each criteria to determine
the value, bridge detector designed by using AHP method used by DPU of Kudus
regency to rank the bridge condition. Pratomo Setiaji Arif Setiawan Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 PENJADWALAN JOB SHOP DENGAN ALGORITMA GENETIKA PADA PT SHIMA PRIMA UTAMA http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/242 PT Shima Prima Utama operate with Job Shop System. Job Shop scheduling
for this company is a scheduling which use a lot of machines and a lot of
operation with production type make to order. Today its campany has been
using earliest due date (EDD). It makes completion time for all production
(makespan) becomes longer. This is because there are a lot of number of
work stations (machine) is idle. Base on that situation in this project try to
give alternative scheduling method Genetic Algorithm for makespan
decreasing. This algorithm is implemented in visual basic encoding by
represent sequencing of job into the string and arrange it according genetic
simulations. Scheduling with Genetic Algorithm implementation can
decrease the makespan as 14.23% from the method before with the
sequencing 355333444344443545654536466563621621623-11
4411135561252526261211122232. Theresia Sunarni Handy Handy Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 VOIP TECHNOLOGY SIMULATION BASED ON HYBRID FIBER COAXIAL CABLE http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/243 This Research aims to determine how the implementation of the Hybrid Fiber
Coaxial (HFC) network for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), as is well-known
that these days VOIP networks increasingly widespread use as an alternative in the
field of communication, in building a VOIP network would need an infrastructure A
good network and reliable, one important factor is the network speed and
bandwidth required, in this study will be tested how the implementation of the use of
HFCs for VOIP networks, and the results of existing trials indicate that HFC
provides the smallest delay compared to another medium transmission, from the
result can be seen that at present one of the medium best transmission for
implementing a VOIP network is a Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Adi Suryaputra Paramita Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 LOCATION BASED AGENDA NOTIFIER ON ANDROIDBASED MOBILE PHONE http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/244 People usually have their agenda noted on their mobile phones as it is able to
remind the owner about the agenda. However, the ordinary agenda can only
provide information of the agenda detail without location map. This research aims
to create an application to provide detailed information as well as location
information of an agenda using Google Maps. In addition, this application is also
capable of providing position information to the current user and shortest route to
the location of an event noted on the mobile phone agenda. Experiment results show
that the technique is able to provide information on the agenda with sufficient
information about the location in term of map view and shortest route to arrive at
the event. This application has also been successfully implemented on many
different versions of Android and can also be run with either various types of
existing telecommunications provider. Ary Wahyu Adi Prakosa Mazharuddin Shiddiqi Putu Ayu Sinthia A. Henning Titi Ciptaningtyas Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 PEMBUATAN APLIKASI DOKUMENTASI JARINGAN http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/245 Jaringan pada sebuah perusahaan ataupun pada sebuah instansi pasti akan
berkembang untuk memenuhi kebutuhan perusahaan. Mengakibatkan perusahaan
harus menambah atau bahkan merubah struktur jaringan atau topologi jaringan
untuk mendukung kebutuhan perusahaan. Jika hal tersebut terjadi maka seorang
administrator jaringan harus merubah dokumentasi jaringan yang dibuat sesuai
dengan perkembangan,Berdasarkan permasalahan diatas seorang network
administrator harus merubah dokumentasi jaringan seiring dengan berubahnya
topologi jaringan. Dokumentasi tersebut berisikan informasi dari tiap-tiap device
yang ada dalam jaringan. Perubahan topologi ini dapat menyulitkan administrator
jaringan dalam mengelola jaringan jika tidak memiliki dokumentasi yang baik.
Sistem yang dibangun oleh penulis terbukti membantu dalam pembuatan
dokumentasi jaringan. Sistem menyedikan dan membantu administrator jaringan
dalam membuat topologi dan mendokumentasikan dalam bentuk hasil cetak yang
dapat digunakan sebagai dokumentasi jaringan oleh perusahaan tersebut. Sehingga
dapat membantu administrator jaringan dalam mengelola dan memaksimalkan
jaringan. Albert Briliakta G S. Nugroho Agus H. Joko Purwadi Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07 The Use of SPSS to Analyze the Relationship between Working Capital Management and Profitability http://ti.ukdw.ac.id/ojs/index.php/proceedings/article/view/246 Profit maximization is one of the shareholders' goals from some firms' investments. By
investing some of their money, investors want big returns of their investment. The
company can maximize its profit through a well management of its assets and use its
assets well in order to generate revenue. In this article, we test the relationship between
working capital management and profitability. We analyze and run multiple linear
regressions to test financial statements from Indonesia listed companies. The test is
done using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Software. The results
show that Cash Conversion Cycle has significant positive relationship with return on
assets. The same direction with Cash Conversion Cycle, Net Trade Cycle also has
positive relationship with return on assets. Positive significant relationship is also
found in the relationship between return on assets and firm size. In contrast, debt ratio
has negative significant relationship over return on assets. It is also concluded that
SPSS can be used to analyze the relationship between working capital management and
profitability. Profit maximization can be reached through high Cash Conversion Cycle
and Net Trade Cycle, as indicators for Working Capital Management. Halim Budi Santoso Copyright (c) 2013-08-07 2013-08-07


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"You Will Fall in Love" is a yaoi manga by Hinako Takahaga. Haru is a high school teacher who quit archery because he couldn't confess his feelings to his rival, Reiichiro Shudo. He reluctantly fills in for the faculty advisor of the high school archery club. He soon runs into Tsukasa Shudo, a brilliant archery prodigy and the younger brother of Reiichiro. They fall in love with each other, but will history repeat itself?
While some readers may roll their eyes at the reason why Haru quit archery, it's a plausible reason, consider that many people in academia resign due to personal scandals. The psychological implications of dating your crushes' sibling is pretty interesting and should have been explored in more detail. The plot is okay, even if it's your usual melodramatic yaoi clichés. At least there are no annoying rape scenes. This is a solid yaoi for Honolulu manga fans.
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I start every day with a smoothie but it's not like a drink for me, my smoothies are thick and foody. They have to be filling to get me through my workout. Smoothies are also a good opportunity to add nutrients–like iron and protein–that you may be missing in your diet and mask them with other flavors.
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- Leg Forward Lunge – Step one leg out front with hands on your hips and squat back and down onto the back leg, then rise back up.
- Side to Side Hops – Hold hands at chest level while balancing on one leg. Push off the standing leg to hop onto the opposite leg. Regain your balance before hopping back to original position.
- Plie Jumps – Release your inner ballerina with this one. Stagger feet so that one is slightly in front of the other then jump into the air and switch feet so that when you land the other foot is slightly in front.
- Outward Calf Raises – Stand with feet a little more than shoulder width apart. Rise up onto your toes and squeeze your calf muscles. Lower back down and repeat.
- Soldier Toe Touch – While balancing on one leg hold the other arm straight out in front of you and parallel to the floor. Raise the leg (keep it straight) until you touch the tip of your toe to your extended arm and then lower leg back to the floor but remain balancing.
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"Can you recommend a restaurant?" It seems hardly a day goes by that you're not hearing about a new restaurant, lounge, or bar opening up, making your recommendation to someone even harder. Try these 6 fairly new spots around town and feel safe giving them the thumbs up to others.
Silo (919 Fifth St., NW; 202-290-2233)
The new Mount Vernon Triangle restaurant was designed by owner Reza Akhvavan and includes tables made out of metal tubing, exposed brick and wood, original plaster and concrete floors. About 80 percent of the restaurant is fashioned from reclaimed materials. The bar stays open late for drinkers in the growing neighborhood.
City Tap House (901 Ninth St., NW; 202-644-9433)
This spot has all the latest rustic-chic trends du jour: wood and stone walls, a copper bar top, and Prohibition-era black and white photos. A beer-centric restaurant that brings a large lineup of brews (40 TAPS!) and a hearty menu to Penn Quarter. The menu includes mussels, brick oven pizzas, and flatbreads. "Craftwiches"—all served with duck fat fries or a salad. Appetizers unique to the D.C. outpost include foie gras French toast and sweet corn and crab hush puppies.
Right Proper Brewing Company (624 T St., NW; 202-607-2337)
Former Brasserie Beck beer guy Thor Cheston is one of the many talents behind this funky neighborhood pub/restaurant. This spot has been winning over patrons with its unique beer program and its take on Chik-fil-A's classic sandwich.
Flight Wine Bar (777 Sixth St., NW; 202-865-6445)
Husband-and-wife team Swati Bose and Kabir Amir have opened a European-style neighborhood wine bar. Look for interesting items from Greece and the Balkans, as the menu, helmed by executive chef Bradley Curtis, is heavier on starters and desserts than main courses, making this a perfect pre-dinner or post-dinner destination.
Catch 15 (1518 K St., NW; 202-969-2858)
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Healthcare venture capital is still breathing and soon may be off the oxygen tank.
The sector closed out 2011 in strong fashion and posted a five-quarter high in funding and recording "solid" deal activity, according to the latest quarterly report from venture capital database CB Insights.
Of course, one quarter does not a trend make. Nonetheless, the strong fourth-quarter performance is welcome news for healthcare investors and entrepreneurs feeling beleaguered by a weak IPO market, regulatory uncertainty and a future of declining reimbursements from payers and providers.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, healthcare VCs invested $1.9 billion in a total of 172 deals, according to CB Insights.
Perhaps more significantly, healthcare (23 percent) grew as a percentage of all venture capital deals in the quarter after three consecutive quarters in decline. In the third quarter, healthcare investment accounted for 18 percent of all VC deals.
In some regard, the resurgence of healthcare venture capital can be viewed as an example of a rising tide lifting all boats. 2011 was a strong bounce-back year for the venture capital industry, as it enjoyed a 10-year high when measured both by dollars invested ($30.6 billion) and number of deals (3,051), according to the report.
However, it should be noted that other recent reports paint a less-rosy picture of the venture industry. A Dow Jones report found that fundraising — not investing — by venture capital firms in 2011 grew by 5 percent over the prior year, yet was still less than half 2008′s total.
Returning to the CB Insights report, broken down by sector in healthcare, medical device companies (38 percent) were the focus of the highest number of deals, followed by biotechnology (20 percent) and pharmaceuticals (13 percent).
The only note of concern in the report for healthcare startups? Evidence of a "series B crunch." Series B deals (23 percent) declined to their smallest overall percentage of deals in at least five quarters. "While some would say this is the way markets work, for a company raising money, this can represent a choke point," the report warned.
The biggest healthcare deals in the quarter were: Portola Pharmaceuticals ($89 million), Agios Pharmaceuticals ($78 million), Rempex Pharmaceuticals ($67 million), Sensors for Science and Medicine ($54 million) and Dermira ($42 million).
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It starts off with an intentionally cringe-y joke about violent porn, and then this one man-show gets really graphic. Not in a sex-and-violence way, though there's some of that, but in a troubled-soul-laid-bare way.
Vancouver actor Patrick Mercado plays Paul, a young man screwed up by family violence, an oppressive Catholic education and his own ADHD, who offers us disjointed glimpses into his life. It's sharply written, and Mercado's energetic and gutsy performance overcame a tiny opening-night crowd. But, even at 45 minutes, it's cluttered. Mercado plays multiple characters, sometimes without enough purpose or definition. Often, the most riveting parts — and much here is riveting — are Paul in his own unsparing voice. It's about a lot of things — self-hate, gender confusion, the minority experience, even rap battles — but not enough about any one thing to have real potency. A work in progress that has potential.
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What is the distance from a point to a line in the hyperbolic plane?
Fix a line $L$ in the hyperbolic plane. What does the set of points of distance $d$ from $L$ look like?
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I am not really sure I understand the first question (it depends on how you give your points, lines, etc). As for "what it looks like" it is known as (surprisingly :)) an equidistant curve (or a hypercycle, though I had never heard that name before today). The linked article has pictures :)
I met with the following interpretation of the hyperbolic metric and it should answer your questions. Length of curve $\gamma$ parametrized by $t \mapsto (x(t), y(t)) \in \mathbb{R}^2$, $t \in [0,1]$, $y \ge 0$ in hyperbolic metric is: $$L[\gamma] = \int_{0}^{1} \frac{1}{y}\sqrt{\dot{x}^2 + \dot{y}^2}.$$ It's not very difficult exercise to show that shortest curve connecting two points is semicircle with center on line $y=0$ (if $x$-coordinates of both points are equal then the shortest curve is vertical ray).


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LOWELL, Ore. – The No. 11 Stanford women's rowing team competed for the second this this spring, racing at the Oregon State Classic on Dexter Reservoir on Saturday.
"To have a competitive five-boat race this early in the season is special," said head coach Yasmin Farooq. "You can't pay for that kind of experience. All of our boats really stepped up."
The big race of the day for Stanford came in the afternoon when all five boats were in action for the second varsity eight. When Stanford, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 9 Michigan faced each other in this event in the morning, the Cardinal held the early lead only to see the Buckeyes creep past them in the final 500 meters.
In similar circumstances for the second meeting, Ohio State made its move but this time the Stanford boat came together and held off the charge to break a 19-race winning streak for the Buckeye 2V8. The impressive streak came at the hands of the Cardinal who is starting to see the depth in its lineup with big wins in the 2V8 this weekend and varsity four last weekend.
"All of the coaches were following right alongside the race in the coaching motorboat and having heart attacks—it was that close and intense," said Farooq.
The victory was special for each of the nine in the second varsity eight, but a little moreso perhaps for senior Christina Bax. The victory came on her birthday.
"The best thing about our boat is we have nine people who are very competitive and want to win," said Bax. "We let them come up on us and pass us earlier in the day, but when they tried to do it this afternoon our entire boat said 'no, this is not going to happen'. It was a great feeling that we were all united in that effort."
The day started with three races in the morning against Ohio State and Michigan. The first race for the Cardinal was an exciting one with all three boats staying together throughout the race. In the end, Stanford came in third with a time of 7:24.17.
The two eights fared well against the Big Ten powers. The second varsity eight took second place with a time of 6:33.56, just falling to Ohio State despite a strong charge in the last 500.
The varsity eight was within two seconds of the Buckeyes, finishing second with a time of 6:26.17. The Cardinal held a lead in the first 1,000 meters, but Ohio State was able to overtake them pull out the close win.
The other two afternoon races, featured all five teams in action. The varsity eight tallied another second place finish in its race. Just like the first time around, Stanford crossed the finish line less than two seconds behind Ohio State with a time of 6:26.02. The varsity four tallied a third place finish again with a time of 7:23.74.
Stanford's next races will come at the Lake Natoma Invitational in Sacramento next weekend.
Oregon State Classic
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April 5, 2014
Morning Session
Varsity Four
1. Ohio State – 7:16.6
2. Michigan – 7:19.08
3. Stanford – 7:24.17
Second Varsity Eight
1. Ohio State – 6:32.1
2. Stanford – 6:33.5
3. Michigan – 6:45.33
Varsity Eight
1. Ohio State – 6:24.7
2. Stanford – 6:26.17
3. Michigan – 6:35.82
Afternoon Session
Varsity Four
1. Ohio State – 7:17.2
2. Michigan – 7:21.22
3. Stanford – 7:23.74
4. Oregon State – 7:30.45
5. Duke – 7:48.46
Second Varsity Eight
1. Stanford – 6:29.21
2. Ohio State – 6:30.44
3. Michigan – 6:39.41
4. Oregon State – 6:52.87
5. Duke – 6:55.02
Varsity Eight
1. Ohio State – 6:24.5
2. Stanford – 6:26.02
3. Michigan – 6:30.95
4. Oregon State – 6:31.73
5. Duke – 6:38.96
Boat Lineups
Varsity Eight
Liza Gurtin (Coxswain), Anna Dawson, Lilly Tinapple, Nancy Miles, Ruth Narode, Filippa Karrfelt, Daphne Martschenko, Ali Fauci, Kristy Wentzel
Second Varsity Eight
Naomi Cornman (Coxswain), Courtney Carrabino, Kay Rusher, Amanda Lorei, Valerie Frank, Katie Toothman, Emily Grundman, Chierika Ukogu, Christina Bax
Varsity Four
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Sigh. This is the problem with books like this. They entice you in with promises of Chestertonian surrealism and gothic adventuring, and you get... tawdry and humdrum sex scenes and banal characters boring each others' ears off for pages on end about Baudrillard and Derrida. No, really: the book is full of passages like:
I search my shelves for the book. Eventually I find it, and it tells me what I remember reading. In the furnace of the Big Bng, hydrogen was the first element to form from the hot plasmic soup of electrons and protons. It's a bit of a no-brainer: all you need for hydrogen is one electron and one proton. The mass of this hydrogen isotope is one - because it has one proton (electrons don't reall have any mass). In the incredible heat, hydrogen isotopes with masses two (deuterium - one proton and one neutron) and three (tritium and trialphium) also formed. Then helium, with mass four. But there is no stable atom with mass five. Because there is no atom with mass five, no one understood how carbon could ever habe been made. Each new element is made from fusing the elements that ame before it, but you can whi hydrogen and helium around in a cosmic blender for as long as you want and you won't make carbon.
That is a problem because...
And so on, and so on, and so on, for pages. The thing is, this is meant to be a novel. If I wanted to have a science textbook regurgitated at me, I'd take evening classes. It just fills up pages and attempts to make the author lookk clever. Except, of course, it's unbelievably boring. And as I say, other bits spend page after page wittering about Baudrillard and Heidegger until you want to throttle the authoress.
This isn't helped by a protagonist who must be the most artifically 'tragic' character ever invented. She's PhD student on the brink of starvation who engages in dirty sex to alleviate something-or-other and as a slightly less harmful version of cutting herself (aw, bless - are ya getting weepy yet?). The character, of course, never shuts up about any of this, either, and the sheer clumsiness of the authorial artifice is almost more nauseating than the execrable prose itself.
And every character has the same "issues", cookie-cutter design to them. Every one. It doesn't help that everything is filtered through the knowing, weary eyes of the protagonist. Partly, this is because of when it was written, in 2006, when it seems 'meaningful issues' were still things to discuss, and everyone wasn't yet sick to death of abortion threads.
The overall result is you get a glorified and rather **** thought experiment shoved down your throat, surrounded by some abysmal writing. If the book had managed to match its high-falutin' scientific pretensions with less padding and a structure closer to that of the more successful postmodernists - the plot of
Foucault's Pendulum
, say - it might have been something to write home about. But I doubt Foucault's Pendulum sold 150,000 copies.
This book serves as a stark warning against teachers of creative writing. Because of Scarlett Thomas is anything to by, they're people who shouldn't be writing in the first place, let alone their pupils.
I also just finished
Newtons Sleep
by Daniel O'Mahony.
Now, here the contrast is interesting between the diabolically awful but successful 'mainstream' novel and the really, really good obscure 'genre' work.
Newtons Sleep
is part of the Faction Paradox universe, of which I have probably bored people enough already in this thread to repeat things again. What marks this book out from the likes of, say,
Warlords of Utopia
, is that it's a bit less of a Boy's Own adventure tale. NS takes as its premise the adage "as above, so below", and then applies it to English history between, roughly, the late reign of James I (reigned 1603-1625), and the reign of Charles II (r. 1630-1685), and the construction of the New St Paul's Cathedral (begun in 1677 and completed in the 1720s) and the building of six churches in London by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
The period was one of massive social and political change: from the execution of Charles I, the erection of the Commonwealth of England, the Restoration of Charles II, the brief reign of James II and the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688 which booted him out, there was a period of only 63 years. In the same period, major theological, scientific, philosophical and literary figures rise and fall, like Newton, Winstanley, Milton, Behn, Wren, Hawksmoor, Hobbes, Dryden, and so on.
And the premise of Newtons Sleep is that War in Heaven (in this case, between the Great Houses and their Enemy) is intimately connected with the goings-on of this period, directly as well as indirectly.
O'Mahony handles this brilliantly, managing to weave fact and fiction, the surreal super-science fiction and the expectations and prejudices of the 17th Century beautifully. The result is a tome of a book, which takes a long time to plough through (not least because the structure of the prose has a distinct and unhurried style to it), but which rewards persistence.
This is by no means an easy read, but it is a rewarding one, and one more than worth pursuing. By parts beautiful, fascinating, horrifying, revolting and amusing, it's a great piece of writing. Following two major characters and a host of minor ones, including the very much real Aphra Behn, the book as much examines 17th century ideas of magic, science, the order of the universe and its very direct relationship with the physical world as it does grandiose four-dimensional war. Anyone looking for fancy spaceship battles should look elsewhere, because this is something very different and far, far more fascinating.
I only have two complaints about the book. One, I found the sex scenes unnecessary, and thought they detracted from an otherwise superb book by dragging it to the level of titillation in those scenes. Two, I rather wish the author hadn't chosen Aphra Behn. Not because he mishandles the character - on the contrary, I thought her characterisation was lively and compelling - but simply because she's a character about whom there has been so much...
, that I think a less well-known person might have been more interesting.
The only other thing is that some readers may find the points where the book connects with its wider mythos a little vague on details and find it difficult as a consequence to work out what is going on in these scenes. I have to confess, once I finished the book I turned back to
The Book of the War
to look up a couple of relevant passages and remind myself of what's going on, but I don't think not knowing about this will render these parts of the book incomprehensible. Overall a very, very impressive novel that is well, well worth reading.
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