RELEVANSI WISATA ZIARAH BALONG KERAMAT DARMALOKA DENGAN PERKEMBANGAN DAKWAH ISLAM (Study Kasus di Desa Darma Kec. Darma Kab. Kuningan)

IMA MUTASIM : Wisata Ziarah merupakan Perjalanan atau wisata, diistilahkan sebagai Assafar atau Az-ziyarah, wisata ziarah merupakan sebuah bentuk kunjungan ritual dan dilakukan ke makam dan masjid bersejarah. Dari prosesnya, wisata ziarah juga dipahami sebagai perjalanan batin seseorang, sehingga memiliki ikatan emosi dan kontempolasi tinggi. Tujuan dari penelitian ini diantaranya adalah untuk membuktikan adanya relevansi antara Wisata Ziarah Balong Keramat Darmaloka yang terletak di desa Darma Kec. Darma dengan Perkembangan Dakwah Islam. Kerangka pemikiran didasarkan pada Kehadiran Balong Keramat Darmaloka sebagai salahsatu pariwisata di kabupaten kuningan yang juga biasa dikunungi sebagai wisata ziarah karena dilokasi tersebut terdapat makam wali utusan dari Cirebon yang menyebarkan dakwah islam diwilayah Darma. Adapun metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode deskriftif kualitatif berdasarkan kajian lapangan. Dan analisis yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu dengan mencatat hasil wawancara, catatan lapangan, kemudian memilah dan memilih, mengkalisifikasikannya serta berpikir membuat katagori data itu sehingga memperoleh suatu kesimpulan, dengan sumber data dari data teoritis, literature atau kajian pustaka yang ada kaitannya dengan masalah yang akan diangkat dan data empiric yang diambil dari lokasi penelitian. Dari hasil penelitian diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa terdapat sebuah relevansi antara Wisata Ziarah Balong Keramat Darmaloka dengan perkembangan Dakwah islam. Dimana dalam wisata ziarah terdapat unsur dakwah mauidzotulhasanah dan hikmah yang diambil diantaranya berupa Mengingat akan kematian serta dijadikan Wasilah mendekatkan diri kepada Allah. Sehingga mempengaruhi pada kesadaran spiritual masyarakat yang diaktualisakikan terhadap berbagai kegiatan keagamaan yang terus berkembang dari tahun ketahun, yang ditandai dengan berbagai indikasi bertambahnya sarana prasarana ibadah dan pendidikan berbasis pesantren

Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) in Vector Systems Played Sense Role of Epigenetic in Plants

The green fluorescent protein (GFP) of jellyfish (_Aequorea victoria_) has significant advantages over other reporter genes, because expression can be detected in living cells without any substrates. Recently, epigenetic phenomena are important to consider in plant biotechnology experiments for elucidate unknown mechanism. Therefore, soybean immature cotyledons were generated embryogenesis cells and engineered with two different gene constructs (pHV and pHVS) using gene gun method. Both constructs contain a gene conferring resistance to hygromycin (_hpt_) as a selective marker and a modified glycinin (11S globulin) gene (_V3-1_) as a target. However, sGFP(_S65T_) as a reporter gene was used only in pHVS as a reporter gene for study the relation between using sGFP(_S65T_) and gene silencing phenomena. Fluorescence microscopic was used for screening after the selection of hygromycin, identified clearly the expression of sGFP(_S65T_) in the transformed soybean embryos bombarded with the pHVS construct. Protein analysis was used to detect gene expression overall seeds using SDS-PAGE. Percentage of gene down regulation was highly in pHV construct compared with pHVS. Thus, sGFP(_S65T_) as a reporter gene in vector system may be play useful role for transgenic evaluation and avoid gene silencing in plants for the benefit of plant transformation system

Development of Smart Lead-Acid Battery Charger for Electric Vehicle Application

The battery charger is a critical part in an electric vehicle (EV) because it charges the battery, which is the weakest part of it. An unduly long charging time limits the use of the EV. Currently, it takes a long time to charge a battery of limited capacity, making EVs rather impractical to use. The objective of this thesis is to design, simulate, construct and test a smart charger for fast charging a battery. The charger consists of two units - the power processing unit and the battery management unit. The power processor is based on a step-down DC-to-DC converter topology. The battery management unit uses first a current control (constant current mode) and then voltage control (constant voltage mode) to charge the battery. The smart control mechanism is based on current and voltage sensing combined with sequenced average current and voltage control to charge the battery as fast as possible and to maximise its charge. The charger was tested successfully on single-phase and three-phase voltage supplies at different output voltages and currents. The charger developed was able to charge a 30 Ah lead-acid battery in two hours as opposed to six hours using a conventional charger. The research showed that it was possible to develop a battery charger which can charge a battery to its limits quickly without gassing and overheating. It is likely that the battery life will be extended without the detrimental effects experienced

Design And Development Of An Integrated Infield Collection-Transportation Machine For Oil Palm Fresh Fruit Bunch

A prototype oil palm FFB Collector-transporter was designed, developed, modified and tested at the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia. This four-wheeled, hydrostatic drive, integrated machine was designed for collecting and transporting oil palm fresh fruit bunches in the field and unloading them directly into mainline transporters or trucks at the roadside. The overall dimension of the machine was 4750 mm for length, 2040 mm for width and 2725 mm for height. The overall construction of the machine was consisted of a main chassis and driving unit, collection assembly, operator cab, scissors lift-type fruit bin and associated hydraulic control unit. Various functional components of the machine were hydraulically operated through a solenoid control system. ACAD2000 package was employed to develop the 3D model of the prototype machine. A 29.8 kW @ 2200 rpm KUBOTA V2203-E 4- cylinder diesel engine, a 2 1 .5 gpm @ 1000 rpm VICKERS TA1 919 main hydrostatic pump, and a 14.5 gpm @ 1000 rpm SAMHYDRAULIC HIC55 driving motor were selected based on the computations made to determine the machine total engine power and total hydraulic pressure requirements for the machine to operate under local terrain conditions

RELEVANSI WISATA ZIARAH BALONG KERAMAT DARMALOKA DENGAN PERKEMBANGAN DAKWAH ISLAM (Study Kasus di Desa Darma Kec. Darma Kab. Kuningan)

IMA MUTASIM : Wisata Ziarah merupakan Perjalanan atau wisata, diistilahkan sebagai Assafar atau Az-ziyarah, wisata ziarah merupakan sebuah bentuk kunjungan ritual dan dilakukan ke makam dan masjid bersejarah. Dari prosesnya, wisata ziarah juga dipahami sebagai perjalanan batin seseorang, sehingga memiliki ikatan emosi dan kontempolasi tinggi. Tujuan dari penelitian ini diantaranya adalah untuk membuktikan adanya relevansi antara Wisata Ziarah Balong Keramat Darmaloka yang terletak di desa Darma Kec. Darma dengan Perkembangan Dakwah Islam. Kerangka pemikiran didasarkan pada Kehadiran Balong Keramat Darmaloka sebagai salahsatu pariwisata di kabupaten kuningan yang juga biasa dikunungi sebagai wisata ziarah karena dilokasi tersebut terdapat makam wali utusan dari Cirebon yang menyebarkan dakwah islam diwilayah Darma. Adapun metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode deskriftif kualitatif berdasarkan kajian lapangan. Dan analisis yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu dengan mencatat hasil wawancara, catatan lapangan, kemudian memilah dan memilih, mengkalisifikasikannya serta berpikir membuat katagori data itu sehingga memperoleh suatu kesimpulan, dengan sumber data dari data teoritis, literature atau kajian pustaka yang ada kaitannya dengan masalah yang akan diangkat dan data empiric yang diambil dari lokasi penelitian. Dari hasil penelitian diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa terdapat sebuah relevansi antara Wisata Ziarah Balong Keramat Darmaloka dengan perkembangan Dakwah islam. Dimana dalam wisata ziarah terdapat unsur dakwah mauidzotulhasanah dan hikmah yang diambil diantaranya berupa Mengingat akan kematian serta dijadikan Wasilah mendekatkan diri kepada Allah. Sehingga mempengaruhi pada kesadaran spiritual masyarakat yang diaktualisakikan terhadap berbagai kegiatan keagamaan yang terus berkembang dari tahun ketahun, yang ditandai dengan berbagai indikasi bertambahnya sarana prasarana ibadah dan pendidikan berbasis pesantren

Sensorless Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Control Of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) require an electromechanical rotor position sensor to operate. The rotor position sensor has disadvantages, such as reliability, size, higher cost, and increased electrical connections. PMSM is used in many speed and position control industrial applications. Proportional integral (PI) and proportional integral derivative (PID) controllers have been widely utilised as speed controllers in PMSM drives. However, these controllers are very sensitive to step change of command speed, parameter variations and load disturbance. In this work, an adaptive fuzzy logic speed controller is proposed. The main features of the proposed controller are; quick recovery of motor’s speed from load disturbances and insensitivity to parameter variation over a wide speed range. The proposed controller is a hybrid model reference adaptive speed controller (HMRASC) which mainly consists of two functional blocks. The first block is a direct FLC that has the error and the change of error as inputs. The error signal is measured between the actual motor speed and the desired speed and the output is the change in the torque command. The second block implements a model reference adaptive controller. In the proposed system, the output speed of the reference model is compared with the actual speed of the motor and the resulted speed error is applied to a PI controller. The output signal of the PI controller is added to the direct FLC output to compensate any deviations in the motor speed from the reference speed due to parameters variation and disturbances in the load. The design and optimisation of the FLC are carried out using an adaptive fuzzy inference system network that uses the backpropagation, least square and gradient algorithms. The fuzzy inference system is trained and designed using an adaptive network. The rules and the implication method used are also optimised and minimised in order to shorten the computation time. In addition, the effect of different types and distributions of the membership functions were investigated and presented. This work also presents the estimation of the rotor position, which works effectively with nearly zero estimation error over wide speed range, to replace the electrometrical rotor position sensor. An estimation method based on the back EMF and flux estimation is presented to calculate the rotor position for medium to high speed. At low speed, the rotor position is calculated using signal injection where a high frequency low voltage signal is injected on the stator winding. In the proposed method, the measured motor’s current and the estimated motor’s voltage are processed through a signal processing block and a PI regulator to calculate the angle of the rotor position.Finally the performance of the HMRASC and the rotor position angle estimation algorithms are evaluated by simulation and verified experimentally for two motors using MCK2407 kit and IMDM15 board which are based on the TMS320LF2407 fixed point Digital Signal Processor (DSP) for different operating conditions. The first motor is rated at 50W and the second is rated at 380W. Both experimental and simulation results obtained from the HMRASC and the position angle estimation algorithms showed superior results compared to other methods presented in the literature

Automated Assessment of Facial Wrinkling: a case study on the effect of smoking

Facial wrinkle is one of the most prominent biological changes that accompanying the natural aging process. However, there are some external factors contributing to premature wrinkles development, such as sun exposure and smoking. Clinical studies have shown that heavy smoking causes premature wrinkles development. However, there is no computerised system that can automatically assess the facial wrinkles on the whole face. This study investigates the effect of smoking on facial wrinkling using a social habit face dataset and an automated computerised computer vision algorithm. The wrinkles pattern represented in the intensity of 0-255 was first extracted using a modified Hybrid Hessian Filter. The face was divided into ten predefined regions, where the wrinkles in each region was extracted. Then the statistical analysis was performed to analyse which region is effected mainly by smoking. The result showed that the density of wrinkles for smokers in two regions around the mouth was significantly higher than the non-smokers, at p-value of 0.05. Other regions are inconclusive due to lack of large scale dataset. Finally, the wrinkle was visually compared between smoker and non-smoker faces by generating a generic 3D face model.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, Accepted in 2017 IEEE SMC International Conferenc

Assessment of Genetic Diversity and Adaptability of Inbred Lines and their F1- hybrids of Grain Maize (Zea mays L.), Using Molecular Markers (RAPD) and AMMI Analysis

This study was carried out to assess the genetic diversity and adaptability of seven inbred lines of grain maize (Zea mays L.) and their F1-hybrids, using molecular markers (RAPD) and Additive Main Effects and Multiplicative Interaction (AMMI), respectively. A field experiment was carried out during the winter and summer of 2009 and 2010 at two locations, Shambat and Elrawakeeb. A split-plot design with three replications was used to layout the experiment. The inbred lines and their F1-hybrids were field-evaluated for grain yield/ha under normal irrigation and water-stress conditions. The DNA molecular markers (RAPD) analysis showed that high level of polymorphism of 89.33 percent was detected among the genotypes, which were distinguished into four main groups (sub-clusters). The genetic distance among inbred lines ranged from 0.05 to 0.33. The inbred line 66y was the most distant line compared to other inbred lines; it represents a single group in the cluster. The inbred lines 66y and 160 had the greatest genetic distance of 0.31. AMMI analysis differentiated the genotypes (inbred lines and F1- hybrids), based on their interaction to different environments, into diversified adaptation pattern. The hybrid 160x66y showed the highest (4.1 tons/ha) grain yield (highest heterosis) and a moderate positive interaction (PCA score = 19.0), indicating its adaptability to favorable environments. Moreover, the hybrid 66y×3 showed considerable yield (2.4 ton/ha) and adaptation to water stress environments. These results revealed that crossing of the most genetically-distant inbred lines (e.g., hybrid 160x66y) gave the highest heterosis, which could be utilized for improvement of grain yield of maize. Also, it could be concluded that DNA markers were efficient in the assessment of genetic diversity to identify the most appropriate inbred lines of maize for development of hybrid varieties, and then avoiding crosses between genetically-related inbred lines. Also AMMI analysis was successful to quantify the interaction and adaptability of the tested genotypes to wide range of environments

Paraneoplastic pemphigus: insight into the autoimmune pathogenesis, clinical features and therapy

Paraneoplastic pemphigus is a rare autoimmune skin disease that is always associated with a neoplasm. Usually, oral, skin, and mucosal lesions are the earliest manifestations shown by paraneoplastic pemphigus patients. The pathogenesis of paraneoplastic pemphigus is not yet completely understood, although some immunological aspects have been recently clarified. Because of its rarity, several diagnostic criteria have been proposed. Besides, several diagnostic procedures have been used for the diagnosis, including indirect immunofluorescence, direct immunofluorescence, and ELISA. We reviewed the most recent literature, searching on PubMed "paraneoplastic pemphigus". We included also papers in French, German, and Spanish. We found 613 papers for "paraneoplastic pemphigus". Among them, 169 were review papers. Because of its varying clinical features, paraneoplastic pemphigus still represents a challenge for clinicians. Furthermore, diagnosis and management of paraneoplastic pemphigus requires close collaboration between physicians, including dermatologist, oncologist, and otorhinolaryngologist.Paraneoplastic pemphigus is a rare autoimmune skin disease that is always associated with a neoplasm. Usually, oral, skin, and mucosal lesions are the earliest manifestations shown by paraneoplastic pemphigus patients. The pathogenesis of paraneoplastic pemphigus is not yet completely understood, although some immunological aspects have been recently clarified. Because of its rarity, several diagnostic criteria have been proposed. Besides, several diagnostic procedures have been used for the diagnosis, including indirect immunofluorescence, direct immunofluorescence, and ELISA. We reviewed the most recent literature, searching on PubMed “paraneoplastic pemphigus”. We included also papers in French, German, and Spanish. We found 613 papers for “paraneoplastic pemphigus”. Among them, 169 were review papers. Because of its varying clinical features, paraneoplastic pemphigus still represents a challenge for clinicians. Furthermore, diagnosis and management of paraneoplastic pemphigus requires close collaboration between physicians, including dermatologist, oncologist, and otorhinolaryngologist

GAS TURBINES DURABILITY IN HARSH ENVIRONMENTS

LectureThe performance and durability of industrial gas turbines are strongly dependent on the operating conditions and the environment in which they function at. Engine performance and durability must be equally considered when operating in environments that challenge engine component lives. This paper describes the various elements that contribute to engine durability when operating in offshore applications with high salt/Sulfur fuels, and a “Systems-Solution” approach to attaining excellent turbine power and efficiency by mitigating the risk of degradation mechanisms that the turbine materials are subjected to. The System Solution to be discussed involves the use of advanced materials in conjunction with appropriate air and fuel filtration systems. Advances in alloys and coatings as well as air and fuel filtration systems have been very strong in the last number of years, and as a result new solutions have emerged to support the new challenging demands and requirements of gas turbines