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Effect of transportation and implementation of limestone mining on environment and socio-economy

Mining and environment can be said as an analogue for both sides of a coin on which two sides interrelate each other. Environmental aspect is of key factors to the success of mining activities. Mining activities begin with exploitation, followed by exploitation and utilization. All of these scenarios create effects on the environment and change the socio-economic characteristics of the affected people. This study aimed to analyze the effect of transportation and implementation of the reclamation on the environment and local people socio-economy, to create effective efforts of the environmental management from transportation to reclamation activities, and to suggest good an environmental management. Limestone transportation, which passed mining site roadway, had made the decline of air quality (dust emission) and the increase of ambient sounds (noise). This activity gave a significant effect on socio-economic improvement of the local people and soil fertility. The activity also op...

A study of drinking water quality of PDAM

One of problems faced by community dealing with water services provided by the State-owned Water Company (PDAM) is inadequacy of the services in fulfilling household needs. Customers often complain because this limited volume of water they can use for daily activities, such the research found in a service quality analysis of drinking water provided by PDAM. The study on service quality may have its cornerstones on three main aspects: the quality, quantity, and continuity.  In case of drinking water quality at the observed location, one should relate it to the quality threshold under the Letter of Decree of the Minister of Health Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Kepmenkes RI, No.907/MENKES/SK/VII 2002, which has been applicable since July 28, 2002. In addition, there is also another technique of analysis to measure the water quality level by examining water debit, water pressure, and flow continuity. However, to deal with PDAM’s vision and mission, service quality analysis is...

Rights on Reproduction Health Care for Women

Act on Patent Rights is a consequence of ratification and promulgation of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs). The government must adopt its intellectual property rights to these international agreements, including the patent rights.     Such condition shows that bargaining position of Indonesia is expendable. Indonesia does not get freedom in its own territory. All policy is under intervention of developed countries (those run with capitalism economy). The situation even gets more complicated when the House of Representatives (DPR in Indonesia) made legal this dominance by issuing Act on Property Right (UU Hak Cipta). Indonesian people, in consequence, become the real victims of the ongoing act. Due to such carelessness, parts of this country’s constituents, in particular women, become the minority parties.     Women do not get ...

Conservative, or Bourgeois, Socialism

A part of the bourgeois is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society. To this section belong to economists, philantropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind. This form of socialism has, however, been worked out into complete systems. The socialist bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements. They wish for a bourgoisie without a proletariat. The bourgoisie naturally conceives the world in which it is supreme to be the best; and bourgeois Sicalism develops this comfortable conception into various more or less complete systems. In requiring the proletariat to carry ou...

Public Administration Pedagogy

Authors: Jack Rabin, W. Bartley Hildreth, Gerald Miller  The history of pedagogy in public administration in many ways is a mirror image of the history of public administration itself. All the elements of growth, diversification, change, and turbulence that have characterized the evolving field of public administration are present in its academic component as well. Public service education has been repeatedly shaped and reshaped, responding to the spirit and ethos of each era through which it passed. As a consequence, the educational enterprise, much like the field itself, has been built upon a succession of layers, an additive process through which new, competing, contradictory, and often incompatible themes nonetheless maintain a close, if unieasy coexistence. Historical depiction, therefore, takes on something of an archaeological quality. Each historical period represents a separate stratum, peripherally related to those above and below, but largely independent. Each, howev...

Participatory Communication

Author: Thomas Tufte, Paolo Mefalopulos The vision of using new technologies to pursue better lives for humankind has always existed, and i was reinforced throughout the 20th century with each new technological advancement. In 1927 the German author Bertolt Brecht formulated a "radio theory" in which he envisioned the new technology, the radio, as a dialogical instrument for change: "Change this apparatus over from distribution to communication... On this principle the radio should step out of the supply business and organize its listeners as suppliers" (Brecht 1927). It was many ways a precursor to the theory and practice of participatory communication, as well as of interactive media such as the internet. In the years that followed Brecht's early vision, the radio lost its dialogic potential as it developed into mass mediated broadcasting instrument. However, today's rapid spread of community radio, as well as the growth of digital radio and inte...

Political opinion leadership and advertisement attitude: The moderating roles of cognitive and affective responses to political messages

Author: Beth Harben , Soyoung Kim   Political opinion leadership is a type of viewer involvement measure that may be relevant to predicting the viewer's attitude toward an advertisement with political content. This study was designed to investigate if cognitive and affective responses to political messages in fashion advertisements play any moderating roles in the relationship between political opinion leadership and advertisement attitude. The results suggest that effectiveness of political content in the advertisement for politically involved consumers may be determined by how clearly the message is communicated to the viewers. Discussions were also made as to the distinction between textual and pictorial messages and to how the viewer's recognition of a pictorial message can be a factor affecting the impact of political opinion leadership on attitude toward advertisement with political content.   Outline of discussion: -Political opinion leadership and polit...