Pemimpin Ideal dan Karakteristik yang Didambakan dalam Menjawab Tantangan Zaman

<p><em>The existence of a leader is related to the aspects of role models, protection, and decision making. Leaders stand at the forefront of creating the realization of community welfare. The public's initial perception of the figure who is believed to be an ideal leader is often broken by the pattern of policies taken after the election of the figure as a leader. This also applies at the village to provincial levels of government. This social portrait is quite risky because it saves a latent danger in the form of people's disappointment with the leader. Writing this article aims to (1) describe the ideal leader figure coveted by the community and (2) explain the importance of leadership aspects that are able to answer the challenges of the times.This writing is done in descriptive analytical with literature study. The results were obtained: (1) There are aspects that are missed consistently in the community, such as integrity, fairness, and responsibility. The characteristics of positive leaders are able to create public optimism in looking at the future. (2) Leadership based on the foundation of virtuous character is needed in dealing with the dynamics of a rapidly changing era.</em><em></em></p>

Multistable Perception

Multistable perception is produced by stimuli that are consistent with two or more different comparably likely perceptual interpretations. After the initial perception is resolved in favor of one of the interpretations, continued viewing leads to fluctuating subjective experience, as perception spontaneously switches between alternative states. Multistable perception occurs for different modalities, including visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory perception and proprioception, and various conflicting sensory representations, such as eye dominance, depth, motion, or meaning. Despite large differences, multistable stimuli produce quantitatively similar perceptual experience with stereotypical distribution of durations of dominance phases, similar dependence on the absolute and relative strength of competing perceptual interpretations, prior perceptual history, presentation method, attention, and volitional control, and so on. Taken together, this shows that multistable perception reflects the action of general canonical perceptual mechanisms whose purpose is to resolve the conflicting evidence and ensure a single dominant perception that can be used for action. Thus, it informs us about mechanisms of perceptual decision making, including the importance of feedback mechanisms in resolving perceptual ambiguity and the role of parietal and frontal regions in facilitating changes in perception. Multistable perception provides useful constraints for models, inspiring a plethora of models of perception that combine neurally plausible mechanisms, such as neural adaptation and inhibition, or are based on the idea of predictive coding. The sensitive nature of multistable perception makes a valuable experimental tool that can reveal even minor differences due to low- or high-level influences, including genetic or clinical cases. As such, it is an important tool in studying neural and behavioral correlates of consciousness as it dissociates perception from the stimulus.

Preception of Adolescent Women on Sex Education of Sman 12 City of Tangerang

Sex is a taboo subject to discuss, as well as sex education. Some people still tend to be cynical, and also disgusted, when they hear talk about sex, it is this negative initial perception that makes them (the young women) reluctant to study sex education, so that this misunderstanding has an impact on unhealthy sexual behavior in relationships. This study aims to determine the perception of adolescent girls regarding sex education. The research used is qualitative research using participatory observational methods. statements from the four informants regarding perceptions of sex education have good responses and good knowledge, sex education needs to be nurtured from an early age according to the age limit.

Escape Room Dual Mode Approach to Teach Maths during the COVID-19 Era

The COVID-19 pandemic and its social implications generate adverse psychological effects that affect success in education where educational methodologies are not ready to overcome the problem. This article presents the design and evaluation of a gamification activity, the Escape Room, applied to the subjects in Pharmacy and Nursing. The objective of using the Escape Room is to reduce the impact that COVID-19 has on students’ academic performance due to the psychological effects and the change in educational modality with which the vast majority of activities are carried out online. The Escape Room presented in this article is based on the search for a scientist who is fleeing with the COVID-19 vaccine around the world and the students have to find it by passing tests and missions related to mathematics. Due to the COVID measures imposed by the university, where double presentiality was imposed, the proposed Escape Room has the peculiarity of being designed in dual format, that is, allowing students to connect in face-to-face mode, online, or a mixture of both, depending on the maximum capacity of the classroom, the number of positive cases in the group, quarantines, etc. As a result, a great impact is shown on the initial perception of students towards mathematics and a null impact of the COVID-19 effect on the academic performance of students.

Early Implementation of a Patient-centered Medical Home in Singapore: a Qualitative Study Using Theories on Diffusion of Innovations

Background: Primary care (PC) reform is imperative to meet the demands of a rising number of chronically ill patients with complex needs. Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a new care model that was found to improve care for complex needs patients in some countries but has not yet been widely adopted in Singapore. Guided by the PCMH principles, “ComSA-PCMH” was developed to proactively deliver integrated PC to a specific population with complex needs. This study explored the change strategies, initial experience and perception, and lessons learnt during its early implementation.Methods: A grounded theory approach was employed. In-depth interviews were conducted for twenty-two key informants from three groups: the implementers, their implementation partners and other PC providers. The theoretical framework on diffusion of innovations by Greenhalgh and colleagues (2015) was used to determine theoretical saturation, reorganize data, and provide insights to the emerging themes.Results: “Diffusion of innovation” emerged as an overarching theory to contextualize ComSA-PCMH and its early implementation. ComSA-PCMH was differentiated from usual PC through three innovations: i) team-based and integrated care; ii) empanelment; and iii) shared care with private general practitioners. Their corresponding change strategies were: i) repurposing pre-existing services and infrastructure; ii) partnership to create supporting infrastructure and pathways in the delivery system; and iii) targeted outreach. Initial experience of the implementers was characterized by “assimilation”, which was a cyclical process of experimentation, negotiations, and adaptations. Initial perception of the implementation partners was characterized by “adoption”, which was affected by perceived value of ComSA-PCMH and perceived burden in implementation. Initial perception of the private general practitioners was also characterized by adoption, which was affected by a lack of awareness and understanding of ComSA-PCMH. Lessons were learnt about ways to work with the complexity and novelty of the innovations.Conclusions: ComSA-PCMH employed creative and pragmatic strategies to overcome country-specific contextual challenges and the inherent complexities of the care model. Assimilation and adoption were identified as the challenging steps, as they involve complex processes participated by multiple players who might exhibit less predictable, self-organizing behaviors.Trial Registration: This study was retrospectively registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (Protocol ID: NCT04594967).

REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC WORKS ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR EXTRACTION OF BIOCOMPONENTS FROM VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. SUPERCRITICAL CO2 EXTRACTION IS AN EFFECTIVE NEW METHOD FOR SOLVING THE GLOBAL PROBLEM OF UTILIZATION AND QUALITY OF PLANT AND ORGANIC RAW MATERIALS

A brief review and assessment of methods for the extraction (extraction) of active biocomponents from plant raw materials is presented. The overview contains a number of tables and diagrams to facilitate the initial perception of this topic. Examples of stationary and mobile installations developed in the world are shown. The prospects of the Supercritical CO2-extraction method, as the most effective for the extraction of valuable biomedical components, have been analyzed. The schemes and samples of the used CO2-extractors are shown. The schemes and external view of the author’s experimental setup for extraction with supercritical CO2 developed by our team are presented.

Estimation of Annual Runoff of Galal Badra Transboundary Watershed Using Arc Swat Model, Wasit, Eastern of Iraq

Optimal investment of natural water resources in an area is an effective way to provide significant amounts of water that can contribute to reduce the negative impacts of climate extremism. Proper assessment of the components of any hydrological system is a priority in watersheds studying. SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model was used within ArcGIS, to assess the hydrological situation in general, and surface runoff in particular for Galal Badra Watershed GBW (Wasit Governorate, eastern Iraq). GBW has an area of 2,655 square kilometers (89% of which is in Iran and the rest 11% within Iraq). The data set for SWAT model running were digital elevation model, slope map, soil map, LULC map, and climatic data (precipitation, relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation, minimum/ maximum air temperature). SWAT simulation concluded that the annual average surface runoff in GBW was 244x106 cubic meters (with an average discharge of 7.8 M3 / s), which accounts for about 25.7% of the total precipitation. This ratio can be used in preliminary forecasting of surface runoff resulting from different amounts of precipitation. The model was not calibrated due to insufficient data available to complete the calibration process. However, the results provided by the SWAT model regarding the water balance elements in the watershed, make the SWAT model an effective tool for hydrological assessments, especially in cases where the necessary data are scarce for various reasons. Also, SWAT results can be considered as a preliminary assessment, which gives an overview of the hydrological situation of the area, contributes to building an initial perception of the water system, determining the most important elements in it, and anticipating the factors most influencing it. This enables policymakers, decision-makers, and stakeholders to adopt future plans at the level of research and implementation that will develop the reality of water investment in the region under conditions of climate extremism.

Memory for Stimulus Duration Is Not Bound to Spatial Information

Different theories have been proposed to explain how the human brain derives an accurate sense of time. One specific class of theories, intrinsic clock theories, postulate that temporal information of a stimulus is represented much like other features such as color and location, bound together to form a coherent percept. Here, we explored to what extent this holds for temporal information after it has been perceived and is held in working memory for subsequent comparison. We recorded EEG of participants who were asked to time stimuli at lateral positions of the screen followed by comparison stimuli presented in the center. Using well-established markers of working memory maintenance, we investigated whether the usage of temporal information evoked neural signatures that were indicative of the location where the stimuli had been presented, both during maintenance and during comparison. Behavior and neural measures including the contralateral delay activity, lateralized alpha suppression, and decoding analyses through time all supported the same conclusion: The representation of location was strongly involved during perception of temporal information, but when temporal information was to be used for comparison, it no longer showed a relation to spatial information. These results support a model where the initial perception of a stimulus involves intrinsic computations, but that this information is subsequently translated to a stimulus-independent format to be used to further guide behavior.

The phenomenon of corrupt pricing. On some aspects of institutional regulation (experience of the Russian Federation)

Based on the study of Russian economic and corporate governance practice, as well as the judicial practice corresponding to it in the zone of the selected problematic, the article undertakes a fragmentary analysis of the phenomenon called by the author “corruption pricing” - the formation by the competent management bodies of companies and their interconnected groups of prices for relevant goods, works and services that, according to the initial perception and formal criteria, satisfy the parties of the transaction, however, upon a more thorough analysis, they turn out to be inconsistent with the interests of significant agents of the corporation system, including title co-owners and beneficiaries of business entities, realizing exclusively the interests of a narrow group of persons, capable of unfairly influencing on the legal process of price formation. Turning to specific cases, the author puts forward a hypothesis regarding the inevitability of institutional restrictions of the freedom of pricing in a market (non-state) pricing zone, predetermined by the circumstances of the objective discrepancy between the motives of investment and professional participation in entrepreneurial activity in general and management practice, in particular, of its various subjects - business owners and service providers. their top managers, majority and minority investors, personnel and administration, customers and service providers in the order of outsourcing and the associated need for a creative interpretation of the principles of integrity and reasonableness and their summarizing principle - economic justice.

Motivation And Perception To Support Purchasing Decisions In “Cafe & Resto Benteng Buah Naga”, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

“Café & Resto Benteng Buah Naga” (“Dragon Fruit Fortress Café & Resto”) presents an innovation based on dragon fruit products, then the initial perception will determine consumer's motivation to visit the place. The research purposed to determine the consumer’s characteristics and to state the influence of motivation and perception on purchasing decisions. The research was conducted at “Café & Resto Benteng Buah Naga” in Banyuwangi Regency, East Java Province. The sampling method was accidental sampling with 100 respondents. The data analysis used was path analysis. The results show that the majority of respondents were women (68%) with the status as a student who has an income maximum IDR 1,000,000. The motivation variable partially affects the purchase decision, as it obtains a sig value of 0.036 which means < 0.05. Variable perception obtains a sig value of 0.000 which means < 0.05, partially significant effect also on the purchase decision. It could be concluded that the consumer’s motivation and perception influence purchasing decisions at “Café & Resto Benteng Buah Naga”. The advice given is that “Café & Resto Benteng Buah Naga” continues to develop more dragon fruit-based product variants and become their special menu at the restaurant.