Factors Influencing market access of green pomelo farmers in Ben Tre Province

The study goal is to determine factors affecting the market access of green pomelo farmers in Ben Tre Province. The study collected data from 148 households growing green pomelo in Chau Thanh, Mo Cay Bac, Giong Trom, and Cho Lach Districts. The study has demonstrated six impacting factors to the market access of pomelo farmers by the logit regression. They include age, training, telephone, connection, distance, and acreage. In particular, training is the most affecting factor to the market access of green pomelo growers in Ben Tre Province.

The Dominant Factors Affecting Employee’s Performance a Case Study at PT Bintai Kindenko Engineering Indonesia

The general situation of national domestic business is not encouraging. More specifically, the number of Construction Service Companies engaged in the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) field in Indonesia is increasing. In order to make all companies compete competitively, companies need effective human resources (HR) on MEP project on the meaning of effective HR is that have Knowledge, Skills and Attitude. One of the ways companies can achieve improved workforce performance is by applying disciplinary attitudes in accordance with applicable regulations. And must be supported by having a competent workforce. Leaders as managers in a project must be able to create a comfortable working atmosphere and conditions for their staff to have good performance. Leadership factors may effect the success or failure of an agency. The purpose of this research is to identify the dominant factors that affect labor performance in the MEP project conducted at PT Bintai Kindenko Engineering Indonesia. Data analysis with help of smartPLS 3.0 software. The results are that the discipline and leadership hasn't an affecting on workforce performance improvement, competency variables have an affecting on workforce performance improvement. And together the variables of discipline, competence, and leadership have an affecting on workforce performance improvement. The most affecting factor is the competency variable, with an affecting coefficient of 0.627 on performance.

THE AFFECTING FACTOR ON THE LACK OF INTEREST IN MOTHER ACCEPTORS USING IMPLANT CONTRACEPTION IN TEUNOM HEALTH CENTER WORKING AREA YEAR 2020

Abstrak Pendahuluan; Penggunaan kontrasepsi telah meningkat di banyak bagian dunia, terutama di Asia dan Amerika Latin dan terendah di Sub Sahara Afrika. Pengguna kontrasepsi modern telah meningkat tidak signifikan dari 54% pada tahun 1990 menjadi 57,4% pada tahun 2014. Pada tahun 2020 akseptor KB suntik sebanyak 1.178 orang, pil sebanyak 60 orang, kondom sebanyak 1 prang, IUD sebanyak 5 orang sedangkan Implant hanya 4 orang. Tujuan; yaitu mengetahui faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi kurangnya minat ibu akseptor kontrasepsi implant. Metode; Desain penelitian menggunakan survei analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Variabel bebas dalam penelitian ini yaitu pengetahuan, penyuluhan kesehatan, dukungan, dan sikap ibu. Teknik pengambilan sampel yaitu accidental sampling. Jumlah sampel sebanyak 86 orang. Tehnik analisa data menggunakan analisa univariat dan bivariat dengan menggunakan uji chi-square. Hasil; yaitu ada pengaruhpengetahuan ibu dengan kurangnya minat ibu akseptor KB dalam menggunakan kontrasepsi implant dengan nilai p value 0,000, ada pengaruhpenyuluhan kesehatan dengan kurangnya minat ibu akseptor KB dalam mengngunakan kontrasepsi implant dengan nilai p value0,001, tidak ada pengaruhdukungan suami dengan kurangnya minat ibu akseptor KB dalam menggunakan kontrasepsi implant dengan nilai p value 0,537, ada pengaruhsikap ibu dengan kurangnya minat ibu akseptor KB dalam menggunakan kontrasepsi implant dengan nilai p value 0,015. Kesimpulan; ada hubungan antara pengetahuan, penyuluhan kesehatan, sikap ibu dengan kurannya minat ibu akseptor KB dalam menggunakan kontrasepsi implant. Kata Kunci : Pengetahuan, Penyuluhan Kesehatan, Dukungan Suami, Sikap Ibu, Kontrasepsi Implant

A study on online shopping vs offline shopping with reference to the students of the Department of Commerce and Management Studies, Andhra University,Visakhapatnam

The Aim of this research is to study the factors affecting the consumer behavior in the path of offline to online shopping. To this end, a survey was conducted and the questionnaires were distributed among the students of the university. The replies have been analyzed by chart analysis. The results of the survey has shown that most of the people already doing online shopping and prefer to continue it.the factors such as psychological factors, social factors emotional factors, and the privacy factors which affect the buyer approaches to online purchases. Several attitudes of consumers toward online shopping are not in rest in the study due to the study restricted to Andhra university-Commerce and management Time, the convenience and the recommendations have been identified as important factors. Time was considered to be the affecting factor for the majority of students. Most of the consumers hesitate not to do shopping offline, because of the time concern.

Dynamic Outsourcing Development for Sustainable Competitive Advantage in a High-Tech Backend Semiconductor Equipment Firm

In a high-tech backend semiconductor business where a market environment changes sharply and requires competitiveness of high technology, one of the most important criteria is to establish an optimal strategy for outsourcing development so a firm can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Many studies have investigated sustainable and successful strategies for the selection and management of outsourcing suppliers, whereas, this study focuses mainly on analyzing the most affecting factor for outsourcing development in the perspective of dynamic capability by using the Delphi Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. For the analysis of affecting factors, 4 dimensions are defined: technology, organization, environment, and process. The research result shows that the sustainability of the productive skill in the technology dimension is adopted as the most affecting factor for outsourcing development among the defined 4 dimensions of an outsourcing supplier’s capability. With this research, a high-tech firm can measure the level of each dimension and each factor in developing outsourcing service providers. Then the firm can develop an appropriate outsourcing provider who contributes to the firm’s sustainable competitive advantage. This study also provides a practical and strategic framework of a high-tech firm’s outsourcing development in variable market situations and changeable conditions of transaction.

BER Analysis on WLAN using MIMO-OFDM with Minimum Delay Algorithm

In our communication system, the QoS is an affecting factor by increase in the number of users in a network, but this can be improved or maintained by following the certain rules and regulations according to the regulatory authority and IEEE standards, this factors will not have limitations to the bit errors, noises, natural climatic conditions, etc., but certain factors like number of users and delay can be adjusted according to the situation in the network. In this article, an algorithm with minimum delay is used to transmit the data over the network in wireless medium and simulation is done with MIMO-OFDM to improve the throughput, which implies that QoS can be improved with this method.

FACTORS INFLUENCING CONTRACEPTIVE UTILIZATION IN POSTPARTUM IN MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL SITI FATIMAH MAKASSAR

Introduction : Postpartum contraception is defined as utilization of contraceptive within 42 days after a labor to prevent close interval of pregnancy. After a live birth, WHO recommended interval before attempting the next pregnancy is at least 24 months in order to reduce the risk of adverse maternal, perinatal, and infant outcomes. Several factors influence maternal in utilizing contraception after giving birth. Objective : To recognize factors influencing contraception utilization in postpartum period in Mother and Child Hospital Siti Fatimah Makassar. Study Method : The study was observational analytic study with cross sectional method. Seventy respondents were obtained with consecutive sampling technique. Chi square test was used to determine linkage value. Result : The result showed that factors affecting contraception utilization in postpartum period in Mother and Child Hospital Siti Fatimah Makassar were knowledge about contraception (p value 0.000, OR = 24.5 (2.995 – 200.437)), number of children (p value 0.004, OR = 4.182 (1.541 – 11.347)), education (p value 0.002, OR = 4.915 (1.770 – 13.646)), and husband encouragement (p value 0,000 ,OR=6,240 (2,211-17,608)). Resources variable was not related to this study. The most affecting variable was knowledge about contraception. Conclusion : Factors influecing contraception utilization in postpartum period were knowledge about contraception, number of children, education, and husband encouragement. The most affecting factor was knowledge about contraception. The most affecting factor is knowledge about contraception.