An RFID-Based Digital Bracelet for the Timely Assistance of Indigents

High rates of indigence characterize several countries in Latin America, such as Mexico. In the north of our country, the phenomenon of migration contributes to indigence. To get a preliminary understanding of the needs of indigents in our community, we conducted interviews with homeless and migrants. This helped us identify preliminary system requirements that led to the design of a digital bracelet to enable local agencies to monitor and provide support to the indigents who roam the city. We refined our conceptual design through an iterative process of contextual inquiry, persona development, prototyping, and user assessment. An evaluation of our design was conducted with the coordinator of the main social assistance agency of the municipality, which allowed us to confirm the system potential to be used and adopted.

Faktor-Faktor yang Memengaruhi Kinerja dan Kepuasan Tenan di Inkubator Bisnis IPB

Business incubator is an assistance agency for beginner business which is believed to be able to generate professional, independent, and competitive entrepreneurs. This research aims to identify factors influencing the performance of business incubator’s tenants, and evaluate tenants’s satisfaction during their participation in business incubator. This research is conducted in Business Incubator of IPB by interviewing both inwall tenants and outwall tenants. The data obtained are analyzed using, Wilcoxon test with SPSS software, Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) and Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI). Result of this research reveals that performance of inwall and outwall tenants are shown by the increase of gross profit, profit, number of employee, increase of product variants, number of customer, participation in training, the presence of business assistance, participation in training, the presence of business assistance, expansion of business place, expansion of business place. marketing expansion or number of agent, and the decline of complaints experienced by tenants. According to the calculation result of IPA,CSI, tenant satisfaction level on business incubator is categorized as good. Factor that is considered need to be improved by Business Incubator of IPB is adequate human resources performance improvement, especially for assistance and service toward tenants.

Models of Militancy: Support for Strikes and Work Actions among Public Employees

This paper examines support for militant action among the employees of a public assistance agency in which negotiations were occurring over a first contract. A questionnaire survey obtained information on whether employees were willing to strike over various issues during negotiations; whether they would participate in certain work actions, such as sick-outs, in the future; and whether they actually had participated in any work actions during the previous year. The survey results show that attitudinal support for both strikes and work actions, but not actual participation in work actions, was generated partially by the incongruity of professional aspirations within bureaucratic constraints. A political process involving the relations of union members and office stewards also affected support for work actions. The social-background variables of age and sex shared common effects on support for strikes and work actions, whereas race only affected strike support. An economic model of militancy received little support, perhaps because of the nature of the sample.