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Faktor Politik Dalam Alokasi Dana Antarpemerintah Indonesia, M. Syareza L. Tobing, Bambang P. S. Brodjonegoro Jan 2013

Faktor Politik Dalam Alokasi Dana Antarpemerintah Indonesia, M. Syareza L. Tobing, Bambang P. S. Brodjonegoro

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Pembangunan Indonesia

The intergovernmental transfer system currently applied in Indonesia is intended to prevent the intervention of political powers. However, there are indications of political determinants behind central government transfers to sub-national governments. In order to prove the existence of these political factors, this research utilizes empirical panel data models of Dana Alokasi Umum (DAU), Dana Dekonsentrasi and Tugas Pembantuan using political variables. Results show that while there are no significant political variables in the DAU and Dana Dekonsentrasi models, there is a political determinant behind the amount of Dana Tugas Pembantuan, where a higher seat share for the Golkar …

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An Empirical Study On Weak Market Efficiency Of Karachi Stock Exchange, Jaihan Zulqarnain, Syed Muhammad Amir Shah Jan 2013

An Empirical Study On Weak Market Efficiency Of Karachi Stock Exchange, Jaihan Zulqarnain, Syed Muhammad Amir Shah

Business Review

A lot of research has been conducted to check whether the Frontier and emerging markets show weak form of efficiency or follow a random walk. Karachi Stock Exchange, being a frontier market, was tested on the basis of daily closing values from 2006 to 2011. The study showed KSE to be a weak form inefficient market following non randomness. Three tests were applied on the data. KSE proved to have a unit root, the values in the series showed a strong correlation. Moreover, a Z-statistic value was far greater than 1.96 which proved KSE to be an inefficient market. Inefficient …

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Investor Sentiments And Exchange Rate Volatility, Mobeen Ur Rehman Jan 2013

Investor Sentiments And Exchange Rate Volatility, Mobeen Ur Rehman

Business Review

In this paper, we have investigated the role of investor sentiments on the exchange rate volatility in our emerging market. In the past there were many studies that tried to capture the impact of investor sentiments on the stock market returns but the exchange rates are also one of the important economic indicators and is frequently used as the stock market returns and interest rates etc, so we have tried to see the impact of investor sentiments on the exchange rate volatility. The data has been collected from International Monetary Fund website, Karachi Stock Exchange for stock returns and for …

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The Commerce Clause Implications Of The Individual Mandate Under The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act , L. Darnell Weeden Jan 2013

The Commerce Clause Implications Of The Individual Mandate Under The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act , L. Darnell Weeden

Journal of Law and Health

The fundamental focus of this Article is whether the decision not to buy individual health insurance as required by Congress also qualifies as valid economic activity under the Commerce Clause. This question before the Court continues the modern battle regarding the scope of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause, and the battle regarding the regulation of economic activity continues, irrespective of the Supreme Court decision regarding PPACA, because of the continuing impact of the Supreme Court’s holding in United States v. Lopez. Part II of this Article contends that the decision not to purchase health insurance is not to be …

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Masthead And 2012/2013 Editorial Board Bios, Journal Of Law And Health Jan 2013

Masthead And 2012/2013 Editorial Board Bios, Journal Of Law And Health

Journal of Law and Health

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The Dark Side Of The Boom: The Peculiar Dilemma Of Modern False Claims Act Litigation, David S. Torborg Jan 2013

The Dark Side Of The Boom: The Peculiar Dilemma Of Modern False Claims Act Litigation, David S. Torborg

Journal of Law and Health

Spurred by treble damages, substantial penalties, and lucrative relator awards, litigation under federal and state False Claims Act (“FCA”) statutes has exploded in recent years. Much of that explosion stems from aggressive and creative legal theories that challenge controversial industry practices or even well-known loopholes or waste in government policy. Evidence from governmental entities can be critically important in litigating these FCA claims. Unique aspects of False Claims Act actions, however, can aggravate the risk of losing this important evidence, leaving the parties, judges, and juries without the evidentiary record necessary to equitably adjudicate these disputes. Defendants can face the …

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In Vitro And In Vivo Anticancer Activity Of The Fruit Peels Of Solanum Melongena L. Against Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Maha Salama, Shahira Mohammed Ezzat, Laila Rashed Jan 2013

In Vitro And In Vivo Anticancer Activity Of The Fruit Peels Of Solanum Melongena L. Against Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Maha Salama, Shahira Mohammed Ezzat, Laila Rashed

Pharmacy

Background: The fruit peels’ of Solanum melongena L. which is a common vegetable in Egypt, were investigated for biologically active metabolites in an approach to find any medicinal benefits from such waste products. Methods: The Methanol Extract of the Peels (MEP) was subjected to fractionation and purification for the isolation of its major constituents. Identification of the compounds was carried out on the basis of physico-chemical properties and spectral analysis (1H NMR, 13C NMR, COSY and HMBC). The MEP together with the isolated compounds were tested against five human cancer cell lines representing the most common types of cancer in …

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Tentang Kata Korupsi Yang Datang Silih Berganti, Muhammad Narsum Jan 2013

Tentang Kata Korupsi Yang Datang Silih Berganti, Muhammad Narsum

Antropologi Indonesia

This paper is intended to provide an overview of anthropological perspectives on corruption as political, social, and cultural phenomenon. The author attempted that anthropological concerns on corruption was driven by a number of epistemological reasons, institutionalized and embedded in the broader context of power relations both of globally and locally. The biggest challenge for anthropology, which deals with the complexity of corruption, lies in: how to explain or interpret such phenomenon without apprehensively will be going into ethical and moral pitfalls. On the one hand anthropologists should be described corruption as an inevitable part of wider power relations at the …

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Sekerei Mentawai: Keseharian Dan Tradisi Pengetahuan Lokal Yang Digerus Oleh Zaman, Lucky Zamzam Jan 2013

Sekerei Mentawai: Keseharian Dan Tradisi Pengetahuan Lokal Yang Digerus Oleh Zaman, Lucky Zamzam

Antropologi Indonesia

Based on data from fieldwork in Mentawai, this article discusses the researcher’s interest in traditional medicine actors among the Mentawai people, namely Sekerei. The appeal of a Sekerei is realized through their modest daily lives, despite the effect these days of power from outside and modernity, that has so heavily eroded the local knowledge available. Sekerei are diminishing numbers, and medicinal herb findings are diminishing annually, showing that traditional healers have been split into two parts, namely fixed synergized with traditional natural life, or becoming a very important part in the globalization that is gripping the power of a Sekerei.

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Kebangkitan Identitas Orang Bajo Di Kepulauan Wakatobi, Tasrifin Tahara Jan 2013

Kebangkitan Identitas Orang Bajo Di Kepulauan Wakatobi, Tasrifin Tahara

Antropologi Indonesia

This article is the research on Bajonese life in Wakatobi regency of the Southeast Sulawesi Province as a community with a maritime history and culture as part of their life. In the interactional process with other communities in its surroundings in Wakatobi, The Bajonese are often stereotyped as pirates, stupid, and with physical characteristics that are different from other communities. In fact, for so long they have been neglected from the process of development implemented by either the central government or the regency government. As a marginal ethnic group, the Bajonese develop their own awareness to do morenients to negotiate …

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Marapu: Konstruksi Identitas Budaya Orang Sumba, Ntt, Purwadi Soeriadiredja Jan 2013

Marapu: Konstruksi Identitas Budaya Orang Sumba, Ntt, Purwadi Soeriadiredja

Antropologi Indonesia

This article examines how the people of Sumba construct their cultural identity associated with their religiosity in the face of discriminatory processed around them. The Sumbanese with their Marapu religion are discriminated againts because of the cultural identity attached to it, but due to their negative image. Discriminatory categories with all the attributes and roles attached to ithemare not natural constructs, but a history and representation. The cultural identity of the Sumbanese is the result of the interaction between the forces from the "outside" and the practices of their daily life. Marapu is a religion that serve as is the …

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Memanusiakan Manusia' Dalam Lingkungan Yang Tangguh: Mengapa 'Jauh Panggang Dari Api'?, Yunita T. Winarto Jan 2013

Memanusiakan Manusia' Dalam Lingkungan Yang Tangguh: Mengapa 'Jauh Panggang Dari Api'?, Yunita T. Winarto

Antropologi Indonesia

It is a reality that our environment has become degraded due to various human activities without any concerns for the long-term sustainable implication on both nature and the people who have for generations developed social-cultural institutions to protect their environment in a sustainable manner. The problems have been more severe due to the alienation of local people in their own habitat and the replacement of their roles by those who have power and authority in introducing various kinds of development programmes. There have been no linkages between the physical and natural processes as the consequences of those programmes with people’s …

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Budaya Penjara: Arena Sosial Semi Otonom Di Lembaga Permasyarakatan "X", A. Josias Simon Runturambi Jan 2013

Budaya Penjara: Arena Sosial Semi Otonom Di Lembaga Permasyarakatan "X", A. Josias Simon Runturambi

Antropologi Indonesia

This paper is an ethnographic study to understand the prison’s culture in the correctional institutions “X”. The writer has examined carefully the way of living day by day directly and raised a variety of mutual agreements among the residents behind the prison walls. The results in the investigation field shows the limit and deprivation that appears as an interpretation actor, not the institution, that occur according certain contexts. The prison’s culture not only discuss informal agreement but how the agreements can be maintained by the actors in everyday’s life utilization in fulfilling the needs and self-interests

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Ideological War In Inclusive Twitter: #Indonesiatanpajil Versus Jaringan Islam Liberal, Sindhunata Hargyono Jan 2013

Ideological War In Inclusive Twitter: #Indonesiatanpajil Versus Jaringan Islam Liberal, Sindhunata Hargyono

Antropologi Indonesia

In early 2012, a civil-initiated movement called #IndonesiaTanpaFPI urged the government todisband an Islamic fundamentalist group called FPI (Front Pembela Islam) because of the violence to an Islamic minority group that FPI had commited earlier. #IndonesiaTanpaFPI heavily relied upon Twitter in organizing their movement, so when a counter-movement from the pro-FPI emerged, it was on Twitter as well; the counter-movement called themselves #IndonesiaTanpaJIL. This counter-movement believes that #IndonesiaTanpaFPI was actually initiated and organized by Jaringan Islam Liberal (JIL). Since then, #IndonesiaTanpaJIL and JIL have been fighting discursively on Twitter. This article concentrates on the formation of two religious publics constituted …

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Memahami Sistem Pengetahuan Budaya Masyarakat Pegunungan Tengah, Jayawijaya, Papua Dalam Konteks Kebencanaan, Leny Veronika Jan 2013

Memahami Sistem Pengetahuan Budaya Masyarakat Pegunungan Tengah, Jayawijaya, Papua Dalam Konteks Kebencanaan, Leny Veronika

Antropologi Indonesia

Jayawijaya suffers from hazards stemming from natural and human-made-disaster (anthropogenic). Dani tribe resided in Jayawijaya is known to dwell on profound influence of culture and nature allowing genuine local knowledge in managing disaster risks to breed. This study aims to understand the cultural knowledge systems of Dani tribe relating to disaster and its practices. This study is developed from desk studies and interviews with stakeholders. Dani tribe has known the concept of human-and-human and human-and-nature unison. They define this concept as transcendence relationship. Harmonious relationship between human and nature is believed would influence livelihood and in contrast would engender various …

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‘Pokok Hari Nyalah’: Catatan Budaya (Lokal) Dalam Membaca Perubahan Iklim (Global), Pangeran P. P. A. Nasution Jan 2013

‘Pokok Hari Nyalah’: Catatan Budaya (Lokal) Dalam Membaca Perubahan Iklim (Global), Pangeran P. P. A. Nasution

Antropologi Indonesia

In the last decade, the issue of climate change phenomenon has been a serious debate for the people around the world. The impact of the climate change symptom can be felt or experience directly by a societal group in any environment. The problems being experienced by the people related with the climate change phenomenon can be revealed by tracing their knowledge (culture) in understanding and predicting the circumstances of the environment; their perception about the environment which has been more unpredictable in the recent time; and the effort that were applied by them to face of the unpredictable circumstances of …

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