Esensi Bantuan Pemerintah Kabupaten Badung Terhadap Keberdayaan Masyarakat
Community empowerment is a concept that summarizes the economic development of social values. This concept reflects the new development paradigm, namely "people centered, participatory, empowering, and sustainable". This concept is broader than merely satisfy basic needs or provide a mechanism to prevent further impoverishment (safety net), whose thinking recently been developed as an effort to find an alternative to the concepts of growth in the past. Empowerment aims to encourage the community that is still below the poverty line by collectively involved in the decision-making process, including overcoming the unsatisfied condition that there are filled. Empowerment was also marked by the increasing capacity of the population collectively in managing development organizations independently
Regional SMEs and Competition in the Wake of the Financial and Economic Crisis
The Asian financial and economic crisis had widespread effects, many of which are still in the process of being resolved. While the region consists of many diverse, although closely integrated, economies, a common characteristic is the significance of a sizeable and rapidly expanding SME sector. However, given such diversity, it can be reasonably expected that the SMEs in these economies are at different stages of development, their contributions to the respective economies are different, and policies adopted in these economies as a means of encouraging their development will also diverge. While they may face similar general difficulties such as: access to finance; access to technology; development of human resources; and access to market information, it is unlikely that these difficulties are inherently identical, and hence appropriate policies to stimulate their recovery are also unlikely to be identical across these varying economies. However, what is clear is that these SMEs, in the wake of the financial and economic crisis of 1997/98 and the immense restructuring across the region that is taking place with the objective of producing transparent, efficient and globally competitive corporate sectors, are in a strong position to lead the economic recovery of the region arising from increased business opportunities.
Dimensional Errors of Fixtures, Locating and Measurement Datum Features in the Stream of Variation Modeling in Machining
Machining processes are usually multi-station processes involving a large number of operations and several locating datum changes. Machining errors are thus introduced, transformed and accumulated as the workpiece is being machined. This paper introduces procedures for expressing the influence of errors in fixtures, locating datum features and measurement datum features on dimensional errors in machining. These procedures are essential in the derivation of the Stream of Variation model of dimensional machining errors using the CAD/CAPP parameters of the machining process. The linear state space form of the Stream of Variation model allows for advanced control theory achievements to be employed in formal solutions to problems in multi-station machining. Modeling procedures presented in this paper were experimentally verified in machining of an automotive cylinder head.