Program Insentif Penulisan Artikel Ilmiah

LPPM masih menerima usulan Program Insentif Penulisan Artikel Ilmiah pada Jumal Intemasional berupa insentif bagi para dosen/peneliti ITB yang berhasil mempublikasikan artikel ilmiahnya ke dalam Jumal Ilmiah Intemasional yang dialokasi dari Dana DIPA ITB 2009. Sebagai informasi, masih tersisa dana Rp 373.000.000,- untuk usulan Tahap II dan Tahap III.

Berkas usulan seperti format terlampir, diajukan 1 rangkap, dilengkapi lampiran contoh artikel, dikirim atau diantar langsung ke alamat:

Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (LPPM) ITB
Gedung Rektorat ITB Lt. 5, J1. Tamansari No. 64 Bandung 40116
Telp. (022) 2501759; Faks. (022) 2504010

Persyaratan
1. Prioritas Insentif diberikan kepada peneliti yang artikelnya telah berstatus accepted atau published dalam jurnal ilmiah bertaraf internasional (bukan proseding) dalam 2008 dan 2009 tahun. Bukti status artikel dilampirkan.
2. Artikel ilmiah ditulis dalam salah satu bahasa resmi dalam forum PBB: Inggris, Perancis, Spanyol, Cina dan Arab.
3. Pengusul yang diperbolehkan mengikuti program ini adalah dosen lnstitut Teknologi Bandung.
4. Institusi ITB harus dicantumkan sebagai alamat pengusul dalam terbitan termaksud
5. Pengusul diperbolehkan mengajukan lebih dari 1 artikel dalam 1 tahun, namun hanya diperbolehkan menerima 1 (satu) kali insentif, kecuali diakhir periode masih tersisa dana yang belum dipakai.
6. Pengusul harus mengisi 1 (satu) lembar format Usulan Insentif Penerbitan Artikel Ilmiah.

Kriteria Penilaian
Artikel ilmiah yang diusulkan harus selaras dengan bidang ilmu yang ditekuni pengusul. Insentif diberikan dengan system first come first serve.

Jadwal
Usulan insentif penerbitan artikel ilmiah diterima dalam 3 (tiga) periode yaitu:
1. Februari 2009 – 30 April 2009
2. 1 Mei 2009 – 31 Agustus 2009
3. 1 September 2009 – 30 November 2009

yang akan dievaluasi pada bulan berikutnya. Dana insentif akan diberikan selambat-lambatnya pada bulan Desember 2009.

Pengambilan Keputusan
Jika usulan insentif publikasi lebih dari alokasi dana yang disediakan, maka akan dilakukan penilaian dengan memperhatikan:
1. Peringkat kualitas jurnal ilmiah yang menerbitkan artikel harus baik yang ditandai oleh citation index dan impact factor yang tinggi.
2. Substansi artikel harus mencerminkan adanya kontribusi terhadap pengembangan iptek, termasuk aspek originalitas serta inovasi.

The Winner Takes it All (ABBA)

I don�t wanna talk About the things we�ve gone through Though it�s hurting me Now it�s history I�ve played all my cards And that�s what you�ve done too Nothing more to say No more ace to play The winner takes it all The loser standing small Beside the victory That�s her destiny I was in your arms Thinking I belonged there I figured it made sense Building me a fence Building me a home Thinking I�d be strong there But I was a fool Playing by the rules The gods may throw a dice Their minds as cold as ice And someone way down here Loses someone dear The winner takes it all The loser has to fall It�s simple and it�s plain Why should I complain. But tell me does she kiss Like I used to kiss you? Does it feel the same When she calls your name? Somewhere deep inside You must know I miss you But what can I say Rules must be obeyed The judges will decide The likes of me abide Spectators of the show Always staying low The game is on again A lover or a friend A big thing or a small The winner takes it all I don�t wanna talk If it makes you feel sad And I understand You�ve come to shake my hand I apologize If it makes you feel bad Seeing me so tense No self-confidence But you see The winner takes it all The winner takes it all……

Innovations from the PSA Peugeot Citroen

The Group is committed to cutting the fuel consumption and pollutant emissions of its vehicles. It is innovating continuously to develop affordable vehicles that are cleaner and more economical. To maintain its European leadership in low-consumption vehicles the Group is placing the emphasis on technological innovations applicable to production vehicles, thus providing the best economic choice in terms of energy, technology and use.

• PSA Peugeot Citroën, European leader in sales of low-emission vehicles

PSA Peugeot Citroën is the manufacturer with the widest range of vehicles that respect the environment and it intends to maintain its leadership in this area.
To this end, the Group is continuing to develop a range of innovative technologies with a view to bringing to market an increasingly wide range of ecological vehicles with low CO2 emissions:

• New more economical engines setting even higher standards of performance.
• Second-generation Stop and Start micro-hybrid technology, delivering an even faster start-up with significantly improved energy recovery on braking.
• Electric vehicles from 2010.
• Hybrid4 (Full Hybrid) diesel architecture making breakthrough progress in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions from 2011.
• Rechargeable hybrids from 2012, combining electric power for day-to-day use with greater versatility for long journeys.

http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/en/psa_group/innovation_b1.php

10 Facts about Peugeot 306

In 1999, Peugeot recalled 7,940 units of the 306 because of possible seeping of petrol from the fuel pipe union. Vehicles that were affected had anew fuel pipe union installed.

2 Although the 306 was featured in the Top 10 best selling cars in Britain from 1994 to 1998, it did not fare well in ownership and customer satisfaction surveys at the time, such as the annual JD Power survey, ran in conjunction with popular TV series Top Gear.

3 All variants of the 306, with the exception of the GTI-6 and Cabriolet models, were priced very competitively. In fact, in what many observers say is a bargain, used 306’s now start at around 2,500 GBP.

4 Popular in Europe, the 306 has been featured in a myriad of European films including “Mataharis” (2007), “Candida” (2006) and “Intacto” (2001). In addition, the 206b was featured in Hollywood’s Vantage Point (2008) and Cradle of Fear (2001).

5 Peugeot created a performance variant of the 306 with the diesel unit installed. This petrol XS model, known as the D-Turbo “hot watch” version is regarded as the first affordable “performance diesel” and is credited with being the first mainstream diesel designed to appeal both to speed-loving drivers as well as economically-minded automobilists.

6 Until the arrival of the Ford Focus, the 306 was regarded as the best handling small family car of its time.

7 Despite its strong appeal to buyers, the 306’s reputation for high maintenance costs and suspect quality earned it bad press, eventually resulting in a decrease in sales

8 After Peugeot’s takeover of Citroen in the wake of the 1974 oil crisis, several Peugeot and Citroen models, like the Peugeot 306 and the Citroen ZX, have been built on the same platform.

9 In the 2006 Australian Used Car Safety Ratings, the Peugeot 306, manufactured between 1994-2001, was rated “significantly better than average” in its ability to protect its occupants in the event of a crash.

10 This fact did not help much to Jason Brain, when in last December was driving a 306 and dangerously tried to overtake a car on the highway before he ran into a VW Passat coming in the opposite direction, effectively killing six, including himself and his daughter Natasha, aged 14. Brain was proven to be driving under the influence of alcohol.

http://www.10facts.com/article/Autos/Cars/Peugeot/Peugeot-306.html

Automotive science and fiction (Peugeot and Citroen)

<!– ©PSA Peugeot Citroën –>James Bond’s 2CV in For Your Eyes Only

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Automotive science and fiction

From James Bond to The Fifth Element via Matrix and Star Wars, automotive vehicles have been transformed for the big screen. These changes find their way into regular production cars every once in a while, but generally reality rarely copies fiction. In fact, the opposite is usually the case.

JGeek 23B points its tentacle toward the vortex and says “Just you wait, Earthling, we will show you what a car is really about”. But what would an extraterrestrial vehicle actually look like? Actually, the first such vehicles already exist – and are waiting on the Moon for humans to go and drive them. Going by the sonorous name of Lunar Roving Vehicle, these utilitarian vehicles have travelled about 100 kilometres on the lunar surface as part of the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.

When cars fly
“I often think that science fiction filmmakers are happy enough taking familiar auto features into the future or simply making cars fly,” says Jean-Christophe Bolle-Reddat, Peugeot concept car architect. “In The Fifth Element, Bruce Willis drives a classic New York cab that flies. And Fantômas features a DS that suddenly takes to the air.”
Flying cars raise questions for designers of more down-to-earth vehicles. “The problem isn’t building a flying car,” says Carlo Alessandro Bonzanigo, head of international cooperation agreements and concept cars at Citroën Styling, “it’s more about learning how to drive in three dimensions. Flying vehicles would be easier to develop than the traffic management system for flying vehicles. For the moment, any such individual transport is out of the question.”

Rocket launchers and good looks
The most imaginative film franchise in terms of cars has to be the James Bond movies, positioned at the border of science fiction. Bond’s gadgets and fancy vehicle features – amphibian cars, rocket propulsion et al. – often come up short on functionality for real-world driving. “That said, some people might like the idea of a rocket launcher when stuck in traffic!” laughs Carlo Alessandro Bonzanigo.
Concept-car designers are rarely impressed by the imagination of science fiction directors. “The stuff we were looking at 15 years ago seemed like science fiction,” says Jean-Christophe Bolle-Reddat, ”technology like GPS, multimedia, warning-vibration seats and reverse radars that we use today on regular cars. Today we’re focusing on man-machine interfaces with a lot of tactile functions. There is also going to be plenty of radar-derived technology. All of this is already in our current concept cars.”
But what does interest designers in science fiction cars is the way they look. “We’re interested in the complex shapes of the vehicles,” says Jean-Christophe. “For the concept cars that preceded the 607, ‘La Féline’, we were influenced by science fiction.” Each designer has his or her favourite science fiction world, inspired by the films that have impressed them the most. Some go for the off-kilter aesthetics of Blade Runner, while others prefer the sleek futurism of Minority Report or Star Wars, while others are fans of the classic futurism of Matrix or Knight Rider. Just so long as they steer clear of Mad Max!

http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/en/magazine/magazine_doss_c4.php?id=306