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Improve Discoverability And Recognition For Your Research Activities With ORCID
No full textPersistent Identifiers (PIDs) are foundational components of research infrastructure. This session will offer an introduction to PIDs and how they enable trustworthy and transparent connections between researchers, their contributions and institutions. Researchers can use ORCID iDs to be uniquely identified and connected to their activities and contributions. Join this webinar to learn how to increase discoverability and recognition for your research with ORCID. There will be plenty of time for Q&A and we are looking forward to an interactive session and animated discussion
Asymmetries In Vowel-Pair Frequencies And Height Harmony In Bantu
No full textIn this paper, I present an exploration of vowel-pair frequencies in the nouns of six five-vowel Bantu languages and discuss their relationship with those alternations seen in verbs due to height harmony. Of particular interest is the disparity in the frequencies of two vowel pairs disagreeing in height, specifically [e.i] and [o.u], both between themselves and with the corresponding pairs which agree in height, namely [e.e] and [o.o]. The results show that while both [e.e] and [o.o] are over-represented, [e.i] and [o.u] are generally under-represented. In addition to this, [o.u] is consistently less frequent than [e.i] and the difference in representation between [o.o] and [o.u] is larger than between [e.e.] and [e.i]
Re-usable Survey Tools and Data for Advancing Open Science
No full textRe-usable Survey Tools and Data for Advancing Open Scienc
Technology Infrastructure as a Key Enable For Sustaining Teaching and Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textThe Contribution of Private Sector in the provision of Higher Education in Tanzania: Growth and Challenges
No full textThis study sought to capture the involvement of the private sector in the provision of higher education: Growth and administrative challenges facing private universities in Tanzania. Data was gleaned through the employment of a questionnaire, an in-depth interview guide, and a document analysis guide; five universities were included in the study. A sample size of 150 participants were involved in the study, including 100 Lecturers, 40 university students and 10 private university managers in the country. The research utilized mixed methods, convergent parallel research methods designs, which involved quantitative and qualitative paradigms. The instruments for data collection were a questionnaire, an interview, and observation. Validity and reliability were checked, the result of Cronbach's alpha was 0.861 indicating that the instruments were valid and reliable. Data was collected, coded using expressive statistics with the support package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 21. Qualitative information was coded by the naming of conceptual categories and main themes to obtain numerous realities. The current study established that private universities are contributing greatly to the provision of quality education in Tanzania. These include the fact that private universities outnumber public universities hence they enroll more students, they also employ more lecturers and their students perform better than those in public universities. Nevertheless, they encounter challenges such as lack of funds, research and publication, quality assurance specifically TCU issues which hinders the growth of private universities and loss of qualified experienced academic staff. This study recommends that private universities should endlessly focus at future staffing levels and guarantee strategies are revised so as to involve more students, managers in private universities need to expand, diversify and remodel their way of operations as well as putting in place the necessary support systems and resources as intervention measures to strengthen the provision of higher education to the students enrolled in the universities. There is also a need for universities to conduct more research for social transformation. Universities should partner with industry in the improvement of technology and the generation of market-driven programs
A Note On Wh-Questions In Avatime
No full textThis paper examines wh-question constructions in Avatime, an endangered Ghana Togo Mountain language. We focus on the different wh-strategies and island constraints and discuss these in relation to left peripheral elements such as question particles and complementizers
Open Science in Kenya: Where are we?
No full textAccording to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Open Science is the movement to make scientific research and data accessible to all. It has great potential for advancing science. At its core, it includes (but is not limited to) open access, open data, and open research. Some of the associated advantages are promoting collaboration, sharing, and reproducibility in research, and preventing the reinvention of the wheel, thus saving resources. As research becomes more globalized and its output grows exponentially, especially in data, the need for open scientific research practices is more evident — the future of modern science. This has resulted in a concerted global interest in open science uptake. Even so, barriers still exist.
The formal training curriculum in most, if not all, universities in Kenya does not equip students with the knowledge and tools to subsequently practice open science in their research. Therefore, to work openly and collaboratively, there is a need for awareness and training in the use of open science tools. These have been neglected, especially in most developing countries, and remain barriers to the cause. Moreover, there is scanty research on the state of affairs regarding the practice and/or adoption of open science. Thus, we developed, through the OpenScienceKE framework, a model to narrow the gap. A sensitize-train-hack-collaborate model was applied in Nairobi, the economic and administrative capital of Kenya.
Using the model, we sensitized through seminars, trained on the use of tools through workshops, applied the skills learned in training through hackathons to collaboratively answer the question on the state of open science in Kenya. While the former parts of the model had 20 - 50 participants, the latter part mainly involved participants with a bioinformatics background, leveraging their advanced computational skills.
This model resulted in an open resource that researchers can use to publish as open access cost-effectively. Moreover, we observed a growing interest in open science practices in Kenya through literature search and data mining, and that lack of awareness and skills may still hinder the adoption and practice of open science. Furthermore, at the time of the analyses, we surprisingly found that out of the 20,069 papers downloaded from BioRXiv, only 18 had Kenyan authors, a majority of which are international (16) collaborations. This may suggest poor uptake of the use of preprints among Kenyan researchers. The findings in this study highlight the state of open science in Kenya and the challenges facing its adoption and practice while bringing forth possible areas for primary consideration in the campaign towards open science. It also proposes a model (sensitize-train-hack-collaborate model) that may be adopted by researchers, funders, and other proponents of open science to address some of the challenges faced in promoting its adoption in Kenya
Acoustic Correlates To Contrastive Tone Heights In Two African Languages
No full textLanguages with contrastive tone may phonetically realize tonal distinctions through changes in F0, relative F0, and vowel duration, amongst other cues (Abramson 1979; Zhang 2001; Levi 2005; Brunelle & Kirby 2016; Yu 2010). It has been argued that there is a universal correlation between vowel duration and F0, where H tones correspond to short vowels, and L tones correspond to long vowels (Abramson 1979; Dreher & Lee 1968; Gandour 1977). This pilot study expands the study of acoustic correlates of tonal contrasts by examining the interaction of pitch and duration in two understudied African languages: Nobiin and Guébie. The pilot study results do not show evidence for a negative correlation between pitch and vowel
duration, suggesting this presumed universal correlation may be language (or even speaker) specific. Furthermore, the acoustic correlates to tone are independent of the phonological inventories of Nobiin and Guébie, which has implications for the
phonetics/phonology interface
Tshoboko ya tiriso ya dipatlisiso tsa diphologolo tsa naga le tikologo mo Botswana
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URL - References https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14393225Lay summary in Setswana of thesis by Monica Morrison:The Uptake of Wildlife Research in Botswana: a study of Productive Interactions, Stellenbosch University, 2021