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SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF RITUAL IN RELIGIOUSLY PLURALISTIC SOCIETY IN IFE, OSUN, NIGERIA
Full text linkThis paper deals with the socio-economy effect of ritual in religiously pluralistic society among the people of lle-Ife land. The major focus of the research is to bring to the fore the effects of ritual in religiously pluralistic society on the people of le-Ife land especially on their social, religious and economy lives.There have been scanty works on the subject hence the study calls for chronological discourse Primary and secondary sources were used to elicit information Ile-lfe was founded in 500CE by the Yoruba people 'a Kwa-speaking people of south west Nigeria and Benni'" but did not flourish until the early part of the 2nd millennium CE. Ile-Ife was an ancient African city which flourished between 11th and 15th centuries.The people ,like other Yoruba speaking people believe in only one God but have gods as the deputies of Olodumare(God).The people are found in southwestern part of Nigeria, in West Africa. Ile-Ife was the capital and principal religious center of the Yoruba. Ile-Ife is a religiously pluralistic society with Christianity, Islam and Traditional Religion existing side by side. It was gathered that religious pluralism in Ile-Ife is on a positive side. Kinship, Marriage, social gathering and so on, are some of the factors responsible for the positive effects from the various religions in Ile-Ife
ÒRÌSÀ-OKO: THE SPIRITUAL OINTMENT FOR FARMER’S BREAKTHROUGH IN IGBETI, OYO, NIGERIA
No full textÒrìsà-Oko is a divinity connected to farming in Igbeti area of Oyo State. It is a festival celebrated once a year by farmers so they will not be plunged into primeval darkness of infertility during harvest. By implication, Òrìsà-Oko is a deity of fertility. The priests of the deity, during the festival are carefully functioning as religious leaders and are consciously precept to every rule as everything becomes invalid if one rule is obliterated. During the festival, the priests put up a sterling and stellar performance not only to religionize the process but to humorously entertain thecguests. That is why traders are allowed to sell bear, gin and all manner of local foods and traditional dancers are allowed to entertain those in attendance. Òrìsà-Oko, being the Yoruba deity of harvests, fertility, farmers is very important in the theoratic setting of the people and the deity deserves scholarly attention with a view to investigating its socio-cultural importance and its religious indispensability among farmers in the study area. Despite various studies on the deity, scholars have not discussed how important the deity is, to the farmers in Igbeti Primary and Secondary sources were used to elicit information. Òrìsà-Oko is very important among farmers in Igbeti, so much so that, if bad harvest is experienced, the farmers attribute it to the anger of the deity and the latter is immediately appeased to avoid future occurrence. The tradition of celebrating the deity must not be carpeted to ensure constant food security
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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