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CASHEW NUT PRODUCTION AND CASHEW FARMERS' WELFARE IN KOGI STATE, NORTH CENTRAL, NIGERIA
Get PDFCashew nut production plays a vital role in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in many tropical regions. This study investigates the socio-economic effects of cashew nut production on the welfare of cashew farmers in Kogi State, North Central Nigeria. Using a survey research design, data were collected from 373 cashew farmers across the three senatorial districts of the state. The study employed descriptive statistics and regression analysis to analyse the data. The findings reveal that cashew nut production, income levels, and the level of education among cashew farmers are statistically significant and positively associated with their welfare. Specifically, an increase in cashew nut production, income, and education levels corresponds to an improvement in farmers' overall well-being. The results also indicate a positive relationship between access to credit and farm size, although their effects on welfare were not statistically significant. These findings underscore the importance of promoting cashew farming as a viable livelihood strategy and addressing factors that can enhance the productivity and profitability of this agricultural activity. The study recommends strengthening educational programs for cashew farmers, facilitating access to credit and financial services, promoting sustainable farming practices, and investing in infrastructure development in cashewproducing regions
Adopting Gas Automobile Fuels (LPG & CNG) into the Nigerian Transportation System
Get PDFThis study investigates and proposes the use of gas automobile fuels (LPG & CNG) as transport fuel in Nigeria, by showing the policies and incentives that have been utilized by other countries and an analysis of the cost efficiency and environmental effect of the use of auto-gas fuels. The use of CNG and LPG as auto fuel in Nigeria presents benefits with regards to efficiency and environmental friendliness will be highlighted in this research work with emphasis on the economic advantage. Demand for natural gas is likely to overtake other fossil fuels due to its availability, accessibility, versatility and cleanliness. This research shows that adopting gas automobile fuels (LPG & CNG) as an automotive fuel has few barriers but in the long run is very viable in terms of emissions of Green-house gases to the environment and financially economical. From the study, we suggest that policies and incentives would be helpful for the implementation of auto-gas as a transport fuel with regards to fiscal and regulatory such as; excise-duty exemption or rebate, grants/tax credits for gas fueling vehicles conversion/acquisition, vehicle sales-tax exemption or income/profit tax credit and more. If Auto-gas for automotive fuel is considered and implemented in the Nigerian Transportation system, it will move the Nigerian fuel market from an inelastic feature to an elastic feature. Keywords: Gas, Automobile Fuels, Transportation System, Nigerian DOI: 10.7176/JESD/10-14-02 Publication date:July 31st 202
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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