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Academic Success in First-Year Engineering Students at Private Higher Education Institutions in Egypt: Key Factors
No full textThis research aimed to identify the key factors contributing to the success of first-year engineering students at private higher education institutions (HEIs) in Egypt. It specifically examined how various independent variables influence the success of these students, measured as the dependent variable. By analyzing these relationships, the study seeks to pinpoint key success factors (KSFs) for first year engineering students in this specific educational context. The research work employed a mixed methods approach, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The quantitative analysis involved collecting data through a survey administered to a sample of first year engineering students at private universities in Egypt. The survey collected data on student-related factors such as age, gender, perceptions and preconceptions, previous knowledge, study habits, parental education, and ethnicity, as well as institutional-related factors such as curriculum structure, professors\u27 pedagogical competencies, professors\u27 scientific competencies, and academic support services. The collected data were statistically analyzed by conducting a multivariate regression analysis. The qualitative aspect of the research work involved conducting interviews with first year engineering students to gather more in-depth insights into their experiences and perceptions. The interviews focused on exploring the students\u27 perspectives on the factors that contribute to their success, as well as any challenges they may have faced during their first year of engineering studies. The study\u27s findings provide valuable insights into the key factors that contribute to the success of first-year engineering students at private universities in Egypt, which can inform the development of effective strategies to support student success. The results of this research work contribute to the existing literature on student success in engineering and may inform future research in this area
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
Examining Critical Factors Influencing Academic Performance of Freshman Engineering Students at Private Universities in Egypt
No full textThis research aims to uncover the pivotal ele-ments that contribute to the success of engineering students in their inaugural academic year. To achieve this, we will investigate the influence of numerous intrinsic and extrin-sic factors, treating them as independent variables in our study. Our methodology is grounded in quantitative research techniques, and our primary source of data will be surveys distributed amongst first-year engineering students attending private universities in Egypt. The survey will encompass a wide variety of factors. On the student side, we will consider variables such as age, gender, preexisting notions and perceptions, prior knowledge, study habits, parental education, and ethnicity. Simultaneously, we will also examine institutional factors like the curriculum\u27s design, the pedagogical expertise and scientific knowledge of the professors, as well as the quality of academic support services available to students. The collected data will be subjected to a comprehensive statistical analysis using multivariate regression techniques. The objective of this rigorous analysis is to glean valuable insights into the key determinants of success for first-year engineering students within Egypt\u27s private university system. The results of this study are expected to significantly augment our understanding of the factors that drive student success. This, in turn, will be instrumental in formulating effective strategies to enhance student outcomes. Furthermore, the findings promise to enrich the existing body of literature on engineering student success and could serve as a valuable reference for future research in this domain
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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