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Contributing to the Emiratization Process via Deployment of TQM Approach in Developing Skills at Higher Education Institutions
No full textThis paper reflects on how a TQM approach can be deployed by Higher Education Institutions in order to develop employability skills that the author re-terms as Capability Building skills, in graduates thereby assisting the Emiratization process at grass root level. The author basis the paper on the fact that HEI’s have a large role to play in the socio-development of the country.(Jasim Al-Ali, 2008)maintains a comprehensive list of factors identified as barriers to the Emiratization process. The author maintains many of these issues can be worked on utilizing the TQM principles of continuous improvement, customer focus, the input, process and output model and applying these to the delivery model at Higher Education institutions in UAE. Abiding by the general practices in academia, UAE universities as well produce graduate competencies/skills in addition to the conceptual knowledge. Within this piece, a novel dimension signifying the substance and value adding property of Higher Education institutions inculcated with TQM factors and models shall surface in contributing to Emiratization process – a key UAE policy
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
Mentors and reflective frameworks: Internationalizing the local provision of professional development in e-Learning: A New Zealand case study
Get PDFThe concept of reflection as a tool to improve professional practice has been widely debated in educational circles for a number of decades. Advocates of reflective practice assert deep learning occurs as individuals make meaning from their experiences through the process of reflection. To engage participants in the reflective process, to aid them in making connections between their previous experiences and accepted international standards, self-reflective frameworks have been developed. Reflective frameworks enable professionals to identify both their key strengths and focus areas for improvement. As individuals compare their current performance against accepted best-practice they are able to take ownership of their professional development and generate personal learning plans (PLPs) to meet their identified needs. However, an inherent risk in this self-reflective approach is the existing cognitive ability of the individual to undertake the complex tasks of reflection and the subsequent creation of a PLP. One way to mitigate this inherent risk is through the appointment of a mentor. This case study will explore the design, development and deployment of a self-reflective framework, The Competency Assessment Tool (The CAT), and describe how mentor-learner roles and responsibilities are defined. The study will conclude that through this process of on-going refection, mentoring, feedback and follow-through a local environment, encouraging greater autonomy, personal transformation and deeper self-reflection is created on the foundation blocks of international best-practice
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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