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An Examination of Legal Regulation and Environmental Impacts of Telecommunications Installations in Nigeria
Get PDFFor telecommunications services to be effective and meet minimum global standards in a given economy, telecommunications installations need to be technically specified and regulated. This is to ensure efficient control and management of the environment where the installations are being made. The environmental impact of the installations therefore cannot be over-emphasised. This paper examined the legal regulation of telecommunications installations, especially masts and towers. It also considered the environmental impacts of telecommunication installations. It also considered the roles of concerned regulatory authorities vis-a-vis their regulatory functions in the provisions of effective telecommunications services through telecommunications installations and provision of healthy environment.It has been found that despite the statutory regulation of telecommunications on one hand and the environment on the other hand, there appears to be statutory overlaps in the functions of regulatory authorities. This has resulted in a face-off among the relevant authorities. The issue is whether the provision of telecommunications services must be given priority to the detriment of a healthy environment. The paper recommended that there should be periodic review of relevant regulations and guidelines on telecommunications installations for effective telecommunications service delivery without unnecessarily tampering with the health of the citizenry. Keywords: telecommunications intallations, environment, service provide
An Overview of Legal Regulation and Institutional Framework for the Nigerian Tax Policy and Administration
Get PDFThe Nigerian Tax System is generally looked upon as a source of Government revenue in so far as economic activity is carried on in the society. Recent developments in the global economy have significantly impacted Government revenue and this has directed focus on taxation as a sustainable source of income to the government.
The various tax authorities at all levels of government have difficulties in adhering to the statutory roles and collectible taxes in their various jurisdictions. The taxpayer is therefore at the receiving end as he is at a loss as to which tier of government collects which tax. The resultant effect is non-payment of tax or non-compliance with tax laws. It is in line with this that the National Tax Policy intends to create awareness on the importance of the role, which taxation can play in securing a stable flow of revenue for the Government.
This paper discussed the Nigerian Tax policy and administration with a view to finding solutions to the challenges in the policy issues and administration of tax in Nigeria. The paper recommended that there is a need for public enlightenment and tax information and research services should be embarked upon by various tax authorities and administrators, and tax payers should be made to see the benefits of their taxes. The whole essence is to maximise tax revenue within the jurisdiction of each Government in line with Constitutional and statutory provisions.
Key words: Taxation, Tax Policy, Tax Administratio
Consumer rights protection and its impact on service quality in the telecommunications sector
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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
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