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2011 Presidential Election and the Political Participation in Nigeria
Get PDFThe study examined the 2011 presidential election and the level of citizens’ participation in Nigeria. The study showed the preparation, challenges and the conduct of 2011 election in Nigeria with a major reference to the presidential election. The study further observed that there was an average level of citizens’ participation in the 2011 presidential poll. By embarking on comparative analysis, the participation of the electorates in the 2011 presidential election was low compared to the previous presidential elections Nigeria had in the era of fourth republic. It was revealed that incessant electoral fraud introduced into the electoral game by the politicians, loss of public confi dence and ‘do or die’ syndrome might be responsible for low level of voters’ turn out. The study also observed that the 2011 elections were just a watershed on the previous elections of the fourth republic. The study recommended that lapses of the 2011 elections should be taken care of by the INEC in order to further consolidating and deepening democracy in Nigeria.Key words: Presidential poll; Political parties; Election; Electoral fraud; DemocracyRésumé L’étude a examiné l’élection présidentielle 2011 et le niveau de participation des citoyens au Nigeria. L’étude a montré les défis de préparation, et la conduite des élections de 2011 au Nigeria avec une référence majeure pour l’élection présidentielle. L’étude a également observé qu’il y avait un niveau moyen de la participation des citoyens au scrutin présidentielle de 2011. En s’engageant sur l’analyse comparative, la participation des électeurs à l’élection présidentielle de 2011 a été faible par rapport aux précédentes élections présidentielles au Nigeria avaient à l’époque de la IVe République. Il a été révélé que la fraude électorale incessante introduit dans le jeu électoral par les politiciens, la perte de la confiance du public et ‘ne meurent ou’ syndrome pourrait être responsable de faible niveau des électeurs tourner. L’étude a également observé que les élections de 2011 étaient juste un bassin versant sur les élections précédentes de la quatrième république. L’étude a recommandé que les défaillances des élections de 2011 devraient être pris en charge par la CENI en vue de consolider et renforcer la démocratie au Nigeria.Mots clés: Election présidentielle; Les partis politiques; Des élections; La fraude électorale; La Démocrati
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
ELECTION, MONEY POLITICSAND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABILITY OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA
Get PDFAlthough money politics contributes significantly to democracy, it also has negative impact on sustaining democracy in developing democracies such as Nigeria and other African countries. Due to this, the study examines the antecedents of money politics with a view to establishing the reasons responsible for money politics, the strengths and shortcomings of money politics and the implications it has on sustaining democracy in Nigeria. Making use of secondary sources of data, the study found out that increase in population cum high value of money, increase in number of political parties, high intensity of electoral contests and desperation to control government by political class are the factors responsible for money bag politics. Despite the fact that money politics hasthe strengths, it has implications of encouraging looters, eroding competence of the candidate, weakening political participation and undermining democratic governance in Nigeria. The study concludes that unregulated money politics in elections by political parties and politicians has debilitating impact on sustaining democracy and that it is only the hostile stance of government that can completely root out the pervasive money bag politics in Nigeria. The study recommends that government should redesign the framework of money bag politics in order to ensure strict compliance by the political parties and other stakeholders in the conduct of election in Nigeria
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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