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Impact Assessment of Covid-19 Lockdown on Teaching and Learning in Federal College of Education, Zaria
Full text linkBy late 2019 the world experienced the emergence and surge in coronavirus that was later described as health pandemic This has led to colossal damage in many sectors of the global system All countries affected by the pandemic adopted many strategies to curb the spread and mitigate the further human lives loss Lockdown or movement restrictions as one of the protocols were imposed The lockdown affected all sectors of the economy including education as academic institutions were closed The study therefore accessed the impact of the lockdown on teaching and learning in Federal College of Education Zaria The study adopted a descriptive survey design and 120 respondents comprising 51 academic staff 25 non-academic staff and 44 students were randomly sampled for the administration of the questionnaire The questionnaire used was self-structured and designed by the researchers tagged C-19LTL- FCE-Zaria Data collected were analyzed using quantitative descriptive statistical tools of mean and standard deviation and regression for testing the hypothesis The findings show that controlling further spread of the coronavirus among citizens was among the reasons for the enforcement of covid-19 lockdown in Kaduna Stat
Intervention Programme among Resettled Communities in Taraba State: Stakeholders’ Structure and Power Dynamics
Full text linkThe study deployed a qualitative approach (Key Informant Interview) to elicit information from its sample subjects. The objective is to assess stakeholders’ structure and power dynamics in the NEFSLESP intervention programme implemented under the auspices of Fadama-III-AF-II in Taraba State. A purposive sampling was used to select 15 key informants. The stakeholders ' structure and interests are critical to the effectiveness of every development intervention. Who then were the stakeholders in the NEFSLESP intervention programme and what were their power distribution and interests? The findings reveal that Fadama officers (National, State and Local levels), community leaders, politicians, development agents, and service providers constitute the major stakeholder structure of the NEFSLESP intervention programme. The World Bank, the Nigerian Government, and the community leaders influenced the policy agenda of the intervention. The study further found that the programme's demand-driven nature meant the beneficiaries' ideas and needs dominated the intervention design. The key development values of the intervention include participatory governance, inclusivity, and demand-driven assistance. The power dynamics analysis also shows that the stakeholders identified exercise authority and influence based on their roles and interests. This study, therefore, contributes to political economy discourse about enhancing stakeholders' structures and power dynamics as a leads up to improving the effectiveness of intervention programmes. Thus, it recommends that the Government and civil society organisations should build systems that formally institutionalise the demand-driven nature of intervention programmes, thereby reducing elite capture of interventions
Neo-Colonialism and Dependent Development in African Countries: A Critical Analysis of Nigeria's Neo-Colonial Status
Full text linkThis study critically examined Neo-colonialism and Dependent Development of African Countries. The need for the liberation of Nigeria from the shackles of neo-colonial status and its negative impacts on the socio-economic and political spheres of the country is germane. Nigeria has been in a neo-colonial trap since independence in 1960 like many other African countries with the active involvement of the elites. The study adopted the secondary source of data collection and analysis. The dependency theory was adopted as the framework for analysis due to its relevance in explaining today’s global imbalances. The imperial powers employ economic, financial and trade policies to dominate less developed countries like Nigeria. This has generated greater dependence of the state in different dimensions regarding economic, political and socio-cultural aspects, irrespective of the nation's wealth. Through the Britton Woods Institutions loan conditionality, the IMF and World Bank have kept Nigeria and other African countries in a debt cycle leading to a perpetual debt trap and their inability to govern their economies. The study recommended that the Nigerian leadership should promote internal measures to direct its economic systems out of the shackles of neo-colonialism and imbalance relationship through industrialization and internal political and economic policies outside those of the Britton woods institutions of World Bank and IMF
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
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
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