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An application of the SWICi board game in career decision intervention module for at-risk adolescents / Yusnita Ibrahim and Intan Syahriza Azizan
Full text linkThis article introduces the SWICi board game based on the underpinning Social Cognitive Career Theory. The SWICi board game is one of the activities in the Career Decision Intervention Module. The main objective of this SWICi board is game to assist at-risk adolescents in Malaysia to explore their career identity and knowledge in the world of work to increase efficacies in their career decision-making process. SWICi board game can be played individually or in groups of 2 to 6 adolescents. The development of SWICi board game of the Career Decision Intervention module for at-risk adolescents was validated by 10 experts. Then, a group of adolescents from 13 to 17 years was piloted to check the module’s reliability movement which ensue onward to a preliminary study. The pilot study demonstrated the process of validation for the Career Decision Intervention Module that contributes to the development of ‘best-practices’ in guiding adolescents’ career decision-making. The SWICi board game received favourable responses from adolescents that brought about a crucial outcome. In addition, brief implications and recommendations for future research and practices are provided
Effeminacy among university students: exploring the perception towards effeminacy from university students' perspectives / Khadijah Said Hashim ... [ et al. ]
Full text linkThe concern of this research is to explore the students' perception towards the issue of effeminacy in higher institution. It is assumed that, different people will hold different perception towards this group. On top of that, to define effeminacy it is a phenomenon when a male has a tendency to exhibit and adopt one or more of female character (s) and behavior. The study is relevant because despite rejection, stigma and negative treatment from society, effeminacy still exist and increase in number. In the effort to explore about students' perception towards effeminacy, this research focuses on research question: perception on effeminates social relationship and friendship. The survey conducted by distributing questionnaires to 100 respondent students ranging from 19 years old to 36 years old of males and females. The data reveals that majority of the respondents (91%) have effeminate friends and the remaining of 9% have no experience any friendship with effeminates. It is hoped that, this research will at least give a better insight to the society at large, about effeminates as one of the groups that exist in society before giving any stereotypical remarks. In fact, this group and other similar groups like transvestites and hermaphrodites should not be discriminated blindly as they need help, guide and support to continue their lives and functions in society
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
Integriti pengguna media sosial / Intan Syahriza Azizan...[et al.]
Full text linkMalaysia amnya, mempunyai kepelbagaian saluran media massa. Kepelbagaian media massa boleh diklasifikasikan kepada beberapa item iaitu saluran tradisional dan saluran konvensional termasuklah media sosial seperti internet. Saluran media sosial merupakan satu platform interaksi, penyampaian maklumat dan propaganda, wadah pembelajaran serta sumber rujukan interaktif dan kreatif. Perkembangan saluran media massa ini bertambah pesat di mana penyebaran maklumat berlaku setiap saat tanpa batasan. Justeru itu, untuk memelihara integriti pengguna proses pemantauan harus sentiasa diimplementasikan dan dilestarikan demi kesejahteraan semua dan nama baik negara. Pola perbincangan penulisan ini lebih bersandarkan kepada pola kepentingan nilai dan integeriti pengguna media sosial, kerangka teori yang berkait dengan media sosial, isu-isu yang dihubungkaitkan dengan saluran media sosial, dan diakhiri dengan beberapa cadangan pengukuhan integriti. Diharapkan penulisan kertas kerja ini dapat memberikan sedikit impak positif agar setiap pengamal saluran media sosial dapat mengadaptasikan nilai-nilai integriti dalam penyediaan bahan maklumat untuk saluran masing-masing
Responsiveness and the influence to public trust: the study on local government service delivery / Nor Zaini Zainal Abidin, Kuppusamy Singaravelloo and Intan Syahriza Azizan
Full text linkResponsiveness is a principle of administrative accountability towards clients and customers. Indeed, local government service delivery is the main component in the government that exemplifies responsiveness function that connects the public and local authorities. Being the service provider to the public at their localities, fast response is an important ingredient to ensure public confidence and trust which simultaneously leads to work quality. Thus, responsiveness of local government affects the positive communion between these two stakeholders. This paper focuses on the influence of responsiveness towards public trust especially on local government service delivery in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. These two local authorities were chosen to conform whether they are “listening bureaucrats” which are sensitive and sympathetic to public outcry. This research found that there was a strong connection between responsiveness and public trust. Moreover, the findings confirm that speed on any queries and request of service by local government paying the heed in influencing public to trust local government and government in power. Thus, the result showed that responsiveness is important be it for the state or federal government, because responsiveness can gain public to trust the government
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
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