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IN-SERVICE TRAINING AND EMPLOYEES’ PRODUCTIVITY IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY
Get PDFHotel employees in Lagos State tend to become obsolete due to organizational, technological, and social dynamicsas a result of little or no attention to staff training needs. Studies that examined the link between in-service training and employees’ productivity in the hotel industry in Nigeria, particularly in Lagos State, have not been reported, hence the justification for this study. The main objectives of the study are to examined the correlation between the dimensions of in-service training and employees’ productivity in the hotel industry in Lagos state. Human capital theory and a quantitative research design were used. The research population comprised the 792 registered hotels in the 20 LGA in Lagos State out of which 63 hotels were selected through systematic random sampling. Taro Yamane formula was used to determine the sample size of 1,624 staffs out of 330staffs in the selected hotels in the 20 LGAs of Lagos State. Structured questionnaires were used to collect the data, and analysed using Multiple Regression. The tested hypothetical relationship between dimensions of in-service training and employees' productivity shows that both on-the- job training and off-the-job training has positive and significant relationship with employees’ productivity. It is concluded that on-the-job and off-the-job training are therapies for enhanced employees’ job productivity in the hotel industry
MOVING BEYOND OIL: TOURISM ECONOMY OPTION AND THE REALITIES OF REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
Get PDFPurpose- The oil sector has been the main driver of the Nigerian economy due to its dependence on crude oil revenues.Despite the oil boom, Nigeria is still submerged in uncontainable poverty, and scary unemployment complications. It is against this backdrop that this study scrutinizes the extent integration of tourism economy including, feasible tourism regulatory framework can impact positively to unlocking the Nigerian strangling economy.
Research Methodology- The study been an exploratory study, reviewed various reports and previous literature in this domain study upon which the study made insightful inferences.
Findings- The study finds that tourism economy has the potential to becoming instrument of economic regeneration and stability for Nigeria given its important role in revenue generation, jobs creation, and infrastructure development. Thus, further reveals that Nigeria can only maximise her tourism economy potentials if tourism regulatory framework gear towards environmental sustainability, a secure and safe Nigeria, prioritisation of the tourism sector, and promotion of health and sanitary practices were galvanized.
Research Implications– By establishing the need for economic diversification to tourism economy, thisstudy offers an insight on the need for the government of Nigeria to enforce favourable policy environment that supports tourism business investment.
Originality: This study is the first to verify the connection between tourism economy, tourism regulatoryframework and economy diversification in Nigeria. The study argues that diversifying to and promoting tourism economy has the capacity to remodeling the Nigeria choking economy.
 
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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