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Attitude towards retirement and financial preparation, perception of civil servants
Full text linkMonetary Economics: Issues and Challenges provides the insights of monetary economics. The book would enable readers to understand the latest development in the banking sector. The latest development covers Islamic finance, retirement planning tools and Bank Negara’s Reserve Requirement Policies. The book would be a need for students in the area of finance and for investors to keep themselves updated on the latest development related to monetary issues
Assessing Financial Returns on Microloans from Economic, Social and Environment Impact: A Case in Kota Kinabalu
No full textIn Malaysia microfinance programs have been implemented since 1987 as one of the poverty eradication approaches. There are three large microfinance institutions in Malaysia known as Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM), Yayasan Usaha Maju (YUM) and The Economic Fund for National Entrepreneurs Group (TEKUN). The main objective of this study being carried out is to determine whether financial and non-financial services influence the impact of microcredit among AIM, TEKUN and YUM recipients by using economic, social and environment as the impact of microcredit. In this study, financial services cover loan services in loan disbursements, loan repayment, loan size, loan usage and loan interest rate. The non-financial services cover training, monitoring, communication and pressure. A total of 350 questionnaires were distributed. However, only 300 questionnaires were returned. Based on 300 respondents, data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) for profile of the respondents and Partial Least Square (SmartPLS) for measurement model and structural model. The result indicates that financial services has an impact on economy and social only, while non-financial services has an impact on economy, social as well as environment. This study also consistents with previous studies regarding financial services and non financial services and its impact with microcredit. Finally, this study discusses some practical and theoretical implication as well as some suggestion for both borrowers and microfinance institutions to improve and develop economically, socially and environmentally financial instruments
Spending, savings and investment: an Islamic perspective
Full text linkMonetary Economics: Issues and Challenges provides the insights of monetary economics. The book would enable readers to understand the latest development in the banking sector. The latest development covers Islamic finance, retirement planning tools and Bank Negara’s Reserve Requirement Policies. The book would be a need for students in the area of finance and for investors to keep themselves updated on the latest development related to monetary issue
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
Factors that Influence Investment Decisions with Demographic Variables as Moderators: A Case Study in Kota Kinabalu
No full textThe study aims to identify the factors that influence the risk taking behaviour ininvestment with demographic variables as the moderating variables. The dependent variable is the risk taking behaviour meanwhile the independent variables are security, awareness, opinion, benefit, duration and hedging. The analysis begins with the profile of the respondent. Around 250 respondents answered the questionnaire. The reliability and the validity of the questionnaire were tested. The reliability was tested using the Cronbach Alpha meantime the validity was tested using the factor analysis. This is followed by the correlation and regression. The moderating variables like age, gender marital status and income were used. The result revealed that other than opinion all other variables were found to be significant at 5 per cent significance level. Similarly all the demographic variables are also found to have a moderating effect with the risk taking behaviour
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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