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An evaluation of the programmes offered by Chilenje Trades School
No full textThe main purpose of this research project was to carry out an evaluation study of the programmes offered by the Chilenje Trades School. More specifically the study attempted to answer a few questions concerning the programmes which were offered through the following objectives.
•To determine if the programmes met their objectives.
•To identify types and sources of support available, to carry out the programmes.
•To determine whether there were adequate learning-teaching materials at the institution.
•To determine constraints faced by the institution in its operations.
•To find out the ways in which the institution was affecting its graduates in terms of skill and performance
A Comparative Study of Survival Strategies Used by the Aged in rural and Urban Areas: A case of Chongwe and Lusaka districts
Get PDFThe main purpose of the study was to compare the survival strategies that the aged used in the rural and urban areas, specifically in Chongwe and Lusaka districts. The objectives of the study were: to investigate the types of survival strategies the aged used to sustain their lives in the rural and urban areas; to determine whether or not the survival strategies the aged used addressed their financial and material needs; to identify similarities and differences in survival strategies used by the aged in rural and urban areas; and to find out whether or not extended families played a role in supporting and taking care of the aged in rural and urban areas.
The study comprised 97 senior citizens who were purposively selected from Chongwe and Lusaka districts. 84 senior citizens were subjected to a structured interview, while 13 participated in the two focus group discussions. Therefore, structured interview guides and two focus group discussions were used to collect data in Chongwe and Lusaka districts. Data from focus group discussions was analyzed qualitatively. However, depending on the questions and the responses from the respondents, similar responses from structured interviews were coded into themes. This approach allowed the researcher to analyze most of the data from structured interviews quantitatively by using a computer programme called Statistical Package for Social Statistics version 14.
The study established that several types of survival strategies were used by the aged in rural and urban areas. The findings revealed that senior citizens in Chongwe and Lusaka districts were trades men and women. Others depended on their extended family members for support and care. This was the case for majority respondents from Chongwe district compared to their counterparts in Lusaka. There were a number of senior citizens who were also assisted financially and materially by local churches, charitable organizations and well wishers within and outside their communities.
The study further revealed that survival strategies that were used by the aged in the two districts were such that they did not address all their financial and material needs. Although majority senior citizens were business men and women, their businesses, according to the findings, were not capital intensive, hence less lucrative. Consequently, majority senior citizens in the two districts resorted to eating once or twice in a day in order to conserve food for subsequent days. The situation was exacerbated further in Lusaka, as opposed to Chongwe, because senior citizens there had a lot of dependents. As a result and except for a few, most of the aged scraped a living on less than a dollar per day in the two districts.
It was also revealed that there existed minor differences in survival strategies the aged used in Chongwe and Lusaka districts. The differences were mostly in quantity and not in the quality or types of strategies. For instance, it was established that majority senior citizens in Chongwe depended on their extended family members as compared to their counterparts in Lusaka. In contrast, majority of the aged in Lusaka were trades men and women as opposed to those in Chongwe. Nevertheless, most of the strategies that were employed in the two districts were similar.
The study further established that majority senior citizens in Chongwe expressed satisfaction with the help they received from extended family members as opposed to their counterparts in Lusaka. The findings indicated that majority senior citizens in Lusaka lived on their own as heads of their family households. On the other hand, most of the aged in Chongwe lived with other family members as dependents
An evaluation of the programmes offered by Chilenje Trades School
No full textThe main purpose of this research project was to carry out an evaluation study of the programmes offered by the Chilenje Trades School. More specifically the study attempted to answer a few questions concerning the programmes which were offered through the following objectives.
•To determine if the programmes met their objectives.
•To identify types and sources of support available, to carry out the programmes.
•To determine whether there were adequate learning-teaching materials at the institution.
•To determine constraints faced by the institution in its operations.
•To find out the ways in which the institution was affecting its graduates in terms of skill and performance
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
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