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EFFECT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON NIGERIA’S ENERGY SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
Full text linkThis study investigates the effect of institutional quality in driving energy development in Nigeria from 1992 to 2022, examining its interaction with key economic and environmental factors such as CO₂ emissions per capita, energy imports, electricity access, GDP per capita, inflation, and renewable energy. Employing a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), the study explores both short- and long-term dynamics, highlighting institutional quality’s critical influence on energy sector outcomes. The findings reveal that strong institutional frameworks enhance energy development by supporting infrastructure growth and policy implementation, which are vital for sustainable progress. However, the limited impact of renewable energy underscores the need for increased investment and policy incentives to accelerate its adoption. Based on these findings, the study recommends strengthening institutional frameworks, enhancing governance structures, and implementing targeted policies to promote effective energy development and sustainability in Nigeria
Analysis of the Main Determinants of Inflation in Nigeria
Full text linkThe retard economic growth in Nigeria is associated with macroeconomic instability variables, in particular, the unstable rate of inflation. Consequently, the pursuance of poverty reduction and economic prosperity policy targets remained elusive. This study investigated the main determinants of inflation in Nigeria for the period 1986 – 2011. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root statistics test revealed that all the variables are stationary after first and second difference at 5% level of significance. The co-integration result reveals long-run equilibrium relationship between the rate of inflation and its determinants. The Granger causality test revealed evidence of a feedback relationship between inflation and its determinants. The estimated VAR result showed that fiscal deficits, exchange rate, import of goods and services, money supply and agricultural output have a long run influence on inflation rate in Nigeria. Only lending rate influenced inflation in the short and long run horizon. The variance decomposition and impulse response results show that “own-shocks” were significantly responsible for the variation and innovations in all the variables in the equation. Obviously, inflation in Nigeria is fiscal and monetary policy influence. While this study discourages excessive waste of public funds through fiscal deficit, it recommends that the monetary authority should encourage a lending rate policy that promotes investment as well as retention of a desired level of money supply and interest rates that reduce inflation rate in Nigeria. More so the authorities should greatly be proactive in financing agricultural and manufacturing sector to increase local production of competitive goods that appreciate the Nigeria naira currency in relation to major international currencies. Keywords: Inflation, Fiscal policy, Monetary policy, Agriculture, Econometric tools
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
Investment on Automated Teller Machines and Banks’ Customer Satisfaction in Nigeria
Full text linkThe issue associated with off banking hall and off hour transactions is currently taking a center stage in the Nigerian banking sector which influenced banks to provide Automated Teller Machines in order to dispense cash, make financial enquiries as well as funds transfers for the purpose of rendering efficient banking services to customers. But recently in Nigeria, deposits were also made through them in some banks. In Nigeria, it performances was bedeviled by some factors which necessitated this paper to focus on the relationship between investment on Automated Teller Machines and customers satisfaction using selected Banks in Nigeria. The study made use of secondary data obtained from annual reports and financial statement of sampled banks quoted in the Nigerian Stock Exchange for the period 2001-2010. Data were analyzed through the Ordinary Least Square regression model using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Finding revealed that investment on Automated Teller Machines, related software and hardware had a significant impact on banks’ customer satisfaction as measured by Total Deposit. The study recommends that banks should increase their investment on Automated Teller Machines, focus more on data security aspect and service diversification in order to build a strong and reliable relationship with customers for increased profitability Keywords: Automated Teller Machines, Banks, Customer Satisfaction, Hardware, Software, Total Deposits, Profitabilit
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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