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Kingship and Integrity in Psalm 72:1-7 and Its Relevance for National Stability in Nigeria
Full text linkWhile leadership integrity has been variously described as invaluable for good governance in the field of scholarship, yet, Africa and Nigeria, in particular, are continuously plagued with crisis and instability emanating from lack of leadership integrity. This paper is an attempt to survey kingship integrity from the biblical perspective as expressed in Psalm 72:1-7. Examine the key terms “justice and righteousness” used to convey the idea of integrity and evaluate their impact on ancient Israelite’s kingship and its relevance for national stability in Nigeria. Form-critical method of exegesis which pays close attention to the genre/classification of the text; it's setting in Israel's life and makes a comparison with the ancient Near Eastern background has been adopted. The study reveals that justice and righteousness are the key elements of leadership integrity in ancient Israel, the impact of which is quietness, stability and security in the land. These elements are divinely banqueted by God the just and righteous one. It also reveals that leadership integrity is achievable through the conscious effort of both the leaders and the led. Moreover, peace and stability can be true of any nation if the culture of justice and righteousness are imbibed by the people. Thus, the study emphasizes the need to inculcate the virtue of integrity in the young ones who are believed to be the leaders of tomorrow
LAMENT PSALMS, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND GOVERNANCE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA
Full text linkManaging and coping with distress is one aspect of human life that remains a puzzle. Different cultures and traditions have developed means of handling issues of distress. Psalm scholars have discovered that in the lament psalms ancient Israel’s answer to the issues of life’s distress. By lament, the focus is on the category of psalms located within the worship setting that bemoan distressing situations of life and plead for divine intervention. Apart from mourning, several times the psalmists' lament comes inform of protest in the face of injustice, persecution, individual and communal disasters, among others. Governance in the Nigerian state has been plagued with a number of woes including insecurity and social injustice. Thus, the need to further explore justification for the Christian community in mobilizing lament to ease distresses ushered in by contemporary security challenges, create awareness for justice and foster national cohesion. This paper written from the functionalist perspective of religion, explored how the reading of lament psalms can initiate a healing process for the distressed Nigerian church and promote social cohesion. A multidisciplinary research approach was adopted premised on form criticism and conceptual review and sourced datawas critically analyzed. The paper discovered that communal reading of lament psalms in the face of national disaster provided sharing platforms where the distressed expressed pain by composing their distresses. Thus, the work maintains the efficacy of lament in initiating a healing process, strengthening communal bonds and eliciting the hope of restoration in the Nigerian situation
Sex Education: Ancient Israel and Igbo Traditional Practices
Full text linkEvery human (male and female) is a sexual being. Exploring and experiencing one’s sexuality is part of being human. Unfortunately, human’s curiosity and interest concerning sexuality are not always guided and nurtured in a wholesome way because sex is viewed as sacred and talking about it constitutes a taboo. Hence, many parents are at ease to teach their children about virtually every other thing in life, but they usually do not, however, teach about sexuality with similar ease. As a result, many grow into adulthood with partial and distorted views of human sexuality. The aim of the study was to discover the teachings of Proverbs 7:24-27 on sex education along traditional practices in tone with sex education in Igbo culture and determine the place of proper sex education for better dealing and understanding of human sexuality. The study adopted African inculturation hermeneutics which makes African social cultural context the subject of interpretation. The study revealed that sex education was integral to the training of the young adults in ancient Israel Igbo cultures. However, the study observed some areas of strength and weaknesses of sexuality training in Igbo traditional practices. Thus, the research upheld that the instructions on human sexuality preserved in the book of Proverbs are very relevant in strengthening the contemporary Igbo culture and her traditional practices in the training of young adults in the areas of chastity. Therefore, the paper called for proper sex education in the Igbo society to instill sexual purity among youths of contemporary Igbo 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
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
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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