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Academics pan MP’s ‘half-baked’ idea of Mitra-like unit for Dayaks
Full text linkAcademics, Jayum Jawan & Madeline Berma commented on suggestiuon of having MITRA-liked unit for the Dayaks in Sarawak.
Two Dayak academics have shot down a Gabungan Parti Sarawak MP’s proposal for the
government to set up an agency like the Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (Mitra) to
uplift the Dayak community.
Political analyst Jayum Jawan of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia described the
proposal floated by Selangau MP Edwin Banta as “a half-baked idea” that was
unnecessary.
He said that unlike the Indian community, the Dayak community had strong representation
in both the Sarawak state assembly and in Parliament, Borneo Post reported.
He also said the Dayaks had posts in the federal and state Cabinets, with one of them –
Douglas Uggah Embas – also serving as a deputy premier of Sarawak.
“What they need is unity and a consolidated front to address their challenges.
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“The Dayaks’ lack of progress is largely due to the mediocrity of their own lawmakers in
introducing workable solutions to key issues.
“The issue is not marginalisation but underperformance,” he was quoted as saying.
Economist Madeline Berma, a senior fellow at Institut Masa Depan Malaysia, cast doubt
on whether such a unit could tackle the root causes of Dayak underemployment.
Berma said it would only add another layer of bureaucracy.
She said the government should focus instead on bolstering governance to ensure the
relevant ministries can effectively deliver on existing programmes and initiatives.
“Rather than creating more institutions, the priority should be improving governance – that
is, ensuring accountability, transparency and efficiency in resource management and
decision-making,” she said.
Debating the 2026 budget in the Dewan Rakyat, Edwin had proposed that an agency like
Mitra be set up to coordinate socio-economic programmes for the Dayak community
TVET degree programmes for polytechnics in the pipeline
Full text linkPETALING JAYA: The higher education ministry is considering introducing degree programmes in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in all polytechnics
Dad drowns, son missing in Pahang flood
Full text linkKUANTAN: The floods in Pahang claimed its first victim when a staff member of the Jerantut District Forestry Department Office drowned, while his son went missing when wading through floodwaters in Kampung Gintong, about 100km from here last night
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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