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Integrating Artificial Intelligence Technology in Algerian Education: A Blessing in Disguise
No full textOver the past few years, artificial intelligence has been changing the way humans see the world. Every facet of our society is being impacted, from the widespread use of mobile devices to increasingly complicated work environments. Even if we might not notice it in action, it also enhances our general well-being. The goal of the Algerian AI task force is to develop an AI strategy for Algeria to foster an understanding of how new technologies can be used to enhance people\u27s quality of life. This will ensure that Algeria remains at the forefront of technological innovation. This paper seeks to explore to which extent Algerian universities and researchers deal with AI services and how they managed to invest in its benefits and avoid its drawbacks, so that, it would be possible to use AI wisely and responsibly in the future. To do so, qualitative research has been conducted with seven post-graduated researchers. The data were gathered through a semi-structured interview and the analysis revealed that Algerian universities are not really ready to adopt AI policies either because of the lack of material or curriculum updating and teachers ‘ training Fortunately, researchers tend to use AI in their research papers and struggle to avoid plagiarism.  
Multilingualism as a Key Factor Towards a Global Understanding: Case of CEIL Learners in The Departement of Foreign Languages
No full textPeople over the world used to get into contact and open discussions using distinct languages as media of communication. Consequently, the need to be fluent in more than one language arises to facilitate interaction between the participants. This paper tries to discover how does multilingualism facilitate intercultural dialogue between people from different cultural backgrounds and the main consequences of cultural and linguistic items exchange. To do so a set of informants were asked some questions to assess and discover the Mysteries of bi-communication between the two blocks, then, the results were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively . The results revealed that multilingual proficiency facilitates intercultural dialogue and decreases conflicts, ethnic and racial prejudice between different groups
Secondary School German Teachers’ Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Language Teaching: A Qualitative Study
No full textThis qualitative study investigates the perceptions of secondary school German language teachers regarding the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in language education. As AI technologies such as ChatGPT, Google Translate, and Duolingo gain prominence in classrooms globally, there is a growing need to understand their influence on less commonly taught languages, including German. The study focuses on ten German teachers working in Algerian secondary schools and explores their views on the pedagogical roles, benefits, limitations, and ethical implications of AI tools in their teaching practice. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews, allowing participants to express their experiences and reflections in depth. The findings indicate that teachers recognize the potential of AI tools to enhance vocabulary acquisition, improve pronunciation, and increase student motivation. However, they also voice concerns about translation inaccuracies, loss of linguistic nuance, cultural insensitivity, and the risk of student overdependence on technology. Furthermore, teachers emphasize the necessity of maintaining a human-centered approach, where AI complements rather than replaces traditional pedagogical strategies. The study highlights the importance of teacher agency in integrating AI into language education and contributes to the growing body of knowledge on AI in medium-resource language contexts. It calls for targeted training and policy support to optimize AI use in language classrooms
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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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