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Insecurity Challenges and Basic Education in Nigeria
Get PDFThis paper examined the impact of insecurity on Basic education in Nigeria. Secondary data were used in the paper. The secondary data were gathered from print materials and online publications. The paper specifically stated that insecurity have affected the Basic school calendar, students enrolment, retention and completion in basic schools, led to death of professional Basic school teachers (reduction in strength of teachers), led to reduction on the Basic education investment and led to destructions of Basic school facilities across Nigeria. Based on these points, the paper suggested the following: Government at every levels should address all factors responsible for insecurity in Nigeria. Government should invest on school security to be more proactive in dealing with security situation in the schools
Assessment of Factors Influencing Women in Attending Higher Institutions in Sokoto State, Nigeria: Implications Sociology of Education
No full textThe researcher investigated the assessment of factors influencing women in attending higher institutions in Sokoto state, Nigeria. To attain this objective, the researcher came up with four objectives to guide the study: socio-cultural practices, education policies, academic performance and socio-economic status. Descriptive survey method was used as the study intended to collect data from members of a given population to determine the status of that particular population with respect to one or more variables in the study. The target population for the study was 74100 women representing the total number of women students in the two higher institutions. A sample size of 382 was used in the study. A proportionate sampling technique was used to select respondents. The research instruments used in this study were questionnaires. A pilot study was done and the questionnaire validated by the expert from the faculty of education and extension services to establish the instruments validity. To ascertain the reliability of the instruments, split half technique was employed. Frequency tables were used to analyze the collected data. The finding was presented with the help of simple tables of frequency count and simple percentage. Results were interpreted and required recommendations made at the end of the study. It was found that less was less access to higher institution by women because of social cultural practices, educational policies, academic performance and socio-economic status. Recommendations for further research were made.</jats:p
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
Women Education in Nigeria
No full textThis paper examined concept of education and women education in Nigeria. The paper specifically looked at contributions of women’s education to national development and barriers to women education in Nigeria. The paper employed secondary data. The data were collected from both print and online publications. The paper concluded that women’s education has led to man-power, politics, family up-bringing, socio-economic, personal, education, health, social status, decision –making and sport development in Nigeria. The paper also identified high illiteracy rate, cultural factor, religion, insecurity, distance, infrastructure facilities shortage, early marriage, poor implementation of gender policies and shortage of female teachers as barriers to women’s education in Nigeria. To address these problems, the paper suggested the following: 1. Government at every levels should increase funding of education and specifically increase budgetary allocation to women’ education in Nigeria. Government should embark on mass sensitizing programme in both cities and rural areas to eliminate all forms of cultural, religious and traditional beliefs of the people against women’ education. More female teachers should be employed across all educational institutions to attract more women to schools. More educational institutions such as primary schools, secondary schools and adult education centres should be built in rural areas to encourage women education across Nigeria
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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