602 research outputs found
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
Exploring new innovation in e-learning / Jamal Othman
No full textAlhamdulillah, the fourth edition of ebook under SIG of e-Learning@CS has been successfully published. Representing the editorial board, I want to express my appreciation to all authors for their participation in this e-book edition. I wish to express my sincere appreciation to Madam Norazah Umar, the Program Coordinator for the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (JSKM) who has given words of encouragement in making this publication a reality. Starting from 2022, the committee of SIG e-Learning@CS has decided to publish this eBook twice a year. This e-book will be published in April and October each year following the evaluation period of MyATP 2.0 system. The fourth edition of the e-book focuses on innovation in teaching. The authors are encouraged to share experiences and ideas that have been applied and implemented since the Open Distance Learning (ODL) approach was introduced during Movement Controls Orders (MCO). A total of 16 papers have been submitted by JSKM lecturers and varieties of teaching innovations have been elaborated and well explained by the author
In Search of Poverty Predictors: The Case of Urban and Rural Pakistan
No full textThe main objective of this research is to provide correlates of household consumption or poverty using the latest household survey. The estimated coefficients and their weights may be used to predict poverty incidence from light monitoring survey such as Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire (CWIQ). The CWIQ survey instrument essentially collects simple welfare indicators from a large segment of population and is not designed to measure income, consumption or expenditure. The paper estimates consumption functions separately for urban and rural areas. These functions are estimatedwith the help of non-monetary correlates of consumption and applied to predict poverty at provincial and district levels. The paper also provides the latest estimates of poverty in the country using a consistent methodology. Overall, 33 percent people were poor, according to estimates from the latest available household survey of 2001-02. Incidence, depth, and severity of poverty are high in rural areas, as compared to their urban counterpart.
EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTHER’S EMPOWERMENT AND CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS: An Evidence from Pakistan
No full textThe objective of this paper is to explore linkages between mothers’ socioeconomic empowerment and the nutritional status of children under age five in the context of Pakistan. Empowerment is represented through a composite index which is developed for this study by incorporating various empowerment dimensions; such as educational attainment, labor force participation, involvement in household decisions, asset ownership, freedom of movement and perceptions regarding domestic violence. Nationally representative rich data of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13 is used to quantify the nature and direction of relationship between empowerment and child malnutrition in terms of stunting, wasting and under weights in a multivariate logistic regression framework. The estimated results highlight the importance of empowerment dimensions, considered in this analysis for improvement of nutritional status of children. Thus to empower women, eradication of gender discrimination and public interventions that aims to empower women directly through conditional cash transfer programs, microfinance, agriculture and livestock projects are recommended
Interviews with Muhammad Jamal Amr
No full textهذه المقابلة مع مؤلف أدب الأطفال و الشاعر الأردني محمد جمال عمرو يتحدث عن مجلة للأطفال صدرت في الأردن بعنوان ""أروى"". يسلط الضوء على المعايير الأساسية التي يجب إتباعها عند كتابة قصائد للأطفال ، علاوة على ذلك ، يروي بعض النماذج من قصائده. أجرى المقابلة حسن شمس الدين.In this interview, Jordanian author of children books Muhammad Jamal Amr speaks about ""Arwa"" magazine published in Jordan and highlights standards for writing children poems.. The interview was conducted by Hasan Shams al-Din
The Changing Profile of Regional Inequality
No full textThere is a growing concern in developing and transition economies that spatial and regional inequality, of economic activity, incomes, and social indicators, is on the increase. Regional inequality is a dimension of overall inequality, but it has added significance when spatial and regional divisions align with political and ethnic tensions to undermine social and political stability. Despite these important popular and policy concerns, surprisingly there is little systematic and coherent documentation of the facts of what has happened to spatial and regional inequality over the past twenty years. This paper is an attempt to meet this gap. It provides changing scenarios of multi-dimensional inter-temporal spatial inequality and level of development in Pakistan during early 1980s and late 1990s
SINONIM KATA JAMAL DALAM KAMUS AL-MUNAWWIR ARAB-INDONESIA
No full textThis study aims to find out the words that are synonymous with the word jamal \u27camels\u27 in the dictionary of Al-Munawwir Arab Indonesia. In addition to know the form of categories of meaning of words that are synonymous with the word jamal \u27camels\u27 in terms of semantic fields and components of meaning. The method used in this study is descriptive method and this research is included in the type of library research (Library research), research conducted solely based on facts or phenomena that exist, by identifying the problems contained in the primary data ie Dictionary Al-Munawwir Arab-Indonesia, then collects and describes words related to the synonyms of the word \u27camels\u27 in the dictionary by providing an analysis of the available data.The results of this study are the authors found about 144 words that are synonymous with the word jamal \u27camels\u27 in Al-Munawwir Arab-Indonesia Dictionary and also produce as many as 55 (fifty five) different components of meaning. In addition the authors classify the synonyms of the word jamal \u27camels\u27 in several categories, of which are based on the character and physical condition of the \u27camel\u27 clock, then based on the activities and equipment of the camel \u27clock\u27, also based on the age of the \u27camel\u27 \u27, And last based on the number of\u27 camel \u27hours. The author also analyzes the semantic field by using paradigmatic analysis which is then generated by several words, including al-ibil, an-nāqah, and al-baῑru. And the author also finds the opposite word (antonym) with the word \u27camel\u27, from these anonymous words found two types of anthons, the first is binary opposition, the second graded antonym is a tiered or gradable resistance Opposite). The authors conclude that no synonyms are comprehensive (total) because the whole synonym is never encountered. Even if the synonymous words have a meaning equation. Because each word will be different meaning if used in different situations
Flow diverter stent for treatment of cerebral aneurysms: A report of 130 patients with 134 aneurysms
No full textHealth sciences; Neurology; Surgery; Alternative medicine; Emergency medicine; Cavernous segments; Flow diverter stent; Intracranial aneurysms; Para-ophthalmic segments; Aneurysms. © 2020 The Author(s)Background: This study aims to report our experience with cerebral aneurysms, which may improve in the treatment with the flow-diverter stent and follow up. Methods: This study was conducted in a consecutive series of 130 patients. 134 procedures were performed for treating these patients in Hanoi Medical University Hospital and Bach Mai Hospital from January 2012 to April 2017. 143 flow diverter stents (Pipeline, FRED and SILK) were used. Aneurysm morphology, stent patency and cerebral parenchyma before and after intervention were analyzed on images of digital subtraction angiography (DSA), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR). The follow-up data after 3–6 months and 12 months were recorded. Results: In 130 patients (31 men, 99 women), aneurysms of internal carotid artery were mostly common (92.6%), especially in cavernous (35.1%) and in para-ophthalmic (40.3%) segments. 83 cases (61.9%) had wide-neck aneurysms, and 16 cases (11.9%) had multiple aneurysms, and only 5 cases (3.7%) had blister-liked aneurysms. Endovascular treatment was successfully performed at rate of 94.8%. In 3 patients, the stent could not be delivered. Mortality and morbidity rates were 1.5% and 3.7%, respectively. MRI and MSCT follow-up at 3 months showed complete or incomplete occlusions of aneurysms was 7.4% or 17.5%, respectively. 3 patients experienced a thromboembolic event (4.3%). Conclusions: Intracranial aneurysms of cavernous and para-ophthalmic segments of internal carotid artery are mostly common with wide-neck and multi aneurysms. Deployment of flow diverter stent is safe and effective with high rate of successful and low procedural complications. © 2020 The Author(s
Does Inequality Matter for Poverty Reduction? Evidence from Pakistan’s Poverty Trends
No full textThe paper explores the linkages between poverty, growth and inequality in the context of Pakistan. Time series macro data are used for the period 1979 to 2002. Consistent poverty and inequality measures are interpolated to facilitate the estimation of poverty elasticity with respect to growth and inequality in a multivariate regression framework. The paper also attempts to find out macroeconomic and structural correlates of inequality. The empirical findings—high poverty elasticity with respect to inequality measures—confirm the importance of inequality in poverty reducing effort. Inflation, sectoral wage gap, and terms of trade in favour of manufacturing exacerbate inequality, while progressive taxation, investment and development expenditure on social services play a significant role in reducing inequality. The results also indicate a positive correlation between per capita GDP and income inequality
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