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Integrated Microfinance Services And Well-Being of Households in Salin Township (Htin Lin Maw, 2023)
Get PDFThis study aims to examine the integrated microfinance services provided by
Pact Global Microfinance Fund (PGMF) in Sa Lin Township and to analyze the effect
of the integrated microfinance services on the well-being of households in Sa Lin
Township. The study used the descriptive method and simple random sampling method
to explore the objectives. Quantitative research methods and multiple linear regression
methods are used for data analysis. For primary data, a structured questionnaire is used
to collect data from 388 households out of 13,660 households in Sa Lin township using
the Taro Yamane Formula (1973). Secondary data were collected from textbooks,
previous international research papers, periodical journals, documents, and reports of
PGMF. In this study, integrated microfinance services mean a combination of financial
services and non-financial services. Financial services include loan services, savings
services, and the Beneficiary Welfare Program. Non-financial services include nonformal
business education and health care services. According to the survey results, the
significant factors affecting the effect of integrated microfinance services on the wellbeing
of households are savings services from financial services and non-formal
business education and health care services from non-financial services. According to
the survey results, microfinance institutions (MFIs) need to raise awareness of loan
services and beneficial welfare programs to help improve the living standards of people
in their respective implementation towns
A STUDY ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LITERACY AMONG YOUTH WORKERS IN INDUSTRIAL ZONE (Case Study in South Dagon Township) (Htin Lin Aung, 2019)
Get PDFMost of the people in many cultures are reluctant to discuss about reproductive health and sexual education. These may lead to increased incidence of sexually transmitted infections, adolescent pregnancy, unsafe abortion, child marriages. Objective of this study is to assess the knowledge and attitude of reproductive health among youth Industrial workers of South Dagon Township, Yangon Region. Cross-sectional descriptive study was done among 197 youth industrial workers in South Dagon Township. The respondents were between 15-24 year and most of them were high school level and female workers. Most of the youths knew the contraceptive methods and took that service from clinic. According to the knowledge level, most of the male respondents (74.9%) and female (76.9%) had poor knowledge level. According to the attitude level, most of the male respondents (87.0%) and female (64.7%) had poor attitude level. There was a significant association between sex of the respondents and attitudes on sex education and reproductive health and female respondents had better attitude score. Another statistical significant association was found between occupation and attitudes on sexual education, the dependent respondents had better attitude score. No significant association between other socio-demographic characteristics of parents and knowledge of sexual education was seen. Most of the youth agreed to develop easily accessible reproductive health services and knowledge for youths. Most of them concurred to teach sexual education in school curriculum. Improving sexual and reproductive health status for youth requires a multi-sectoral approach that not only addresses young people’s need for their knowledge, practice and quality services, but also important to have supportive and enabling environment. Thus, pilot projects to promote youth’s reproductive health literacy is needed
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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