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Exploring religious beliefs against naming children after deceased members of the lineage in Pentecostal churches of Lusaka district.
No full textThesisThis study was designed to explore religious beliefs against naming children after
deceased members of the lineage in Pentecostal churches of Lusaka district. The
objectives of the study were to explain the logic in naming children after deceased
members of the lineage in Zambian cultures, to explore reasons against naming Children
after deceased members of the lineage in Pentecostal churches of Lusaka, and to examine
the kind of names that Pentecostals give to their children instead of the names of their
deceased members of the lineage. The study used a case study design that involved the
use of qualitative methods. The target population for the study was the selected
Pentecostal Churches in Lusaka. The eligible respondents included 20 pastors, 10 parents,
10 Leaders (deacons and elders) as well as 8 focus group participants, bringing the total
number to 48 respondents, all of them were 35 years and above. The participants were
selected using purposive and snowballing sampling methods and the data was collected
using in-depth interviews and a Focus Group Discussion. The data collected was
analysed thematically. The study revealed that in the Zambian cultures, naming children
after deceased members of the lineage is very cardinal to keep the tradition. The study
also revealed that Pentecostals are against the practice of naming children after deceased
relatives due their belief that names have influence on the bearer’s life. The study further
revealed that Pentecostals have their own inclination where naming newly born babies is
concerned. The study, therefore, recommends that: Pentecostals need to learn and
understand that the practice of naming children after deceased relatives is and was a way
of keeping records/ events or history of the family. Other churches in Zambia need to
understand that Pentecostals are against naming children after decease relatives due to
their belief that names influence and shape the bearer’s destiny. Pentecostals should
critically analyse and understand that all names on earth have existed for a long time in
different cultures and as such every name is for the deceased regardless where it is gotten
from and that includes names found in the Bible. Pentecostal churches should find a
midway of incorporating Zambian naming culture into its theology or doctrines. In this
manner the cultural heritage of the Zambian Pentecostals would be upheld and valued.
Recommendations for future study are that since the study was carried out in an urban
setting, a similar study should be conducted in a rural setting and results compared.
Further, since the study was done in Pentecostal Churches, other scholars should conduct
similar research in mainline Churches to explore their religious beliefs concerning
naming children after deceased relatives.
Keywords: Pentecostal, naming, dead relatives, inclinations, Zambian cultur
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
Ethical Integration of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge Systems for a Sustainable Mitigation of Environmental and Climate Change Challenges
Full text linkThis study aims to bridge the ethical gap in integrating indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and scientific knowledge systems (WSK) to enable sustainable mitigation of environmental and climate change challenges. Indigenous knowledge and belief systems have been used to guide nature conservation in sub-Saharan Africa for many years. Traditional knowledge is passed down from generation to generation, leading to resource management practices that promote environmental protection and sustainable development. Many indigenous communities in Asia, Australia and Africa just as globally have developed conservation plans that incorporate traditional ecological knowledge and community participation to protect habitats, animals, and ecosystems. However, there are ethical issues surrounding the integration of IKS and WSK that may weaken efforts to combat environmental and climate change challenges. To analyze many case studies from Asia, Australia, and sub-Saharan Africa (including Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, the Ivory Coast, and Zambia) that have investigated the integration of IKS and WSK for environmental and climate change mitigation, this study used a qualitative research method through the combination of document and content analyses. The study uses consequentialism and utilitarianism as environmental ethics theories to guide the integration of indigenous and scientific knowledge systems for sustainable mitigation strategies. Ethical issues encountered during the integration include proprietary rights for IKS, distortion and loss of traditional, cultural, and religious beliefs, and unequal recognition of IKS. The study advocates for broad and meaningful participation of indigenous and local knowledge in the international assessment process to promote effective environmental and climate change initiatives across diverse knowledge systems and perspectives
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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