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Unravelling the Barriers to Compliance with Regulations Governing Milk Trade in Peri-urban Areas of Nakuru County, Kenya
Get PDFMilk is a widely traded commodity in informal outlets in Kenya for home consumption and income generation. Over 70% of the Kenya’s domestic milk production is marketed through informal outlets, which are characterised by poor hygiene standards and unsafe handling practices. This is despite efforts to regulate the markets through licensing, registration, certification and training of milk vendors on food quality. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify barriers to compliance with regulations governing milk trade and to suggest improvements. The study design was snowball sampling, and 120 informal milk vendors were interviewed using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Qualitative analysis used thematic narratives and excerpts while averages were used for quantitative results. Both approaches found out that 62.5% of vendors considered the regulator (i.e. the Kenya Dairy Board) a barrier to their compliance with the standard regulations. Vendors also noted that regulations ignored local situational realities, making compliance impractical. It is therefore important to come up with milk trade regulations informed by vendor engagement so as to capture local contexts. There is also need to conduct active sensitisation campaigns targeting milk vendors so as to enhance their understanding of food standard regulations. Such efforts would benefit all stakeholders involved in the milk industry by promoting safety, quality and consumer confidence
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
Effect of perceived corporate innovation on customer satisfaction with Mobile Banking application at Chase Bank, Kenya
No full textThe study sought to determine the effect of perceived corporate innovation on customer
satisfaction with mobile banking application at chase bank, Kenya. In doing so, the study aimed
at examining the effects of regular usage of mfukoni services on customer satisfaction, the
effects of different factors prompting the uptake of mobile banking services on customer
satisfaction as well as the effects of different factors limiting the uptake of mobile banking
services on customer satisfaction at Chase Bank Kenya.
The study employed both inferential and descriptive statistics in gathering, analyzing,
interpreting and presenting the findings. The results of the descriptive research design showed
the relationship between the different attributes of innovation and customer satisfaction. The
study targeted a population of 7544 active mfukoni users. Multiple linear regression analysis was
employed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 23 computer
software.
The results of the study show that mobile banking application is clear and easy to use and
understand. Balance inquiry, cash deposit and account statement were found to be the frequently
used mfukoni application services. Findings from the study also revealed that usage of different
range of mfukoni services have got a positive and significant effect on the customer’s level of
satisfaction. Improved efficiency of different mfukoni services increases the level of customer
satisfaction. Therefore, in order to increase the customer’s level of satisfaction, banks need to
ensure mobile bank application interface is clear and easy to use, implement mobile banking
application that is efficient in carrying out transaction and finally banks management need to
initiate programs that ensure accuracy of transaction
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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