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Transformation of the Omani Education System, Forty Years of Human Capital accumulation : evolution and Performance
No full textLa prospérité économique de plusieurs pays dépend essentiellement des revenus tirés des ressources pétrolières et dérivés. Étant donné que ce type de ressources est épuisable, le problème posé pour tous ces pays est comment mettre son économie à l'abri des fluctuations du prix du pétrole ? Et comment assurer la prospérité de l'économie locale en la basant sur des ressources durables ? Le Sultanat d'Oman s'est lancé le défi de la variation de ses sources de revenus et dans la diversification de son économie. Afin d'atteindre cet objectif, les autorités politiques du pays ont compris l'utilité du développement de leur capital humain et ont ainsi misé sur le principe d'instruction et d'éducation du peuple Omanais. Étant conscient que l'investissement en éducation est plus productif que dans tout autre secteur, notre but donc est d'étudier et d'analyser l'efficacité de la décision publique d'investir dans l'éducation ainsi que son impact sur la qualité du capital humain. À travers le modèle Omanais, nous chercherons à mesurer l'effet et la contribution de quarante années d'investissements massifs dans son système éducatif ainsi que sur le développement du capital humain du Sultanat. À travers notre recherche, Nous allons nous demander comment concilier entre l'utilité de l'éducation en tant que modèle de développement et l'efficacité de l'investissement dans le développement du système éducatif ? Et comment la décision publique d’investir dans le capital humain doit prendre en considération les aspects quantitatifs et qualitatifs du processus d’éducation. Les conséquences de tel modèle d'investissement vont être examinées à travers le cas Omanais.The economic prosperity of many countries depends primarily on revenues of oil resources and derivatives. Since this type of resource is exhaustible, the question of protecting the economy of certain countries from the fluctuations of oil prices may raise. These countries need too, to ensure the prosperity of their local economy based on sustainable resources. The Sultanate of Oman has launched the challenges of the diversification of its economy. To achieve this, the political authorities have understood the usefulness of the development of human capital throughout the increase of the level of instruction and education of the population. Being aware that such investment in education is more productive than any other one, our goal consists to study and analyze the effectiveness of public decision to invest in education and its impact on the quality of human capital. Through the Omani model, we seek to measure the impact and contribution of forty years of massive investments in the education system and on the development of human capital of the Sultanate. Our research, aims to analyze how to balance between the utility of education as a development model and the effectiveness of investment in the education system? We will see how public decision to invest in human capital must take into account the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the educational process. The consequences of such investment model need to be examined through the Omani case
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
Impact of The Legal Context on Protecting and Guaranteeing Women’s Rights at Work in the MENA region
Get PDFThis research explored whether the MENA region countries have adopted sufficient legal provisions that encouraged females to access the labor market. A documental collection, revision, and analysis were performed to enhance our understanding of statutory provisions that were adopted by 13 countries through the MENA region to encourage and facilitate access of women to the labor market. Findings showed that the governments of the different studied countries made considerable efforts to comply with the international legal norms and protect the female workers. Among other things, the findings suggest that the MENA countries need to offer more legal protections to guarantee equity between workers, maintain the principle to be treated equally without discrimination and facilitate access of women to the labor market. Additionally, legal frameworks, work-family policies as working from home and flexible working hours, need to become more coherent, and more effort needs to be directed towards proper implementation and practice primarily in the private sector. These findings also suggest a unified treatment between male and female workers, whether they work in the public or the private sector
Female labor force participation in the Middle East and North African Countries: constraints and levers
Get PDFDespite the importance of the subject, few researches have attempted to explain the female labor force participation (FLFP) in MENA region. This research tries to exploring the geopolitical, social, ethnic and economic levers or constraints that facilitate or bloc women’s access to the labor market. A quantitative approach based on data analysis was performed through the review of the World Bank statistics related to women participation in the labor market in MENA region. Data analysis revealed that the studied labor market was marked by an overall positive progress of the presence of female workers. However, this evolution is still considered very low and slow in comparison with world standards. The research also revealed huge disparities in the level of progress of the FLFP among the studied countries. The disparities observed were interpreted in correlation with the religious, economic, political, social and cultural aspects.Apesar da importância do tema, poucas pesquisas têm tentado explicar a participação feminina na força de trabalho (FLFP) na região do MENA. Esta pesquisa tenta explorar as potencialidades ou restrições geopolíticas, sociais, étnicas e econômicas que facilitam ou bloqueiam o acesso das mulheres ao mercado de trabalho. Uma abordagem quantitativa baseada na análise de dados foi realizada através da revisão das estatísticas do Banco Mundial relacionadas à participação das mulheres no mercado de trabalho na região do MENA. A análise dos dados revelou que o mercado de trabalho estudado foi marcado por um progresso geral positivo da presença de mulheres trabalhadoras. Contudo, esta evolução ainda é considerada muito baixa e lenta em comparação com os padrões mundiais. A pesquisa também revelou enormes disparidades no nível de progresso da FLFP entre os países estudados. As disparidades observadas foram interpretadas em correlação com os aspectos religiosos, econômicos, políticos, sociais e culturais
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