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Travel and Tourism in Ecuador
No full textTitle: Travel and Tourism in Ecuador, Author: Claire M. Moran, Location: ThodeTravel, for leisure or business purposes, can contribute to a country's development process in three ways. It creates a demand for goods and services. National travellers generally consume goods and services produced domestically. International travellers generate
foreign exchange. Ecuador has many more national travellers than international travellers. Given its oil exports, Ecuador also faces less of a foreign exchange constraint than many developing countries. Hence, Ecuadorean planners can, and should, pay more attention to the
role of national travel and tourism in the development process of their country. A review of the literature on travel in developing countries reveals that the emphasis is frequently on international travel. In this study, national and international travel are analysed and compared with regard to their role in the development process. This study examines specific spatial, seasonal, and sectoral features of travel and tourism in eight surveyed centers in Ecuador. Five hypotheses about these features of travel and tourism were tested with data
collected by means of questionnaires and interviews. The analysis suggests that the spatial, seasonal, and sectoral effects of national travel and tourism can assist the development process in Ecuador better than those of international travel and tourism. Therefore, development planning in Ecuador, unlike that in many other developing countries, need not stress the role of international travel. The study concludes with suggestions for some broad policy guidelines, for consideration by Ecuadorean planners, emphasizing national travel in the development process.ThesisMaster of Arts (MA
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
Perceptions of the role of the traditional medical system in national development : the case of Ghana
Get PDF94 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-94).Online version unavailable; Print version available from Patrick Power Library.The role of the traditional medical system in national development is assessed by means of questionnaires and structured interviews. The answers of 169 respondents involved have been summarized into tables and graphs. Respondents were asked to provide various types of information about their interaction with the traditional practitioners.
The findings show that many Ghanaians consider traditional medicine as a valuable component of the health care delivery system, complementing the modern scientific medicine. Although many of the respondents use the two medical systems concurrently when ill, and in some cases prefer traditional medicine to modern medicine, they all attempted in different ways distance themselves from traditional medicine. A historical perspective is given on the medical systems in Ghana, which shows that traditional medicine had not only been outlawed, but has also gone through a lot of stigmatization.
This study indicates ways in which greater cooperation can be achieved between the traditional and modern systems, assuming of course that there is the political will on the part of the policy makers to effect such change. It has assigned to the Ministry of Health (MoH) a vital role in bringing about the needed cooperation between the two systems. The MoH is expected to make not only those legislative changes considered necessary for the attainment of this objective, but also changes in the people's attitude toward and perception of the traditional Medical system through public education. Would a two-tiered medical school system foster mutual respect among all health practitioners? Policy issues are touched upon
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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