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Truck drivers’ occupational training on the example of Estonian educators
No full textTranspordi-, logistika- ja tööstusettevõtete üheks jätkusuutlikkuse võtmeelemendiks on transpordi protsessi efektiivsus. Transpordi protsessi efektiivsuse määravad autojuhi teadmised ja oskused tulla toime tööülesannetega. Nende omandamiseks ja parendamiseks tuleb autojuhil läbida pädev ameti- või täiendkoolitus. Lõputöö eesmärgiks on uurida olemasolevat veoautojuhtide ametikoolitussüsteemi Eesti koolitajate näitel ja teha võimalike ettepanekuid olemasoleva süsteemi parendamiseks. Töö käigus käsitleti probleeme, mis tulenevad veoautojuhtide koolitamisest ja mis võivad mõjutada ametikoolituse kvaliteedi taset. Käesolevas lõputöös püstitatud probleem seisneb selles, et tänased veoautojuhi ametikoolituse koolitajad ei täida oma eesmärki koolitada pädevaid autojuhte. Veoautojuhi ametikoolituse protsess lähtub Euroopa Parlamendi ja Nõukogu direktiivist 2003/59/EÜ ja Eesti seadusandlusest. Ametikoolitus koosneb kahest etapis, millest autor keskendus oma töös perioodilistele täiendkoolitustele, tuginedes teoreetilisele taustale ning kasutades kvantitatiivsete ja kvalitatiivsete uurimismeetodite abil kogutud andmeid. Teoreetilise töö osas anti ülevaade Eesti ja Soome Vabariigi veoautojuhi ametikoolituse valdkonnast, käsitleti küsitluse, vaatluse ja intervjuude metoodikat. Tuginedes ekspert hinnangule on lõputöö empiirilises osas läbiviidud Eesti veoautojuhtide seas eriala teadmisi uuriv küsitlus, tutvuti läbi osalusvaatluse Eesti ametikoolitusasutustega ning uuriti läbi intervjuude koolituste lektorite seisukohti. Saadud tulemuste põhjal pakuti välja ettepanekud kolmele erinevale tasandile. Autor on arvamusel, et pakutavad ettepanekud on lähiaastatel teostatavad ning toovad tulevikus kasu nii koolitusasutustele, transpordi-, logistika- ja tööstusettevõtetele ning autojuhtidele läbi pädevate õppejõudude ja efektiivsete õppeprotsesside. Autor pakub välja, et antud ettepanekuid uurida edasi tulevastel diplomandidel.A key element of sustainability in transport, logistics and industrial companies is the efficiency of the transportation process. The efficiency of the transportation process is affected by drivers’ knowledge and skills in coping with the tasks. To acquire and improve them, drivers should attend competent occupational trainings or refresher trainings. Occupational training is required from truck drivers who want to work for salary in the transport sector in the Estonian Republic and abroad. The truck driver’s occupation requires diverse skills and knowledge of the law. The aim of occupational training is to provide truck drivers with competent knowledge to perform their tasks. This final thesis aimed to study the existing occupational training system for truck drivers on the example of educators in Estonia, and make possible suggestions to improve it. The author studied the problems concerning truck drivers’ training, which may affect the level of quality of occupational training. The problem set in the thesis lies in the fact that today educators in occupational training do not fulfil their objective in training proficient drivers. The process of truck drivers’ occupational training is based on the European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/59 / EC and the Estonian legislation. The training consists of two phases, but the author of the thesis focused on periodic refresher trainings, on the basis of the theoretical background and the data collected, when using quantitative and qualitative research methods. The theoretical part of the thesis provided an overview of occupational training of truck drivers in Estonia and Finland, and the methods of survey, observation and interviews were described. Based on an expert assessment, in the empirical part of the thesis, the author carried out a survey among Estonian truck drivers to examine their occupation-based knowledge; through a participatory observation, 45 studied Estonian occupational training institutions; and through interviews investigated lecturers who organise trainings. Based on the results, suggestions were made for three different levels. The author is of the opinion that these suggestions are feasible in the coming years and will bring benefits to training institutions, transport, logistics and industrial businesses, as well as drivers, through competent educators and effective learning processes. The author believes future thesis defenders should further examine the suggestions made
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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