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AN EXAMINATION OF CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND CRIME PREVENTION IN NIGERIA
No full textCorrectional centers are institutions established to house people who have been convicted of crime or are awaiting trial; the study was aimed at evaluating prison administration and crime prevention in Nigeria, specifically the Correctional Service Center at Dutse, Jigawa StateCommand. Survey research method was adopted and the data was collected through primary and secondary sources. The primary source was obtained throughquestionnaire and In-depth Interview.While, the secondary source was obtained through reading of books, academic journals, conference and workshoppapers and eresources. The population of the study was the correctional staff and inmates fromDutse Commanded; a total number of 100 respondentswererandomly selected; out of which 90questionnaireswere returned. The data collected were analyzed, using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software package; findings of the study revealed that lack of functional correctional facilities, inequitable distribution of resources and poor working attitude of some of the prison staff were the internal factors which constrain the correctional institution from effectively performing its statutory functions. The studywas limited by the reluctance of the inmatesto grantinterview toget relevant data. The study recommends thatincrease in budgetary allocation, establishment of Open University fortraining and retraining of staff and inmates organizing regular workshops, provision of places of worship such as church and mosque within the prison yards, as well as periodic review of reforms policies would reduce corruption among the prisons officials and enhance effective correctional administration and crime prevention in the Custodial Centres
EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION ON NATIONAL SECURITY IN NIGERIA FROM 1999 – 2015
No full textThe growing frequency of the twin evils of corruption and insecurity in Nigeria in spiteof efforts made by successive governments with the sole purpose of mitigating theirnegative consequences have been one of the major issues of public concern. This studyadopts secondary data and content analysis to examine the effect of corruption onnational security in Nigeria. The study reveals that all efforts to establish a just andefficient society have been frustrated by corruption, manifested by depreciation ofhuman dignity and collapse of infrastructures, inequality, poverty and injustice as aresult of systematic elite misappropriation of state power, primitive accumulation ofwealth, ethno-cultural intolerance and political manipulation in the society which existsin every aspect of our society. Corruption in Nigeria is attributed to failure ofgovernance to achieve the fundamental objectives and directive principles of statepolicy as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria asamended; The study also revealed that there exist a correlation between corruptionand insecurity in Nigeria and that greed by insurgent groups and corruption by publicofficials caused deprivation, alienation, conflict and insecurity in Nigeria. The studyrecommends for improvement in the quality of governance in order to reduce theincidence of corruption and insecurity in Nigeria; the aim of this paper is to examinethe effects corruption on national security in Nigeria from 1999 – 2015
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
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