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An investigation into the drivers and barriers affecting the implementation of renewable energy technologies in Zambia.
Get PDFThesis of Master of Business Administration General.Zambia, rich in its renewable energy potential, faces a complex matrix of challenges and opportunities in harnessing and optimizing this potential. This research sought to investigate the drivers and barriers to the implementation of renewable energy technologies beyond hydropower. The study, grounded in expert interviews and a comprehensive review of pertinent documents, unveils a multifaceted landscape of regulatory, financial, infrastructural, and societal challenges that intersect with immense opportunities presented by abundant alternative renewable energy resources. The research employed an interpretivist philosophy, acknowledging the dynamic construction of reality based on individual experiences and societal contexts. Following interpretive principles, the study sought a profound understanding of drivers and barriers in Zambia's renewable energy landscape. Utilizing an inductive approach, the research aimed at exploring new aspects, avoiding preconceived theories, and deriving insights from empirical data. A descriptive research design, specifically a qualitative survey, was adopted to capture the intricacies of the renewable energy sector. The target population included key entities in the electricity subsector, and a purposive sampling technique, with maximum variation sampling, ensured diverse perspectives. Data collection involved in-depth interviews and document review. The findings highlight the urgent need to diversify Zambia's energy mix due to vulnerabilities in hydropower exacerbated by climate change. Regulatory hurdles, financial barriers, and public acceptance issues are significant challenges. The research recommends a streamlined regulatory environment, innovative financing mechanisms, and comprehensive public awareness campaigns. It also advocates for international collaborations to leverage technical, policy, and financial synergies. Ultimately, the study provides a roadmap for Zambia's renewable energy future, offering actionable recommendations to guide its journey toward sustainability and prosperity
The state power to sieze property in criminal matters v the property rights of an accussed: Finding the Balance
No full textThis dissertation considers the right to property and the power of the State to seize property in criminal matters. It further attempts to address the issue of balancing the two competing interests. In approaching the concept, the research starts by explaining the notion of the right to property and the instruments that guarantee its protection at international, regional and national levels. It further looks at whether the state in exercising the power to derogate from an individual's right to property does so within the parameters of that power or in an arbitrary way. In addition it considers whether the State has the power to utilize seized property before a forfeiture order is granted by the court as reflected in cited cases. The outcome of the research and interviews indicated that when the State seizes property alleged to be an instrumentality of a crime, it does so without any reasonable grounds upon which to suspect that the alleged owner committed a criminal offence. Through interviews conducted it was observed that the burden the State bears in proving that property is an instrumentality of a crime is too high to discharge in most instances. From the cases cited, it was found that government investigation officers in most instances misuse seized goods before investigations are even concluded or a forfeiture order is granted forfeiting the interest in the said property to the state. The study therefore recommends that civil forfeiture should be introduced in the Zambian legal system and should co-exist with the already existing criminal forfeiture system. It is also recommended that the courts should make an order that prohibits anyone from interfering with seized property in the custody of the State before a forfeiture order is granted
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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