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Muhammad Ayub, ed., Economics and Economic Policy – Islamic Perspective (Islamabad: Riphah International Islamic University, 2022), 670.
Full text linkThis book is jointly written by a group of eminent experts in Islamic economics and finance including Prof. Dr Muhammad Fahim Khan, Prof. Dr Muhammad Ayub, Prof. Dr Anas Zarqa, Prof. Dr Akram Laldin, Prof. Dr Muhammad Tahir Mansoori and Prof. Dr Ma’sum Billah, among others. The book is divided into six parts and 22 chapters. Part one builds the ground for a new approach in economics by highlighting the theoretical and socioeconomic challenges being faced under the mainstream paradigm of economics. It is argued that beyond market economics, ethical values and the role of the entrepreneur in the production process are undermined or ignored in mainstream economics
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
A Real-World Exploration into Clinical Outcomes of Direct Oral Anticoagulant Dosing Regimens in Morbidly Obese Patients Using Data-Driven Approaches
Full text linkIntroduction: The clinical outcomes of direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) dosage regimens in morbid obesity are uncertain due to limited clinical evidence. This study seeks to bridge this evidence gap by identifying the factors associated with clinical outcomes following the dosing of DOACs in morbidly obese patients. Method: A data-driven observational study was carried out using supervised machine learning (ML) models with a dataset extracted from electronic health records and preprocessed. Following 70%:30% partitioning of the overall dataset via stratified sampling, the selected ML classifiers (e.g., random forest, decision trees, bootstrap aggregation) were applied to the training dataset (70%). The outcomes of the models were evaluated against the test dataset (30%). Multivariate regression analysis explored the association between DOAC regimens and clinical outcomes. Results: A sample of 4,275 morbidly obese patients was extracted and analysed. The decision trees, random forest, and bootstrap aggregation classifiers achieved acceptable (excellent) values of precision, recall, and F1 scores in terms of their contribution to clinical outcomes. The length of stay, treatment days, and age were ranked highest for relevance to mortality and stroke. Among DOAC regimens, apixaban 2.5 mg twice daily ranked highest for its association with mortality, increasing the mortality risk by 43% (odds ratio [OR] 1.430, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.181–1.732, p = 0.001). On the other hand, apixaban 5 mg twice daily reduced the odds of mortality by 25% (OR 0.751, 95% CI 0.632–0.905, p = 0.003) but increased the odds of stroke events. No clinically relevant non-major bleeding events occurred in this group. Conclusion: Data-driven approaches can identify key factors associated with clinical outcomes following the dosing of DOACs in morbidly obese patients. This will help design further studies to explore well tolerated and effective DOAC doses for morbidly obese patients.</p
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Foreign direct investment and economic growth: the role of democracy
No full textThis study investigates the growth-effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 67 developing countries covering from 1984 to 2016, with a special emphasis on the role of democracy. The empirical results obtained from generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation demonstrate that democracy plays a crucial role in moderating the positive effect of FDI on output growth. The results are robust to several alternative measures of democracy and FDI. This suggests that the marginal effect of FDI on growth depends on the level of democracy such that countries which promote democratic institution benefit more from FDI inflows. The finding is consistent with the growing view that the growth-effect of FDI depends on other intervening factors in the host countries
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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