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Supplemental Material, Appendix - Tourism-induced financial development in Malaysia: New evidence from the tourism development index
No full textSupplemental Material, Appendix for Tourism-induced financial development in Malaysia: New evidence from the tourism development index by Muhammad Shahbaz, Ramzi Benkraiem, Anthony Miloudi, and Aviral Kumar Tiwari in Tourism Economics</p
FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN PAKISTAN: AN APPLICATION OF ARDL APPROACH
Full text linkThe paper examines the relationship between financial development and income inequality; and also explores if the Greenwood and Jovianvich (GJ) hypothesis applies to Pakistan. Using data from 1971 to 2005, the paper implements the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration to examine the existence of long run relation ships; and the error correction model (ECM) for the short run relationships. Stationarity properties of the series are tested by the ADF unit root test. The findings indicate that financial development reduces income inequality while financial instability aggravates it. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, we find economic growth worsens income distribution and that the latter is deteriorated further by trade openness. The paper does not find support for the GJ relation. Appropriate reforms aimed at developing a well-organized financial sector in Pakistan can help reduce income inequality.Financial Development, Income Inequality
Need analysis for content development to improve quality in research / Muhammad Shahbaz Arif
Full text linkThe aim of the study is to examine the issues and current practices of the doctoral students of 12 universities spread all over Pakistan who are conducting their research. The research issues of the study are whether or not the doctoral students know various stages of the research such as proposal, introduction, literature review, methodology, results and discussion from the very beginning of the research. It was an experimental study over a span of one month held in 2006. The data were collected from 27 experienced university teachers selected randomly. First, the subjects were examined in the beginning of the Research Methodology Workshop, and later after a month on the completion of the Workshop held at Higher Education Commission, Islamabad. The results have shown a significant difference in the current practices and quality of research before and after the workshop
Creativity: a driving force behind yield management / Muhammad Shahbaz Shabbir and Amjad Shamim
Full text linkThe ultimate focus of an enterprise is to earn handsome revenue for which different strategies are developed and used by the organizations. A big challenge which service organizations are facing is the factor of perishability where on one side they have to keep the customers happy and on the other they have to achieve their targets. Hotel industry is one of the most sensitive industries where customers are more time sensitive giving a good sign to the managers for maximization of revenue. By taking the advantage of the time, creative managers emphasize on the revenue/yield maximization. This study is conducted to explore the impact of creativity on yield management in hotel industry of Pakistan. Quantitative data approach was used and data was gathered through close-ended questionnaire by using stratified sampling technique from 128 professionals (sample size) working in five stars, four stars and three stars hotels in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Findings indicate that the overall creativity has a significant impact on yield management and creativity is likely to be emerged if employees are given a tension free environment, support by the management, rewards against successive creative ideas and opportunity for ideas sharing. Since hotel industry in Pakistan is undergoing a process of increased competition, therefore, the adoption and implementation of yield management is identified as a very essential tool for survival. It has also been observed that, for proper yield management implementation, hotel industry needs to focus on employees’ creativity
Climate change, Covid-19, and our existential challenge
No full textProblems of this severity and scope can only be solved through global cooperation, write Muhammad Shahbaz and Muhammad Ali Nasi
Thermal investigation of palm kernel shell (PKS) with coal bottom Ash in thermo gravimetric analyser (TGA) in inert atmosphere
No full textThe aim of this experimental work to investigate the effect of Coal bottom ash (CBA) on thermal degradation of palm kernel shell
(PKS). Thermal decomposition for 50 and 25 % CBA percentage in PKS samples were carried out it thermo gravimetric analyser
(TGA) in non isothermal condition. The effect on the weight loss in the different region for 50 % and 25 % of CBA was investigated
and found weight loss % increased by decreasing CBA percentage. It was observed the weight loss for 25 % CBA was 10.5 and 32.81
% at temperature region 0-260 and 250 -650 o
C.Whereas, weight loss % was 8.8 and 27.6 % in the same temperature regions for
50% CBA. On the other hand the weight loss was small for 25 % CBA than %0 % CBA at 650 o
C. Secondly the residual was left 60.5
and 54 % for 50% and 25 % of CBA. Moreover DTG profile shows that the hemicelluloses decomposed at temperature above 270 o
C
and Calloused at 370 to 400 o
C. It was investigated most of the weight loss and DTG rate was observed in the temperature range of
300 to 400 o
C. This fundamental study for optimization of CBA % our current work in gasification
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
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
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