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Travelogue "Butterfly Rays and Tornadoes" Intellectual Review
Full text linkTravel is part of human nature. He wants to get acquainted with the culture and way of life of
the place where he is traveling. The First travelogue is “Ajaibat e Farang” the author of which
is Yousaf Hussain Kambal posh. After him Sir Syed Ahmed khan, Allama Shibli Noumani and
Muhammad Hussain Azad also wrote travelogues. The twinth century remained popolur
because of travel. Travelogues of Shafiq ur Rehman, Ibn e Insha and Begum Akhtar Riaz ud
Din came to light during this period. Women travelogues Sheen Farukh, Bushra Rehman and
Parveen Atif. Parveen Atif wrote two Urdu travelogues “Kiran Titli Or Bagoly” and “Taper
Wasni”.Her travelogues are beautiful gift in intellectual terms.
 
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
The status of female education in rural Balochistan
Full text linkBalochistan is the largest province in Pakistan, occupying almost 43% of the country’s land area and is approximately the size of France. It is also the least populated province with only about 5% of the population residing there, 80% of whom are scattered in small villages. These villages have remained largely untouched by the advances of the modern age, and largely ignored by the central authorities. Very few resources have been made available to these rural areas with the unfortunate result that education for all is extremely under-funded, and the most seriously affected by this neglect are the women and the girls. The status of female education in rural Balochistan presents a depressing picture. Although illiteracy in Pakistan as a whole stands at 80% and growing, the literacy rate among rural women in Balochistan is bleaker. It is estimated that less than 2% of rural female in Balochistan are literate. Literate and illiterate traditions assign the women certain responsibilities such as cooking food, cleaning the house, child-bearing and rearing, and all other domestic support needed by her husband and other family members. The benefits of education for girls in rural Balochistan have only recently being recognized. The Mobile Female Teacher Training Unit (MFTTU) is a project that was developed out of the realization that girls and women in rural areas deserve an education and that their role in rural development depends on their larger participation in the process. Cooperation between the Government of Balochistan, from the provincial to the district level and international organizations such as UNICEF, USAID, PED, TVO, World Bank and the Society for Community Support for Primary Education Balochistan and Village education Committee, which is made up of parents, has enabled the MFTTU and the society to bring together available community resources for girls education in the rural areas and to train female teacher for the villages. Although it is an excellent programme and has a significant impact on the female education in Balochistan, it was losing its desired benefits because of issues related to time and the handling of the programme by traditional people. When I came back from AKU-IED, I was given charge of this programme. On the basis of my experience at IED, I introduced some new professional interventions in the program. They worked very well. The main objective of this program was to increase the sustainable enrolment of girls in Primary schools in the rural areas by identifying qualified females from the villages who will become primary teachers in the villages. The main task is to train these teachers in their own environment and close to their communities. This paper describes the efforts made by the Education Department Government of Balochistan with the assistance of donors and effective support of communities to make a significant break through in female education in the rural areas of Balochistan. This paper will also explain the main features of the research studies carried out on the effectiveness of this program by different organizations. On the basis of these studies and the emerging trends of Education sector reforms I was given a task to revise the model of this program. With the help of discussions and consultation with teachers and field staff officers the revised version of MFTTP was developed. It is a beautiful blend of theory and practice spread over three years. Although it is an excellent model in theory, a huge number of female teachers have dropped out from the course in subsequent years and are finding out alternate easy ways for getting the certificate through Allama Iqbal Open University Courses or from some other private institutions. This paper also looks into the realities of the introduction of any change and its sustainability. One must be very careful while bringing about change based only on a theoretical basis without taking into consideration field realities. It also reflects the alternate mechanism (shortcuts) present in the society and their attractiveness for teachers in getting annual increments or running salaries by proving them qualifications through such pirated certificates
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
Implementation of do-talk-record strategy in lower secondary mathematics classroom in government school
No full textTeaching and learning mathematics is considered a boring and difficult task by the teachers as well as students where teachers have to take whole responsibility of transferring mathematics knowledge to students and students fearfully receive this knowledge as passive recipients. My experiences a learner and later as a teacher in the same situation has stimulated my thinking about a better and effective way of teaching and learning mathematics which could invite students\u27 active participation in their own learning. Hence I took the opportunity to conduct a study according to my interest in mathematics teaching. The focus of my study was the implementation of the Do - Talk - Record strategy in lower secondary mathematics\u27 class in a government school. The research was carried out for five weeks and the study was designed to follow three stages (pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention). I followed a qualitative research design because qualitative research seeks to enlarge our sense of explanation and makes things understandable by means of explanation or interpretation. The observation of classroom practice, interview of research participants and my own teaching helped me with data collection. During the pre-intervention stage, I found that the teacher\u27s current emphasis was on rote learning. Students blindly followed the procedure directed by the teacher. The purpose of my study was to create an environment for the students in which they became self learners and, they would relate mathematics to their daily life with anintent to promote long-term memory. Through the Do - Talk - Record strategy I tried to develop discussion skills in students. For that purpose I gave students some activities. During activities I recognised some teaching approaches which helped me to know how students learn; such as learning through misconception, learning through prior knowledge, learning by doing, learning by questioning and learning through discussion. I used those approaches which enabled me to support students\u27 conceptual understanding of fraction\u27. The result of this approach enabled me to suggest some recommendations, like the Do - Talk - Record strategy be introduced in the educational institutions in Pakistan on a trial basis
Importance of characters in fiction
Full text linkEvery person has his own view of life, his specific style of thinking and action and reaction related to various events of life. The fundamental right is the nature of change and man in chaos. Man creates poems as if his work where man is a character, so Shakespeare said that this world is a stage and we are his characters who disappear from the screen after presenting their play at their time.
The storyteller completes the story by making one of these three components the central point in the creation of the story. Sometimes the story is made through the plot, that is, on the basis of reality, sometimes the character reveals the story, and sometimes it creates the atmosphere. The house is achieved and the story is told through it
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