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Covid-19 Pandemic Risk Awareness Among Secondary School Students
No full textThe Coronavirus outbreak proved to be one of the most transformative events in the modern period. This study objectives are to investigate whether difference exist between knowledge of covid-19 risk and; (i) not use of nose mask, (ii) not observe social distance and, (iii) whether difference exist between Muslim and Christianity on awareness of Covid-19 risk in the study area. The population of the study comprised all secondary school students in the study area. The study adopted a descriptive research design of survey type and multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 266 respondents participated in the study. The findings of the study revealed that, the students have knowledge that no use of nose mask is a risk for contacting Covid-19 disease, students do not have knowledge that failure to observe social distance is a risk for contacting Covid-19 infection and there is no difference between Muslim and Christian students of their awareness on Covid-19 pandemic risk among secondary school students in the study area The researcher recommends among others that the Patigi local government educational authority should organize enlightenment programme for secondary school students that will educate them on the activities that can put them at the risk of contacting Covid-19 infection which is harmful to their healt
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
Adherence of College of Education Students towards Prevention of COVID-19 Pandemic Disease
No full textThe brunt of COVID-19 is currently being felt in all spheres of human endeavor; it has affected the health, economy, education, religion, and overall well-being of all citizens. The study objectives are to investigate whether: (i) Kwara State College of Education students adhere to hand washing; (ii) adherence to receiving a vaccine for prevention of the COVID-19 pandemic; and (iii) to investigate if there is a difference between male and female students adherence towards preventive measures to COVID-19 pandemic. The descriptive research design of the survey type was employed for the study. The study population comprised all students of the College of Education Ilorin. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select two hundred and fourteen (214) respondents who participated in the study. The study outcome indicated that students of the College of Education adhere to hand washing, not adherence to vaccine collection. There are differences in male and female adherence to preventive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence realized from the study also recommends implication for the colleges of education authority to conduct a sensitization program for students on the benefits of adherence to all COVID-19 preventive measures designed by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on coronavirus disease to protect them as well as their family members against the coronavirus disease
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
Influence of Covid-19 Pandemic Disease on Educational Scheme as Express by Undergraduates
No full textThe Covid-19 pandemic disease has modified the education system in Nigeria to distance learning using online platforms to stop and reduce the chain of distribution of coronavirus which highly contagious disease among students. This study objectives are to investigate whether Covid-19 pandemic result to; (1) change in university academic calendar, (2) difficulty in coping with online class, (3) inability to concentrate with online education tools. The population of the study comprised all undergraduates in the Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design of survey type which involved the use of three-stages sampling techniques to choose two hundred and fifty-seven undergraduates from the five selected departments out of nine departments in the study area. The researcher developed a questionnaire validated by three experts in the related field was used as an instrument for the study. The findings of the study indicated that the Covid-19 pandemic disease has influence on changes in University academic calendar, has influence on the difficulty in coping with online class and also, has influence on inability to concentrate with online educational tools among Undergraduates. The researcher recommends among others that the lecturers should use appropriate techniques and teaching aids that will make online lessons interesting for learner
HIV/AIDS Awareness among Students of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria
Get PDFHIV/AIDS has become one of the most devastating disease humanity has ever known. The Study investigated HIV/AIDs awareness among students of Kwara State College of Education Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. The descriptive research design of survey type was adopted for the study. Two hundred (200) respondents were selected for the study with the use of purposive and simple random sampling techniques. A validated questionnaire developed by the researcher was used for data collection. Test-retest method was used to establish the reliability of the instrument and the result of 0.75r obtained. Inferential statistics of chi-square was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level.The results revealed that unsafe sexual intercourse and blood transmission had a significant influence on the causes of HIV/AIDS disease (151.340 > 16.92, 221.40 > 16.92) among College of Education Students in Kwara State. The researcher concluded that unsafe sexual intercourse and blood transmission causes HIV/AIDS among Kwara State College of Education students. The researcher recommended that the school authority should organize enlightenment campaign programme for the students to educate them on the danger inherent in premarital or unsafe casual sex so as to protect themselves against sexually transmitted infection (STI) including HIV which has no cure yet. 
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
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