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ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT CREATION IN NNEWI, NIGERIA
Get PDFThis study examined the impact of entrepreneurship education in fostering employment creation among youths in Nnewi, Nigeria, within the framework of the Human Capital Theory. Based on the idea that investing in human knowledge and skills boosts economic growth and productivity, the study used a descriptive survey design to gather pertinent empirical data. A sample size of 214 was established using Taro Yamane, and the population consisted of 460 people selected from all Nnewi entrepreneurial education centers. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used, and 206 of the 214 structured questionnaires that were distributed were properly filled out and returned. Chi-square (χ²) tests were used to test the hypotheses, and mean scores were used to ascertain the central tendency of the responses. According to the findings, entrepreneurship education gives youths the critical knowledge, creative abilities, innovative business concepts, managerial skills, and strong sense of social responsibility that all play a major role in creating jobs. The findings highlight the necessity of ongoing funding for entrepreneurship education as a tactical instrument for lowering unemployment and fostering long term economic growth
BUDGET PADDING AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
Get PDFThe concept of budget padding was new in 2016 dictionary of Nigeria politics. This entrench budgetary process over the years as billions of naira was illegally padded through inflating the budget to trillions of naira and this has derailed the objectives of the budget preparation suspiciously. It has been observed that budget padding came in due to conflict of interest between the subordinate and superior, principal and agent, legislature that gain advantageous information against Nigerian masses. Budget padding is a persistent corruption, act of illicit enrichment of limited funds or resources that undermines policy changes for socio-economic development in Nigeria. This new budgetary act has led to poverty, inequality, unemployment, destitution, diseases, illiteracy and poor living standard among citizens. This paper examined budget padding and national development in Nigeria. The paper is anchored on prebendalism theory as its framework using qualitative method. The paper in its findings, opined that lawmakers inserted whooping sum in the budget, certain funds proposed by the executive for key infrastructures were either removed from the budget or slashed by the National Assembly and this corrupt action undermine national development. The abnormal conduct of budget padding by national assembly is a national embarrassment and it has imposed a lot of moral disgrace on Nigerian State. It is on this premise that the paper recommend that there is need for presidency to engage consulting firm to audit the financial bill to ensure accountability and hitch free budget preparation
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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