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Ecological Awareness in Faith-Based Academic Institutions: Theological Perspective on Laudato Si’
No full textConference PaperThe ecological crisis has emerged as a global threat in the 21st century, affecting not only the environment and ecosystem but also humanity's moral and spiritual well-being. In line with the biblical mandate for humanity to cultivate and care for creation, Pope Francis, in his Encyclical ‘Laudato Si’, meaning ‘Praise be to you,’ echoes the same call for an integral ecology and urges all peoples to be stewards of creation. While various stakeholders worldwide are responding to the call for environmental responsibility in diverse ways, many faith-based academic institutions are yet to integrate ecological awareness into their educational and overall institutional strategies. Using qualitative research methods, including semi-structured interviews and the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study aims to explore how faith-based academic institutions interpret, promote, and implement the teachings in Laudato Si’, the extent to which they are committed to ecological stewardship, the extent to which these institutions foster ecological awareness, the integration of ecological themes in curricula, extracurricular activities, and institutional policies, and the theological motivations driving ecological awareness, and the challenges faced. The study will use a purposive sampling technique focusing on three East African countries: Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. The collected data will be transcribed, coded, and analyzed thematically using NVivo software. This study will contribute to a deeper understanding of how Laudato Si’ informs ecological education and the nurturing of faith-based environmental stewardship.Daystar Universit
Framing Kenyan Churches' Response to Climate Change: Content Analysis of Daily Nation and The Standard Newspapers.
No full textMASTER OF ARTS in CommunicationScholars have pointed out that one of the pressing and threatening concerns in society today is climate change, causing temperature disparity, biodiversity loss, and ecological imbalance. This is affecting both social and environmental determinants in people’s lives. Various actors including Churches in Kenya are striving towards combating this menace. According to some scholars, Churches have played a part in the destruction of the environment, and they have not been actively taking care of the creation. In this regard, researchers have called for the media to increase its coverage to influence the public’s thinking and stimulate aggressive action in addressing climate change. Employing descriptive research design and framing theory, this study sought to gain insight into how the Daily Nation and The Standard Newspapers frame Kenyan Churches' response to climate change. The research focused on three main objectives: Identifying the sources for coverage, the frequency of coverage, and how the newspapers frame the Churches' responses to climate change. This research is for a period of four years from January 2020 to December 2023. Through the use of ‘The Meltwater Media monitoring software tool’ to mine stories, a quantitative content analysis method was used to collect data, and a total of 162 articles were accessed. 88 articles were from the Daily Nation and 74 articles were from The Standard newspaper. Based on the available data the study employed a census approach for all news items. The results evidenced that the media frame Churches as key pillars of moral obligations as most stories were framed on the social responsibility of the Church and their commitment to social justice and promoting compassion for others in society. The media also portrayed Churches to be dedicated to creating public awareness on the effects of climate change calling people to act through tree planting and supporting green innovation. However, the media did not rely much on government officials as significant sources. These leaders contributed very little to how Churches respond to climate change. This shows that there is minimal collaboration between religious and government leaders. Consequently, there is minimal coverage of Churches’ response to climate change, and the results evidenced that the two papers Daily Nation and The Standard newspapers did not have frequent coverage of Churches on this concern. In four years, only 162 stories were covered by the media. This study concludes that mainstream media in Kenya focus more on Churches’ response to climate change during floods and droughts when Churches’ are involved in social responsibility activities. The media do not concentrate much on mitigation and adaptation responses by Churches. The research recommends a comparative study on how broadcast and print media cover Churches' response to climate change. Other studies could explore Church media channels in Kenya and examine how they frame Churches' response to climate change as the current study focused on mainstream medi
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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