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Promoting Science Communication among Scheduled Tribe Students through Museum
Get PDF166-176Governments try to improve the educational status of socially excluded sections like Dalits, tribals and women through various strategies and tools. It is already proven that students learn better and retain more when they participate actively in the learning process. Students find science difficult as the language of instruction is very much different from their own language. They generally fail to adapt to new circumstances as well as the new language. The science curriculum is far from their dreams, aspirations and life pursuits.
This study is a descriptive survey based on the data collected by the author from Scheduled Tribe (ST) students and staff of a Museum in Bhubaneswar. It was found that student visitors to the museum experienced a change in the way they thought about science, and thus developed a bonding relationship with science. As visiting a museum had a measurable impact on students of this study, it is concluded that regular visits to the museum may further fuel their interest to study science. Though the study was limited in its scope, it provided evidence that positive science outreach experiences can have a strong impact on students’ ability to learn and understand science
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
Science Communication Through Posters: Developing Healthy Food Choices among Students
Get PDF226-232Healthy people are always an asset to a nation. But with excessive hustle and bustle of today's life, people are inclined towards fast food and junk food. Following the elders, children also live with such foods that are satisfying their saliva. But such types of foods are harmful for health. If we can communicate the message properly to the students who are the future of the country, they will make a healthy nation.
Following this, the researcher attempted to create awareness about healthy food choices among students. The study is descriptive in nature. The sample comprised of fifty-nine class VI students of a school in Bhubaneswar. Posters and pictures based on the theme of healthy eating were developed. Discussions on food and nutrition were a part of the assembly class. Data collected through a questionnaire were analyzed statistically and after interpretation it was found that posters worked as an effective tool to communicate the message needed to develop healthy food choices
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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