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Virtual economies in motion: integrating animated simulations and blockchain for immersive economic decision-making = Economías Virtuales en Movimiento: Integración de Simulaciones Animadas y Blockchain para Una Toma de Decisiones Económicas Inmersiva
Get PDFThe growing impact of digital transformation in economic education highlights the need for immersive, interactive, and transparent learning environments. Traditional teaching models often lack real-time simulations and verifiability, which limits learners’ ability to develop strategic thinking. This study addresses that gap by developing a blockchain-integrated animated simulation within a metaverse environment to enhance economic decision-making. A quantitative-exploratory design was employed, involving 45 postgraduate students in economics and information systems. The system used animated 3D simulations and blockchain transactions powered by smart contracts. Data collection instruments included a pre- and post-decision-making test and the System Usability Scale (SUS), with results analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired-sample t-tests. Findings revealed that 86,7 % of participants improved their decision accuracy, with an average SUS score of 83,1, indicating high usability. A paired-sample t-test showed a statistically significant improvement in decision accuracy from the pre-test (M = 62,5, SD = 9,4) to the post-test (M = 87,9, SD = 6,8), t (44) = 13,21, p < 0,001. These results confirm that immersive, blockchain-based simulations can enhance both economic understanding and learner engagement. The study suggests scalable applications in economic education, business training, and policy modeling
PENGARUH KEDALAMAN JANGKAUAN PEMBIAYAAN TERHADAP KEBERLANJUTAN KEUANGAN LEMBAGA KEUANGAN MIKRO SYARIAH
Get PDFAnalysis of the sustainability of the microfinance institutions cannot be separated from its outreach. This study aims to analyze the effect of the depth of outreach on financial sustainability in the Koperasi Jasa Keuangan Sharia Baitul Maal wa Tamwil (KJKS BMT) kelurahan Kota Padang. This study is an analysis of causality. The analysis was carried out for two years of financial statements, 2014 and 2015. Samples were taken using a purposive sampling approach. The financial sustainability issues are analyzed with two variables, namely return on assets (ROA) and non-performing financing (NPF) which are used as dependent variables in multiple regression models. As independent variables, the average value of financing provided by the KJKS BMT kelurahan Kota Padang is used as a proxy for the level of the depth of outreach and several other control variables. The results of this study reveal that there is a trade-off between the depth of outreach from financing services to poor households to the BMT KJKS kelurahan Kota Padang and financial sustainability as is the case in conventional microfinance institutions. So, naturally in practice there will be reluctance in the KJKS of BMT Kota Padang urban village to provide financing services to poor households because of their negative financial performance
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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