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Research on foreign direct investment and renewable electricity industry nexus in Africa / Ahmed Rashed Ahmed
No full textIn addition to three introductory chapters, this doctoral thesis incorporates a collection of five empirical research papers on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Renewable Electricity Industry (REI) in Africa. It suggests actionable recommendations on Africa's electricity insecurity issues. Those issues worsen daily, aggravating all facets of African life. In 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated that 600 million Africans lived without electricity access and about 900 million lacked healthy cooking facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which particularly suffers from a clear shortage of published renewable energy data and studies. Africa's rapid population growth is another concern, coupled with a growing renewable energy financing gap. As a response to Africa's limitless renewable resources, the IEA recommends stimulating green FDI and renewable electricity production (REP). The first paper is entitled "Determinants of FDI in REI in Africa". A novel dataset of FDI corporations in the REI during 2003–2019 has been obtained. Using the FDI panel gravity fixed effects Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood model, the uselessness of changes in fossil fuel subsidies in stimulating green FDI is revealed. However, a 1% growth in Africa's gross domestic product (GDP) expands FDI by almost 1.5%. Furthermore, increasing the number of educated African children and raising awareness of renewable energy contribute constructively to REI development. Besides, to understand the green FDI-REP relationship, the second paper, entitled "the nexus among FDI in the REI, REP, and GDP in Africa," is conducted to inspect the existence and nature of co-integration and causality nexuses among these variables in 32 African countries over 2003–2019. Applying the panel vector autoregression model based-Granger causality test and a static panel data approach, a unidirectional Granger causality/growth hypothesis between REP and GDP is found. Further, the neutrality hypothesis is confirmed among the remaining variables. Paying particular heed to SSA, as the third paper is titled "Causality analysis among FDI, renewable electricity output (REO), and GDP: Evidence from SSA". The paper uses the panel vector autoregression generalized method of moment model and found that REO predicts/causes GDP growth and vice versa. Thus, the feedback hypothesis is confirmed. Also, no causal effect was revealed between FDIREI-REO and FDIREI-GDP. To intensify research on Africa's green power, the fourth paper, "Determinants of Renewable Electricity Generation (REG) in Africa: A Focus on FDI", is introduced. To date, the impact of FDI on REG in Africa has yet to be investigated. By using the Prais- Winsten panel corrected standard errors model, the study finds compelling evidence that FDI inflows directly and indirectly limit, or even impede, the REG's development. The African population growth undermines REG. However, the encouraging result is that raising African awareness of renewable energy boosts REG. The fifth paper, "FDI and the Gap of Clean Power Finance: The Case of Africa", theoretically addresses the determinants of the clean energy financing gap and the Paris Agreement's impact on green FDI. The research found that the Paris Agreement attracts clean FDI. However, the gap is mainly attributed to corruption, underdeveloped policies, and the absence of accurate data. Moving forward, focused and diverse policy implications are outlined in the thesis
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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