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Education and Health for Human Security in MMCs: Achievements and the Third Sector Interventions
No full textLearning is a fundamental part of Muslim belief, because Islam does not allow priesthood or mediation between the Followers and the Creator, and every Muslim must learn specific texts for the profession of Faith, few phrases to pronounce intentions of the prayers, and few verses from the Qur’an to perform different ibadah. Islam also offers advices for staying healthy to perform ibadah and remain economically active. The chapter analyses achievements of and gaps in different education and health related indicators of 47 MMCs in Africa and Asia. The discussions in the chapter indicate significant role of the third sector in education in MMCs. The analyses also show that there is no conclusive relationship between public investment and achievement in education and health indicators. It shows that the governments in MMCs, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, with uncongenial climate or low resource base, that are lagging behind in education and health-related MDG targets, should undertake initiatives for co-operation with the private sector and (nonprofit) third sector for improving education and health. This chapter includes four cases (Bangladesh and Indonesia; and Niger and Senegal) to show differences in performances in the education and health sectors commensurate with that of the third sector, in the respective MMCs. It concludes that better performance in education and health sectors in Bangladesh and Indonesia, with the highest density of TSOs and best third sector capability measure is revealing, and demands further analyses
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
New approaches to research, development and extension for sustainable agriculture and the environment: Implications for South Asia
No full textVariations 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
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