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Sebata (The clawed lion)
No full textThis song is introduced by an old woman. The word "Sebata" used for the lion, is a generic name for all clawed carnivorous animals. "Mariwi" - the "manned one". "Sebata" - the "clawed one" (with special reference to the lion). "The clawed one, the manned one. Lion! It ate the cattle of my in-laws when I was looking after them. Alas! It did not run away." Men's initiation song, sung on returning from the hills
Data for: Multiplexing Protein and Gene Level Measurements on a Single Luminex Platform
No full textData sets for ProcartaPlex and QuantiGene Plex assays
Characteristics of women related to maternal health service utilization among women who had delivered a baby in the past year in, Sebata Hawas district, Ethiopia 2022.
No full textCharacteristics of women related to maternal health service utilization among women who had delivered a baby in the past year in, Sebata Hawas district, Ethiopia 2022.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Participation to the master at the FMV. Assessment of Sebata and Shola laboratories : Mission in Ethiopia, 25 October-9 November 2002. Ethio-French project on quality and sanitary aspects of animal products in Ethiopia
No full textThe Ethio-French Project on Quality and Sanitary Aspects of Animal Products in Ethiopia comprises an assistance to the Master of Science organized by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and various expertises including the assessment of Sebata laboratory and Shola Laboratory. For the training, lectures and practicals were given from October 28 to November 1st on Tickborne diseases: generals, Heartwater, Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, Theileriosis and Dermatophilosis. A seminar on the "Programme of Animal Health at Cirad-emvt" was presented at the FMV. The assessment of Sebata Laboratory gave the following conclusions and recommendations: - Good laboratory with two main activities: research and diagnosis. - The objectives should be clarified: aetiology, epidemiology and control of the main diseases in Ethiopia (Rinderpest, CBPP, CCPP, PPR, FMD, Rift Valley Fever, Trypanosomosis, Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, Brucellosis and Tuberculosis). - To formalize the relationship between the Ministry of Agriculture and Sebata laboratory on the diagnosis. A Memorandum of Understanding should be signed. - Together with a Quality Assurance organization of the laboratory, it should be officially recognized as Reference Laboratory for the above designed diseases. - A progressive decentralization of serological diagnosis should be organized with regional laboratories with trainings at Sebata and locally. - A cost-recovery system should be progressively organized for the diagnosis realized in private dairy farms. - Other animal diseases should be diagnosed (Rift for camels, Heartwater, Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Surra) and new techniques implemented (cell culture and PCR). Concerning Shola laboratory, it is recommended to develop a project on diagnosis and control of Brucellosis and Tuberculosis, in collaboration with the Veterinary Services
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
Vegetation Changes in the Miombo Woodlands in Northwestern Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Nkayi District 1990 to 2017
No full textThe research applied Geographic Information Systems (GISs) and remote sensing tools in quantifying land cover changes in Nkayi District and assess the drivers for such changes. This was done to link the impacts of anthropogenic activities to change in the physical environment especially looking at ecosystem goods and services, which in turn reduce their productivity. Satellite images were analyzed for 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2017 in order to produce temporal land cover maps for Nkayi District and use them as tools for estimating the rates and the extent to which land cover has changed from 1990 to 2017. Four main land cover types were identified, namely woodland, deforested land, cultivated land, and water bodies. In 1990, woodland covered 58% of the total land area in Nkayi District, while deforested land, cultivated land, and water bodies covered 31, 11, and 0.2%, respectively. From 1990 to 2017, woodland declined to 47% in 2017, while deforested land and cultivated land increased to 14.9 and 36%, respectively. The major drivers of land cover changes were increase in household numbers, which were associated with woodland clearing for agriculture. The other drivers of land cover changes were soil infertility and overgrazing by livestock. The research was crucial in detecting the problems of forage shortages and poor rangeland conditions, mainly caused by expanding fields coupled with infertile Kalahari sands. The research highlighted the urgent need to manage the fragile miombo woodlands, which are being threatened by the increased demand for land for human settlements and cultivation. Alternatively, the research also highlights the need for farmers to produce more biomass in their fields in the form of high-value crop residues to cater for the loss of rangelands
Evaluation of postnatal care quality among government health facilities of sebata town, oromia region, Ethiopia, 2019.
No full textBackground: Postnatal care is a care given to the mother and her newborn baby immediately
after the birth of the placenta and for the first 42 days of life. It is very important in reducing
maternal as well as neonatal complications and deaths. Care should be based on relationships
between providers and mothers with compassion and empathy. Quality of care is central to
providing health services that respect, protect and fulfil our most basic human right to the highest
attainable standard of health. Improved quality of care plays a key factor in the increased use of
services. So, this evaluation intends to evaluate the postnatal care quality of government health
facilities in Sebata town, 2019.
Methods: Case study design involving both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods
conducted from March 18/2019 – April 18/2019 in Sebata town government health facilities. The
focus of evaluation was process evaluation that utilized the Donabedian model of structure,
process and outcome of health quality. The methods of data collection were client surveys, indepth interviews, inventory of resources, and observation of the postnatal care processes and
review of program documents. A total of 396 randomly selected client interviews and 16 direct
observations were conducted. All the health facilities were inventoried for the availability of
essential program resources and program documents were reviewed. Additionally, an in-depth
interview was conducted with a total of 13 purposefully selected key informants. Quantitative
data was gathered using a mobile data collection tool (CSPro program) and exported to SPSS 20
version for analysis. Qualitative data were analyzed using a thematic analysis technique.
Result: The overall quality of PNC service judged as 85.3% which was very good, and most of
this achievement was contributed by the compliance dimension. Availability, compliance and
mothers’ satisfaction dimensions achieved, 80%, 90%, and 83%, respectively. Shortage of
essential equipment for PNC service provision, absences of the national guidelines at PNC
service provision units, missing to take vital signs, the weight of mother and baby, and not
counselling the mother were affecting availability and compliance.
Conclusion: The overall quality of PNC service at the health facilities of Sebata town was very
good. All Availability, compliance and Client satisfaction dimensions achieved very well. We
recommend that more efforts have to be exerted on improving the availing of necessary
resources and maintaining providers’ compliance to enhance the status of PNC service
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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