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An analysis of stakeholders’ support mechanism for the preservation of weaving in an indigenous community
No full textWith the fast influence of modernization, many people have to adapt to meet the demand of the changes in society, including the indigenous communities. Some parts of their culture are being at risk due to the high call of alteration. In these communities, customs and traditions should be protected to preserve their culture, heritage, and their identity as a tribe. Thus, the purpose of the study was to make an analysis of stakeholders’ support mechanism for the preservation of weaving in an indigenous community. The research design of the study followed the quantitative research design complemented with qualitative data to analyze the stakeholders’ support mechanisms. Quantitative data were analyzed with the application of the Prince Chart and Prince Method of Calculation, while qualitative data were perused through content or textual analysis. The research participants of the study were the thirty (30) respondents who answered the survey questionnaire adopted from the UP-NCPAG, and ten (10) informants who went through an in-depth interview (IDI). The results of the quantitative data analysis showed that the issue position elicited affirmative score, while the power and priority scored high. It also showed a 100% probability of support from the stakeholders, which denotes certainty of implementation. On the other hand, the qualitative data and findings reinforced and validated the quantitative data and findings. The study arrived at a conclusion that there is high optimism and likelihood that the proposed development of NC II Weaving in Amgu-o will become a reality which will lead to the preservation of weaving the indigenous community
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
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
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
Fact Check: Investigating historical distortions in educational learning sources
No full textWith the convenience of communicating and obtaining information facilitated by social media and online information and even in some physical resources, there is also a prevalence of historical distortion. For this reason, we are now in the age of disinformation. This study aims to investigate the historical distortions in educational learning sources as perceived by the social science teachers, including the circumstances where it existed and the impact of this phenomenon to the instructional approaches. The research was conducted using a series of one-on-one semi-structured interviews to the four participants. The findings reveal that teachers have different perceptions on historical distortion, have encountered it in physical and virtual learning references that impact the instructional approach in teaching history to students. Hence, when sharing and reading information, both teachers and students should think critically and fact check the data before accepting the concepts and idea to protect the historical integrity of our country
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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