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A study on causal relationship between telecommunication consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Siti Surayah Aziz
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationship between telecommunication consumption and macroeconomic variables in Malaysian market. This investigation leads to the determination of the cause and effect of both variables. It determines which variable is affecting the other variable or both variables are affecting each other or both variables are not affecting each other.
This research used total telecommunication consumption and macroeconomic variables as the variables. The total consumption of telecommunication is represented by the net income of the major companies that involved in telecommunication sector in Malaysia which are Telekom Malaysia Berhad, Maxis and DiGi.com. While for the macroeconomic variables, it consisted of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), interest rate, inflation rate and income per capita.
The study covered for a period from 1995 until 2005. The data collected is in yearly basis. By using Granger causality method, the result suggested that there is only a unidirectional causality from telecommunication consumption to GDP. Besides that, it is concluded that there is a unidirectional causality from telecommunication consumptions to income per capita. In addition, the study found that there is a unidirectional causality relationship from inflation to telecommunication consumptions. Lastly, this study implies that there is an existing of a bidirectional causality relationship between telecommunication consumption and interest rate in the study
A study of the relationship between leadership effectiveness and job performance in Betong Division administration/ Surayah Morshidi
Get PDFLeadership effectiveness is very important to make sure the employees are in the high standard level of job performance. Each organization whether as public organization or private organization need a strong leaders in every aspect such as in this study that is Leading Self, Leading Others and Leading Organization. These three (3) competencies are very important that leaders should nurture as now a days public or customers' needs and demand eare more advance and sophisticated. As one of government agencies in Sarawak, Betong Administration Division should develop such leaders in order to counter this kinds of customers. Complaints on bad services given by government staff thru Talikhidmat are keep exist every year and as a leader, this issues need to solve in an effective ways. Thus the main reason to conduct this study is to determine the relationship between lead.ership effectiveness and job performance of the employees as researcher want to see how far the job performance is affected by the leadership effectiveness. This study are to test the level of leadership effectiveness among the leaders and job performance among the employees. 107 out of 130 employees of Betong Administration Division respondent returned the questionnaire. The findings were share with the Administration Unit in Betong Resident Office for internal use. The SPSS 22 was used to measure the statistical for the quantitative items, data has been analyse and the results from the findings is, it is proven that there are positive relationship between Leadership effectiveness and Job performance among leaders and employees in Betong Administration Division. Therefore, the findings from this study will contribute to the positive climate inside the organizations as the identified leadership competencies are the important element of effective leaders that need to be nurture and develop by the present leaders and new leaders of Betong Administration Division
A study on the commuting pattern of DBKL employees with a view towards implementing a vanpool system / Surayah Mohd Ariffin
No full textThis thesis was r.oposed by DBKL in order to help solve the commuti .g problems of DBKL employees, in view of implementing a vanpool system. This initial survey is to determine the present commuting pattern of DBKL employees before a further research is made. If this system is successful, DBKL will recommend it to be implemented on a large scale
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
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