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Celebrating IWD 2021: Focus on women in gender research and leadership – Elizabeth Swai
No full textElizabeth Swai, chief executive officer at AKM Gliters Company Limited in Tanzania, describes the social norms that hinder women’s ability to adopt and venture into certain leadership positions. In her case, she lost not only her friends but her marriage as well, since her husband did not believe in the viability of the business she was venturing into
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
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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
SMARD Performed on SwaI-Digested EBV Episomes Replicated in Raji Cells
No full text<div><p>(A) Map of the approximately 105-kb fragment obtained by digesting EBV episomes with the restriction endonuclease SwaI.</p>
<p>(B) Images of 36 EBV molecules ordered and marked as in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020152#pbio-0020152-g003" target="_blank">Figure 3</a>B. Molecules 18 and 19 are distorted, but the positions of the red-to-green transitions are clear.</p>
<p>(C) Replication profile of the SwaI-digested EBV episomes shown in (B). Starting from the SwaI site, intervals of 5 kb are indicated on the horizontal axis by numbers from 1 to 21. The vertical axis indicates the percentage of molecules stained red within each 5-kb interval.</p>
<p>(D) Profile of replication fork abundance and direction. Intervals of 5 kb are indicated on the horizontal axis as for (C). The vertical axis indicates the percentage of molecules containing replication forks in each 5-kb interval. The partitioning of the EBV genome is different from <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020152#pbio-0020152-g003" target="_blank">Figure 3</a>D. Hence, the four pausing sites that in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020152#pbio-0020152-g003" target="_blank">Figure 3</a>D were located within interval 8 are here located between interval 13 and interval 14. As a consequence, the peak visible in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020152#pbio-0020152-g003" target="_blank">Figure 3</a>D is here split into two smaller adjacent peaks.</p>
<p>(E) Map of the approximately 105-kb SwaI fragment aligned with the horizontal axes of histograms (C) and (D).</p></div
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Capacity building of the UWAMALE farmers' group at Lekitatu Village
No full textUWAMALE Farmers' Group constitutes a force of 30 members (9 women, 21 men) with the potential of reaching a membership base of 300 in the very near future. The Group is located at Lekitatu Village, Usa Ward, Poli Division in Arumeru District, It was formed with the aim of combining individual efforts to penetrate the market and also to try and reduce some transactions costs with the objective of increasing productivity and income.
During the community needs assessment carried out in December 2005, it was revealed that low income is the main problem among the members. Further analysis attributed this problem to lack of marketing skills. The Group has received assistance through the River Basin Management and Smallholder Irrigation Improvement Project (RBM-SIIP)1,which carried out a substantial rehabilitation of their irrigation infrastructure. The Group is also benefiting through training provided by the Traditional Irrigation and Environmental Development Organization (host organization).
This project aimed at strengthening the UWAMALE group through selected areas of capacity building (training) in order to hasten achievement of the desired benefits, which are primarily vested in increased income and food security. (Author abstract)Swai, W. E. (2007). Capacity building of the UWAMALE farmers' group at Lekitatu Village. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster of Science (M.S.)School of Community Economic Developmen
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
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