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The macroeconomic determinants of Malaysia stock market / Sharifah Khairah Syed Khalid
No full textThis study examines the determinants of Malaysia’s stock market performance against the macroeconomic factors. The data employed in this study is from January 2007 until December 2018. Specifically, the stock data used is the top 100 leading firms (FBM100) as the dependent variables. Independent variables used in this study are exchange rate, gross domestic product, interest rate and inflation rate. As for runned data, this paper used Descriptive Statistic, Pearson Correlation, Regression Model, Correlation Coefficient and Multicollinearity test. It is found that the exchange rate has negative relationship with FBM100. Meanwhile, gross domestic product (GDP) and interest rate are found to have significant relationship with FBM100. However, the inflation rate has negative relationship with FBM100. This study uses all macroeconomic factors in one model as well as the stock market
The determinants of capital structure for oil and gas company in Malaysia / Syed Afiq Syaamil Syed Khalid
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of capital structure for oil and gas company in Malaysia. The data was collected from first quarter 1996 until fourth quarter 2016. The four independent variables that had been used which are size of company (SIZE), profitability (PROF), financial strength (FIN) and company risk (RISK). This study applies Ordinary Least Square (OLS) methods in order to define the statistical relationship among the variables. There are steps involved in the research begin with ordinary least square methods and proceed with Unit Root tests, Descriptive Statistic, Multiple Linear Regressions Model and Diagnostic Tests. The results show that profitability (PROF) has a positive significant relationship while financial strength (FIN) has a negative significant relationship with capital structure of oil and gas company in Malaysia. However, size of company (SIZE) and company risk (RISK) have insignificant relationship towards capital structure of oil and gas company in Malaysia
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Waqf as a socio-economic institution
Full text linkSyed Khalid Rashid’s lead paper titled ‘Potential of Waqf in Contemporary World’ is a welcome addition to the growing literature on waqf. This brief writeup focuses more on waqf as a ‘socio-economic institution’ and to place waqf as the ‘third’ or voluntary sector of the economy. It will raise some points on a variety of important‘issues’ essential for the revival of waqf which, it is hoped, will complement the lead article. In addition, this paper will share findings and draw from a research project (of which the author was a part of) on Waqf and Higher Education (termed as LRGSWaqf), to support arguments put forward
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