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Agricultural Knowledge of Students and their Awareness about the Role of Universities in Development Regional and Local Development Studies (Rlds)
No full textThe objective of this study was to assess and compare the difference
between the mean agricultural knowledge scores of first year university
students, when grouped by their high school agricultural education and
place of birth background, and to determine their awareness about the
role of universities in development particularly in solving the problem of
food insecurity in Ethiopia. A sample consisting of 148 students was
selected using Equal Probability Selection Method. The study instrument
was developed, validated by group of experts, tested and administered
to the sample of students. A survey was conducted in April 2003. The
means comparison, ANOVA and Independent Samples t-Tests using
SPSS PC version10 was employed to analyse the data at 0.05 alpha
level.
The dependent variables (summated scores of agricultural knowledge
ranging from 0-30 and summated score of awareness ranging from 1-5)
and the independent variables (dichotomous values of high school
agricultural education and place of birth background) were entered into
mean comparison and ANOVA test model. The result revealed that there
exists mean difference between both test groups. Students with high
school agricultural education scored M=19.6 and with no agricultural
education M=12.8. Students with rural background scored M=17.5
whereas with urban background scored M=16.4. The mean difference
between students grouped by their high school agricultural education
found to be significant (P=0.00) where as the mean difference between
students grouped by their place of birth revealed to be not significant
(P=0.189). This result was further verified by using Independent
Samples t-Test for both groups and the result revealed (P=0.00 for first
group and P=0.176 for the second group) which was similar to the
ANOVA tests.
Furthermore, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) econometrics model was
conducted using GiveWin statistical package to estimate the extent by
which the value of dependent variable is explained by the independent
variable. To this end, four lag OLS test revealed (R^2= 0.56 and
DW=1.39) that 56% of the agricultural knowledge of students can be
explained by their previous high school agricultural education
background. The awareness section mean score was M=1.9 for
students with high school agricultural education and M=2.4 for students
with no agricultural education background. This indicates that students with high school agricultural education have a good awareness about
agriculture and agricultural higher education. More than 60% of students
support the integration of Universities in the national agricultural research
and extension system.
It was finally concluded that offering agricultural education at high school
level would help to build agricultural knowledge and awareness of the
future generation. Further national survey research is warranted to
determine the importance of offering agricultural education courses at all
levels of schooling and designing policies or national guidance to
integrate Universities in the development process particularly integrating
them in to the federal/regional agricultural research and extension
systems
Public Private Partnership in Development: Lessons in Devising Legal and Institutional Framework from South Korea
Get PDFPublic Private Partnership (PPP) is collaboration between public and private sectors in public service delivery as an alternative solution to the ever-increasing challenges in public service delivery. The success of implementing PPP around the world has been an attractive alternative for procuring public service works to the private sector. Establishing an enabling legal and institutional environment is the basic precondition to establish PPP arrangement in the development process. Accordingly, this study focuses on assessing international best practices as to how rapidly developing countries involve the private sector in their respective development process. This study takes the case of South Korea. Document review method was employed to assess how South Korea institutionalized PPP as part of its development strategy. Some selected government policy-documents, book chapters and articles are collected and consulted to finalize this study. The findings of this study reveal that the legal and institutional systems organized in South Korea are well established. Act on PPP and its Enforcement Decree constitute the major legal framework. Agencies like Ministry of Strategy and finance (MOSF) and Private Infrastructure Investment Management Center (PIMAC) represent institutional frameworks that can be taken as best practice for developing countries. Though most special government support schemes are introduced, some of the components, such as Minimum Revenue Guarantee (MRG) and allowing public property to private partners to use it free of charge, may be adopted with its appropriate controlling mechanisms. Hence, getting lessons from the experiences of South Korea with careful investigation of specific issues and contextualization of objective conditions in developing countries is warranted. KEY WORDS: Public, Private, Partnership, legal framework, institutional framework, development, PP
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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