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Effect of Health Capital Expenditure on Economic Growth in Nigeria
No full textHuge public funds have been expended on health and other human capital variables over time with little knowledge of the impact on economic growth in Nigeria. Building on the endogenous growth model, this study assessed the impact of health capital expenditure on economic growth in Nigeria. Data was sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) statistical bulletin, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the World Development Indicators (WDI) spanning 1981 to 2018. Based on the results of Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) tests, which revealed different orders of integration of the study series, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL) procedure was adopted in estimating the stated model equation. The bounds test suggested the presence of a long-run relationship among the study variables. The short-run model revealed that lagged GDP growth rate (P<0.0), health capital expenditure – CAP (P<0.01), lagged health capital expenditure and gross fixed – CAP(-1) (P<0.05) – capital formation-K (P<0.1), significantly affected economic growth with a significant negative trend and speed of adjustment of 37.6 percent. In the long run, health capital expenditure (P<0.05), gross fixed capital formation (P<0.05), education expenditure (P<0.05) alongside a positive trend significantly affected economic growth. The study concluded that capital expenditure in the health sector as well as education spending and capital formation were important for economic growth. Furthermore, labour was not a limiting factor in the Nigerian growth process, obviously due to abundant availability of labour and a high unemployment rate. Furthermore, the proposition of health-led growth hypothesis and the endogenous growth models were confirmed. Therefore, more funds should be expended on capital projects in the health and education sectors in order to enhance growth
DEMOGRAPHIC RESPONSES TO POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA
No full textGender inequality in Africa remains ambiguous because of the steep challenges of women empowerment and development. Little has been done on the influence of equitable governance on women’s empowerment in Africa. Besides, previous empirical studies are limited to studying the influence of democracy on gender equality in education and fail to offergeneralisable conclusions. These mixedresults have motivated us to evaluate the relationshipbetween a shift in political regime and different measures of women’s empowerment in selected Africa countries. Data on indices of women empowerment and political transformation from 1980 through 2017 were analysed using the Pooled Mean Group Panel estimation procedure. It is expected that demographic responses should influence transformation in the political arena in Africa. Therefore, the African government, through legislative and executive domains, should demonstrate a sincere transformational plan for the inclusion of women at all levels
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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