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Dimensions of quality of life of UM Digos College graduates
No full textHigher education institutions need to look beyond internal indicators as a means of measuring quality. Graduates’ quality of life (QoL) has to be looked into and become a source of feedback. This study aims to model the quality of life of UM Digos College graduates from years 2005 to 2010 for the three major departments namely Liberal Arts, Commerce and Business Administration, and Teacher Education. This descriptive-exploratory research specifically sought to determine the dimensions that would define the graduates’ quality of life. Out of 1,098 graduates covered in the eight-year period, a sample of 293 alumni were selected using stratified sampling. The latent nature of the graduates’ quality of life necessitates the use of factor analysis. The data gathering process commenced with focused group discussions (FGD) which generated 38 indicator items which were then pilot tested. Screening of quantitative data which involved tests for collinearity, normality and outliers were done to ensure satisfaction of basic assumptions for analysis. Dimension reduction using principal component analysis and VARIMAX rotation revealed a multidimensional quality of life of the graduates. The final model was made up of 23 item statements that clustered into five dimensions identified as community engagement and work satisfaction, financial stability, health and environment, educational and professional development, and leisure and personal growth. Furthermore, the findings also revealed no significant differences in the manifestation of the factors when the graduates were grouped by department
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
Tracer study of the business administration graduates of UM Digos College (2006-2012)
No full textAn Institutional Research Presented to the Research and Publication Center University of MindanaoThe study traced the graduates of the College of Business Administration from
school years 2006 to 2012 in terms of general information, educational
background, and employment data. The participants of the study were 300
graduates of Commerce/Business Administration of UM Digos from year 2006
to 2012. Characterizations of the graduates were done using descriptive
method. This study used the Graduate Tracer Study (GTS) questionnaire of the
Commission of Higher Education (CHED) with slight modifications. This study
used descriptive statistics and cross-tabulation method as means of data
analysis. The results revealed that most of the respondents were employed. It
was also found out that their present jobs are related to the course they took up
in college. The findings of the study also show high employability of Business
Administration graduates. Communication and human relation skills are the
primary competencies that can be attributed by the graduates in their stay at
UM Digos College.IR 650.023 T12t 2013vii, 15 leaves ; 30 cm
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
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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