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Developing a hospitality and tourism curriculum in a two-year college in Japan
No full textThe paper discusses the development of a hospitality and tourism curriculum and its unique features in the Department of English at Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College in Sapporo, Japan. First, the analysis of a career pattern of the college graduates and a careful plan which the department faculty developed in order to introduce a career-oriented new curriculum on hospitality and tourism will be presented. Second, a three-year-long implementation process will be outlined highlighting the commitment of UNLV Singapore to help cement this process. This led to the launch of a new program on hospitality and tourism in the academic year 2011. The first internship program was successfully
completed in the summer of 2011 and a lecture series on hospitality and tourism with a regional focus on Hokkaido is underway. Finally, our plan for the academic year 2012 will be discussed. The second year of the hospitality and tourism curriculum will introduce a content-based English program on hospitality and tourism with the prospects of possible international collaboration with Singapore institutions. Our new curriculum, with a strong career orientation and international collaborative approach, will further strengthen the pedagogical excellence which Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College is known for
Mobility and networking of Buddhist novices: a case of village society in northern Laos
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the mobility and the dynamics of social networking of Buddhist novices' in a village in northern Laos, based on historical context of the local area. The villagers are mostly Lue, descended from migrants into the area from southern China about 500 years ago, who developed their traditions and customs under the infl uence of Theravada Buddhism. In the process of nation building through colonization, civil war and socialist revolution, Buddhism has attracted political attention and been subjected to regulation by the Lao government. In addition to the institutionalization and centralization of the clergy, villagers' religious practices have been affected by penetration of a money economy, improvements in transportation and implementation of development policies. Traditionally, ordination as a novice was a rite of passage to manhood in the village, and thus most men became novices and returned to life in the village after disrobing. Since the 1980s, however, many novices have moved to urban areas for education and to experience urban life. Most of them returned to secular life after completion of their study, found a job and stayed in the urban areas, while constructing and mobilizing their social relationships there, and keeping in touch with fellow villagers for mutual support. This paper argues that the social network and the living space of people have expanded by their practice of mutual assistance suited to the time and situation
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
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