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COVID-19 and the Future of Higher Education
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic poses an ongoing challenge to Higher Education across the world. This paper argues that, to meet that challenge, the sector has no choice but to embrace the hybrid model that maintains the significant benefits of face-to-face teaching in real classrooms with quality digital delivery online. The role of employers, hitherto underplayed, is given prominence. Also, the steps taken by many universities and their staff to upskill and innovate during the pandemic are recognised. There is, however, a viable threat to institutions in the form of other online provision should they fail to embrace the new post-pandemic reality
Pelaksanaan kutipan dan agihan zakat di Badan Amil Zakat Daerah (BAZDA) Kerinci Indonesia / Yusuf Abdullah
Full text linkMasyarakat Islam mempunyaitanggungjawab yang besarterhadap zakat kerana zakat merupakansalahsatudaripadarukun Islam.Kajian ini menghuraikan tentang pelaksanaan kutipan dan agihan zakat di Badan Amil Zakat Daerah (BAZDA) Kerinci. Penyelidikan ini dilakukan dengan tujuan menjelaskan konsep kutipan dan agihan zakat dalam Islam, menganalisis kutipan dan agihan zakat di BAZDA Kerinci, menganalisis pengurusan kutipan zakat di BAZDA Kerinci menurut pandangan pembayar zakat dan pandangan penerima zakat. Kaedah yang digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah temubual dan soal selidik. Data temubual diperolehi melalui temu bual bersama BAZDA Kerinci, manakala data soal selidik diperolehi melalui pengedaran soal selidik kepada penerima dan pembayar zakat di BAZDA Kerinci. Hasil daripada penyelidikan ini mendapati bahawa sistem pelaksanaan kutipan dan agihan zakat di BAZDA Kerinci adalah bagus. Ini dapat dibuktikan dengan meningkatnya jumlah kutipan zakat dari setahun kesetahun. Dapatan kajian juga menunjukkan bahawa pandangan pembayar dan penerima zakat terhadap pengurusan kutipan dan agihan zakat di BAZDA Kerinci adalah memuaskan
Introduction:The Financial Crisis, the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Future of Economics
No full textThe introduction outlines the main issues discussed in individual chapters: the critique of the mainstream and orthodox economic approaches following the 2007–2008 financial crisis; the need for alternative and pluralistic views in economic teaching and research; the necessity to include interdisciplinary elements in both teaching and research; and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic which has exposed the weakness and vulnerability of mainstream economics. Hence, this chapter provides a cohesive framework to understand each chapter and how chapters are related to each other
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
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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