scholarly journals The Extent of Online Platforms Utilization for Scholarly Research Work Dissemination: A Survey of Academic Staff in African Universities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentine Joseph Owan ◽  
Michael Ekpenyong Asuquo ◽  
Violet Makuku ◽  
Eno Etudor-Eyo
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Research Dissemination ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Online Platforms

An assessment of the extent of the use of electronic platforms by African academic staff in universities to disseminate research was done in this study. The study is informed by the growing importance of online repositories and preprint servers in the scientific communication of scholarly output, especially in an era where the use of metrics for research appraisals and funding decisions is commonly practised. The quantitative research method was adopted, based on the descriptive survey research design. The snowball sampling technique was used for data collection. Data were collected from 1,977 respondents, distributed across 24 African countries, through the use of an electronic survey. There was a high rate of willingness among universities’ academic staff in Africa, to adopt various online platforms for research dissemination; ResearchGate is currently utilized the most for research dissemination, but Google Scholar is the platform respondents are more willing to adopt for research dissemination; the rate at which academic staff research output can be found online as a ratio of their total publication is 64.04% and in the ratio of 2.00:3.12; poor access to Internet facilities at home and workplaces are the major challenges academic staff face in the utilization of digital platforms for RD. It was recommended, amongst others that academic staff in universities should endeavour to explore and utilize at least ten of the online platforms mentioned in this study, to enable them disseminate their scholarly works to a wider audience and for increased visibility

scholarly journals An Assessment of the Use of Electronic Databases by Academic Staff, Bowen University, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Adekunle P. Adesola ◽  
Oladipupo Ibukun Ojemola
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Drastic Reduction ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The study assessed the use of electronic databases by academic staff of Bowen University, Nigeria. Descriptive analysis including percentage and frequency count was used to analyze the data. From the total population of 500 academic staff, a sample of 75 was taken using the simple random sampling technique. Questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection in this study. The questionnaire used was a closed ended or structured questionnaire divided into two sections. Section A captures the respondents’ bio-data while section B contained the structured items to achieve the research objectives. Five research questions were developed and answered by the study. The results show that majority of academic staff were aware of available e-databases, use it to improve teaching delivery and research output. Challenges encountered include inadequate time and an overwhelming workload. The study concludes by recommending a drastic reduction in workload, increasing bandwidth, hotspots and entrenching customer-friendly policies in the library.

scholarly journals Assessing MSMEs Growth Through Rosca Involvement Using Paired t-Test and One Sample Proportion Test

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Ikwuoche David ◽  
Obinna Adubisi ◽  
Bilkisu Farouk ◽  
Mary Adehi
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Score Test ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
T Test ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Positive Growth ◽  
Sample Proportion ◽  
Paired T Test

AbstractIn this research work, rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) effect on the growth of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and identification of a factor supporting the continuity of ROSCAs is studied. A well-designed questionnaire with a reliability value of 0.957 was distributed to 400 entrepreneurs in Wukari through snowball sampling technique. After validity check, 368 valid questionnaires were used for the research. Firstly, a paired t-test was applied to know if entrepreneurs achieve significant positive growth in their business before and after 5 years of joining ROSCAs. At 5% level of significance, entrepreneurs achieved significant positive growth in their businesses 5 years and above of joining ROSCAs. Secondly, a one sample proportion Z-score test was used to identify the major factor responsible for ROSCAs continuity. At 5% significance level, flexibility was identified as the major factor responsible for ROSCAs. It was concluded based on the results obtained that ROSCAs has a significant positive effect on the growth of MSMEs and ROSCAs continuity towards MSMEs growth is due to its flexibility factor in terms of operations, disbursement, seeking loans and interest rate.

scholarly journals An Assessment of the Use of Electronic Databases by Academic Staff, Bowen University, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Drastic Reduction ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The study assessed the use of electronic databases by academic staff of Bowen University, Nigeria. Descriptive analysis including percentage and frequency count was used to analyze the data. From the total population of 500 academic staff, a sample of 75 was taken using the simple random sampling technique. Questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection in this study. The questionnaire used was a closed ended or structured questionnaire divided into two sections. Section A captures the respondents’ bio-data while section B contained the structured items to achieve the research objectives. Five research questions were developed and answered by the study. The results show that majority of academic staff were aware of available e-databases, use it to improve teaching delivery and research output. Challenges encountered include inadequate time and an overwhelming workload. The study concludes by recommending a drastic reduction in workload, increasing bandwidth, hotspots and entrenching customer-friendly policies in the library.

scholarly journals Trafficking of women and girls in the District of Seke: Lessons from the Zimbabwe’s Second Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Maybe Zengenene
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Secondary Sources

The study explores the phenomenon of human trafficking in Zimbabwe’s second republic under President Emerson Mnangagwa. Using conflict theory, the study argues that the discourse of human trafficking in Zimbabwe is a complex phenomenon that has led to women’s and girls’ vulnerability in the Seke District. Primary data gathered from five female core informants who have been the direct victims of human trafficking and three significant others who were the parents and guardians of human trafficking victims. The snowball sampling technique was employed to obtain the female core informants for the in-depth interviews. The study also benefitted from secondary sources such as journal articles, online newspapers, government, and international UN, ILO, UNESCO, and UNICEF reports. The results of this study show that eco-socio and political ills such as a high rate of unemployment, a shortage of essential goods, cash, corruption, electricity, gender inequality, poverty, power relations and the continuous harassment by the security forces such as the police and the army have escalated the vulnerability of women to human trafficking in Zimbabwe. Since Zimbabwe’s eco-political situation is a powerful determinant of both the continuation and abandonment of the human trafficking social phenomena, this study recommends that the present government solve the grassroots causes of the phenomena. With enforcement at the grassroots level and regional and international initiatives, human trafficking can be combated.

scholarly journals A STUDI FENOMENOLOGIS : KEKERASAN DALAM PACARAN PADA REMAJA DI KECAMATAN X KABUPATEN SEMARANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-121
Author(s):  
Heni Pranoto ◽  
Masruroh
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Data Sampling ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Snowball Sampling Technique

Dating violence is one of the crucial issues at a global level facing adolescents and young adults. Dating violence includes physical, emotional, verbal, social, and sexual aggression behaviors aimed at controlling and hurting a partner. The cause of the high rate of dating violence is that many women do not understand the forms of physical, psychological and sexual violence in love.This study aims to find the description of dating violence on youth.           This was a qualitative study with phenomenological approach. Respondents were 5 youth aged 18-21 years and had been dating. The data sampling used snowball sampling technique, and data analysis used the kualitatif method.             The results of this study indicate that the types of dating violence include jealousy, interrogation, threats, being called by unwelcome term, promised to call, forced kissing, touching, sexual intercourse, slapped and pinched. From these results, it can be concluded that violence in dating is still common, whether it is emotional violence, sexual violence, or physical violence.           The youth are expected to have good communication with their partners and have more assertiveness in taking attitudes, dare to refuse and ask for help if they experience acts of violence.      

scholarly journals FLEXIBLE WELLBEING AND ORGANIZATIONAL CREATIVITY: PERSONALITY TRAITS ROLE

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-379
Author(s):  
Jones Umukoro ◽  
Johnson Egwakhe ◽  
Victoria Akpa
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Organizational Creativity

Organizational creativity is indispensable in a highly competitive and dynamic academic environment; and the role of individuals is mostly unquantifiable. Hence the study argued that the ideas, novel research output, patents, grants of the academic staff depend on the flexible wellbeing of the workforce which is at a low level in Nigeria. Thus, the paper investigated the role of personality traits on the relationship between flexible wellbeing and organizational creativity. The paper implemented a cross-sectional survey research design and collated data from six hundred and twenty-one academic staff ranked from Senior Lecturer to Professor from eight selected private universities in South-West, Nigeria through applying multi-stage random sampling technique. Reliable and validated tests were conducted on the adapted questionnaire before it was used for the study. The result from hierarchical regression analysis using SPSS add-on called process analysis revealed that personality traits have a moderating effect on the interactions between flexible wellbeing and organizational creativity (ΔR2 = 0.014, ΔF(1, 528) = 13.579, p < 0.05). Management to tailor wellbeing policies and practices to workers’ creative drive as there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to designing an effective flexible wellbeing strategy.

scholarly journals Exploring People’s Reaction and Perceived Issues of the COVID-19 Pandemic at Its Onset

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10796
Author(s):  
Eamin Z. Heanoy ◽  
Ezra H. Nadler ◽  
Dominic Lorrain ◽  
Norman R. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Quantitative Measure ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Digital Platforms

The experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic has varied considerably from individual-to-individual. Little is known about the changes in the level of experience general people went through during the first few months after the coronavirus (COVID-19) was declared as a Pandemic. This longitudinal qualitative study explores the general public’s reports of their experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic during its early stage. An online survey was conducted using a convenience/snowball sampling technique in March and again in May 2020, where North American adults with at least a college-degree, and female majority, shared their experiences with the COVID-19 Pandemic in response to an open-ended question, apart from completing questionnaires assessing transitional impact and psychological well-being. Open responses were first content analyzed to identify themes most commonly reported, and then, the quantitative analysis examined the reliability of the changes of themes between the two-time points. Text-analysis of the open-responses from the two waves identified seven themes, namely emotional response, social contact, virus-infected, financial impact, impact on plans, disease, and non-disease related concern, as well as social-distance. These themes indicated that, (a) people were distressed and having negative affective thoughts; (b) they spoke more about their plans-and-goals that were affected by the Pandemic than their financial condition; (c) people mostly used digital platforms to maintain contact with their social network, although they preferred face-to-face interactions; (d) they spoke more about the infection experienced by people in general than infection experienced by themselves and individuals they know. Surprisingly, (e) people mentioned more about the way the Pandemic had disrupted their day-to-day activities than the disease-related health concern. Finally, (f) most of the respondents approved of the practice of social distancing while some expressed its negative or neutral effect on their social lives. The quantitative measure determined that as time passed, people’s experience with the Pandemic became quite different as people talked more about getting infected, and their affected goals-and-plans. We concluded with a remark that this Pandemic would most likely leave an impression on people’s lives and that these online comment-style responses might provide us with insights into people’s perspectives as the Pandemic unfolds, helping us in understanding the uniqueness of the Pandemic experience of individuals for an effective tailored intervention to protect their well-being during a health-crisis.

scholarly journals THE CONUNDRUM OF INTERNET OF THINGS ADOPTION IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-94
Author(s):  
Yeo Chu May Amy ◽  
Gim Guan Tan ◽  
Steve Carter
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Adoption Intention

This study aims to extend the evaluation and understanding of an individuals’ adoption intention towards the Internet of Things (IoT) in a higher educational context and also to assess the relationship between Perceived Benefits, Digital Culture and Mindset, Technological Motivator, Technological Inhibitor and Attitude and how these factors relate to the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) behavior. The research employed a quantitative and cross-sectional approach.  A sample of 202 respondents from a Malaysian educational institution was collected through a self-designed questionnaire based on a snowball sampling technique. The data collected were analyzed using SmartPLS. The results indicate that attitude, technological motivator and digital mindset have a significant effect on the IoT adoption intention. Of these, attitude has the greatest influence with regard to the decision to adopt any IoT products or services. Digital mindset was a salient factor that explained user’s adoption intention behaviour on IoT technologies. Perceived benefits, however, showed insignificant direct effect whereas the technological inhibitor perspective affects the IoT adoption intention through attitude factor. The research provides further evidence that attitude and digital mindset built up within the individual are crucial elements to be considered in justifying the adoption behavior of IoT. The research findings show how the adoption of IoT could help academic staff and students leverage technologies' benefits to improve work and academic performance. It also highlights the importance of trust and builds the required attitude to support the technology to industry players. This study did not account for motivators such as incentives or influence from authority figures (leaders, top management, government and policy maker) as well as environmental conditions, namely the readiness of the infrastructure and the commonality of the usage in the social group.

LEGAL RESEARCH AT AHMAD IBRAHIM KULLIYYAH OF LAWS, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA: TRENDS AND POLICIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hunud Abia Kadouf ◽  
Umar Aimhanosi Oseini ◽  
Ainul Jaria Maidin
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Status

The primary function of Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Laws, at the very beginning of its inception, was that of teaching civil law and Sharî’ah subjects. As it matured, its vision has been varied from teaching to that of research with the aim of attaining the status of a full research institution that provides both quality research and best legal education in the region. Similar to other institutions of higher education in Malaysia, the responsibility of research is a shared function of both graduate students and the academic staff. The research output, on the part of the students is mostly composed of either Master Dissertations or PhD Theses. The academic members of the Faculty, however, are involved either in direct research, individually or jointly, supervision, and publications of their findings. By investigating and analyzing factors influencing research activities at AIKOL in the past twenty years, the researchers will be able to identify the general trends and development of research as it unfolded over years. The researchers hope that the policymakers, at both Faculty and University levels, will use the findings to improve research quality by boldly addressing the problems hampering research progress at AIKOL.

scholarly journals Conservation research output in sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, but only in a few countries

Oryx ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
P. Christy Pototsky ◽  
Will Cresswell
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Search Term ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
North American Country ◽  
Conservation Research ◽  
Sub Saharan

Abstract We tested if peer-reviewed conservation research output has increased in sub-Saharan African countries over the last 30 years in response to increased development. We carried out a bibliometric analysis to identify the number of conservation research papers published by national authors of 41 sub-Saharan African countries during 1987–2017, to provide an index of national conservation research output. We identified country-specific development factors influencing these totals, using general linear modelling. There were positive relationships between conservation research output and population size, GDP, literacy rate, international tourism receipts and population growth rate, and negative relationships with urban population and agricultural land cover, in total explaining 77% of variation. Thirty-eight per cent of countries contributed < 30 conservation research papers (of 12,701) in 30 years. Analysis of trends in primary authorship in a random subsample of 2,374 of these papers showed that primary authorship by sub-Saharan African authors has increased significantly over time but is now at a lower rate than primary authorship for authors from countries outside the country associated with the search term, usually a European or North American country. Overall, 46% of papers had national primary authors, but 67% of these were South African. The results show that conservation research output in sub-Saharan Africa overall is increasing but only significantly in a few countries, and is still dominated by non-national scientists, probably as a result of a lack of socio-economic development.

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