Critically engaging the ethics of AI for a global audience

Ethics and Information Technology - This article introduces readers to the special issue on Selected Issues in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. In this paper, I make a case for a wider...     

Selecting livestock periodicals through citation analysis technique

This paper describes a study using the citation analysis technique to select journals that would be used in the livestock industry. The study determines the principal journals to which a livestock library should subscribe, thus obtaining the highest possible utility of materials.By using a data base of 114 journals for a period of four years (1980–1983), citation data were applied on the Bradford bibliograph and Bradford-Zipf distribution to determine the ranking of journals in the industry and the “core journals.”It was discovered that the Journal of Animal Science is the most cited journal, with 889 citations, and the core journals were 18 in number, having 11,070 citations representing 32.3% of the total citations.     

Demographic Characteristics as Determinants of Unemployment among University Graduates in Nigeria

This study investigated demographic characteristics such as type of university attended, course of study and gender as determinants of duration of unemployment among university graduates in Nigeria. Data were collected from 1 451 employed university graduates in 300 firms in Nigeria. Results showed a significant difference between duration of unemployment and course of study (F_(6,1444) = 17.84; p < 0.05) with graduates of Engineering and Medicine having the least duration of unemployment. Significant differences also existed between duration of unemployment and the type of university attended (F_(2,1448) = 5.50; p < 0.05). Unemployment period was significantly shorter for graduates of private universities compared to those from public universities. However, gender differences did not significantly affect unemployment period (t_0.05 = -0.211; p > 0.05). One major policy implication of the findings is that entrepreneurial skills and initiative should become major concerns of higher education institutions to facilitate employability of graduates who will increasingly be called upon not only as successful applicants but also and above all as job creators.