Sponsoring Academic Integrity: The Role of Human and Informational Sources of Scholarship in Adoption of Plagiarism-Avoiding Techniques among Research Students of Social Sciences

Plagiarism is a serious offense that defies the ethics of scholarship and research. Research students need to pay substantive attention to the dynamics and contours of plagiarism in their creative, ethical, and academic endeavors. Scholarship avenues such as online tutorials and work assignments are important sources of instructions for plagiarism-avoidance among students. The current study explores the frequency of consultation of scholarship avenues and the usage of plagiarism-avoidance techniques among research students in social sciences. The study also recommends a scale to investigate plagiarism-avoidance techniques. Furthermore, it also examines the level of the study in predicting the usage of plagiarism-avoidance. Using the online survey technique, 108 research students from Pakistan were sampled. The questionnaire was uploaded on several student-based research groups of social media, including; Facebook, and Yahoo groups. Bivariate linear regression analysis was used for hypothesis testing. Findings revealed that scholarship avenues lead to greater usage of plagiarism-avoidance techniques among research students (R2 =0.065). Supervisors, class-fellows, colleagues, and faculty of the department are prominent human scholarship avenues. Similarly, articles and books from the web, books from the library, the anti-plagiarism policy of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), and lectures delivered in the classroom were leading informational scholarship avenues. Stage of the study and consultation of the scholarship avenues were predictors of usage of plagiarism-avoidance techniques. It is recommended that (i) plagiarism-avoidance is promoted through prevention rather than detection, and that (ii) scholarship avenues (e.g. Delivering lectures, institutional policy, and interaction with relevant websites) are used for enhancing awareness about intellectual dishonesty.

Matrix Valued Truncated Toeplitz Operators

This thesis contains results about the matrix valued truncated Toeplitz operators (MTTO''s) de ned on the model space K= H2 H2(E), with axed pure inner function and E an arbitrary Hilbert space. The class of MTTO''s is denoted by T (K ). In the main work of this thesis we shall concern with the extension of some of the results obtained in the scalar case by D. Sarason in [27]. After gathering together the mathematical preliminaries of this work in Chapter 1, in Chapter 2 we shall present the most important properties of the model spaces Kand some very important operators Sand S in T (K ). The main object of this thesis is the study of the matrix generalization of the truncated Toeplitz operators introduced in [27]; a more recent presentation is [17]. This will be the content of Chapter 3, 4, 5. Finally, in Chapter 6 the preceding theory is applied to initiate the study ofnite rank operators in T (K ).