scholarly journals Finger-to-Beat Coordination Skill of Non-dancers, Street Dancers, and the World Champion of a Street-Dance Competition

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akito Miura ◽  
Shinya Fujii ◽  
Masahiro Okano ◽  
Kazutoshi Kudo ◽  
Kimitaka Nakazawa
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Coordination Skill

Partnering Effects on Joint Motion Range and Step Length in the Competitive Waltz Dancers

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-174
Author(s):  
Yasuyuki Yoshida ◽  
Arunas Bizokas ◽  
Katusha Demidova ◽  
Shinichi Nakai ◽  
Rie Nakai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Step Length ◽  
Upper Body ◽  
Joint Motion ◽  
Salient Characteristic ◽  
The World ◽  
Ballroom Dance ◽  
Motion Range ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Pair Condition

Competitive dance, also known as DanceSport, is one of the official sports of the World Games. The most salient characteristic of ballroom dance is the closed-hold position, during which the upper body segments of partner-dancers are linked. This study aimed to investigate partnering effects on joint motion ranges of the lower extremity and step lengths during the waltz in 13 national level competitive dance couples and a world champion couple. A Xsens MVN system was used to record movement at 240 Hz. Solo and pair conditions were examined. Compared with the highly skilled couples, the world champion couple demonstrated superior dance skills for generating the first step length in the pair condition of the waltz. This was particularly evident in the step length and joint motion range of the champion female dancer.

scholarly journals The Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on Mutual Funds Performance in Ghana

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Cai Li ◽  
Rosemond Atampokah ◽  
Helena Akolpoka ◽  
Priscilla Avonie ◽  
Baku R. Kwame
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Foreign Portfolio Investment ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Macroeconomic Conditions ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
The World ◽  
World Champion ◽  
The Impact

Development across the globe has been an agenda many citizens of the world champion irrespective of the area, sector or discipline within which it is being advocated. Politically, socially, and in the world of economics, mutual fund has gained significance within country’s economic environment. The phenomenal growth in the financial market of mutual funds can be attributed to the increase in the various financial schemes available, improvement in fund mobilization, as well as the growth of investments in the country. We examined the impact of macroeconomic variables on mutual fund performance of all mutual fund companies in Ghana over the period of 2008 to 2016. We performed correlation analysis, hence examined the co-movement of the returns from the selected funds with the key macroeconomic variables. We find macroeconomics variables positively affect the returns of funds. The effect comes by the amount of money available for investments. We further find exchange rate as the strongest macroeconomic variable affects the performance of mutual funds in Ghana. We established that Ghana receives a significant amount of foreign portfolio investment (FPI), where investors in other countries bring in their money to make investment on our financial markets. Our results provide evidence for fund managers on approach in dealing with macroeconomic conditions and its volatilities.

Poems That Solve Puzzles

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Bleakley
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Electronic Computer ◽  
Prime Numbers ◽  
Computer Algorithms ◽  
World War ◽  
Board Games ◽  
The World ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
World Champion

Algorithms are the hidden methods that computers apply to process information and make decisions. The book tells the story of algorithms from their ancient origins to the present day and beyond. The book introduces readers to the inventors and events behind the genesis of the world’s most important algorithms. Along the way, it explains, with the aid of examples and illustrations, how the most influential algorithms work. The first algorithms were invented in Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago. The ancient Greeks refined the concept, creating algorithms for finding prime numbers and enumerating Pi. Al-Khawrzmi’s 9th century books on algorithms ultimately became their conduit to the West. The invention of the electronic computer during World War II transformed the importance of the algorithm. The first computer algorithms were for military applications. In peacetime, researchers turned to grander challenges - forecasting the weather, route navigation, choosing marriage partners, and creating artificial intelligences. The success of the Internet in the 70s depended on algorithms for transporting data and correcting errors. A clever algorithm for ranking websites was the spark that ignited Google. Recommender algorithms boosted sales at Amazon and Netflix, while the EdgeRank algorithm drove Facebook’s NewsFeed. In the 21st century, an algorithm that mimics the operation of the human brain was revisited with the latest computer technology. Suddenly, algorithms attained human-level accuracy in object and speech recognition. An algloirthm defeated the world champion at Go - the most complex of board games. Today, algorithms for cryptocurrencies and quantum computing look set to change the world.

scholarly journals Research and development of artificial intelligence in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Machine Perception ◽  
Learning Machines ◽  
Chinese Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The World ◽  
Peking University ◽  
Set Up ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Abstract This year saw several milestones in the development of artificial intelligence. In March, AlphaGo, a computer algorithm developed by Google's London-based company, DeepMind, beat the world champion Lee Sedol at Go, an ancient Chinese board game. In October, the same company unveiled in the journal Nature its latest technique that allows a machine to solve tasks that require logic and reasoning, such as finding its way around the London Underground using a map it has never seen before. Such progress in recent years has provided significant impetus to developing cutting-edge learning machines around the world, including China. In 2015, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) set up the Centre for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology—a consortium of laboratories from more than 20 CAS institutes and universities. Early this year, China rolled out the China Brain Project, a fifteen-year programme that will focus on brain mapping, neurological diseases and brain-inspired artificial intelligence. In a forum chaired by National Science Review's Executive Associative Editor, Mu-ming Poo, who also leads the CAS centre for excellence and the China Brain Project, several researchers discussed China's latest initiatives and progress in artificial intelligence, where the future lies and what the main challenges are. Yunji Chen Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Tieniu Tan Institute of Automation, Deputy President of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Yi Zeng Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Hongbin Zha Director of Key Lab of Machine Perception (MOE), Peking University, Beijing Mu-ming Poo (Chair) Director of Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai

scholarly journals Game Performance Versus Competitive Performance in the World Championship of Handball 2011

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Óscar Gutiérrez ◽  
José L. Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Efficiency Evaluation ◽  
Competitive Performance ◽  
World Championship ◽  
The World ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Using Data ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Game Performance

This article assesses the game performance of the teams participating in the Men’s World Championship of Handball of 2011 by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the cross-efficiency evaluation. DEA uses Linear Programming to yield a measure of the overall performance of the game of particular teams, and allows us to identify relative strengths and weaknesses by means of benchmarking analysis. The cross-efficiency evaluation provides a peerappraisal of the teams with different patterns of game, and makes it possible to rank them. Comparisons between this ranking and the final classification in the championship provide an insight into the game performance of the teams versus their competitive performance. We highlight the fact that France, which is the world champion, is also identified as an “all-round” performer in our game performance assessment.

Dire, Médire, Dédire

2020 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Fleck
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Courtroom Testimony

Abstract The article analyzes the triviality of Austin’s version of everyday-world speech act theory (which explicitly excluded fictional uses of language) in favor of its specific value for investigation of fictionality, invoking ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and Émile Benveniste. Noting the thematic prominence in the Misanthrope of two of Austin’s favorite examples of speech acts, for marriage (“I do”) and courtroom testimony (“I swear to tell the truth . . . ”), the article examines the work’s dramatic ambiguities in relation to Austin’s theory—and in particular, its shortcomings. Molière thus articulates the profoundly divided nature of Alceste indicated by Donneau de Visé (“ridicule”/“juste”), Rousseau (“un homme droit, sincère, estimable,” but also facing the world as “un personnage ridicule”), and recently by Georges Forestier and Claude Bourqui (the melancholic, jealous lover vs. the philosophe misanthrope, the world champion of sincerity), permanently at war with himself, in a war he is bound to lose. The article concludes that Molière constructs much of the famously conversational dramatic texture and indeterminate conclusion not through “successful” speech acts, but rather through failed ones; a reflection, too, of the rapidly transforming social values of the play’s historical moment.

Winning after Winning: The Psychology of Ongoing Excellence

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Kreiner-Phillips ◽  
Terry Orlick
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The World ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of success on athletes who reached the top of the world in their sport. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 17 world champion athletes, representing 7 different sports and 4 different countries. All athletes, 11 males and 6 females, had won major international competitions (World Cup, World Championships, and/or Olympic Games) between the years 1964 and 1988. The number of individual World Cup wins ranged from 1 to 86. The results indicate that athletes who became the best in their sport, subsequently experienced many additional demands. Most had little or no assistance in dealing with these demands. Approximately one third of these athletes coped well with the additional demands and continued to win. The remaining two thirds did not handle the additional demands as well and either never repeated their winning performance or took a significant amount of time to do so. Strategies to help prepare future champions to handle the demands of winning are suggested.

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