The role of motivation in talent selection and ­development in competitive sport

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Current State ◽  
Talent Selection ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Performance Development ◽  
The Right

The early and long-term development of promising young athletes is a decisive factor in being internationally competitive in top-level sports. Among the multitude of talent criteria suggested in the literature, motivation plays a prominent role in the area of psychological characteristics. It is recognised in practice and research as a relevant criterion for performance development across all sports. This article provides an overview of the current state of talent research in the field of motivation. First, the most common theories of motivation in competitive sports are described, then different measurement methods and their advantages and disadvantages as well as the predictive value of motivation for athletic performance are discussed. Finally, implications for practice are suggested. It can be summarised that motivation in sport is conceptualised and operationalised in different ways and that the decision for the right measurement instrument depends on the goal of the assessment. To get a comprehensive picture of an athlete’s motivational status, it is useful to assess several aspects of motivation through different methods.

The Role of Standards for E-Commerce in Virtual Worlds

2011 ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joerg H. Kloss
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
3D Graphics ◽  
Iso Standard ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
3D Environments ◽  
Interactive 3D ◽  
The Right

This chapter discusses the topic of standards for Virtual Worlds with emphasis on their usability as a stable and reliable basis for long-term investments into 3D-E-Commerce. The text explains why standards are important for the success of Virtual Worlds as well as the business in these shared online 3D environments, and what the relevant criteria are to decide for the right technology and/or provider. Although sometimes in the shadow of popular proprietary platforms there are already many different candidates for a Virtual World standard, currently in different states of development. By choosing a 3D platform, E-Commerce providers will decide about their business potential and at the same time strengthen one or another standard in the current technical competition phase. So it is important to get an overview about the current approaches, their advantages and disadvantages as well as the tendencies for the future developments. In this chapter the reader will be sensitized for the issues of standardization, compatibility and interoperability of Virtual Worlds for successful E-Commerce applications. An overview about the current approaches supports the orientation and decision for the different technologies. Some concrete XML-based code examples realized in the international ISO standard for interactive 3D-Graphics X3D demonstrates the practical deployment of highly compatible concepts. An outlook to the further integration of interactive 3D graphics into the Next Generation Web respectively the 3D Internet completes the overview.

“Flipping” Course of Engineering Geometry and Computer Graphics

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марианна Воронина ◽  
Marianna Voronina ◽  
О. Мороз ◽  
O. Moroz
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Strategy Research ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Current State

This study’s urgency is determined by absence of serious researches in the usage area of «flipped» learning model (FLM) applied to engineering geometry and computer graphics (EGCG); by absence of scientifically-based, tested and implemented programs and learning materials for EGCG FLM; as well as by the need for development of new modern tools to support classroom work and forms of students’ individual work. The purpose of this study is to examine the current state of knowledge and practice of existing EGCG courses, using the FLM concept as the main pedagogical strategy. Research methods are pedagogical experiment, expert assessment, cluster analysis. Problem state: since 2012 the FLM approach has gained popularity not only in schools but also in engineering universities. FLM presents opportunities for solutions of complex pedagogic problems in engineering education, but creates some difficulties in model implementation preparing. Most of based on the FLM researches in the area of engineering education have been conducted on the basis of short-term studies, and on feedback from professors and students and their reviews. Theoretical and practical contribution of materials: this paper represents a synthesis of qualitative and quantitative researches on engineering courses using the FLM. The study has demonstrated that the issues of EGCG FLM have not been investigated in the scientific and methodological literature. Has been identified students relation to the FLM, as well as to the role of learning materials and professor’s personality in the FLM. Advantages and disadvantages of the FLM have been revealed, and recommendations on students training have been presented. Study significance: the study has proved the absence of scientifically-based, tested and implemented programs and learning materials for students learning on EGCG using FLM. To create reasonable theoretical bases for pedagogy in the area of EGCG FLM, as well as corresponding evaluation methods it is necessary to conduct further scientific researches examining various aspects related to practical implementation of long-term programs and learning materials. This paper’s materials can be useful for lecturers of technical universities.

scholarly journals Circular Agreements—Exploring the Role of Agreements and Deals as a Political Tool for a Circular Economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Free Rider Problem ◽  
Political Governance ◽  
The Eu

AbstractA problem for a circular economy, embedded in its policies, tools, technologies and models, is that it is driven by the interests and needs of producers, rather than customers and users. This opinion paper focuses on an alternative form of governance—agreements, which thanks to their bargaining approach brings actors from across the value chain into the policy process. The purpose of this opinion paper is to uncover and analyse the potential of such agreements for a circular economy. Circular agreements aim at increasing the circulation of materials and are an emerging form of political governance within the EU. These agreements have different names, involve different actors and govern in different ways. However, circular agreements seem to work when other types of regulations fail to establish circulation. These agreements bring actors together and offer a platform for negotiating how advantages and disadvantages can be redistributed between actors in a way that is more suitable for a circular economy. However, circular agreements are dependent on other policy instruments to work and can generate a free-rider problem with uninvolved actors. The agreements may also become too detailed and long term, which leads to problem shifting and lock-ins, respectively.

Gaining Insight

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-135
Author(s):  
Stacy Landreth Grau
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Right ◽  
Gaining Insight

Chapter 5 covers the fundamentals of marketing research. Research is vitally important to organizations, but it is not something many nonprofit organizations feel they can easily afford. This chapter outlines the process so that organizations can do it themselves or know enough to ask the right questions of others doing research for them. This chapter covers the various types of research and the advantages and disadvantages of each. It includes why to do marketing research and what types of questions should be asked. It also includes the role of the Internet—with social media in particular—as important avenues for research and insights. The chapter also includes a section on becoming a learning organization by putting these insights to systemic use.

scholarly journals Biodegradable Stents in Resistant Peptic Oesophageal Stricture: Is It the Right Way to Go?

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 117955221881949
Author(s):  
Tom Richardson ◽  
Gerlin Naidoo ◽  
Namal Rupasinghe ◽  
Howard Smart ◽  
Sayantan Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Endoscopic Dilatation ◽  
Oesophageal Stricture ◽  
Peptic Stricture ◽  
Published Evidence ◽  
Biodegradable Stents ◽  
Poor Nutritional Status ◽  
The Right

Peptic oesophageal stricture can be considered as the end result of prolonged gastro-oesophageal reflux. The ‘gold standard’ treatment for peptic stricture is endoscopic dilatation with balloon or bougie. It is predicted that up to 40% of patients remain symptomatic with dysphagia due to refractory (resistant to treatment) or recurrent strictures, needing frequent interventions at short intervals. Such patients have poor nutritional status due to the primary disease and are susceptible to complications related to repeated endoscopic dilatation such as bleeding and perforation. This general review aims to analyse existing published evidence and address the role of biodegradable stents in resistant peptic strictures as an alternative treatment to provide long-term dysphagia-free intervals.

scholarly journals Association Between Trait Empathy and Resting Brain Activity in Women With Primary Dysmenorrhea During the Pain and Pain-Free Phases

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanghuan Dun ◽  
Tongtong Fan ◽  
Qiming Wang ◽  
Ke Wang ◽  
Jing Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Activity ◽  
Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽  
Brain Network ◽  
Primary Dysmenorrhea ◽  
Pain Experience ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Brain

Empathy refers to the ability to understand someone else's emotions and fluctuates with the current state in healthy individuals. However, little is known about the neural network of empathy in clinical populations at different pain states. The current study aimed to examine the effects of long-term pain on empathy-related networks and whether empathy varied at different pain states by studying primary dysmenorrhea (PDM) patients. Multivariate partial least squares was employed in 46 PDM women and 46 healthy controls (HC) during periovulatory, luteal, and menstruation phases. We identified neural networks associated with different aspects of empathy in both groups. Part of the obtained empathy-related network in PDM exhibited a similar activity compared with HC, including the right anterior insula and other regions, whereas others have an opposite activity in PDM, including the inferior frontal gyrus and right inferior parietal lobule. These results indicated an abnormal regulation to empathy in PDM. Furthermore, there was no difference in empathy association patterns in PDM between the pain and pain-free states. This study suggested that long-term pain experience may lead to an abnormal function of the brain network for empathy processing that did not vary with the pain or pain-free state across the menstrual cycle.

scholarly journals Translation, Copyright & Authority

Pólemos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

Abstract The UK copyright law regime presents the right to adapt as the sole, authoritative instrument in matters of legitimising translation; a legal “Big Other” conferring an otherwise unreal objective commodity status on what are instead always only ever individual and subjective acts of translation. Drawing primarily on the work of Theo Hermans, and the experiences of poet Jack Underwood in unsuccessfully attempting to formally translate poems by Mascha Kaléko, this article argues for (a) the development and (at the very least) implicit recognition of deviationist and subversive translative replies within – or at the very least alongside – the traditional UK legal schema and (b) a softening of the UK right to adapt by application of the integrity moral right to translations. In addition, a deeper quasi-Ungerian notion of institutional change that accommodates both principles (e. g. legitimate translations can, of course, be argued to exist, to which copyright accords) and counterprinciples (there are also, however, in the long term only multiple acts of translation, some preferred and commoditized, some existing outside that sphere, less functional and more creative/expressive but no less important and not to be prevented for those reasons) can also be advanced. Finally, a much broader critical point regarding the nature and role (or non-role) of law in the context of creative practices more generally can also be presented.

Analysis of the concept of «efficiency» and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of enterprises

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Dmitry I. Zaykin ◽  
Irina V. Kosorukova
Keyword(s):  
Research Result ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Minimal Cost ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Right ◽  
Comparative Description

Relevance. The article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of «efficiency», which is a rather complex category of economic science. The essence of this concept is revealed. Today, evaluating the effectiveness of enterprises is a necessary requirement for maintaining and improving their competitiveness, and making the right management decisions. The purpose of the study is to develop a system for evaluating performance that would take into account the results of long-term investment decisions and changes in the external environment of enterprises. The objectives of the study are to analyze the modern interpretation of the concept of «efficiency», analyze approaches to assessing the effectiveness of enterprises and determine practically significant approaches to assessing the effectiveness of enterprises. Research result. The analysis of the studied definitions of the concept of «efficiency» has shown that today there is no single interpretation of this category. Common to all definitions is the idea of efficiency as the ability of the system to achieve the goal with minimal cost. As a result of the study, the systematization of the main approaches and methods for evaluating the efficiency of the state of enterprises was carried out. The article presents a comparative description of methods for evaluating the effectiveness of enterprises, which have their own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, which determines their use in different situations and for different industries. Special attention is paid to modern approaches to assessing the effectiveness of enterprises based on the assessment of strategic efficiency.

EUREC4A: First Impressions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjorn Stevens ◽  
Sandrine Bony ◽  
David Farrell ◽  
Alan Blyth ◽  
Chris Fairall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Lower Atmosphere ◽  
First Impressions ◽  
Ground Station ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Research Aircraft ◽  
Radiative Feedbacks ◽  
Aerosol Cloud Interactions

<p>The EUREC<sup>4</sup>A field campaign took place during January and February 2020, in the lower trades of the northern tropical Atlantic, over and in the seas windward of Barbados.  The initial purpose of the campaign was to test hypothesized cloud responses underpinning large positive radiative feedbacks from the desiccation of marine shallow convection with warming. To do so EUREC<sup>4</sup>A built on a long-standing cooperation with the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology to collect long-term cloud observations. Its scope was subsequently expanded by the addition of many partners, with funding from a variety of additional EU and UK projects, and US participants through ATOMIC, to address many additional questions. These ranged from the role of fine-scale eddies and fronts on air-sea coupling, to the effects of meso-scale organization on cloud radiative effects, to the strength of aerosol cloud interactions, among others. Hundreds of scientists from nearly a dozen nations -- incorporating measurements from four large Research Vessels and five Research Aircraft, an advanced remote sensing ground station and a large number of autonomous vehicles in the air and sea -- combined their expertise  to develop an unusually comprehensive picture of the processes relevant to the lower atmosphere and the upper ocean in the lower trades. We share our first impressions from EUREC<sup>4</sup>A, its surprises, and its prospects for answering some of the riddles that motivated this tremendous and coordinated effort.</p>

scholarly journals Creative Documentary Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Directors and Producers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Željko Mirković
Keyword(s):  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Risk Situation ◽  
The One ◽  
High Risk Situation ◽  
The Right ◽  
New Situation

In today’s creative documentary, a director often decides to simultaneously assume the role of producer. This new situation has its own advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it gives the director/producer more freedom in story development and in leading a project. In addition, he or she is able to work more flexibly with the film budget and has a chance to change the direction of the project while following the storyline without fear that a producer will refuse such ideas. This position gives the director/producer room to work with smaller budgets and to claim the entire profit in the end. On the other hand, he or she must be prepared to work within a high-risk situation and assume complete responsibility.The new digital economy has opened opportunities to identify the most innovative ways to integrate digital platforms into the phases of story development, direction, promotion, and distribution of documentaries, thus allowing filmmakers to identify their niche audiences, build new value with it and find the right ways for monetization and revenue increase. Article received: December 30, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Preliminary report – Short Communications How to cite this article: Mirković, Željko: "Creative Documentary Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Directors and Producers." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies15 (2018): . doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.240

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