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Florian Mehltretter (Hg.): Wie semantisch ist die Musik? Beiträge zur Semiotik, Pragmatik und Ästhetik an der Schnittstelle von Musik und Text. Freiburg/Berlin/Wien: Rombach Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-7930-9865-2. 205 Seiten.
Full text linkUsing position data to estimate effects of perceptual features of play on passing decisions in soccer
No full textPasses are a performance-relevant parameter in many team sports. They must be played in the highly dynamic and unpredictable contexts of interactive team competitions. The difficulty to plan passes in advance requires real-time decisions and highlights the importance of the perceptual information provided by current game contexts. This study estimates the relevance of perceptual information to passing decisions at an ecological scale by analyzing sports data from real competitions. In support of previous findings of a scenario-based investigation, open passing lanes, spatial proximity to the ball carrier, team members’ positions in front of the ball carrier, and loose defense by opposing players all significantly increased team members’ odds for receiving passes. Together, the four kinds of perceptual information enabled the correct prediction of 41% of the passes played. The prediction rate compares to a base rate of 11% and is substantially higher than that for passing decisions made in static game scenarios. The results are interpreted with regard to the relevance of the perceptual information to passing decisions made in time-constrained competitive situations
Comparing the experiences and legacies of volunteers at the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Oslo 2011 and Val di Fiemme 2013
No full textVolunteers play an important role in delivering events, especially events over a longer period of time. As example the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships (Nordic WSC) take place every two years in a member country of the International Ski Federation (FIS). These events usually last 12 days and combine competitions in cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and Nordic. Furthermore volunteers do also represent one of the biggest groups of stakeholders taking part at the event. The purpose of this article is to shed light on the experiences and legacies as perceived by volunteers at two events of the same type (Nordic WSC), but staged in two different places and two different cultural settings.Therefore, 29 volunteers were interviewed, whereat half at got interviewed at the FIS Nordic WSC Oslo ant the other half at the FIS Nordic WSC Val di Fiemme.The interviews underline that people volunteer for many different reasons, whereat Norwegian volunteers displayed a more individualistic orientation. Italian volunteers have a greater commitment to their local community. In addition Italian volunteers feel that FIS acknowledge them for the good organisation of the events. Other differences can be found in the field of community acknowledgement. Norwegian volunteers added that the Norwegian economy does not appreciate this type of experience and in Italy also Students had to volunteer, which was also appreciated by community.The results show that the retention rate may be higher in Val di Fiemme due to the WSC being a project-based undertaking. Hence, local community loyalty or simple hobbies could show an increase in retention. For future events further research should be undertaken in this field of research
Berlioz, der Trojaner. Überlegungen anlässlich der Frankfurter Opernaufführung im Februar-März 2017
Full text linkPenser une histoire de la scène punk en France (1976-2016) : enjeux scientifiques et patrimoniaux
Full text linkThe rich get richer and the poor get poorer - the Matthew mechanism as an approach to explain selection effects and the occurrence of multiple medalists in the "production" of international success in alpine ski racing
Full text linkThe study addresses two questions that are under debate in the literature and exemplifies their examination in alpine ski racing. Firstly, are successful athletes the product of a long-term continuous intervention and/or socialization process or do they rather emerge via repeated selection processes? Secondly, to which extent is a nations’ collective success composed of many athletes’ singular successes or of a few athletes’ multiple successes?The study involved the national squad of the Austrian Ski Federation. Data collection comprised membership in a national squad and World or Olympic medal success and was carried out via document analysis (seasons: 1986-2016).The mean annual athlete turnover rate ranged from 24-57% across squad levels while the turnover rate varied substantially over time within each squad level. Among all national squad athletes, the incidence of being a successful (i.e., medal winning) National Team athlete was 8.9% (95% CI: 6.0%; 12.5%). Twenty-eight athletes won a total of 112 medals, 21 athletes achieved winning two or more medals. The six most successful athletes won 56 medals, comprising 50% of all medals won.The study suggests that successful elite athletes emerge from repeated selection and filtering processes. The observation of multiple medalists and a high concentration of exceptional success among a few athletes is reflected with regard to potential causes that rest on characteristics of the individual athlete, on social mechanisms (e.g., Matthew mechanism) of the elite sports system, or both
Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo e Altri libertini: la musica come elemento narrativo identitario
Full text linkThis paper explores the entanglement between music and text in Brizzi’s Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo and Tondelli’s Altri Libertini. Altri Libertini is Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s first novel and it has a specific approach to music: Many popular rock and punk rock songs become part of the narration as Tondelli tries to reproduce musicality in the flow of words and to assign a particular symbolic value to the songs he chooses for his short stories. Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo has become a best-seller thanks to Brizzi’s original narration of this coming-of-age story. The writer uses music as an outlet for the characters’ emotions and it is through music that he describes the popular culture of a generation of young adults living in the 1990s. All in all, this essay intends to point out how the relation between the characters and music in coming-of-age novels can represent a way of creating and exploring a collective, a generational, or a single identity
Anne Bongrain et al. (éds): Berlioz, encore et pour toujours. Actes du cycle Hector Berlioz, Arras 2015. Paris : Books on Demand, 2016. ISBN 978-2810628605. 216 pages.
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Sport management research - an integral part of sport science?
Full text linkCURRENT ISSUES IN SPORT SCIENCE (CISS) has published in the last year 50% of the research articles in the section ‘sociology & economics’. The topics of these recently published articles in CISS show the importance and diversity of this area of research. The growing body of research in sport management has demonstrated that this scientific field has become a relevant piece in the interdisciplinary mosaic of sport science. In the future, these contributions might lead to an increase of sport management divisions within the departments of sport science to satisfy the growing demand of sport management related education