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“Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know”: Practical Guidelines for Sports Coaching Educators
Get PDFSports coaching is an expanding academic discipline, reflected in the increasing number of students choosing the subject at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Educators in kinesiology and the sports sciences, and more specifically in coaching programs, play a vital role in preparing students for the multifaceted demands of the profession. Drawing from our experiences teaching in higher education and practicing as coaches, this article offers five teaching suggestions for educators delivering university and national governing body coaching education programs. These guidelines aim to enhance teaching effectiveness and promote the development of well-rounded, reflective, and passionate coaches. Recommendations include: (1) Setting Standards and Boundaries, (2) Carefully Considering and Designing Assessments to Promote Reflection, (3) Ensuring the Material is Relatable to Students’ Experiences, (4) Being Mindful of the Level of Challenge, and (5) Making the Coaching Enjoyable. These recommendations are intended to support coach educators in the delivery and design of programs with the goal of producing high-quality, competent future coaches
Risk And Capacity: Does the Mental Capacity Act Incorporate a Sliding Scale of Capacity?
Get PDFThe law places considerable weight on the question of whether a person has, or lacks, mental capacity. But approaches differ over whether and how capacity assessments should be sensitive to risk. Should a more stringent test be applied where risk is high? The question has generated considerable debate among bioethicists and jurists. In this paper, we review the literature and consider the standard of capacity defined in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England/Wales (MCA). While the MCA has been extensively discussed, the question of whether it adopts a ‘sliding scale’ for assessments of capacity has not been squarely addressed. We review the knotty legal history of the statute regarding this issue, and argue that the MCA is best understood as adopting neither a risk-ability nor a risk-evidence sliding scale. We show that the MCA nonetheless accommodates risk-sensitivity in capacity assessment in at least three different ways. The first derives the MCA’s approach to decision-specificity, the second from a risk-investment sliding scale, the third from what Law Commission once described as a ‘general authority’ for carers to act. We argue that the resulting approach steers around two objections that critics have levied against sliding scales for capacity assessment
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No full textWhat Makes Users Recommend Their Mobile Travel App? Findings From an Innovation Diffusion and Social Exchange Theory Perspective
Get PDFThis study explores the mechanisms enhancing users' intention to recommend their mobile travel app use. By drawing on innovation diffusion theory and social exchange theory, it offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how user perceptions and the trade-offs between positive and negative aspects of mobile travel app usage shape engagement and subsequent recommendation intentions. The study also sheds light on omnichannel strategies and highlights their relevance to tourism service research. A total of 387 valid responses from travel app users were analyzed through partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results indicate that innovation characteristics substantially affect perceived benefits, which in turn foster high-quality relationships and lead to recommendations. Moreover, practical insights are provided on how best to manage both positive and negative factors, thereby strengthening relationships with mobile travel app users and enhancing their willingness to recommend the app to others
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Integrated-Navigation-and-Communication in Urban Canyons: A Satellite Selection Approach
Get PDFThis study investigates the application of a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided medium-Earth-orbit satellite network for providing both global positioning services and communication services in the urban canyons, where the direct satellite-user links are obstructed. Superposition coding and successive interference cancellation techniques are utilized for the integrated navigation and communication (INAC) networks, and the composed navigation and communication signals are reflected or transmitted to ground users or indoor users located in urban canyons. By doing so, it introduces a new challenge: how to select the optimal satellite to simultaneously maximize data rate and ensure high-accuracy positioning. To meet above-mentioned diverse application needs, navigation-oriented INAC and communication-oriented INAC have been developed, each tailored according to distinct power allocation factors. We then proposed two algorithms, namely navigation-prioritized-algorithm and communication-prioritized-algorithm, to improve the navigation or communication performance by selecting the satellite with the optimized position dilution of precision or with the best channel gain. The effectiveness of the proposed STAR-RIS-aided INAC network is quantified by analyzing the positioning error for navigation services and by evaluating communication performance through achievable ergodic rate metrics. Our satellite selection approach indicates that: 1) The positioning services at the urban canyon users can be completed with the aid of STAR-RIS. 2) Additionally, it is observed that while a single STAR-RIS array can extend the navigational link, it fails to serve users in indoor scenarios, highlighting a limitation in the current system design
Profit or Power: Determinants of Chinese Financing to the Developing World
Get PDFSince the launch of its ‘going out’ strategy in 1999, China has become the largest bilateral sovereign lender to the developing world. This article argues that, since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has used overseas financing to developing countries to consolidate a strategical wedge between certain borrowing countries and the United States, China’s main geopolitical rival. Using a Heckman two-stage estimation, this article shows how China, albeit providing financing to a wide array of developing nations, lends more and on more favourable terms to countries that are farther away from the United States in terms of foreign policy preferences. Statistical analyses on a sample of 148 developing countries from 2000 to 2017 provide support for the hypotheses
How to Analyse Data and Evidence: The Third Stage Of The Social Research Toolbox, QGAP [How-to Guide]
Get PDFThis guide offers an overview of some of the key tasks required for analysing qualitative and quantitative research data and evidence. As part of the social research toolbox, or QGAP, series, it considers what should happen once you have gathered data and evidence in pursuit of your research question. The guide begins with the important task of preparing your data for analysis which involves formatting it so that it is free from errors and that all identifiable features (which could compromise anonymity) are removed. It then considers the key features of social science data analysis – which are argued to be categorisation and comparison. Theory also plays an important role in this process as comparisons within our data are used to test, refine or develop theories. We finally discuss the use of software packages in the analysis stage and some of the possibilities they offer for managing, categorising and visualising relationships within your data
How to Gather Data and Evidence: The Second Stage of The Social Research Toolbox, QGAP [How-to Guide]
Get PDFThis guide offers a concise overview of how to gather data and evidence to answer your research question. It forms part of the social research toolbox, or QGAP, series and so focuses on the second stage of the research process. You will learn how to critically evaluate existing evidence and literature, and the role that reviewing literature plays in both refining your research question and preparing you to gather research data. Different research design choices (including the distinction between qualitative and quantitative designs) are then outlined before the most popular social research methods are summarised. The guide concludes with a discussion of the key principles for gathering data ethically. The reader should be aware that this is a short introductory guide which should get you started on the gathering part of the social research toolbox. There are a range of sources suggested for further reading throughout the guide
Ida Shakespeer, an Essex novel : A creative-critical investigation of place and gender in contemporary fiction.
Get PDFIda Shakespeer is a novel situated in a marginalised region of coastal Essex (between Southend-on-Sea and Clacton). A mother-daughter relationship, its eponymous heroine is a grandmother who shows resilience in maintaining her financial and emotional independence, and in seeking to ‘rescue’ her daughter from an unhappy marriage. To write it I drew upon autobiographical experiences working in Tendring and growing up in Southend-on-Sea, but it is a work of pure fiction. The feminist ‘Essex novel’ about contemporary working-class women has not yet been written; this constitutes part of the originality of this thesis. Influenced by artists as diverse as Angela Carter, Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin, Elizabeth Strout, Deborah Levy and Anne Enright, this novel revisions and reimagines the bildungsroman, substituting the ‘reifungsroman’ as coined by the critic Barbara Frey Waxman – it is the story of a character in older age coming to new understanding in their maturity. The novel is contextualised by a consideration of its feminist influences, and themes of gender and regional marginalisation. Responding to the words of Audre Lorde, ‘by ignoring the past, we are encouraged to repeat its mistakes’, there is a discussion of women’s conventional responsibility for domestic tasks, and the impact this has on the woman writer. I examine contemporary mother-daughter relationships in the work of Anne Enright, Deborah Levy, Bernadine Evaristo and Elizabeth Strout, mentioning Edward W. Said’s theory On Late Style. I explore the artistic depiction of marginalised places which influenced the novel and my thinking about telling the stories of ‘ordinary women’: Grayson Perry’s evocation of his ‘Essex Everywoman’ Julie Cope, whose story is told via literary ballads, tapestries and ultimately in the architectural splendour of his ‘House for Essex’ in Wrabness, and Tracey Emin’s depictions of mothers and daughters, herself as a sexually curious and exploited young woman in Margate, and recent homage to her mother in sculpture