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What learning is valued and by whom? Athletic experience, accreditation and tertiary study
No full textA key question in coach development that is rarely addressed publicly is ‘What learning is valued’? The answer to this question is important because a variety of personal and career decisions are made by and for coaches based on the answer, regardless of whether it is ever made entirely explicit. A similarly vexing question is ‘Whose answers to this question should we listen to’? Athletes value particular backgrounds, experiences, and qualifications in their coaches. Sports administrators place certain weightings on the varied personal and professional histories of the coaches they are seeking to employ. Coach developers make judgements about program eligibility and prioritise curriculum elements. Coaches themselves may find particular aspects of their development to be more or less valuable. Finally, just because a certain form of learning is valued, does not mean that there is any evidence it is valuable. Despite all being heavily invested, athletes, administrators, coach developers, and coaches have different perspectives on coaching and coach development. As Dieffenbach and Chroni (2023) wrote, all of these groups think they know who a coach is, what a coach does, and how to become one, yet not enough attention has been paid to how coaches develop. More specifically, these groups have different degrees and depths of understanding about what coaches do and how they learn to do it. Further complicating matters are the influential contextual, cultural, and temporal factors at play regarding coach development. As a result, we generally find a variety of contradictions and tensions – none more so than with respect to the value placed on learning through experience as an athlete, learning in coach certification systems, and learning associated with tertiary study. In seeking to explore these variably regarded sites of learning, sorting the valued from the valuable and the valuable from the ‘rubbish’, we will make use of the notion of becoming
Performance text
No full textA performance text developed and written by Dr. Rebecca Woodford-Smith as part of the on going Dream Regime collaboration with Japanese Theatre company Gekidan Kaitaisha. The text was performed during the production 'Dream Regime' by Gekidan Kaitaisha, 2-3rd November 2024 at Hachioji Dock, Tokyo, Japan
A journey toward global value chain upgrading: Exploring the transition from backward to forward integration
Full text linkGlobal value chains (GVCs) are embraced worldwide as a gateway to technological and economic upgrading. Countries integrate into backward, value-importing linkages with the aim of accumulating technological capabilities and transitioning towards creating their own forward, value-exporting chains while capturing a greater share of the value generated within GVCs. Existing knowledge, which is largely fragmented and descriptive, points to a number of uncertainties and complexities that make this process far from linear. It remains an open question whether deepening backward linkages facilitate forward integration in GVCs. Using data from 65 countries over two decades, we demonstrate that the impact of backward integration on forward integration in GVCs varies over time and is moderated by the country's level of development, the diversity of the GVC partner network, and the innovation conditions in the home market. The research introduces a new perspective to the literature on GVC-driven upgrading
Semisupervised Vector Quantization in Visual SLAM Using HGCN
Full text linkWe present a novel vector quantization (VQ) module for the two state-of-the-art long-range simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms. The VQ task in SLAM is generally performed using unsupervised methods. We provide an alternative approach trough embedding a semisupervised hyperbolic graph convolutional neural network (HGCN) in the VQ step of the SLAM processes. The SLAM platforms we have utilized for this purpose are fast appearance-based mapping (FABMAP) and oriented fast and rotated short (ORB), both of which rely on extracting the features of the captured images in their loop closure detection (LCD) module. For the first time, we have considered the space formed by these SURF features, robust image descriptors, as a graph, enabling us to apply an HGCN in the VQ section which results in an improved LCD performance. The HGCN vector quantizes the SURF feature space, leading to a bag-of-word (BoW) representation construction of the images. This representation is subsequently used to determine LCD accuracy and recall. Our approaches in this study are referred to as HGCN-FABMAP and HGCN-ORB. The main advantage of using HGCN in the LCD section is that it scales linearly when the features are accumulated. The benchmarking experiments show the superiority of our methods in terms of both trajectory generation accuracy in small-scale paths and LCD accuracy and recall for large-scale problems
Don't be afraid, It's only business: Rethinking the video nasties moral panic in Thatcher’s Britain
Full text linkAs prone as the British appear to be to moments of spontaneous moral panic, it is important to recognize the forces that instigate, underpin and amplify these moments, and to acknowledge that these forces are rarely benevolent, or even for that matter, spontaneous. In 1982, just as home video was finding a foothold in the United Kingdom, a moral panic erupted about the advertising that was being used to promote an array of horror films that had been imported from Europe and America and released to the conservative British marketplace. These films became known as the ‘video nasties’, a disparate collection of unrelated films of varying qualities that were grouped together on the basis that they transgressed the boundaries of respectability. While many of these films were, and remain, difficult and challenging works, it is important to recognize that it was not a sense of public outrage or moral propriety that led to the films being banned, it was simply that the organizations and institutions involved stood to benefit from the frenzy of a moral panic. Though this was not immediately obvious. The moral panic famously led to the introduction of the Video Recordings Act, which Martin Barker (1984) and Julian Petley (1997) have explored as a convenient deflection for the Conservative Government, whose reputation had been badly damaged in their previous term. However, what has received far less scrutiny is the benefit of the introduction of the Video Recordings Act to the major film studios and their role in its introduction. This paper will explore this history and will consider how the Video Recordings Act reshaped the British video industry
Natural language why-question answering system in business intelligence context
Full text link—Business Intelligence is the key technologies that ensures effective decision making through extracting relevant information and providing adapted systems as the Data Warehouses. To access decisional information, the decision maker should express his requirements in Natural Language interfaces without any technical skills, avoiding the IT-Designer intervention. Often, the decision maker’s requirements are expressed as WH-questions (”What, Who, Where, etc.”) or Keyword-like questions. In this paper, we emphasize on a ”Why-Question” asked in Business Intelligence context. This question has not been well dealt in the literature in terms of produced answers. Indeed, to respond this type of question, it is necessary to provide explanations. These explanations are determined by identifying causal relationships between the phenomenon highlighted in the Why-Question and factors that can influence this phenomenon. In this context, we propose an approach on which a system can address a causality problem related to answering a decisional Why-Question. To validate our approach a tool called ”BI Why Q/A” is developed. In order evaluate our proposal in terms of efficiency and relevance, a set of experimental studies is carried out and presented
A Psychogeography of the Six Towns: city|walking|poetry
Full text linkStoke on Trent is a post-industrial city comprised of six original towns, resulting in a polycentric conurbation with six administrative, cultural and civic centres. Each has a town hall, a concert hall and a Victorian park at its centre. The decline of traditional industries, dis-investment and consequent social issues have created a palimpsest of industrial heritage, landmarks and personal stories and histories.
This paper employs the practices of psychogeography to record the experience Psychogeography is a mode of urban exploration developed by the Situationist International group of writers and artists in the 1950s and 1960s. Guy Debord and Asger Jorn were key figures in the movement and they established the key activity of the dérive or drift. The urban drift was a radical political and artistic act that sought to explore how the human body and psyche were acted upon by the forces, fabric and landmarks of the modern city. But they were not just concerned with the iconic spaces of cities such as Paris and Berlin, they were also fascinated by the banal—those aspects of urban experience that are barely noticed by the urban inhabitant but which direct them in their daily lives and journeys. The drift is both objective and subjective, rational and impressionistic—it would not be random, but neither would it be planned. The drift is a method of mapping the sensations of urban wandering while conceptualising the forces which shape urban lives. Michel de Certeau, in his essay ‘Walking in the City’, describes walkers as a potential locus of non-conformist and resistant urban practices whose footsteps generate a ‘chorus’ of ‘pedestrian speech acts’ which combine in ‘the long poem of walking’.
City as fragments; cutting, atomic, grain, syllable, phoneme.
Erosion of dissipating boundaries; entropies, fields and particles.
Walking the city; kinesis and the rhythm of body and breath in space.
Stoke on Trent is unique in that it is a poly-centric city made up of six towns, federated in 1910. Each town (Longton, Stoke, Fenton, Hanley, Tunstall and Burslem) has its own centre with a town hall, library, civic hall and square. Between the main centres are liminal spaces with awkward and often contested identities. The city has a rich industrial history of pottery, mining and steel making, much of it erased or hidden now, but with a palimpsest of economic, social and civic traces apparent along many of its streets, canals and abandoned railways.
This project will combine the insights of psychogeography with urban theory, architectural history, urban planning and poetical responses to urban phenomena through a series of semi-structured walks around each of the six towns.
The result will be a pictorial, historical, mapped and geo-poetic account of Stoke on Trent and its polyvocal identity, as well as an exploration of the practices of psychogeography in a contemporary setting with a significant industrial, civic and architectural heritage
Optimizing Bank Stability Through MSME Loan Securitization: A Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Approach
No full textThis study aims to enhance bank stability in the context of MSME loan securitization through the application of advanced decision analytics. Utilizing predictive modelling techniques, including Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and Neural Networks, the research identifies key financial ratios and macroeconomic indicators that influence bank stability, as measured by the Z-Score. Additionally, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was employed to optimize capital and liquidity ratios, revealing optimal values of 0.20 and 0.60, respectively, for maximizing stability. The study contributes to decision analytics by integrating predictive modelling, optimization, and prescriptive methods, providing a robust framework for financial institutions to improve risk management and decision-making. The findings demonstrate the superiority of machine learning models over traditional methods and highlight the critical role of financial ratios in sustaining bank stability. Future research should extend these models to broader datasets and dynamic financial environments to further enhance their predictive power and applicability
Filmmaking in Academia. Practice Research for Filmmakers
No full textEvaluating the existing position of film as research, Filmmaking in Academia offers clear guidance and practical advice from the planning and conception of research films to the making, evaluation, dissemination and impact of practice-based research.
This book aspires to serve as a guide for new and current researchers in screen-based media and creative practice. It seeks to explore the scope, definitions, methodologies, and interdisciplinary (and post-disciplinary) nature of film research projects. Author Agata Lulkowska focuses on how to manage potential challenges when artistic creativity meets research requirements, emphasising how finding the middle ground that serves both purposes often requires redesigning brand-new methodological approaches. Looking specifically at the publication routes for research films, the book highlights current dissemination practices and raises the question of impact throughout to re-contextualise current publication methodologies for practice-based projects.
This exciting new work provides key reading for graduate students, academics, and filmmakers looking to move into academia
Reflecting on the feasibility of peer support for pregnant teenagers with mild to moderate depression: challenges related to study recruitment
No full textThis short reflective piece incorporates the proposed feasibility design to assess the effectiveness of a peer support interventional programme delivered to pregnant teenagers who self-assessed with low mood.
A randomised control feasibility pilot study using a mixed-methods approach was conducted during early 2022. The study intended to recruit a minimum of 70 pregnant teenagers, using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale at pre- and post- intervention, as well as semi-structured interviews.
The study experienced challenges in recruiting pregnant teenagers.
No quantitative data were used in this study, recruitment was closed and the study evaluated the qualitative data only to establish feasibility
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