82 research outputs found
Tracing FIFA's "flagship women's competition" and its use of legacy from 1991 to 2023
No full textThis chapter examines how legacy emerged as a prominent theme throughout the competitive bid process for the 2023 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women's World Cup (FWWC). The bid process for this event –the most recent FIFA Women's World Cup award – required all potential (co-)hosts to submit preliminary legacy proposals as part of their official bids. All nations bidding to (co-)host the event were evaluated by FIFA on their women's football development strategies and post-tournament legacy programs, including not only how such strategies might raise the profile of women's football in their respective regions but how they might contribute to improving opportunities for women in society more broadly. Despite the centrality of legacy to recent bid processes, in this chapter we explore how this has not always been the case. As we illustrate, the importance of legacy in FWWC bidding and evaluation is a relatively new phenomenon
Letters from Greece / by Edward Postlethwaite author of "A tour in Crete", "The Fortunes of a colonist", "A piligrimage over the prairies", "Diary of George Dern", "Poems by Tristram", etc.
No full textContextualising and chronicling the gender equality provisions in FIFA’s 2016 governance reforms:Situating the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
No full textThis chapter situates the 2023 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women's World Cup by contextualising and chronicling the gender equality statutory amendments passed at FIFA's Congress in February 2016. Co-author Moya Dodd, former member of Australia's women's national football team, was one of the first women on FIFA's Executive Committee and became “the driving force in the recent push for women within FIFA”. Dodd draws upon her first-hand experiences directing these reforms as chair of FIFA's Women's Football Taskforce, which drafted FIFA's Women's Football: 10 Key Development Principles. This chapter contextualises the FIFAGate crisis, introduces the Women's Football Taskforce proposals reflected in the 2016 FIFA Reform Report, and explains FIFA's passage of its gender equality statutory amendments. In so doing, the authors explain the process by which progress towards gender equality was, and can be, advanced within FIFA.</p
The Emotional Experience of Hoarding Disorder: An Exploration Using Q Methodology.
No full textThe current thesis consists of a literature review and meta-analysis, and a research study. The literature review aimed to synthesise and summarise the hoarding disorder (HD) prevalence evidence base. A systematic search was conducted to identify all relevant studies. A random effects meta-analysis was then conducted, with subgroup moderator analysis and meta-regression. Eleven studies, comprising of twelve samples met criteria (n = 53,378). The pooled estimated prevalence for HD was 2.5% (1.7% to 3.6%). There was significant heterogeneity between studies, and subgroup analyses were inconclusive. Studies were predominantly from developed countries and were at low risk of bias. The pooled estimate of HD indicates that HD is an infrequently occurring diagnosis. Guidance on the manner in which HD is assessed in future prevalence studies is provided and the clinical implications of the results discussed.
The research study aimed to explore emotions in participants prone to hoarding using Q-methodology. Forty-nine statements related to emotions in hoarding were generated following thematic analysis of two initial interviews. Forty-four participants (34 online, 10 offline) completed Q-sorts of the statements alongside a battery of psychometric measures. A by-person factor analysis was conducted and the clusters compared on the psychometric measures. Three participants failed to meet caseness for HD, a further seven failed to cluster. Four distinct participant clusters consisting a total n = 34 participants were identified: “emotionally overwhelmed” (n = 11); “social emotions” (n = 13); “object complexity” (n = 6); “object-affect fusion” (n = 4). The clusters identified did not differ significantly on measures of hoarding severity, anxiety, depression, and impulsivity. Complex emotions appear to be a significant component of HD. The four participant clusters elicited appeared to accurately reflect current research. This demonstrates significant emotional heterogeneity amongst people that hoard and so highlights the need for further research
A showcase for the development of women's football in Africa? The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and the underrepresentation of women coaches
No full textThis chapter explores the uneven playing field for women coaches in African football. It provides an overview of the obstacles and barriers women coaches in Africa face, before establishing potential factors that could enhance opportunities for women in coaching – something which could, in turn, contribute to the overall growth of football across the continent. While gender discrimination may be a global issue in football, the chapter argues that it is vital to examine whether practical and cultural differences present additional challenges for aspiring women coaches in African nations. The chapter then proposes ways of addressing some of the core issues for developing women coaches in Africa, whilst highlighting considerations for administrators and policymakers
The Elms: Time Capsule of Natchez and Vicksburg Urban Life
No full textThe earliest portion of the town residence currently known as the Elms was built in Natchez, Mississippi, on an eleven-acre tract that John Henderson purchased from William Barland in 1804. A native of Scotland, Henderson had settled in the Natchez District in 1787, and he was the author of the first book to be published in Natchez. Henderson later advertised the Elms for sale in the Natchez Chronicle on April 30, 1810. It was purchased by Lewis Evans, first sheriff of the Mississippi Territory. After the death of his wife, Sarah, on May 13, 1815, Evans sold the property to Samuel Postlethwaite in 1818. A small tract of land adjoining the Elms and situated on the corner of Homochitto and Pine streets was later conveyed by Postlethwaite to the Female Charitable Society for use as an orphanage. Before moving to Clifton, his newly constructed mansion near the Natchez bluffs, Postlethwaite deeded the Elms to his daughter, Matilda Rose Postlethwaite Potts, and his son-in-law, the Reverend George Potts. The Potts family lived at the Elms, which they called the Manse, for several years, but after being called to a Presbyterian church in New York, Dr. Potts sold the Elms to Joseph Sessions in 1835. Cornelia Sessions Baynton inherited the Elms after the death of her father. In 1849, she sold the Elms to David Stanton, who was a native of Ireland. David Stanton\u27s wealthy brother, Frederick, built Belfast (Stanton Hall) in Natchez in 1857
Evaluation of student software tools for supporting an understanding of PID tuning
No full textThere are many software tools available for students to implement PID control
laws, but these software tools are not all equally flexible, easy to use, accessible and hence
effective. This paper gives a brief review of three tools: (i) author built tools in MATLAB
(Mathworks, 2017); (ii) TSC software (TSC, 2017) and (iii) PISIM software (Postlethwaite,
2017). The evaluation considers aspects such as convenience and cost for the academic as well
as accessibility and useability for the students. The main results in the paper are written in
such a way as to assist staff in deciding in what software its worth investing time and effort
developing resources and student activities
The marketing and branding of indigeneity in the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 : marketing Maori
No full textThe Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) chose to use te reo Māori and First Nations languages and symbolism in their branding and marketing of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup (2023 FWWC). This chapter explores what meaningful legacy the incorporation of Indigeneity in the tournament will have for Māori in their relationship with the game of football and the governing bodies of the sport in Aotearoa. By examining the content of various national sports organisations (NSOs), we trace the incorporation of Māori concepts, predicated on the Treaty of Waitangi, into the guiding principles of the NSOs, while contrasting this with access to and participation in the game. We end by looking forward to the 2026 tournament and ask if FIFA will continue its commitment to Indigenous peoples in the game
Sensitive finite state computations using a distributed network with a noisy network attractor
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from IEEE via the DOI in this record.We exhibit a class of smooth continuous-state
neural-inspired networks composed of simple nonlinear elements
that can be made to function as a finite state computational
machine. We give an explicit construction of arbitrary finitestate
virtual machines in the spatio-temporal dynamics of the
network. The dynamics of the functional network can be completely
characterised as a “noisy network attractor” in phase
space operating in either an “excitable” or a “free-running”
regime, respectively corresponding to excitable or heteroclinic
connections between states. The regime depends on the sign of
an “excitability parameter”. Viewing the network as a nonlinear
stochastic differential equation where deterministic (signal)
and/or stochastic (noise) input are applied to any element, we
explore the influence of signal to noise ratio on the error rate of
the computations. The free-running regime is extremely sensitive
to inputs: arbitrarily small amplitude perturbations can be used
to perform computations with the system as long as the input
dominates the noise. We find a counter-intuitive regime where
increasing noise amplitude can lead to more, rather than less,
accurate computation. We suggest that noisy network attractors
will be useful for understanding neural networks that reliably
and sensitively perform finite-state computations in a noisy
environment.PA gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the
EPSRC via grant EP/N014391/1. CMP acknowledges travel
funding from the University of Auckland and support from the
London Mathematical Laboratory
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