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An Examination of Talent Identification and Development Systems within Jordanian Football
Full text linkIn recent times, the sports sector across the globe has attracted economic interests both from the public and the private sector. For instance, it was estimated that over 220 billion). In order to remain competitive on the international stage, the processes and support mechanisms within our talent development environments (TDEs) must be effective in order to maintain a consistent stream of talent, capable of success at the highest level. It is possible to take advantage of sports to advance social and economic wellbeing of the people.Unfortunately, the structure and evidence base for talent development (TD) processes within countries in the Middle East, such as Jordan is weak and lacking in evidence-based guidance for policy and practice. The lack of evidence-based practice in Jordan is unsurprising as there is no research investigating the process of effective talent development systems to date. Jordan is an emerging nation and one of twenty-two countries that speak Arabic. Jordan was selected as the focus of this PhD because it is small, emerging nation with growing number of sport clubs and academies but anecdotally has a lack of effective talent development program. Over recent years, the Government has started to take more interest in developing and resourcing efforts to find international sport success, particularly in football, as such research in to how this may best be done is timely. Since there has been very little work carried out within a Jordanian context, this thesis aims to take a broad examination of the nature of talent identification and development processes within the Jordanian football context and identify how the Jordanian football development system can be improved. To address these objectives, a mixed methods thesis consisting of four studies were carried out. First, the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire (TDEQ), a tool already used to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of talent development environments across the world was translated and validated in Arabic. Second, the Arabic TDEQ was used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the football in both male and females in the Jordanian context. These first two studies developed and utilised an evidence-based tool to measure important strengths and weaknesses for generic features of effective talent development practice. The confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis from study one showed evidence for psychometrically sound Arabic TDEQ-3, which included 26 items with 3 factors. These factors were included: Individualized Long-term Development Focus (12 items), Goal Settings and Coherent Support (7 Items) and Holistic Quality Preparation (7 Items). The results from study two revealed that Individualised Long Term Development Focus (mean 4.79; SD 0.86) and Goal Setting and Coherent Support (mean 4.75; 0.90) were the strongest features of the environment, with Holistic Quality Preparation the lowest scoring factor (mean 3.72; SD 1.19). Overall females scored lower than males across all three factors, with a relatively larger reduction for Holistic Quality Preparation. While mean scores for Individualised Long Term Development Focus and Goal Setting and Coherent Support were in the region of 'agree a little bit to agree‘ for both males and females, for Holistic Quality Preparation females leaned towards 'disagree a little bit‘ for their experiences of this type of support, highlighting this as a real need for focus. However, research has identified the need to understand sport specific and context specific features of talent development environments in some depth to ensure that the nuances of effective practice can be gleaned. As such study 3 qualitatively investigated effective talent development practice in Jordanian football from an elite player perspective. Study 4 subsequently qualitatively investigated effective talent development practice in Jordanian football from an elite football coach and administrator perspective. These four studies provided a broad, in depth and triangulated perspective on the specific nature of TID in Jordanian football, utilising the perspectives of hundreds of youth players, six elite players and eight elite coaches and administrators. The data revealed a number of challenges to effective TID in Jordan including, lack of policy implementation, corruption, poverty, and family resistance, as well as poor infrastructure for sports development. Furthermore, luck played a large role in successful development, especially due to the ad hoc nature of access to coaching and supportive people in the community. Interestingly, the extremely challenging circumstances faced by players attempting to develop their sporting potentials acted as a mechanism to develop their mental resilience and independence, which facilitated success. Furthermore, findings suggest that widespread cultural practice through early years (e.g. Talent Development for Young Players) developed a general physicality among Jordanian children, which could serve as bedrock of TID, if the other talent development environments were put right
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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