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L’effet d’un programme d’entrainement mental de la pleine conscience (MSPE) sur les perceptions de la force mentale et de la performance d’athlètes de jiu-jitsu brésilien
Get PDFLe monde du sport est un environnement exigeant qui nécessite une préparation, chez l’athlète, de différents aspects ; physique, mental, technique et tactique. Au courant des dernières décennies, l’approche de la pleine conscience a attiré l’attention de la communauté scientifique dans le but de préparer mentalement les athlètes aux demandes du sport. Cependant, cette nouvelle stratégie de préparation mentale nécessite davantage de support de nature scientifique pour gagner en crédibilité. Ainsi, ce mémoire a pour objectif d’identifier les effets de l’entrainement de la pleine conscience sur la force mentale et la performance de 11 athlètes de jiu-jitsu brésilien, de définir la pleine conscience selon les perceptions de ces athlètes et de déterminer les obstacles rencontrés, par ceux-ci, à la pratique de la pleine conscience. Pour ce faire, les athlètes ont participé à un programme d’entrainement de la pleine conscience développé pour le monde du sport, pendant six semaines, le Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE). Des entrevues semi-structurées ont été effectuées avant et après la participation des athlètes au programme MSPE, afin de procéder à la récolte des données. Les réponses de ces derniers ont été analysées par l’entremise d’une approche qualitative inductive générale ce qui a permis de répondre aux objectifs de la recherche. Les résultats suggèrent que la perception des athlètes, envers la définition de la pleine conscience, ont changé entre les entrevues avant et après le programme MSPE. De plus, les athlètes ont partagé que l’entrainement de la pleine conscience a eu un effet positif sur leur force mentale et leurs performances, particulièrement par l’amélioration de leur concentration et de leur gestion des émotions. Enfin, l’analyse des réponses des participants a permis de cibler les principaux obstacles à la pratique de la pleine conscience, soit la gestion du temps pour la pratique des exercices à la maison et la difficulté à pratiquer les exercices de longues durées. Les retombées de ce mémoire sont à point, car elles permettront d’aider à la compréhension et à la pratique de la pleine conscience chez les athlètes afin de les appuyer dans leur préparation mentale, notamment en favorisant une amélioration de la force mentale. Également, il fut possible de cibler les obstacles rencontrés par les participants durant le programme MSPE, ce qui pourra permettre à de futurs intervenants de ce programme d’apporter des ajustements dans l’intention de faciliter l’intégration de la pratique de la pleine conscience chez les athlètes.
The world of sports is a demanding environment that requires athletes to prepare in various aspects: physical, mental, technical, and tactical. In recent decades, the approach of mindfulness has attracted the attention of the scientific community with the aim of preparing athletes for the demands of sports. However, this new strategy of mental preparation requires more scientific support to gain credibility. Thus, the nature of this thesis aims to identify the effects of mindfulness training on mental strength and performance of 11 Brazilian jiu-jitsu athletes, define mindfulness according to the perceptions of these athletes, and determine the obstacles encountered by them in the practice of mindfulness. To do this, athletes participated in a mindfulness training program developed for the world of sports, the Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE). Then, semi-structured interviews were conducted before and after the athletes' participation in the MSPE program to collect data. The responses of the athletes were analyzed using a general qualitative inductive approach, which allowed for achieving the research objectives. The results suggest that athletes' perceptions of the definition of mindfulness progressed between the interviews conducted before and after the MSPE program. Furthermore, the athletes shared that mindfulness training has a positive effect on their mental strength and performance, particularly by improving their concentration and emotional management. Finally, the analysis of the participants' responses identified the main obstacles to the practice of mindfulness, including time management for at-home exercises and difficulty practicing exercises of long duration. The findings of this thesis are significant as they will contribute to understanding and practicing mindfulness among athletes to support their mental preparation, particularly by promoting improvement in mental strength. Additionally, it was possible to identify the obstacles encountered by the participants during the MSPE program, which will allow future program facilitators to make adjustments to facilitate the integration of mindfulness practice among athletes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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