280 research outputs found
Industrial Platforms in manufacturing operating in Germany : How are these platforms framed?
No full textAuthor Mirjam AlberMasterarbeit Universität Linz 202
How to improve technical and tactical actions of dominant and non-dominant players in children’s football?
No full textAs young football players develop important technical and tactical skills during competitive matches, this study investigated quantity and quality of technical and tactical actions in real game conditions in a 4v4 compared to the traditional 7v7 match format. In total, three matches of each format were played by 103 young football players (10.3±0.6 years) and video monitored for subsequent manual tagging of technical and tactical events. Based on the number of technical and tactical actions in the 7v7 matches, players were classified as dominant or non-dominant and changes in these subgroups were assessed during the 4v4 match format. The 4v4 match format significantly (P<0.001) increased total number of actions per player per minute compared to the 7v7 matches (5.59±1.44 and 2.78±0.73, respectively) and the number of successful (2.88±0.92 and 1.15±0.49, respectively) and unsuccessful (1.05±0.42 and 0.67±0.23, respectively) actions. Both dominant and non-dominant players increased their number of actions during the 4v4 compared to 7v7 match format. Despite a missing significant interaction effect, there was a larger percentage increase in number of actions for the non-dominant players (143%) compared to dominant players (72%) in 4v4. The 4v4 match format shows twice as many technical and tactical actions in real game conditions and, therefore, may improve players' skill development
Phraseological Units in "Nathan und seine Kinder" by Mirjam Pressler
No full textDiplomsko delo obravnava nemške frazeme, ki sem jih našla v mladinskem romanu Nathan und seine Kinder pisateljice Mirjam Pressler. Glavni cilj moje diplomske naloge je najti razlike in podobnosti v razmerju nemškega in slovenskega jezika.
Delo je razdeljeno na dva dela. V teoretičnem delu so podrobneje predstavljene osnove frazeologije, lastnosti frazemov in njihova uporaba v mladinski literaturi. Prav tako je nekaj besed namenjenih pisateljici Mirjam Pressler in njenemu delu. Empirični del obravnava frazeme najdene v romanu, jih primerja s slovenskimi ustreznicami ter na podlagi primerjave določi stopnjo ekvivalence.The following thesis will deal with idioms, found in the young adult novel Nathan und seine Kinder by author Mirjam Pressler. The main goal of the thesis is to establish the differences and similarities present when comparing idioms found in the German language, with those found in Slovenian.
The thesis is divided into two parts. The first is theoretical and features a presentation of the basics of phraseology, the characteristics of idioms and their use in young adult literature. A chapter is devoted to the authorMirjam Pressler and her work. The empirical part of the thesis deals with idioms found in the literary work itself, compares them with corresponding words in Slovenian and determines their level of equivalence based on said comparison
Climate Policies in the Electricity Sector: Empirical Assessments of Renewable Energy Promotion and Carbon Pricing
No full textThe Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
Tradução comentada do romance juvenil Wenn das Glück kommt, muss man ein Stuhl hinstellen, de Mirjam Pressler
No full textEste trabalho projeto tem como propósito principal apresentar uma proposta de tradução para a língua portuguesa dos seis primeiros capítulos do romance juvenil da autora Mirjam Pressler Wenn das Glück kommt, muss man ihm einen Stuhl hinstellen.
Esta autora alemã foi selecionada porque tem uma vasta obra literária premiada na vertente de literatura infanto-juvenil. Seria interessante traduzir Mirjam Pressler para português, dando assim a conhecer aos jovens portugueses a obra literária desta autora que traz muitos ensinamentos de carácter social e histórico no contexto do Holocausto e pós guerra.
Esta obra foi escolhida em particular por possuir um carácter muito autobiográfico e por ser um livro apaixonante em que a personagem central, Halinka, apesar de viver uma infância e adolescência dificéis consegue construir a sua identidade a partir de pedaços quebrados e encontrar um modo de vida.
Este romance juvenil em particular foi escolhido porque os jovens devem ser incentivados para a leitura, permitindo assim o seu desenvolvimento linguístico e cognitivo, mas também o seu desenvolvimento pessoal e social.
Ao longo deste trabalho projeto serão identificadas algumas dificuldades tradutivas do alemão para o português.This projet report pretends to present a proposed translation into Portuguese of the first six chapters of the youth novel by Mirjam Pressler Wenn das Glück kommt, muss man ein Stuhl hinstellen.
This german author was selected because she has a vast literary work awarded in the area of children´s literature. It would be interesting to translate Mirjam Pressler into Portuguese, thus by making her literary work known to the young portuguese people the literary work of this author that brings many social and historical teachings in the context of Holocaust and post war.
This work was chosen in particular because it has a very autobiographical character and is a passionate book in which the central character, Halinka, despite living a difficult childhood and adolescence manages to build her identity from broken pieces and find a way of life.
This particular youth novel was chosen because young people should be encouraged to read, thus enabling their linguistic and cognitive development, but also their personal and social development.
Troughout this project some translation difficulties will be identificated from German to Portuguese
Competition through Technical Progress
No full textThe relationship between technical progress and price competition is a controversial issue in economics. This paper highlights the fact that investment in technical progress is an authentic type of competition which benefits the consumers rather than the industry. This type of competition exists when the potential for technical progress, which can be incorporated by firms through investment, is high enough. Competition is, in fact, made up of two components: A static one which is known as price or quantity competition and a dynamic one, the Technical Progress competition which also contribute to reduce prices and increase quantities for consumers. Consequently, the economic factors that increase a firm's margin do not have to be viewed as the consumers' enemy, but rather as an ally, under specific conditions, because they allow higher investments in new technology by which firms increase their capacities and attract higher demand from consumers. This paper also underlines that, for a mature market, the maximum Consumer Surplus as well as Social Welfare are attained by a constant level of combined competition which is only dependent on the size of the market and the number of firms. The level of combined competition can be defined as the product of the static and the dynamic level of competition. As a consequence, the higher the potential of technical progress is, the lower the level of static competition must be in order to reach the maximum level of Consumer Surplus and Social Welfare. --Investment,Competition,Technical Progress,Dynamic Competition
Optimizing Scanning in Youth Female Football: The Role of Verbal Instructions
No full textIntroduction In dynamic sports like football, where game situations change rapidly, gathering information through visual exploration is essential for expert performance (Aksum et al., 2021; Pokolm et al., 2022). While the importance of visual exploration for subsequent action performance is well-documented in men’s football (Aksum et al., 2021; Jordet et al., 2020), recent research highlights its equally critical role in women’s football (Hintermann et al., 2024). Despite coaches acknowledge the importance of visual exploration training, they often lack knowledge about effective training and developing methods (Eldridge et al., 2022). Verbal instructions, such as ‘check your shoulder’ or ‘head up’, are commonly used to encourage scanning during practice sessions and games (Pulling et al., 2018), however, their specific impact on scanning behavior and subsequent performance remains unclear. Therefore, this study examines the immediate effects of verbal instructions on scanning behaviour and subsequent performance during 4v4 small-sided games (SSG) among elite youth female football players. Specifically, it addresses two research questions: 1) Do verbal instructions increase the number of scans performed before receiving the ball? 2) Do players improve their performance in response to verbal instructions fostering scanning behavior?
Methods Twenty-five elite female football players (mean ± SD age : 17.6 ± 0.7 years) from two Swiss U19 women’s national league teams participated in this study. Each player participated in two 4v4 SSG sessions: one without verbal instructions (control, CON) and one with verbal instructions (intervention, INT). Verbal instructions encouraged players to scan their environment to locate teammates, opponents, and free spaces relevant to the subsequent action. A total of 1867 game situations, defined as the period beginning 5 seconds before the first ball contact and ending when the ball was released through a subsequent action, were analyzed (Hintermann et al., 2024). A scan was defined as an active movement of a player’s head in which the face was temporarily directed away from the ball, with the assumed intention of assessing the position of teammates, opponents, or available space relevant to subsequent actions (Jordet et al., 2020). The performance of subsequent actions was considered successful if the intentionally played ball reached a teammate and ball-possession was maintained. Conversely, if the intentionally played ball resulted in a loss of ball-possession, the action was classified as unsuccessful. SSG were video captured and manually tagged by two experts. Due to clustered data and binary dependent variables, logistic regression models allowing random intercepts for participants were applied (Bates et al., 2015).
Results On average, players performed 1.0 ± 1.1 scans per game situation in CON and 1.2 ± 1.1 scans in INT. Verbal instructions significantly increased the mean number of scans per player (t(24); p = .007; d = ‒0.59, 95% CI [‒1.09, ‒0.23]), with a 27% increase in number of scans compared to CON (RR = 1.27, 95% CI [1.12, 1.44]). Additionally, differences in the number of scans were observed between the two teams (RR = 1.36, 95% CI [1.10, 1.68]), but these differences were consistent across conditions, as no interaction effect was found (RR = 0.85, 95% CI [0.71, 1.01]). Secondly, the logistic mixed model showed that scanning before ball reception positively influenced the success of the subsequent action, with a threefold increase in successful outcomes compared to no scanning (OR = 3.31, 95% CI [2.71, 4.09]). This finding was independent of conditions CON versus INT (OR = 0.89, 95% CI [0.67, 1.14]).
Discussion/Conclusion Verbal instructions significantly enhanced the number of scans performed before ball reception, demonstrating that elite youth female players can actively adjust scanning behavior in response to verbal instructions from the coach. Clear differences in scanning behavior are evident between the two teams, suggesting influences from factors such as coaching style, team culture, coach-player relationship, and prior training experiences. Since these team differences remained consistent across conditions, verbal instruction was similar effective in both teams. The findings of this study confirm the importance of scanning in enhancing the success rate of subsequent actions (Aksum et al., 2021; Jordet et al., 2020). Notably, the additionally conducted scans through verbal instructions did not negatively impact the relationship between scanning and the success of subsequent actions, indicating no evidence of cognitive overload. Therefore, verbal instructions can be considered a promising coaching tool to increase the number of scans and potentially enhance performance.
In conclusion, this study underscores the potential of verbal instructions to improve scanning behavior in youth female football players, offering valuable insights into the development of perceptual skills. The findings highlight the importance of adopting integrated training approaches that address both scanning behavior and action execution. Future research should investigate long-term effects of verbal instructions and their influence on performance outcomes to further optimize training methods for young football players.
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Bates, D., Mächler, M., Bolker, B., & Walker, S. (2015). Fitting linear mixed-effects models using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software, 67(1), 1–48. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v067.i01
Eldridge, D., Pocock, C., Pulling, C., Kearney, P., & Dicks, M. (2022). Visual exploratory activity and practice design: Perceptions of experienced coaches in professional football academies. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 18(2), 370–381. https://doi.org/10.1177/17479541221122412
Hintermann, M., Romann, M., Schmid, J., Taube, W., & Fuchslocher, J. (2024). The influence of scanning behaviour on performance during 4v4 small-sided games in youth female football. Journal of Sports Sciences, 42(21), 1977–1985. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2024.2421662
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Pokolm, M., Rein, R., Muller, D., Nopp, S., Kirchhain, M., Aksum, K. M., Jordet, G., & Memmert, D. (2022). Modeling players\u27 scanning activity in football. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 44(4), 263–271. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2020-0299
Pulling, C., Kearney, P., Eldridge, D., & Dicks, M. (2018). Football coaches\u27 perceptions of the introduction, delivery and evaluation of visual exploratory activity. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 39, 81–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.08.00
Sebastian Castellio, Annotationes in Pauli Epistulam ad Romanos ex Cap. IX. Critical edition and English translation by Michiel Op de Coul and Mirjam van Veen, 2020
No full textIn this little book, Mirjam van Veen (Church Historian) and Michiel Op de Coul (Classical Scholar) publish the Latin text (together with an English translation) of a lengthy annotation on Romans 9, addressing the biblical foundation of the doctrine of predestination, clearly criticising the vision promoted by Jean Calvin. The author of the text, Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563), added this annotation to the second edition (1554) of his Latin Bible (first edition 1551), published by the Basel p..
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