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Technical support on the competition area during the competition in taekwondo
Full text linkGlavni cilj ovog diplomskog rada bio je utvrditi prednosti elektroničkih štitnika na taekwondo natjecanjima. Opisat će se na koji način funkcioniraju elektronički štitnici za tijelo. U radu je opisan Daedo sustav elektroničkog praćenja natjecanja jer je taj sustav korišten na Olimpijskim igrama u Londonu 2012. godine te u Riu 2016. godine. Predložen je i program izobrazbe budućih tehničara koji bi radili u Daedo sustavu na natjecanjima.The main goal of the present thesis was to determine all the benefits of electronic protector for the taekwondo competitors. Daedo system is used as an example of monitorng system for competitons because it is used at the Olympic Games in London (2012) and in Rio in (2016). Here is also presented an education for the technicians working with Daedo system during competitions
Sports career from beginner to world champion in taekwondo sport
No full textTaekwondo u Hrvatskoj bilježi 50.- godišnje prisutstvo. Razvio se u popularni borilački olimpijski sport i jedini je borilački sport u Hrvatskoj u kojem je dostignut rezultat svjetskog seniorskog prvaka. Ovaj rad opisuje sportski razvoj Filipa Grgića od njegovog početka pa sve do osvajanja titule svjetskog prvaka, a nakon toga opisuje još 10 godina sportske karijere uz osvajanje vrhunskih rezultata na europskoj i svjetskoj razini.In Croatia taekwondo exists 50 years now. It has been developed in very popular martial arts olimpyc sport, and it has been the only sport in Croatia in which world senior result has been accomplished. This work willl show the sport carrier and sports development of Filip Grgić from his early start to the day he has been named as a world champion. It will also show 10 years of his sports carrier and result that he has made in worlds's and european competitions
Ritual structures of movement in Japanese Koryu Budo : ethnokinesiological aspects of Budo culture as intangible cultural heritage
No full textU doktorskom se radu predstavlja analiza odnosa između tradicionalne japanske kulture budoa (koryu) i njezinih modernih korespondenata (gendai). Analiza se temelji na ideji uklopljenosti različitih klasičnih ryuha – tog analitički potentnog korpusa japanske performativno-somatske kulture – u kontekst dugotrajnih i divergentnih procesa razvoja japanske kulture općenito, sve od modernizacije, specijalizacije, sportifikacije, inkulturacije i sl. U istraživanju se analiziralo i ritualno i formalizirano nasljeđe modernog i klasičnog japanskog budoa, osobito u kontekstu japanske imperijalističke i nacionalističke povijesti nakon razdoblja Meiji. Naglasak je stavljen na strukture pokreta koje predegzistiraju u ritualiziranim praksama ryuha, ali još uvijek postoje u modernim japanskim borilačkim vještinama. Značajan je dio japanske nematerijalne kulturne baštine uvrštene na UNESCO-vu popisu blizak tradiciji koryua. Većina je takvih praksi danas izgubila svoje ritualne i religijske funkcije, ali su pritom zadržale živi „performativni habitus“. U radu se nastojalo pokazati da su moderna japanska borilačka umijeća naslijedila velik broj elemenata iz starih stilova, kao i da većina struktura pokreta koji se koriste u modernom budou zapravo proizlaze iz koryu budoa, iako ti procesi nisu kontinuirani te nastaju pod utjecajem različitih dinamičkih procesa. Usporedba tradicionalnih borilačkih vještina s onim modernima (gendai budo), rezultirala je otkrićem mnogobrojnih struktura pokreta, principa koje se kriju u njihovoj podlozi: (1) kao strukture kretanja u praksama vojnog i tjelesnog odgoja ryuha, koje su upotrebljavane na bojnom polju kao pragmatične i nekonvencionalne fizičke prakse; (2) kao strukture pokreta duboko ukorijenjene u japanskom društvu, tj. kao norme, konvencije, običaji, tjelesni rituali, koje se mogu naći i u nekim drugim fizičkim aktivnostima, poput plesnih rituala, ceremonije čaja, u kabukiju i no-kazalištu i sl.; (3) kao strukture kretanja koje podrazumijevaju unaprijed strukturirane tehnike koje se svladavaju i prenose hereditarno, a predstavljaju suštinu ryuha. Sve navedeno u doktorskom se radu iščitavalo na pozadini vlastita etnokineziološkog i sociokulturalnog istraživanja, performativne antropologije i suvremenih martial arts studies.The doctoral research thesis presents an analysis of the relation between traditional Japanese martial arts culture (koryu bud) and its modern correspondents (gendai budo). The analysis is based on the idea of putting the ryuha to the list of the UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage, as a Japan’s oldest martial cultural asset. The initial proposals were made in the last decade by some Japanese martial arts organizations, e. g. Nippon Budokan, especially by its division for koryu legacy. Ritual-like and pattern-like formalism of the Japanese modern and traditional budo legacy is being interpreted, especially in the context of Japanese nationalist history after the Meiji Restoration. Emphasis is therefore put on the structures of movements that pre-exist in ritual practices of the classical budo culture, and are still present in modern martial arts systems, thus because of their hereditary and pre-formalized performativity. Far-Eastern martial arts and combat disciplines (especially Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, or Chinese) are nowadays widely known in western societies, although they have stopped gaining popularity in the last couple of decades. Even Japanese society has lost its interest in both, modern and ancient martial ways (bujutsu, budo): nowadays they may seem as being too complex, they gained some aura of esotericism, mysticism, unperceivable in the rationalist milieu of the contemporary Japan, they did not manage to establish a clear stance towards their nationalist and militarist heritage, etc. Many martial arts were forbidden during the control period imposed by the Americans after the World War II. After the controlling American forces left the Japanese soil in 1952, some modern martial arts were included in the educational systems or physical activity curriculums in Japan, but also in some other, western countries (Australia, America, Europe), either because of pedagogical values they promote or sportivecompetitive nature they contextualize, either because of the rich cultural background and the important role they have had in preserving national heritage. Some of the martial arts have 10 transformed their legacy in westernized sports and leisure activities. About half a century ago some became members of the Olympic family of sports and different national or international organizations, like judo, kendo, karatedo, subsequently kyudo, sumo and aikido. In 1977, some thirty years after the occupying allied United States forces imposed a ban on practicing budo, nine of the dominant Japanese national martial arts federations decided to establish Nippon Budo Kyogikai, with the main purpose of preserving Japanese budo as important and even constitutive element of the Japan’s cultural heritage, thus adhering to the pre-war efforts of the kind, undertaken by organizations such as Dai Nippon Butokukai. Given that during the war – from the European and Anglo-American standpoint, such efforts have been strongly associated with the propulsive militarism and newly born Japanese nationalist ideologies, it took almost half a century to decontaminate traditional Japanese budo from this imposed semantics. During the 1960s many scholars, but mainly anthropologists and ethnologists, recognized a need for scholarly approach to all aspects of classical Japanese martial culture. Many top universities took this opportunity to establish new budo culture faculties, academic circles, or to promote journals and congress meetings all around the globe. Today many top universities in Japan specialize in ryuha culture – as a part of the broadly perceived national cultural history. Connections between literary culture, arts and budo culture are inherited from the past. Samurais, feudal noble warriors, were to be perceived as well educated and highly sophisticated military class, usually oriented towards bunburyodo, a social concept and a political philosophy emphasized by the shogunate during the Tokugawa period, or even afterwards, that can be summarized as taking the path of cultural learning and the martial was as well. Consequentially it had evolved in two directions: first one leading towards the idea of cultification of the samurai class (in a way, it could be interpreted as samurai humanism) and the second one, on the other hand, leading to the ideology of pacifism. In this research I focused on some elements of the Japanese tradition by scrutinizing them against the background of the UNESCO’s definition of 11 the intangible cultural heritage. For the intangible cultural heritage, it is thus necessary to incorporate three elements: a traditional, contemporary and a living component (UNESCO, Article 1-3). Thus, in this doctoral research the Japanese koryu styles is presented as a martial culture system with its strong traditional or essential historic (kobudo) background, as well as its living, contemporary correspondent in different modern or modernized (gendai) martial arts systems. Secondly, it is necessary that the intangible cultural heritage is inclusive and has been passed from one generation to another, thus evolving in response to the social environment, by providing the sense of identity and continuity, a link from the past to the present and into the future. Hereditary principle of ryuha (iemoto) is thus examined in this doctoral research as one of its central components. Thirdly, it is important that intangible assets are representative in the context that communities provide for them and that they depend upon those whose knowledge of traditions, skills, techniques, and customs is passed on to community, from generation to generation or to other communities. This representative status of koryu is emphasized in the
context of its performativity, in the concluding segments of the doctoral research. Finally, the intangible cultural heritage can be recognized as such by the communities, groups or even individuals that create, maintain, and transmit it. A short history of the institutional background of ryuha culture is thus be presented. In this context, the following emerges as central to this
doctoral research: (1) koryu (or kobujutsu) styles should be perceived as the Japan’s intangible cultural heritage, because they have all the components of the UNESCO’s definition of the intangible cultural heritage assets; (2) one of the main components examined in this doctoral research is the koryu budo ritual-performative structure; (3) this part of the Japan’s oldest martial traditions is therefore examined from the standpoint of its performativity or structuredmovement-strategies in this performativity’s background; (4) the changeable circumstances in which martial culture in Japan has evolved is discussed against the institutional background of tradition (or different institutions dedicated in preserving and re-examining its legacy); (5) the evolution of modern budo system, in all of its diversity, is presented as a logical consequence of demilitarization of koryu styles; (6) finally, this legacy is thus be put in the militarist context of the Meiji era regime, that subsequently explains why most of the Japanese institutions have had some inner inhibition in promoting and codifying budo as a national cultural heritage. In general, it should be stated that other cultures did not face the same problem in praising their respective legacy. Japanese cultural policy recently managed to include on the UNESCO list a variety of rituals, festivals, crafts, dance, or theatre facets, etc., but martial arts traditions were just recently considered to be included, even though there was a strong pressure by the Okinawan (or Ryukyu) prefecture cultural heritage representatives to push classical Okinawa styles on the list, wherein karatedo is just one of the most recognizable traditions (arts). to the world’s athletic, as well as performative-aesthetic or festive intangible (cultural) heritage, while some consider budo as one of the most prominent Japanese cultural exports. There could be several reasons underlying the almost habitual bringing of the budo legacy into some sort of relation to Japan, some of them being sociocultural (in the case of Nikkeijin, the Japanese
descendants, or newly settled immigrants in attempt to keep contact with their heritage, e.g. Brazilian and Hawaiian), and/or economical (marketing or advertising strategies on the West are often based on the superficial interpretations of the so called samurai code precepts), even military-historical (there are number of Japanese martial arts schools on the West whose founders claim that they were introduced in the Japanese budo through the occupation army military service after the World War II). Indeed, to learn budo, for many Japanese during the 1930s, before the war, usually meant to learn how to be patriot and a militarist, in accordance to regime’s propaganda. At that point precisely, the old-school budo (as well as all its more modern equivalents) managed to re-enter Japanese primary and secondary education system and to get a lot of new members. On the other hand, for many American soldiers, soon after Japan was defeated, to study Japanese martial arts culture, on Japanese territory, although in highly controlled circumstances, meant to acquire a certain piece of living Japanese heritage. Marcel Mauss uses the term bodily technique in a way that encompasses the effective and traditional act of doing something. If there is no tradition, some symbolic order or even a religious context, the concept of technique, at least in a Maussian sense, does not really exist. Japanese term jutsu refers precisely to this ritualistic and thus maximum-efficiency-oriented technique. The main role of a jutsu student was to acquire skills necessary for him to survive on the battlefield, in an uncomfortable war environment, whether these are spearmanship, swordmanship, swimming skills, combat tactics, strategic procedures or close-encounter drills. On the other hand, transformation to do could be seen as an appropriation of the old traditions, just like in the case of jujutsu to judo transformation. When commenting on jujutsu, bare-arms techniques in the classical Japanese martial arts, Jigoro Kano stated that he does not necessarily believe all traditional training methods are valid, but that with some reformation, bujutsu [or old-school martial arts] training could very well become an effective means for nurturing the individual’s intellect, physique, and morality. Many Japanese martial arts succeeded in this transformation, either with a strong institutional support of Nippon Budokan, like sumo, either with some help of a founding figure, like Jigoro Kano and Morihei Ueshiba, or a strong bujutsureformist personality, like Kenzo Awa. It seems there were at least three strategies at work in this transfer. I have called them demilitarization, demystification, and cultural appropriation. Military context of ryuha culture was not appropriate for modern time martial arts culture, rooted in the pacifist ideas. Traditional martial culture thus had to transform its own fieldcombat-oriented heritage towards more general, even modern ideas of self-development and physical conditioning, (kin)aesthetic and performative values, etc. Subsequently, this usually led to the mystification of budo, wherein it was often interpreted as an utmost appropriate mean for achieving spiritual stability, etc. Many western practitioners assisted in this mystification or spiritualization processes. There is no doubt that these processes helped spreading Japanese martial arts in Europe during the 1960s and 1970s to a great extent. The third concept, cultural appropriation, is maybe the most problematic one. Japanese martial arts, while being selfmodernized/reformed by a few founding figures, appropriated their legacy, in order to be more acceptable to non-Japanese practitioners. Consequently, modern budo schools started to be incorporated in the international physical activities and sport organizations (measurement of grade-progress seems to be a Western requirement, although this is not clear enough), being even studied through western educational pedagogies. Competitive, rivalry-oriented western sport culture thus made an impact on traditional values of the Japan’s most prominent cultural export. Although this brought several positive western values in the world of modern Japanese budo, especially while it was being interconnected with the original Olympic ideals, some of its original values got lost on the way. On the other hand, sociocultural heritage of the pure non-competitive bodily techniques of budo is revitalized today in many ways. In the history of Japanese martial arts styles or culture of budo in general there is a strong division between modern martial arts, usually called gendai budo, and, on the other hand, traditional martial arts heritage, denominated by the terms koryu budo, koryu bujutsu, bugei or kobudo. Modern budo has its roots in the classical systems, codified from the end of Heian period, but strategies of continuation were elaborated in detail, through the Tokugawa period onwards. One of the first category of combat traditions developed in the early Heian era was mounted archery (kyuba jutsu), and one of the oldest sword routines was the one belonging to
Kashima tradition. It is very important to mention that all the traditions of ryuha were so called technically composite or integrative traditions (sogo jutsu). Due to realities of war the feudal soldier was obliged to educate himself in various combat skills, armed or unarmed techniques, horsemanship, swimming strategies, military tactics, etc. Broadly taken, ryuha repertoire could be categorized in the following (heterogeneous) groups: bujutsu or horsemanship, kyujutsu or archery, kenjutsu or swordsmanship, sojutsu or long-spearmanship, naginatajutsu or glaive techniques, bojutsu or long staff techniques, kamajutsu or sickle techniques, jujutsu or unarmed and small-armed close combat techniques, suijutsu or tactical swimming, and hojutsu or musketry techniques. History of classical Japanese martial arts is, thus, full of reconstructive procedures. Not many written evidence, besides technical or kinaesthetic ones, have survived. It is evident that during the Tokugawa period the number of styles suddenly increased, reaching at one point close to one hundred known ryuha. By the end of 1800s, mystical aura surrounding budo was already created, mainly interconnected with neo-Confucian philosophy from China, different traditions of esoteric Buddhism and Shinto religious rituals, etc. This aura is related to Oriental martial arts even today, although it is useless to analyze them only in this manner, as Zen-arts, as some do. The increase of ryuha can be perceived pragmatically: Japanese military history demanded different patterns of physical education, especially in the domain of field-combat systems. During the Meiji period, before the World War I escalated, samurai class system was dismantled. After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, some of the traditional martial arts styles almost disappeared. There were some efforts to preserve ryuha as an important aspect of Japan’s classical cultural heritage. Commercial martial arts shows and demonstrations (gekken kogyo), for example, were often being performed to promote the historical values of bushido, in all its interpretations, and ryuha legacy. Furthermore, in 1895 the Great Japan Association of Martial Virtue (Dai Nippon Butokukai) was established in order to preserve ancient martial ways. Butokukai was founded in Kyoto by a small group of enthusiasts willing to conserve classical martial art traditions, those which had not disappeared after the Meiji Restoration. In 1899 the group had built the Hall of Martial Virtue (Butokuden) next to Heian shrine in Kyoto. Main mission of the group was, unfortunately, to prepare young generations of Japanese for war, especially by putting budo into obligatory education by the end of 1911. Japanese, their patriotic feelings and the national ideal were thus brought into lasting relationship and dynamic interaction with one another, by using nothing more than a metaphor of budo – standing for a unique national body. However, this is an extreme example, as I have tried to show, of the misemployment of national heritage. Since 2009, the Nippon Budokan acknowledges seventyeight ryuha, with clear lineages and traceable history, that have been affiliated to Nippon Kobudo Kyokai. Surprisingly, as a central organization for all Japanese martial arts, both modern and traditional, Nippon Budokan was founded and then reopened in the occasion of
the westernized sporting event, in the 1964, for the Tokyo Olympics. Modern educational theories influenced a lot the main mission and all the activities of the Budokan. Today, researchers in the field of interconnections between modern and traditional martial arts systems play an important role in most of the Japanese Universities and Faculties specialized in the
field of physical education, anthropology of structured movements and cultural history. Many dozens of ryuha that are still alive, transmitting their knowledge to more and more decreasing audience, are thus, of course, considered to be Japanese national heritage precisely because of the efforts of the mentioned institutions. Most of koryu budo schools has strongly influenced modern budo, but influences are visible vice versa as well. These traditions are even today being studied, not only in a practical manner, but also as a subject of ethnographic interest. On many occasions, during different hono embu, votive martial arts demonstrations and festivals, koryu bujutsu culture is shown to the public in all its technical and aesthetical diversity. The most important exhibitions are performed in a ritual context of Shinto shrines, including Katori, Kashima, Meiji and Ise Jingu and Yasukuni Jinja, to name just a couple of them. Technical repertoires of the modern martial arts are extremely wide-ranging and interesting enough to be analyzed from various standpoints. Contemporary scholars of modern budo often overlook the fact that there is a vast field of knowledge, technical, tactical, and strategical skills, hidden
somewhere beneath the surface of these modernized systems/lists of techniques (waza). Being deeply inscribed in modern martial arts techniques, but also, for many different reasons, in modern Japanese perception of their own tradition or cultural heritage, this knowledge asks for a thorough sociocultural research. My analysis fit into what may be termed, in the broader sense of the word, an ethno-kinesiological research, first and foremost due to an overall attempt
to encompass the pre-structured, pre-ritualized and formalized movements on the background of many complex budo systems. Comparing traditional martial arts systems with the modern ones resulted in discovering some of the movement structures that lie beneath the modern budo technical surface. This idea can thus be researched on from various sides and by employing different disciplinary positions, whilst here I decided for an approach that will enable me to trace these movement (or technical) structures within the ritualization process visible in koryu budo. These ritualized and formalized or pre-existent structures of movements I refer to can be defined in the following ways: (1) as movement structures that can be found in military and physical education pr
Advancing swimming science with CARE
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Advancing swimming science with CARE
Full text linkThis paper provides an overview of how the research team at The Centre for Aquatics Research and Education is adding to knowledge in swimming science to assist swimmers and swimming coaches. Topics covered include improving the glide in starts and turns, body roll in front crawl, technique differences between sprint and distance front crawl swimmers at sprint and distance pace, and rhythm in front crawl swimming
5th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology: Kinesiology research trends and applications : proceedings book
No full textApproaching the time of the 50th anniversary of the successful work in the mission of high education and research
of the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, we are exceptionally happy and satisfi ed that all the organisational
and programme tasks and goals of the 5th International Scientifi c Conference on Kinesiology have been accomplished.
Although our University is a large and among the oldest in the area, our Faculty is a relatively young, small institution
of academic education from a small country in transition, which is facing and struggling with typical problems of the
era and specifi c social processes. However, all previous efforts of our predecessors, even as far back as the 19th century,
but especially of dear doyennes an doyens of kinesiology, as well as the establishing and organisation of the Conference,
no matter how inexperienced it might have seemed in the beginning, back in the year 1997 in Dubrovnik, enables us
nowadays to be peer members of the circle of internationally recognized and well-known institutions and organizations of
sport/exercise science, or kinesiology. With no false modesty, it is a considerable achievement of our scholars, researchers,
associates, other employees and last, but by no means the least important, our partners - students. A great contribution
of our foreign colleagues should be recognized and accentuated here – nothing of the previously mentioned would have
been possible without their good will, open minds and enormous interest in our work and advances. We cannot exclude a
contribution of our famous athletes and their sport achievements. This is the right place to express our deepest appreciation
and gratitude to them all and our wishes for continuation and expansion of the cooperation in many fi elds.
The science fi eld we are interested in is so diverse, broad, complex; it investigates the very essence of life – the
movement and everything needed for its realisation – its purpose, its origins, conditions, its means - from the molecular
level to the level of anatomy, synergy of hundreds processes within a being, even to social proportions and effects of
moving or not moving.
All the previous conferences were exceptional opportunities for broadening of scientifi c insights into this miraculous,
beautiful phenomenon of physical activity and its effects – its perfection when performed by sport artists, as seen at the
XXIX Olympic Games, its joyfulness when happy children enjoy being competent to be in motion, or when we see eager
people who enjoy life and nature because they have enough energy and they are healthy thanks to an active lifestyle.
Ever better positioning of our science worldwide is obvious – the last example is from Croatia – in any sense, from
the legislative to fi nancial, in the Croatian structure of sciences, kinesiology has become equal to physics, economics,
medicine, biology, law, sociology and many others. Such a position facilitates inter- and crossdisciplinarity and mobility
of scientists and students within Croatia and abroad.
The rationale of the 5th meeting on kinesiology is “Kinesiology research trends and applications“ ascends from the
very heart of kinesiology, which embraces numerous theoretical, developmental and applicative research issues. Namely,
the ultimate purposes of that research is to know and understand human beings and to apply the fi ndings in everyday
practice of education, sports, health promotion, recreation, tourism, and kinesitherapy.
The Conference will work in usual plenary and parallel sessions addressing fourteen comprehensive kinesiological
topics: adapted physical activity and sport for the disabled; biology and medicine of sport and exercise; biomechanics and
motor control; history of sport and the Olympic movement; management of sport; tourism and sport; members of the armed
forces kinesiology; physical conditioning and fi tness; physical education; psychology of sport; research methodology;
sociology of sport; philosophy of sport; Sport for all and health-related activities; and top-level sport. Certain areas will
be addressed at the Conference for the fi rst time, like philosophy of sport, Olympic movement and kinesiology applied to
armed forces. In these Proceedings all the positively reviewed contributions are published: communications and poster
presentations.
We are very happy and proud because of the response of the invited 42 lecturers, worldwide famous experts in their
areas of scientifi c interests who will undoubtedly throw new light on only seemingly already investigated issues, on the
one hand, an on the other, bring the latest advances in research and theory, thus inspiring, especially young, researchers
to learn and go ever further. After all, who knows where the frontier is?
Proceedings Book contains 239 contributions, which were submitted by the submission deadline, written by 421
authors from 40 countries from all the continents. Besides the presenters, we also expect participants without contributions,
among them a lot of graduate, doctoral and postdoctoral students from Croatia and abroad for whom the Pre-Conference
School of Kinesiology for Postgraduate and Doctoral Students has been also organised prior to the Conference.
Many thanks go to the members of the Organising and Programme Committees who did not spare their effort to
prepare and realize the Conference and the Proceedings. Deep gratitude also goes to the team of reviewers, fi fty fi ve of
them who carefully evaluated the contributions.
The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts is for the fourth time the patron of the Conference that is quite in line
with the respectable position kinesiology/sport science has earned in the very meticulous scientifi c community
The Faculty wishes to express gratitude to the cooperative institutions: the Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia, the Faculty of PE and Sport, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Faculty of PE and Sport,
University of Comenius, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Several government institutions supported the organisation of the Conference. We are grateful to: the Ministry of
Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia, the Croatian Olympic Committee and the Croatian University
Sport Association.
After Dubrovnik and Opatija, dear participants, you have the opportunity to get acquainted with the Croatian capital
– Zagreb, and our institution of higher education – with its facilities, its surroundings, other people working in it, our
students, our laboratories, lecture rooms, library, etc. This opportunity to really know us will probably increase exchange
rates among scholars and students.
We wish you feel welcome and come back many times
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
4th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology: Science and profession - challenge for the future : proceedings book
No full textIn the year 2005, when the University of Zagreb is celebrating the 336th anniversary of its establishment and
the Faculty of Kinesiology University of Zagreb its 46th anniversary, the International Scientifi c Conference
on Kinesiology is being organized for the fourth time. Thus, the proclaimed intention of the organizer, the
Faculty of Kinesiology, to make the Conference a traditional forum for kinesiologists to exchange fi ndings,
ideas, experiences and theories has become a reality. You will probably agree with us that, despite all the
conveniences the modern communication technology has provided, a vivid dialogue, established in personal
contacts of people who share similar vocational interests, is always a unique event and experience. We hope
that the debates on how to foster excellence and joy in sport and exercise and on how to promote PE as an
underpinning activity for sport, competitive and recreational alike, and life-long active life-styles, as well as
discussions on numerous issues regarding human movement, health, exercise and business will bring fruitful
results in form of new ideas and research projects.
The ever-growing body of kinesiology or sport science knowledge is continuously transformed into higher
education curricula which allow graduates and masters of science to become well-educated professionals who
have insights into the recent advances in kinesiology. In Croatia a highly specialized education and training of
sport and PE professionals has a hundred-and-ten-year-old tradition. Based on that long tradition, the Faculty
of Kinesiology has prepared two new university study curricula, adjusted to the Bologna Declaration and the
European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) and has obtained the accreditation to organize them commencing in
academic year 2005/06. The new university graduate and postgraduate doctoral study programmes will enable a
higher level of knowledge of students and will promote a higher two-way mobility of both students and scholars.
The curricula have assimilated the orientation of the members of the Faculty of Kinesiology that the mission
of higher education institutions is viable only in the symbiosis of educational (professional training) and elite
fundamental, developmental and applied research work in the fi elds of general and applied kinesiology and in
the cognate and adjacent, mainly anthropological, scientifi c branches.
The motto of this year’s Conference is “Science and Profession – Challenge for the Future”. It suggests
that the focus of attention is directed towards the inevitable connectedness between everyday practical issues
and professions related to physical exercise and sport, on the one hand, and kinesiological research activities,
theories, insights, fi ndings and inferences on the other. The assembly of kinesiologists from 25 countries
has gathered to discuss diverse biological, medical, biomechanical, psychological, sociological, cultural and
economic aspects of a variety of kinesiological issues presented in 226 papers written by 300 authors.
Besides the contributing authors, much credit for the Conference scientifi c programme goes to the
esteemed invited lecturers, both the plenary and the session introductory speakers, and chairpersons of
particular thematic sessions, and the members of the Scientifi c Programme Committee. Thematically and
methodologically related contributions have been divided into eleven thematic sections (APA and Sport for
the Disabled; Biology and Medicine of Sport and Exercise; Biomechanics; Management of Sport; Physical
Conditioning; Physical Education; Research Methodology; Sociology, History and Philosophy of Sport; Sport
for All, Fitness and Health-related Activities; Sport Psychology; and Top-level Sport), which, in turn, represent
recognizable groups of issues currently prevailing in the scientifi c research dealing with human movement,
sport and exercise activities. Our special thanks go to the reviewers (62) who altruistically engaged their
knowledge, effort, experience and time in making the conference papers consistent and good enough to enable
creative clarifi cation and communication of ideas. Although time restrictions made it impossible to afford indepth
reviews, the authors were requested to undertake revisions whenever it was possible in order to minimize
the rejections. The selection and classifi cation process was performed according to the quality criteria that
primarily regarded novelty and the amount of information, and quality of structure and presentation. Due to
the formal quality and lack of consistency of quite a number of papers, the original idea of reproducing them
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as submitted proved hardly tenable. Therefore, a certain amount of copy-editing has been performed, though
restricted to a minimum and simply in order to achieve a reasonable degree of formal consistency. This has been
a demanding and complex process, performed under serious time pressure. We do apologise for any mistakes
or inconveniences this might have caused.
The Proceedings Book is a reminder of the research fi ndings accomplished in the fi eld of kinesiology, or
sport sciences, or kinetics, or kinanthropology throughout the past three years. The presented papers are a
basis and a probable starting point for new ones since they cover a wide range of anthropological (understood
in the widest sense), methodological and didactic investigations in the areas of physical education, competitive
sport, physical recreation, and physical rehabilitation.
The organizer, the Faculty of Kinesiology tried to make the 4th Conference on Kinesiology comparable to
the quality level of many conferences worldwide. The Dean of the Faculty and the presidents of the Organizing
and Scientifi c Committee wish to express their deep gratitude to all the invited speakers, contributors (authors),
members of the Scientifi c Committee, reviewers, members of the Organizing Committee, members of the
Proceedings Book Editorial Board, and, particularly, to all the Conference Offi ce executives who made the 4th
Conference and the Proceedings Book possible.
Our acknowledgments go to the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and to its president a Fellow of the
Croatian Academy Milan Moguš, PhD, for their traditional patronage of the Conference. Their support is of great
value to the Faculty because it is a signifi cant recognition of the work done in the domain of kinesiology.
Recognition of the Conference has been also granted by the co-organizer, the Ministry of Science, Education
and Sport of the Republic of Croatia.
We are convinced that the 4th Conference on Kinesiology will affi rm all the effort exerted so far in the
kinesiology and will open new challenges for the future and better cooperation between scientists and the
professionals. To all the Conference participants we wish a productive and benefi cial time and contacts. It is
our hope that new research ideas and projects will emerge from it. We will welcome the forthcoming results
at our next conferences. To those who were not able to actively participate in the Conference work this year,
we offer these Proceedings as an invitation for cooperation of competent partners and for joining us at the 5th
Conference on Kinesiology in three years time
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
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