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    The Effect of Pool Length on the Results of Professional Lifeguard Saving Tests

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    Todos los datos que han permitido la elaboración de este estudio, han sido facilitados por la Federación Madrileña de Salvamento y Socorrismo, por lo tanto, en este apartado se agradece la inestimable colaboración de esta entidad y de su equipo docenteEn este estudio se ha seleccionado a 2.528 aspirantes a la certificación de socorrista acuático (1.798 hombres y 730 mujeres). Todos ellos han realizado las cuatro pruebas físicas de agua cronometradas que se exigen para trabajar de socorrista en piscinas, instalaciones acuáticas y medio natural en la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (España). Del total de los participantes, 1.887 aspirantes realizaron dichas pruebas en vaso de 25 metros y 641 lo hicieron en vaso de 50 metros. El objetivo de este estudio es conocer la influencia de la longitud del vaso en el que se desarrollan estas pruebas físicas, sobre el porcentaje de aprobados y sobre las marcas de tiempo que emplean los participantes para realizarlas. Los resultados de esta investigación demuestran que la longitud del vaso en el que se evalúa a los aspirantes a socorrista, influye significativamente sobre las marcas de tiempo que obtienen y también sobre el número de aprobadosIn this study 2.528 aspirants for aquatic lifeguard certification (1.798 men and 730 women) were selected. All the participants of the study have performed the four physical tests of chronometric water required in order to work as a lifeguard for swimming pools, aquatic and open water in the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Of the whole participants, 1.887 aspirants were tested in a 25-meter pool and 641 were done so in a 50-meter pool. The aim of this study is to know the influence of the length of the pool in which these physical tests are developed, on the pass rate and on the time needed by the sample to carry them out. The results of this research show that the length of the pool in which the aspirants are evaluated, influences on the time marks obtained by them and also on the number of approved one

    Natación y flexibilidad

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    Con frecuencia escuchamos la afirmación ¿la natación es un deporte muy completo¿ y a priori, esto es cierto, ya que durante su práctica se implica a la mayor parte del aparato locomotor y cabe esperar que a su vez se desarrollen todas las capacidades físicas básicas. En este estudio se trata de comprobar, si la práctica habitual de la natación provoca alguna modificación en la flexibilidad de los músculos implicados en una prueba que mida esta capacidad física básica. Así, se ha testado a dos grupos de treinta o más sujetos con diferentes cargas de entrenamiento y se ha podido observar que los deportistas que realizaron una carga de entrenamiento elevada perdieron flexibilidad, mientras que los que realizaron unos entrenamientos con carga moderada, no vieron modificada esta capacidad. El test que se empleado para medir la flexibilidad en este estudio ha sido el test ¿Sit and reach¿ prueba utilizada en el ¿Eurofit¿

    La especialización en natación, waterpolo y natación sincronizada y sus efectos sobre la flexibilidad

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    Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Formación de Profesorado y Educación, Departamento de Educación Física, Deporte y Motricidad Humana. Fecha de lectura : 24 de febrero de 201

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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
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