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Schmidt (Birth, 1899-05-02)
No full textAddress: 1707 Eastern Ave.2262/Pg. 51/1899/F W/Cinti/Pa./Dr. T. F. DickinsonOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'SCHMERR-SCHMIDT'
PRESCHOOL DANCE EDUCATION IN HANDBOOKS AND PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES WRITTEN BY GORDANA SCHMIDT
No full textTema diplomskega dela nosi naslov Plesna vzgoja predšolskih otrok v priročnikih in strokovnih člankih Gordane Schmidt. Naloga je teoretična in ponuja vpogled življenjskega in znanstvenega dela omenjene avtorice.
V svojih delih in priročnikih je avtorica združila teorijo in prakso ter podala izhodišča za praktično delo na področju plesne vzgoje predšolskih otrok. Strokovni članki in priročniki temeljijo pretežno na primerih gibalnega izražanja, kar pa pripomore h kakovosti dela vzgojiteljev pri razvijanju in spodbujanju celostnega razvoja predšolskega otroka.My diploma, Preschool dance education in handbooks and professional articles written by Gordana Schmidt, is theoretical and it offers an insight into the life and scientific work of the author.
In her work the author combined theory and practice and she gave a starting point for practical work in dance education in kindergartens. Her articles and handbooks are based on several examples of movement expressions which contribute to better working quality and stimulate child’s holistic development
Characteristics of PA cost-effectiveness studies by the first author, setting, number of PAs & design.
No full textCharacteristics of PA cost-effectiveness studies by the first author, setting, number of PAs & design.</p
South African responses to Open Access publishing: a survey of the research community
No full textOpen access publishing offers wide benefits to the scholarly community and may also afford relief to financially embattled academic libraries. The progress of the open access model rests upon the acceptance and validation of open access journals and open archives or institutional repositories by the academic mainstream, particularly by publishing researchers. To what extent are the key actors in the South African research system aware of the advantages of open access? This article reports on the findings of a recent survey undertaken to assess the current awareness, concerns and depth of support for open access amongst local researchers, research managers and policy makers in South Africa. The study focuses on issues of quality, article or author charges and the established academic reward system. It concludes that within the prevailing framework, there is little prospect that academics would choose to publish within open access
journals. Recommendations for advocacy by the library community are proposed
Acute cognitively engaging exergaming improves cognitive flexibility performance in adolescents.
No full textIntroduction
A wide range of literature demonstrates the beneficial effects of acute physical activity (PA) on executive functions (EFs) in children (Donnelly et al., 2016; Verburgh, Königs, Scherder & Osterlaan, 2014). Qualitative PA characteristics (Pesce, 2012) and in particular cognitive engagement (Schmidt, Benzing & Kamer, 2016) have been proposed as important factors influencing these benefits. However, in adolescents, there is limited and contradictory evidence available on acute effects of cognitive engaging PA on EFs. In general, very few studies (impaired by procedural differences) investigated the impact of cognitive engagement comprised in PA on cognition, whereof a majority did not use an operationalization of cognitive engagement (Tomporowski, McCullick, Pendleton & Pesce, 2015). Therefore, the present study aimed to elucidate the influence of cognitive engagement comprised in an acute bout of exergame-based PA on executive functions (inhibition, cognitive flexibility) in adolescents.
Methods
Sixty-five healthy male adolescents (M = 14.51; SD = 1.08) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (a) PA with high levels of cognitive engagement (Shape Up); (b) PA with low levels of cognitive engagement (Running); (c) sedentary with low levels of cognitive engagement (Control). Manipulation checks, including subjective (rating of perceived cognitive engagement) and objective operationalizations of cognitive engagement (heart rate variability), were applied. EFs were assessed before and after each condition using the D-KEFS design fluency test.
Results
Manipulation check analyses (ANOVAs) showed that intensity of PA was increased equally in the experimental groups compared to control, whereas cognitive engagement was elevated only in the Shape Up group (ps .05).
Discussion/Conclusion
Cognitive flexibility was immediately enhanced by acute cognitively engaging PA. Thus, to promote benefits in cognitive performance, these results underline the important role cognitive engagement seems to play in PA. In addition, this study suggests a methodological approach to operationalize cognitive engagement in laboratory and field settings. Both the subjective as well as the objective measure might be a promising tool to investigate the construct of cognitive engagement in future studies.
References
Donnelly, J. E., Hillman, C. H., Castelli, D., Etnier, J. L., Lee, S., Tomporowski, P., … Szabo-Reed, A. N. (2016). Physical activity, fitness, cognitive function, and academic achievement in children. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 48(6), 1197–1222.
Pesce, C. (2012). Shifting the focus from quantitative to qualitative exercise characteristics in exercise and cognition research. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 34(6), 766–786.
Schmidt, M., Benzing, V., & Kamer, M. (2016). Classroom-based physical activity breaks and children’s Attention: Cognitive engagement works! Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1–13.
Tomporowski, P. D., McCullick, B., Pendleton, D. M., & Pesce, C. (2015). Exercise and children’s cognition: The role of exercise characteristics and a place for metacognition. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 4(1), 47–55
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments
No full textWe present simple one-shot distribution experiments comparing the relative im-portanceof efficiency, maximin preferences and inequality aversion, as well asthe relative performance of the fairness theories by Bolton and Ockenfels (2000)and Fehr and Schmidt (1999). While the Fehr and Schmidt model performsbetter in a direct comparison, this appears to be due to being in line with max-iminpreferences. More importantly, we find that the influence of both efficiencyand maximin preferences is stronger than that of inequality aversion. We discusspotential implications our results might have for the interpretation of otherexperiments.economics of technology ;
Relative (pa,pb,pa,pa−b)-difference sets in p-subgroups of SL(n,K)
No full textAbstractIn this note, we study relative (pa,pb,pa,pa−b)-relative difference sets in certain p-subgroups of SL(n,K), K=Fq, where q is a prime power
Computer vision on magnetic resonance images
No full textMenhardt W, Schmidt K-H. Computer vision on magnetic resonance images. Pattern Recognition Letters. 1988;8(2):73-85.We present an approach for the automated interpretation of transaxial cranial magnetic resonance images. After a brief outline of our notation and basic assumptions, the overall design consisting of a neurological inference engine, a set of image processing operators and a configurating component for these operators is presented
Open access self-archiving: An author study
No full textThis, our second author international, cross-disciplinary study on open access had 1296 respondents. Its focus was on self-archiving. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity, yet findings here show that only 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, and that this dropped to 9% for subsequent deposits. Another author worry is about infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers, yet only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where it is not known if permission is required, however, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words,
researchers publish to have an impact on their field. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate
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