Here we were at a picturesque village inhabited by the ethnic Kinos, one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in China. Immediately beyond the village, Bapiao, a highway snakes deep into the rolling mountains until ...Here we were at a picturesque village inhabited by the ethnic Kinos, one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in China. Immediately beyond the village, Bapiao, a highway snakes deep into the rolling mountains until it reaches Jinghong, the capital city of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. When New China was founded in 1949, there were no more than 3,800 ethnic Kinos engaging in slash-and-bum farming for a meager subistence in those deep, subtropical lbrests. Now the Kino population has multiplied, and they have settled in 45 villages under the jurisdiction of a self-governing township.展开更多
Whether workplace-based sports are part of a company’s employee welfare program in terms of mental status is unknown. This study examined the impact of workplace-based sports participation on the mental status of Jap...Whether workplace-based sports are part of a company’s employee welfare program in terms of mental status is unknown. This study examined the impact of workplace-based sports participation on the mental status of Japanese workers. It involved a single-arm intervention comprising participation in a company’s volleyball team. Data on mental status were collected using a simplified version of the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire. Overall, 11 individuals participated, 9 (81.8%) of whom were women;the mean participant age was 38.2 years. Because the intervention was conducted during busy periods, the median (25th and 75th percentiles) score for qualitative job overload significantly increased from 3.0 (2.0, 4.0) to 3.0 (3.0, 4.3) (p = 0.03). Nonetheless, the fatigue score significantly decreased from 3.0 (3.0, 4.3) to 3.0 (2.0, 4.0) (p = 0.03). These results indicate that participation in workplace-based sports can prevent the deterioration of mental status during busy periods.展开更多
Whether workplace-based sports are part of a company’s employee welfare program in terms of mental status is unknown. This study examined the impact of workplace-based sports participation on the mental status of Jap...Whether workplace-based sports are part of a company’s employee welfare program in terms of mental status is unknown. This study examined the impact of workplace-based sports participation on the mental status of Japanese workers. It involved a single-arm intervention comprising participation in a company’s volleyball team. Data on mental status were collected using a simplified version of the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire. Overall, 11 individuals participated, 9 (81.8%) of whom were women;the mean participant age was 38.2 years. Because the intervention was conducted during busy periods, the median (25th and 75th percentiles) score for qualitative job overload significantly increased from 3.0 (2.0, 4.0) to 3.0 (3.0, 4.3) (p = 0.03). Nonetheless, the fatigue score significantly decreased from 3.0 (3.0, 4.3) to 3.0 (2.0, 4.0) (p = 0.03). These results indicate that participation in workplace-based sports can prevent the deterioration of mental status during busy periods.展开更多
The aim of this paper is to examine the opportunities and problems presented by the increasing availability of technologies which is capable of enhancing sporting performance and identifying the risks in sports for cr...The aim of this paper is to examine the opportunities and problems presented by the increasing availability of technologies which is capable of enhancing sporting performance and identifying the risks in sports for creating educational and sports management practices to lead with justice, honesty, and beneficence. A questionnaire is developed to ascertain the social determinants and risks of health aspects of sports in a sample of professionals and amateurs. Descriptive and correlation analysis were used for data analysis. The study identifies health risks connected with the intensive loading of locomotors system, poor working conditions which cause working trauma and diseases as well as low level of health culture regarding the effects of performance-enhancing drugs including anabolic steroids, stimulants, human growth hormone, and supplements. There are arguments that the quality of sport education will be achieved by addressing the study of sports ethics coupled with a study of management and law.展开更多
Learning activities interactions between small groups is a key step in understanding team sports videos.Recent research focusing on team sports videos can be strictly regarded from the perspective of the audience rath...Learning activities interactions between small groups is a key step in understanding team sports videos.Recent research focusing on team sports videos can be strictly regarded from the perspective of the audience rather than the athlete.For team sports videos such as volleyball and basketball videos,there are plenty of intra-team and inter-team relations.In this paper,a new task named Group Scene Graph Generation is introduced to better understand intra-team relations and inter-team relations in sports videos.To tackle this problem,a novel Hierarchical Relation Network is proposed.After all players in a video are finely divided into two teams,the feature of the two teams’activities and interactions will be enhanced by Graph Convolutional Networks,which are finally recognized to generate Group Scene Graph.For evaluation,built on Volleyball dataset with additional 9660 team activity labels,a Volleyball+dataset is proposed.A baseline is set for better comparison and our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.Moreover,the idea of our method can be directly utilized in another video-based task,Group Activity Recognition.Experiments show the priority of our method and display the link between the two tasks.Finally,from the athlete’s view,we elaborately present an interpretation that shows how to utilize Group Scene Graph to analyze teams’activities and provide professional gaming suggestions.展开更多
The complexity of the healthcare organization with emphasis on efficiency and productivity has led to an increase in value conflicts as well as moral and ethical conflicts. The aim of this study was to explore nurse m...The complexity of the healthcare organization with emphasis on efficiency and productivity has led to an increase in value conflicts as well as moral and ethical conflicts. The aim of this study was to explore nurse managers’ perceptions of ethical conflicts when caring for older patients who wish to die. A qualitative method was employed and data were collected by means of a focus group interview with eight nurse managers. The results revealed one theme: A struggle due to responsibility for decision making and four sub-themes:?Understanding the meaning of free will, wondering about how serious the death wish is, providing more worthy elder care and lack of competent healthcare professionals to provide safe care. Nurse managers’ have no structure for bringing ethical conflicts to the attention of their leaders or the next level of the organization. Consequently, they appear to need supervision, support and clear, flexible lines of communication with leadership.展开更多
The slogan "Sport for All" as a program of TAFISA (The Association For International Sport for All) is an invitation for all target groups and target persons in all societies worldwide to be active in sports, to o...The slogan "Sport for All" as a program of TAFISA (The Association For International Sport for All) is an invitation for all target groups and target persons in all societies worldwide to be active in sports, to organize and to create sport activities with a variety of aims. Integration and inclusion are strategies to open the world of sports for people with disabilities or a migrant background as well. Families, politics, the management within companies and all citizens are in responsibility. The development of Sport for All depends on various dimensions, e.g. the different kinds of sport, target groups and aims/motives.展开更多
AS you know, in addition to the Han nationality, China is home to 55 minorities with their own cultures and traditions. Most of the minorities live in the border areas of China. What a splendid scene it would be if al...AS you know, in addition to the Han nationality, China is home to 55 minorities with their own cultures and traditions. Most of the minorities live in the border areas of China. What a splendid scene it would be if all the ethnic groups put on their colorful costumes and performed their traditional sports at the same tournament! In November, 1995, Kunming on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau offered a chance for such a grand gathering when the 5th National Games of Nationalities’ Traditional Sports was held there. More than 3,300 athletes attended.展开更多
文摘Here we were at a picturesque village inhabited by the ethnic Kinos, one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in China. Immediately beyond the village, Bapiao, a highway snakes deep into the rolling mountains until it reaches Jinghong, the capital city of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. When New China was founded in 1949, there were no more than 3,800 ethnic Kinos engaging in slash-and-bum farming for a meager subistence in those deep, subtropical lbrests. Now the Kino population has multiplied, and they have settled in 45 villages under the jurisdiction of a self-governing township.
文摘Whether workplace-based sports are part of a company’s employee welfare program in terms of mental status is unknown. This study examined the impact of workplace-based sports participation on the mental status of Japanese workers. It involved a single-arm intervention comprising participation in a company’s volleyball team. Data on mental status were collected using a simplified version of the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire. Overall, 11 individuals participated, 9 (81.8%) of whom were women;the mean participant age was 38.2 years. Because the intervention was conducted during busy periods, the median (25th and 75th percentiles) score for qualitative job overload significantly increased from 3.0 (2.0, 4.0) to 3.0 (3.0, 4.3) (p = 0.03). Nonetheless, the fatigue score significantly decreased from 3.0 (3.0, 4.3) to 3.0 (2.0, 4.0) (p = 0.03). These results indicate that participation in workplace-based sports can prevent the deterioration of mental status during busy periods.
文摘Whether workplace-based sports are part of a company’s employee welfare program in terms of mental status is unknown. This study examined the impact of workplace-based sports participation on the mental status of Japanese workers. It involved a single-arm intervention comprising participation in a company’s volleyball team. Data on mental status were collected using a simplified version of the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire. Overall, 11 individuals participated, 9 (81.8%) of whom were women;the mean participant age was 38.2 years. Because the intervention was conducted during busy periods, the median (25th and 75th percentiles) score for qualitative job overload significantly increased from 3.0 (2.0, 4.0) to 3.0 (3.0, 4.3) (p = 0.03). Nonetheless, the fatigue score significantly decreased from 3.0 (3.0, 4.3) to 3.0 (2.0, 4.0) (p = 0.03). These results indicate that participation in workplace-based sports can prevent the deterioration of mental status during busy periods.
文摘The aim of this paper is to examine the opportunities and problems presented by the increasing availability of technologies which is capable of enhancing sporting performance and identifying the risks in sports for creating educational and sports management practices to lead with justice, honesty, and beneficence. A questionnaire is developed to ascertain the social determinants and risks of health aspects of sports in a sample of professionals and amateurs. Descriptive and correlation analysis were used for data analysis. The study identifies health risks connected with the intensive loading of locomotors system, poor working conditions which cause working trauma and diseases as well as low level of health culture regarding the effects of performance-enhancing drugs including anabolic steroids, stimulants, human growth hormone, and supplements. There are arguments that the quality of sport education will be achieved by addressing the study of sports ethics coupled with a study of management and law.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U20B2069)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Learning activities interactions between small groups is a key step in understanding team sports videos.Recent research focusing on team sports videos can be strictly regarded from the perspective of the audience rather than the athlete.For team sports videos such as volleyball and basketball videos,there are plenty of intra-team and inter-team relations.In this paper,a new task named Group Scene Graph Generation is introduced to better understand intra-team relations and inter-team relations in sports videos.To tackle this problem,a novel Hierarchical Relation Network is proposed.After all players in a video are finely divided into two teams,the feature of the two teams’activities and interactions will be enhanced by Graph Convolutional Networks,which are finally recognized to generate Group Scene Graph.For evaluation,built on Volleyball dataset with additional 9660 team activity labels,a Volleyball+dataset is proposed.A baseline is set for better comparison and our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.Moreover,the idea of our method can be directly utilized in another video-based task,Group Activity Recognition.Experiments show the priority of our method and display the link between the two tasks.Finally,from the athlete’s view,we elaborately present an interpretation that shows how to utilize Group Scene Graph to analyze teams’activities and provide professional gaming suggestions.
文摘The complexity of the healthcare organization with emphasis on efficiency and productivity has led to an increase in value conflicts as well as moral and ethical conflicts. The aim of this study was to explore nurse managers’ perceptions of ethical conflicts when caring for older patients who wish to die. A qualitative method was employed and data were collected by means of a focus group interview with eight nurse managers. The results revealed one theme: A struggle due to responsibility for decision making and four sub-themes:?Understanding the meaning of free will, wondering about how serious the death wish is, providing more worthy elder care and lack of competent healthcare professionals to provide safe care. Nurse managers’ have no structure for bringing ethical conflicts to the attention of their leaders or the next level of the organization. Consequently, they appear to need supervision, support and clear, flexible lines of communication with leadership.
文摘The slogan "Sport for All" as a program of TAFISA (The Association For International Sport for All) is an invitation for all target groups and target persons in all societies worldwide to be active in sports, to organize and to create sport activities with a variety of aims. Integration and inclusion are strategies to open the world of sports for people with disabilities or a migrant background as well. Families, politics, the management within companies and all citizens are in responsibility. The development of Sport for All depends on various dimensions, e.g. the different kinds of sport, target groups and aims/motives.
文摘AS you know, in addition to the Han nationality, China is home to 55 minorities with their own cultures and traditions. Most of the minorities live in the border areas of China. What a splendid scene it would be if all the ethnic groups put on their colorful costumes and performed their traditional sports at the same tournament! In November, 1995, Kunming on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau offered a chance for such a grand gathering when the 5th National Games of Nationalities’ Traditional Sports was held there. More than 3,300 athletes attended.