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Getting the Swing of Surface Gravity

open access: yes, 2012
Sports are a popular and effective way to illustrate physics principles. Baseball in particular presents a number of opportunities to motivate student interest and teach concepts. Several articles have appeared in this journal on this topic, illustrating
Adair Robert K.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Fine-Grained Activity Recognition in Baseball Videos [PDF]

open access: yes2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2018
In this paper, we introduce a challenging new dataset, MLB-YouTube, designed for fine-grained activity detection. The dataset contains two settings: segmented video classification as well as activity detection in continuous videos.
A. Piergiovanni, M. Ryoo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Visionary Leadership in Cancer Care: An Interview With Professor Timothy J. Eberlein

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Professor Timothy J. Eberlein and Professor Ken Shirabe, President of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery, during their interview discussing the vision, strategic framework, and leadership that shaped the development of the Siteman Cancer Center into a world‐class institution. ABSTRACT This is a short interview with Professor Timothy J.
Ken Shirabe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of Factors Related to the Development of Osteochondritis Dissecans in Youth Baseball Players Screening

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2023
On-field screening for ‘elbow injury in baseball’, a condition commonly seen in youth baseball players, was conducted over two years on 160 elementary school students in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
Shotaro Teruya   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Increased Elbow Valgus Torque During Pitching Is Not a Risk Factor for Medial Elbow Injuries in Young Baseball Pitchers: A Prospective Cohort Study

open access: yesArthroscopy, EarlyView.
Purpose To examine the relationship between elbow valgus torque during pitching and the occurrence of medial elbow injuries in young baseball pitchers prospectively. Methods Between 2019 and 2023, 361 male pitchers aged 9 to 12 years were enrolled. Pitchers with a history of elbow injury or who had not served as pitchers in baseball games for ≥1 year ...
Akira Saito   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dynamical Hypothesis in Situ: Challenges and Opportunities for a Dynamical Social Approach to Interpersonal Coordination

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Over the past three decades, Van Gelder's dynamical hypothesis has been instrumental in reconceptualizing the ways in which perception‐action‐cognition unfolds over time and in context. Here, I examine how the dynamical approach has enriched the theoretical understanding of social dynamics within cognitive science, with a particular focus on ...
Alexandra Paxton
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Gap

open access: yesInternational Journal of Librarianship
Libraries, archives, and museum collections are distinct collecting entities that share similarities in their concepts and workflows, yet diverge in their fundamental approaches to descriptive work.
Kelli Bogan
doaj   +1 more source

Caste as a Social Kind

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source

An Actuarial Analysis of the Production Function of Major League Baseball [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
The majority of major league baseball production function studies have utilized data (nonstandardized and standardized) from only one baseball season. This research study utilized data from the 1980-1984 baseball seasons.
Akers, Michael D., Buttross, Thomas E.
core   +1 more source

The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

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