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Assessing the Olympics: Preliminary Economic Analysis of a Boston 2024 Games Impacts, Opportunities and Risks [PDF]

, 2015
The possibility of hosting the Summer Games is sparking significant debate in our community about the potential benefits, costs, and risks associated with hosting the Olympics.
Andrew Hall, Dan Hodge, Hinlan Wong, Lindie Martin, Mark Melnik   +4 more
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The political process of constructing a sustainable London Olympics sports development legacy [PDF]

, 2009
This study attempts to develop a research agenda for understanding the process of constructing a sustainable Olympic sports development legacy. The research uses a social constructivist perspective to examine the link between the 2012 London Olympic ...
Adams A., Al-Tauqi M., Becker H., Berger P., Chalip L., Coakley J., Coalter F., Coalter F., Collins M., Cowen M., Crass Ross Dawson, DCMS, DCMS, DCMS (Department of Culture, Media Sport), Dresner S., Duke V., Durkheim E., Esteva G., Girginov V., Green C., Greene J., Guba E., Hammesley M., Haq M. ul, Hills L., Hjorth P., HM Government, HM The Treasury, Hoberman J., House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (HC CMS Committee), IOC, IOC, IOC, Laura Hills, Lincoln Y., Mangan J. A., Merton R., Mosse D., Palm J., Parsons T., RAND Europe, Searle J., Senn A., Sport England, Sport England, Thomas A., Vassil Girginov, World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)   +47 more
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The Microbial Olympics [PDF]

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012
Every four years, the Olympic Games plays host to competitors who have built on their natural talent by training for many years to become the best in their chosen discipline. Similar spirit and endeavour can be found throughout the microbial world, in which every day is a competition to survive and thrive.
Youle, M, Rohwer, F, Stacy, A, Whiteley, M, Steel, B, Delalez, N, Nord, A, Berry, R, Armitage, J, Kamoun, S, Hogenhout, S, Diggle, S, Gurney, J, Pollitt, E, Boetius, A, Cary, S   +15 more
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Olympic education as an object of scientific analysis based on international scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science

Слобожанський науково-спортивний вісник
Background and Study Aim. Studying the history of the Olympic movement, one can be convinced that the ideals and values that underlie the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece are relevant today.
Daria Okun, Svitlana Stadnyk, Larysa Taran, Vladyslav Rozhkov, Maksym Mishyn, Lubov Karpets   +5 more
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THE PROMINENT WINNERS AND PRIZE-WINNERS OF ART COMPETITIONS AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES OF THE MODERN AGE

Фізичне виховання, спорт і культура здоров’я у сучасному суспільстві, 2017
The current relevance of the research. The history of the sport movement of the early twentieth century is characterized by a special phenomenon – a combination of Sport and Art.
Ivanna Lytvynets, Bogdan Vynogradskiy, Anton Lytvynets, Iuliia Pavlova   +3 more
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Women in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games [PDF]

, 2009
This report analyzes the representation and participation of women in the international and U.S. Olympic organizations relative to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, especially for 2000, 2004, and 2008.
Alison Wrynn, Maureen Smith
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High Relative Accuracy Computations With Covariance Matrices of Order Statistics

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many statistical applications, numerical computations with covariance matrices need to be performed. The error made when performing such numerical computations increases with the condition number of the covariance matrix, which is related to the number of variables and the strength of the correlation between the variables. In a recent work,
Juan Baz, Pedro Alonso, Juan Manuel Peña, Raúl Pérez‐Fernández   +3 more
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Women in the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games: An Analysis of Participation, Leadership, and Media Opportunities [PDF]

, 2010
This report is the third in the series that follows the progress of women in the Olympic and Paralympic movement. The report provides the most accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date examination of the participation trends among female Olympic and ...
Alison Wrynn, Maureen Smith
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Adapting natural resource management to climate change on the Olympic Peninsula [PDF]

, 2010
Climate change presents a major challenge to natural resource managers both because of the magnitude of potential effects of climate change on ecosystem structure, process, and function, and because of the uncertainty associated with those potential ...
David L. Peterson, Jessica Halofsky
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Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney, Kohei Suzuki, Mehmet Demircioglu, Cristina Stanica, Srinivas Yerramsetti, Aroon P. Manoharan, James L. Perry   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source