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Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

To conceptual interpretation of terms «Olympic education» and «Olympic education» [PDF]

open access: yesPedagogìka, Psihologìâ ta Mediko-bìologìčnì Problemi Fìzičnogo Vihovannâ ì Sportu, 2010
Olympic education and Olympic education is considered and analysed interpretation of terms. Works of modern theorists of physical training and a pedagogical science are considered.
Yukhymuk V.P., Vaceba O.M., Gercyk M.S.
doaj  

Branding the Games: Commercialism and the Olympic City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This chapter examines the role of branding and sponsorship in the Olympic games - with particular reference to the urban. The chapter identifies tensions between Olympic values, branding activities and a projected legacy.
MacRury, Iain
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Interactive Prompt‐Guided Robotic Grasping for Arbitrary Objects Based on Promptable Segment Anything Model and Force‐Closure Analysis

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
A laser pointer‐guided robotic grasping method for arbitrary objects based on promptable segment anything model and force‐closure analysis is presented. Grasp generation methods based on force‐closure analysis can calculate the optimal grasps for objects through their appearances. However, the limited visual perception ability makes robots difficult to
Yan Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

ORIGIN OF THE OLYMPIC IDEA IN THE KINGDOM OF SERBIA AND ITS REALIZATION AT THE END OF 19th AND BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY [PDF]

open access: yesSport Mont, 2008
Although the idea of revival of the Ancient Olympic Games had appeared in the works of the humanists starting from the 15th century, from Dover’s Olympic games - Cotswold games (1604); Leopold Frederic’s festivals similar to the Ancient Olympic Games ...
Slađana Mijatović, Violeta Šiljak
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Learning to Score Olympic Events [PDF]

open access: yes2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2016
Estimating action quality, the process of assigning a "score" to the execution of an action, is crucial in areas such as sports and health care. Unlike action recognition, which has millions of examples to learn from, the action quality datasets that are
Paritosh Parmar, B. Morris
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Women in the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games: An Analysis of Participation, Leadership, and Media Opportunities [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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High‐elevation endemic plants predicted to lose habitat from changing climate in Washington State

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise High‐elevation plants face unique challenges from potential climate change impacts that will likely require upslope migration into increasingly smaller suitable habitat. This situation is particularly acute for endemic species that by definition occupy small geographic ranges.
Nicholas L. Gjording   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Youth Olympic Games as an arena for Olympic education: An evaluation of the school program, “Dream Day”

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Kinanthropologica, 2018
The promotion of Olympic education through Olympic events has received increased attention among researchers. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) as an arena for Olympic education based on the perceptions of the pupils ...
Svein Erik Nordhagen, Halvor Fauske
doaj   +1 more source

“Time for Recovery” or “Utter Uncertainty”? The Postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Through the Eyes of Olympic Athletes and Coaches. A Qualitative Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire globe, including the world of high-performance sports. Accordingly, it has been widely assumed that the thereby caused postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games could have negative psychological ...
Violetta Oblinger-Peters, Björn Krenn
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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