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Formation of tolerance among rural youth to persons with disabilities based on Olympic values (on the example of the Special Olympics movement)

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
The difficulties that arise in the formation of tolerant relationships among the rural youth and people with disabilities on the basis of the municipality of the village of Ermolovka and the House of Culture of the Liskinsky district of the Voronezh ...
T. P. Begidova, N. A. Budanova
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The social responsibility of the Olympic Games: Olympic women. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper will review the history of women’s involvement in the Olympic Games, how gender is socially (re)constructed through these events, current issues facing women who compete at the Olympic/Paralympic level, and what social responsibility the ...
Pike, Elizabeth
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Re-thinking the Legacy 2012: The Olympics as commodity and gift [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper opens discussion about the nature of Olympic ‘legacy’ and articulates a contradiction in the way ‘legacy’ is conceived - between ’gift’ and ’commodity’ (Mauss 1954).The The paper argues that establishing working definitions and parameters for ‘
Gregory C.   +4 more
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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

Educational Legacy of the Rio 2016 Games: Lessons for Youth Engagement

open access: yesSocieties, 2020
The promise of the Rio 2016 Games was to influence the entire population of Brazil, but the major impact was expected to be on children and the youth. The development of youth education programs promoting Olympic and Paralympic values was one of the main
Lyusyena Kirakosyan
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

People, place, enterprise: proceedings of the first annual conference on Olympic Legacy 8 and 9 May 2008 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The Olympic Legacy: People, Place, Enterprise conference took place at the University of Greenwich in May 2008. The first in a series of annual conferences, it brought together leading academics, policy makers and practitioners to debate the lasting ...
Bladen, Charles   +2 more
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Coaches, sexual harassment and education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Sexual harassment in sport has become an active research field within the past decade yet we know relatively little about the characteristics of the harassing coach.
Brackenridge, CH, Fasting, K
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Sensemaking and CSR Character in Multinational Corporations: A Comparative Study of Headquarters and Subsidiary Practices in the UAE

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
wiley   +1 more source

Experiential learning in global culture : the 2012 London Olympic Games as an immersive journalism framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Since Ball State University implemented experiential learning as an integral part of undergraduate education, the concept of higher education shifted away from classroom lectures toward project-based learning, especially for media-focused majors ...
Kartman, Alexander J.
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