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The social responsibility of the Olympic Games: Olympic women. [PDF]
, 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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Advanced 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
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THE ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF UKRAINE TO THE VALUES OF THE OLYMPIC SPORT
Фізичне виховання, спорт і культура здоров’я у сучасному суспільстві, 2017 Topicality.The modern Olympic Games are a school of education and upbringing, lifestyle and self-affirmation, a means of national identity and great politics, an arena of culture, everyday life and leisure. Task.
Oksana Vatzeba +3 more
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Consuming the Olympics: the fan, the rights holder and the law [PDF]
, 2010 The London Olympic Games and Paralympics Act 2006 (the Act) received its Royal Assent on 30 March 2006, well over six years before the Games themselves are due to begin.
James, MD, Osborn, G
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian 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
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Corporate 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
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Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Area to be Avoided (ATBA) Education and Monitoring Program [PDF]
, 2000 The National Marine Sanctuaries Act (16 U.S.C. 1431, as amended) gives the Secretary of Commerce the authority to designate discrete areas of the marine environment as National Marine Sanctuaries and provides the authority to promulgate regulations to ...
Galasso, George
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"We are GREAT Britain": British newspaper narratives during the London 2012 Olympic Games [PDF]
, 2017 British newspaper narratives were examined during the 2012 London Olympic Games to discern how the British press promoted specific “narratives of the nation.” For the London-based British press, the home Olympics became the ideal medium not only to sell ...
Billings, Andrew +4 more
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Students’ perception about the Olympic Values experience in Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the future of the Olympics [PDF]
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise - 2019 - Rio 2016 Olympic Games Second Anniversary Special Edition, 2019 When proposing the creation of the Olympic Games (OG) of the Modern Era, Pierre de Coubertin has highlighted the importance of the integral formation of the human being through sports practices. In order to keep the directions of the Olympic Movement close to Coubertin’s ideas and looking for the continuous progress of the OG, the Agenda 2020 has ...
Merlin, Gabriel +2 more
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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.Triaxial compression tests under unloading confining pressure conditions were conducted to systematically analyze the permeability behavior of granite retrieved from the different classification surrounding rocks. Abstract The rock mass within mountain tunnels undergoes complex changes in permeability, strength, and deformation during tunneling ...
Xiaoyan Zhang +4 more
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