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Features of Decreed Groups Survey for the Presence of Pathogens of Acute Intestinal Infections During the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi

open access: yesЭпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2015
The paper examines the experience of employee surveys foodservice, food contact for the presence of pathogens of acute intestinal infections during the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi.
I. V. Bragina   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Methods of technical and tactical training basketball players with hearing impairments using innovative technologies

open access: yesPhysical Education of Students, 2014
Purpose: to develop information technology for technical and tactical training of skilled basketball players with hearing impairments. Material : the study involved 24 women's national team athletes Ukrainian Basketball hearing impaired (age - 25-30 ...
Zh.L Kozina   +6 more
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Economic Prediction of Sport Performances: From Beijing Olympics to 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa [PDF]

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This paper uses forecasting techniques to predict outcomes in the Beijing Olympics and 2010 World Cup using economic variables.sport, Olympics, World ...
Madeleine Andreff, Wladimir Andreff
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Where is the "Frugal Olympics"? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The one-year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and its media fanfare have come and gone, leaving behind persistent calls for an "economical and practical" Olympics to counteract perceived waste and excess in preparing for the Games. Increasingly, in
Bonny Ling, Trevor Lee
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High Relative Accuracy Computations With Covariance Matrices of Order Statistics

open access: yesMathematical 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human rights and the olympics: from an ideological paradox to a new anti-corruption legacy

open access: yesFrontiers in Sports and Active Living
This article aims to explore the evolution of the debates surrounding human rights in the discourse(s) of major sporting events (MSEs), particularly the Olympics.
Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, J. Simon Rofe
doaj   +1 more source

An Evaluation of a Unified Sports Football Pilot Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
A preliminary report on the evaluation of the Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia Unified Football Pilot Project.There is growing support in European societies for the total inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in all aspects of the community ...
Coreen Harada, Jennifer Norins Bardon
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The hunt for Scabiosa trenta Hacq: how the pursuit of a phantom ignited a passion for botany and mountaineering

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Scabiosa trenta Hacq. was first described in 1782 by Balthasar Hacquet, with its specific epithet referring to the Trenta Valley in Slovenia. Since then, S. trenta has been the focus of numerous mountaineering and botanical expeditions, particularly by the alpinist Julius Kugy during the Golden Age of Alpinism, a period in the second half of 19th ...
Valentina Boscariol   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ways of counteracting negative effects of politicization of sports in the assessments of expert survey’s participants [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Cоциология. Политология
In the last few years, there has been unprecedented politicization of high-performance sports. Despite the fact that Russian scholars are actively analyzing various aspects related to this process, methods of combating manifestations of discriminatory ...
Gandilyan, Mger M.
doaj   +1 more source

Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration

open access: yesPublic 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   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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