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Leadership Development Through Exploring Critical Perspectives and Storytelling in Pop Culture: Toward Leadership for Liberation Values

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 107-113, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Popular culture exists as an expression of cultural history. It speaks to who we are, what we aspire toward, and where our generation stands in relation to the major issues of the day. This article is a conversation about the myriad perspectives offered in this issue of New Directions for Student Leadership, exploring the contributions each ...
Kathleen Callahan, Sean Connable
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CORRELATION BETWEEN THE INDEX AND EFFICIENCY INDICATORS OF SUCCESS IN RECREATION TABLE TENNIS [PDF]

SportLogia, 2012
Amongst different methods of quality analysis of the table tennis player's game, the basic idea of this study was to detect those indicators (data) for collection of which only the final result in particular competitions in a larger number of events, of ...
Miran Kondrič, Joško Sindik, Nicolae Ochiana   +2 more
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‘I really like being on the floor, because I spend all the time in my chair’: Children with disabilities' experiences of physical activity in school

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Children with multiple disabilities often encounter significant barriers to participating in physical activity, impacting not only their physical health but also their overall experience in school. This study places the voices of four children at the centre of their own research, exploring their lived experiences of participating in physical ...
Katherine Gulliver, Rachel Knight Lozano, Kathrin Paal   +2 more
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Table tennis motion recognition based on the bat trajectory using varying-length-input convolution neural networks

Scientific Reports
Action recognition has been applied in fields such as smart homes, gaming, traffic management, and security monitoring. Motion recognition is helpful for biomechanical analysis, auxiliary training systems, table tennis robots, motion-sensing games ...
Jun Zhang, Yuanshi Ren, Liyue Lin, Yu Xing, Jie Ren   +4 more
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Comparison of scoliosis posture athlete’s table tennis and tennis at children and adolescents

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
Body posture is very important because it is closely related to health and ergonomics. When exercising, especially on the body's musculoskeletal system there will be physiological responses and adaptations during and after exercise.
Muhammad Satria Purnama, Muchsin Doewes, Sapta Kunta Purnama   +2 more
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz, Kobe De Keere, Sara Geven   +2 more
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Quality of year‐end spending and risk–return trade‐off

Fiscal Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how the quality of government spending changes at the end of the fiscal year, using administrative data from financing programmes for small and medium‐sized enterprises in South Korea. We assess spending quality based on the average sales growth of recipient firms. We show that while an early budget execution policy reduces
Illoong Kwon, Hanhyung Pyo
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Application of psychological model-ARCS motivational strategies in teaching table tennis curriculum in elementary schools

Discover Education
Traditional table tennis physical education teaching often involves repetitive mechanical motion exercises. Such training can gradually diminish elementary students' motivation during the learning process.
Weizhu Luo, Rongzhi Li
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