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The Czech capital hosts the 2016 European Rubik’s Cube Championship, as the cube, a Hungarian invention, comes home to Central Europe.
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The Czech capital hosts the 2016 European Rubik’s Cube Championship, as the cube, a Hungarian invention, comes home to Central Europe.
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Violence as a man’s accompanying phenomenon. Violence and politics. Violence and media. Types of domestic violence. Violence toward members of “minority” groups. Violence in sport. Violence and religion. Privatisation of violence through terrorism. How to develop the culture of non-violence? Is there any end to violence?
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This edition of the ethno-sports fest is bigger, brighter, and much better publicized than the original.
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At Rio Games, country outcompetes sporting powerhouses like the United States and Australia.
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This paper presents an application of some forecasting methods concerning sport tourism arrivals in Southwest Bulgaria: linear trend forecasting, double exponential forecasting (Holt’s method), triple exponential forecasting (the Holt-Winters Method), and the ARIMA method. A specially designed model for estimating the weight coefficient needed for determining the size of the sport tourism’s sector in the time series of the available data and in the forecast values is presented. In order to test the forecasting methods and produce forecasts up to the year 2030, a time series and past period predictions have been constructed based on statistical records since 1964. Several major problems in the application of the exponential smoothing methods for the purpose of the long-run forecasting and the needs of the sport tourism subsector of Bulgaria tourism industry are addressed. These problems include (a) finding a suitable general indicator, (b) calculating short-term and long-term forecasts, (c) comparing the results of the forecast techniques on the basis of the errors in the forecasts, (d) estimating the size of the sport tourism in Southwest Bulgaria in certain terms so that the forecast(s) of the above-mentioned general indicator could be particularized especially for examined sub-sector and region. The results from the different forecasting methods and techniques are presented and conclusions are drawn regarding the reliability of the forecasts.
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Increasing industrialization and lead to an increase in the production of new sports supplement products.But such products are discovered on behalf of the losses no longer tolerate the loss of products is increasing orientation given to the traditional diet. In the beginning of the required nutritional value of traditional foods as well as secondary reasons to show a protective effect of milk has come to the fore. Probiotic products in the milk that may stop carcinogenic formation after making sports.And also, cocoa has positive feature large in the recovery process in milk with cocoa. The consumption of chocolate milk wil give many benefit to the recovery process and prevent ion of muscle damage after training is important. It contains it is common among athletes with its the nutritional value
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Osteoporosis (OP) is a metabolic bone disease that reduces the quality of life and can increase the risk of mortality. It typically occurs after the age of 45 and worsens over time Risk factors in addition to age are the lack of vitamin D, an inactive lifestyle, poor nutrition, smoking and alcohol use. Because the lack of vitamin D is a huge OP risk factor, people who are at a greater risk of vitamin D deficiency should take vitamin D supplements to minimize that risk. Preventive precautions, such as lowering these risk factors, could be helpful in controlling the disease. High treatment costs make OP a major concern for both patients and healthcare providers. Patient awareness about the disease could increase both adaptationto treatment and quality of life. And it is important to increase the awareness of OP via informative meetings and workshop activities that may help in screening individuals who are at greater risk of developing OP before osteoporotic fractures occur.
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The sense of necessarily taking place on the team winning and the sense of always being the winner have influenced the olympic spirit of sporting activities. Some athletes who want to win at all costs start by working and using many supplements or some drugs to develop their performance, and eventually began to some medical methods that will go up to doping. It's also true in terms of doping no ethical value and caused controversy in the sports community. When we realize that the use doping of is wrong for the principle of equality in sports we should deter the people who use or plan to try and we should get across the globe raising awareness work in this anti-doping direction. The most noticeable in terms of doping practices method is gene doping. The progress of the human genetics finds a better chance with a wide variety of applications over genes which are used for gene doping, for athletes who will face with versatile health problems, or unknown and unpredictable dangers, either.
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The development of technology in our lives a and the spread of computers by entering the home make easier everything and with each passing day decreased physical activity in today's living conditions lead obesity and a variety of health problems associated with obesity. Obesity is a problem that threatens the health of people and if not well controlled with proper treatments and physical activity, can lead to many fatal diseases. At the same time, with the right diet along with regular exercise strategies it may be possible to prevent and treat obesity. It has a close relationship to manage the obesity between physical activity and proper nutrition method, obese people to improve the quality of life and obesity related complications like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, nonalcoholic fatty liver and cancer.
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Resveratrol which is a strong antioxidant is effective on cancer, heart diseases as well as obesity and even growing old earlier. If resveratrol is used by the ones who exercise, it will make them perform better and be positively effective on their cells healing which are damaged as a result of excess oxygen consuming. The aim of this study is to investigate the importance of sports nutrition that include antioxidants which are very important for metabolic and and kinosiologic activity. It is supposed that, as being supported by antioxidants regularly may improve antioxidant system’s activities in body struggling with reactive oxygen types and free radicals.
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Celem artykułu jest włączenie się w dyskusję nad typologizacją modeli biznesu klubów piłkarskich, a także przeprowadzenie, na podstawie koncepcji Osterwaldera, charakterystyki jednego z wyróżnionych typów modeli biznesu. Istotność poruszanej problematyki wynika zarówno ze znaczenia dyskusji nad modelami biznesu w głównym nurcie nauk o zarządzaniu, jak i nienależytego, zdaniem autorów, ukształtowania procesów zarządzania w klubach piłkarskich. Ze względu na koncepcyjny charakter przedstawianego modelu w opracowaniu wykorzystano metodykę deskryptywną.
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Because of its’ nature, betting in sports includes factors such as huge revenue, hot money flow, entertainment, thrill, dreams and happening of these dreams. Herewith, these factors pointed out in society effects people’s betting motivation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that effects participators/players to take part in betting. While the universe of the study composed players in Ankara, the sampling group consisted of a legal bookmaker of Spor Toto Teşkilat Bakanlığı and Türkiye Jokey Kulübü that is easily accessible and has a huge rate of revenue. In total, 80 participators (15 students, 20 workers, 20 civil servants, 15 handicraftsmen and 10 self-employments) participated to study and filled in the questionnaire that expert opinion was taken, validity and reliability were done, According to the results acquired, it was determined that participators take part in betting to enhance the quality of life, bring enjoy and attraction of their life, getting rid of stress and most importantly making money because of some reasons such as economic crisis and financial difficulty in their society, their low income level and their debts.
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Social media strategies and practices continue to be integrated across various athletic sports, particularly futbol. One of the recent global athletic events that occurred where social media played an important role was the 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup in Brazil. While social media brings forth great opportunities for teams to engage with fans and share real-time updates, it also allows active fans to voice concerns around particular issues like player safety i.e. concussions, which could lead to a crisis situation. This particular incident in question involved futbol player Christoph Kramer, who suffered a blow to the head that left him slumped over during the Germany versus Argentina championship match. Fans are linking the lack of concern for player safety to the FIFA brand, making an outcry for protocol to be adapted to tackle the growing issue surrounding players who have suffered from concussions. The FIFA organization waited until September 9, 2014 to address the public and provide a plan for future occurrences of this kind. Based on the theoretical framework of Coombs’ Situational Crisis Communication Theory, the FIFA commission did not properly assessing the crisis at hand and actually implemented the denial posture of crisis response instead of taking proactive actions to address this situation with their stakeholders.
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The problem of the amateur tourism material base development on the territory of the Soviet Union in 1960–1980s is studied on the example of Karelia. Based on the memoirs, personal diaries, and reports of camping trips’ participants a number of technical nuances of preparing necessary sport equipment ware revealed and described. In conditions of chronic deficiency in special industrial products tourists from the Soviet Union used handmade tourist equipment. Such performance speaks of the high level of motivation for amateur tourism and self-organization intrinsic to the people of the Soviet Union.
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The main aim of this article is to emphasize the interrelationships between educational activities and the state of health of the population, based on the use of Health Impact Assessment. According WHO, Health Impact Assessment is defined as: “a combination of procedures, methods, and tools by which a policy, program, or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within that population.” An HIA is intended to support decision-making choose among options by predicting the health consequences of each option Health Impact Assessment looks at health from a community perspective. It considers different determinants of health (e.g. social, economic, political, physical) when examining the potential health effects of a proposal. Activities of educational sector have significant impact on the health of both individuals and society as a whole. This impact is obvious (education is important social determinant of health) and supported by a number of scientific evidence. Better understanding of the relationship between education and health will help to identify where intervention is most appropriate and effective in improving both individual and population health. In Poland there is no proven models of cooperation between these two sectors, so it is necessary to take joint action and close cooperation between Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Sport and many other organizations active in this field.
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The end of hostilities in 1945, despite the difficult political and economic situation of the country brought impetuous revival of sports life on Polish territories. In Szadek it was as soon as in the first year after the end of World War II that two sports clubs were set up: Militia Sports Club and Sports Club “Future”. Both operated for less than a year. Another club, established in 1949, was the Rural Sports Team. Its initiators were Tadeusz Domagalski and Antoni Pawłowski (former members of Sports Club “Future”). The newly formed club from its very beginning was strongly associated with rural sports movement. In 1965 (after 16 years of activity) the Rural Sports Team changed its name to the Rural Sports Club “Victoria”. From among numerous sports section (such as football, volleyball, weightlifting, table tennis and chess) run by “Victoria”, the only one that existed continuously until 1989 was the football section.
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The article analyzes literary sources on the issue of professional speech culture of the of physical training teacher. It is shown that the formation of professional speech culture of future teachers of physical training implies purposeful training using pedagogical methodologies. It is proved that the application of the course promotes high-level professional speech culture in the process of mastering pedagogical techniques. It is confirmed that introduction in the educational process of the developed program of formation of professional speech culture stimulated the process of self-determination of future teachers of physical training at a pedagogical activity.
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This study aimed to rank the spectators' difficulties in buying electronic tickets of football premier league matches at Azadi stadium. The population consisted of all spectators of Esteghlal-Persepolis match in the fifteenth league at Azadi stadium (N= 100000). According to Morgan table and using simple random sampling method, 500 participants were selected as sample. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for collecting the data; its face validity was confirmed by 15 experts and performing a pilot study on 30 subjects, its Cronbach's alpha was calculated to be 0.86. Using SPSS 22, the descriptive and inferential (including Friedman test) statistics was applied for analyzing the data. The findings showed that there was a significant difference between rankings of difficulties in buying electronic tickets of Football premier league matches at Azadi Stadium. The difficulties were ranked as: problem in ticket systems, early selling out of electronic tickets, lack of confidence to electronic ticket sale, lack of skill to work with the internet, low speed of internet, and lack of access to the internet.
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In recent years, the rapidly growing industry of leisure has displayed some signs of overcrowding on account of the diminished capacities of turning employed resources into profit and the lowered personnel productivity in Romania. Economic agents striving to succeed in this rapidly evolving economic sector should reconsider their position and plan a strategy to grow or reinforce their business. The present paper provides a starting point in outlying the local recreation market specificity by investigating consumer preferences and drivers of choice. Results show that although there is an active demand for commercial recreational activities, its quantum is rather low. Moreover, the study shows that service-related factors (such as quality, personnel qualification, price and novelty) appear to have the highest importance for consumers, that positive word of mouth is a rather strong influencer, while advertising and location-related factors rank lowest on the list of priorities when choosing a recreation provider.
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In 1964 Tokyo hosted the eighteenth Olympic Games. The 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games were a major design project directed by Japan’s top designers. The topicality of the research is determined by the fact that most of graphic design historians consider 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games as the event that presaged Japan s postwar modernization process. And this process resulted in a breakthrough in the history of graphic design. Terms such as "visual design" and "visual communications" appeared. The 1964 Summer Games was the first use of a comprehensive identity program, setting a standard for all subsequent games. Masaru Katzumie (art director) and Yusaku Kamekura (graphic designer) were the creative visionaries and team leaders behind this remarkable project. The focus of their research efforts was on an internationally standardized sign-age system based on their concern with the social significance of graphic design. Katsumi Masaru was seriously concerned about the creation of a universal visual communications system. So he identified that simple pictographs were the most efficient method of communicating to an international audience. Using a square field with a grid, the team created an extensive range of geometrically stylized pictograms. This comprehensive identity program, which included twenty multisport symbols and thirty-nine general information pictograms emphasized the athletes’ physical movements and were designed for immediate identification by a multilingual audience. This pictogram system served as a standard that influenced Lance Wyman for the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Otl Aicher for the 1972 Munich Olympics, and Min Wang and his team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has become a guide for universal public visual design systems and worldwide events. Graphic design for the Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympic Games successfully combines national content, historical aspect and modernist methods. Kamekura s official poster design is a bold symmetrical vertical composition that consisted of the five Olympic rings in their original colors, the phrase "Tokyo 1964" in gold sans-serif typography, and most notably a large circle in red. Kamekura designed the emblem in consultation with typographer Hara Hiromu. The emblem had numerous applications, from the first poster to the diplomas, tickets, and medals of the Games. For some, this was the icon of, literally, the sun; for others this was a direct reference to Japan s flag, the hi-no-maru. Visual image of the Olympic games in Tokyo is considered as a way of country’s self-identification in the world and as a step towards national and cultural conscious formation in postwar Japan. The Olympics symbolize the ideal of people of all nations seeking, through sports, peaceful co-existence and respect for each other’s differences. At the same time, however, the Olympics is an event that for a time intensifies nationalism. As a result of professional teamwork and total design method the visual language of the Tokyo Olympic games depicts connections between Japanese tradition and modernity, nationalism and internationalism, past and future of the country.The visual language utilized by Tokyo 1964 Games adhered to the approach of modernism. It also encoded the visual composition of crest design, established in medieval Japan. In encoding their tradition in not directly decipherable means, postwar Japanese designers found an important resource for distinguishing their identity in the international arena, and for establishing their continuity with the past. In the years following the Olympics, their designs were recognized as instigators of an international design scene.The image of Yusaku Kamekura’s Tokyo Olympic Games Poster is widely recognized and is part of the national "memory". The vitality seen in the runners about to bolt represents the appearance of a Japan that would soon show itself as major economic power. This is the atmosphere of the times that surrounded the design work done for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games and handed down to us. The Olympic games, with their origins in ancient Greece, are more than an international sports competition. For the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Japan’s hope and expectation was to be part of the international community, to transcend cultural barriers and to be considered as a nation among developed nations, with modern Western values based on an idealized notion of the order of ancient Greece. Looking at the injection Japanese traditional culture into the design work for the Tokyo Olympics, it is clear that while designs were based on modern Western sources, the designers were also seeking an expression of the particular character of Japanese culture. From the time of Meiji period Japonisme, Japan had continually tried to present itself in the international community, in international world’s fairs and expositions, by consciously responding to Western understandings and expectations of Japaneseness. However, the use of the "hi-no-maru" in the design work of the Olympics shows that the designers were rather, in representing Japaneseness, strongly conscious of how the Japanese look at themselves. The design work of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games reflects the trends of these times when Japan, positioned in the Western camp in the East-West confrontation of the Cold War, and rejecting nationalism in favor of economic growth, would look to traditional culture as a basis for a sense of commonality among the Japanese people. Analyzing the design work for the Tokyo Olympics as an expression of "Japaneseness" it is understood that the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games served to reintegrate a national consciousness among the Japanese people, to restore continuity with the past and reawaken pride in Japanese culture.
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