scholarly journals Rethinking Monolithic Pathways to Success and Talent Identification: The Case of the Women's Japanese Volleyball Team and Why Height is Not Everything

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Vargas ◽  
Manuel Loureiro ◽  
Pantelis T. Nikolaidis ◽  
Beat Knechtle ◽  
Lorenzo Laporta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Performance Models ◽  
Large Magnitude ◽  
Talent Identification ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Women's Volleyball

Abstract The aim of the present study was to analyse the Japanese National Women’s Volleyball Team and to identify items differentiating it from other teams. All fifteen matches between the six National Teams (i.e., Japan, Brazil, China, Belgium, Turkey and Russia) competing at the Women’s Volleyball World Grand Prix Finals of 2014 were analyzed, in a total of 56 sets and 7,176 situations of ball possession. Data suggested the existence of differences between Japan’s and the other five teams’ gameplay, namely the likelihood of more gameplay with utilization of the float jump serve (20.42; ± 3.79%, very large magnitude) and attack tempo 2 (61.89; ± 29.67%, large magnitude), while exhibiting less gameplay with zero blockers opposing the attack (-42.06; ± 21.28%, large magnitude). Based on these findings, it was concluded that sports success could be achieved even when a core feature of mainstream performance models (e.g., height in volleyball) was lacking.

scholarly journals Medialness and the Perception of Visual Art

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Fol Leymarie ◽  
Prashant Aparajeya
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Medial Axis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mathematical Representation ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Art Analysis ◽  
The One ◽  
Cartoon Animation

In this article we explore the practical use of medialness informed by perception studies as a representation and processing layer for describing a class of works of visual art. Our focus is towards the description of 2D objects in visual art, such as found in drawings, paintings, calligraphy, graffiti writing, where approximate boundaries or lines delimit regions associated to recognizable objects or their constitutive parts. We motivate this exploration on the one hand by considering how ideas emerging from the visual arts, cartoon animation and general drawing practice point towards the likely importance of medialness in guiding the interaction of the traditionally trained artist with the artifact. On the other hand, we also consider recent studies and results in cognitive science which point in similar directions in emphasizing the likely importance of medialness, an extension of the abstract mathematical representation known as ‘medial axis’ or ‘Voronoi graphs’, as a core feature used by humans in perceiving shapes in static or dynamic scenarios. We illustrate the use of medialness in computations performed with finished artworks as well as artworks in the process of being created, modified, or evolved through iterations. Such computations may be used to guide an artificial arm in duplicating the human creative performance or used to study in greater depth the finished artworks. Our implementations represent a prototyping of such applications of computing to art analysis and creation and remain exploratory. Our method also provides a possible framework to compare similar artworks or to study iterations in the process of producing a final preferred depiction, as selected by the artist.

Gustatory nerve responses in the chicken

1962 ◽  
Vol 203 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce P. Halpern
Keyword(s):  
Ferric Chloride ◽  
Neural Activity ◽  
Taste Preference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Large Magnitude ◽  
Ringer’S Solution ◽  
Low Concentrations ◽  
Gustatory Nerve ◽  
All Solutions ◽  
Stimulation Of

Multiunit neural activity was recorded from the lingual branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve of ten chickens following chemical, thermal, or mechanical stimulation of the tongue. Ferric chloride and sucrose octa-acetate (SOA) gave responses at low concentrations, while sugars were effective only at or above 0.5 m. In half the chickens, 24 C water gave large magnitude responses (exceeding all solutions), and at 38 C, responses to Ringer's solution were 0.6 of those to water. In the other chickens, 24 C water did not produce large responses, and Ringer's gave responses equal to water. Chicken taste preference behavior is discussed in relation to the neural response to ferric chloride, sucrose octa-acetate, and sugars.

scholarly journals Humorism and Characterization in Topan’s Mfalme Juha

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 62-78
Author(s):  
Emiliano Minerba
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical History ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Inner Contradictions

This paper discusses the character of King Juha, the protagonist of the comedy Mfalme Juha by Farouk Topan, using an approach that considers the humoristic dimension of this character. The definition of humorism employed here is that given by Pirandello: the result of an aesthetic process in which the comic effect deriving from an object of laughter is tempered and contrasted by a “sentiment of the contrary” that observes and builds empathy with the inner contradictions of the object itself. After a short outline of Mfalme Juha’s critical history which shows that the humoristic dimension of King Juha has never been considered in critiques, this paper focuses on an analysis of this character, in which the core feature of egocentricity is identified. Juha’s egocentricity and its humoristic nature are analysed in the character’s relationship with his subjects as their king and in his idea of art and culture; in both cases it is shown that what is important is not the wickedness or egoism of Juha, but his lack of comprehension of the world. Juha is incapable of understanding his environment and other people, since he can not doubt his own superiority: this puts him in several comic situations, but on the other hand makes him a victim of his smart subjects, so that he arouses a feeling of sympathy in which Pirandello’s sentiment of the contrary can be traced.

scholarly journals Coexistence of Distinct Performance Models in High-Level Women’s Volleyball

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-173
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Laporta ◽  
Alexandre Igor Araripe Medeiros ◽  
Nicole Vargas ◽  
Henrique de Oliveira Castro ◽  
Cristiana Bessa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Eigenvector Centrality ◽  
Expert Performance ◽  
Performance Models ◽  
Match Analysis ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Generic Models ◽  
High Level ◽  
Women's Volleyball

Abstract In performance analysis, and most notably in match analysis, generalizing game patterns in a sport or competition may result in formulating generic models and neglecting relevant variability in benefit of average or central values. Here, we aimed to understand how different game models can coexist at the same competitive level using social network analysis with degree centrality to obtain systemic mappings for six volleyball matches, one for each of the six national teams playing in the 2014 World Grand Prix Finals, guaranteeing a homogeneous game level and balanced matches. Although the sample was not recent, this was not relevant for our purposes, since we aimed to merely expose a proof of concept. A total of 56 sets and 7,176 ball possessions were analysed through Gephi Software, considering game actions as nodes and the interaction between them as edges. Results supported the coexistence of different performance models at the highest levels of practice, with each of the six teams presenting a very distinct game model. For example, important differences in eigenvector centrality in attack zones (ranging from 0 to 34) and tempos (20 to 38) were found between the six teams, as well as in defensive lines (20 to 39) and block opposition (22 to 37). This further suggests that there may be multiple pathways towards expert performance within any given sport, inviting a re-conceptualization of monolithic talent identification, detection and selection models. Future studies could benefit from standardizing the metrics in function of the number of ball possessions.

A stylistic analysis of speaking

1977 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Lomax
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Stable Set ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Communication Behavior ◽  
Performance Models ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The One

Stylistic analysis takes account of the dynamic continuities in communication behavior. It is concerned with how people talk or sing or move in relation to each other, rather than what it is they say or sing or do to or with each other. The presence of these styling qualities can, we discover, be reliably assessed; and, as they cluster together, giving each cultural tradition its distinctive performance models, they have remarkable stability through time. However, these patterns of style are not inflexible: they are models comprising a stable set of ranges within which performers can adjust their behavior to the demands of a genre, of a familiar situation, of sex, age or status roles, and to the unexpected. The comparison of these performance models, cross-culturally, reveals factors that tie communication to social structure on the one hand and to cultural traditions on the other.

Response Intensity and Stimulus Generalization with Neutral Verbal Stimuli

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 651-661
Author(s):  
Arnold H. Buss ◽  
Martin Cohen
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Stimulus Generalization ◽  
Small Animals ◽  
Large Magnitude ◽  
Small Magnitude ◽  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Steep Gradient ◽  
Response Alternatives ◽  
Large Animals ◽  
Animal Size

Mediated stimulus generalization was studied with words connoting animal size. Half the Ss trained on large animals and generalized to smaller animals; the other half trained on small animals and generalized to larger animals. The response alternatives were shouting and whispering; half the Ss were reinforced for shouting and the other half, for whispering. When generalizing from large to small animals, shouting yielded a steep gradient and whispering, a flat gradient of generalization. When generalizing from small to large animals, whispering yielded a steep gradient and shouting an inverse gradient of generalization. These results extend the generality of a Matching Principle: there is a strong tendency to make an intense response to stimuli of large magnitude and a moderate tendency to make a weak response to stimuli of small magnitude.

Stromatoporoids from the Famennian (Devonian) Wabamun Formation, Normandville oilfield, north–central Alberta, Canada

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (03) ◽  
pp. 411-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin W. Stearn
Keyword(s):  
Patch Reef ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
North Central ◽  
Biotic Crisis

Stromatoporoids are the principal framebuilding organisms in the patch reef that is part of the reservoir of the Normandville field. The reef is 10 m thick and 1.5 km2in area and demonstrates that stromatoporoids retained their ability to build reefal edifices into Famennian time despite the biotic crisis at the close of Frasnian time. The fauna is dominated by labechiids but includes three non-labechiid species. The most abundant species isStylostroma sinense(Dong) butLabechia palliseriStearn is also common. Both these species are highly variable and are described in terms of multiple phases that occur in a single skeleton. The other species described areClathrostromacf.C. jukkenseYavorsky,Gerronostromasp. (a columnar species), andStromatoporasp. The fauna belongs in Famennian/Strunian assemblage 2 as defined by Stearn et al. (1988).

D. The Line Spectrum of Pulsating Variable Stars

1967 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 207-244
Author(s):  
R. P. Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Variable Stars ◽  
The Other ◽  
Line Spectrum ◽  
Afternoon Session ◽  
Empirical Information ◽  
Pulsating Variable Stars ◽  
Almost Continuous ◽  
Informal Approach

(Ed. note:Encouraged by the success of the more informal approach in Christy's presentation, we tried an even more extreme experiment in this session, I-D. In essence, Kraft held the floor continuously all morning, and for the hour and a half afternoon session, serving as a combined Summary-Introductory speaker and a marathon-moderator of a running discussion on the line spectrum of cepheids. There was almost continuous interruption of his presentation; and most points raised from the floor were followed through in detail, no matter how digressive to the main presentation. This approach turned out to be much too extreme. It is wearing on the speaker, and the other members of the symposium feel more like an audience and less like participants in a dissective discussion. Because Kraft presented a compendious collection of empirical information, and, based on it, an exceedingly novel series of suggestions on the cepheid problem, these defects were probably aggravated by the first and alleviated by the second. I am much indebted to Kraft for working with me on a preliminary editing, to try to delete the side-excursions and to retain coherence about the main points. As usual, however, all responsibility for defects in final editing is wholly my own.)

C. The Continuous Spectrum of Pulsating Variable Stars

1967 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 177-206
Author(s):  
J. B. Oke ◽  
C. A. Whitney
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Spectrum ◽  
Variable Stars ◽  
Velocity Fields ◽  
The Other ◽  
Line Spectrum ◽  
Direct Information ◽  
Thermodynamic Structure ◽  
Diagnostic Interpretation ◽  
Pulsating Variable Stars ◽  
The Continuum

Pecker:The topic to be considered today is the continuous spectrum of certain stars, whose variability we attribute to a pulsation of some part of their structure. Obviously, this continuous spectrum provides a test of the pulsation theory to the extent that the continuum is completely and accurately observed and that we can analyse it to infer the structure of the star producing it. The continuum is one of the two possible spectral observations; the other is the line spectrum. It is obvious that from studies of the continuum alone, we obtain no direct information on the velocity fields in the star. We obtain information only on the thermodynamic structure of the photospheric layers of these stars–the photospheric layers being defined as those from which the observed continuum directly arises. So the problems arising in a study of the continuum are of two general kinds: completeness of observation, and adequacy of diagnostic interpretation. I will make a few comments on these, then turn the meeting over to Oke and Whitney.

Observing programme for the 24-inch/36-inch Schmidt telescope

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
W. Iwanowska
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Schmidt Telescope ◽  
Flint Glass

A new 24-inch/36-inch//3 Schmidt telescope, made by C. Zeiss, Jena, has been installed since 30 August 1962, at the N. Copernicus University Observatory in Toruń. It is equipped with two objective prisms, used separately, one of crown the other of flint glass, each of 5° refracting angle, giving dispersions of 560Å/mm and 250Å/ mm respectively.

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